Month: July 2013

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Complete Idiocy Makes for Pretty Amazing Fireworks Photos

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As reported on Wired. BY PETE BROOK View as gallery Chances are you enjoyed some fireworks earlier this month for July 4th. But we’re sorry to tell you that Mexico does explosions better than the United States. The proof is in Thomas Prior‘s heart-racing photographs from the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec. The annual nine-day festival attracts more than 100,000 people to bathe in the glow of pyrotechnicians’ expert displays. The main event is the Pamplonada — a seven-hour running of…

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Business

As PC sales slump, Intel’s new CEO claims cheap, convertible tablets are the way forward

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister The PC industry is in its steepest, longest decline in history, but Intel’s new CEO Bryan Kraznich thinks there might be a way out. In his first quarterly earnings call — where the company reported flat revenue and declining profits — he just told investors that Intel is about to flood the tablet market with inexpensive devices, and that building “ultramobile” chips is now the company’s highest priority. “INTEL WAS SLOW TO RESPOND TO THE…

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Why It Doesn’t Matter If Edward Snowden Is A Hypocrite

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Anti-authoritarian data leaker Edward Snowden is officially seeking the warm embrace of Russia, a country known for disappearing journalists and running a propaganda arm in the guise of a public media station. He’s also deliberately withheld the most damning information about how the National Security Agency actually operates. Yet, even if Snowden joined the Russian KGB, his exposé of highly controversial U.S. spying programs would be just as valuable. The value for civil liberties…

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Health HealthCare

Med students develop knife that can detect cancerous tissues within seconds

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Here’s one for the medical journals: researchers at London’s Imperial College have created a high-tech scalpel that can differentiate between cancerous and non-cancerous tissue as it cuts. The team calls it the iKnife (intelligent knife), and by analyzing vapors created during electrosurgical dissection in real time, it takes only seconds to distinguish healthy flesh from affected tissue. The device’s inventor, Zoltan Takats, says it has the potential to speed up cancer surgery…

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Business Hardware Dev

Samsung announces 3,000MB/s enterprise SSD, shames competition

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala The ink has barely dried on Samsung’s last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn’t for us regular Joes, but if you thought the company’s EVO 840’s 540MB/s was zippy, hold on to your desk chair. The newly announced NVMe SSD XS1715 reads data at a mind-numbing 3,000MB/s. Hitting these absurd numbers isn’t without a caveat, though, as this SSD…

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Great White Sharks Feast at the Seal Buffet Before Heading Out to Sea

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As reported on Wired. BY JOE HANSON Juvenile great white shark on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium/Randy Wilder   Before hitting the road for a long drive, it’s a good idea to fill up the gas tank. Before great white sharks set out on their great migrations, they do the same. Only instead of unleaded, they fuel up on fat, young seals. Using satellite data from tagged great white sharks, scientists determined…

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Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it hands over emails and Skype conversations to the National Security Agency. Unfortunately, the federal gag order related to the NSA is so strict that companies can’t even talk about the existence of the program. Today, Microsoft begged issued a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to release the gag order so that that they can dispel rumors. “I’m…

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Google Opens The New Google Maps For Web To Everyone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Remember that shiny new Maps web interface that Google started showing off at I/O back in May? It’s here! Technically, the new Maps interface has actually been here for a while… assuming you signed up for an invite shortly after it was announced and were able to make it through Google’s invite queue before they opened the floodgates today. (I signed up a few hours after the announcement and just…

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Apple Business

Apple patent hints at possibility of Liquidmetal iPhone and iPad

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr For all its tough chemical properties and unusual capacity for intricate molding,Liquidmetal apparently still can’t be turned into anything much bigger than Apple’sSIM ejector tool or, perhaps, the chess pieces rendered above (for illustrative purposes only!). Attempts to use so-called “metallic glass” to manufacture larger objects, like the bodies of phones or tablets, have been hampered by difficulties in creating large sheets of controllable thickness, because stretching and other traditional techniques…

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Google Maps 2.0 for iOS starts rolling out with iPad support, indoor maps (update: offline maps too) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The revamped Google Maps design reached Android last week; now, it’s iOS’ turn. Google Maps 2.0 is gradually rolling out worldwide for Apple’s platform, and it’s bringing the Android version’s discovery and exploration components as well as some new-to-iOS features. Long-anticipated iPad support is the highlight, although there’s also indoor navigation, live traffic updates and incident reports. Maps 2.0 hasn’t hit the US just yet, although it should be available shortly. Update: It looks like it’s…

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