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Friday 29 March 2013

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

Quantum computing

The largest online attack ever reported ? which may have slowed down the internet itself ? is over, but the next battleground is already emerging<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientis

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

I'm not sure how it happened, but cars powered by bacteria are pretty much the holy grail of bio-engineering. We could have picked complex tissue regeneration or something, but no; for whatever reason, any implication that we might be able to replace gasoline with bacterial garbage-eaters makes the world's biologists jump to attention.

As one would expect, the specs on the Auro

We are getting wind that the dev

As you may have noticed, we?re having a bit of trouble with the comments facility on the website at the moment. (The problem is being caused by our new load balancer.) We?re working on it ? we hope

By now, the media and electronics industries have mastered the

Friday, March 29, 2013 at 9:30AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: 44.6 billion - Tumblr posts; 300 Gb/s - DDoS DNS amplification attacks; 100 million - Eventbrite tickets processed. Quotable Quotes: @tveskov: Alan Kay: "The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It's all been scaling (of old technology) and Angry Birds" @phrawzty: OH "Complexity is accelerating.

At 4:00am on Pi Day (14th March 2013), we headed out to reach the Bangalore railway station to make the long journey to Chennai for HackU at IIT Madras. Six hours later, we exited our air-condition

With $0 spent on marketing, its two mobile apps, TiKL Touch To Talk and Talkray, have nabbed a total of 28 million downloads. After taking part in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 class, they raised a $2.1 million Series A from some of the biggest names in the Valley.

He is seen as one of the driving forces in the new and rapidly expanding "sharing economy," in which more and more businesses are popping up based on the idea that people can share their resources. There are now a litany of startups based on this notion, from ride-sharing to office-sharing, and even pet-sharing.

CodePlex Daily Summary for Friday, March 29, 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.

Tom Schofield created an installation artwork which visualises the 'Doomsday Clock', a symbolic clock maintained by an academic journal, ' The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ' which: conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction-the figurative midnight-and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself.

I have written a tutorial series that shows how to use model binding with ASP.NET Web Forms. You might be familiar with the model binding concept from ASP.NET MVC, but with ASP.NET 4.5, model binding

Edge.js

Edge.js (GitHub: tjanczuk / edge, License: Apache 2, npm: <a href="https://n

Short sweet doc sprint for March

This past weekend, a small band of hardy MDN contributors pitched in for the first of a monthly series of doc sprints. This sprint was organized on fairly short notice, yet a significant amount of work was accomplished.

A system which can create and direct smells gives the illusion that you can smell the individual food items advertised on a screen<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/1

History | Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Original Macintosh, 1985

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Last weekend Arduino and Officine Arduino participated to the third edition of Codemotion Rome, the international event focused on the art of programming.

Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the first biolog

Scientists have successfully replicated the behavior of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/robotics/~4/t

The name Mike Cook echoes around the corridors of Pi Towers every now and then when we make awed conversation about our hardware heroes. Mike used to write a column called Body Building for Micro User magazine back in the days of the BBC Micro, in which he'd create hardware projects that made kids like me swoon at the sheer potential of those GPIO pins at the back of the Beeb's casing.

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