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photo: jurvetson Matthew Reyes sent word that the RocketMavericks launch event on Saturday in Nevada’s Black Rock desert was a resounding success. Traveling 28K feet aboard James Dougherty’s Intimidator-5 rocket was a payload consisting of a Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat. Matthew and his cohorts Chris Boshuizen & Will Marshall are championing the use of smartphone components to lower the cost of deploying a satellite and expect it to become even more affordable with every revision

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Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat satellite test launch video

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 11:48:00 Site will use real people to respond to complex queries Ask.com is rolling out a feature that will add human input into search results to provide what the firm claims will be correct and informed responses to queries….

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Ask adds human insight to search results

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 11:15:00 Village of Crumlin to get 50Mbit/s service Virgin Media will soon start offering Welsh villagers the chance to get a broadband connection via electricity cables. The firm has inked an agreement with local power company Surf Telecoms..

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Virgin begins electricity pole broadband trials in Wales

Based on research carried out by Gartner , it has been determined that a whopping 20% of social media users are ‘influencers.’ Considering the increasing importance of such media in news dissemination and increasing website traffic, how can this information be exploited? Grouped into ‘Salesmen,’ ‘Connectors’ and ‘Mavens,’ this 20% is able to influence over 70% of other users’ activity.

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How to increase your chances of influencing social networks

Can’t get advertised speed range? Cancel your contract Brits will now have the option of leaving a broadband contract without being penalised if they find within three months of signing up that their actual speed is significantly below the estimate they were given when purchasing the package.

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Brits can get out of broadband contracts with no penalty

Even though newspapers sell only about half as many copies in France as in Britain or Germany and young people buy papers particularly infrequently, Play Bac has succeeded in creating demand for a range of newspapers created specifically for children . Petit Quotidien (6-9 years), Mon Quotidien (10-14 years), and L’Actu (14 years and up up) have combined circulation of 165,000. Is there any magic to this

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French children stay off the screen long enough to read a newspaper

Mobiola Headset iPhone App Lets You Record Skype Calls [IphoneApps] The Mobiola Headset app for the iPhone offers a simple and easy option to record VoIP calls. It turns your iPhone into a mobile headset for your desktop PC too

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Mobiola Headset iPhone App Lets You Record Skype Calls [IphoneApps]

Inspired by our coverage here on MAKE of flower-pot cooker/smokers, Nigel Vezeau (Ottawa, Canada) created this lovely “Little Blue Egg, a Big Green Egg knockoff. He used two big flower pots, an Ikea table, and a few other scrounged bits and pieces. About six months ago I was at a friend’s place jamming, hanging out, generally having a good time

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Little Blue Egg — flower-pot grill

When people ask “what’s next” for Open Source Hardware, I think projects like this will be the direction some of the makers will head – Check out Sacha De’Angeli’s project, the first open source STM – Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM) – With just enough electronics knowledge to be dangerous and a lot of helpful friends, I embarked on the design and build of an arduino-controlled, affordable STM with the intention of releasing the hardware design, firmware, and software via open source licensing. The goal of this project is to address the following two problems in the world of STM: Problem 1: The Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope, capable of resolving individual atoms, is so elegant a device that it won the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics

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Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM)

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:22:00 New version of graphics platform goes live The Khronos Group has posted the latest release of the 2D and 3D OpenGL graphics standard. The OpenGL 4.1 update includes tools to improve re-compilation times, along with 64-bit floating…

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Khronos Group releases OpenGL 4.1 standard

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:17:00 Fears about perception trump real-world issues, finds survey Online merchants worry more about perceived customer worries than actual security threats, according to a recent survey by VeriSign. The online security firm found that 88 per cent of IT..

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Customer confidence tops UK security worries

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:16:00 Company enters the computer big league Apple’s iPad sales have lifted the company into the top five PC manufacturers, according to the latest figures from Canalys….

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IPad pushes Apple into top five PC vendor list

I went down to the LA Convention Center yesterday for the first day of SIGGRAPH, the annual computer graphics convention. Once of the coolest things I saw in the Emerging Technologies area was this tactile display for light and shadow called Touch Light Through the Leaves.

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Tactile display for light and shadow

[The image above is the same board produced using Visolate, regular routing, and PCB etching] Here’s a neat PCB routing tool, called Visolate , that uses Voronoi diagrams to minimize the number of tool cuts that are needed to cut out a circuit board. As long as you aren’t depending on specific trace dimensions to make your circuit work, it looks like it makes really pretty boards! [via metalab ] Cutting the Voronoi boundaries has both advantages and disadvantages. Compared with boundary tracing, the Voronoi method produces only one cut instead of two to separate traces

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Voronoi mapping makes pretty, efficient circuit boards

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:30:00 Slot allocations and standards allow huge storage systems Oracle has announced a series of improvements to its StorageTek tape storage line, expanding the size of possible systems to 150 petabytes….

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Oracle’s StorageTek takes tape to 150 petabytes

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:00:00 Phone unlocking procedure considered fair use The US Library of Congress has approved the use of ‘jail-breaking’ procedures on mobile phones. The practice of removing restrictions on third-party applications falls under ‘fair use’ guidelines that allow…

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US Copyright Office approves handset jail-breaking

On October all about 250 residents of Jefferson, Iowa, represented alongside attorneys from LaMarca & Landry, P.C., filed suitable against West Important Cooperative in the Iowa Precinct Court fitting for Greene County. The parties to this lawsuit include homeowners, proprietorship owners and persons who duty at nearby places of profession, such as MicroSoy, Electrolux and American Concrete. The causes of vim classify irritant, laxness, trespass, res ipsa loquitur, and iron-fisted liability for the treatment of carrying on an abnormally precarious activity

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Is A SoyChlor Plant Massacre Animals, People, And Children In Jefferson Iowa?

E-book readers continue to edge down in price, and now a new one from Augen––as sold at Kmart, of all places––is $100 after dipping to $89 during a sale late last week.

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Augen offers $100 color e-book reader as prices continue to drop

Whether it’s the opinion of iPhone users on the quality of AT&T’s network or the reasons why fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) isn’t exploding in growth, it always is helpful to consider issues without preconceived notions of the underlying dynamics.

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The Conventional Wisdom Often is Wrong

Randy Sarafan writes: This Simple Bot was inspired by a work by artist James Rouvelle called Colony in which a bunch odd shaped ovals self-propel around their environment. It is my understanding that his bots were made by placing a vibrating motor freely inside of a Styrofoam ball that was then coated to give it an irregular shape

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How-To: Simple rolly bot