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Thursday 25 April 2013

Tracking gunfire with a smartphone

A team of computer engineers has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system.<img src="http://feeds.fee

The car company's CEO Elon Musk takes to Twitter to let customers know that Tesla will make a strategic announcement on Friday that's said to focus on service. (Credit: Tesla) There's the possibility that Tesla may be looking to make its luxury all-electric cars a tiny bit more affordable.

Arati Prabhakar briefs the media at the Pentagon on April 24, 2013. A transcript is available here: http://go.usa.gov/TNU9

How much do you need to know to build a startup? From what I have seen of startup founders they tend to not worry about knowing things, but rather doing things. Now a lot young people have an education.

Two Googlers elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President, Engineering

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The startup has attracted the interest of thousands of developers, and partnerships with Best Buy, Asus, and HP. It planned on shipping next month, but needs more time for testing. (Credit: Leap Motion) Leap Motion said today that it will delay shipping its Leap 3D motion controller to pre-order customers until July 22.

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Networks | Google Fiber Scares Old-School Net Providers Into Action

Entrenched broadband

The world's largest fat-fueled power station will generate some 130 GWh a year. And "fat icebergs" won't end up in landfill sites. (Credit: Thames Water) It sounds like a monster from a Victorian penny dreadful: a revolting, stinking mass of gelatinous glop lurks under the streets of London, threatening the citizenry.

Copying turtle movements, this machine out of the Georgia Institute of Technology teaches how bio-inspired robots can shed light on scientific principles. (Credit: Gary Meek) While it might look like a giant robotic pet, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have actually created the "FlipperBot" to generate new data on how organisms move.

By Ralf Schwoebel, CEO of Tradebit, Inc., April 2013 With data on the web growing so fast, the topic ?SEARCH? is as hot as it can get. Searching for products, related articles or tracking the user beh

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NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they occur.

AWS OpsWorks now supports more Amazon EC2 instance types including the micro instance

We are excited to announce the addition of Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances to give users more instance types to choose for their development needs, including the <a href="https://aws.amazon

AWS Marketplace Applications Now Available With 1-Click Deployment In Sydney

AWS Marketplace applications are now available to all customers using the AWS Sydney Region with 1-Click Deployment for building solutions and running their businesses. Customers can easily find,

A speedy, more secure way to view Microsoft Office files directly in Chrome

If you use a Chromebook, you?ve already been enjoying the ability to open Microsoft Word, Excel, and

NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

If you're currently developing for BlackBerry 10 or looking to get started, BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando, Florida is the place to be from May 14th to May 16th. The session catalog and session scheduler are now live, and it's jam packed (no pun intended) with over 60 sessions and more than 7 hands on [...]

NASA puts together a greatest hits collection of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory over the last three years and turns out an awe-inspiring video. (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) We've always been told not to stare at the sun, but NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been doing just that for the last three years.

Posted by Ellie Powers, Google Play team

Last week we updated our guidelines for making great tablet apps and add

Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 9:25AM Joe Armstrong is a co-inventor of Erlang and general all around renaissance software tinkerer as shown by his excellent work on writing a C Compiler and his voluminous work on GitHub.

Home | Tech | News LOST the TV remote control again? Never mind - just create another one on the arm of your sofa with a swish of your hand. While you are at it, why not turn the top of your coffee table into a lighting controller, so you can dim your lamps while you kick back and watch a movie.

When we drive, we get into a glass bubble, lock the doors and press the accelerator, relying on our eyes to guide us -- even though we can only see the few cars ahead of and behind us.

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Robert Book is a tinkerer by nature and works at Silicon Valley Bank with Ian McCutcheon, a geek by nature. One day they were talking and Robert shared his big problem: his son Jerry, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, couldn't use a keyboard anymore but loved to play computer games.

The cost implications that come with finding yourself able to buy a computer for $25 are significant for all of us, but they can make a real difference to the way cash-strapped researchers do things. We're seeing a surprising number of university departments around the world using the Pi for the sort of tasks you'd previously have pointed a PC at, with very gratifying results.

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You may have already heard of Enginio at Qt Developer Days 2012 or you may have stumbled across our site, http://engin.io. We are now ready to officially open up the doors to our Enginio Tech Preview and welcome you to test it out.

Inside the Cycleplex: The Weird, Wild World of Google Bikes

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From the blog YDN Blog: Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. Resize your browser and enjoy the music with Garmoshka, a different and interesting take on responsive web. GeoGuessr, is an interesting Google ... Continue reading ?

Samsung said Thursday that unexpectedly high demand for its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, was behind shipping issues that delayed scheduled sales in the US market.

It's been a big year for Facebook and Android. W

The PHP development team announces the release of the 4th beta of PHP 5.5.0.
This release fixes some bugs against beta 3 and cleans up some features.

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NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of

Part 1: Google, Twitter, and AngularJS

Part 2: Let's Make a Feed Rea

Continuing our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, we?ve now posted the latest episode which gives a little more information ar

We recently learnt how to implement a Master-Details view using Knockout and ASP.NET MVC. Today we will look at how we can create a nice paginated data set that mimics the WebForm DataList/Repeater/Grid functionality. We will again take advantage of Steve Anderson's excellent KnockoutJS framework to build a rich client side functionality.

AuthenticationHandler is an ASP.NET Web API message handler that can map incoming credentials to a token handler. The token handler in turn can parse credentials and create a principal. In addition AuthenticationHandler provides some common services like claims transformation, session tokens and handling of response headers.

Qt 5.0 added basic support for retina reasonable resolution displays. The upcoming Qt 5.1 will improve the support with new API and bug fixes. Qt 4.8 has good support, and backports of some of the Qt 5 patches are available.

A new internet system is giving a voice to people in Africa who cannot read or write or who lack a computer IN MALI, the roads are mostly unpaved and access to landlines and the internet is scarce. Even if citizens have online access, illiteracy is a major barrier: less than a third of Mali's population can read or write.

New in Symfony 2.3: New validators We've been pondering about whether to add some more specialized validators in the Symfony core, and because it does not hurt to have a few more built-in validators, Symfony 2.3 comes with some new ones: IBAN, ISBN, ISSN, and currency.

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