domenica 23 ottobre 2011
Man Solves 5 Rubik's Cubes in 44 Seconds; Robots May Be Quicker
Michal Pleskowicz has just been crowned the Rubik's Cube world champion. But an Android-powered robot managed to beat his time.
Computer scientists design wireless bike brake
Say goodbye to protruding brake levers and messy wires, though you'd have to live with three failures in every trillion slowdowns.
Apple iPhone 4S Launch Day: A Survival Guide
Caught Apple phone fever? Here's where to go and how to cope in your search for the newest iPhone. Also: Advice on iPhone options and how to ditch your older iPhone.
I Believe In Google Plus
Is this a contrarian view? I can't even tell any more. On one hand, Google Plus now has 40 million users, it's the fastest-growing social-networking site in history, and its users have uploaded 3.4 billion photos. On the other, Google is mum about how many of those users are actually active; some say that its traffic has declined significantly from its peak; Google's own management didn't much use it, until recently; and many agreed with Google engineer Steve Yegge's lengthy and viral rant about how they have screwed up Plus. Not me. I think Google+ is a hit in the making. I hardly use it myself any more -- indeed, my last post there, more than a month ago, was "Sadly, it seems G+ has degenerated in my mind into little more than the place I go to complain that Twitter seems to be down" -- but I'm no representative sample. Heck, I don't really use Facebook either, except to mindlessly echo my Twitter stream. (We pause here briefly so that bloggers everywhere can recover from their exposure to the mindblowing notion that perhaps one should not treat one's own anecdotal experiences as universal truths.) When Sean Parker pointed out that all your friends are already on Facebook, Vic Gundotra retorted, "Your mom and friends, guess what, they are already on Google." As MG said some time ago, that little black bar on top of their home page and search results is their secret weapon. It gives Google an unparalleled ability to lead horses to their water. But can they make them drink? I think they can.
OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD with 'Instant On' Boot Up
The 'instant on' feature increases boot times over previous OCZ solid-state drives by 50 percent, the company said.
How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results
Google is facing withering criticism from tech bloggers and search-engine experts who say the world's premier gateway to digital information is increasingly being gamed by spammers. Google, they say, is losing.
Amazon Now Accepts Old Kindles in Exchange for New Ones
Now Kindle owners can trade in their old models and receive credit for a new one, or anything else that Amazon sells. It’s kind of like taking your old, read books to the bookstore and trading them in for new ones. Almost.
Any Kindle can be traded, from the white elephant that is the oversized DX [...]
Any Kindle can be traded, from the white elephant that is the oversized DX [...]
You Don't Know These Wines...Yet
I knew next to nothing about American grown Fiano, Montepulciano and Aglianico. And I'm willing to bet the vast majority not only of wine drinkers, but winemakers, know next to nothing about American grown Fiano, Montepulciano and Aglianico. This next-to-nothing-knowledge...
Engadget Podcast 261 - 10.21.2011
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Devil's Haircut
02:30 - Samsung and Google's Ice Cream Sandwich event liveblog!
03:30 - Samsung's Galaxy Nexus gets official: Android 4.0, 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display (video)
06:22 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich hands-on (video)
07:57 - Samsung's Galaxy Nexus launches in November on NTT Docomo, Verizon, and more
08:18 - Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video)
18:00 - Motorola Droid RAZR unveiled: LTE, 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, available November for $299
27:00 - Motorola Droid RAZR hands-on (video)
29:15 - Motorola RAZR to get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012
34:45 - Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong: Galaxy Nexus wasn't designed just to skirt Apple patents
38:37 - Motorola Motoactv hands-on (update: video with Dean Karnazes!)
41:45 - Research in Motion announces BBX, 'combines the best of BlackBerry and QNX'
43:36 - Lytro camera hands-on (video)
46:45 - ASUS' Jonney Shih: Padfone will ship in Q1 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich
46:55 - Microsoft's Andy Lees: Nokia will announce 'its Windows Phones' at Nokia World
51:36 - The Engadget Show
56:04 - Listener questions
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Permalink | | Email this | CommentsSpies in the City: The International Spy Museum
How often do you get to adopt a cover identity and wander around being Dimitri, a 48-year old Russian fisherman, or Jimmy, a 12-year-old English student, for the afternoon? Happens to you a lot? Well, do you then get to slide through an air conditioning duct and spy on the people below you? It’s all [...]
Huawei sues to stop Motorola's deal with Nokia Siemens
Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant that has run up against U.S. government opposition as it seeks business in the United States, announced Monday that it was suing to stop its former partner, Motorola, from transferring what it said were trade secrets to a rival.
sabato 22 ottobre 2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to ship Nov. 13 for $400
Samsung confirmed Friday that another in its line of tablet computers, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, will sell for $399.99 starting Nov. 13 at many U.S. retailers.
The 16GB tablet, with a 7-inch screen, focuses on home entertainment, with its Peel Smart Remote TV application that allows users to tap on the screen to quickly find and watch TV shows on any manufacturer's TV or home entertainment system, Samsung said in a statement Friday.
Daily Crunch: Ride The Lion Edition
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FCC chairman to propose plan for net neutrality
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday a controversial proposal that would prohibit Internet providers from favoring or discriminating against any traffic that goes over their networks.
Verizon (finally) confirms it will have the Galaxy Nexus
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Verizon (finally) confirms it will have the Galaxy Nexus originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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