Both devices are circular, with a micro-USB port in back and a slanted front surface on which to rest the phone.
Yes, they are 16 to 24 year olds playing video games for a living, which is on the surface, a seemingly laid back profession.
But if a rover on the Martian surface wants to send a file back to earth, this is an inefficient way of doing it.
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In other words, it occupies roughly the same dimensions, but the taper on the back surface does a compelling job of making this feel thinner.
The company also claims that the gel does not carry drilling chemicals back to the surface, a problem with traditional fracking.
He trotted back out Windows Surface, a touch-screen PC inside a table that uses sophisticated cameras and software to synchronize with other gadgets.
Next, we are going to have our guys fly to the surface and back in a ship made of foil, then somehow dock with the orbiting craft, none of which has been tested in lunar orbit, fire another engine blast and get home, again without any steering, power or otherwise.
If a cable does fail, a repair ship is dispatched to lift both ends to the surface using grappling hooks and fuse the ends back together a slow, expensive process.
While the top and bottom edges are straight, the sides gently taper from front to back, widening to a flat 7.8mm surface at the phone's thickest point.
The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet.
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The angular edges from before have been banished, replaced by a profile that curves up to meet a few millimeters worth of flat surface that then curves back again to meet the glass up top.
Three groups keep track of global surface temperatures with records that go back more than a century: NOAA, NASA and the British meteorology office.
"The first thing that happens when we add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is it radiates some extra radiation back down to the surface, and we warm up a little bit, " Kirk-Davidoff says.
Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
His first chip didn't quite make it onto the putting surface and rolled back to his feet, leading to a double bogey.
Bones and clothing thought to date back to Medieval times have been found underneath a Reading town centre street during surface repair works.
Yes, it's a little strange and hilariously specific on the surface -- Anna just scaled back her PR job to part-time so she can take care of the kids!
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While the screen's surface is completely flat, the edges curve around gently, forming a rounded back.
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To be precise you are back in a special region of the tropics, because so much of Miami on the surface can make you forget you are there.
Maybe the next generation, with a considerable efforts in getting all the missing back data in and changes to weights given to surface data might mean the 3rd generation is better.
Last week Tanya Streeter dived into the record books by descending 400 feet into the ocean and propelling herself back to the surface, all with one very deep breath lasting three and a half minutes.
An interesting note in the financial statements was the news that in September Suncor become the first oil sands company to complete surface reclamation of a tailings pond, a key step in returning the site back to nature.
The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.
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Also, imagers on board both the lander and the rover have sent back panoramic views of the Martian surface, including three-dimensional images unveiled at a press conference Friday -- during which scientists and reporters donned cheap, decidedly low-tech plastic glasses to get the full effect.
As we kicked back on the top deck for lunch, the orcas moved languidly in a tight group near the surface.
The death of Google Reader reveals a problem of the modern Internet that many of us likely have in the back of our heads but are afraid to let surface: We are all participants in a user driven Internet, but we are still just the users, nothing more.
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Against the run of play, the Reds scored the game's first try after 24 minutes when half-back Luke Dorn held his footing on the slippery surface and jinked through the Huddersfield defence for a solo try.
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