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Windows 8 -- from a gas engine to hybrid!
What does Windows 8 really look like under the hood? Is Metro a totally new direction for the Windows API? What does this really mean for software development? As a programmer I like to know how things work under the hood. I am also a decent backyard mech (feeds.betanews)
Dev Says Piracy Prevents PC Exclusives
Ever wonder why we are seeing fewer and fewer PC exclusive games& (hardocp)
See how circles made up of tilted squares can warp your perception (feeds.newscientist)
A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago?
(PhysOrg.com) -- They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that & (physorg)
AstroGrep 4.2.2
A Windows grep utility to search for files or text within files. 2012-02-02 (freewarefiles)
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star
An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star & (kurzweilai)
The route to a Kindle owner's heart goes through the wallet
A customer satisfaction survey of Kindle Fire owners shows that while the vast majority are satisfied with their purchase, it is mainly the low price fueling their happiness. ChangeWave Research asked a sample of new Kindle Fire own (feeds.arstechnica)
Solve This Word Challenge Without Cheating, Conniving, or Bamboozling
AMD sets out its plans for 2013, hints at a possible ARM future
AMD today laid out its plans for the next couple of years at its Financial Analyst Day. The plans are a mix of familiar and logical extensions of the company's current products, but contained some more surprising elements: spe (feeds.arstechnica)
Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other Side
In Windows 8 build 8220, the start orb is gone?here is where it went
In the latest screenshot leak of build 8220, the start orb has dissappeared. Where did it go you say, we have a good tip about its location and Microsoft's plan for the new Metro UI. Read more... (neowin)
Skype 5.8 for Windows released -- get it now!
Less than three months ago,%A0a beta version of Skype was unveiled%A0that boasted a number of new features. The latest update to the popular VoIP tool sees the software jumping straight to version 5.8, finalizing some of the features found in the beta and add (feeds.betanews)
EFF ready to sue if 'innocent customers' can't get Megaupload data back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today officially asked all parties involved in the Megaupload criminal case to refrain from deleting any data stored on servers once leased by the file-hosting service& (feeds.arstechnica)
AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology
Advanced Micro Devices will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel. (rss.computerworld)
Friday Eye Candy: China?s Newest Attack Helo
Check out these latest photos of China?s newest attack helo, the Z-19. The twin-seat bird, an updated version of the Z-9W that?s been in service since the 1990s, is just one more example of China?s military modernization. If the chopper?s lines look vague (feedproxy.google)
Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica?s biggest subglacial lake
After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn?t been touched by light for more than 20?million years. This is the first direct contact with what sci (kurzweilai)
Former Apple product manager recounts how Jobs motivated first iPhone team
When late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs assembled his first iPhone development team, he wasn't focused on conceiving a device that would run all sorts of apps and media but instead laid out a simple mission to his team: to create the first phone people woul (appleinsider.cosm.feedsportal)
There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software. Specificall (osnews)
RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act
silentbrad writes with these selections from an article at Ars Technica: 'The Recording Industry Association of America found itself in an unusual position this week: opposing an anti-piracy bill that's gaining momentum in Congress ... the RIAA argues th (rss.slashdot)
Touchdown dance! On finding lost gems from the Muppets' Henson
'Charlie Magnetico' is the second lost Henson film to be posted online in as many weeks. Crave hears from the AT&T archivist who unearthed these little jewels. (feedproxy.google)
Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision
Oswald McWeany writes 'Reports swirling around the Internet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionnaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cat's when a light is shined on (rss.slashdot)
Hiroshi Ishiguro's android mannequin creeps out Japanese shoppers (video)
If you didn't think mannequins were creepy enough already, maybe this will change your mind. In an attempt to lure shoppers, Japanese department store Takashimiya installed an eerily lifelike interactive robot for its Valentine's window display. The reta (engadget)
Listen and transcribe school lessons, interviews, and conferences easily 2012-02-02 (freewarefiles)
Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick
sciencehabit writes 'Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe a (rss.slashdot)
How's your willpower? Take our survey and find out
Do you have the willpower to resist our survey? Take it and the results will be analysed by Roy F. Baumeister to check your self-control (feeds.newscientist)
New LED flash controller promises to give floodlight brightness at cell phone size
Still looking forward to a world where cell phone cameras don't suck? So is STMicroelectronics, and it hopes to hurry along a photogenic future with the help of a new supercapacitor-powered integrated camera flash. STCF04, the outfit's new integrated cam (engadget)
Rapid nerve repair helps lame rats walk within days
A new procedure holds promise for swift recovery of people paralysed by nerve injuries (feeds.newscientist)
ambermichelle writes 'Outer space is a hostile environment for humans, characterized by an airless vacuum, thermal extremes, ionizing radiation and speeding micro meteoroids. Less well-known are the dangers posed by long-term exposure to microgravity or (rss.slashdot)
Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call
DrDevil writes 'A member of the computer hacking group Anonymous has hacked into a telephone conference between the FBI and Scotland Yard (London Police) and posted it on the internet. The Daily Telegraph has a comprehensive article on the hack. The audi (rss.slashdot)
As the Komen Foundation Caves, the Internet Wins Again
Tablet King for 2012: 10 Factors That Will Determine the Leader
If Apples incredibly strong iPad sales during the fourth quarter told industry observers anything, its that the companys tablet was far and away the most-desired slate of 2011. Part of that might be due to the fact that the tablet didnt face much serious (feeds.ziffdavisenterprise)
MIT?s photonic crystals lead towards nuclear batteries everywhere
Researchers at MIT have developed photonic crystals that, in as little as two years, could enable the use of hydrocarbon and nuclear reactors in portable electronic devices. (feedproxy.google)
Five most downloaded extensions of awesome (gnome) shell
Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M
coondoggie writes 'Speaking at a National Football League press conference ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said special agents this week seized a total of 307 websites and snatched up 42,692 items o (rss.slashdot)
29% of Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more at Amazon, but only 54% very satisfied
A new survey has revealed that 29 percent of Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more money at online retailer Amazon, but only 54 percent of them said they were very satisfied with the device. (appleinsider.cosm.feedsportal)
Turn Any Document Into A PDF On Your iOS Device With PDF Converter From Readdle [iOS Tip]
HP has issued a voluntary recall of its 1040 and 1050 model fax machines after it received reports of seven of those products overheating and catching fire in the US and Canada. Read more... (neowin)
TalkingBook 1.4 (Freeware)
An application for reading aloud text lines (softpedia)
Malaria may kill far more people than we thought
Models suggest that malaria kills eight times as many adults in Africa as the World Health Organization estimates (feeds.newscientist)
Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe
Stiff competitionA Taiwanese gamer sat dead in a chair at an Internet cafe for up to nine hours before fellow players noticed the poor guy had popped his clogs.? (register)
10 reasons Facebook is overpriced and its destiny uncertain
Facebook is preparing to launch one of the biggest tech IPOs ever. But, when you look at it as a business, it looks surprisingly like an overpriced photo-sharing and gaming site. (zdnet)
Lenovo ThinkPad X130e
The Lenovo ThinkPad X130e is a semi-rugged netbook, outfitted with enough padding to survive the day-to-day dings of traveling across campus or running from terminal A to B. (feedproxy.google)
Stanford pioneering a wireless electric highway
Stanford researches may have solved the problem of range anxiety by wireless charging technology that could one day create an electric highway. (feedproxy.google)
Biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, green electricity
A team from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, claims to have developed a low-cost method of power generation based on photosynthetic processes.read more (feedproxy.google)
High time to welcome the friendly drones
Attempts to fly drones in civilian airspace are a classic example of an irresistible force (innovation) meeting an immovable object (the law) (feeds.newscientist)
Viacom: 'Mob Mentality' Doomed SOPA and PIPA
Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman thinks that 'mob mentality' doomed SOPA and PIPA. Of course he wasn't saying that about YOU, it was those other people that opposed SOPA that he was talking about. He even went as far as to say 'It became almost religious dogm (hardocp)
Drive Manager -- when Windows Explorer isn't enough
Hard drives, memory card readers, DVDs and Blu-rays, network drives, removable disks and more: even a budget PC can have a host of storage options available at any one time. If you find you have trouble managing these with Explorer, though, then the free, (feeds.betanews)
Planets orbiting one star in a stellar pair could get bounced from star to star repeatedly ? until they fall into the great beyond (feeds.newscientist)
Double-sided touchscreen changes when you fold it
A projection-based touchpad demonstrates the wide range of uses for a foldable touchscreen that can act like an iPad, or a book (feeds.newscientist)
Next-gen high-speed transistors go 3D to slash leaksScientists in Manchester appear to have solved a problem with graphene that has plagued the super-material's fans since it was sliced into being in 2004.? (register)
Aims to build the safest spacecraft everSpaceX has confirmed the successful test of its SuperDraco rocket engine, which will form the backbone of safety and landing systems for its Dragon spacecraft.? (register)
H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds
H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group. (rss.computerworld)
AMD to Integrate Third-Party IP Into Chips
AMD executives are looking to change the way their chips are designed to take greater advantage of their compute and graphics capabilities, and to integrate third-party intellectual property. - Advanced Micro Devices executives are laying out a roadmap (feeds.ziffdavisenterprise)
A closer look at Facebook and its users
Facebook revealed this week that it now has 845m active users. As it nudges ever closer to the billion-user milestone, a new study reveals interesting findings about the social network and its users. Read more... (neowin)
Printable wire stripper lights up when you hit the conductor
Agonize no more over stripping the insulation off of tiny wires like those used in ribbon cables. For years we& (feedproxy.google)
Kitchen timer makes Mario your Sous-chef
[Alan] was unimpressed by the cheap ticking egg timers that grace many of our kitchens. He decided this was an execllent opportunity to ply his skills with microcontrollers. He built this kitchen timer complete with an enclosure and audible alarm. The dev (feedproxy.google)
Sheriff's Department Has 'Creep of the Week' Facebook Page
So much for innocent until proven guilty in Jefferson County Alabama. Not only does the Sheriff's Department post pictures of alleged criminals on its 'creep of the week' Facebook page, the sheriff actually gets into debates with the suspects in his spare (hardocp)
Dropbox offers up to 5GB of free space to anyone willing to go beta
Here's some good news for all you Dropboxers out there: the company is offering a bundle of free storage space to anyone who tries the beta version of its new Experimental software. It's really quite simple: just download the test program, upload a phot (engadget)
Security Task Manager reveals malware other apps miss
Your system is misbehaving, and you think there?s a good chance it?s been infected by malware, but your antivirus package isn?t raising any alerts. So what do you do next? One option is to install the trial version of%A0Security Task Manager. This can displ (feeds.betanews)
Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses
New submitter Qedward writes with a snippet from ComputerWorld UK: 'Two traders at Credit Suisse have pleaded guilty to wire fraud and falsifying data after authorities said they had manipulated the bank's record systems, as the credit crunch approached, (rss.slashdot)
NASA probe captures 1st video of moon?s far side
A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side, a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA& (kurzweilai)
Flying Robots Flip, Swarm and Move In Formation At UPenn
techgeek0279 writes 'The University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory has released a video of flying nano quadrotor robots. Inspired by swarming habits in nature, these agile robots avoid obstructio (rss.slashdot)
[Andrew] and his brother had some time (and a lot of ping pong balls) on their hands, so they decided to have some fun and built a remote-controlled ping pong ball turret. Arduino aside, the turret is cheap and easy to build as [Andrew?s] writeup explains (feedproxy.google)
Scientists suggest life can't exist on Mars' surface
B-movie sci-fi fans prepare to be disappointed: the surface of Mars is officially an unlikely place to find life after a 600 million year drought. (news.techeye)
Creative pumps out $99 HN-900 noise-canceling headphones
Fact: not everyone's willing to pay a premium to enhance their personal listening experience. Fortunately for those of you who like noise cancellation and a flush bank account, Creative's just taken the wraps off its $99 headset that'll do the trick. Th (engadget)
Tor for Windows 2.2.35-5
Anonymize Web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, more. 2012-02-03 (freewarefiles)
SmartPower 1.3.0
Hibernates and resumes your PC according to configurable rules. 2012-02-02 (freewarefiles)
US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos
The shock truth of what really went down at LAXThe story earlier this week on the deportation from the US of A of two Brits who ill-advisedly tweeted they were off to 'destroy America' left a few readers pretty shaken up at the way the Department of Home (register)
Book Review: The Infinity Puzzle
The Infinity Puzzle sounds like one of those wooden gadgets that you can play with for a few minutes before wanting to hurl it across the room in frustration, but the infinity puzzle of this book's title actually refers to (feeds.arstechnica)
New 'biopsy in a blood test' to detect cancer
Scientists and cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells -- breakaway cells from patients' solid tumors -- from cancer patients. The findings show that (feeds.sciencedaily)
Putting electric motors on a diet
Dionysios Aliprantis has a few problems with the current state of electric motors. ??read more (feedproxy.google)
Lawsuit raises questions about email privacy at work
A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers. (rss.computerworld)
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