0 0 0 Atta Kenare / AFP/Getty Images Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells reporters in Tehran that nuclear talks won’t resume until late summer. View Larger Image (06-29) 04:00 PDT Beirut — Iran set out tough terms Monday for the resumption of future nuclear talks, threatening to punish world powers for imposing fresh sanctions on the Islamic Republic. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that stalled…

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The euro was under pressure today, slipping against the yen and holding near its latest record low against the safe-haven Swiss franc as funding concerns in the euro zone made investors nervous. The euro slid to a three-week low on the yen, which gained broadly, and inched lower on the dollar after losing 0.8 per cent yesterday, with small stop-loss sell orders expected just below current price action, in the $1.2260/30 area. The Swiss franc…

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While many of us are busy debating the relative merits of pocket-sized technology, NASA is mulling over ideas on a much grander scale. Submitted as part of the Administration’s research into advanced aeronautics, the above Lockheed Martin-designed aircraft is just one vision of how air travel might be conducted in the future. It’s a supersonic jet employing an inverted-V engine-under-wing configuration, which apparently helps to significantly reduce the resultant sonic boom. Other than that, we’re only told that “other revolutionary technologies” will provide for the achievement of range, payload and environmental goals. So that snazzy paintjob wasn’t just for show, after all — who’d have guessed?

Supersonic Green Machine sends greetings from the future originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looking for a netbook with a little more oomph, or perhaps a thin-and-light laptop that doesn’t break the bank? We’re not quite sure which category the Acer Aspire 1551-5448 falls under, but we reckon it’s liable to satisfy both camps with an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display and a 1.5GHz AMD Turion II Neo K625 CPU. Like the single-threaded Aspire 521 and 721 cousins we’ll be reviewing later this week, this dual-core machine sports a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 GPU for stutter-free 1080p playback, and extra memory to boot. Here, Acer crammed 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11n WiFi, HDMI-out and a six-cell, five-hour battery into a package weighing just over three pounds. If you’ve got $550 to drop, there’s an Aspire 1551 with your name on it, available now practically wherever laptops are sold.

Acer Aspire 1551 hits retailers with 1.5GHz dual-core Turion II CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tennessee’s elections once again may turn on the issue of health care. Three months after President Barack Obama signed health-care reform into law and nearly eight years after Gov. Phil Bredesen was elected with a pledge to fix TennCare, the four main candidates for governor continue to wrestle with the question of health-care reform, illustrating the degree to which the issue continues to energize voters. All three of the major Republican candidates for governor say they would pursue legal action to challenge the health-care reform law. The sole Democrat in the race, meanwhile, says he would work with the state’s Congressional delegation to try to reduce the law’s burden on Tennessee. More…

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ONTARIO: G8 wealthy countries said on Saturday that the global economic crisis threatened to undermine 2015 global targets for reducing extreme poverty worldwide, but avoided bold new aid promises. At the end of a two-day summit in a lakeside resort north of Toronto, the Group of Eight failed to acknowledge its unmet aid promises. The group fell $18 billion short of a $50 billion pledge to double aid to poor countries by 2010. Instead, the G8 trumpeted a $5 billion initiative to reduce deaths among mothers and babies, which has become a growing concern in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The meeting took place amid doubts about the strength of the economic recovery and the state of public…

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Sure, the massive clear block at the front of this Coloured Glaze HTPC from NOVO is completely pointless, but it also does the remarkable task of making a boring hunk of plastic powered by Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion into an object of minimalist desire. Our colleagues at Engadget Chinese recently got their hands on one of these nettops, which were initially shown off at CES, and managed to plug it in and power it on in the midst of photographing its beauty from every angle. Hit up the source link for pics galore.

NOVO Coloured Glaze HTPC refracts us into the next century originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The most Twitter-vocal iPhone Dev Team member, Mr. MuscleNerd himself, has just posted a screenshot from a jailbroken iPhone 4. Before you get too excited, however, you should know that this is just a preliminary “userland” jailbreak, which means it uses Apple software to happen, and it’s not of a low enough level to really be worth releasing, since it’s easy for Apple to patch. Instead it’s an important step toward a real, low-level jailbreak that can actually be released. We’d feign pins and needles if this community wasn’t so gosh darned amazing at hacking these phones: we’re sure that real jailbreak will be along shortly.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

iPhone 4 gets preliminary ‘userland’ jailbreak, real freedom still forthcoming originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Award-winning Karma Samdrup convicted of grave robbing, despite claims he was tortured to try to extract confession Tibetan environmentalist Karma Samdrup, pictured in China’s Yunnan province in 2008, said he would appeal against his conviction. Photograph: AP An award-winning Tibetan environmentalist has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Chinese court, despite his claims that guards had tortured him to try to extract a confession. Karma Samdrup – who used part of a fortune he made from antique dealing to fund a conservation campaign on the Tibetan Plateau – was convicted…

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Twitter, the rapidly growing Internet messaging service, has settled a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the security and privacy protections it offers its users, Brad Stone reports in The New York Times. For the last 11 months, the F.T.C. has been looking into two security breaches at Twitter in 2009 in which a hacker got access to the accounts of several prominent members, including Barack Obama, then the president-elect, and was able to read their private Twitter messages and send out fake messages from their accounts. The…

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