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Quadrocopter fleet stuns Londoners with giant hovering Star Trek logo (video)

By admin | March 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg Before quadrocopters become Skynet’s roaming recon fleet, they’ll begrudginglyentertain us, and in a recent promotional enterprise, a swarm braved the London “spring” to remind us of the imminent launch of Star Trek: Into Darkness. Over the weekend, drone masters Ars Electronica Futurelab sent a party of 30 LED-tagged AscTec Hummingbirds halfway to Hoth, and used the relative darkness ofEarth Hour to set an approximately 300-foot high Star Trek logo twinkling over Tower Bridge. A video of the event can be found below, complete…

Internet Explorer 11 user agent makes browser look like Firefox, thumbs nose at legacy CSS hacks

By admin | March 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Subtlety can’t always avert controversy. That leaked build of Windows Blue is a case in point: it suggests a relatively incremental update to Windows 8, yet some of its revelations are already causing quite a stir. Neowin now reports that Internet Explorer 11, as contained within the leaked build, identifies itself to host websites as “Mozilla… like Gecko.” Confusing, right? Perhaps, but it’s not really as underhand as it sounds, as you can see…

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Evernote 5 hits Android with revamped camera, shortcuts and tweaked UI Mobile

By admin | March 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Terrence O’Brien Evernote has finally brought its Android client up to par with its iOS counterpart, pushing it to version five. The update, which just hit the Play store, includes a mild face lift that offers more contrast between notes and other UI elements, as well as afew new icons with a bit more depth and detail. The visual tweaks aren’t particularly exciting, though. What has us rushing for the update button are all…

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BlackBerry On The Defensive, Says BB10 And PlayBook Getting Approved By The DoD In April

By admin | March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN BlackBerry has now issued a statement confirming that its relationship is still on with the Department of Defense — for its sake hopefully closing the loop on the story that started withreports that the DoD would be dumping its deal with the troubled Canadian handset maker, once a mainstay of business users, who are now migrating to Apple and Android devices. BlackBerry says that its devices and services are in the…

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Google’s Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch

By admin | March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon According to a recent report from The Financial Times, Google might also be getting into the smartwatch game. And unlike Glass, which was developed in the company’s experimental X Lab, the watch (not pictured above) is said to be under development by the Android unit, possibly indicating that Google sees it as a more immediately viable product. According to FT’s source, the Google watch is separate from Samsung’s recently-announced effort. THE NEXT…

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40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface

By admin | March 22, 2013March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jesse Hicks Diary of a WIMP at middle age Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the word referred not to machines, but to people (mostly women in order to save costs) hired as human calculators. During the war, military research spawned mechanical calculators, “computers” such as Colossus and ENIAC; afterward, IBM commercialized equally intimidating, multi-million dollar machines that required their…

Google

Google Spreads Its Superspeed Internet Into New Playground

By admin | March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY KLINT FINLEY Olathe, Kansas, will be the first place outside Kansas City to receive Google’s ultra-high-speed internet service. Photo: Ichabod Google Fiber began as a shaming exercise. The company would build an ultra-high-speed fiber internet network in one lucky city, and the rest of the country’s providers would be forced to follow suit. But it turned out that the country’s ISPs are shameless. Last month, Time Warner Cable Chief Financial Officer…

Apple

Apple’s Data Centers Now 100 Percent Green (Or Something Like That)

By admin | March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN Apple’s Maiden data center, photographed last year. Photo:Garrett Fisher/Wired Apple’s data centers are now completely powered by renewable energy, according to Apple. The iCloud maker operates data centers in the Bay Area and Maiden, North Carolina, and on Thursday, it announced that both are 100 percent green — though the truth is more complicated. Two months ago, Apple started powering the California data center with nothing but renewable energy…

Automotive

How Can I Sell My Used Car for as Much Money as Possible?

By admin | March 22, 2013 by admin

As reported on LifeHacker. by Melanie Pinola Dear Lifehacker, I need to sell an old car that’s seen better days. I don’t have a lot of money for repairs, but I also desperately need to sell the car so I can buy a new used car. How should I go about selling my used car and get as much as possible for it? Signed, Not a Car Salesman Dear NCS, If you’ve never sold a car before, the…

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