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

Tesla plans big announcement that Model S owners 'will like'

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.

DARPA: Driving Critical Technological Surprise - (watch video)

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

Small Realizations of Big Entrepreneurs

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

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Leap Motion to delay ship date until July 22

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.

Speed up your sites with PageSpeed for Nginx

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

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'Fatbergs' choking London sewers to be used for energy

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.

Watch: Beach-walking 'FlipperBot' inspired by baby turtles

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.

Sphinx @ Tradebit: Fully Dynamic On-Site Search

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

Welcoming Parse to Facebook

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NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

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 Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and Technology Projects

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)

BlackBerry Jam Americas: Session Catalog Now Live!

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 [...]

Marvel at NASA's mesmerizing 3-years-of-sun-shots video

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.

Tablet Optimization Tips in the Google Play Developer Console

Posted by Ellie Powers, Google Play team

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