Consumer Watchdog, a privacy group, wants the California Assembly to keep Google’s self-driving cars off the road until privacy protection for the cars’ users is in place.
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Privacy group wants Google’s driverless cars kept off the road
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Is a “Net Zero” Data Center Possible?
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miller60 writes “HP Labs is developing a concept for a “net zero” data center — a facility that combines on-site solar power, fresh air cooling and advanced workload scheduling to operate with no net energy from the utility grid. HP is testing its ideas in a small data center in Palo Alto with a 134kW solar array and four ProLiant servers. The proof-of-concept confronts challenges often seen in solar implementations, including the array’s modest capacity and a limited window of generation hours – namely, when the sun shines. HP’s approach focuses on boosting server utilization, juggling critical and non-critical loads, and making the most of every hour of solar generation. Can this concept work at scale?”
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Asus’ Transformer Infinity Pad tablet to ship in a month
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Asus' highly anticipated Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T tablet, a challenger to Apple's new iPad, will become available in late June or early July, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Nintendo Pokemon Conquest new features revealed
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The franchise that is usually on the bleeding edge of connectivity and high-end features for Nintendo’s portable systems (read: rudimentary basic services on other systems) is making its presence on the 3DS known. While not a lot of the newly announced features actually push the 3DS to its limit, they will nonetheless be a very
White House announces anti-botnet initiative
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The White House has been drumming up momentum for tighter internet privacy laws for a while now, and today it’s furthering that online safety agenda with a new initiative for combating botnets. Washington just announced a pilot program for fighting viruses, citing a whopping five million PCs infected worldwide this year. The program will use principles outlined by the Industry Botnet Group, with the main goal being to educate internet users on the dangers of cyberspace while preventing botnets from spreading by sharing data about infected computers. The White House is working with the Information Sharing and Analysis Center to develop and implement the “botnet pilot,” presumably to enact those anti-virus principles.
White House announces anti-botnet initiative originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 May 2012 22:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Windows 8, ultrabooks to get top billing at giant trade show
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Windows 8 and ultrabooks are expected to take center stage at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week, as industry giants Microsoft and Intel try to develop products that can compete better against Apple's iPad.
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Virgin Galactic’s Suborbital Spacecraft Gets FAA Blessing
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coondoggie writes “Space tourism company Virgin Galactic today said its spacecraft developer has been granted an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin rocket-powered testing of its spaceships. With the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation permit, Scaled Composites and its SpaceShipTwo craft will be able to test the aerodynamic performance of the spacecraft with the full weight of the rocket motor system on board. Integration of key rocket motor components, already underway will continue into the autumn.”
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Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss
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Want To Be Like Steve Jobs? Well It’s Probably Not Going To Happen
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Because Steve Jobs had visited the AllThingsD stage so many times over the course of the past decade, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher decided to pay him tribute by inviting two of his friends for 25 years, Dr. Ed Catmull and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, to talk for the closing hour about “The Lessons of Steve Jobs.”
When both men were asked by Mossberg about what advice they had for aspiring entrepreneurs who’d like to replicate Steve’s success, both had similar answers but Ellison, who was Jobs next door neighbor in Woodside, dominated the conversation. Want to be like Steve Jobs? Well you’re not going to get there by trying, Ellison asserted.
Massachusetts to tackle big data with MIT, Intel
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With several big data initiatives announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Governor Deval Patrick said he wants to make the state a hub for big data research.
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Google Voice update helps users screen nameless callers
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Upgrading its phone service, Google adds two new groups — one that lets users send anonymous callers straight to voicemail and another to create personalized greetings for contact lists.
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Pixar President Catmull: Technology makes better art
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At D10 conference, president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation talks about why you need new tools that you don’t know how to use.
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Here Come the Arctic Drones
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Northrup Grumman is having no trouble adapting its speeders to the cold.
As it becomes increasingly clear that climate change and the race for new sources of oil and gas are going to turn Earth’s poles into hotbeds of military contention, Northrup Grumman is responding by offering Canada a drone that can fly under even the harshest of conditions.
Press pics of Gigabyte’s X11 lightweight laptop reportedly pop up online
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Last week, Gigabyte teased us with the promise of a new bantam laptop, the X11, that would be the “lightest notebook on earth.” Today, it appears the good folks at Pocket-lint have taken a bit of the wind out of the company’s sails by posting a plethora of press pics of the new machine for all the world to see. Naturally, we can’t say for sure that this is the forthcoming X11, but whatever it is, it’s a slim little black beauty that looks to be right at home with the MacBook Airs and Ultrabooks of the world — it’s got a wedge-shaped silhouette and a modicum of external connectivity (one USB socket and one DisplayPort). Want to see more of it’s ebony exterior in advance of tomorrow’s official announcement? Head on down to the source link for the full spill.
Press pics of Gigabyte’s X11 lightweight laptop reportedly pop up online originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 May 2012 19:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to powerfully Angry Birds
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Kleiner Perkins Partner John Doerr Speaks Out On Lawsuit: “Our Firm Does Not Discriminate Based On Gender”
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John Doerr, the longtime partner at Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers who is perhaps the firm’s most recognizable public face, has spoken out for the first time about the gender discrimination lawsuit filed against the firm earlier this month by partner Ellen Pao (news of which was first broken by TechCrunch last week.)
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US grants Virgin Galactic experimental permit for space tourism
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Sean Parker: Apple Tried To Keep Spotify Out Of The US
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Answering a question at AllThingsD, Sean Parker confirmed that “there was some indication” that Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the US market.
“There was some indication that that was happening,” Parker said, “It’s a very small industry in a lot of ways, certainly smaller than it was 12 years ago,” He joked.
Intel teams up with DeviceScape for automatic public WiFi, will hook up your Ultrabook in the background
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We all know the coffee shop WiFi routine: crack open the laptop, visit a splash page, and dutifully wait until you’re logged in before you get to Twitter. Through a new deal between Intel and DeviceScape, you won’t even have to think about it. Intel’s Smart Connect tool will soon automatically sign in your Ultrabook to a curated list of quality, open WiFi hotspots, even if the PC is fast asleep. This last trick might need Windows 8′s Connected Standby mode to live up to Intel’s expectations, but the dream is to have your email and social feeds updated and waiting before that laptop or tablet screen has even blinked into life. Intel is leaving some gaps in the story, such as whether or not gadget owners will pay a premium for the fast access. We’d guess that Intel is counting on higher computer (and more importantly, processor) sales to make up the difference.
Intel teams up with DeviceScape for automatic public WiFi, will hook up your Ultrabook in the background originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 May 2012 17:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
South Korea’s FTC reportedly raids Google again over lack of cooperation
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Google might be in trouble for how it handled an earlier raid by South Korean officials over antitrust concerns. Insiders claimed to AllThingsD that the country’s Fair Trade Commission stormed Google’s Seoul offices again on May 28th after the company allegedly stonewalled the investigation in suspicious ways. Among the accusations, Google supposedly deleted files and asked staff to work from home rather than face inquiries. The FTC’s goal was still to answer complaints from local search firms Daum and NHN that Google was unfairly making it difficult to use a non-Google search engine in Android. Google still says it’s cooperating with regulators, but the assertions if they’re accurate would paint a different picture. They certainly don’t alleviate pressure in the US over similar subjects.
South Korea’s FTC reportedly raids Google again over lack of cooperation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 May 2012 17:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Microsoft’s Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight
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Nerval’s Lobster writes “In a bid to expand the reach of its cloud services, Microsoft has introduced Office 365 for Government, which features the same cloud-based productivity tools as Office 365 but stores data in a segregated community cloud. Google and Microsoft have been locked in vicious battle over the past few years to score cloud contracts for government agencies. Microsoft hopes its support of standards such as ISO 27001, SAS70 Type II, HIPAA, FERPA, and FISMA will help to give it an edge in winning those contracts.”
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Wasn’t Always Such a Wimp
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scibri writes “Sagittarius A*, the dormant supermassive black hole that lies at the center of our galaxy, was much more active not that long ago. Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have picked up some faint gamma-ray signals that suggest Sagittarius A* was emitting a pair of powerful gamma-ray jets like other galactic black holes as recently as 20,000 years ago (arXiv paper). If our black hole was more active in the past, it could explain why Sagittarius A* seems to be growing about 1,000 times too slowly for it to have reached its current mass of about four million solar masses since the Galaxy formed about 13.2 billion years ago.”
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Google Voice’s New Update Lets Users Manage Anonymous Calls
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For all its faults, Google Voice has gotten to be pretty solid with regard to how it routes calls from different groups of people, and today the search giant has gussied up the service even more. According to the official Google Voice blog, a new update now gives users more control over what to do with people who hide their phone numbers when they call.
But let’s back up a minute here.
The Chromebook’s New Ambitions
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Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 makes a splash Stateside, offers a lightweight slice of Android 4.0 for $349
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Lenovo has offered few hints (if unsubtle ones) that the IdeaTab S2109 was on the way, but it’s now in the US in earnest. As we saw early on, some of the Android 4.0 tablet’s specs read like those of an iPad 2, down to the 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 IPS panel, 1.3-pound weight and ever so slightly thicker 8.9mm unibody shell. Lenovo is catering more to the movie-watching set, though: a four-speaker system and 1080p video over micro-HDMI make us see it as a couch-surfer’s Netflix machine. We’re a bit less enthused with the aging dual-core, 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 inside, but we won’t complain about the $ 349 asking price. If the balance is appealing, both Lenovo and Office Depot will be ready to serve it up in early June.
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ZTE teases 6.2mm-thick ‘Athena,’ crams in 720p IPS display and Cortex-A15 chip
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Never mind Huawei’s 6.68mm-thick Ascend P1 S or Oppo’s 6.65mm-thick Finder, because the record’s about to be beaten yet again by another Chinese manufacturer. Codenamed “Athena,” this mysterious ZTE phone’s been getting a fair bit of attention on Sina Weibo with its 6.2mm slimness claim, all thanks to a keen terminal device strategy director from the company. While Mr. Lu hasn’t delved into specifics, what we know so far is that Athena will feature a 720p display, Cortex-A15 chip (a source of ours said it will be multi-core) and up to 64GB of internal storage, as well as a “Miflavor UI” — something that we’ve already previewed on the Era at MWC — to go on top of Android 4.0. Lu also hinted that there will be several color options, but we’re more than happy to nab that black kevlar edition in the above shot (and someone should tell Motorola to take a look at this). Two more pictures after the break to keep you busy for the time being.
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Galaxy S III Pebble Blue shipping now (in Vietnam)
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If you’re on the lookout for that one special color for your Samsung Galaxy S III, that Pebble Blue you’ve been waiting for, you’ll have to hit up your favorite Vietnamese smartphone shop as they’ve got it in stock this week. It’s limited numbers or none for the Samsung smartphone in Pebble Blue this week,
Photosynth app finally hits Windows Phones
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Microsoft’s popular Photosynth panorama stitching tech has finally reached the company’s own Windows Phone platform. The photo app was released over a year ago on iOS but was oddly missing from WP7. Microsoft admitted that the app required some deeper access to the phones hardware, which was not available at the time. The Photosynth app
Atlassian Launches A Marketplace For Project Management Add-Ons
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Atlassian, the Australian company that makes popular software project management tools JIRA and Confluence, has opened a marketplace where customers can download and buy add-ons for the company’s apps.
Usually, the launch of a marketplace or app store signals a company’s broader platform ambitions, but Atlassian President Jay Simons says the platform approach has been “part of our DNA” for a long time. The company regards JIRA and Confluence, in particular, as its core products, so it has been building its own add-ons, and companies like Box and Zendesk have offered their own integrations. (Marketplace includes add-ons for a few other Atlassian products, too.)
Copies of anti-censorship software used in Iran and Syria contain keylogger
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Rogue copies of Green Simurgh, an Internet proxy software application used in Iran and Syria, have been found to contain malware that records users' activities and keystrokes.
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Mary Meeker unveils KPCB’s Internet trends for 2012
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Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (KPCB) reveals that there are now 2.3 billion Web users around the world.
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Should Facebook Buy Opera?
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Speculation swells surrounding the company.
The tech press has been abuzz with speculation that Facebook might want to buy Opera, a Norwegian company, to help Facebook meet its promises of long-term profitability. The speculation reached such a frenzy that shares in Opera soared some 26 percent, per Bloomberg. Rumors about a possible acquisition took off in earnest last week, when the blog pocket-lint.com floated the possibility, citing a “trusted source.”
HTC Evo 4G LTE Review: Head-To-Head With The iPhone 4S And The Galaxy Nexus
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The Evo 4G LTE is one of the best phones to land on Sprint shelves in a while, but that’s not to say it has no competition over at the Yellow carrier. The Galaxy Nexus has propped itself up as the Android phone to beat, while the iPhone 4S is available at the same price: $ 199.
So what will it take to pass up the iPhone and the GalNex for the latest iteration of the Evo line?
We’ve put together this head-to-head chart to answer just such a question.
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Rare striped rabbit caught on camera
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Nature’s Oddities: The strangest creatures on Earth
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Play Safe For Android Locks Down Your Phone So Kids Can (Safely) Play
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Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator’s winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of “having a different vision in terms of how to move forward.” So what has Vaisman, along with co-founder Ankush Agarwal, now launched instead? Play Safe, an app for Android that lets kids safely play games on your own smartphone.
SpaceX signs contract to launch world’s most powerful rocket
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The Nest Thermostat Is Now Available At The Apple Store
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If any household product deserves a spot in the Apple Store, it’s the Nest Thermostat. Never mind the common denominator of long-time Apple employee, Tony Fadell, the Nest Thermostat exemplifies Apple’s mantra of making technology accessible. The Nest isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the shiny exterior are enough disruptive bits to make thermostat giant, Honeywell, attempt to sue the company out of existence. Starting today, the Nest is now available in Apple’s retail stores and the website.
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Motorola: a brief history
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A snapshot of the last several years in Motorola’s history shows a company in flux, culminating last week, when the smartphone manufacturer’s sale to Google was finally given the green light. After undergoing governmental scrutiny from the US, China and the EU, the move, priced at around $ 12.5 billion, seems a logical fit, given the phone maker’s push toward a portfolio built nearly exclusively around the search giant’s mobile operating system. Of course, it’s hard to imagine such a transaction taking place, had the Mobility wing not been spun off from Motorola a year and a half prior.
These are the latest events for a company that has undergone a fair amount of change in its 80-plus-year existence. It’s a long and fascinating story — one likely hazy at best for those who can only remember as far back as the original RAZR or StarTAC. So, before the company embarks on the next chapter of its history, let’s take a quick look back, after the break.
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Flipboard beta coming to all Android devices soon, hopes to handle resolution variety with poise
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Eagle-eyed readers might remember that Flipboard’s long-awaited port to Android started with a fair amount of confusion; it showed up (seemingly at random) on Samsung’s Galaxy S III, but soon after, we learned that it would only be available for that very phone over on the Android side of things. Recently, we uncovered the story of why, and what the company’s planning for the future. Put simply, that “device diversity” that keeps developers on their toes is at the forefront of the issue here. For those unaware, Flipboard is quite the polished app over on iOS, and the outfit didn’t want its product to offer a subpar experience on competing platforms. In order to gain a better grip on the app’s appearance in the land of mobile desserts, it teamed up with Samsung to focus on a single screen, and a single screen resolution. Naturally, it’s expecting a huge amount of GSIII shipments, so that’s certainly not a bad device to start on. But in the effort of understanding Flipboard’s future on Android, it’s important to note that whole “start” phrase.
Turns out, the company’s eerily close to having a build ready for the rest of the Android smartphone universe. But, smartly, it’s planning to release it to a small subset of users with a clear ‘beta’ label. The idea here is to offer it up to savvy Android users who understand the art of sideloading an APK, giving them the tools to submit bug reports and help polish up Flipboard on the many, many variations of devices out there. Truth be told, we wish more app makers would give this approach a try. Tossing that ‘beta’ label on there keeps expectations in check, and allowing early adopters to chime in with bugs enables the final product to be that much more stable across a wide gamut of screen resolutions. We weren’t able to nail down a specific launch date, but Android aficionados hoping to get a few flips in shouldn’t have to wait too many more months before that beta offering is made public. In the meanwhile, there’s always the renegade method — but of course, we’d caution that you proceed at your own risk.
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Lightroom 4.1 arrives; Aperture users, be patient
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Adobe tucks in HDR editing and lens correction features that apparently didn’t make the cut for Lightroom 4.0. Also: a high-profile Aperture user threatens to defect after feeling left in the dark.
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Razer outs Battlefield 3 aviator headsets
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Can’t satisfy your appetite for video game tie-in peripherals? Razer’s new military aviator-inspired, Battlefield 3-branded BlackShark headsets might do the trick. Each memory foam, leatherette-lined ear cup packs 40mm drivers paired with ambient noise cancellation and enhanced bass. You can also use the the detachable, unidirectional boom microphone to yell at teammates to take cover. The whole package rings up at $ 129.99 — or €129.99 for those across the pond — and will be ready for duty in July. Check out the gallery and full PR below.
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Remote-controlled Aquabotix HydroView takes underwater HD video, Mrs. Puff calls insurance agent
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Using an iPad to control your music system? Been there, done that. Using an iPad to control a submersible that also records underwater video in 1080p? Oh, the possibilities. Aquabotix is giving Jacques Cousteau wannabes the ability to shoot the watery depths all the way down to 150 feet as its underwater doohickey — the HydroView — officially goes on sale. Measuring 14.6 x 19 x 7 inches and weighing nine pounds, the submersible comes with LED lights, a three-hour battery and a top-side box that connects with a cable tether. The box also allows users to communicate with the HydroView via an iPad, Mac or PC. Besides getting video proof of, say, which swimmers ate too many bean burritos for lunch, the submersible can also take pictures and gather data about water conditions. Top speed for the submersible is five knots — one knot when going in reverse. Just make sure you don’t channel your inner SpongeBob while remotely driving the thing. Although it’s not in the same league as Rinspeed’s submersible Elise, the HydroView still doesn’t come cheap at $ 3,995 a pop. Check out the official PR and, uh, low-def video of the diminutive diver in action after the break.
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Baby Steps To NFC: PayPal InStore Hits The UK; Juniper Says 1 In 4 To Pay With NFC Phones By 2017
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Yesterday, Gartner presented a picture of a $ 172-billion mobile payments industry that is still largely based around older technologies like SMS and web-based payments, with newer services like NFC chips playing a very marginal role. Today, Juniper Research paints a more encouraging picture for NFC: It says in a new report that one in four consumers in the U.S. and Western Europe will tap, wave and hover NFC-enabled handsets at points of sale to buy goods by 2017. But it also notes that today the number of transactions made on NFC phones in those regions is less than two percent.
The news comes on the same day that PayPal has started to ramp up its mobile payments push internationally. The eBay-owned payments company today began the UK launch of its retail mobile payments app for iOS and Android devices, PayPal InStore. The clothing chains Coast, Oasis, Warehouse, and Karen Millen are the first to sign on.
The Great Bandwidth Brawl
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Wireless networks are scrambling to feed the growing hunger for mobile data and downloads.
AT&T has a problem in Chicago. The city was one of the first to be upgraded to the wireless carrier’s next-generation LTE (long-term evolution) network, which packs more data into a radio signal and offers much faster download speeds. But independent tests published this month showed that AT&T downloads in Chicago are less than half the speed of those on Verizon’s LTE network there. The reason? A lack of radio spectrum. AT&T’s radio licenses allow it to use only a 10-megahertz chunk of the airwaves for its LTE network in Chicago, compared with the 20 megahertz it has in other cities
Huawei hotspot supports 110Mbps downstream on Softbank’s 4G network
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Huawei‘s 102HW Ultra WiFi 4G router might not be bathing in the same irradiated limelight as Sharp’s Pantone 5, but it’s said to support the fastest mobile data service in Japan. Announced at SoftBank‘s summer product rollout, the 102HW sports download speeds of up to 110 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up on AXGP (Advanced eXtended Global Platform) 4G, though it’ll fall back to 3G when necessary. Up to ten users can simultaneous surf the web via 802.11b/g/n WiFi at 300 Mbps and share files through a built in microSDXC card slot. The box can also switch to and from SoftBank WiFi hotspots on the fly if cellular connections alone won’t cut it. Live in Japan? You’ll have to wait until September to land a hotspot of your own.
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Logitech debuts new Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
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The K760 is Logitech’s latest entry in its expanding line of solar-powered Blueooth keyboards.
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Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization
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Printable photovoltaics could become viable, thanks to a new advance.
Easy-to-make solar cells that capture light with dyes have garnered an impressive string of scientific awards, including the Millennium Technology Prize in 2010. Yet they’ve had little commercial impact since their invention in 1988.
Five Stars Hits 1.3 Million Check-Ins, Emerging As A Quiet Giant In Customer Loyalty
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We in the press haven’t heard too much from Five Stars, the customer loyalty startup, since it launched out of the Winter 2011 class of Y Combinator last year. But now that seems the silence has been for a pretty good cause: Turns out that Five Stars has been busy over the past year building a business with real clients, real users, and most importantly, real revenue.
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Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on The Moon in 1976
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The last Soviet mission to the moon, Luna-24, returned to Earth with water-rich rocks from beneath the lunar surface. But the West ignored the result
The possibility of water on the moon has excited scientists and science fiction fans for decades. If we ever decide to maintain a human presence on the moon, clear evidence of water will be an important factor in the decision.
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