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Photos from BrickMagic Festival for LEGO Fans LEGO builders and enthusiasts met up at the recent BrickMagic Festival for LEGO fans. These photos show some of the incredible LEGO creations on display at the event. Read more Resource of the day Is Your Data Center the Right Temperature? A popular hypothesis suggests that energy demands decrease as server inlet temperatures increase. This paper tests that hypothesis and applies the data to a variety of cooling architectures. Read this paper to find out more. Remote Guild Chat comes to the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory app's Remote Guild Chat feature enables WoW subscribers to connect from anywhere on their iPhone or Android phone or iPad and chat with guild members. Read more Geek Gifts 2011: ASUS WiCast EW2000 Wireless HD Video Transmitter and Receiver This is another one of those too-rare occasions where a device operates exactly as advertised. The WiCast EW2000 is almost as simple to use as a HDMI cable. Mark Kaelin reviews this wireless video... Read more Roll a D6: A video for the D&D crowd Fans of the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons should check out the music video Roll a D6, created by Connor Anderson. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Techno itinerancy and surviving the professional apocalypse TR member Todd Fluhr provides some survival steps for freelance techies who have little or no resources to work with. Additional tips for survival are welcome in the discussion thread. Read more Save your money: Three bad Linux books Not all Linux books are created equal. Some are amazingly good, and definitely worth buying. Others are a waste of money. Three specimens identified in this article are of the latter variety. Read more Looking for mobile app developers If you've done some mobile app development and would like to share your expertise with TechRepublic members, here's your chance. Read more Featured multimedia   First flight of the Phantom Ray (photos) Boeing's autonomous unmanned aircraft gets off the ground for a 17-minute solo flight over Edwards Air Force Base in California. View on site A380 lands in San Francisco (photos) Road Trip at Home: Germany's Lufthansa is the first to bring the A380--the world's largest passenger plane--to SFO. View on site Inside Lufthansa's A380 (photos) Road Trip at Home: Lufthansa began daily A380 service to San Francisco today. CNET looks inside the massive plane. View on site ADK robots at Google I/O 2011 (slideshow) Not only is the Android OS customizable, but now you can customize the hardware that Android runs on thanks to Google's new ADK. Here's several examples from Google I/O 2011 of what the ADK can do. View on site At SRI, bomb-disabling robots go mini (photos) Road Trip at Home: At SRI International, miniaturization is key, including remote robots for disarming bombs, and tiny satellites. View on site Indestructible-gadget overload (photos) A quick look at gadget cases and rough-and-tumble devices from the sublime to the ridiculous. Are we so careless that we really need these? View on site Gallery: Augmented reality takes flight in iPhone app iPhone app lets you look through the camera lens and see captions to help guide you in a location that you're unfamiliar with. View on site Microsoft unveils Studio Series Artist Edition mouse collection Microsoft has rolled out a new mouse collection, and these aren't your average computing peripherals. The Studio Series Artist Edition features 10 unique designs from artists from all over the globe. Here's a closer look. View on site Today's recommended downloads Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works (American Power Conversion (APC)) Strategies for deploying blade servers in existing data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Stop Wasting Electricity in the Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Perennial favorites   Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010 The Singularity: the rise of the machines? Best and worst film adaptations of geek books Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid On triathlons and IT management Patrick Gray has been considering the similarities between training for a triathlon and effective, strategic IT management and discovered there are a surprising number of parallels. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Fractal image galleries Fractal art from the XaoS zoomer Chaoscope fractals showcase the beauty of chaos Flame Fractals continue to dazzle Incredible flame fractals take you through the wormhole

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