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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.

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