Sebastian Rodriguez waited in line 90 minutes to be the first person at Google I/O to get the Google Chromebook Pixel, the premium laptop given to all conference attendees today. Rodriguez is a a software engineer with Thales, a data security company. He humored us and did an “unboxing” of his new Pixel. He was hoping to get Google Glass as were most of the people we talked to at the event but he said the Pixel will be fine around the house. We caught up with a few other people today at the Moscone Center who were happily walking out with their new machines. One woman plans to give the Pixel to her six-year-old daughter. A man from the Philippines said he was hoping for an Android. Another attendee said he wants to use the Pixel to develop apps. Nonetheless, these attendees are pretty lucky to get such a sleek machine. Here’s Frederic Lardinois’ review from earlier this year.
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Nokia Lumia 520 tries to arrive at FCC incognito, given away by codename
Nokia just tried to hustle a certain RM-914 model through the FCC, but thanks to an earlier glance at the Fed’s Indonesian counterpart POSTEL, we know we’re actually looking at the Lumia 520. As the Finnish outfit just announced, that model represents the new low-end of its Windows Phone 8 line, though it’s decently spec’d with a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 4-inch 800 x 480 IPS display and 1,430mAh battery. While eschewing LTE, the device will pack various WCDMA and HSPA+ frequencies for 3G, though in this case, we’re not looking at WCDMA 900 / 2100 bands, meaning it’s indeed a US model. Its next stop ought to be store shelves later this quarter — followed by your pocket, if the $ 183 or so WP8 handset rings your bell.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Nokia
Source: FCC
Lab Rats Given “Sixth Sense”
puddingebola writes “Researchers have given lab rats the ability to sense infrared light through a brain implant. From the article, ‘They taught the rats to choose the active light source by poking their noses into a port to receive a sip of water as a reward. They then implanted the microelectrodes, each about a tenth the diameter of a human hair, into the animals’ brains. These electrodes were attached to the infrared detectors. The scientists then returned the animals to the test chamber. At first, the rats scratched at their faces, indicating that they were interpreting the lights as touch. But after a month, the animals learned to associate the signal in their brains with the infrared source.’”
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Nokia 520 and 720 given the nod in Indonesia, could be a pair of new Lumias
Nokia’s already got the Lumia 620, 820 and 920 in its hand, but could it be going for a running flush? That’s the question we find ourselves asking, after a filing from Indonesia’s POSTEL, a regulatory body much like the FCC in the US, declares that a Nokia “520 / RM-914″ and “720 / RM-885″ have successfully completed testing. The Lumia title doesn’t appear in the database, but it wouldn’t be too far of a stretch to believe they could be unannounced Windows Phone 8 devices — and successors to the 510 and 710 — given the familiar naming convention. That’s really all we have to go on right now, but with MWC drawing ever closer, is this just coincidence, or does the Finnish company have a couple more Lumias tucked up its sleeve?
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Nokia
Via: Phone Arena
Source: POSTEL
BlackBerry Q10 with physical keyboard given May-June release window for US
If you thought March was far away, be prepared to thumb your calendar to an even further date for the BlackBerry Q10. According to AP, CEO Thorsten Heins has said that the physical keyboard iteration of BlackBerry’s new OS will arrive around 8-10 weeks after the Z10 makes its eventual appearance on American shores. Heins added that release dates would vary between the major carriers, but the company maintains that the Q10 will arrive in other markets (likely including parts of Europe) some time in April. Guess we’ll hold onto our aging Bold until then.
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Via: AllThingsD
Source: AP (Mercury News)
Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown “encouraging” results.
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens.
Google Has Given Us The Gift Of One Click Access To Docs, Sheets And Slides…Oh My!
I use Google products for pretty much everything, including documents, spreadsheets (ew) and slide presentations (double ew). Now that these products are safely nestled under “Google Drive”, they’ve been renamed to Docs, Sheets and Slides. Yay for that. But what’s really interesting, and something that I missed during the Apple and Facebook frenzies yesterday, is that Google has submitted these “apps” to the Chrome Web Store for easy access.
Peep this
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Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam
McGruber writes “Michael Baxter, the network engineer at the southeastern regional headquarters of Verizon Wireless who submitted hundreds of fraudulent service requests to Cisco, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Baxter was also ordered to pay $ 2.3 million in restitution to Cisco Systems, and $ 462,828 in restitution to Verizon. Instead of placing the replacement parts into service in the Verizon Wireless network, Baxter took the parts home and sold them to third-party re-sellers for his own profit. He used the money to buy cars, jewelry and multiple cosmetic surgeries for his girlfriend.”
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UAV Lifeguards to patrol Australian beaches, Hasselhoff given notice
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s… a lifeguard? Aiming to keep a robotic eye out for distressed swimmers and dangerous marine life, Surf Life Saving Australia will soon deploy flying safety drones across beaches in Queensland, Australia. Starting off on a trial basis, the unmanned bots have a wingspan of one meter (about three feet) and will feature detachable safety buoys and alert sirens. While it could be the next thing in oceanside safety, we’d image that some folks won’t be too fond of being watched sans any say in the matter. That said, we’d be remiss not to mention to that SLS head Brett Williamson frankly stated to ABC that “at the end of the day this is about public safety.” Big brother conspiracy aside, we’re sure some folks could be swayed if these bad boys play Flight of the Valkyries while in formation.
[Image credit: Kim Powell]
Filed under: Science
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Pottery reportedly given to Goodwill may well be prehistoric
Apple given the OK to intervene in in-app purchase lawsuit
After nearly a year’s wait, Apple’s been given the go-ahead to intervene in a lawsuit targeting developers for infringing on another company’s patent by using in-app purchase tools.
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Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday
tsamsoniw writes “Over the past three weeks, Chrome has beaten out Internet Explorer as the No. 1 browser in the world — but only on Sundays. In fact, according to data from StatCounter, Chrome usage is higher on weekends than it is during the work week, whereas IE usage drops on Saturdays and Sundays. Evidently, end-users prefer Chrome at home, which might be helping the browser get a foothold at work.” (So apparently it’s not just a freak occurrence.)
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Yahoo Cuts 14 Percent Of Workforce; 2,000 Given Pink Slips; Will Save $375M
Yahoo has made its massive round of layoffs official. The company just released a statement saying that 2,000 jobs have been cut, or 14 percent of it total workforce (which was previously around 14,000). We’ve pasted the release below.
“Today’s actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo! – smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require. We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our core purpose – putting our users and advertisers first – and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal,” said Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson. “Unfortunately, reaching that goal requires the tough decision to eliminate positions. We deeply value our people and all they’ve contributed to Yahoo!.”
John Wang, HTC: ‘We Have Not Given Up On Windows Phones’
In Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Taiwanese handset maker HTC yesterday gave us a glimpse of its new, lean-and-mean smartphone strategy, HTC One — a unified set of Android complete with devices features and services that it hopes will help bring it back into the thick of things.
One thing that was very absent, though, was the M word.
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Oracle and SAP given June court date for TomorrowNow retrial
Oracle and SAP may be back in court on June 18 to begin a retrial of Oracle's corporate theft lawsuit involving SAP's former TomorrowNow subsidiary, according to a judge's order Thursday.
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Hungary’s Needy Given Money to Burn
Knowing that ideas are a dime a dozen and eager to think outside the box, Hungary’s central bank is burning old currency to help the needy. The bank has found that the 40-50 tons of currency that needs to be burned every year is a blessing in disguise for people caught between a rock and a hard place due to the extreme cold sweeping across Europe.
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Future owners given a glimpse of the Tesla Model S
Tesla made its name in the electric car world with the sweet and fast roadster. The Roadster never sold in huge amounts and was killed off to make way for the Model S that you see in the photo below. This car is cheaper and has more space than the Roadster offered making it more [...]
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