Oct 31

iPod foils potential kidnapping attempt in the hands of quick-thinking child

Posted in: Apple, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili

Apple’s iPod touch can’t make cellular calls — at least, not without a special case — but it did look enough like the similar iPhone to foil one would-be predator. A Delaware suspect asked a 12-year-old girl to get into his van in front of her middle school, but quickly fled the scene, when the girl reportedly put her iPod against her ear and told him she was dialing police. The local authorities did eventually get called and are still looking for the suspect. If you see a “white male, 35-45 years of age, with a dark crew cut styled hair” suspiciously eying the headphone jack placement on devices in your local Apple Store, perhaps you’d best stay away.

iPod foils potential kidnapping attempt in the hands of quick-thinking child originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

MSI brings graphics switching action to 15.6-inch FX600MX laptop

Posted in: intel, laptop, msi, notebook, NVIDIA, optimus, Today's Chili

MSI stops short of calling the graphics switching technology within the FX600MX “Optimus,” but it’s pretty obvious what’s behind the curtain. The outfit’s latest 15.6-incher is equipped with a Core i3 or i5 CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory and a 320/500GB hard drive. There’s also a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 310M GPU, and MSI has thrown in a handy control panel to make switching from discrete to integrated a lesson in simplicity. Moving on, you’ll find a DVD SuperMulti drive, two USB 2.0 ports, a 4-in-1 card reader, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, gigabit Ethernet, an HD webcam and a conventional six-cell battery. You’d be wasting your time hoping for a price and release from these guys, but usually a proper announcement means it’ll be on shelves soon.

MSI brings graphics switching action to 15.6-inch FX600MX laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

Hundred Year Starship Initiative plans to put people on Mars by 2030, bring them back by… well, never (video)

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For a while now, there has been a conversation going on in certain circles (you know, space circles): namely, if the most prohibitive part of a manned flight to Mars would be the return trip, why bother returning at all? And besides the whole “dying alone on a hostile planet 55-million-plus kilometers from your family, friends, and loved ones” thing, we think it’s a pretty solid consideration. This is just one of the topics of discussion at a recent Long Now Foundation event in San Francisco, where NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden discussed the Hundred Year Starship Initiative, a project NASA Ames and DARPA are undertaking to fund a mission to the red planet by 2030. Indeed if the space program “is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” as Worden said, what better way to encourage a permanent settlement than the promise that there will be no coming back — unless, of course, they figure out how to return on their own. Of course, it’s not like they’re being left to die: the astronauts can expect supplies from home while they figure out how to get things up and running. As Arizona State University’s Dr. Paul Davies, author of a recent paper in Journal of Cosmology, writes, “It would really be little different from the first white settlers of the North American continent, who left Europe with little expectation of return.” Except with much less gravity. See Worden spout off in the video after the break.

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Hundred Year Starship Initiative plans to put people on Mars by 2030, bring them back by… well, never (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 30

The Apple Store is down, nobody here but us chickens (update: back up)

Posted in: Apple, Today's Chili

Could it be a Verizon iPhone? The white iPhone 4? Perhaps a surprise Core i3 ULV in the 13-inch MacBook Pro? We can’t tell for sure, but our money’s on none of the above, folks. We’ll be sure to dig through for changes as soon as the house that Jobs built is up and running once more.

Update: The store’s back up, but contrary to popular belief nothing of import seems to have changed — the white iPhone 4 option had already been removed and the Core i7-640M was already made available in the larger MacBook Pros a while back. We’re hearing from an internal source that it may have just been scheduled maintenance.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

The Apple Store is down, nobody here but us chickens (update: back up) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 30

Xbox Live mandatory update coming November 1st, all hands on board

Posted in: gaming, software update, SoftwareUpdate, Today's Chili, update, xbox, xbox 360, xbox live, Xbox360, XboxLive

Dashboard, that is. You’ve already seen the new Xbox 360 dashboard update right here and thousands of you have tried its flatter, faster interface for yourselves, but if you’ve missed out, it’s looking like your Halloween candy bag may include a full-scale rollout. Xbox Live subscribers are getting the above message in their inboxes right now, indicating that November 1st will bring a service update of some sort, after which point “You will notice a change to the layout of the Xbox LIVE Dashboard, a new color scheme, and new fonts being used.” That doesn’t necessarily sound like a cornucopia of Netflix Search, ESPN, Kinect and Zune Music to us, but it’s not like you have a choice — it’s mandatory, and you’ll lose all Xbox Live functionality unless you comply. We for one welcome our new gaming software overlords. Unlike some of the competition’s updates, these at least add functionality.

[Thanks, Timothy C.]

Xbox Live mandatory update coming November 1st, all hands on board originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 30

New Google Desktop Is Compatible With Vista

Posted in: Freeware, Google, Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on November 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google Desktop Google just released a new version of their desktop searching software that is compatible with Windows Vista and has a little more eye candy. Just like the sidebar that is included with Vista this one now offers a transparency option so that the background is see-through.

Besides a great new look Google Desktop Search 4.5 also supports file searching in Vista, Office 2007, and Firefox 2. Hmmm…that looks like everything that is new with this version. :(

Microsoft has done an amazing job integrating search capabilities all throughout Vista and that is one reason I won’t be able to switch back to Windows XP. The search box that is located in the Start Menu makes it easy to access files, folders, and shortcuts by typing just a few letters.

The sidebar that Vista ships with also has items that can be added which are very comparable to those found in Google Desktop Search. Google currently has a larger selection of Gadgets than the Windows Sidebar but I’m sure there will quickly be more developed over time.

One thing is for sure and it’s that Google better watch out because Microsoft is going to sweep up a huge market share when it comes to desktop searching and people using a sidebar on their PC. I’m not sure what Google could add to make it better but they definitely need to come up with something. Right now their software offers nothing that makes me want to install it on Vista.

News Source: Google Desktop Blog

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Oct 30

Microsoft buys Canesta, continues camera-based domination of our interfaces

Posted in: camera, kinect, Microsoft, Today's Chili, ui, video

It seems that Microsoft’s taken the camera to heart following its dismissal of the pen — the company bought 3DV, collaborated with PrimeSense on Kinect, and today it’s apparently finalized a deal to acquire 3D CMOS camera chipmaker Canesta as well. In case you’ve already forgotten, the latter company is the one that made an paid actor look particularly smug last year, by allowing the gent to control his television with a flick of the wrist. Things have progressed a good bit further than that, however, as you’ll see in a demo video after the break, and Canesta president and CEO Jim Spare says he expects the company’s stuffs to “see wide adoption across many applications that embody the full potential of the technology” under Microsoft’s reign. Press release after the break.

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Microsoft buys Canesta, continues camera-based domination of our interfaces originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 30

Fox blackout on Cablevision ends after 14 day standoff, glaring contest continues on

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Evidently missing the first two games of the World Series was about all Cablevision thought it subscribers could take, as news just hit the wire: the fourteen-day standoff is over and both tonight’s game three of the World Series and tomorrow’s Jets vs Packers game are available to subscribers. While these carriage disputes are pretty common, it is very rare for channels to be pulled and downright unheard of for a channel as popular as Fox. It came to this because Cablevision was very unhappy about News Corp’s new terms and after many pleas to the FCC and politicians to intervene, an advertising campaign, and eventually an unaccepted offer to match the price that Time Warner Cable pays, a deal has finally been done. Not exactly all’s well that ends well, though, as Cablevision released the following statement: “In the absence of any meaningful action from the FCC, Cablevision has agreed to pay Fox an unfair price for multiple channels of its programming including many in which our customers have little or no interest.” Talk about sour grapes. Well at least we can hope that Cablevision’s efforts paid off a little bit and your cable bill won’t go up as much as it would’ve if the outage never occurred to begin with. We can hope.

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Oct 30

HP Envy 14 Beats Edition no longer available with Dr. Dre endorsed headphones, results in price drop

Posted in: HP, laptop, Laptops, Today's Chili
The differences between the HP Envy 14 Beats Edition and the plain ol’ Envy 14 have been primarily aesthetic — it’s got a black Beats branded lid and red backlit keyboard — but HP’s also included that set of Monster Beats Solo headphones you see up there. Sadly, that last differentiator is no longer. We’d heard from a few readers that their Envy 14 Beats Edition laptops arrived sans headphones, and HP has confirmed for us that due to “supply constraints” the Dr. Dre Solo from Monster headphones are no longer included with the snazzy black and red laptop. Hopefully those customers that paid full price for the laptop and didn’t receive the Solos will get a refund, but we’re told by HP that the price has been lowered by $100 since the cans went out of stock — the starting price was originally $1,249.99 and is now $1,149.99. We’re not entirely sure why you’d pay $150 more for the Beats version now, considering you get the same audio experience with the standard $999.99 Envy, but what do we know? There may be tons of diehard Beats Audio fans living amongst us.

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HP Envy 14 Beats Edition no longer available with Dr. Dre endorsed headphones, results in price drop originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 30

The Ultimate ‘X-Ray’ Machine For Military Use

Posted in: Gadgets, Today's Chili

This article was written on January 05, 2006 by CyberNet.

The Ultimate X-Ray Gadget For Military Use

Possibly this spring our military will be using what could be the finest handheld X-Ray equipment they have seen. This small little ‘gadget’ allows its user to see through walls that are 12 inches thick and made of concrete!

News Source: The Raw Feed

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