Target will open its doors to Black Friday shoppers at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
The discounter’s decision to open stores three hours earlier than last year caused some controversy among employees. Petitions to stop the “Thanksgiving Creep” have garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures on Change.org. Target is one of a number of retailers, including Walmart and Toys R Us, that are open on Thanksgiving.
Target will be open until 11 p.m. on Black Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ordered Apple Inc to disclose to rival Samsung Electronics details of a legal settlement the iPhone maker reached with Taiwan’s HTC Corp, including terms of a 10-year patents licensing agreement.
The Korean electronics giant had earlier filed a motion to compel its U.S. rival — with whom it is waging a bitter legal battle over mobile patents across several countries — to reveal details of the settlement that was reached on November 10 with HTC but which have been kept under wraps.
In August, the iPhone maker won a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung after a U.S. jury found that certain Samsung gadgets violated Apple’s software and design patents.
Now, legal experts say the question of which patents are covered by the Apple-HTC settlement, and licensing details, could be instrumental in Samsung’s efforts to thwart Apple’s subsequent quest for a permanent sales ban on its products.
The Asian company has argued it is “almost certain” that the HTC deal covers some of the same patents involved in its own litigation with Apple.
The court on Wednesday ordered Apple to produce a full copy of the settlement agreement “without delay”, subject to an Attorneys-Eyes-Only designation.
Representatives for the U.S. company could not immediately be reached for comment.
The settlement of Apple and HTC ended their worldwide litigation and brought to a close one of the first major flare-ups in the global smartphone patent wars.
Apple first sued HTC in 2010, setting in motion a legal conflagration that has since circled the globe and engulfed the biggest names in mobile technology, from Samsung to Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit.
(Reporting By Edwin Chan; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
It’s entirely possible for robots to juggle or play catch. They’ve usually been relegated to playing with their own kind, however, which is as good an excuse as any for Disney Research to experiment with a ball-tossing robot tailored to games with humans. The animatronic creation uses a depth-aware motion camera — there’s conflicting mentions of using both the Microsoft Kinect and ASUS’ Xtion Pro Live that we’re hoping to sort out — to track any mid-air balls as well as throw them back to a human participant. Disney’s robot does more than just move the robot’s arm to account for imperfect tosses, too, as it knows to feign a dejected look after a botched reception. The company suggests that its invention would ideally bring two-way interaction to theme parks, so it’s more likely to show up at Disneyland before it stands in for a parent in the backyard. It’s just as well; when the Robopocalypse comes, the last thing we’ll want at home is a machine that can toss grenades.
Update: Team member Jens Kober has filled us in on just why both cameras are mentioned. The team started off using the Kinect and switched to the Xtion Pro Live, once it was available, to get hardware-synced timing between a regular camera and the depth camera. The project didn’t require the panning motor or microphone array of Microsoft’s system.
Filed under: Robots, Microsoft, ASUS
Via: Gizmodo
Source: Popular Science
You know what goes well with a full belly, an empty house, and that warm feeling you get after spending the day with friends and family? More pumpkin pie? That, and a little folk rock. While the Americans are distracted with their drunken turkey-induced comas, let me introduce you to a group of talented Torontonians known as The Most Loyal. More »
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will open to Black Friday shoppers at 8 p.m. local time on Thanksgiving — two hours earlier than last year.
The chain is facing backlash over its decision to open earlier from employees who have to work on Thanksgiving and others who blame the company for spoiling a national holiday.
Walmart workers plan to strike at 1,000 store locations nationwide on Black Friday.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Robert Griffin III raised his fists, took a knee for a quick prayer, jumped up and pointed to the sky.
That’s the routine on touchdown passes for the Heisman Trophy winner from Baylor, and he got to do it four times in his impressive return to Texas.
Gigabyte has introduced another one of its upcoming ATX motherboard, the GA-990FXA-UD3 REV3. Based on AMD 990FX chipset, the board supports for AM3+ processors and features four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 32GB RAM), two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, two PCI-Express 2.0 x4 slots, two PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots and one PCI slot. In terms of connectivity ports, it has six SATA 6.0 Gbps, two eSATA 6.0 Gbps, four USB 3.0, fourteen USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The GA-990FXA-UD3 REV3 will go on sale from late November for around 14,000 Yen (about $169). [Product Page]
Check out this newly released USB 3.0 + Thunderbolt portable hard drive from Freecom, the Mobile Drive Mg. Coming in 1TB of storage capacity, this ultra-thin hard drive (1.5cm) features a durable magnesium enclosure, Mac HFS+ file format and comes with both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connection interfaces. The Mobile Drive Mg sells for 28,480 Yen (about $345). [Product Page]
A video discovery app that takes all of the UI greatness of Pulse and smashes it into an environment dedicated to searching through not only your favorite blogs’ feeds of videos, but YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu as well. This app has been out for more than a few weeks, but here in its newest iteration it’s become something of beauty – and it’s free, to boot. You’ve got a “What’s Hot” section for new video discovery and a way to search for the video you want across multiple platforms spanning essentially the entire web – what more could you ask for?
The folks at Squrl have a search engine for instantly playable videos from YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Ted (aka Ted Talks), AOL, Vimeo, Blip.TV, and more. This list is expanding in Squrl, and the app works just as well on the iPhone 5 as it does on the iPad – and the iPhone 4S/4, the iPod touch, and the rest, too, of course. You can make your own profile and share your favorite videos if you want, or you can remain entirely anonymous.
You can add your own feed collections or you can use the app purely for search. Add the Android feed and you’ll find our favorite sister-site Android Community featured prominently – but you want to stick to Apple, right? There’s an Apple feed as well. You can connect to your Facebook to show an interest graph for yourself over time, this generating suggestions from the app itself as it gets to know you better. It’s one of those things that seems a bit creepy to some people and quite magical to others – I tend to lean towards the latter.
You’ll want to check out the competition in Flixter and Dijit, Showyou and every other app just like this one if you want o judge the best user interface experience for yourself, but the end result right this minute will be thus: Squrl is fresh, it works, it feels nice to use, and it’s free. This app is up on the iTunes App Store right this minute and you can hit up Squrl.com to see if they plan on releasing any Android-based solutions in the near future – or Windows Phone, for that matter too.
Be sure to head down to our iOS App Reviews portal for more of the best for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch from all angles. Games, utilities, oddities, and everything in-between – have at em!
Squrl for iOS Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Unitcom offers you their latest gaming PC, the REGALIA Define R4-i5k. Powered by a 3.40GHz Intel Core i5-3570K processor, the system is packed with an Intel Z77 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB graphics card, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 500W 80PLUS certified power supply and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (SP1) OS. The REGALIA Define R4-i5k retails for 89,900 Yen (about $1,089). [Product Page]
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