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It might look like something out of MJ’s Billie Jean, but this colorful LED array won’t be under moonwalking foot — that is, unless the party gets crunk. This colorful grid is actually a table top, brought to you by way of TI’s MSP430 microcontroller, and it knows how to get down. The table is made up of 128 frosted glass cubes, each apparently capable of emitting 16 million colors. Its creators also produced a special beat-detection software, that could very easily have your furniture outshining the bumpers and grinders at your next party. If you’re looking for a little extra something from your coffee table, you can find full build instructions at the source link below.

Continue reading LED coffee table busts a multicolored move (video)

LED coffee table busts a multicolored move (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Razer’s Electra headphones pump out bass, keep your voice ‘inline’ for $60

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This article was written on September 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mozilla has posted Firefox 2.0.0.7 which is an extremely critical update for all Firefox users out there. There is only one thing that has been fixed, but it’s a QuickTime vulnerability that could compromise Firefox and your computer.

Petko D. Petkov was the person who found the exploit, and says that he discovered it nearly a year ago. At the time he had actually come across two of these vulnerabilities, but only one of them had ever been fixed. Now nearly a year later he took it upon himself to show "how a Low risk issue can be turned into a very easy to perform HIGH risk attack." To sum it up as long as Firefox is set as the default browser it will open the link and execute some code, and in Petkov’s example the Windows Calculator is launched.

Here’s what the Mozilla Security Blog had to say about the issue:

If Firefox is the default browser when a user plays a malicious media file handled by Quicktime, an attacker can use a vulnerability in Quicktime to compromise Firefox or the local machine. This can happen while browsing or by opening a malicious media file directly in Quicktime. So far this is only reproducible on Windows.

Petkov provided proof of concept code that may be easily converted into an exploit, so users should consider this a very serious issue.

According to Petkov this exploit is actually cross-platform, although myself and BetaNews both failed to get it to work on Vista. As of right now this appears to be isolated to the Firefox browser, but QuickTime is installed with iTunes by default which makes the chances of people being exploited much more serious. So all Firefox and QuickTime users are urged to upgrade to the newest Firefox 2.0.0.7:

Note: These download links use Mozilla’s load balancing, which is better than what some sites are doing by linking directly to the executable. The download should be posted on the official Firefox.com domain shortly, but QuickTime users should upgrade as soon as possible.

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Having trouble selecting those tiny links with your big, ol’ digits on that swanked-out slab? Don’t you worry, Google’s just made some slate-friendly improvements to its bread and butter search site, and it’s available for iPad and Honeycomb 3.1+ users. On deck for this UI refresh: a much simplified search results page, larger-sized buttons and text, and a quick access button located below the search box that skips you off to “Images, Videos, Places, Shopping and more.” There’s also been some visual tweaks made to its image search results, with enlarged previews, faster thumbnail loading and continuous scrolling. If you’re not seeing this overhauled layout just yet, sit tight — the update’s expected to roll out in the next few days.

Google refines search experience for big-fingered tablet owners originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel has provided an Ultrabook release schedule, which points to the inclusion of technologies like USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt inside “insanely sleek” systems.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog