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
Here’s a small portion of the fun and unusual things you’ll find at Maker Faire Detroit . A Different Kind of Hybrid If I said that there was guy who built a hybrid windmobile coming to Maker Faire Detroit, you’d have every reason to expect that he’d designed a futuristic car. You’d be right, except that the vehicle was built four decades ago and appeared on the cover of Popular Science in 1976.
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Makers Dozen: Detroit
Sony's BDP-S470, at $200, is the lowest-priced 3D Blu-ray player in our Ratings. Photo: Sony We’ve just posted our latest Blu-ray Player Ratings (available to subscribers), and for those in the market for a new model, there’s some good news: Prices continue to fall, even on models with the latest features, including 3D capability. While the first 3D players cost $350 to $400, well above the average price for a standard Blu-ray model, the lowest-priced 3D player in our current Ratings–a Sony that can be upgraded to full 3D capability via a free firmware update–costs just $200.
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New Blu-ray Player Ratings: More features at lower prices, even 3D
YouTube user magx1′s CO2 laser looks like it’s taking over his living room… “Look Mom; I Lased my Breath” … Seriously, though – by exhaling into my ‘supply’ balloon, I was able to get pretty good results considering! Unlike a ‘proper’ laser mix of CO2, N2, and He; the ‘breath’ trick appears to have a much narrower pressure range over which lasing will occur.
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Lasing CO2 from human breath
There are a lot of sites out there, particularly digital education sites, such as Net Tuts and Blender Cookie , that push out a lot of “premium” content that is only accessible to registered users. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you some of the basics of writing a WordPress plugin from scratch that will allow you to restrict content on your site to registered users. You will be able to restrict complete pages / posts by clicking a check box or just sections of content using WordPress shortcodes
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How To Write a Restricted Content Plugin
WikiLeaks has struck again, with the biggest intelligence leak in history. Several weeks ago, WikiLeaks received about 91,000 reports concerning raw information of the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented decision WikiLeaks decided not to immediately release the highly classified reports, but instead shared its findings first with the New York Times , The Guardian , and the Der Spiegel
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WikiLeaks floods again with the help of major newspapers
And we’re back with our eighth installment of Your Comments . Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online , our Facebook page, and Twitter . Simon suggests assembling your own DIY Retro kids tool sets : The earliest memory of tinkering I have is taking apart an old telephone with a butter knife when I was very little
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It’s called the OpenBTS Projec t, and pundits are claiming it could reduce user costs to $2/month in the developing world. OpenBTS is an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to present a GSM air interface (“Um”) to standard GSM handset and uses the Asterisk® software PBX to connect calls.
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Open-source, software-based GSM cellphone network
Summary: Myce.com is known as My Computer Electronics . They are an extensive online resource for individuals who are seeking out information pertaining to computer electronics and media devices of all types. They are a highly informative website that features in-depth news and articles along with product reviews . They also include a large database of computer help files to assist individuals who are having problems with their computer electronics. They include information and software downloads based on the following areas of interest: storage, televisions, cameras, MP3 players, DVD players and recorders, media players, computers, and mobile related products to name a few.
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A year ago, the Ann Arbor News stopped printing and AnnArbor.com took over. Ann Arbor, Michigan was the first American city to lose its only local daily , and at the time it was anticipated that it would be the first of many. A year later this does not seem to have been the case.
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AnnArbor.com one year on: does it present an effective alternative to a daily print edition?
Eighteen to 24-year-olds want news fast, do not necessarily trust brands or corporations and view life as a game, according to BVA , a research institute in France, which carried out a 3-month study of ‘Digital Natives’ , the young peoplewhose lives are shaped by video games, computers, mobile phones and virtual systems.
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Digital Natives versus brand elite?
It is a known fact that purchasing power varies from one individual to another. If we take, for instance, the financial status of a full-time grad student working within a scholarship budget, that may mean having to squeeze all expenses to fit a $1200 monthly allowance. Extra cash may come from waiting tables or other such part-time jobs
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India Reveals $35 Tablet PC!