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If you are in New York City, New York and recently asked Siri to tell you about the weather forecast for a few upcoming days, you may be in for a surprise. Siri is going to tell you that the weather is going to stay in the mid-90s for a few days, which is a bit too hot for the New Yorkers. Fortunately, that’s untrue and Siri has been making mistakes.

The voice-based personal assistant has apparently been mixing up the weather forecast of NYC with that of New York, Texas. Naturally, the weather is a lot warmer in Texas and there’s a significant difference in the temperatures between the two places. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Alleged iPhone 5 teardown, Apple wants to overturn iPhone ban in South Korea,

The next video game in the Medal of Honor franchise is called Medal of Honor Warfighter. The game is set to launch in late October. Fans who can’t wait that long to get their hands on the new video game will be able to access the multiplayer beta starting in early October.

EA promises that Warfighter will be the most realistic and authentic military shooter of the year. The game is inspired by real people, real places, and real operations. The multiple player beta will allow users to choose from 12 different Tier 1 units operating around the globe.

The available units include the British SAS, German KSK, Russian Spetsnaz Alfa Group, Korean UDT and U.S. Navy SEAL. The video game is powered by powerful Frostbite 2 game engine and is set for launch in North America on October 23. Players who download the beta will be awarded 60 minutes of Double XP the full game launches.

When we learned that Verizon wouldn’t lock the GSM-related components of the iPhone 5, we were waiting for a “gotcha” moment. Surely the carrier would clamp down and steer us back towards its more expensive roaming plans, right? Not according to Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney: she says there’s no plans to lock Apple’s handset at a later point. In other words, you should be free to use a Verizon-locked iPhone 5 on any compatible GSM and HSPA+ networks for as long as you’d like, including with AT&T and Canadian carriers. Of course, this still brings the caveats of having to both buy a Verizon model, either at full price or with a contract attached, and track down a nano-SIM for the carrier of choice. It could nonetheless settle the question of what carrier to pick if you regularly need a passport when you travel — especially knowing that neither AT&T nor Sprint will be quite so open-minded.

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Stylus maven N-trig has revealed that Fujitsu’s Stylistic Q702 laptop/tablet hybrid will be the first to shop with the company’s new G4 DuoSense pen and multi-touch digitizer. As such, it’ll be able to use a new active pen stylus that the company, perhaps unsurprisingly, promises will provide a “pen-on-paper handwriting experience.” Of course, we won’t be able to judge that for ourselves until the units arrive on our doorstep some time after Windows 8 does next month, but rest assured, we’ll be checking.

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N-trig release teases that Fujitsu’s Stylistic Q702 will come with active pen support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Over in India there’s an extremely cheap Android tablet being deployed by the government to families, schools and more. We’ve talked about the Aakash tablet more than a few times, but this new and improved Aakash 2 tablet for just $35 dollars is set to arrive throughout India starting next month.

Formerly known as the Ubislate 7+ or the DataWind tablet, this new device isn’t anything extremely impressive or powerful, but it has a capacitive touch display, runs Android, and of course is extremely cheap. The Aakash 2 Tablet will be arriving on the 1 year anniversary as the original starting mid October.

Back in April we heard it was going to get released and then updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and it appears that is still the plan — although it will launch with Gingerbread. The Aakash 2 tablet rocks a 7-Inch display, an ARM Cortex-A8 processor clocked at 1 GHz, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, front facing camera, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread to keep things somewhat smooth. They’ve even added a SIM slot for phone capabilities, as well as microSD card slot support for expanding storage limits.

We’ve heard talk of more than 200 million of these slates being produced, and today they’ve detailed over 5.5 million orders just over the past few months. Just like the original, the Aakash 2 is being supplied to millions and millions of students completely free, and will run you INR 2000 (approx. $35) at retail stores throughout India. Apparently they’ll also be issuing an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at some point, but when is still unknown.

[via AndroidCommunity]

India’s Aakash 2 Android tablet arriving next month for $35 is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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