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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

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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.

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