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13-inch ASUS Taichi 31 with dual 1080p displays finally shipping after long delay

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr If you saw our review of the 11.6-inch Taichi 21, you’ll know that its unusual dual-screen design had a pretty bad impact on battery life. ASUS is taking another crack at the whip, however, this time with the 13.3-inch Taichi that is finally shipping after amajor hold-up in the US and promises a big boost to stamina — a max of seven hours of use rather than five. If this claim stands up…

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ZTE Geek unveiled with 2GHz Intel Clover Trail+ and a terrible name (video) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai Oh ZTE you cheeky monkey. Towards the end of day one at IDF in Beijing, we stumbled upon this awkwardly titled Android Jelly Bean phone that is the Geek at ZTE’s booth. Needless to say, this is yet another phone powered by an Intel processor — a 2GHz Clover Trail+ Atom to be exact, which is what Lenovo’s K900 also has. The rest of the device isn’t too shabby, either: you get a…

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HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future

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As reported on Engadget. By Ben Gilbert We’re all about the future of the internet here at Engadget, so you can imagine our excitement when HP today announced that it’s shooting for the moon with its latest server system, the HP Moonshot. Promising significantly reduced energy consumption and space requirements, the Moonshot is HP’s “second generation” server tech, and it’s intended for use with “social, cloud, mobile, and big data,” according to the company. In so many words,…

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3D printed speakers give you a custom light show to go with your tunes (video) Hands-on

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman 3D printing is still in its relative infancy, but more and more folks are using machines like the MakerBot Replicator and Formlab’s Form 1 to turn digital plans into physical reality. An Autodesk engineer named Evan Atherton has access to a much more capable (and expensive) 3D printer, an Objet Connex 500, and as a design exercise decided to use that printer to create a finished product. You see, a lot of…

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Baidu Eye is no joke, aims to be a Google Glass competitor

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai We all know that Chinese search giant Baidu is notorious for receiving much inspiration from its US counterpart, Google, and according to the above IM screenshot published on April Fools’ Day (now bear with us here), the former is apparently already working on its own version of Glass. This claim is seemingly supported by a couple of articles from Tencent Tech and Sina Tech, who said that the spectacles feature a tiny LCD, image recognition…

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Dell CEO memo talks of a ‘significant’ boost to PCs and tablets in restructuring

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas When Michael Dell signaled intentions to take his company private for an overhaul, there were questions as to just what he wanted to do if and when shareholders weren’twatching his every move: was he going to shift attention away from PCs toward the enterprise? There’s no reason to worry, according to a staff memo that his company has published through the SEC. Dell tells his employees that the firm will “significantly increase investment” in…

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IBM Roadrunner retires from the supercomputer race

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers, their lifespans can be brutally short. See IBM’s Roadrunner as a textbook example: the 116,640-core cluster was smashing records just five years ago, and yet it’s already considered so behind the times that Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking it out of action today. Don’t mourn too much for the one-time legend, however. The blend of Opteron andCell processors proved instrumental to understanding energy flow in weapons while…

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Apple Hardware Dev

Apple Patents iPhone With Wraparound Display, Including Designs That Plug Together Voltron-Style

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple has a new patent filing just published by the USPTO today, first spotted by AppleInsider, which details a wraparound-style AMOLED display that could make it possible to create an iPhone that’s almost entirely screen, with touch gestures and virtual buttons replacing physical ones completely. The patent describes designs that could have a seamless, continuous surface resembling the fourth generation iPod nano, as well as other shapes closer to the current iPhone,…

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Google Hardware Dev

Google Glass will reportedly be manufactured in the US

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Google Glass headsets will be manufactured in the US, according to a report from The Financial Times. Specifically, Google wil be manufacturing the headsets at a Foxconn plant in Santa Clara, California, making it the second product that we know Google has manufactured on US soil. The first of which was the ill-fated Nexus Q media streamer, which Google eventually shelved before a wide release to the public. As the initial product run will…

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Heavy weather: why we need supercomputers to teach us how clouds and climate change work

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen There’s still no clear forecast for Earth’s temperature rise, but scientists are looking to the sky for answers There’s a dark cloud hanging over the science of climate change, quite literally. Scientists today have access to supercomputers capable of running advanced simulations of Earth’s climate hundreds of years into the future, accounting for millions of tiny variables. But even with all that equipment and training, they still can’t…

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