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Sunday 31 March 2013

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

Simon Baird

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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