Monthly Archives: February 2012

DigiMo Cracks The Code: Mobile Payments With No Point Of Sale Changes

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digimoDigiMo, is a mobile payments platform that actually makes sense to me. When I sat down with CEO Yossi Yarkoni and VP of Marketing Nir Shimony at the Mobile World Congress to hear about their concept, which is piloting in Israel right now, the first thing I thought was “wow, why didn’t somebody think of this before”. It’s a pretty good idea and solves many of the problems that plague mobile, face-to-face payments.

It actually works with existing infrastructure and requires no Point Of Sale hardware changes by merchants. Really. No NFC terminals to buy. No new card readers needed. This is a major sticking point for merchant adoption of new mobile payments platforms.
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Synology five-bay NAS server gets more power and USB 3.0

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Synology announces the availability of the DS1512+, the successor to the award-winning DS1511+ that supports USB 3.0, has passive cooling, replaceable ventilation fans, and faster performance.
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Samsung flexible OLED gadgets incoming this year

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Samsung is mass producing flexible OLED displays for products still on track for release in 2012, the company has confirmed, though the exact extent to which they actually bend will depend on more than just the panels themselves. Samsung Mobile Display’s assistant president confirmed the sales plans this week, Asia Economy Park News reports, insisting that “flexible displays [...]
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Another Loan Guarantee Recipient Lays Off Workers

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In a tough market for solar panels, Abound Solar is halting production.

Abound Solar, which makes cadmium telluride thin-film solar panels, and had been awarded a $ 400 million conditional loan guarantee by the U.S. Department of Energy, announced yesterday that it is stopping production at its 65-megawatt factory in Colorado and laying off 180 workers.







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Nature’s ‘icy finger of death’ caught on tape for first time

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Filmed for the first time, the icy “finger of death” is an unprecedented look at nature’s beauty at its devastating worst.




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EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere Detects and Warns About Cryptographic Vulnerabilities

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Peter Eckersley writes “EFF has released version 2 of the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension for Firefox, and a beta version for Chrome. The Firefox release has a major new feature called the Decentralized SSL Observatory. This optional setting submits anonymous copies of the HTTPS certificates that your browser sees to their Observatory database allowing them to detect attacks against the web’s cryptographic infrastructure. It also allows us to send real-time warnings to users who are affected by cryptographic vulnerabilities or man-in-the-middle attacks. At the moment, the Observatory will send warnings if you connect to a device has a weak private key due to recently discovered random number generator bugs.”

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Paint3D app promises to let you sketch and print 3D models straight from Android

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3D printing may still have quite a ways to go before it becomes as ubiquitous as traditional printing, but there’s plenty of developers out there working to make that happen. One such example comes out of the House 4 Hack group in Johannesburg, who have been working on an Android app called Paint3D that promises to let folks create 3D models and then print them out straight from their mobile device — imagine saying that even just five years ago. Unfortunately, that’s not available to the general public just yet, but you can get a closer look at the app and the results its able to produce at the source link below, and get an overview from one of the developers in the video after the break.

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Microsoft brings future to life TechForum

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Microsoft’s Research division shows off the next generation of computing at an annual event in Redmond this week, bringing many sci-fi concepts to life.
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Will Designers Take to the iPad3?

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Demand for an effective iPad stylus is rising.

Adobe Photoshop Touch came to the iPad this week. The app, which had been available for Android for a while, is downloadable for $ 10.







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Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others

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yammerEnterprise social network and communications platform Yammer has finally closed that big round we and PandoDaily heard about earlier this year. The company has raised $ 85 million in new funding, bringing the total investment in Yammer to a whopping $ 142 million. DFJ growth and Social+Capital Partnership (who led Yammer’s last round) led this round. Other investors joining the round include Meritech, Khosla Ventures, Capricorn (the investment arm of Jeff Skoll), as well as existing investor Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, USVP, Emergence Capital Partners. Founder and CEO David Sacks tells us that the company had over $ 30 million of insider investment in the round. We’ve heard the company’s valuation for the round was around $ 500-$ 600 million (Yammer wouldn’t comment on this)

Sacks says a number of angel investors als participated in the massive round including Sacks’ old PayPal colleague Max Levchin, as well as CrunchFund, Bill Lee, Ronnie Lott, and a few others. Randy Glein from DFJ Growth will take a board observer seat.

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Looming iPad 3 launch sparks tablet trade-in stampede

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Talk of the impending debut of Apple’s newest iPad, including the company’s announcement yesterday of a March 7 launch event in San Francisco, has pushed tablet trade-in volumes to record levels, buy-back companies said today.
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Seven Computer Security Fears to Shape 2012

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Experts at the RSA security conference predict the worst threats for the year ahead.

The annual RSA computer security conference, in San Francisco this week, offers one of the world’s greatest concentrations of well-founded paranoia. Experts from the highest levels of government mingle with enterprising hackers working for no one but themselves. And, as far as I can tell, all of them share the opinion that things are worse than most of us realize and set to get worse.







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Ferrari reveals F12 Berlinetta ahead of Geneva debut

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Ferrari has revealed its fastest supercar to date, the F12 Berlinetta, complete with official rendering photos and videos. The F12 Berlinetta is set to debut on the world stage at next month’s Geneva Motor Show and will be replacing Ferrari’s aging 599 GTB. Although we’ve been seeing plenty of hybrid supercars lately, this one sticks [...]
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Google: Technology is making science fiction a reality

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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality – meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.




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Best Buy boosts return window from 14 days to 30

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That adage of “less is more” definitely doesn’t apply to retailer return policies, so we have no complaints here. Best Buy is reportedly going to offer a more lenient 30-day window for device returns, up from the company’s current 14-day policy. Naturally, this also covers price matches, and applies to all products, including those from Apple, where two weeks is the norm. You’ll find the full details over at our sister site TUAW, when you hit up the source link just below.

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Questions raised about possible clues to Jesus and His disciples

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In an ancient tomb buried under an apartment block in a suburb of Jerusalem, researchers believe they may have found the earliest inscriptions espousing Christian beliefs — and what may be additional clues pointing to the existence and location of Jesus’ family tomb.




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Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance

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Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.
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$35 Raspberry Pi computer sells out globally

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Raspberry Pi sold out in the UK in just two hours, and global buyers of the $ 35 computer also face a wait for their open-source PC with international sales also burning through the start-up’s initial supplies. The Raspberry Pi Model B went up for grabs at element14 earlier, promptly running out and forcing would-be buyers to register [...]
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Facebook Timeline for brand Pages launches

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Facebook has launched Timeline-style profile Pages for brands, with larger photos, a greater emphasis on your own friends’ activity on that Page, and news pinning. The update, which brings brand Pages in line with personal Facebook Timeline profiles, also includes a new activity log and administration hub, making it easier to track engagement and respond [...]
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Startup Secret 40: The trinity of startup disciplines

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You need technology, value, and sales. Starting with one leads to the others. Ignoring any means failure, if not financially, then emotionally.
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Windows 8 previewed on a bevy of Consumer PCs

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This week the Windows 8 Consumer Preview event showed the system on everything from a ten-inch tablet to a massive Gorilla Glass toting television as wide as the average human is tall. We’ve seen Lenovo devices, dual-screen monitors showing an ultra-massive set of screens running Windows from a device small enough to fit in your [...]
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Why we kept LulzSec safe

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On June 2nd, 2011, the antisec hacker group known as LulzSec launched a web site. Although they had been an active hacking group for several weeks, the creation of Lulzsecurity.com was their first official web presence other than the Twitter account they had been using.
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ZTE PF 100 hands-on at Mobile World Congress 2012 (video)

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ZTE’s been making some slow, but steady progress as it transitions from no name, white label manufacturer to more of a well-known brand. Aiding the company in that exact mission is one of its latest tablets, the PF 100, shown off by NVIDIA at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The apparently stock Android 4.0.3 slate packs a Tegra 3 CPU inside and 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 display. The unit we saw is far from a finished production model, given the fact that it was literally bursting apart at the seams and appeared as if it’d been roughly handled. We imagine the final product will be a bit more hardy than the one we had in-hand, but that shoddiness aside, it’s still a hulk of a tablet.

Indeed you won’t find the design at all charming; it’s rough, thick and inelegant with a chunky bezel on front and mix of hard, grooved rubber and plastic on back. All of the ports and hardware keys are relegated to the top edge of the device with slots for both SIM and microSD covered by a single flap. There’s also a dual camera setup, as well as stereo speakers and a proprietary dock connection on the base. As you might expect, performance on the tablet was incredibly fast thanks to its 1.5GHz quad-core processor and the one game we demoed loaded quickly, showcasing responsive controls. No further details about pricing, markets or availability have been announced at this time, but we expect those important tidbits to be forthcoming in the weeks ahead. You can check out a hardware tour of the tablet in the gallery below and be sure to jump past the break for a full video walkthrough.

Gallery: ZTE PF 100 hands-on

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Apple reportedly cooking up new audio file format

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The file format would adapt itself to high-quality or low-quality audio depending on the bandwidth and other conditions, says The Guardian.
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Iceman mummy may hold earliest evidence of Lyme disease

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The 5,300-year-old ice mummy dubbed Ötzi, discovered in the Eastern Alps about 20 years ago, appears to have had the oldest known case of Lyme disease, new genetic analysis has revealed.




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Live from Microsoft’s Windows 8 press event at Mobile World Congress 2012!

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Today’s the day! It’s been months since we tested the Windows 8 Developer Preview, and now Microsoft is finally ready to let the general PC-using public give it a whirl. While we already have a feel for the overarching interface, which mashes together the traditional desktop and Metro-inspired tiles, we haven’t yet had a glimpse of the native apps that will ship as part of the OS. And think of the untold number of tweaks Redmond must have made since the Developer Preview dropped! Will we get to poke around the Windows Store? Will switching between apps be any less jarring this go ’round? And what’s the fate of the Start button? Stay tuned to find out what the OS will look like in its (almost) final form.

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HP Cuts Staff As WebOS Transitions To Opensource

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alphadogg writes “Hewlett-Packard has cut 275 jobs in its webOS group, as part of its strategy to turn the operating system over to the open-source community, according to IDG News Service. HP said last year that it would stop making devices that use the operating system which was developed by Palm for phones and tablets, and later decided to release the software under the Apache License 2.0. As webOS continues the transition to open-source software, HP no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before, the company said in a statement. ‘This creates a smaller and more nimble team that is well-equipped to deliver an open source webOS and sustain HP’s commitment to the software over the long term,’ it added.”

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Benchmarking Part 1

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This week we’re taking a closer look at how the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) processor works as it exists first on the MDP8690, the newest Mobile Development Platform that the manufacturer has released for developers to fully experience the S4 chip in its Krait configuration. This version of the S4 chip, code-named Krait, is an [...]
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Who do you blame when IT breaks?

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There’s always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers-that-be can usually find someone to blame — be it an data center operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third party service provider.
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Google Doodle hops into leap year

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In one of its rare celebrations of two noteworthy events, Google has created a special home page cartoon honoring not just the elusive February 29, but also Rossini’s birthday.
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IBM cans over 1000 workers in one week

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An IBM employee organization has confirmed that IBM has laid off more than 1000 workers across the country. The layoffs all came this week alone and more may be coming. IBM offers no official comments on the layoffs. The data on the number of workers cut comes via the IBM worker union Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701. [...]
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PixelQi has heavy night, wakes up married to French ‘PadPro’ tablet

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10-inch Pad Pro slate with PixelQi display

What has Mary Lou Jepsen been up to since 3M’s cash injection? It’s hard to say, but her sunlight-readable PixelQi panels are still popping up on the odd device — like this Windows 7 slate from little-known Evigroup. The 10-inch PadPro is aimed at graphics types who are willing to bid adieu to €599 ($ 800) in return for a pressure-sensitive display, a 1.6GHz Atom processor (no mention of Cedar Trail), 1GB RAM and 160GB hard-drive. They also need to really hate Android.

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From Mobile World Congress, attack of the super phones

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Rather than getting smaller, smartphones are getting bigger — and more powerful. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, the annual coming out party for new mobile handsets, the trend is clear — but are people ready for these brawny beasts?




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Kansas City businesses dream big with Google Fiber, despite uncertain availability

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Businesses in Kansas City, have some big ideas for Google's new fiber network, although they still don't know if they'll be able to use it once it goes online.
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The Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV]

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yahoopatenttctvinterviewWhen news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took some people by surprise — but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away. Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle back in November 2011, so TechCrunch TV reached out to Gill to get his insights on the situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head.
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Google aids accessibility with ChromeVox reader, better YouTube captions and more

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Google's new accessibility features

Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year’s CSUN accessibility conference and they’re keen to talk up their latest efforts. For the visually impaired, there’s now a beta version of a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (demo’d after the break), plus improved shortcuts and screen reader support in Google Docs, Sites and Calendar. Meanwhile, YouTube boasts expanded caption support for the hard of hearing, with automatic captions enabled for 135 million video clips — a healthy tripling of last year’s total. Check the source link for full details or, if you’re anywhere near San Diego, go and hassle those engineers the old-fashioned way.

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25 Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested By Interpol

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“Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said Tuesday. Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain,’ Interpol said. The statement cited attacks on the websites of the Colombian Ministry of Defense and the presidency, as well as on Chile’s Endesa electricity company and its National Library, among others. The operation was carried out by police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, the statement said, with 250 items of computer equipment and cell phones seized in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities. Police also seized credit cards and cash from the suspects, aged 17 to 40.”

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Daily Crunch: Cheap 3D

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1560Here are some recent Gadgets posts: Is The $ 300 3D Printer Finally Here? Makible Thinks So TC@MWC: The Huawei Ascend D Quad Is One Of The Nicest Phones You’ll Never Buy LTE-Packing Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Hits VZW Shelves On March 1 HBO GO Finally Lands On Xbox 360 On April 1 (And No, It’s Not A Joke) iPad 3 Rumor Roundup
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Hard-drive shortage hits servers in Q4, Gartner says

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The growth in worldwide server shipments was slower than expected during the fourth quarter due to a shortage in the supply of hard drives, and the trend will continue into the first quarter this year, Gartner said in a study released on Thursday.
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Analyst: Free Mountain Lion upgrade would be ‘brilliant’ Apple move

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Apple would be making a ‘brilliant’ move if it decided to give away OS X Mountain Lion to Mac users as a free upgrade, an analyst said today.
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MegaUpload founder to remain free on bail

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Despite U.S. and New Zealand government lawyers’ efforts, Kim DotCom will remain free until his extradition hearing in August.
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Envia’s GM-backed battery delivers huge energy density, lower costs, headaches for competitors

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If you’re one of those worried about the battery on your expensive EV running out, look away now. Envia has unveiled a new cell that boasts a record-breaking energy density of 400Wh/kg (most currently offer between 100 and 150). It’s estimated that when commercialized, this could bring the cost of a 300-mile range EV down to as little as $ 20,000. The performance gains come from a special manganese-rich cathode and silicon-carbon nano-composite anode combination. The battery maker is also partly owned by GM, which unsurprisingly means we’re likely to see these very cells in its EVs in the future. Perhaps with the right choice of upholstery, we might see even better savings? Want to know more? Tap the fully charged press release parked just after the break.

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IBM’s stunning breakthrough: Quantum computing finally ‘within reach’

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IBM announced that the company is on the cusp of a stunning technological breakthrough, one that could make quantum computing a reality in as little as 10 years.




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Computer Simulation Predicts New Allotrope Of Carbon

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The new material matches the properties of a puzzling new form of carbon found in high pressure experiments

The various different forms of carbon include diamond, graphite, graphene (a single sheet of graphite) and the fullerenes, which form when carbon atoms bond together into tube and sphere-like structures. 







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Raspberry Pi credit-card sized Linux PCs are on sale now, $25 Model A gets a RAM bump

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The good news is that Raspberry Pi’s highly anticipated teeny-tiny Linux computers are on sale now, just barely making the promised February launch window (good thing it’s a leap year). The better news, is that the $ 25 Model A version has gotten an upgrade from the planned 128Mb of RAM to 256Mb matching the Model B, which still throws in an extra USB port and an Ethernet hookup for $ 10 more. Unfortunately there is some bad news as well, while the Model A is going into production “immediately”, cheapskates will have to hold off a little, as the Model B is the only one on sale right now. Built on a Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM11 processor, they’re intended as a cheap computing option that require only a keyboard and RCA or HDMI-connected display to give a full desktop experience including gaming and HD video playback . The team also announced it has secured manufacturing and distribution agreements that should guarantee a steady supply, without the previous limitation of 10,000 at a time batches. Need more technical details? Hit the FAQ page below, or put down a few Hamiltons — they can be ordered directly from distributors Premier Farnell / Element 14 and RS Components — and find out how it runs (Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux are currently supported) for yourself.

Update: It appears the servers of both retailers are completely crushed by traffic at the moment, and we’re told RS will ship in the UK only. Good luck in your struggle with that most difficult of questions: Keep mashing F5, or get some sleep and try again in the morning? Raspberry Pi’s Twitter account reports Farrell appears to have already sold out, so keep that in mind.

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TiVo Whole Home DVR Extender will get retail release

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If you’re still a fan of the original DVR (and there’s a lot of them out there) we’ve got good news: you’ll soon be able to purchase TiVo‘s new Whole Home DVR Extender. Even better, you can get it through your cable or satellite provider or buy it yourself, as the units are headed to [...]
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Through a Camera, Darkly

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The technology of lenses has made art richer and more meaningful for hundreds of years. A Gerhard Richter retrospective shows Germany’s most famous artist responding to the camera over a lifetime of painting.

Around 1670, Johannes Vermeer of Delft painted a young woman making lace. She can be seen concentrating intently on what she is doing. In the foreground is a sewing cushion, a piece of needlework equipment consisting of a box with a padded textile cover, from which skeins of red and white thread are spilling out onto another surface. Loose, liquid, those fibers resemble to a contemporary eye something of which Vermeer could have had no conception: abstract art. When you look at that lovely festoon of red looping over the blue table cover, ­Jackson Pollock comes irresistibly to mind.







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Oracle pulls the plug on old JavaFX runtime

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Having changed the underlying architecture of JavaFX, Oracle is discontinuing older versions of this platform for building RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). As a result, applications based on JavaFX 1.2 and JavaFX 1.3 will need to be updated to run on JavaFX 2.0 by the end of this year.
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Google once considered issuing currency

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Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage at the Mobile World Congress Tuesday.
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In pictures: The US Navy’s incredible, sci-fi railgun

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A theoretical dream for decades, the railgun is unlike any other weapon used in warfare. Read more about the Navy’s first working prototype.




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