Month: April 2013

Automotive Business Government Legal

Department of Energy seizes $21 million reserve account from Fisker

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As reported on Engadget. By Zachary Lutz Fisker just can’t catch a break. As if enduring the layoffs of three out of every four employees and the resignation of its founder wasn’t unsettling enough, it’s now come to light that the Department of Energy recently confiscated the company’s $21 million reserve account in an attempt to recoup some of the government’s loan. Fisker’s first payment on the $192 million federal loan was due Monday, but the Energy Department revealed that it actually took the…

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Business

ARM sees 44 percent profit increase in Q1 2013, ships 2.6 billion ARM-based chips

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith ARM has had a great quarter — again. This time it’s seen pre-tax profits soar 44 percent, while revenues are up 26 percent (to $209.4 million) since the same period last year. The company’s thanking the continued adoption of its low-power chip designs, encompassing smartphones, mobile computing and even digital TVs and wearable tech. The advanced tech within its ARMv8, Mali and big.LITTLE ranges has meant the company can command…

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Automotive Culture

LA is on the Formula E schedule next year, electric racer hits the streets to celebrate

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The FIA’s upcoming Formula E series has revealed two US dates on its début 2014 calendar (Los Angeles, Miami) and yesterday it took to LA’s streets to promote the partnership. For Earth Day, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa welcomed Formula E Holdings CEO Alejandro Agag downtown along with a Formula E racecar for the exhibition. The race will run on downtown streets next year, although the exact route the 140mph-capable EVs will take has yet…

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Art Science

The Art of Physics: Winning Photos of Giant Particle Colliders

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM MANN View as gallery The KLOE detector at Frascati National Laboratory in Italy looks for a special asymmetry in the behavior of strange particles called kaons. The experiment could help explain why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter. This was the Jury’s Choice first place image. Credit: Joseph Paul Boccio Looking like something from the set of Transformers, the Canadian TIGRESS detector photographs the gamma rays coming from exotic isotopes of…

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Culture Photography Pure News Story

My lockdown: here’s what it was like living in Boston this week

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Two wanted men kept a major American city — and my family — on high alert I’ve lived in Boston (or one of its neighboring towns) for almost 14 years, and I can’t remember a time that the entire MBTA, our public transportation system, shut down. No trains, no buses, no commuter rail. Maybe on 9/11, and parts of the system have been out of service during particularly…

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Culture Tech

Spoof Video Symbolizes The Energy And Brashness Of OpenStack, A Rising Cloud Power

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS At the OpenStack Summit last week, Tuesday’s keynote opened with Dope’n’Stack E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E, a video that symbolizes the arrival of a new force of disruptors who see riches in building software and systems that will displace the legacy systems of old. It’s not a question anymore. OpenStack has the momentum to win, and it can thank this young group of developers and feisty systems gurus for making it happen. Companies that have long…

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Business Culture

My Favorite Entrepreneur Story In A Long Time

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MARK SUSTER If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said. “We don’t make mayonnaise here.”  This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. As the son of an immigrant myself, I am a sucker for an immigrant story. Moving to…

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Google Hardware Dev

How Will We Define A “Good” Google Glass Experience?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Glass is getting closer and closer to becoming a shipping product. It’s already making its way out to early “Explorer” program pre-launch testers, and we’ll almost definitely see a lot more from Glass at Google I/O in mid-May. Drew already got his lucky mitts on an Explorer set, and provided some useful insight about how it operates, and how it might be useful as someone goes about their average…

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Google’s new Places for Business app lets you verify and update listings on your iPhone Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith When you run your own business, time is money and sometimes you don’t have the excess minutes to return to your PC and tweak your Google Place Google+ Locallisting, right? Fortunately, if you’re carrying an iPhone in your pocket and have Google’s new Places for Business app, you can adjust those opening times, verify your establishment (and more) on the go. Other features include web traffic tracking, plus the ability to…

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Hardware Dev

PanaCast brings panoramic HD video to conference calls in the palm of your hand for $599 (hands-on) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman Video chats have become quite popular these days, whether you’re using Facetime,Skype or are attending a Google Hangout. One problem with those platforms is that they provide a limited field of view and that view is static for attendees. PanaCast solves that problem with some unique hardware and software that provides a 200 degree FOV and a virtualized camera for each viewer. Its camera has six imagers, an SoC with dual ARM11…

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