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Thursday


  • June-06 -- NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point
    The Point Lake outcrop, a rock of unknown composition that Curiosity's science team hopes to inspect more closely.
    NASA scientists have revealed that the rover has found evidence that rivers once ran across the surface of Mars that were between an inch to nearly three feet deep. More...

  • June-06 -- Apple Touts Benefits of 'Spaceship' Campus in New Report
    As the document is aimed at the municipal governments in the area, it is heavy on tax revenue and job numbers, but there are a few bits of information that are interesting to Apple watchers. - Phase 1 of the the Apple Campus 2 building will accommodate some 13,000 employees across 2.8 million square feet of space in the main building.
    Apple reveals how much it pays its corporate employees as part of a economic impact study. More...

  • June-06 -- Dell To Icahn: You're $3.9B Short
    A special Dell board committee still favours a buyout offer from the struggling PC maker's chief executive and founder, Michael Dell, and investment firm Silver Lake Partners.
    The Dell committee said the Icahn plan has a "$3.9 billion potential funding shortfall." More...

  • June-06 -- Pandora launches HTML5 player with focus on big screen experience
    With its latest release, Pandora is looking to fill your living room with music--Pandora's music, specifically.
    Having launched on a single connected Blu-ray player in 2008, Pandora is now available through more than 1,000 partner integrations including more than 900 consumer electronics devices, ranging from smart TVs to streaming media players and home stereo systems. More...

  • June-06 -- Crooks target bank accounts through Facebook
    The Trojan, which was first detected in 2007, is only getting more active.
    Eric Feinberg, founder of the advocacy Fan Against Kounterfeit Enterprise (FAKE), reached out to the social site and received a tepid response. More...

  • June-06 -- Google offers mea culpa to calendar developers
    Google launched its new Google Maps Engine API today , enabling developers with large amounts of location-based data the chance to show that information through a mobile or Web app with the Google Maps or Google Earth interface.
    Google today announced it is keeping its API for CalDAV, an Internet standard allowing a client to access calendar and scheduling information on a remote server, public for all developers. More...

  • June-06 -- Boxer Challenges Mailbox With Email Organization App
    While Boxer does have triage tools to quickly archive email, it also has some unique response and action item features, like the ability to "like" incoming messages, send a quick reply with auto responses, add emails to a to-do list, or send a priority request to another Boxer user.
    First and foremost, Boxer works with multiple iOS email clients, from Gmail and Yahoo to Outlook and iCloud. More...

  • June-06 -- And Now, Another Educational Fact About Eating Squid Sperm
    To study the mating habits of the squid, Wegener and his colleagues put two squid, a male and female, together, and simply observed.
    Located off of the coast of South Australia in shallow coastal waters, the southern bottletail squid can be found in sandy habitats near seagrass beds. During the day, it remains buried in the sand. More...

Wednesday


  • June-05 -- Lenovo planning smartphone venture in expansion drive
    Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming and other executives met on Tuesday with investors in Singapore to drum up interest in a bond issue that investors say could raise $500 million or more and help to fund a renewed acquisition drive, possibly including IBM Corp's low-end server business.
    "The IBM server acquisition makes a lot of business sense," Lau said. More...

  • June-05 -- Never-Before-Seen Alien Planet Imaged Directly in New Photo
    However in the picture the star was removed to allow the planet, marked as a bright blue dot, to shine through.
    Scientists used the planets' brightness to estimate that it is only about four or five times more massive than Jupiter. More...

  • June-05 -- Dell prepping new x86 infrastructure for Oracle enterprise software
    The deal expands the existing partnership between the two companies and will in part be exclusive, said Marius Haas, president of Dell's Enterprise Solutions business.
    Does this mean that Dell now has the ability to penetrate deeper into the enterprise? There's no love lost between HP, IBM ]] IBM IBM and Oracle, and this could give Dell a leg up. More...

  • June-05 -- Twitter Blames Unexpected Downtime to "Error" in Routine Maintenance
    "Due to an error in a routine change, Twitter was not available from 1:08pm PDT to 1:33pm PDT. We rolled back the erroneous change as soon as we identified the issue," the company said.
    Twitter was back in working order on Monday afternoon after experiencing multiple technical issues earlier in the day that caused some users' tweet streams to not update, among other problems. More...

  • June-05 -- Shocker: Chrysler tells feds 'no' on Jeep recall request
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sought to recall the Jeep Grand Cherokee for model years 1993 to 2004 and the Jeep Liberty model years 2002 to 2007.
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent the automaker a letter late Monday telling it to recall the vehicles and fix an alleged problem that can lead to fatal fires in rear-end crashes. More...

  • June-05 -- Asus Triples Down on Touch With Trio and More
    The all-new Transformer Pad Infinity is among the first gadgets to boast of the 1.9GHz Tegra 4 processor.
    Part 3G smartphone, part tablet, ASUS Fonepad™ Note FHD 6 comes with a 1.6GHz Intel® Atom™ Z2560 dual-core processor and 1920 x 1080 Full HD Super IPS+ display. More...

  • June-05 -- Astronaut Shaves His Head in Space
    The $199 SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker will be available July 11 through all Bose's direct channels and authorized dealers.
    More...

  • June-05 -- Honey, Bose Shrunk the Noise-Canceling Headphones
    The $199 SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker will be available July 11 through all Bose's direct channels and authorized dealers.
    The new models will join the $299 QuietComfort around-ear noise-canceling headphones and the $349 on-ear noise-canceling headphones to round out the line. More...

Tuesday


  • June-04 -- Firefox Update: Mozilla 'Australis' Browser More Customizable, Looks Like ...
    The reveal came on the press preview day ahead of the official opening of the Computex conference in Taiwan.
    Liu stressed that Foxconn was in prime position to extend Mozilla's OS into television screens. More...

  • June-04 -- Asus Memo Pad HD 7 gets low price, much-needed upgrades over predecessor
    The all-new Transformer Pad Infinity is among the first gadgets to boast of the 1.9GHz Tegra 4 processor.
    Asus has just announced a refresh to last year's Transformer Pad Infinity , with a much-improved display and processor. More...

  • June-04 -- Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company
    While at Microsoft, Tony was a strong IT leader passionate about taking Microsoft's technology to the next level and using our experiences and learnings to help customers and partners.
    Microsoft is looking for a new CIO after Anthony Scott exited the company after five years running IT. More...

  • June-04 -- Sea change in Microsoft's focus may force restructure of leadership
    According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring of the massive software company, which could also move several current execs to more prominent roles.
    No one at Microsoft has more experience running large scale cloud services than Nadella. More...

  • June-04 -- New Jetpack Aims to Steady Astronauts on Asteroid Mission
    "The 3-D Print experiment with NASA is a step towards the future," said Aaron Kemmer, CEO of Made in Space.
    Phase I SBIR proposals are very early stage concepts that may or may not mature into actual systems. More...

  • June-04 -- Dell Shows Off XPS 11 Convertible Laptop
    Convertible notebooks have been gaining in popularity lately as computer manufacturers start to think outside of the box of what their laptop can do.
    If you like watching video while you travel, there is no better way to watch video. More...

  • June-04 -- Ford recalls nearly 390000 vehicles in US for fire risk
    Ford Motor Co. issued three recalls for 2013 models Friday, including calling back 465,000 vehicles for fire risks after 600 complaints of fuel leaks.
    The mid-size Fusion sedan is one of Ford's best-selling models, but about 80,000 2013 Fusions were recalled in December 2012. More...

  • June-04 -- WD ships its slimmest 1TB laptop hard drive
    The 7mm drives feature Western Digital's Shock Tolerance, Cool and Quiet, and Stable Track technologies for an improved customer experience.
    "The release of the WD Blue 7 mm hard drives offers a new level of storage capacity that further enriches the computing experience for users of Ultrabooks, all-in-ones and other thin and light PCs." More...

Monday


  • June-03 -- Next Motorola Phone Built in Texas, Called Moto X
    THE rivalry between technology heavyweights Apple and Google is set to heat up again as the latter's Motorola Mobility unit prepares to release a new smartphone designed to take on the iPhone just as it struggles to hold onto its market share.
    The signal from the chip, which has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, can be identified by devices outside the body, allowing for easy identification. More...

  • June-03 -- HTC could release 5.9-inch 'phablet' later this year
    The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the first handset (apart from Nexus devices) which comes packed with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.
    The Nexus 5 will not likely be anywhere near the caliber of the HTC One, but the Nexus 4 was needed in order to push the Android smartphone platform a little further into the market. More...

  • June-03 -- US poisons invasive Lake Michigan lamprey larvae - WTRF 7 News Sports ...
    LONG LAKE TOWNSHIP, MI A 17-year-old from Traverse City drowned while swimming at Twin Lakes Park, according to authorities.
    EAST BAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Federal agents are going after 1 of the Great Lakes' greatest invasive pests this week when they use poison to kill the larvae of sea lamprey in a stream feeding into Lake Michigan. More...

  • June-03 -- More WWDC Predictions: Haswell, Skinnier MacBook Pros, HD Cameras
    With Intel preparing to launch its latest Haswell processors this week, Apple will be able to make significant upgrades to at least part of its notebook lineup, but additional changes appear to be in store as well.
    Apple could just throw in a Haswell chip and leave the Retina MBP's case the same, which could lead to battery life of up to 10 hours. More...

  • June-03 -- COLUMN-UK climate act limits energy choices: Gerard Wynn
    Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming.
    To the extent humans are enhancing the natural recovery from the Little Ice Age, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the primary driver, according to University of Waterloo (Ontario) physics professor Qing-Bin Lu. More...

  • June-03 -- Graphene, even if stitched together, is strongest material in the world
    The Columbia Engineering team wanted to discover what was making CVD graphene so weak.
    Scientists can grow sheets of graphene as large as a television screen by using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which single layers of graphene are grown on copper substrates in a high-temperature furnace. More...

  • June-03 -- Windows 8 continues to fail
    The upcoming Windows 8.1 will arrive to computers as an "update" with a set of new features and user experience modifications in tow.
    Variable Snap Views: Besides improvements for using multiple apps at once, Windows 8.1 will have variable, continuous size of snap views. More...

  • June-03 -- Samsung Introduces Galaxy S4 Mini: Maximum Capabilities at Minimum Size.
    The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 will depart from the ARM-based processors that appear in virtually every Android device and instead employ an Intel chip.
    Battery-friendly processors based on ARM architectures power the vast majority of today's popular mobile devices, from the Apple's iPhone and iPad to Samsung's own Galaxy smartphone and tablet offerings. More...

Sunday


  • June-02 -- iPhone sales increase by 400% with the help of EMI schemes, discounts
    Compared to average monthly sales of 70,000-80,000 smartphones before the EMI schemes were offered to consumers in India iPhone sales have zoomed up to stratospheric levels, analysts at Credit Suisse said.
    Although a low-cost iPhone has been predicted before every smartphone-focused Apple press conference in recent history, 2013 may be the year the rumors actually pan out. More...

  • June-02 -- An answer to a lunar mystery: Why is the moon's gravity so uneven?
    Using the GRAIL data set, which offers an unprecedented, detailed map of the distribution of masses in the moon, the team was able to put together a picture of how the moon's crust and mantle behaved and the development of the concentrations of mass in the aftermath of large asteroid impacts.
    Ever since the first satellites were sent to the moon to scout landing sites for Apollo astronauts, scientists have noticed a peculiar phenomenon: As these probes orbited the moon, passing over certain craters and impact basins, they periodically veered off course, plummeting toward the lunar surface before pulling back up. More...

  • June-02 -- Hulu TV apps get a new look and a kids section
    The evidence is in today's launch of the Kickstarter campaign for Massive Chalice , a tactical strategy game planned for Windows, Mac, and Linux late next year.
    We got countless emails from people who didn't even back who said "You guys should do X, Y, and Z and pay your dev team $Y now that you have six figures!" People sometimes think you're just hoarding the dough when it couldn't be farther from the truth. More...

  • June-02 -- Double Fine Bets on Kickstarter Again With 'Massive Chalice' Campaign
    The evidence is in today's launch of the Kickstarter campaign for Massive Chalice , a tactical strategy game planned for Windows, Mac, and Linux late next year.
    Dan Muir (Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, and Iron Brigade) is going directly to the public to fund a tactical strategy PC game on a fantasy timeline. More...

  • June-02 -- Deforestation in Brazil rain forest spurs evolution
    "Unfortunately, the effect we document in our work is probably not an isolated case," said Galetti.
    "Habitat loss and species extinction is causing drastic changes in the composition and structure of ecosystems, because critical ecological interactions are being lost," said Galetti. More...

  • June-02 -- Study: Sharks Worth More in Tourism Waters Than in Asian Soups
    In recent years Palau, the Maldives, Honduras, Tokelau, The Bahamas, the Marshall Islands, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia have created sanctuaries by banning commercial shark fishing.
    The study finds that shark watching attracts 590,000 tourists and supports more than 10,000 jobs each year. More...

  • June-02 -- How about a 31.5-inch monitor?
    The mouthwatering display specs include an LED-backlit IGZO panel with 176-degree wide viewing angles, as well as Ultra HD 3,840-by-2,160 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, 10-bit RGB support, and built-in 2W stereo speakers.
    ASUS has announced the PQ321 monitor packing 4K resolution. More...

  • June-02 -- Holes in Apples' NASDAQ:AAPL Security, Hackers at Work
    As Mat Honan discovered last year , an iCloud hack could give cyber thieves access to nearly all of your digital life.
    Security problems that had been limited almost exclusively to Microsoft Corp.' s NASDAQ: MSFT Windows and Windows-compliant products have migrated to Apple Inc. Due to a rise in the success of the Mac, and the huge growth of the iPhone and iPad, this was expected. More...





Saturday


  • June-01 -- Moto X, First Motorola Phone From Google: Specs Include Two Processors ...
    Google's Motorola Mobility says it will start buiding a new phone, the Moto X, in Fort Worth, Texas, a place you might associate more with steerhorns than with high-tech manufacturing.
    The Moto X will be the first smartphone to be "made in the USA," although "made" here refers primarily to assembly, since the internal components will still be sourced from suppliers all over the globe. More...

  • June-01 -- Woe is Linux. Woe is Me.
    Personal computing today is a broader proposition than it was in 2004: phones, tablets, wearables and other devices are all part of the mix for our digital lives.
    Shuttleworth declaring Bug #1 closed comes as Canonical moves into new areas beyond the desktop. The company is adapting Ubuntu to phones and tablets , and it has steadily built a respectable business offering server software and now cloud infrastructure software based on the open source OpenStack. More...

  • June-01 -- Justice Department tries to force Google to hand over user data
    Google's fight against National Security Letters (NSLs) appears to have hit a small speed bump.
    Well, the small consolation is this process forced a judge to review the letters, which is what a warrant effectively does. More...

  • June-01 -- Razer announces the new Blade Pro gaming notebook
    The new Razer Blade is a piece of premium hardware with an equally premium price tag.
    With a powerful Nvidia GPU, a fast i7 CPU, and a novel built-in touchscreen trackpad similar to what you would find on a smartphone, it was among the best gaming laptops on the market. More...

  • June-01 -- iCloud users take note: Apple two-step protection won't protect your data
    As Mat Honan discovered last year , an iCloud hack could give cyber thieves access to nearly all of your digital life.
    More...

  • June-01 -- Deforestation in Brazil rain forest spurs evolution
    "Unfortunately, the effect we document in our work is probably not an isolated case," said Galetti.
    "You can plant the trees but if you don't have interacting species, it will be a different forest." More...

  • June-01 -- NASA: Moon's strange gravitational field is the result of massive asteroid impacts
    GRAIL scientists combined the gravity data from GRAIL with sophisticated computer models of large asteroid impacts and known details about the geologic evolution of the impact craters.
    We now have tools to figure out more about the heavy asteroid bombardment and what the ancient Earth may have faced." More...

  • June-01 -- Fan TV Is A Next-Generation Set-Top Box For Live TV, DVR, VOD, And ...
    Startup Fanhattan hopes to achieve video nirvana with Fan TV, an IP streaming device outfitted with an advanced navigation interface made to access live TV, cloud-based DVR recordings, and over-the-top content from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and dozens of other sources.
    Fanhattan, which is pretty well known in the U.S. for its iPhone TV navigation app, has just announced an innovative new set-top box that combines the best bits of TV, VOD and DVR, whilst allowing viewers to access all of their favorite streams. More...

Friday


  • May-31 -- Dots Arrives on iPad, Gets Multi-Player Mode
    Aurornis xui was a feathered dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, analysis shows.
    Archaeopteryx, an evolutionary icon, possessed part-bird, part-reptile traits. More...

  • May-31 -- 'Dawn bird' sees Archaeopteryx return to bird fold
    Aurornis xui was a feathered dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, analysis shows.
    Some say the fossil may just represent a bird-like dinosaur, not a true bird -- and in any case, could have been altered before scientists had a chance to study it. More...

  • May-31 -- D11: Former Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Feels Great About Windows 8
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    With Tim Cook teasing the Jony Ive redesign of iOS 7 that we exclusively told you would be introducing a new flat design for iOS , we thought it would be interesting to get former Windows lead Steven Sinofsky's opinion on the changes. More...

  • May-31 -- Ancient Egyptians Crafted Jewelry From Meteorites
    Scholars argued in the 1980s that accidental early smelting could have led to nickel-enriched iron 3, and a more recent analysis of oxidized material on the surface of the beads showed low nickel content 4.
    The cache dates from about 3,300 bc, making the beads the oldest known iron artefacts from Egypt. More...

  • May-31 -- Nuance CEO Confirms Company Powers Siri's Voice Recognition
    While it doesn't power Google's stock Android speech recognition, it is behind Samsung's S Voice and virtual assistant technology on HTC devices.
    The U.S. company is also involved with Siri, Samsung's S Voice, similar technology on HTC phones, and Amazon. More...

  • May-31 -- Russians Find Mammoth Carcass With Liquid Blood
    A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.
    The Siberian Times obtained striking photos of the specimen showing the reddish tissues and a vial of the dark brown liquid said to be blood that was found in ice cavities under the animal's belly, as well as additional details of the discovery. More...

  • May-31 -- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Microsoft no longer dominates PC biz
    Despite CEO Steve Ballmer claiming Redmond is " all in " for touch-enabled computing, the software giant still enjoys only negligible market share on phones and tablets, areas where Google's Linux-based Android OS dominates alongside Apple's iOS. "Android may not be my or your first choice of Linux," Shuttleworth wrote, "but it is without doubt an open source platform that offers both practical and economic benefits to users and industry.
    Shuttleworth declaring Bug #1 closed comes as Canonical moves into new areas beyond the desktop. The company is adapting Ubuntu to phones and tablets , and it has steadily built a respectable business offering server software and now cloud infrastructure software based on the open source OpenStack. More...

  • May-31 -- Apple Patent Tips More Flexible iPhone Display
    This week, Apple's newly published patent applications include a rival to Samsung's Galaxy S4 "Smart Scroll" and "Smart Pause" features, as well as "pressable" flexible displays that add a new dimension to interactivity.
    To that end, Samsung launched a U.S. IP company in March sans fanfare called Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKP) to "trade and develop" OLED and LCD patents, according to The Korea Times. More...

Thursday


  • May-30 -- Roku Raises $60M From Hearst, News Corp, Others
    Hearst Corp. and an unidentified institutional investor joined News Corp. ( NWSA ), British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY) and other backers who have previously invested in the company, in the new funding round, Saratoga, California-based Roku said today in a statement.
    The company has sold more than five million Roku streaming players in the U.S. since the company launched in 2008. More...

  • May-30 -- Soyuz prepped for crew ferry flight to space station
    WASHINGTON, May 28, 2013 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 28, (2:31 a.m. Kazakh time, Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space Station.
    The new space station crew has a jam-packed mission ahead. More...

  • May-30 -- PC Outlook Falls as Market Increasingly Looks to Tablets, According to IDC
    By 2015, tablets will outship not just laptops, but all PCs, according to IDC. Driven by growth in inexpensive devices running Google's Android platform, worldwide tablet shipments will expand 58.7 percent this year, while average selling prices for the devices will fall 10.8 percent to $381, IDC said.
    "For many consumers, a tablet is a simple and elegant solution for core use cases that were previously addressed by the PC," said Ryan Reith, an analyst at IDC. More...

  • May-30 -- Crowdfunding campaign would give backers a turn on a space telescope
    Tens of thousands of people contacted us and wanted to be involved," said Peter Diamandis, Planetary Resources' co-chairman.
    Bellevue, Wash. ,-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources on Wednesday launched a campaign to crowdfund a space telescope . More...

  • May-30 -- Verizon issues major software update to Samsung Galaxy S3
    The carrier plans to equip its LTE network to use the additional spectrum, in the Advanced Wireless Services band, in the next several months.
    The carrier is expected to launch the service in the next few months in a few major cities, with New York being among the first to get a chance to try Verizon's new network. More...

  • May-30 -- Photo: Contributed - earthobservatory.nasa.gov
    Named the International Lunar Observatory precursor, the telescope is about the size of a shoebox and can potentially be moved by remote control.
    Moon Express is also competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, which offers $US20 million to the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon. More...

  • May-30 -- Apple settles iPhone water damage lawsuit for $53M
    Apple was named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit against it which claimed that the company had installed faulty moisture indicators in iPhones and iPods.
    If an iPhone or iPod Touch was submerged in water, then it is not covered by the warranty protection. More...

  • May-30 -- Zombie plants? Frozen plants thaw and wake up from 400-year nap
    Mosses emerging from the edge of the Teardrop Glacier.
    La Farge specializes in studying ancient moss, a type of plant called bryophytes. More...

Wednesday


  • May-29 -- 97% global warming consensus meets resistance from scientific denialism
    In response to multiple inquiries from media and global warming advocates, Friends of Science issue this release to expose the statistical manipulation evident from the break down of the Cook et al paper.
    A man I had only recently met named Dane Wigington gave a talk at a Round Table restaurant and explained in simple and clear language how our climate was warming due to our emission of greenhouse gases. More...

  • May-29 -- Navigating the Fees on Your Wireless Bill
    The Galaxy S4 includes components that allow it to work on Verizon's Advance Wireless Service spectrum, said Mike Haberman, vice president of network support for the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier.
    This fee is generally used to cover connection charges that your carrier has to pay other carriers because your friend doesn't use the same service provider as you. More...

  • May-29 -- Adobe acquihires design agency Ideacodes to boost talent in Creative Cloud
    Ideacodes describes itself as an agency that specializes in the design and user experience of smart applications, digital products, and network communities.
    Weisse said there are numerous institutions that want to move onto the Cloud. More...

  • May-29 -- Women Collaborating With Social Media More Than Men [Infographic]
    During a European Parliament hearing on Tuesday, EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia commented on the effectiveness of the Internet giant's proposed concessions, which had been submitted by Google in April.
    Google's Android operating system for mobile phones and tablets as well as its Motorola Mobility unit are also under Almunia's spotlight. More...

  • May-29 -- EU Almunia: Likely To Ask Google to Improve Proposals After Consultation
    Reuters reports that Joaquin Almunia, the Competition Commissioner for the European Union, said during a hearing at the European Parliament: "After, we will analyze the responses received, we will probably ask Google, 100 percent, you should improve your proposals."
    Almunia indicated the possibility that the Commission might ask the company to offer better compromises. More...

  • May-29 -- Bank Rolling: This Bike Brought to You by Citi
    OOPS, IN A CROSSWALK: One Citi Bike user perhaps unwittingly breaks the law yesterday by riding through a crosswalk on Centre Street outside New York's City Hall, while another walks it safely across.
    The programme was originally to begin in July 2012, but faced some problems, including damage to the city after a major storm, Sandy, struck in October. More...

  • May-29 -- Verizon Launches Motorola Droid Razr M, Razr HD in Blue
    It was around this same time last year Verizon Wireless began offering the original Motorola Droid Razr in blue and if you've been wondering if/when the Motorola DROID RAZR HD or Motorola DROID RAZR M were going to get a similar paint job, both handsets are now available in all new metallic blue varieties.
    The DROID RAZR M has a 4.3-inch display at 960 x 540 along with 8GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, 2000 mAh battery and an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera. More...

  • May-29 -- Think you have a strong password? Hackers crack 16-character passwords in ...
    A screenshot showing a small sampling of cracked passwords.
    A hash is essentially a password translated into a unique formula. More...

Tuesday


  • May-28 -- Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app
    A collaboration on a full application would clearly benefit mutual customers of Microsoft and Google who simply want to use a Windows Phone with Google's web services.
    More...

  • May-28 -- Brussels probes Apple's iPhone tactics
    "The Commission has information indicating that Apple and Mobile Network Operators ("MNOs") have concluded distribution agreements which may potentially lead to the foreclosure of other smartphone manufacturers from the markets," the questionnaire states.
    As I explained in March, there's a lot standing between where we are now and a full-blown antitrust case - for a start, Apple does not actually dominate the smartphone market in Europe (it has around 25 percent share), making it less likely to be the target of an antitrust crackdown. More...

  • May-28 -- For the cicada-obsessed, a place to watch them in action around the clock
    Cicadas have been making an important part of the news since few days.
    The beautiful video below is the result of his self-funded filming trips, but he's hoping to create a full-length documentary about the insects, due in March of 2014, by getting funding from Kickstarter to film this year's massive brood. More...

  • May-28 -- Used Computer, $116000 or Best Offer
    Except that the computer in question is an Apple-1, the bare-bones machine which Steve Wozniak designed and Steve Jobs marketed in 1976, shortly before they devised the groundbreaking and wildly popular Apple II. As the New York Times Steve Lohr reports , an auction house in Cologne, Germany sold it today to an anonymous entrepreneur from the Far East.
    At the same auction, the world's first home computer kit, the Scelbi 8H, was sold. More...

  • May-28 -- US investigating Ford pickups for engine issue
    Washington -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Sunday it is opening a preliminary investigation into 400,000 of Ford's best-selling F-150 trucks for acceleration problems.
    The NHTSA has received until now 95 reports of reduced engine power incidents during hard accelerations in Ford F-150 trucks 2011-2013 model years, all fitted with 3.5L EcoBoost gasoline turbocharged direct injection engines. More...

  • May-28 -- A year after SpaceX's first major launch, space exploration has never been hotter
    Several key Republicans are questioning whether the contracts, known as Space Act agreements, are compromising safety and security, or squandering tax dollars in order to speed development of missions or foster international partnerships.
    Orion will be the taxi-like conveyer of astronauts from Earth to space. More...

  • May-28 -- Apple's Problem Isn't Skeuomorphism, It's Services
    It's widely rumored that Apple's new iOS 7, to be unveiled at WWDC next month, will ditch the company's ill-fated love affair with "heavy textures," also known as skeuomorphic design, for a more flattened take on the user interface.
    Sigh, I have an iPhone because I hate the look of the windows tiles, to me it's like they paid a bunch of 5 year olds to design it, I really hope apples doesn't go the same way. More...

  • May-28 -- Iranian Hackers Launching Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Energy Firms: Report
    Iran has stepped up a campaign of cyberattacks against U.S. companies and has successfully hacked the computer networks of several American energy firms.
    The attacks on U.S. infrastructure are different from earlier Iranian-sourced hacks, which primarily targeted banks with less-sophisticated denial of service attacks . More...

Monday


  • May-27 -- Trace Volcano Ash Reaches Small Alaska City
    An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.
    More...

  • May-27 -- Government probes reports of Ford F-150 pickups losing power
    DETROIT, MI - The federal government is investigating reports that EcoBoost engines in Ford F-150 pickup trucks lose power during acceleration, according to the Associated Press.
    Check out last week's selection. More...

  • May-27 -- Used Computer, $116000 or Best Offer
    Except that the computer in question is an Apple-1, the bare-bones machine which Steve Wozniak designed and Steve Jobs marketed in 1976, shortly before they devised the groundbreaking and wildly popular Apple II. As the New York Times Steve Lohr reports , an auction house in Cologne, Germany sold it today to an anonymous entrepreneur from the Far East.
    Apple's pioneering Apple-1 computer, which is 37-years-old, has a wooden keyboard is being offered for sale for 250,000 pounds during an auction in Germany. More...

  • May-27 -- Microsoft To Windows 8 Haters: Try This Mouse
    An actual, physical Windows button.
    OK, really. dear Microsoft. what were you thinking? $40 for a $5 mouse with a blue button. More...

  • May-27 -- Console Showdown: Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4
    While the PlayStation 4 reveal was centered around showing off the console's capabilities and how awesome gaming is going to be on it, the Xbox One reveal was focused more on entertainment features and how the Xbox One looks.
    The Xbox One allows for Skype video chats -- with multiple users at the same time. More...

  • May-27 -- Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops
    Despite improvements in processing power in recent years, battery life remains an issue with the growth of mobile devices.
    As reported by PC World, the chips will do even better in idle or standby mode, "extending battery life by up to 20 times." More...

  • May-27 -- Mayor of New York takes a leaf out of Boris's book with 'Mike's Bikes'
    The first time I saw one was during a run in Brooklyn Heights.
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) The city's bike sharing program is set to roll out Monday, and the stations are all in place with bicycles at the ready. More...

  • May-27 -- FTC Is Said to Begin a New Inquiry on Google
    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering opening up a new antitrust probe into Google's businesses practices once again, according to reports.
    Ad giant Google is facing an antitrust probe intended to establish whether it exploits its dominance in the advertising trade to steer customers away from rivals' products. More...

Sunday


  • May-26 -- New Technique Could Probe Rocky Alien Planet Surfaces
    While we can't visit them, astronomers hope to gather clues via telescopes.
    The mission is not over." More...

  • May-26 -- Rugged Terrain Led to Humans Walking on Two Feet and Developing Tools
    Hominins, our early forebears, would have been attracted to the terrain of rocky outcrops and gorges because it offered shelter and opportunities to trap prey.
    Previous theories suggested that early humans were forced from the trees because climate change altered tree cover, not because the rocky terrain below offered them the chance to find new shelter, trap prey and 'practice' their locomotor skills. More...

  • May-26 -- HTC One Google edition: It's real and coming in summer
    Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone has become its fastest-selling phone ever, shifting at a rate of one every four seconds since its launch in late April.
    Since the advent of smart phones, separate camera-only devices have gone the way of the dinosaurs. More...

  • May-26 -- Glow-in-the-Dark Cockroach Among Top 10 New Species
    Among the newly discovered species in 2012 are also some quite interesting specimens - cockroach that glows in the dark, black fungus ruining the prehistoric cave art and a frog smaller than a child's fingernail.
    Today's list of the top new species from Arizona State University aims to show us just how much more we have left to discover. More...

  • May-26 -- Tesla Motors' cut out the middleman approach could spell trouble in North Carolina
    RALEIGH, N.C. Tesla Motors is fighting a bill in North Carolina that would effectively ban the company from selling its electric cars in the state, pitting it against auto dealers who say the car maker has an unfair advantage selling directly to consumers online.
    The state already has more than 200 public recharging stations. More...

  • May-26 -- iOS 7 Undergoing Ive-Led Transformation
    Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive (aka the guy who designed the iPhone hardware) is now in charge of the iOS7 overhaul.
    @Steve2th @ TIME Ive has more sense than that. More...

  • May-26 -- Amazing Night Launch Photos: Delta 4 Rocket Launches Military Satellite
    CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., May 24, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-5) satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 8:27 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-37.
    The WGS-5 launch marked the third flight of the Delta IV medium+ (5,4) configuration and the 22 nd flight of the Delta IV family of launch vehicles. More...

  • May-26 -- 12 Cicadas Totally Trapped in 1996
    "Like a scene from a horror flick, these creepy crawlers emerge from ground every 17 years to invade the mid-Atlantic," the Science Channel wrote on its website.
    Baby cicadas that look like white ants and are called nymphs hatch from rice-shaped eggs laid in the branches of trees. More...





Saturday


Friday


  • May-24 -- Verizon partners with JLo's Viva Movil to target Latinos
    Yesterday entertainer Jennifer Lopez announced that a company she created, Viva Movil, is partnering with Verizon Wireless to allow people to shop for services, phones and mobile plans via social networks and in new stores that will target the Latino market.
    Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez is to open a chain of 15 mobile phone stores in the U.S. targeted at Latinos. More...

  • May-24 -- NASA Crowns Space Apps Challenge Winners
    HOUSTON -- NASA's Mission Control restored full distribution of solar power throughout the International Space Station on May 22, adding back in an eighth channel that was temporarily taken offline in response to a port-side ammonia coolant system leak that required a spacewalk repair earlier this month.
    The team's design is meant to compliment NASA's satellite climate data with crowdsourced micro-climate data in order to monitor the environment. More...

  • May-24 -- Yahoo! continues quest for youth with yet another acquisition
    "With Yahoo!'s backing, we can crank out awesome products and improvements to our platform faster than ever before," Jesper Jensen, PlayerScale's CEP, wrote in a post on the company's website.
    That would be a major change from recent Yahoo acquisitions such as Stamped, OnTheAir, Snip.it, Alike, Summly, Jybe, and Astrid , all of which have been shuttered or put on notice. More...

  • May-24 -- Google Adds Notification Center And Rich Notifications To Chrome Beta 28, Will ...
    We often juggle multiple tabs or windows during our browsing sessions, and its quite easy to overlook a chat window or notification that is popping up outside of the window currently being used.
    Users will have specific control over which Chrome apps and extensions are permitted to display notifications, so you'll be able to customize just how many come flooding in during your browsing sessions. More...

  • May-24 -- Visual test linked to high IQ
    People with high IQ scores aren't just more intelligent.
    A new study published in the journal Current Biology revealed that the brains of people with high IQ are automatically more selective when it comes to perceiving objects in motion, and are specifically more likely to suppress larger and less relevant background motion. More...

  • May-24 -- Yo dawg, we heard you like Start buttons, so we put one on your mouse
    The Sculpt Mobile Mouse is very similar to previous small mice from Microsoft, but it adds a Windows key directly below the scroll wheel.
    The Windows key is a bit neutered here: it doesn't work properly to activate keyboard shortcuts, like Windows key + C to open the Charms bar. More...

  • May-24 -- HP joins tabletop desktop PC fray with new Envy Rove 20
    HP has joined the nascent market for portable all-in-one desktop PCs with the announcement of the HP Envy Rove 20.
    HP offers an intuitive Windows® 8 touch experience at great value with new all-in-one PCs and powerful consumer notebooks that feature multitouch display technology. More...

  • May-24 -- NASA Head Views Progress on Asteroid Lasso Mission
    Louis Friedman, co-founder of The Planetary Society and the co-leader of the Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study, said the technologies that would come from the proposed mission would advance the U.S. space program and serve as an inspiration for the next generation of space travel.
    We can structure a lunar return to incrementally build capability over time. More...

Thursday


  • May-23 -- Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines
    Google X, Google's lab where the company hatches big ideas like driverless cars and Google Glasses, is acquiring the high altitude wind startup Makani Power, according to an article in Bloomberg Business Week .
    According to Bloomberg, Page approved the deal -- but only if the team would crash five turbines in the near future. More...

  • May-23 -- Neanderthal Moms Weaned Babies Like Reading Modern Guides
    According to a study published today in Nature, patterns of barium distribution in the fossilized teeth of a juvenile Neanderthal indicate that the individual began weaning at seven months, comparable to human infants and chimpanzees, but that weaning was completed by the age of 14 months -- within the range of human patterns but significantly sooner than chimps.
    The team's results were based on a single sample of Neanderthal tooth, which makes it difficult to draw broad conclusions. More...

  • May-23 -- Big Brother security tech gets $20m
    The $20 megabuck Series E investment round was led by Sequoia Capital along with pre-existing investors Greylock Partners, the company announced on Tuesday.
    The company announced a $20 million Series B venture funding on Wednesday, bringing the total raised to more than $26 million. More...

  • May-23 -- Google Top Charts show world's searches for whiskey, more
    The new "Top Charts" section will give users a billboard ranking of many, many subjects, from celebrities to planets.
    You can find the Top Charts link from the Google Trends homepage on the left-hand side of the site. More...

  • May-23 -- Nvidia, Citrix Deliver Virtual Graphics Through XenDesktop 7
    "With NVIDIA GRID vGPU, even the most intensive graphics applications can be delivered by XenDesktop 7," said Bob Schultz, vice president and general manager, Desktops and Applications Group at Citrix.
    The firm announced that Citrixs Xenserver will support virtual machines running directly on the GPU from the next version that is expected to be released in the third quarter. More...

  • May-23 -- Logitech continues mobile focus with wired keyboard for iPad
    Mike Culver, vice president and general manager of mobility at Logitech, noted there is a challenge when a teacher needs to simultaneously pair multiple iPads with multiple wireless Bluetooth keyboards.
    For those situations, Logitech has introduced a new keyboard with both 30-pin and Lightning options. More...

  • May-23 -- The Norway spruce genome sequenced
    The White spruce genome, published in Bioinformatics , and the Norway spruce genome, published in Nature , are the largest genome sequence assemblies to date.
    Birol, lead scientist of the White spruce genome assembly, adds: "Many projects are now attempting to decipher genomes of economically important plants. More...

  • May-23 -- AAA: Highways more jammed for Memorial Day weekend
    Eight-nine percent of travelers surveyed will be traveling by car, a slight increase over last year, the forecast finds, while holiday air travel is expected to decrease eight percent from last year.
    Weekend holiday travel tends to be more robust when the holiday falls later in the month, AAA has said. More...

Wednesday


  • May-22 -- Opera's WebKit-Based Android Browser Exits Beta To Battle Apps For Users ...
    Headline features include the "Speed Dial" menu that's been around since Opera first transitioned to mobile many years ago, and an "Off-Road" mode that connects you to the web through a proxy.
    New Delhi: Opera for Android is out of beta and now available in the stable version on Google Play for Android users. More...

  • May-22 -- Coming Soon: Mobile Phones With Flexible OLED Screens
    Samsung Display is also at SID 2013 showing new displays.
    Because IGZO uses thinner parts than traditional LCD screens require, IGZO-based displays can be especially slim and with minimal bezel, which maximizes the screen real estate for users without adding to the bulk of the device. More...

  • May-22 -- NASA Curiosity drills second Mars rock to check John Klein surprise
    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.
    The comparison was put out in honor of the agency's Opportunity rover , which has been on Mars since 2004, beating NASA's previous distance record-holder, the Apollo 17 moon buggy . More...

  • May-22 -- Shots leaked of Galaxy S4 Active
    An updated Driving Mode, Gallery app, and new Smart Switch widget are also included.
    "The Samsung Galaxy S 4, one of the most advanced Android smart phones ever, is our new top-rated smart phone. More...

  • May-22 -- Mice, gerbils dead in 30-day Russian space ordeal; lizards live
    A Russian space capsule carrying 45 mice and a good number of lizards, newts, gerbils, snails, and other life forms, has returned to Earth after a month-long mission around the planet's orbit.
    In 2007, Russian scientists sent mice into space for a much shorter period of 12 days. More...

  • May-22 -- Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
    Teens' Twitter use is up significantly, from 16% of U.S. 12-to-17-year-olds in 2011 to nearly a quarter (24%) now, and African American teens use Twitter significantly more than white teens - 39% vs. 23%, respectively.
    The survey also reveals some demographic differences in teen social media use. More...

  • May-22 -- Nvidia Tegra 4i reappears at CTIA with 4G LTE-Advanced
    NVIDIA's Tegra 4i smartphone processor is capable of handling 4G LTE Advanced networks, which means that users will have faster data speeds once the carriers start moving to the faster service later this year.
    Integrated chips take up less space, draw less power and are generally cheaper, making it difficult for Nvidia to compete against mobile silicon giant Qualcomm in everything but the highest tier of the smartphone market. More...

  • May-22 -- Microsoft Can Read Your Skype Messages -- and Says So
    "The problem right now is that there's a mismatch between the privacy people expect and what Microsoft is actually delivering.
    Skype does store information on users' interactions and it can access communications when it chooses, albeit by a scanning tool called SmartScreen. More...

Tuesday


  • May-21 -- Apple Stores Set New Revenue-Per-Visitor Record
    Apple's retail stores have been ranked as the U.S. retail chain with the highest sales per square foot for a number of years and according to a new report from Asymco's Horace Dediu, the company also outranks competitors when it comes to revenue per visitor, hitting a record high of 57.60 per visitor in the first quarter of 2013.
    Three years ago, an average of 170,000 visited an Apple retail store each quarter. More...

  • May-21 -- Bear Grylls-types rejoice: "Rugged" Galaxy S 4 images leak
    Notably, Samsung is also preparing to release another version of the S4 dubbed the Galaxy S4 Zoom .
    Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun told the Korea Times that the handset will hit the 10 million mark in a month and will be the fastest-selling smartphone in the company's history. More...

  • May-21 -- How Dolphins Reveal Undersea Treasures
    There had been only one known Howell torpedo remaining, which is being displayed at the Naval Undersea Museum.
    "Several marine mammal species occur in Belizean waters, including small cetaceans, like bottlenose dolphins, and whales, like humpbacks," Birgit Winning, president of the Oceanic Society, told Discovery News. More...

  • May-21 -- NASA's Curiosity Rover Drills Into 2nd Mars Rock
    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.
    "I want to beat that record," John Callas, project manager for the Opportunity rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told SPACE.com last year. More...

  • May-21 -- Video: Arduino Robot gets official at Maker Faire
    For hardware hackers, however, the benefits of low-level access to a microcontroller combined with the flexibility of a Wi-Fi connected Linux microcomputer should prove a powerful draw when the device launches next month for $69 (around £45 excluding taxes.)
    The company has teamed up with Complubot , the four-time world champions in the Robocup Junior robot soccer tournament, to create a new Arduino robotics kit.The robot's hardware is completely open source --just like a regular Arduino board--so you can change the software controlling the robot or stack your own hardware on top of it. More...

  • May-21 -- Recharge your cellphone in 20 seconds
    E very year Intel runs the International Science and Engineering Fair, and as part of that event the chip giant awards high school students prize money for the best science projects.
    Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. More...

  • May-21 -- 4 biggest challenges facing Google Glass
    The device's small screen lights up when it is taking a photo or recording a video using the camera, allowing people near the wearer to know that it is on.
    Google has only sent out Glass to a couple thousand developers, along with a few members of the press. More...

  • May-21 -- Ergen Bids $2 Billion for LightSquared Spectrum
    The last few years have been a tumultuous time for LightSquared , with the company's LTE plans facing one hurdle after another that eventually led to a bankruptcy filing .
    LightSquared is controlled by Harbinger Capital Partners and its CEO, Phil Falcone, and has sunk more than $3 billion into developing the company's 4G network. More...

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...





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