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Wednesday 17 April 2013

Frog-like robot will help surgeons

Researchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery. The tiny device is one of a growing stable of bio-inspired robots being built in the University's School of Mechanical Engineering.

Four very cool apps for Windows 8 made their debut at DEMO Mobile2013 today as teams from as far away as Poland and Australia competed for attention in front of Silicon Valley's leading mobile investors, developers and designers in San Francisco. Two Windows 8 apps launched on stage.

Google has picked 8,000 people in the U.S. who entered a contest. The winners will have to pay $1,500 apiece for a test version of Google Glass. The company also took an unspecified number of orders from computer programmers. Google said Wednesday it started making the glasses available Tuesday, though it may take weeks for recipients to get them.

Federal Agencies Adopt Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Today, we announced several new customers who have adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM to achieve cost savings, help preserve safety and security and streamline service delivery to improve constituent experiences.

A new Kickstarter campaign hopes to fund autonomous underwater robots that will navigate the depths to repair threatened coral reefs. Head underwater at the Great Barrier Reef with Google Maps, and you'll notice something deeply saddening: instead of the vividly colored corals you would expect, vast swathes of the reef are dull brown -- dying, thanks to pollution, fishing, and climate change.

Networks | Google Fiber Keeps Expanding: Now Headed to Provo, Utah

Google wants to bring its ul

Have you ever been stuck working on a problem only to receive a solution from a friendly person you've never met? Some of the most helpful responses on Stack Overflow and open source code have been contributed by our YouTube API community members.

In a startup's never-ending battle for new users, data is king. When the decision to put that shiny signup button down here vs. up there can mean the difference between 40 percent of new visitors signing up instead of 20 percent, good data analysis can be what puts food on the table.

In Silicon Valley Talent War, Zombie Math Rules, appearing in the May 6, 2013 issue of Forbes: Within Silicon Valley the prince of programming contests is Vivek Ravisankar, a 26-year-old Indian immigrant who cofounded InterviewStreet, which earned interviews for some 5,000 engineers worldwide last year and placed about 500 in jobs.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports IAM Roles

We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy

Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after high-risk pregnancy would go online for help if they could remain anonymous, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve. (Credit: WagMob) Postpartum depression afflicts between 10 percent and 15 percent of new moms. But with some never seeking help, those numbers may be even higher.

Hey BlackBerry devs ? we?ve got exciting news for you! To tide you over until the much awaited BlackBerry Q10 release, you?ll be seeing a new SDK OS update for your BlackBerry Dev Alpha C devices.

Today is the launch of the Gol

BlackBerry developers that rely on a simulator for app development, listen up, be

TL;DR: We added a class Symbol to dart:core, renamed the class InvocationMirror to Invocation (keeping it in dart:core ), and moved Invoke.invokeOn to InstanceMirror.delegate (moving this functionality from dart:core to dart:mirrors ). Furthermore, Function.apply and InstanceMirror.invoke take a Map to represent named arguments. Finally, dart:mirror uses Symbol instead of String to represent names.

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The MySQL team at Oracle are excited to announce the immediate availability of the second MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Milestone Release (DMR). Some might call MySQL Cluster 7.3 "the foreign keys re

Those who contribute at least $89 on the crowd funding website will get a HAPIfork, which comes in blue, green and pink, ahead of its planned general release to consumers in the United States and Europe later this year.

The Windows Phone Blog reported Monday that a major update for the LinkedIn app hit the Windows P

How can architects and planners keep city dwellers comfortable as global warming bites? We could learn a thing or two from old buildings in the Middle East, which are built to capture cooling breezes. And in the future, new designs could allow shoppers in hot climates to chill out in the dappled shade of an artificial forest or in cold air flowing off a downtown glacier.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 9:25AM Tachyon ( github) is interesting new filesystem brought to by the folks at the UC Berkeley AMP Lab: Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed ?le system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce.It offers up to 300 times higher throughput than HDFS, by leveraging lineage information and using memory aggressively.

President Obama said 3D printing 'has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.' So why not start with NASA? CNET's Sumi Das visits NASA Ames to look at how they're making space parts from 3D-printing machines. Read this article by Jason Pepper on CNET News.

Over the next couple days we will roll out a major upgrade to Microsoft account, including optional two-step verification to help keep your account more secure. Microsoft has increasingly focused on delivering connected devices and services that are currently used by more than 700 million people around the world.

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When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a quadriplegic for several years. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this mesmerizing tale of their meeting, Prager probes deep questions of nature, nurture, self-deception and destiny.

Today, Microsoft released new research as part of its Security Intelligence Report, volume 14, which takes a close look at the importance of running up-to-date antivirus software on your computer. The research showed that, on average, computers without antivirus software are 5.5 times more likely to be infected.

Port-A-Thon Rewards Update

Lou Gazzola held the first Port-A-Thon in November of last year. It was a 36 hour event where we asked, ?Got Game?? and you answered ? with apps. Since that successful event, we?ve held four more P

Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure - including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support, and is ready to use for production apps.

AT&T Inc. has started taking pre-orders, and says phones will be shipped starting April 30. It's charging $200 for the base model, with 16 gigabytes of memory, under a two-year contract. Staples says it will start selling the AT&T model on April 26. Sprint Nextel Corp.

Your votes have been counted: there was a clear winner. Congratulations to Fergal Butler, who was the first person to respond to the original post with the name Babbage. Well done Fergus! Emma will be in touch with you next week to get your address.

(Phys.org) ?Officials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced the selection of the Spider II data storage and retrieval system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to replace the existing sys

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego invented a robot designed to scoot along utility lines, searching for damage and other problems that require repairs. Made of off-the-sh

Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. Zhendong Su, professor of computer science, said that his team has notified the app developers of the problems, although it has not yet had a response.

We have finally selected all the great speakers that will share their experience with the Framework with you at <a href="http://portland2

Liz: We've had some really interesting conversations this year with visually impaired users of the Raspberry Pi. Accessibility on the Pi is something the community's been working on since we launched; Michael Ray started a Raspberry-vi (vi stands for visually impaired) mailing list which has been running for a while now, and the group behind it has made some serious advancements in accessibility on the Pi.

Software | What if Your Boss Tracked Your Sleep, Diet, and Exercise?

Inside most companies, the

~~We?ve been choosing bear names for the competition today~~.

A name has been chosen! <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archiv

It?s not uncommon to promote a server from slave to master. One of the key things to protect your data integrity is to make sure that the promoted slave is permanently disconnected from its old mas

Most of us are well acquainted with the fun and entertaining parts of the internet. But did you know about MOOCs

Demo from Znowman: Tabs in the content item editor. Works with full drag&drop admin, and with placement extensions: "Content:5#tabName". Should be changed to "Content@tabName:5". Tabs will be moved to inside the white rectangle of the content item editor. Make the selected tab persist after save.

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL on April 17, 2013. Binaries are available from the <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Perco

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