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With the drone era upon us—drones flying through US airspace, no less—securing these pilotless aircraft is of the utmost importance because of the threat an errant vehicle could pose to civilians. But in answering a dare from the Department of Homeland Security, a team of researchers from the University of Texas proved that a government drone could be hijacked with a GPS spoofing device made for less than $1000. More »

Scientists now believe more than ever that Saturn’s largest moon has an underground ocean. The discovery that presents this latest solid evidence is that Titan has been found to warp during its gravitational tides. This is leading science experts to believe that a large body of water slosed around under its outer shell.

It’s long been a hypothesis that Titan, and other moons far in the deep reaches of the solar system, are capable of holding water underneath their surfaces, but the lack of technology makes it impossible to test these theories. There is however a spacecraft called Cassini, which has been in the Saturn area since 2004. It is the primary source in providing new information about the planet and its moons.

“Liquid water elsewhere in the solar system is one of the main goals of planetary exploration for NASA,” said study lead author Luciano Iess, a planetary geodesist at Università La Sapienza in Rome. “This discovery points to the fact that many satellites in the outer solar system hide large amounts of liquid water,” said planetary geodesis and lead author of the latest study Luciano Iess.

[via MSNBC]

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The bad news for RIM: it lost nearly $200 million (adjusted) last quarter. The worse news: it’s now letting 5,000 employees go, on top of the 2,000 cuts that had been previously announced. The very worst news: its BB10 operating system—and last hope for relevance—has been pushed back until next year. More »

Google has introduced the Google Drive app for iOS, which lets iPhone and iPad users access and manage (adding collaborators) their Google Drive and Google Docs documents and files. Reading documents is not really news, but being able to manage them and setup some permission can be handy on the go.

Unfortunately, Google Drive for iOS is only a viewer and a very basic document manager. It will display the documents without any problems and would even let you download them if you expect to not have a network connection. However, it won’t be possible to edit them for now. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google TV gets more (paid) content, Google Glass will reach consumer in 2014 says Google Co-Founder,

The last quarter has been about as rough as they come for RIM, and it’s now detailed just how things stacked up in terms of hard numbers. For the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, the company brought in $2.8 billion in revenue, down a full 33 percent from the prior quarter, while it reported a net loss of $518 million — much worse than analysts were expecting. What’s more, it’s also announced that it’s cutting an additional 5,000 jobs as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, and that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones now won’t launch until sometime in the first quarter of the 2013 calendar year (that includes a QWERTY model launched in “close proximity” to the touchscreen-only device). As for why, RIM only went as far as to say that the integration of some key BlackBerry 10 features and the “associated large volume of code” has “proven to be more time consuming than anticipated.” For his part, though, CEO Thorsten Heins says he remains “confident that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones will provide a ground-breaking next generation smartphone user experience,” and that he’s “encouraged by the traction that the BlackBerry 10 platform is gaining with application developers and content partners.” He further notes that the response to BB10 from key carrier partners has “been very positive.”

In terms of its existing devices, RIM reports that BlackBerry smartphone shipments (not sales) for the quarter totaled 7.8 million, while there were about 260,000 PlayBooks shipped — on the company’s earnings call, Heins noted that the total BlackBerry subscriber base now stands at 78 million. Not surprisingly, the company is warning of more bad news to come. It says it expects the “next several quarters to continue to be very challenging,” with everything from the “increasing competitive environment,” lower handset volumes, impact from the BlackBerry 10 delay, and the company’s plans to “continue to aggressively drive sales of BlackBerry 7 handheld devices” expected to cut into its bottom line. In another bit of news, the company also announced that it has appointed Steve Zipperstein, Verizon’s former General Counsel, as its new Chief Legal Officer. You can find the full earnings report at the source link below.

RIM announces Q1 earnings: $518 million net loss, 5,000 job cuts, BB10 not due until Q1 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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