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Wickedest Lego thingy Ever

The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built.

The model of the classic Star Wars fighter being unveiled in Times Square has a wingspan of 44 feet and comes complete with R2-D2 and a full range of sound effects. It’s a super-duper-sized version ofStar Wars Lego starfighter set #9493 and was made with 5,335,200 Lego bricks. That, according to Lego, makes it the largest model ever built, eclipsing the Lego robot at the Mall of America by some 2 million bricks. This replica of the Rebel Alliance dogfighter is 42 times the size of the Lego version we’ve all built and a bit bigger than a real X-Wing. (Yes, yes, we know they’re not real. Just go with it.) The X-Wing Luke Skywalker and his fellow rebels flew was about 41 feet long, 2 feet shorter than this Lego masterpiece.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/largest-lego-x-wing/

Mad Genius' Motion Sensitive Gaming peripheral

"When Cloud becomes the Platform"

But the other thing the new codec, known as ORBX.js, features is much, much more significant: it also enables steaming of desktop applications. An application (say, Microsoft Office) could be hosted on a company's server and then used by any employee who logs in to the application. It would not matter what operating system they were using (Windows, OS X or Linux) or even what platform (phone, tablet or desktop), because the browser would be the only thing that matters.

"This is not just remote desktop tech, or X11 reborn via JavaScript]," [blogged Mozilla Foundation CTO Brendan Eich, "Many local/remote hybrid computation schemes are at hand today, e.g., a game can do near-field computing in the browser on a beefy client while offloading lower [level of detail] work to the [game processing unit] cloud."

http://readwrite.com/2013/05/07/coming-soon-desktops-hosted-on-the-cloud-usable-anywhere?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

ISS leaves MS, goes Linux

All the computers on the International Space Station that used to run Windows XP now run Linux, reports Extreme Tech. The reason: Microsoft's OS just wasn't "stable and reliable" enough, according to the United Space Alliance, the spaceflight operations company that manages the hardware onboard the ISS in conjunction with NASA.
http://readwrite.com/2013/05/10/international-space-station-drops-windows-for-linux?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

Glass visits CERN