Oct 30
After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn’t always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL
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Oct 30
Court rules that Deutsche Telekom can’t throttle internet speeds on flat-rate plans
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Suddenly, we fancy moving to Germany. A Cologne court has ruled that Deutsche Telekom can’t implement a plan to throttle speeds to 2Mbps on wired, flat-rate internet service once customers exceed monthly data caps. The policy would pose an “unreasonable disadvantage” to subscribers that rely on …
Oct 30
Today there’s a buzz about a speeding ticket issued in California with an additional note about wearing Google Glass. The original post appears courtesy of Cecilia Abadie who provided a rather clear scan of the ticket she recieved. This ticket suggests that while Abadie was pulled over for speeding – 80 miles per hour in […]
Oct 30
Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business. Even with modern safety equipment protecting workers from black lung, plenty of other dangers await them underground. Like, say, mixing easily ignited coal dust with hot machine surfaces. That’s why GE has invented a mine-car engine that keeps its cool to prevent setting off a raging inferno.
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Oct 30
One year ago today, much of New York City and the surrounding region was without power, its basement
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One year ago today, much of New York City and the surrounding region was without power, its basements and transit tunnels flooded with seawater from the tidal surge and relentless rainfall of Hurricane Sandy, its suburbs caged in by fallen trees. Gawker’s own Lower Manhattan servers were inundated and we were working on a bare-bones Tumblr to keep delivering the news. Here are some links to help remember where the city was last year, and to see how far we’ve come, twelve months after Sandy.
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Oct 30
Fantastical 2 for iPhone wants to be your all-in-one calendar and reminder app
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From its humble beginnings on OS X, Fantastical’s contextual input changed the way plenty of people set appointments and reminders. When it arrived on the iPhone last November, the app became the first calendar software to reach number one on the App Store. Almost a year later, and Flexibits is …
Oct 30
We recently reviewed the Dell XPS 12, which is a hybrid ultrabook that allows you to use the machine in a number of ways thanks to its flippable display. It seems one of Dell’s previously released laptops, the Latitude E6430u to be exact, has been gaining some attention for one of its unique features: the smell of cat urine. (more…)
Dell Assures Customers Its Laptops Don’t Smell Like Cat Urine original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 30
The smartphone these days come with a fair amount of apps, so much so that the phrase “There’s an app for that” has become a standard clarion call in the industry, especially among developers who hope to strike it big with the next smartphone app. Well, apart from games, there is also another potential market that might be worth exploring, and that would be using the smartphone as a remote control to get some unique hardware “gaming” time in. I am referring to the $59.99 Smartphone Helicopter in this particular case.
For those who have had the experience in the past, flying a toy helicopter might not be the easiest thing to do, and the “returns” in terms of flying time are more or less diminishing. After all, you charge the toy’s battery for a few hours only to be granted a few minutes’ worth of flying time. The Smartphone Helicopter will not be any different here, but instead of a dedicated physical controller, you will instead use your smartphone with the free app to get it going. The Smartphone Helicopter will pair up with your smartphone via Bluetooth, and you’re good to go. It will play nice with all iPhone and iPad models, Android smartphones and tablets and Bluetooth-enabled iPod models.
[ Smartphone Helicopter comes in handy when you’ve no more games to play copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Oct 30
EA Sports has announced that it and Tiger Woods have mutually agreed to end their partnership on golfing video games. At the same time, the company has announced that it will be continuing to make golf video games and its partnership with the PGA will continue.
EA Sports has offered up an image comparing a screenshot of the same course taken from a current generation game compared to a next-generation golf title that is currently in the works. One look at the image and it’s clear that the visuals in the next-generation golfing game are significantly improved and offer much more realism than the current generation game.
EA Sports will be making PGA Tour golf games for consoles and mobile devices. There’s no indication of when the new game will launch at this time, but it sure does look good. EA promises that more news on its next-generation golf game will be coming soon.
Oct 30
This time of year, when new digital cameras are being released left and right, is a great opportunity to look back on those pioneering shooters that led the charge from photochemical to digital supremacy. PopPhoto has a great rundown of the 30 most important digital cameras of all time. Here are our 10 favorites.
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