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Five Windows Apps for Getting in Touch with Your Inner Artist

If you?re looking for a way to tap into your creative side, look no further than <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2013/04/05/app-roundup-back-to-the-drawing-boa

The aircraft maker says it has completed certification testing for a new battery system meant to replace the one at the center of an FAA investigation over fire-related incidents. (Credit: Boeing) When it comes to aircraft in flight, "uneventful" is a good thing.

A Kickstarter campaign is raising funds to get an ultracheap 3D-printed robotic hand into production. (Credit: Christopher Chappell) If you're missing a hand, getting a replacement isn't exactly cheap. The BeBionic -- which is, admittedly, a higher-end model -- can cost up to $35,000.

By Ashleigh Rentz, Google Developers Blog Editor Emerita With all of this week's developer news, it's easy to forget that Monday was April Fools' day. As usual, Googlers channeled their playful spirits into creative new "features" for many of our products. Did you spot them all?

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Aboard the International Space Station, Commander Hadfield explains how he inspects the safety of his spacesuit. (Credit: Screenshot by CBSNews.com) Flying aboard the International Space Station isn't just fun and games; members of the crew have to examine their equipment to keep everything in ready-to-use condition.

DARPA issued a news release today with some photos of the Phase II prototypes for the SHARK (Submarine Hold At Ris

Amid a rising tide of rapes and sexual assaults in India, three engineering students devise an electrified undergarment they hope will help protect women from attack. (Credit: Manisha Mohan/Niladri Basu Bal/Rimpi Tripathi) Violence against women in India has come under the worldwide spotlight following the emergence of high-profile cases such as the gang-rape of a young woman in December.

A report by Reuters says that Fisker laid off 160 of its employees this morning, which seems to spell the end for the luxury plug-in hybrid manufacturer. (Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) Fisker sent 160 of its employees home from its Anaheim, California, headquarters this morning, apparently decimating its workforce, according to a report by Reuters.

We finished the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 in August 2012 and launched it in September. At that time, we committed to releasing new value into Visual Studio via a regular cadence of Visual Studio Updates, and in November 2012 we released our first, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (VS2012.1), which contained not only bug fixes and performance improvements, but also new functionality spanning four primary areas of investment: Windows development, SharePoint development, agile teams, and continuous quality.

See how Visual Studio LightSwitch enables you to build cross-browser, mobile web business applications for a wide variety of devices, hosted in Windows Azure or Office 365.

STEP into the labyrinth. Imagine physically wandering through the many rooms and corridors of an endless maze, never seeing the same place twice - but without actually leaving your living room. This is the promise of a new virtual reality (VR) system.

Friday, April 5, 2013 at 9:25AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: 50 sextillion: # of earth-like planets in universe; 100,000: stars Quotable Quotes: @petdance: "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to do that?" "I don't, I just wish I had enough money to."

Last week I ran a short session at Campus London with a roomful of students from local schools. Only one of the students had seen a Raspberry Pi before and I don't think that any had used a command line interface or seen a computer program.

Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the U.S. game show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against supercomputer Watson -- and lost.

The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments. The video shows initial testing in a chemical protection suit and gas mask. PETMAN has sensors embedded in its skin that detect any chemicals leaking through the suit.

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Welcome to the People Party

I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times. Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011.

First Ten Mirrors Active for Qt Project Downloads

I am very pleased that we have already ten mirrors from three continents active for the new download service of the Qt Project, and more are on their way. With the new MirrorBrain based setup is it very easy to become a mirror for Qt - and even more importantly it is seamless for the user to benefit from the nearby mirrors.

The following is a post by Jonathan Adashek , General Manager, Communications Strategy, Sales & Marketing Services Group, Microsoft. Customers visit the Microsoft Specialty Store in Aventura, Fla. to experience the best of Microsoft's services and products from Microsoft Surface Pro with Window 8 Pro and Window 8 Phones to a variety of accessories.

?What?s innovative about a video wall?? I hear you cry. ?We?ve all seen them. Big?walls of video. Been done for years.?

We?ve said many times that the single most innovative thing about the

Save the Dates | Qt Developer Days 2013

We are happy to announce that the 10th annual Qt Developer Days, the premier Qt event of the year, is booked and confirmed this autumn in Berlin and Silicon Valley. Save the dates! Berlin: October 7-9 Silicon Valley: November 6-8 Just like in 2012, Digia will be a co-host together with KDAB and ICS for the Berlin and Silicon Valley events respectively.

Si prepara un fine settimana denso di eventi: a partire dall 'Arduino Day a Roma, ospitato nella bellissima cornice del Cinema Palazzo, per permettere a chiunque fosse interessato di muovere i primi passi nel mondo di Arduino.

Donated human milk goes to babies whose HIV-positive mothers don't wish to breastfeed - now milk banks can pasteurise it with the help of an app "IT'S great to be able to immediately pasteurise donated breast milk when we have a baby that is desperate for it," says Thabsile Maluleka, a healthcare worker at a human milk bank in Durban, South Africa.

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Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M3!

Spring Mobile provides extensions to S

NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Launch Vehicle Adapter Review HOUSTON -- The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the component that would connect the company's new crew capsule to its rocket.

J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE : 13-088 NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation WASHINGTON -- NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.

Every browser has its fans, detractors, advantages, and disadvantages. One thing they all have in common is that people increasingly spend more time using them. This series examines how to build the s

Texas Students To Speak Live with Space Station Astronauts WASHINGTON -- Students from Mary Marek Elementary School in Pearland, Texas, will speak with Expedition 35 crew members and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station at 11:05 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 8. Media representatives are invited to attend.

Magento welcomes aheadWork

Magento welcomes aheadWork

NASA halts communication with Curiosity to avoid any interference during a period when the sun is blocking Earth-to-Mars transmission signals. (Credit: NASA) For the first time since its descent onto the red planet, the Mars rover Curiosity is getting a little alone time. The rover and NASA scientists are having a communication breakdown, of sorts.

The start of the Major League Baseball season is a magical time for all fans of America?s pastime. This early in the season, everyone?s team has a chance to make it to the World Series, no matter w

AngularCollection

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Obama for America Selected Lync for Its Campaign Communications

Over the past few years, candidates for public office at all levels have sought to take advantage of the latest technology and communications tools to make their political campaigns run more efficiently. President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign was no different.

Build 2013 Sold Out

On March 26, Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft?s Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, announced Build 2013 will take place from June 26 to June 28 at the

Apr 04, Electronics/Hardware UC San Diego Physics Professor Frank Wuerthwein. Credit: Ben Tolo/SDSC Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a project to help define the future research agenda for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Tutorial and Tool written by Troy Dai with assistance from Rick Anderson (Twitter @RickAndMSFT ) Search for ?asp.net web api routing? on stackoverflow , you?ll find many questions. How exactly does We

More Research and Academics stories A dancing robot is nothing new. But at the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are taking robots and dance to a higher level. Instead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D.

This post was written by Stephen Toub, a frequent contributor to the Parallel Programming in .NET blog. He shows us how Visual Studio 2012 and an attention to detail can help you discover unnecessary allocations in your app that can prevent it from achieving higher performance.

More Service and Healthcare stories Although bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat, the basic method that doctors use to treat it hasn't changed much in more than 70 years.

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The jQuery UI is now the industry standard for theme implementation because of its
support for widgets. Dive into the jQuery UI platform with Java architect Ken Ramirez
to learn how to use jQ

MySQL Utilities provides a collection of command-line utilities that are used for maintaining and administering MySQL servers, including:

Announcing Price Reduction for Windows On-Demand EC2 Instances

We are excited to announce a price reduction of up to 26% on Windows On-Demand EC2 instances. Today?s price drop continues the AWS tradition of exploring ways to reduce costs and passing on the sa

More Security and Defense stories This five-and-a-half-foot robot jellyfish could be the future of Navy underwater surveillance. Seriously. Maybe. Certainly, if a team of engineers from Virginia Tech gets its way. Meet the Cyro, an autonomous robot with eight mechanical legs ringing its metal chassis, designed to mimic the unique, efficient underwater propulsion of a jellyfish.

More Design and Development stories Arxterra, a southern California robotics company, has developed technology for controlling robots via the internet orsmartphones with 3g/4g access. Arxterra will be demonstrating this technology with a terrestrial rover kickstarter mission in the high deserts of California.

This spring, patches of the East Coast will turn buzzy and crunchy because of ... bugs. Periodical cicadas (or Magicicadas) usually live underground but after 13 or 17 years, they emerge synchronously and in tremendous numbers to look for a mate.

From the blog ydnl: This post originally appeared on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog. One of the things I really enjoyed working on (and continue to enjoy working on) is keyboard access in the new Yahoo! Mail. As a fan of using the keyboard, I ... Continue reading ?

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