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Monday


  • May-20 -- Uncertainty fading from quantum computer? - USA Today
    Google and NASA have come together to create the the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab which will include a quantum computer made by D-Wave Systems and " study how quantum computing might advance machine learning," reports the New York Times Bits blog .
    A recent study actually tested how a quantum computer measured up to a conventional computer. More...

  • May-20 -- Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks US Record for Off-Planet Driving
    With all the hubbub surrounding the landing of the Curiosity rover, folks tend to forget that it's not the only device operating on the planet.
    Opportunity's not beat the world galaxy record though. More...

  • May-20 -- Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next ...
    It's all about the games.
    The title, by implication, then suggests that Sony ]] Sony Sony is poised to dominate the next Xbox in the future having "twice the buzz." More...

  • May-20 -- Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept Tops Birthday Celebration
    If it doesn't bother you either, scroll down for to watch a video from Aston and to find the official press release.
    Inspired by the DBR1 race car that Stirling Moss piloted to victory in the 1959 Nurburgring 1000km, it is said to be based off Aston's most sporting offering, the V12 Vantage. More...

  • May-20 -- Teen's Inexpensive Self-Driving Tech Takes Home $75K Intel Prize
    Eesha Khare was the top winner in the Chemistry category and among the top three winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2013 held in Phoenix, Ariz. Eesha Khare won $50,000 and the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award on Friday, May 17.
    On May 16, the Society for Science & the Public, in partnership with the Intel Foundation, held a special award organizations ceremony. More...

  • May-20 -- Pavlof Volcano ash cloud shows Alaska's threat to air travel (+video)
    The Alaska Volcano Observatory reported clouds of ash, steam, and gas sometimes reaching as high as 20,000 feet.
    A strong enough earthquake generates a warning inside the volcano observatory's operations center, as well as automated text messages to certain volcanologists tasked with keeping tabs on Pavlof. More...

  • May-20 -- MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC - AppleInsider
    As Macbook Air inventory begins to thin out at various retailers, speculation of refreshes for that line of notebooks is starting to pick up.
    Industry predictions about Retina technology have been mixed, primarily because of the cost and availability of the panels themselves. More...

  • May-20 -- Rising Summer Gas Prices May Have Hit Plateau
    Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 9.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.56 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio.
    I pedal nearly everywhere, it just takes a little planning. More...

Sunday


  • May-19 -- Future Firefox takes tougher stance on mixed content
    The plan by Mozilla to block third-party cookies by default in upcoming Firefox releases was criticized by the online advertisement industry, some of whom said that cookies serve other purposes like data theft protection and analytics besides advertising.
    Several weeks ago, Lou Mastria, managing director of the umbrella trade group Digital Advertising alliance, told a Senate panel that Mozilla's plans to block cookies were one of the reasons that the industry and advocates haven't been able to agree on implementing a universal do-not-track mechanism. More...

  • May-19 -- New MacBook Air imminent?
    As Macbook Air inventory begins to thin out at various retailers, speculation of refreshes for that line of notebooks is starting to pick up.
    The next-generation or an upgrade version of Apple MacBook Air is likely to be released at WWDC 2013 in San Francisco on June 10, 2013. More...

  • May-19 -- Digital Copies For The Last Of Us Will Play While Downloading
    To remove the delay for downloads when you purchase digital titles, once the download progress for The Last of U s reaches 50%, players can boot up the game and begin playing.
    The Last of Us will give PS3 gamers a small taste of PS4's new accessibility features. More...

  • May-19 -- A sneak peek at YouTube's future as it rolls out new channel design for everyone
    According to blog post by Google ]] .
    Several channels offer discounts on the monthly fee with an annual subscription, and some include features on top of access to videos. More...

  • May-19 -- Nintendo Will Get Revenue From All YouTube Videos Featuring its IP - Mashable
    'Let's Play' videos feature recorded footage of a user playing a video game along with their commentary.
    Without the frequent infringement of my copyright, the astonishingly aggressive use of my intellectual property and oftentimes presumptuous use of work comprising years of my life, I wouldn't be sat right now, at home, taking a break from my work as a full time indie developer." More...

  • May-19 -- 6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss - Mashable
    Things have now changed and now Google Hangouts (replaces Talk) app is now available, but how will the fair with the likes of the new BBM app coming to Android and iOS .
    In addition the Hangout will let you share pictures, emoticons and emoji, etc like a regular mobile messenger. More...

  • May-19 -- Windows 8: 5 Hopeful Signs
    Microsoft is apparently planning to launch a more compact version of its Surface tablet line, designed to better compete with Apple's popular iPad Mini .
    The U.K. was confirmed to receive the Surface with Windows 8 Pro a couple months ago, but a specific date has finally been revealed. More...

  • May-19 -- Making a 3D image from a single pixel in Glasgow
    A series of projected patterns and the reflected intensities are used in a computer algorithm to produce a 2D image."
    Four single pixel light sensors gauge how light falls on an object, enabling a 3D image to be produced. More...





Saturday


  • May-18 -- Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming
    DID YOU KNOW THAT most scientific papers that take a position on the cause of global warming agree that it's due to human activity? If so, you're better informed than most.
    Making the results of our paper more widely-known is an important step toward closing the consensus gap and increasing public support for meaningful climate action." More...

  • May-18 -- Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
    On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
    The OSIRIS-REx mission will travel to near-Earth asteroid Bennu (named via a recent student competion), study it for a year with a variety of instruments, collect a sample and return it to Earth in 2023. More...

  • May-18 -- Future Firefox takes tougher stance on mixed content
    The plan by Mozilla to block third-party cookies by default in upcoming Firefox releases was criticized by the online advertisement industry, some of whom said that cookies serve other purposes like data theft protection and analytics besides advertising.
    Millions of Safari users, including me, don't set cookies from unvisited sites, and there hasn't been any significant widespread problems there. More...

  • May-18 -- Burnaby company's quantum computer attracts NASA, Google - Vancouver Sun
    Google and NASA have come together to create the the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab which will include a quantum computer made by D-Wave Systems and " study how quantum computing might advance machine learning," reports the New York Times Bits blog .
    Of all the companies and institutions in the world that could've acquired a quantum computer, NASA and Google are probably the most exciting. More...

  • May-18 -- 'Crazy ants' a threat in southern US
    According to the study published in Biological Invasions , a new species of invasive ant is displacing the fire ant population in the southeastern United States.
    LeBrun says "Fire ants are in many ways very polite. More...

  • May-18 -- Thin Weather Layers on Uranus and Neptune
    Unlike here on Earth, where the highest wind speed ever recorded was a gust at 253 miles per hour, giant planets in the outer solar system, like Uranus and Neptune, are dominated by immense stronger winds.
    The role of the internal heat source in the rapid winds is uncertain, but based on the lack of other drivers, an internal heat source must be involved on some level. More...

  • May-18 -- Is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition the Nexus 5?
    The Google version of the device will come without that stuff, offering users stock Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) instead.
    True enough, the Galaxy S 4 hit all four of the major wireless carriers in the U.S. and is even available from regional telecoms like U.S. Cellular and Cricket. More...

  • May-18 -- Saudi Arabia says hackers sabotage government websites
    Hackers who identify with the loose hacking collective Anonymous have aimed at several government Web sites, including the Saudi Ministry of Finance, General Intelligence Presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Directorate General of Passports, as well as sites for several major Saudi provinces, including Makkah and Jeddah.
    In a video announcing plans for the attack, Anonymous said that their motivation is political. More...

Friday


  • May-17 -- Google Makes Android, but Samsung Makes All the Money
    Android's impressive growth rate is showing no signs of slowing down this year.
    The next closest competitor, of course, is Apple's iOS software, which was installed on 18.2 percent of smartphones, down from 22.5 percent a year ago. More...

  • May-17 -- Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first speech as CEO
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp's ( INTC.O ) new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.
    Intel was late to the mobile market under Otellini's watch, which gave processor designer ARM an insurmountable lead. More...

  • May-17 -- Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time
      The cloning technique is essentially the same one used to create Dolly the cloned sheep, with some modifications to make cloning work using human eggs and human cells.
    Attempts over many years to create monkey clones have failed, the university noted, and human cells are even more fragile and less amenable to cloning. More...

  • May-17 -- iTunes Update Brings Revamped Mini Player, Songs View
    Cutting through all the Google I/O news is this update from Apple: today, Cupertino released iTunes version 11.0.3.
    The list of features include new MiniPlayer improvements and radically improved and enhanced multi-disc album and Songs View. More...

  • May-17 -- US Now Paints Apple as 'Ringmaster' in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing
    "Apple did not conspire to fix e-book prices.
    Jobs agreed with Murdoch that the paper textbook business would be blown away by digital learning materials. More...

  • May-17 -- Melting glaciers in Canada's Arctic stoking sea-level rise - Edmonton Journal
    GRACE does not have a fine enough resolution and ICESat does not have sufficient sampling density to study small glaciers, but mass change estimates by the two satellite systems for large glaciated regions agree well, the scientists concluded.
    The processing and interpretation of the GRACE satellite observations was carried out by Dr Wouters of Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences with Professor John Wahr of the University of Colorado. More...

  • May-17 -- Did 'Star Trek' Give Rise to the Space Shuttle?
    Star Trek Into Darkness ( review here ) director J.J. Abrams, writer and producer Damon Lindelof and stars Chris Pine, John Cho and Alice Eve will be taking part in a Google+ Hangout with astronauts Chris Cassidy who is currently on the International Space Station Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX from 2:00 - 2:45 a.m. AEST on May 17th.
    Three crew members aboard the International Space Station just returned to Earth after a five month stay aboard the spacecraft, including commander Chris Hadfield. More...

  • May-17 -- Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn't Chromebooks
    Instead of installing software, you download apps; instead of saving to the hard drive, you save to the cloud.
    If you do have high-speed web access, the Chromebook shines. More...

Thursday


  • May-16 -- Mercedes-Benz S-Class is first car without light bulbs - USA Today
    The S-Class also offers heated armrests, and the rear seat belt buckles only appear when the rear doors are opened.
    The first two variants run on gasoline; one is a 3.5-liter V6 hybrid with 302 hp and an electric boost of 20 kW (27 hp), while the other is a 4.7-liter V8 with 448 hp it pushes the car to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 4.8 seconds. More...

  • May-16 -- 'Ciudad Blanca' found? Scientists share images of lost city in Honduras
    Known as Central America's Little Amazon, Honduras' Mosquitia region is a vast, lightly inhabited 32,000-square-mile region of tropical rainforest, lagoons, mangrove swamps, rivers, remote beaches and a diverse grouping of flora and fauna including the deadly jumping viper.
    The curse led to disease and catastrophes and the Pechs had to clear out, reliquishing the city to the forest and legend. More...

  • May-16 -- VMware's dual-persona smartphones phones finally available to purchase
    VMware Horizon Mobile applies VMware's proven virtualization technology to create a virtualized operating system on Android smartphones.
    VMware and Verizon said the Intuition and Razr M are immediately available for sale with Horizon Mobile software. More...

  • May-16 -- Strongbox: Aaron Swartz's last gift to Internet privacy
    Next, New Yorker editors periodically check Strongbox using a laptop on a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
    Readers and sources have long sent documents to the magazine and its reporters, from letters of complaint to classified papers. (Joshua Rothman has written about that history and the magazine's record of investigative journalism.) More...

  • May-16 -- Apple passes 50 billion App Store downloads
    ITunes alone is close to half of Mac net sales, which were $5.4 billion.
    Incidentally, according to analyst Horace Dediu's calculations, iTunes users spend at the rate of $40 a year, so that $10,000 voucher should keep the lucky winner going for 250 years. More...

  • May-16 -- Dell XPS 10 Windows RT Tablet Price Cut, Now Available for $299
    Is there any room left for Windows RT slates? Maybe so--at the right price.
    Not only has the $500 tag for the tablet with 32GB of storage dropped to $300, but adding another 32GB now only costs $50 more, instead of $100. More...

  • May-16 -- Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
    Glaciers smaller than one square kilometer are disappearing the fastest and have experienced a 43 percent decrease in surface area since the 1960s.
    Needless to say, the glaciers are experiencing quite a bit of melting. More...

  • May-16 -- Putting The Muscle Into Electric Cars
    The first wave of people who are buying the Leaf are among the most well educated and informed people to be found.
    Toyota stopped making electric cars some time ago, but that's all set to change thanks to a partnership with Tesla Motors. More...

Wednesday


  • May-15 -- Cell Phone Providers Join National Campaign to Curb Texting While Driving
    New York • The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer.
    Updated: Tuesday, May 14 2013, 08:26 AM EDT NEWSCHANNEL 3 - The country's four biggest cell phone companies are launching their first joint advertising campaign this summer. More...

  • May-15 -- Video services chug half of US net capacity
    When it comes to peak downstream mobile traffic, YouTube is on top with 27.3 percent, a drop from 31 percent last year.
    The subscription video-on-demand pioneer's share on mobile networks also doubled in the past year. More...

  • May-15 -- US Urges a Lower Blood-Alcohol Limit for Drunken Driving
    To curb drunken driving, the federal National Transportation Safety Board has voted to recommend that states tighten the legal limit for drivers' blood alcohol.
    More than 10,000 highway deaths in 2010 involved an alcohol-impaired driver, according to the NTSB. While that's down from more than 18,000 in 1988, the NTSB says it could be reduced further still with strichter alcohol limits. More...

  • May-15 -- New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS
    Last year's Google I/O was quite a hit, punctuated with an amazing stunt as parachuters wearing Google Glass landed on a nearby roof top and repelled, bicycled and ran into Moscone Center to present the glasses to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
    The update strips out the sidebar and displays all information directly on the map instead. More...

  • May-15 -- Software can detect cyberattacks on infrastructure control systems
    Firefox 21 brings an enhanced UI for the Do Not Track Feature and preliminary implementation of the Firefox Health Report , which is a system that is designed to log browser health information like start up time, total running time, and number of crashes.
    Aiming to help users improve performance, the new Firefox 21 "will suggest how to improve your application startup time if needed," the release notes explain. More...

  • May-15 -- Firefox 21 Gets Even More Social
    Firefox 21 brings an enhanced UI for the Do Not Track Feature and preliminary implementation of the Firefox Health Report , which is a system that is designed to log browser health information like start up time, total running time, and number of crashes.
    Aiming to help users improve performance, the new Firefox 21 "will suggest how to improve your application startup time if needed," the release notes explain. More...

  • May-15 -- Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
    The team also found that the area around Everest has been warming since the 1990s, while snowfall has been declining.
    According to the IPCC, Arctic sea ice extent has shrunk by 2.7 percent per decade, with larger summer decreases of 7.5 percent per decade since 1978. More...

  • May-15 -- Pinterest App Updates Add Push Notifications, Mentions
    Pinterest has updated its apps for Android and iOS to add a handful of new features previously unavailable on mobile devices.
    They can also be pushed to your mobile device if you want to be updated when not in the app. More...

Tuesday


  • May-14 -- Newt Gingrich has never heard of a smartphone
    By his own admission, former Speaker of the House and Presidential candidate for 2012, Newt Gingrich, is, "Really puzzled."
    The real gold comes from the comments on the Gingrich Productions’ website , where suggestions on what we should be calling the "cell phone" are racking up. More...

  • May-14 -- Biggest Solar Flares of the Year Erupt from Active Sun (Video)
    Sunday's solar flare erupted from an active sunspot on the far side of the sun, so it was not directly facing Earth when it unleashed a wave of super-hot plasma called a coronal mass ejection (CME).
    On May 12-13, 2013, the sun erupted with an X1.7-class and an X2.8-class flare, as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, off the upper left side of the sun. More...

  • May-14 -- Bulldozers destroy 3200-year-old Mayan pyramid in Belize
    Google shut down its SMS Search service late last week, leaving users of other Google SMS services wondering about the fates of those tools.
    You have two options to use the service: first by configuring alerts that you receive via SMS daily or less frequently, and then by directly sending text messages to the 44636 phone number. More...

  • May-14 -- Google Ends SMS Search Service, Apparently Without Warning - eWeek
    Google shut down its SMS Search service late last week, leaving users of other Google SMS services wondering about the fates of those tools.
    You have two options to use the service: first by configuring alerts that you receive via SMS daily or less frequently, and then by directly sending text messages to the 44636 phone number. More...

  • May-14 -- Microsoft's counter-attack against Windows 8 coverage makes it 'look weak'
    The consensus among industry players appears to point in the direction of investing more, and substantially so, on mobility and touch technologies.
    "I think Microsoft has been slow to understand that." More...

  • May-14 -- Flipboard iOS Update Boosts Profiles, SMS Sharing
    What's New in Version 2.0.2 - Get a window onto your readership and curation activity with new profile pages. - Discover magazines by friends quickly in new Friends category in the Content Guide. - Select a social network and access options more easily in the improved share menu. - Share magazines and stories with friends and family via SMS text messaging. - Save images directly to your device.
    A few days after Flipboard rolled out the much loved 2.0 update to Android , it has added a few new features to the iOS version of the app. This new major update includes new profile pages, better menu for sharing articles on social networks and SMS amongst other new features. More...

  • May-14 -- Climate Change Ushers In Early California Fire Season
    The scientists projected that if no significant efforts were made to limit greenhouse gas emissions, 2100 global temperatures would be 4C above pre-industrial levels.
    If global emissions peak in 2016 and temperatures only rise by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the losses can be decreased by 60 percent. More...

  • May-14 -- Wearable Technology: It's About More Than Just Google Glass
    The introduction of Glass "is a watershed moment that will lead to the Internet being available more often" through a variety of wearable gadgets, Macquarie Equities analyst Ben Schachter wrote in a report last month.
    A: Let me answer this a bit obliquely: My favorite part of the "Iron Man" film series is the computer display on Tony Stark's visor. More...

Monday


  • May-13 -- iPhone 5 sees faster data speeds on T-Mobile after hacked carrier update
    Your mum might like this for Mother's Day.
    T-Mobile launched the iPhone 5 back in April, and less than one month later the network announced that it had sold an impressive 500,000 units . More...

  • May-13 -- Nokia Teases New Lumia's Camera In Prime Time TV Ad, Ahead Of "See What's ...
    Nokia has also unveiled a low-end device called Asha 501, which is priced at $99 (before taxes).
    While Microsoft Stores is selling the device for the same $150, Walmart has further reduced the price to about $130. More...

  • May-13 -- New Nexus 7 to be highlight of Google I/O as 'iPad mini 2' faces delay, analyst says
    As for the operating system, rumors are gathering that it'll be Android 4.3, and not Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
    The tablet will also apparently be running Android 4.3 out of the box and be priced starting at $199. More...

  • May-13 -- Adobe subscription-only Creative Suite plan protested by 8000 users
    Digital artists who use software like Photoshop and Illustrator got big news last week when the company behind those applications, Adobe Systems Inc., announced that it was moving its products online to a service called Adobe Creative Cloud.
    Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009 for $1.9 billion to help the drive. More...

  • May-13 -- Big Recall for Jeeps Announced by Chrysler
    Affected by today's recall are more than 475,000 model year 2006-2010 Jeep Commanders, 2005-2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2008-2012 Jeep Wrangler, and 2013 Ram 1500 vehicles sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico and overseas.
    Chrysler has begun recalling roughly 469,000 Jeeps around the world, with approximately 295,000 of them being in the United States due to the transmission's ability to shift from park to neutral by itself. More...

  • May-13 -- First Times drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 diesel
    What's the 2013 Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet like to drive? Our favourite version of the outgoing model was the six-cylinder diesel in entry-level SE trim, because it blended an effortlessly smooth power delivery with a soft and wallowy ride.
    The E400 is the priciest E-Class Coupe you can buy. More...

  • May-13 -- Feds investigate faulty headlights on more than 100000 Corvettes
    The government safety agency decided to launch this preliminary investigation after receiving 30 reports that the low beam portion of the projection headlight system in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Chevrolet Corvette shut off during normal operation without any warning.
    The Chevvy Corvette has come under the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators who are investigating a series of complaints. More...

  • May-13 -- Real-Money Profit from Diablo's Fake-Money Exploit Going to Charity - Kotaku
    Hight addressed the recent bug, unleashed after the game's 1.0.8 patch went live, that allowed players to duplicate gold from stacks of 1 million to 10 million through the real-money Auction House.
    Developer Blizzard Entertainment was forced to suspend all transactions after a gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 was discovered. More...

Sunday


  • May-12 -- Bing and Facebook Deepen Connection, Allow Integrated Comments
    Now without leaving the Bing results page, I comment directly to her post letting her know that I'd love to join her for the concert. I've gone from simply browsing to attending a concert in just a few easy steps - all thanks to Bing.
    At the start of the year, Microsoft added status updates, shared links, and comments for more context. More...

  • May-12 -- Google Wallet chief's resignation another bad sign for NFC
    The report claims that releasing the credit card was part of an overall strategic plan that is unsurprisingly based around Google being able to collect more information on people.
    According to a report in AllThingsD Page felt it did not press forward innovation as payments startups like Square have done." More...

  • May-12 -- Houseplants: The solar cells of tomorrow
    During photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to split water atoms into hydrogen and oxygen, which produces electrons.
    In order to accomplish these astonishing feats of efficiency, plants undergo photosynthesis. More...

  • May-12 -- FIDO Alliance: "Passwords Are Starting to Fail Us"
    Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, thinks there's a better way.
    Speaking at the Interop IT conference, Barrett was quite positive that passwords will die sometime this year, even going as far as putting an image of a tombstone up on the screen that gave an "R.I.P." to passwords. More...

  • May-12 -- Justinian Plague Crippled Byzantine Empire with Help of Pesky 'Black Death ...
    Like later strains that caused the Black Death and a third plague pandemic in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, the Justinian Plague Yersinia pestis strain probably originated somewhere in Asia, afflicting the center of the Byzantine Empire in present-day Turkey and then sneaking through the Alps to infect the Bavarian villagers who were eventually buried in Aschheim.
    Some historians have suggested it contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. More...

  • May-12 -- AppleCare To Be Updated This Fall Adding Subscriptions And Improved In-Store ...
    By replacing parts on defective iPhones instead of replacing the units entirely, Apple reportedly hopes to save 1 billion per year.
    While I agree with the sentiment. More...

  • May-12 -- Bored of the keyboard? Why I like BlackBerry 10, but not the Q10
    The Q10 is one of the two flagship smartphones released by the Canadian handset maker this year, both running on its new Blackberry 10 operating system.
    "Our checks indicate broad sell-outs with generally limited stock otherwise," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said in a note to clients on Friday. More...

  • May-12 -- New Nexus 7 to be highlight of Google I/O as 'iPad mini 2' faces delay, analyst says
    KGI securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo, who has a solid track record when it comes to predicting product launches, says that Google plans to launch a refreshed Nexus 7 at this year's I/O. This new Nexus 7 would come with a 1920 x 1200 7-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and a lighter design for the same $199 price point, 9to5Google reports.
    One possible device is an updated version of the super-popular Nexus 7 tablet, and an analyst has chimed in with a potential spec list. More...





Saturday


Friday


  • May-10 -- Why hasn't everything been annihilated yet? Pear-shaped atomic nuclei could ...
    Since the Standard Model doesn't predict this imbalance, physicists have long sought another force or interaction that would explain it.
    The high-energy protons shattered the atoms in the block, producing a cornucopia of exotic atoms, including radon-220 and radium-224. More...

  • May-10 -- Activision Blizzard Given Outperform Rating at Wedbush (ATVI)
    "However, our focused and disciplined approach to our business has served us well in the past, and through continued investment and careful management of our costs, we expect to continue delivering shareholder value over the long term as we have for the last 20 years."
    Activision projects sales of $590 million in the current quarter, below Wall Street estimates of $605.2 million. More...

  • May-10 -- Google intros one-click 'Save to Drive' button
    Google today announced a new button for websites that will let users save files directly to their Google Drive account.
    There's also a JavaScript API, which gives you programmatic control for the creation of Save to Drive buttons in your web pages. More...

  • May-10 -- Huawei W1 With Windows Phone 8 Coming to Walmart
    Huawei today announced its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, model W1, which features a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, optimized battery technology, a 4-inch IPS LCD, Gorilla glass touchscreen, 5MP camera with 0.3MP front-facing camera, LED flash, 4X digital zoom, auto focus and a quick access button.
    In addition to operating on Windows Phone 8, the W1 will use a 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM 8230 processor to power the device. More...

  • May-10 -- Did Earth And The Moon Get Their Water From The Same Place?
    The droplets in the rocks were found trapped in crystals on the inside, which protected the water droplets from volcanic eruptions, allowing them to be preserved through all these years and giving scientists the opportunity to look back at what the Moon's ancient history as far back as 4.5 billion years ago.
    The Moon is thought to have formed from a disc of debris left when a Mars-sized impactor hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, the Giant Impact. More...

  • May-10 -- Epic VP: Next consoles will "fully embrace" free-to-play gaming
    The reason? The quality of Internet connections around the world.
    When Microsoft reveals their next-generation Xbox on May 21, the ongoing rumors about the system's always-online requirement will either be put to rest or wholeheartedly embraced by the company. More...

  • May-10 -- Mozilla tempts developers with free Firefox OS handset if they build apps for the ...
    We are in joint discussions on the kind of device and what's the product," said Li Gong, Mozilla's senior vice president for mobile devices.
    "However, even if a standard is not recommended by the W3C, it can still gain global adoption if two or more of the major browser vendors decide to implement it." More...

  • May-10 -- Box Acquires Crocodoc To Add HTML5 Document Converter And Sleek Content ...
    The deal will be Box's second acquisition; it acquired Increo in 2009, a company representative said.
    The companies will continue to support existing Crocodoc customers, and Damico will join Box as the director of content and platform services. More...

Thursday


  • May-09 -- Hipstamatic attempts to revive mobile photographers with the launch of social ...
    Oggl goes one-step further, with the ability to make modifications to the filters, lenses, and other settings either before or after the photo is taken.
    Why release Oggl? Hipstamatic is trying to keep existing customers happy, while also reaching out to new ones. More...

  • May-09 -- US court scrutinizes class suit against Google e-book project
    Google and the Authors Guild resumed an eight-year battle on Tuesday morning before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges pressed both sides to provide a straight-up answer as to whether Google's decision to scan millions of books amounted to "fair use" under copyright law.
    Google argues the practice constituted "fair use," an exception under U.S. copyright law because it only provided portions of the works online. More...

  • May-09 -- Microsoft's most profitable mobile operating system: Android
    Now the firm has said it will offer Android support through Google's Chrome web browser .
    Over the years -- especially in the last year -- Google has changed and dropped services, leaving users in the lurch. More...

  • May-09 -- Google Fiber is heading to another Kansas City suburb
    Google Fiber ( Nasdaq: GOOG ) said late Tuesday that it will expand to Grandview, Mo., after the city's board of aldermen agreed to give it a franchise.
    Grandview officials are looking forward to working with Google to drum up support for the service among city residents. More...

  • May-09 -- San Francisco finally kills cell phone radiation law
    One can wonder what is so "dangerous" in WHO fact sheet #193.
    I think the legal reality is that if we don't approve the settlement, we're talking about having to pay $500,000 in legal fees. More...

  • May-09 -- Adobe Sneak Peeks Offer Glimpse at Upcoming Technology - eWeek
    While perhaps painful at first, the business model change will be ultimately beneficial for consumers and Adobe alike, and other software companies are likely to follow, say experts at Wharton.
    The only way to purchase that software from now on will be through a subscription to the company's Creative Cloud service, which can cost anywhere from $20 a month to $75 a month depending on what software you need and how long you need access to it. More...

  • May-09 -- Klout Experts Asks Members to Share Their Expertise
    Like LinkedIn's Influencer blogs, Klout is hoping content creation can be the answer.
    Among the worst are unmoderated comment boards like Yahoo Answers. More...

  • May-09 -- Blizzard Slams Door On Gold Dupe Bug After Trillions PUmped Into D3 Economy
    As maintenance concluded less than an hour later, administrators suggested a fix was in the works that'd be implemented soon after.
    According to a Battle.net post , many players now have billions in gold and one player has amassed 371 trillion gold through the exploitation. More...

Wednesday


  • May-08 -- Foxconn Prepares For Life After Apple
    Terry Gou did almost everything that Apple could ask for.
    The company is working with cable and Internet TV operators in Taiwan and China to offer subsidized TV sets that cost a lot less upfront when bought with a subscription. More...

  • May-08 -- Apple's Customer Data-Privacy Rules Struck Down by German Court
    Law360, New York (May 07, 2013, 4:33 PM ET) -- A German court has ruled Apple Inc.' s user agreement violates the country's privacy laws by allowing the company to provide consumers' personal information to advertisers, among other things, a German consumer group reported Tuesday.
    Apple depends on anonymous collection of location data in order to build up their database of cell ids and WiFi hotspots. More...

  • May-08 -- 5 Sky Events This Week: Return of Venus, Solar Eclipse
    During annular solar eclipses, the moon casts a shadow on the face of the Earth when it passes between the planet and the star.
    The theoretical mid-point for the first of two eclipse seasons for 2013 occurs on May 7 th at 7:00 UT/ 3:00 EDT when the longitude of the Sun equals the descending node where the Moon's path crosses the ecliptic. More...

  • May-08 -- YouTube Trends Map reveals video trends by city and region
    Across all age groups, the gripping trailer for True Blood season six is the most shared video in America, according to YouTube's new Trends Map , which reveals web videos gone viral around the country.
    Toggling between different filters reveals really interesting habits among different age groups and markets around the country. More...

  • May-08 -- Cray descends to midrange HPC shops with baby XC30 supers
    There are many Fortune 1000 companies, and even departments within Fortune 100 companies, with a growing need for a supercomputing system that provides a critical tool for taking advantage of performing complex simulations," said Peg Williams, Cray's senior vice president of high performance computing systems.
    While some of Cray's other systems are designed to run any form of Linux a customer wants, the XC30-AC comes with software optimized for the system. More...

  • May-08 -- Qualcomm names ex-Palm chief to board of directors
    Rubinstein's longstanding career has spanned a number of roles.
    Jon Rubinstein, who once served as the CEO of Palm before moving internally at HP , has joined the board of Qualcomm, the company announced on Monday. More...

  • May-08 -- BMW recalls older 3s for Takata'shrapnel' air bags - USA Today
    An airbag recall that impacted millions of Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda vehicles worldwide in April has expanded to German carmaker BMW. Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the recall of 42,080 BMW 3 Series models from the 2002 and 2003 model years for defective air bags.
    On Christmas Eve 2012, Virginia resident Guddi Rathore was involved in a minor accident with a mail truck . More...

  • May-08 -- Google+ adds instant replay, rewind to livestream Hangouts
    Leaked picture of the possible interface.
    Google Voice messaging will also be folded into the mix at a later date, apparently. More...

Tuesday


Monday


  • May-06 -- US Cellular to begin selling Apple products this year - AppleInsider
    Earnings fell to $4.9 million from $62.5 million.
    Later, CEO of the cellular provider's parent company, TDS, hinted that the carrier would wait until Apple unveiled an LTE capable device, which was of course before the unveiling of Apple's LTE iPhone 5. More...

  • May-06 -- 2013 Volkswagen Beetle R-Line Coupe Priced at $30930
    Herndon, VA - The Volkswagen Beetle Turbo, Beetle Turbo Convertible, and the Jetta GLI receive a number of running changes to 2013 model year cars that go on sale this month.
    Engine weight has been reduced by eight pounds, to 290 pounds overall. More...

  • May-06 -- Space Mountain ride at Disneyland to reopen after safety work
    Disney did not appeal the decision before the deadline on Friday.
    One of Disneyland's most popular rides has reopened after the company declined to appeal a workplace safety case. More...

  • May-06 -- US gasoline prices rise for the first time in 8 weeks -survey
    The average price for regular gasoline at U.S. pumps rose 0.84 cent a gallon in the past two weeks to $3.5447 a gallon, according to Lundberg Survey Inc.
    Regulations require purer, lower-emission gasoline blends in the spring and summer when smog and pollution tend to increase, adding to the costs. More...

  • May-06 -- General Motors' Dan Akerson: AT&T Partnership Means 4G, Wi-Fi Vehicles With ...
    General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said the automaker will receive $20 for every customer who activates an AT&T wifi account under a partnership between the two companies.
    DETROIT: Dan Akerson is pushing General Motors to build cars that the U.S. automaker's top executive hopes will attract a target demographic: his grandkids. More...

  • May-06 -- Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list - Newsday
    "You cannot add species after species after species without evaluating whether there are species that should come off," Fernandez said to the AP by telephone from Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island.
    Fernandez said humpbacks are also protected under the Marine Mammal Act and by the International Whaling Commission. More...

  • May-06 -- New kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: Birth of a ...
    According to a new analysis by an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), just before the black hole forms, the dying star may generate a distinct burst of light that will allow astronomers to witness the birth of a new black hole for the first time.
    This burst of light, which might last three to 10 days, could be visible in optical light and also in infrared, which shows the heat signature of cosmic objects. More...

  • May-06 -- Study: US Won't Act On Climate Change Because Citizens Believe World Is Ending
    " t stands to reason that most nonbelievers would support preserving the Earth for future generations, but that end-times believers would rationally perceive such efforts to be ultimately futile, and hence ill-advised," Barker and Bearce wrote.
    Too much about climate change and global warming can cause people to tune out, but I personally think it's a message worth taking the risk. More...

Sunday


  • May-05 -- Blockbuster On Demand App Lands on iOS
    Despite a bankruptcy filing in 2010 and an acquisition by Dish Network in 2011, Blockbuster has maintained an online movie rental presence.
    Months after Blockbuster relaunched its on-demand digital rental service, it has released apps for the iPhone and iPad in the hopes of attracting more viewers. More...

  • May-05 -- Epic Games Launches Pretty 'Citadel' Tech Demo in HTML5
    The tech wizards at Epic have created an HTML5 version of its Unreal 3 Engine tech demo Epic Citadel .
    The web version comes from a collaboration between Epic and Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, and the port was completed in four days. More...

  • May-05 -- Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game ...
    Google appears to be moving aggressively into gaming with several new hires, and a Google I/O schedule packed with gaming-themed sessions.
    Then again, Google may be paving the way for virtual reality gaming and other entertainment experiences with Glass. More...

  • May-05 -- NEWSMAKER-Run silent, run deep: The life of Brian Krzanich at Intel
    SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (Reuters) - It took him 30 years, but Brian Krzanich - the understated, analytical engineer who started his career at an Intel chip factory in New Mexico - quietly worked his way up to the top. Now, the man who once prided himself on halving production times will have to act swiftly to move the company into new areas of growth.
    Intel's board took six months to deliberate on who could best helm a company with deep roots in Silicon Valley and computing history. More...

  • May-05 -- New York City Sets Weight Limit for Bike-Sharing Program
    The bikes, which are supplied by a company called Alta Bicycle Share in Oregon, could break under the weight, the Post reported.
    If someone weighing over 260 pounds wants to ride their own bike, then that is their decision. More...

  • May-05 -- Saturn's rings keep growing more amazing
    Taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the photos show a storm with an eye about 20 times the the size of a typical hurricane on Earth.
    The Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) stared at Saturn's southern pole, observing the aurora while all the other optical remote-sensing instruments rode along, taking data. More...

  • May-05 -- Grove Street Gang spotted in new Grand Theft Auto V trailer - Nerd Reactor
    Rockstar is making another pretty game, judging from the trio of character trailers released on Tuesday , and why is the internet here if not to destroy pretty things? Youtube user NDstudio69 shows us what Grand Theft Auto V's "Michael" trailer would look like in 2004's San Andreas.
    One thing we do know, however, is that Michael is quite the film buff, and his love affair with the silver screen begins to influence the game's heists. More...

  • May-05 -- Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list - Newsday
    HONOLULU (AP) - A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove northern Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the population has steadily grown since the international community banned commercial whaling nearly 50 years ago.
    The organization is made up of more than 600 fishermen, boaters, and others. More...





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