Hasta La Gadget!

So, you’re loving the new gallery and camera options we saw on Jelly Bean 4.2 and have no intention of waiting for that OS for your former flagship Galaxy Nexus? A certain dmmarck on Android Central’s forums has sorted that, and you can now grab the camera app for your so-last-month 4.1.1 OS on that handset. Other than a Photo Sphere bug, it’s apparently working like the factory version, but newbies beware — the installation requires some Android hacking chops. You can grab it at the source.

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We have published several times about Pearltrees private and public beta version on the web, its updates and the launch of the mobile versions for iPad and iPhone.

Pearltrees is a collaborative and visual curation tool that allows users to organize and discover online content.

Today, Pearltrees launches its 1.0 version with Pearltrees Premium, with a membership fee of $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year that gives access to privacy settings. Before, all your Pearltrees were publicly published on the web.

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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Pearltrees for iPhone, Tingle: Mobile Dating App To Launch in The US,

FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate dismissed criticisms of President Barack Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy lobbed by Michael Brown, who oversaw the disastrous Bush administration response to Hurricane Katrina.

“Better to be fast than to be late,” Fugate said in an interview on NPR Tuesday morning.

Brown, whom President George W. Bush infamously praised for doing a “heckuva job” in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005, told a Denver paper that Obama had acted too quickly in mobilizing relief for Sandy.

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NASA’s Martian rover, Curiosity, has beamed back early results from its first mouthful of red soil, with signs that the Mars dust is similar in composition to Hawaiian volcanic basalt. X-ray diffraction testing of an accuracy previously unseen on Mars was used on a sample gathered earlier this month, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced, with the soil believed to be much younger than that which suggested evidence of historic water on the planet’s surface several weeks ago.

Then, Curiosity was believed to have been in an area of Mars that would previously have been a riverbed, with conglomerate rocks estimated at several billion years old. Those were consistent with the presence of flowing water; however, the newer samples are more in line with soil that has had “limited interaction with water” the JPL says.

“Much of Mars is covered with dust, and we had an incomplete understanding of its mineralogy,” David Bish, CheMin co-investigator with the Indiana University in Bloomington said of the new results. “We now know it is mineralogically similar to basaltic material, with significant amounts of feldspar, pyroxene and olivine, which was not unexpected.”

“Roughly half the soil is non-crystalline material, such as volcanic glass or products from weathering of the glass” Bish concluded. “So far, the materials Curiosity has analyzed are consistent with our initial ideas of the deposits in Gale Crater recording a transition through time from a wet to dry environment.”

As Bish says, the results aren’t exactly coming as a huge surprise to the Mars researchers. The X-ray diffraction basically confirmed much of the previous inference and assumption about the surface of the planet, while the CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy Instrument) also identified some previously unexpected minerals in the sample.

Still, it’s early days yet. Curiosity is expected to take two years to implement its ten instruments and help scientists figure out whether microbial life would ever have been feasible on Mars.

Curiosity finds Mars soil a distant cousin of Hawaii is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the majority of storefronts in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook were still boarded up as the city began drying out from Hurricane Sandy. The streets, however, were teeming with cooped up area residents eager to leave their apartments. Those in search of food and drink were in luck — a handful of eateries and bars had opened their doors and were serving the best they could.

Jose Antonio Lopez, the manager of Italian spot Vinny’s Of Carroll Gardens, was pacing the packed room, delivering steaming plates of pasta and meatballs. Nearly every table was full, and a small line formed outside.

“It’s really, really good,” Lopez said of the day’s business. “We [were] not really expecting a lot of people, but there are a lot of people that get hungry!” Vinny’s had been open the day before as well, closing at 7 p.m. when the weather got too rough.

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