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ASRock’s new Haswell motherboards will be waterproof, of course

Posted by on May 8, 2013 No comments

ASRock's new Haswell motherboards will be waterproof

If your current motherboard has more Mountain Dew than CPU, you might be interested in ASRock‘s forthcoming Haswell offerings. Among the usual features like dual-band 802.11ac-flavored WiFi, HDMI input and a Home Cloud service, Tom’s Hardware spotted a mention of “Waterproof by Conformal Coating.” The company’s sub-site doesn’t give too much else away, like how extensive the protection will be, instead simply telling us to “A-Style our lifestyle.” The only feature with any amount of detail is a Pure Sound audio system (7.1 channel audio, Realtek ALC1150 audio codec and a TI 5532 pre-amp if you’re interested) that we’ve already seen. Still, if fluid has been getting between you and your high scores, keep an eye on the source for more info.

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T-Mobile reverses course, reveals Lumia 810 won’t be updated to support LTE

Posted by on April 2, 2013 No comments

TMobile reverses course, reveals Lumia 810 won't be updated to support LTE

We’ve some really unfortunate news to share with Lumia 810 owners who’d purchased the handset on T-Mobile’s word that a software update would enable LTE support. As it turns out, despite the Lumia 810′s hardware readiness and regulatory approval to access Band 4 LTE, that’s not going to happen — T-Mobile isn’t going to release the update. Sadly, this isn’t an April Fools’ prank. If you’re scratching your head about the revelation, you’re not alone. Representatives for the UnCarrier first revealed to us back in January that a software update would enable LTE functionality, which is a position that it’s maintained up through last week. As it stands, this leaves T-Mobile without an LTE offering for Windows Phone users, as the smartphone field is now limited to the Apple iPhone 5, BlackBerry Z10, HTC One, Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S4. We’ve asked T-Mobile whether it might make concessions to those who purchased the Lumia 810 on good faith that an LTE software update would be released, but for the moment, you’ll need to find solace in the carrier’s speedy HSPA+ 42 network.

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UC’s For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students

Posted by on January 8, 2013 No comments

slew writes “In the shadow of Stanford and Harvard offering free on-line courses, The University of California has been attempting to offer pay-courses for credit. UC online took out a $ 6.9M loan from UC and spent $ 4.3M to market these courses. For their efforts, they’ve been able to quadruple their enrollment year over year. The first year results: only one person not already attending UC paid $ 1,400 for an online pre-calculus class worth four credits. Now four non-UC are signed up. ‘UC Online has to pay back the loan in seven years and expected to sell 7,000 classes to non-UC students for $ 1,400 or $ 2,400 apiece, depending on each course’s duration. China was thought to be a lucrative potential source of students, but few expressed interest. The U.S. military also fell through.’ Methinks head will roll on this one…”

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Distance Learning University, The Open University, Repackages Course Materials For The App Generation

Posted by on November 7, 2012 No comments

OUA1U.K.-based distance learning university, the Open University, is developing a series of apps to deliver undergraduate course materials to students’ smartphones and tablet devices, starting from next year. The OUAnywhere app will allow undergraduates to access their main course materials through their handheld devices, along with the audio and visual content the OU produces to support studies.
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Head of ARPA-E Sketches Course for Energy Research

Posted by on August 29, 2012 No comments

Eric Toone, the principal deputy director of ARPA-E, discusses where the research agency is seeking technical breakthroughs in energy.

Eric Toone, who took the reins of the ARPA-E agency earlier this summer, has a few thoughts on where energy research should go.







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Stay The Course, Facebook. Even If Your Share Price Crashes

Posted by on August 16, 2012 No comments

fb-compass4Ignore us. Ignore the pressure from press and Wall Street to make more money now as lockups expire and your stock price dips to new lows. The only thing you need to remember is “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.” That’s your leader Mark Zuckerberg in his pre-IPO letter to the world.

I say this because I worry you may be veering off course in a fit of desperation to please investors.  This week you announced two new ad units that give businesses unprecedented access to the news feed. They pose grave threats to the user experience and your ability to accomplish your mission to bring us all closer together.
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NASA ‘itching to move’ on Mars as it charts course for Curiosity

Posted by on August 15, 2012 No comments

Its ultimate goal is to scale the lower slopes of Mount Sharp in search of the chemical building blocks of life to determine whether the environment was favorable for microbial life.




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EduTech Team-Up: Course Hero Buys Cardinal Scholars In-Person Tutoring Business From InstaEDU

Posted by on July 12, 2012 No comments

Cardinal Scholars ImageInstaEDU wants to become a truly scalable on-demand video tutoring platform, and Course Hero needs a way to dogfood its online education tools. So InstaEDU has just sold its in-person in-home tutoring business Cardinal Scholars to Course Hero for an undisclosed sum.

The deal will help both startups disrupt the outdated tutoring industry, undercutting the high overhead of Kaplan and Sylvan learning centers, and using live video to make education sites like Tutor.com seem cold by comparison.
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Apple Charts a New Course on Mobile Maps

Posted by on June 12, 2012 No comments

At its annual conference, Apple announced it will move away from Google with its own mapping app, along with new Mac and mobile software.

Users of Apple’s iPhone and iPad are getting a new mapping destination.







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Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way

Posted by on June 1, 2012 No comments



ananyo writes “From the Nature story: ‘The Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way about 4 billion years from now, astronomers announced today. Although the Sun and other stars will remain intact, the titanic tumult is likely to shove the Solar System to the outskirts of the merged galaxies. Researchers came to that conclusion after using the Hubble Space Telescope between 2002 and 2010 to painstakingly track the motion of Andromeda as it inched along the sky. Andromeda, roughly 770,000 parsecs (2.5 million light years) away, is the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.’”

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Course correction: 1st private spaceship plans May 7 launch to space station

Posted by on April 26, 2012 No comments

A May 7 liftoff is the new official target for the historic first flight of a private spaceship to the International Space Station, the vehicle's builder announced today (April 24).




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Mini-golf course inspired by Minecraft, Portal, et al

Posted by on April 17, 2012 No comments

If you happen to be a nerd who also likes miniature golf, then online personality Tom Scott has created something you would probably think is cooler than Disney World. He, along with a bunch of hackers who had nothing better to do, created a 12-hole miniature golf course with designs that were inspired by some

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Screw University, Course Hero Curates YouTube Into Free Business and Coding Classes

Posted by on April 13, 2012 No comments

Course HeroYou can learn just about anything from YouTube…if you’re willing to dig through millions of videos. Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content. The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. Meanwhile, Course Hero offers crowdsourced study guides, tutoring, and flashcards.

Khan Academy is great, but isn’t as scalable since it create the content itself. By drawing from YouTube and other openly available education, Course Hero plans to set up courses for anything it, or you, can think of. And if the pursuit of knowledge wasn’t enough, students who complete its Entrepreneurship path can enter a business plan competition whose winner will get to pitch to Course Hero investor Ron Conway / SV Angel.
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Intel puts CPU and WiFi radio together on same chip, with proper shielding of course

Posted by on February 20, 2012 No comments

It’s little notches like these that could eventually carve out a big Intel-shaped niche in the mobile universe. What you’re looking at is a prototype chip codenamed ‘Rosepoint’ that somehow crams a digital WiFi radio and a dual-core Atom CPU onto the same piece of silicon. Interference would normally make such proximity impossible, but Rosepoint incorporates new anti-radiation and noise-cancelling shielding to prevent the components from corrupting each other. The aim isn’t just to shrink everything, but also to deliver “state of the art power efficiency” by removing unnecessary circuitry. Intel even claims it can fit the RF antenna onto a chip too, but it doesn’t want to show that off just yet. Too many prying eyes.

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Mars-bound NASA rover adjusts course to red planet

Posted by on January 12, 2012 No comments

Firing on all engines, NASA’s latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing in August.




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Samsung Galaxy S II LTE arrives in Japan, NTT DoCoMo offers up its first course of 4G phones

Posted by on November 26, 2011 No comments

Japan has got its first taste of an LTE smartphone, and this one’s Galaxy-flavored. Oh yes, Samsung’s Galaxy S II LTE has made an appearance on NTT DoCoMo, running on the Japanese carrier’s next-generation Xi network and promising top download speeds of around 37.5Mbps. The latest member to the carrier’s top-drawer Next series will set you back around $ 260 (¥20,000) on a two-year contract. DoCoMo is aiming to reach the hands of 30 million customers by 2015, with another as-yet unnamed several more 4G devices already penned for release before the end of the year. Perhaps the pair of data-loving handsets will help to fill that iPhone-shaped hole in the carrier’s phone catalog.

Update: Contrary to the Asahi Shimbun report, it looks like both the Fujitsu Arrows X LTE F-05D and the LG Optimus LTE will cosy up on the new high-speed network before the end of the year.

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Blog – Apple Charts a Course for 3-D Maps

Posted by on November 3, 2011 No comments

It seems abundantly clear that Apple, which recently snapped up its third mapping company, is planning a rival to Google Maps for its iOS devices.

One of the apps I use most on my iPhone–indeed, perhaps the app I use the most–is a product dependent on technology from Apple’s rival, Google. It’s the Maps app, and as a person lacking any innate sense of direction, I use it just about wherever I go. Ever since the iPhone first came on the scene in 2007, Apple has been dependent on Google Maps. But there have been hints that Apple, at least since 2009, has been planning a rival service. In that year, it bought a mapping company called Placebase; last year, it scooped up a 3-D mapping company called Poly9. This week, 9to5Mac confirms that Apple has now purchased a third mapping company, C3 Technologies, which mysteriously shut down in August following its acquisition from a then-unnamed buyer.







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Nearing 1 Million Users, Path Stays The Course

Posted by on October 20, 2011 No comments

IMG_2495Founded by Dave Morin, the co-inventor of Facebook Connect, Sean Fanning, the co-inventor of Napster, and Dustin Mierau, the co-inventor of Macster, Path has some serious street cred when it comes to social and sharing. What’s more, there was the impressive list of investors backing the photo-sharing app in November of last year, and the sizable series A follow-on investment led by Kleiner Perkins in February.

In spite of this, questions about slow user adoption have continued to be hurled at Path; today, however, CEO Dave Morin put some of the speculation to rest, announcing from the stage at The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that the app is nearing 1 million users. Not too bad for less than a year’s work.

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Blog – How NASA Will Track Satellite on Collision Course with Earth

Posted by on September 24, 2011 No comments

Pieces of the defunct satellite are expected to fall back to Earth, but where and when remains uncertain.







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Evolta robot to take on the Ironman Triathlon, conquer the course in a week

Posted by on September 17, 2011 No comments

Panasonic’s little battery-powered bot that could, the Evolta, has garnered our attention several times over the years. It’s already climbed out of the Grand Canyon and walked 500km from Tokyo to Kyoto, but apparently neither was enough to prove it and its namesake batteries’ true mettle. This time, Panasonic’s putting three of the robots through the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii, and they’ve got a week to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112, and run a 26.2 mile marathon. Unlike the meatbags running the race who have a day to finish, the robots get a week — though they’ll be doing their thing 24 hours a day while only taking breaks to recharge their three AA batteries. Intrigued? The race starts on October 23rd, so there’s plenty of time to watch the appropriately dramatic video explaining the challenge facing the triumvirate of tiny triathletes after the break.

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