High-Res Windows 8 Tablets Possibly Hinted By Microsoft

If you’re not satisfied with the display resolution of Windows 8 tablets at the moment, it seems that Microsoft could be interested in upping the resolution in future tablets, such as the next-gen Surface Pro and other Windows 8 tablets […]

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Android 4.3 Coming To Google Edition Galaxy S4 This July [Rumor]

Yesterday we reported that due to the kernel of the Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 belonging to Samsung instead of Google, the Galaxy S4 might not be getting its updates from Google directly, unlike Nexus-branded devices. While that might sound […]

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Ask Corporation – Puma Vortice Over Ear – Puma brand sleek stylish colorful headphone with 50mm drivers

Ask Corporation - PUMA VORTICE OVER EAR - PUMA brand sleek stylish colorful headphone with 50mm drivers

Ask Corporation is going to release the Puma brand sleek stylish colorful headphone “Puma Vortice Over Ear” on July 12.

Built-in 50mm drivers offers you a great listening experience making powerful clear bass sound. It has a detachable cable that features iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch compliant remote control button and you are able to start/stop playing music, change audio volume and talk hands-free with the remote control button.

It’s available in excellent 5 colors: black, orange, pink, red and white. It comes with a special pouch for the headphone.

Price: About ¥11,800
Color: black, orange, pink, red, white
Weight: 260g

Why Astronomers Keep Finding More and More Habitable Planets

Why Astronomers Keep Finding More and More Habitable Planets

It’s all just one big practical joke. But—shhh!—don’t tell them. They’re having fun. [XKCD]

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US military will spend $23 billion on cyber defense, create its own secure 4G network

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The US Department of Defense told a Washington thinktank yesterday that it would spend $23 billion in the next four years to kick its cyber defenses up a gear. That’ll include building out a “secure 4G wireless network that will get iPads, iPhones and Android devices online by mid-2014,” according to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey. The DoD recently approved Blackberry 10, iOS and Samsung Galaxy devices with Knox, and General Dempsey himself was packing a smartphone he said would “make Batman and James Bond jealous.” While there were no details about how such a mobile network would be locked down, he did say that all 15,000 of the Department’s computer networks would be consolidated into an enterprise cloud system to increase security. All that is to combat a “17-fold” cyber warfare increase in just over two years — no doubt including recent Chinese hacking that the White House took the rare step of recently highlighting.

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Source: US Department of Defense, The Brookings Institution

Motion Tennis uses AirPlay to turn iPhone and Apple TV into Wii rival

Apple may not have turned the Apple TV into a console yet, but that hasn’t stopped one game developer from trying it, with Motion Tennis turning the iPhone into a Wii style motion-controller for the set-top box. The game relies on AirPlay Mirroring, more commonly associated with screen sharing, but used by Rolocule Games to

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The US Army Is Blocking Staff Access to the Guardian Website

The US Army Is Blocking Staff Access to the Guardian Website

After getting upset about the fact that Guardian has been breaking news and leaking classified documents about the many and varied spying programs of the NSA, the US Army has decided to block access to the news site among its employees.

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US Army blocks whistleblower Guardian over PRISM

The US Army has blocked access to the website of UK newspaper and PRISM whistleblower The Guardian, claiming security issues over leaked “classified information”. Describing the move as “network hygiene” a spokesperson for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) confirmed the block to the Monterey Herald, after restricted access was spotted this week. “There

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Dead island that inspired Skyfall comes to Google Street View (video)

Japan's 'Dead Island' mapped by Google Street View,

It goes by the name of Hashima, or Gunkanjima (“Battleship Island”), or even “The Dead Island”, since it inspired the water-locked cyberterrorist HQ in Skyfall. As you can see for yourself, courtesy of the new Google Street View (and official “making of” video) embedded after the break, it’s a very a real place off the coast of Japan’s Nagasaki Peninsula, and it’s even lonelier than its fictional counterpart in the Bond film (which wasn’t actually filmed there). There are no tourist offices or giant Oedipus Complexes, as far as we can see, just long stretches of overgrown roads and collapsing apartment blocks that once housed 5,000 people, before they abandoned the island in 1974 following the demise of its coal industry. It took a Google employee two hours to map the place and preserve its crumbling visage for posterity using a special backpack, but don’t be surprised if you want to leave it after just a few minutes.

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Panasonic – LUMIX G 20mm/F1.7 ASPH. – Only 87g – Fixed Focal Length Pancake Lens

Panasonic - LUMIX G 20mm/F1.7 ASPH. - Only 87g - Fixed Focal Length Pancake Lens

Panasonic is going to release the thin and light fixed focal length pancake lens “LUMIX G 20mm/F1.7 ASPH.” (Model: H-H020A) in mid July.

It got 13g lighter than the previous model “H-H020″ that has the same lens construction of 7 elements in 5 groups (2 Aspherical lenses).

Price: ¥52,500
Color: Black, Silver
Size: φ63mm×25.5mm
Weight: 87g
Focal length: 20mm (equivalent to 40mm on a 35mm film camera)
Maximum magnification: Approx. 0.13x / 0.25x (35mm camera equivalent)