Month: February 2013

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3Doodler is a $75 3D-printing pen eagerly awaiting your Kickstarter funding (hands-on)

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater In April of last year, former MakerBot COO Samuel Cervantes launched theSolidoodle, a $500 3D printer. We were a bit taken aback by the price point — after all, his former company’s product had seemingly set the standard for consumer-facing 3D-printer pricing at around $2,000. We’re hoping you’ve got both hands firmly clutching your hat when we tell you that the 3Doodler, a 3D-printing pen from the crew over at Wobbleworks, is…

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FIFA confirms goal-line tech will be used at the 2014 World Cup HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper FIFA’s frosty relationship with the future might just be thawing, after Soccer’s governing body announced that it will use goal-line technology. After a successful trial at last year’s Club World Cup, the organization will use electronic refereeing at the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup. That said, the body is still insisting that human officials will have the final say — despite evidence to suggest that’s not a very good idea.

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What’s next for Surface?

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren The Windows 8-powered Surface Pro isn’t perfect, but Microsoft could be onto something The Surface Pro launched last week to divided opinion. Unlike the Surface RTintroduced in October of last year, the Pro swaps Windows RT for a full version of Windows 8 and packs a lot more power in the form of an Intel i5 chip that allows you to run desktop applications and existing games. It adds…

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Microsoft confirms forthcoming Windows Blue upgrade for desktop and phone

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham We already knew that that Windows Blue, Microsoft’s forthcoming OS update that willput the Windows platform on a low-cost, yearly update schedule, was scheduled to launch sometime later this year. Now, we’re seeing the first official mention of Windows Blue via a job posting on Microsoft’s careers site. The job is for a software development engineer who will join the “Core Experience team” to work on “most of…

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Get Ready To Lose Your Job

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS “Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase,” observes Angel of the Year and new Andreessen Horowitz GPChris Dixon, who says that the turning point between those phases for the Age of Information is…now. Meanwhile, “profits have surged as a share of national income, while wages and other labor compensation are down,” notes Paul Krugman. Walter Russell Mead agrees: “The old industrial middle class…has been hollowed out, and no comparable…

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Nexus Tablet Success And Why There’s No Time Like The Present For A Google Retail Store

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Rumors from an “extremely reliable source” speaking to 9t05Google have suggested Google will start to operate its own physical retail stores starting as soon as the 2013 holiday season in the U.S. Brick-and-mortar shops from an Internet search company? Sounds like a stretch, but the Goog is breaking out of its search box big time, and recent additions to the Nexus line are proving it has a real chance at establishing a…

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Education

With $11M From NEA, Comcast & Others, Quad Learning Wants To Create A More Affordable Track To Top-Tier Degrees

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Higher education in the U.S. is a hot mess. For decades, funding for public universities and colleges has been in steady decline, which, as spending continued, led to rising institutional debt and eventually reductions in faculty, courses, programs — you name it. To make up the difference, institutions have been jacking up tuition rates to the point that the cost of a college degree is now virtually unaffordable. Not…

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Automotive

Fleet of Tesla Model S owners set out to refute NYT report, coin slang for human error

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Between data logs, rebuttals and general drama, it’s easy to get confused: can a Tesla Model S make the trek from Washington DC to Connecticut? A small group of Tesla fans decided to see for themselves. Meeting in DC over the weekend, seven drivers from the Tesla Motors Club forums banded together to recreate the reporter’s infamous trip to Tesla’s Milford Connecticut Supercharger, minus the Manhattan detour. The long and short? The team made the trip successfully,…

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Insert Coin: HeatMeter wants to save your money and the planet (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Back in 2011, MIT discovered that the Fisker Karma’s batteries only lost 10 percent of their battery life after 1,500 charges. Admittedly, the study didn’t examine theEV’s reliability, nor its tendency to spontaneously combust, but the MIT researchers did learn plenty about energy conservation in the process. Fast-forward to now, and YShape, a start-up spun off from that original research, is taking to Kickstarter to fund HeatMeter, a sensor that’s designed to…

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NBA gives casual fans and armchair GMs access to the league’s entire statistical history Alt

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The odds of rising from NBA stat junkie / forum poster to Houston Rockets GM like Daryl Morey did are slim, but thanks to the new NBA.com/Stats page fans have access to more data than ever before. Until now, only league and team personnel have had access to the NBA’s complete official stats — media got access last spring — with box scores that go as far back as its start…

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