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Wednesday 24 April 2013

Summer Mentorship Programs: GSoC and Gnome

As an open source, free software project, WordPress depends on the contributions of hundreds of people from around the globe ? contributions in areas like core code, documentation, answering questi

After 128 years, new technology brings the great inventor's voice back to life. Alexander Graham Bell is known for inventing the telephone; but for someone so associated with sound, it's curious that no one living has actually ever heard the tenor of his voice. However, as of Wednesday, anyone can hear what he sounded like.

At this point in history, startup entrepreneurship has become the fastest way to create value, and thus the fastest way to move upward in life. But this opportunity is unlike other opportunities humans had in history. Here is how you could create value before: The Hunter Age.

The MYO armband reads muscle movement and sends the data via Bluetooth to control computers, smartphones, or almost any digital device. (Credit: Thalmic Labs) With watches, glasses, and clothing that can double as tech devices, it seems like wearable inventions are only going to continue to proliferate.

16:25, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets Microsoft is expected to unveil in May a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles that have been evolving into hubs for home entertainment in the digital age.Microsoft is expected to unveil in May a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles that have been evolving into hubs for home entertainment in the digital age.

The CakePHP core team pushed a maintenance release for 2.3 branch earlierthan planned for the 2.3 branch of the framework. We have found a severe securityissue that affects all applications running Ca

If you fancy gorgeous designs, intricate movements, or off-the-wall concepts, there's something for all tastes at the annual Swiss watch fair.

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This video is part of a study from researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany that uses a functional MRI procedure to see how much people empathize with robots compared to humans. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/brain-scans-show-humans-feel-for-robots

Software | Google Bags (Another) Machine-Learning Startup

Famously, Google says it's on a mi

Are you looking for another reason to attend BlackBerry Jam 2013 in Orlando next month? There are awesome sessions, the 2013 BlackBerry Developer Community Awards, and - of course - the The Keep Moving Experience, Produced by Alicia Keys. Need another reason?

Social Engineering

Are you wondering what my team does for team building?

You can find out on our .NET wide blog.

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When people in our industry use the term "social engineering" they are usually referring to security attacks. Politicians and lobbyists would mean something entirely different too. But that's not what I will talk about here. Instead, I'll talk about the kind of social life we've around in our team.

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NASA astronaut Don Pettit will conduct three live video chats Thursday, April 25, with 12 student teams whose science experiments won an agency-sponsored contest.

You may recall our 2012 story, The Universe, The Internet, and the Brain about a paper identifying similarities betw

On May 21, we?ll mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV and entertainment. On that day, we?ll be holding a special press event on the Xbox campus, and we invite you to join us via the

With a background and passion for Computer Graphics, I?ve been to a slew of GDC conferences and over a dozen ACM SIGGRAPHs. Over the years, it?s interesting to see technologies come and go, and the

Crowdsourced justice was an abject failure in the wake of the Boston bombings, but with the right tools and motives it could be a boon AFTER the chaos of the explosions came the shambles of the amateur manhunt.

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NASA's Hubble telescope has snapped some of the first pictures in visible light of Comet ISON, which may become one of the brightest we've ever seen from Earth. (Credit: ASA; European Space Agency; Jian-Yang Li (Planetary Science Institute); Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team) Comet ISON, discovered in September of last year by Russian Vitali Nevski, is headed in our direction.

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In age of smartphone, watch makers focus on luxury

The world's biggest trade fair for watches, Baselworld, opens this week, offering a spectacle of bling and highly-crafted gadgetry. Tissot CEO Francois Thiebaud told reporters Wednesday that the trends for 2013 are mechanical watches, timepieces adorned with gold, diamond and pearls and "neo-classical trends, which probably reflect a certain calm in the atmosphere."

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:25AM Solving problems while saving money is always a problem. In Nobody ever got ?red for using Hadoop on a cluster they give some counter-intuitive advice by showing a big-memory server may provide better performance per dollar than a cluster: For jobs where the input data is multi-terabyte or larger a Hadoop cluster is the right solution.

With a lot of passion and enthusiasm, around 80 Computer Engineering students attended a meetup hosted by GDG Cairo at Faculty of Engineering of <a href="ht

(Phys.org) ?Your typical robot story tends to be about robotics teams finding clever ways to make their mechanical devices mimic real animals in shape and movement. A study coming out of South Korea h

2013-04-24

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We?re celebrating today: it?s the 75th anniversary of the University of Cambridge?s Computer Laboratory. From its beginnings in 1938 as the Mathematical Laboratory, it?s provided the foundations fo

Blocked blood vessels could be cleared with light. Optical tweezers use a laser to grab tiny objects, holding them with weak forces arising from their interaction with the light. Yin-Mei Li and her team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei moved blood cells around inside a capillary in the ear of a mouse with the tweezers, unpicking a blockage cell by cell.

The LHCb collaboration has just submitted for publication a paper which sets an important milestone in the history of particle physics. A difference between properties of matter and antimatter, named CP violation by particle physicists, was discovered in 1964 in the decays of neutral K mesons and was rewarded with the 1980 Nobel prize in physics for James Cronin and Val Fitch.

The web is an inexplicable place. That's the best way to sum up the controversy that descended on a company called CipherCloud over the past several days. Based in San Jose, California, CipherCloud runs an online service that promises to encrypt all the data you store in cloud applications such as Salesforce.com and Gmail, so your secrets will be safe from prying eyes.

Unleaded, diesel or biofuel? This could become the choice at the pump now we can make biofuels that are identical to the petrol we put in our cars, planes and trucks. Until now, biofuels have been made up of hydrocarbon chains of the wrong size and shape to be truly compatible with most modern engines - they'll work, but only inefficiently, and over time they will corrode the engine.

A second-generation design improves zoom range, the electronic viewfinder, ruggedness, and size -- but not price. (Credit: Sony Electronics) Sony, trying to bring digital technology to a market that's remained stubbornly analog, has upgraded its digital binocular with the announcement of the $2,000 DEV-50V.

04:34, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets A BlackBerry Q10 smartphone is displayed in Toronto, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. In the Q10, the keyboard and touchscreen work together. On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that further.

04:33, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets In this March 14, 2013 file photo, the new Samsung Galaxy S4 is presented during the Samsung Unpacked event at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)I've seen Android phones get better and more powerful over the years, as Google and phone manufacturers pack devices with more and more features.

Shibaful, designed by Ag Ltd., is an iPhone case that reproduces the look and texture of lawn. The grass is based on Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, with two other international versions, New York's Central Park and London's Hyde Park, in the pipeline.

For sea turtle hatchlings struggling to reach the ocean, success may depend on having flexible wrists that allow them to move without disturbing too much sand. A similar wrist also helps a robot known as "FlipperBot" move through a test bed, demonstrating how animals and bio-inspired robots can together provide new information on the principles governing locomotion on granular surfaces.

"The line needs to be drawn now on fully autonomous weapons," the NGO says. How close are we to letting robots off the leash? (Credit: Human Rights Watch) If I had a dime for every time someone writes "I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords," I'd have enough money to bribe my future robot master into sparing me from the meatsack ghettos.

19:00, Electronics/Robotics (Phys.org) -For sea turtle hatchlings struggling to reach the ocean, success may depend on having flexible wrists that allow them to move without disturbing too much sand. A similar wrist also helps a robot known as "FlipperBot" move through a test bed, demonstrating how animals and bio-inspired robots can together provide new information on the principles governing locomotion on granular surfaces.

Newly Released Sencha Touch 2.2 Optimized for BlackBerry 10!

In the last release of Sencha Touch 2.1.1, we were happy and excited to see the BlackBerry 10 theme added. This enabled developers to create visually compelling applications with the BlackBerry 10 native look and feel. Now with the release of Sencha Touch 2.2, we are delighted to announce significant enhancements so that you can [...]

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