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Friday 3 May 2013

Google Glass can take photo with a wink

18:10, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets If you see someone wearing Google Glass wink at you, you might want to get out of the way because they're probably not flirting with you. A new app that's just been developed and released for the futuristic piece of technology lets users take a photo by simply winking an eye.

Google API infrastructure outage incident report

By the Google API Infrastructure Team

As we described in a previous post, ea

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.

A new third-party app called Beam lets Google Glass users upload directly to Google-owned YouTube. (Credit: CNET) Google's Glass can shoot video with its built-in camera, but one missing piece is getting it right onto YouTube, which Google also happens to own.

This edition of best robot photos of the week includes an Officer Mac robot from the Computer History Muse

The MagPi is a community magazine, which is not produced or otherwise fiddled around with by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This month's issue is a little more Foundation-heavy than usual, though, because it's a celebratory edition: you'll find an article from me, and (rather more interestingly) a very in-depth interview with Pete Lomas, our Grand Vizier of Hardware.

The accomplishment marks the longest flight for the $300 million X-51A technology demonstration program and, according to the Air Force and Boeing, the longest scramjet-powered hypersonic flight ever. (Credit: Air Force photo by Bobbi Zapka) The final flight of the U.S. Air Force's X-51A Waverider program wasn't a long one, but it was long enough.

Google pushes Glass into the wild, Virgin shows off rockets for commercial space travel, and we see the tiniest movie ever made. Today, we're looking back at some of the most memorable photos of the week. From the geeky to the grand, these are the images from the week's tech stories that stood out, defining the future and all that the world might become.

QUANTUM clones are making a noise, and banks and governments better listen if they don't want to be hacked. A device that makes rough copies of intercepted photons can allow an eavesdropper to hide unnoticed in the background noise present in quantum encryption keys, which banks, companies and governments use to send confidential information.

Crave's Eric Mack has one to kick things off, and he'll send your rejected poems to Mars (not that Mars) on his own dime. (Credit: NASA) For its trip to Mars, NASA wants haikus like this, Why? Because it's cool. That's pretty much the gist of this whole story, actually.

We're extending the API v1 retirement date from May 7, 2013 to June 11, 2013, in order to accommodate additional blackout testing.

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FLOATING robots the size of soccer balls, with cellphones for brains, may soon be flying through space. Hacked smartphones have turned NASA's dull SPHERES robots into sensor-laden automatons with enough smarts to one day take over menial tasks aboard the International Space Station. The goal is to free up astronauts for more demanding jobs.

Friday, May 3, 2013 at 9:00AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: 1,966,080 cores: Time Warp synchronization protocol using up to 7.8M MPI tasks on 1,966,080 cores of the {Sequoia} Blue Gene/Q supercomputer system. 33 trillion events processed in 65 seconds yielding a peak event-rate in excess of 504 billion events/second using 120 racks of Sequoia.

Software | Startup Offers to Lay Off Entire Staff In Name Of Software Revolution

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For more info, read the full article at http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-electronic-bicycle-derailleur

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

Robot hand developed by iRobot as part of DARPA's ARM program. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/irobot-smashes-its-new-robotic-hand-with-baseball-bat

This video is part of a paper that appeared in the 3 May 2013 issue of Science. Read more about RoboBee: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/robobee

The solar-powered airplane departs California on a tour that will take it across the nation ahead of a globe-circling journey in 2015. (Credit: Screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) Following a bicycle down the runway at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., a solar-powered airplane took off on a coast-to-coast voyage across the U.S.

The gun is capable of firing standard handgun rounds, even though it's essentially a plastic weapon. (Credit: Rich Brown/CNET) Many believe that the future is in 3D printing, allowing companies and even novices to design whatever they want and "print" it out into a real-world device.

The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists were studying how these intelligent assistance systems can help astronauts to keep fit ? both

The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists from Bielefeld University's Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) were stud

05:35, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets This image provided by TEDMED, shows a medical student preparing to photograph the inside of someone's eye using a special tool that taps a smartphone's camera during a recent TEDMED conference in Washington. Companies are developing a variety of miniature medical tools that hook onto smartphones to provide almost a complete physical.

Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977

IBM sparked a revolution in personal co

By Few people realize that Galera/Percona XtraDB (PXC) replication can be encrypted via SSL for secure transfer of your replicated data. Setting this up is actually quite easy to do and probably will look familiar to a lot of people.

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on Earth.

This is the second article in a three-part series on LevelDB and how it can be used in Node. Our first article covered the basics of LevelDB and its internals. If you haven't already read it you are encouraged to do so as we will be building upon this knowledge as we introduce the Node interface in this article.

An installation created by Mari Velonaki at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/what-roboticists-can-learn-from-art

Voting for the 2013 BlackBerry Developer Community Awards is now open! We've been overwhelmed with the positive reception from the community this year and are proud to announce the finalists below. Having a hard time deciding who to vote for? Well, the awards seek to honor those that have gone above and beyond to actively [...]

Analyzing crash dumps can be complicated. Although Visual Studio supports viewing managed crash dumps, you often have to resort to more specialized tools like the SOS debugging extensions or Wi

Editorial: " Is there more to slacktivism than gesture politics?" IT'S the rallying cry of our time. People show they care about a cause with acts on social media like changing their Facebook profile picture or "liking" a status. But such easy online activism, dubbed "slacktivism", seems to have a surprising knock-on effect on real-life behaviour.

ASP.NET Jeff Fritz In 2001, when Microsoft introduced the Microsoft .NET Framework and, with it, a new technology called ASP.NET, Web developers embraced it for building sites using a forms-based framework. This framework, known as Web Forms, stood the test of time for eight years, with enhancements and changes to support an evolving Web environment.

An installation created by Mari Velonaki. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/what-roboticists-can-learn-from-art

Things you still cant do with ASP.NET modules on IIS

IIS7 was revolutionary in opening the IIS web server platform for public extensibility. Prior to that, few software vendors wrote extensions for IIS, using the native ISAPI Filter and Extension APIs. IIS7 completely changed this, creating a public extensibility model on top of which the web server itself was implemented, and opening it for managed development via the familiar ASP.NET API.

The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to remove unwanted HTTP response headers from the response. Typically we have 3 response headers which many people want to remove for security reason. Server - Specifies web server version. X-Powered-By - Indicates that the website is "powered by ASP.NET."

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

Scott Guthrie announces a big release for the Windows Azure SDK, including Visual Studio tooling updates for Web Sites and Cloud Services, PowerShell automation enhancements, and more.

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