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Thursday 28 March 2013

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More Security and Defense stories Russian engineers, based at the Central Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC) in St. Petersburg, are developing an integrated control system for a group of combat robots. It includes various robotic platforms for transportation and surveillance purposes - for example, carrying weapons or monitoring levels of contamination.

More Service and Healthcare stories IBM's Watson-the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy-is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to make diagnoses and treatment recommendations. This is one in a series of developments suggesting that technology may be about to disrupt health care in the same way it has disrupted so many other industries.

More Design and Development stories Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots - and potentially also animals - move on and interact with complex granular materials such as sand.

Welcome to the NuGet community testing initiative! We would like to welcome you for the testing event of the next upcoming NuGet 2.5 release and following are the details When? NuGet Testing event days are 3/27 to 3/29, 2013 Please plan to spend some time trying out the upcoming release and share your feedback.

Three new crew members are on an unprecedented fast track to the International Space Station, going from the launch pad to the orbiting complex in just six hours.

More Industry and Manufacturing stories Workholding and tooling manufacturer SCHUNK has released two dynamic toolholding solutions for the shop floor and the mobile device. The Sino-R milling toolholder is designed for simple installation for heavy duty cutting operations. The solid body toolholder clamps onto the cutting tool via actuation wrench in a "simple" operation that can cut downtime.

More Consumer and Education stories A free ESA app released this month turns a popular iPhone-controlled 'home drone' into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real - in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods.

More Research and Academics stories The RTS Lab in Tehran is developing Pars, an aerial rescue robot designed to save potential drowning victims. The ship-based quadcopter that responds instantly when alerted to potential victims in the ocean, locating them with FLIR, and dispensing life preservers directly over them.

Punch the throttle on BMW's experimental three-cylinder 1 Series hatchback and the car shoots forward. Tap the shifter paddle, there's a satisfying blip as second gear engages, more thrust, still more thrust as the turbocharger kicks in, and before you know it, you've topped out at 40 mph in the parking lot of BMW's New Jersey headquarters and with a German engineer riding shotgun.

Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit Now Available for Windows Phone 8

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.2.3.RELEASE is now available.

For links to downloads and documentation, see the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration/"

Node v0.10.2 (Stable)

2013.03.28, Version 0.10.2 (Stable)

npm: Upgrade to 1.2.15

uv: Upgrade to 0.10.3

tls: handle SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN (Fedor Indutny)

Research | Brits Approach (True) Speed of Light Over Fiber Cable

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Node v0.11.0 (Unstable)

2013.03.28, Version 0.11.0 (Unstable)

V8: update to 3.17.13

os: use %SystemRoot% or %windir% in os.tmpdir() (Suwon Chae)

util: fix util.inspect()

17:00, Electronics/Robotics This image shows the robot ants (Alices) pursuing a light trail around the constructed maze. Credit: PLOS Comput Biol 9(3): e1002903. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002903. Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots, as reported in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

Mantis is a hexapod robot powered by hydraulics and built by Matt Denton. Mantis weighs 1900 kg and covers about 5

The dart2js compiler, which converts Dart to JavaScript, now produces smaller and faster code thanks to its global type inferencer. By analyzing the entire program, the compiler can eliminate bail outs and redundant checks, resulting in code that runs faster on modern JavaScript engines.

With the release of the Gold BlackBerry 10.1 SDK, we wanted to touch base on some of the updates when it comes to OLED displays. For one, the default theme for an OLED BlackBerry 10 device display is the dark theme which reduces burn-in and also reduces power consumption.

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three

14:55, Electronics/Robotics Student team members from the Virginia Tech's National Science Foundation Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems test a five-foot wide jellyfish-like robot under water at War Memorial Hall. Credit: Amanda Loman, Virginia TechVirginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds.

<img width="300" height="165" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/activision-uncanny-valley-real-time-photorealism-graphics-300x165.jpg" alt="Activision's real-time, near-ph

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Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical.

Dear Spring Community,

Today we?re excited to announce that rest.js is now part of Cujo.js and that rest.js 0.9 has been released.

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, March 28, 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.

PHP 5.5 beta2 released

The PHP development team announces the release of the second beta of PHP 5.5.0.
This release fixes some bugs from beta one that could prevent the release from compiling.

Behind the scenes, just about all of the web's biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more. All of these web giants rely on Hadoop, an open source software platform for crunching data across hundreds or even thousands of computer servers, and Hadoop is based on technology originally developed at Google.

Vow (GitHub: dfilatov / jspromise, License: MIT/GPL, npm: vow) by Filatov Dmitry is a Promises/A+ implementation. Promises can be created, fulfilled, and rejected - you should be able to get the hang of it if you've used libraries with then methods elsewhere, but there are some differences to Promises/A which feels like it actually simplifies some of the potentially messier parts of the original CommonJS specification.

NASA has selected seven small businesses to provide a variety of program support services for the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Researchers at IBM have discovered a way to change the conductive properti

?What?s his name again? Wasn?t he the guy in that movie with the battle of the bands?? Now, while you're watching a movie on Google Play, you can find out that it?s Jack Black (of course!), who was bo

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12:14, Electronics/Robotics Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical.

Are you looking for the perfect book to get your developer juices flowing? Look no further. To celebrate the launch of Amazon Kindle on BlackBerry 10, we have compiled a list of our favourite developer-related Amazon Kindle edition books just for you. Our list of books covers topics such as web development, JQuery, HTML5, C++ [...]