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Apple's trademark application for 'iPad mini' denied

Apple applied to trademark the name 'iPad mini' following the launch of the tablet last year, but the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have refused the application. According to Patently Apple, the letter was mailed to Apple on January 24, but has only been made public the last few days arguing that the term 'mini' is 'merely descriptive.'

A week of symfony #326 (25->31 March 2013) This week, Symfony 2.1.9 was released, a maintainance version that fixed a lot of minor bugs. In addition, a Symfony Docs Hack Day was organized on March 30th, which was a huge success and resulted in tens of fixes and tweaks to the existing documentation.

Getting started with AngularJS

It's an exciting time to be a JavaScript developer. Modern JavaScript frameworks including Backbone, Knockout, AngularJS, and others have brought a level of maturity and sophistication to the creation of HTML-based rich web applications that has been sorely needed.

CSS: Everything is global and how to deal with it

In Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts", Crockford names global variables as the worst part of JavaScript. He writes, "Global variables can be a convenience in very small programs, but they quickly become unwieldy as programs get larger.

Notice how the raycast method does not see the GPU level vertex transformations and instead hits the static ghost mesh. This problem is eliminated with the shader method. Furthermore, the shader based method ignores the .pickingCollider property of objects since this property is only relevant for the raycast method.

AngularJS Directives and The Computer Science of JavaScript

The past few years have been extremely kind to the JavaScript developer. Not only has JavaScript become the dominant language now surpassing even Java, but the level of tooling that is available in the space is absolutely unprecedented. When it comes to picking a framework for your application, you have a cornucopia of choices.

CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, March 31, 2013

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

LS1 report: The electric atmosphere of the LHC

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In the LHC, testing of the main magnet (dipole and quadrupole) circuits has been completed. At t

Earlier this week at the 2013 Game Developer Conference, we announced several cool game titles soon to hit the Windows Store.

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When two people are trying to make a deal -- whether they're competing or cooperating -- what's really going on inside their brains? Behavioral economist Colin Camerer shows research that reveals just how little we're able to predict what others are thinking.

YouTube has announced in a new video that the past eight years has been a competition and they will be shutting down the website on April 1 to decide the winner of the best video of all time.

To celebrate the 15-year anniversary of Starcraft, Blizzard are offering StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty players a brand-new Feat of Strength achievement and three portrait rewards.

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09:07, Electronics/Hardware Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Records Management, Media Services and Operations It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the premier U.S. nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday.

I met Tom Dubick about a year ago at Hackerspace Charlotte, NC. He teaches engineering to the girls at Charlotte Latin School, and we believe his class was the first to be using the Raspberry Pi in

09:30, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets A hostess shows a smartwatch by Sony, on February 27, 2013, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Analysts say 2013 may be the year for the smartwatch because "the components have gotten small enough and cheap enough" and a large number of consumers now have smartphones that can connect to a wearable device.Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch," the consensus is growing: the time is right.

(Phys.org) ?Intel was not going to let an event like the Game Developers Conference from March 25 to March 29 in San Francisco, described on the conference site as the world's largest professionals-on

Twitter launched the Vine social video app in January allowing users to create 6-second clips, clips that can now be embedded on the web.

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Meowser: a laptop and Arduino for a led mineral cabinet

MEOWSER is a (M)ineral (E)lement Br(owser): a wooden display cabinet containing rocks and mineral samples with LED lighting controlled from a laptop computer. The laptop can display either the periodic table or a layout of the cabinets. When the user mouses over elements or minerals the appropriate lights in the wooden cabinet light up.

Japanese Mac enthusiast site, MacFan, have rumoured that Apple will be announcing the iPhone 5S at a special event on Thursday June 20, with the new model going on sale in July

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Navigate around this supercrisp 4-gigapixel spherical view and get up close and personal with the Red Planet. (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) A stunning 4-gigapixel panorama of Mars, compiled from images captured by two mast cameras aboard NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, could be one of the most detailed views of our distant neighbor yet.

Amazon promotes growing gaming business at GDC in San Francisco, discussing statistics of its GameCircle social platform and other apps available in the Amazon Appstore

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, March 30, 2013

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

The Razer Edge have announced at GDC in San Francisco that Valve's Steam software will be in-built with the Edge and Ege Pro consoles. Formerly known as Project Fiona, the Edge is a 10.1-inch Windows 8 tablet, and co-founder, CEO and creative director Min-Liang Tan says, "Providing users with access to Steam will enable Razer Edge users to play their favourite games with greater ease than ever before," TheSlanted reports.

Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com I always wanted a professional camera dolly to handle tracking shots, but the dollies were way out of my budget. Now that I have a 3-D printer, I decided to design one myself. The rails were easy. I had several steel tubes from a metal rack that I was no longer using.

Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com I get a little bit frustrated seeing how rough the surface finish is on many of the 3-D parts posted on the Internet. I'm sure that most of the 3-D printers out there haven't been calibrated or tuned properly to produce the best parts.

Mar 29, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets This publicity image provided by Oculus VR shows a virtual reality headset. The virtual reality headset, the doodad that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference.

Wearable electronics move on from iPhone, to iWatch and beyond

Mar 29, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets You can wear your heart on your sleeve. Why not your electronics? In a burgeoning trend that has captivated Silicon Valley, a mind-boggling array of "wearable electronics" has begun to arrive, not just at a website or clothing outlet near you, but on an arm, a face, a wrist and even a pinkie finger.

14:40, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Or so says Ferris Bueller. If you'd like to keep track of life and play it back at your leisure, you're probably a fan of time-lapse videos.

14:50, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets The BlackBerry Z10 went on sale Friday in the U.S., and BlackBerry loyalists will like the improvements that come with the new smartphone and operating system. But for consumers who are looking for an alternative to Apple's iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S 3, the Blackberry Z10 is not it.

Oculus Rift have officially announced that the long-awaited VR headsets started shipping this week and some customers may even receive their kits before their tracking numbers

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With more than 1 billion members, Facebook has seen a rise in users paying to play games on the site rising 24 percent from a year ago.

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What were you doing for the Bank Holiday on Friday? Eben cycled 15 miles to have a meeting, then cycled home to do a Google Hangout interview with the guys from <a href="http://creativecodingpodcas

EA: DRM is a "dead-end strategy"

President of Labels division denies Simcity 5's always online approach was DRM by the back door

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Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den presenter Peter Jones is to re-open six Jessops stores over the next week

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Apple is well known for filing a huge number of patents however every now and then there comes along something that might just appear in the next iPhone

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Researchers from the University of Georgia believe they have discovered a method that could turn CO2 from the air into useable industrial products. (Credit: University of Georgia) Scientists cite as a major driver of climate change the large amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere that's created by the burning of fossil fuels.

Before trying to fly around the world without using a drop of fossil fuel, the Solar Impulse visits the U.S. -- touching down in Phoenix, Dallas, New York, and other cities. (Credit: Solar Impulse/Screenshot by Michelle Meyers/CNET) The Solar Impulse has defied all expectations in its short four-year life.

"E-trikes" are part of a movement to cut CO2 emissions and fuel costs in Asian cities. Manila wants 100,000 by 2016.

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You know the general rule when it comes to getting a good night's sleep - having a cool head and warm feet works best, and what better way to ensure that your feet as well as the rest of your body remains nice and toasty other than to cover it with a decent blanket?

Sometimes you just need to take your vino with you. Maybe you are headed for a day at the races or a picnic in the park. Schlepping a bottle around sure is not convenient. There's the need to keep it from breaking and you have to find a bottle opener.

In the conclusion of his report from the middle of the Earth, Crave's Eric Mack does a reality check on an ambitious plan to build a Latin American Silicon Valley.

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The Twitter REST API v1 will officially retire on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

We will hold another blackout test on April 16, 2013

By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) is a Google-sponsored program to enable professional development for high school and middle school students around the world interested in computer science. CS4HS holds workshops for teachers and provides funding to develop the workshops, along with help from local Googlers.

Research | Yale Researchers Ride Photons in Search of Quantum Computer

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Random Robot Roundup

We're trying out a new format for the Random Robot Roundups that should make them easier to read for the Power Point Generation. Let us know what you think!

Last month, some of the most creative web developers out there pushed the limits of touch events and multi-touch interaction in the February Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges -Franck Lecollinet, Guillaume Lecollinet, and (filling in for Craig Cook this month) yours truly-decided on three winners and two runners-up.

As part of our commitment to build the world?s be

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #60) - Windows Azure - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

This month, we're kicking off Mobile DevCon 2013 in New York City. Mobile DevCon is a chance to spend the day with Facebook's

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