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Crime prevention is boring — crime prediction, on the other hand, is tres exciting! Indeed, we’ve seen a few pre-crime projects in the past, but very little that existed outside the realm of cockamamie. That is, until we laid eyes on a new project from DARPA called SMITE (or Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination). This one actually seems — dare we say it? — feasible. Details are sketchy (they’re still in the RFI stages) but essentially the idea is to create a database of actions that correspond to “malicious” behavior; for instance, espionage. It’s hoped that behaviors can be detected before they lead to an actual crime, which leads to all sorts of ethical and philosophic questions that we quite frankly don’t have the energy to ponder on a Friday afternoon. Luckily for all of us, this is DARPA we’re talking about — so chances are this won’t go anywhere. But if it does? As The Register kindly points out, the “e” in SMITE stands for “elimination.” Nice. [Warning: PDF source link]

DARPA program will detect your anomalous behavior, eliminate you originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 14:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Clearly a white front plate was not enough to satisfy curiosity. Though we aren’t able to verify this ourselves, Chinese site Apple.pro has a couple shots of what it claims to be the white next-gen iPhone, almost fully assembled (the front plate looks like it hasn’t been snapped in all the way) and casually lounging next to the black model we’ve gazed upon so many times at this point. Is this enough for us to trust and comfortably change our palette preferences? Nah, but surely 15 days until expected confirmation can’t be too excruciating of a wait.

White next-gen iPhone apparently materializes in full form originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 11:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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She’s but a concept at the moment, but David Boyce’s flOw mockup certainly has legs. The five-speaker set can be arranged in a fanciful iPod docking station for in-home use, and on a whim, any of the speaker balls can be grabbed and taken elsewhere, all while the music follows via a touch of wireless magic. But that’s hardly the kicker — each ball has integrated gesture sensors and accelerometers, enabling the user to quiet the volume by turning it over or switch from “Smooth Operator” to “Master of Puppets” by simply jostling the speaker with an intense level of force. Talk about revolutionizing a played market sector.

[Thanks, Paul]

flOw wireless speaker concept flips jams based on your handling originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It ain’t the first Mercedes-Benz concept to dazzle us, and we get the feeling it’s far from being the last. Dreamed up by designer Siyamak Rouhi Dehkordi, the Hexawheel is doing its darnedest to bring the gas guzzler back, and while we’d never turn down a solid deal on our own G-Wagon, there’s something mighty novel about this ride. Boasting an iconic M-B design, this here creature deviates drastically from the typical road warrior, utilizing six wheels on an articulated chassis with a flexible drivetrain. All told, it’d measure some 16 feet if ushered into production, and it’s quite possibly the best beach vehicle next to the dune buggy. There’s no word on what kind of powerplant this thing would support, but we’re guessing something involving fuel cells would be appropriate. Give those links below a visit if you’re in the mood for more images.

Mercedes-Benz Hexawheel concept is the 4×4 you never knew you needed originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 03:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Believe it or not, your newly-upgraded Nexus One isn’t the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU — Europe’s been rocking the HTC Desire since April, which sports a little something called Flash Lite even on the older Android 2.1 OS. Will frozen yogurt outperform puff pastry on its home turf? Find out in a blind taste test video showdown after the break.

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Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 00:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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