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The 11-inch Asus UX is clearly designed to take on the MacBook Air. Also on hand: an updated version of the Eee PC Netbook, called the Eee PC X101.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “my CNC mill is pretty cool, but I really want to make it more awesomer”? Well, first, “awesomer” totally isn’t word, and second, have we got a hack for you! A reader wrote in to the DIY hub Adafruit to show off his CNC being operated by a PS3 Sixaxis controller — mimicking features found on high-end machines that allow you to trigger jobs from a distance and manually control the mill. Best of all, it’s a pretty simple mod that uses a program called QtsixA to map the gamepad as a keyboard and mouse, allowing you to interact with a Linux box running EMC2, which is used for controlling the mill, lathe, plasma torch, or a number of other fun and dangerous tools. Check out the video after the break.

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CNC mill and Sixaxis controller make beautiful DIY music together (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 21:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 05, 2007 by CyberNet.

A service that I came across today called SignalMap left me wondering "now why didn’t I think of that?" Whenever you buy a cellphone the one thing that you’re always wondering is what the service be like in the places you’re at everyday (work, home, etc…). You’re just never sure if there will be good reception, or even a signal for that matter.

So what does SignalMap do? It gives users a central place to input their cellphone signal, along with what carrier and cellphone they are using. This information will be placed on a map for everyone to view and benefit from, and from the looks of it SignalMap has a good start.

When looking at one of the maps there are several different icons that you will see. Red icons correspond to the Verizon network, blue are AT&T, pink are T-Mobile, and yellow represents Sprint. Each of the icons demonstrates how strong a signal is by the corresponding number of bars, and if there is a skull that means it is a dead spot (no signal available there).

They do limit you to viewing 100 signals on the map at one time, and they will tell you what the average signal is for the area that your viewing as well as the number of dead spots. As of right now the number of submissions by users isn’t the greatest, but if we all add our information to the map it will help the service become even better. And no, it isn’t difficult to do. All you have to do is drag a marker to the spot on the map that you want, and then add the corresponding information:

I really hope that this service continues to grow, which is one of the reasons I wanted to write about it. It would be really cool if there was some application that you could put on your phone so that you could upload the information to their servers in a single click, but I think they’ve made it about as easy as they could without doing that.

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Source: Lifehacker & Download Squad

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You like video games, right? If you’re the type that takes game-playing more seriously than your average Joe, the PX5 might have caught your eye when we previewed this headset at CES this year. Now they’re available for purchase, and we’ve been playing our hearts out, cans on ears. Is this gaming headset worth shelling out $250 for? Hit the review and find out!

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Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 20:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been nearly twenty years since Linus Torvalds let loose Linux on an unsuspecting world, and yesterday he finally updated the open source OS kernel to version 3.0. This third iteration, currently named 3.0.0-rc1, comes 15 years after 2.0 first hit the web and brings driver support for Microsoft Kinect — a move that should have visions of sugar plum fairies (or maybe just Android avatars) dancing in hackers’ heads. Also included is code optimized for AMD’s Fusion and Intel’s Ivy and Sandy Bridge silicon, and some updated graphics drivers, too. Despite these tasty new treats, Torvalds is quick to point out that this new release is an evolutionary change and unleashing the big three-oh was all about moving into a third decade of distribution, not about overhauling the OS. There’s still work to be done, as it is a release candidate in need of refinement, but curious coders can grab the latest Linux at the Kernel.org source link below.

Linus Torvalds releases Linux kernel version 3 to celebrate 20 years of penguin-powered computing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 19:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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