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Linux 3.4 Released
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 7:40 pm
jrepin writes with news of today’s release (here’s Linus’s announcement) of Linux 3.4: “This release includes several Btrfs updates: metadata blocks bigger than 4KB, much better metadata performance, better error handling and better recovery tools. There are other features: a new X32 ABI which allows to run in 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers; [...]
Read More >>How would you change Native Instruments’ Maschine Mikro?
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 7:20 pm
Native Instruments‘ gear is a must-have for those in the beat making world. We put the cheaper, dinkier Maschine Mikro through its paces and found that while we loved the portability, we weren’t so hot on the lack of MIDI ports and absence of knobs for twiddlin’. That said, we weren’t able to hate on [...]
Read More >>Inhabitat’s Week in Green: NY Design Week, a hybrid Porsche and recycled sportswear
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 5:40 pm
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Want a sneak peek into the future of design? This week Inhabitat hit NY Design Week to uncover the best and the brightest in green interior and furniture design. At [...]
Read More >>Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 5:00 pm
Fluffeh writes “On Friday, a company called SceneTap flipped the on switch enabling cameras installed in around 20 bars to monitor how full the venues are, the mix of men and women, their ages — and to make all this information available live via an iPhone or Android app. Privacy advocates are unimpressed, though, as [...]
Read More >>Motorola skipping Ice Cream Sandwich for some devices, worries it’ll make them fat
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 4:40 pm
Despite Motorola’s Android 4.0 rollout schedule, not every one of the manufacturer’s devices are ready for dessert — some, the outfit says, will be put on a diet. “Obviously we want the new release to improve our devices,” the company said in a recent blog post, “If we determine that can’t be done, well, then [...]
Read More >>Refresh Roundup: week of May 14th, 2012
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 4:00 pm
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make [...]
Read More >>Who’s Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 4:00 pm
TheGift73 writes “In a few hours a new episode of Game of Thrones will appear on BitTorrent, and a few days later between 3 and 4 million people will download this unofficial release. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that more people are downloading the show compared to last year, when it came in as the [...]
Read More >>Switched On: Clash of the troubled titans
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 3:20 pm
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Fans of the Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences can appreciate similarly contrived dynamics in comparing Nokia and RIM (neither of which, contrary to the occasionally expressed opinion, has been murdered despite “Apple and Android” consisting of three words and 15 letters). Both companies are former smartphone [...]
Read More >>Samsung’s Focus 2 arrives at AT&T today, a slice of LTE-equipped Mango for $50
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 2:40 pm
Not long after Samsung’s SGH-i667 “Mandel” looked like it would never see the light of day, the Windows Phone 7.5 device made its official debut at CTIA, dubbed as the Focus 2. As expected, the phone is officially on sale today at AT&T retailers across the US, giving folks another option aside from the flagship [...]
Read More >>Rare ‘Annular Solar Eclipse’ Tonight
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 2:40 pm
First time accepted submitter Trubacca writes “The Northern-Pacific “Ring of Fire” has an opportunity tonight to observe an entirely different “ring of fire”: an annular solar eclipse where the moon, owing to it’s distance from the Earth, seems smaller than the apparent diameter of the sun. This results in the fiery ring for which the [...]
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