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CyanogenMod 10.1 hits Release Candidate, nears a ‘stable’ future
Author: Christen Arquette
If you’re a fan of CyanogenMod, there’s a good chance that flashing nightly builds of the 10.1 release is now damn near second nature. Fortunately, a more stable future is in store for you and your phone, as CyanogenMod has revealed that a final release is close at hand. As a buildup to that point, you’ll find that Release Candidate builds are now available for installation. For the uninitiated, CyanogenMod 10.1 is based on Android 4.2.2, and along with many additional features, it serves as a great way to upgrade your device in the case that its manufacturer has given up. Hit the break for the complete list of devices to receive the Release Candidate treatment.
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It Nears: Colleges Offering Courses In Unmanned Drones
Author: Randy Miller
Really? Because I could have sworn all my professors were teaching droning. Get it?! Because they just rambled on monotonously all the time! “Well obviously they weren’t teaching comedy.” GOOD ONE. How’s that dickbaggery major working out for you?
The pilotless aircraft industry is expected to create more than 23,000 U.S. jobs over the next 15 years, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. A spokesperson for the group told The Daily that 150 colleges are now offering courses.
Jeb Bailey, 28, told The Daily he has taken every drone-related course at Northwestern Michigan College. It’s no wonder why, when drone pilots can make $ 50,000 to $ 120,000 per year, according to Tom Kenville, founder of Unmanned Applications Institute International. Bailey said the idea of flying unmanned drones for a year in Afghanistan to pay off student loan debt sounded pretty attractive.
Flying unmanned drones for a year in Afghanistan to pay off your student loans sounded pretty attractive to you, did it, Jeb? Let me tell you what sounds attractive to me: a naked lady with big ol’ milky-white titties lounging on my couch like she just stepped out of some fancy old oil painting. Yeah, and she’s got a Butterfinger ice cream bar in her hand and she’s mouthing something to me. You know what she’s saying, Jeb? She’s saying, “I’m full, you can have the rest.” Now that’s f***ing attractive. I still haven’t paid off my student loans.
Thanks to Rusty Trombo– REALLY? Come on, this is a family restaurant!
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IT NEARS: Robot Wielding Knife Cuts A Cucumber
Author: Charity Woods
Seen right here looking not sure which one to stick up up your butt and which one to stab you with, CIROS the robotic prepares a salad. Later in the video he really cuts the cucumber, which, if you pretend its a peen like I did, is pretty frightening.
Hit the jump for the video.
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Microsoft, Boingo offer free Wi-Fi in NYC and San Francisco as Windows 8 launch nears
Author: Antonio Pierce
If you’re looking to generate positive buzz around a major new product, giving consumers free Wi-Fi typically goes a long way towards achieving that goal. So it should come as no surprise that, as part of its Windows 8 launch media blitz, Microsoft has paired up with Boingo to deliver complimentary wireless networking in New York City and San Francisco. Beginning now and lasting through the end of 2012, the free Wi-Fi is available at six subway stations in New York and across several popular regions of San Francisco.
That network will grow substantially larger starting November 1st when Boingo opens up access to over 200 Wi-Fi “hotzones” in the NYC area. Unlike a similar promotion from Google earlier this year, you’ll be able to hop…
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As The Dockpocalypse Nears, Bluetooth-Enabled iPhone Substitutes Abound
Author: Buck Howard
Next week, Apple is expected to announce a brand-new iPhone total with a brand-new dock connector, finally placing to bed the 30-pin design that ’ s been in usage since time immemorial (so long as you can easily ’ t remember past nine years ago, like me). Reports are that Apple will market an adapter, but there ’ s no telling whether that will certainly deal with all designs and makes from existing iPhone audio docks, so business have been preparing to profit of Apple ’ s organized obsolescence with brand-new Bluetooth-enabled iPhone replacements that will keep those tunes pumping no matter what Apple does to its smartphone ’ s major data I/O connection.
Merely today TechCrunch got two ideas about brand-new items that provide this kind of option, consisting of the auris, a gadget from Shenzen-based Touchkraft, LLC that will be beginning a $ 40,000 Kickstarter campaign Monday to fund its production, and the CoolStream, from Exeter, NH-based Exeter Science and Entertainment. The auris plans to deliver Kickstarter pre-orders at $ 24 per unit, and will certainly retail for $ 40. The CoolStream is already available on Amazon for $ 40. However if you ’ re trying to find an answer today for less (or more), there are actually currently lots of other choices out there.
One that ’ s continually well-reviewed on Amazon is the really particularly named “ Wireless Bluetooth Popular music Receiver for Bose Sounddock / Beatbox / B&W Zeppelin / Phillips / JBL and additional dock stations, ” which is currently detailed for $ 25.43 with free shipping. ThinkGeek additionally provides one for $ 39.99 which is presently in stock, and there are a number of additional options on Amazon, consisting of this one and this onewith varying testimonials. For those aiming to invest even more money (for questionable, if any sort of, included performance), there ’ s the iVolare adapter aspired at usage with systems from higher-end makers like Tivoli.
What a great deal of the reviewers appear to obtain hung up on, and exactly what is truly the biggest downside of all of these tools, is that none is self-powered, implying that if you ’ re using it with a wireless dock like my trusty old Altec Lansing IMT620, you ’ re out of good fortune when not plugged into a wall outlet if your dock stops supplying power to your iPhone or whatever ’ s affixed to the dock at that point.
Yet another would-be entrant in this market was the Pear (so named apparently only to make the catchy tagline “ Pair with Pear ” work), but that project ended rapidly after a trademark violation complaint from an unnamed source to Kickstarter got it booted off the website. The project creators are promising to return when they ’ ve cleared things up, but by the time it gets financed and really ships, people really curious about seeking an option will likely have discovered one.
Apple likely will end up making a big change to its connector that will be undesirable for those with nine years ’ worth of built up gear, if not a more major e-waste concern. In the end, however, just what individuals don ’ t need is another Kickstarter for one of these devices, which are easily and abundantly offered, but an initial design that fixes the staying complication of power draw. An individual throw a watch battery or built-in rechargeable unit in one of these things. I ’ ll back that in a heartbeat.
Note: I wish I ’ d coined the term Dockpocalypse, but a simple Google search exposes that at the really the very least TWiT beat me to it by a couple of weeks.
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PlayStation 3 Netflix app appears for some UK owners as service launch nears
Author: Christen Arquette
While we’ve known that Netflix’s streaming service will be launching in the UK and Ireland sometime early this year, the company’s kept mum on exactly when. The wait may soon be over, as the Netflix app has begun showing up on the homescreens of UK PlayStation 3 owners. A reader sent us the above photo, and while the service isn’t live yet — signing up for an account brings up a “We’ll be available in the UK soon” message — the rollout does seem to indicate that Netflix is gearing up for the official launch. We don’t have pricing details or a full list of content partners just yet, but one thing’s for sure: fans of the BBC’s programming should be very happy.
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VT nears completion of HokieSpeed, world’s 96th most powerful supercomputer
Author: Markus Smith
If basking in the presence of a powerful supercomputer is on your list of “must-haves” when selecting a proper university, then you may wish to fire off an admissions application to the Hokies at Virginia Tech. The school’s HokieSpeed system is now in its final stages of testing, which combines 209 separate computers, each powered by dual six-core Xeon E5645 CPUs and two NVIDIA M2050 / C2050 448-core GPUs, with a single-precision peak processing capability of 455 teraflops. To put things in perspective, HokieSpeed is now the 96th most powerful computer in the world, and yet it was built for merely $ 1.4 million in loose change — the majority of which came from a National Science Foundation grant. As a further claim to fame, HokieSpeed is the 11th most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. Coming soon, the system will drive a 14-foot wide by four-foot tall visualization wall, which is to consist of eight 46-inch Samsung 3D televisions humming in unison. After all, with virtually limitless potential, these scientists will need a fitting backdrop for all those Skyrim sessions. The full PR follows the break, complete with commentary from the system’s mastermind, Professor Wu Feng.
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If basking in the presence of a powerful supercomputer is on your list of “must-haves” when selecting a proper university, then you may wish to fire off an admissions application to the Hokies at Virginia Tech. The school’s HokieSpeed system is now in its final stages of testing, which combines 209 separate computers, each powered by dual six-core Xeon E5645 CPUs and two NVIDIA M2050 / C2050 448-core GPUs, with a single-precision peak processing capability of 455 teraflops. To put things in perspective, HokieSpeed is now the 96th most powerful computer in the world, and yet it was built for merely $ 1.4 million in loose change — the majority of which came from a National Science Foundation grant. As a further claim to fame, HokieSpeed is the 11th most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. Coming soon, the system will drive a 14-foot wide by four-foot tall visualization wall, which is to consist of eight 46-inch Samsung 3D televisions humming in unison. After all, with virtually limitless potential, these scientists will need a fitting backdrop for all those Skyrim sessions. The full PR follows the break, complete with commentary from the system’s mastermind, Professor Wu Feng.
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As Christmas Nears, The iPhone 4S Is Still In Short Supply
Author: Anthony Kristo
Just hear those sleigh bells
ringing and jing ting tingaling too
Come on its lovely weather for
an iPhone purchase for you!
Christmas is sneaking up this year and you better be prepared. The iPhone 4S is still in short supply at all three of the US’ wireless carriers. Verizon is suffering the worst with immediate shipping only available on two variations. Your best bet, that is if you need an iPhone as soon as possible, is ironically at the iPhone’s original carrier: AT&T. Good ol’ reliable seemingly has the best on-hand inventory of Apple’s latest smartphone.
The iPhone 4S is incredibly popular at Verizon. It’s the most sought after product for sure, said a retail assistant sales manager I spoke to this afternoon. And the carriers estimated shipping date for the iPhone 4S backs up his statement. Only the black version of the 16GB and 64GB models are available for two-day shipping. There is a relatively substantial delay for the rest. The 64GB white is slated for shipping next Friday while the 16GB white isn’t until the following Monday, December 12th. The 32GB black ships on December 16th while the white flavor isn’t available until the Friday before Christmas, December 23rd.
Sprint and AT&T are faring a bit better with on-hand inventory than Verizon. Per the Sprint website, both the 16GB white and black model are delayed but only by a week. Both versions of the 32GB and 64GB are apparently available for immediate shipping. Then AT&T buyers only need to wait for the 64GB which ships in seven to 14 days.
Oh, and you can forget about circumventing the delays by going directly to Apple. Apple.com shows more of the same. In fact all iPhone 4S incarnations are backordered 1-2 weeks.
The delay’s might not be indicative of a sales leader. AT&T did manage to activate more 2.7 million iPhones to Verizon’s 2.0 million. However, AT&T also offered the lower-priced iPhone 3GS where Verizon only had the iPhone 4.
Apple announced the iPhone 4S in early October and the handset immediately broke records and faced delays. Just days after pre-orders started Verizon and Sprint put up sold-out signs where AT&T simply pushed ship dates to 3-4 weeks. Apple previously stated that the iPhone 4S is the company’s fastest selling iPhone and the delays partly show the demand hasn’t slowed down.
With Christmas quickly approaching, don’t expect the estimated shipping dates to decrease. If you’re planning on gifting an iPhone 4S this year, get your carrier of choice on the horn to reserve yours as soon as possible. Or you could make a papercraft iPhone 4S and place that under the tree. Your call.
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The HTC Puccini Tab Nears Release, But Is There Room For Yet Another Honeycomb Tab?
Author: Tiffany Shoman
HTC is prepping its first Honeycomb tab for release. Previous rumors placed the Puccini hitting the shelves sometime at the end of August or early September. That seems slightly more likely according a new report that states “late Q3 or early Q4.” But the question remains, does the market need another Honeycomb tablet, even one as powerful as the Puccini, when Ice Cream Sandwich is right around the corner?
Tablets do not seem to be a priority at HTC and for good reason: no one is buying Android tablets. Earlier this year, the company launched its first tablet, the Android 2.2 HTC Flyer, when other companies where launching Honeycomb tabs. The Flyer is a fun piece, a $ 499 7-inch Android 2.x tablet with optional $ 80 stylus. The high price and cheap component list seemed to state that the Flyer is a high-margin, low-volume product for HTC, one likely designed to test the water without forcing HTC to dive headfirst. The Puccini might be more of the same.
The Puccini isn’t official yet, nor has HTC teased any info about the tablet. However, several leaks state that the 10-incher is packing a 1.5GHz CPU and of a Snapdragon dual-core pedigree. It’s to have 2GB of RAM, active digitizer stylus, dual cams including a rear-facing 8MP camera, and, if other rumors are to be believed, an AT&T LTE radio. Chances are it will follow the “me too” pricing scheme and hit the market at $ 499 to compete with the iPad. It’s just too bad that the iPad isn’t the Puccini’s competition but rather other Honeycomb tabs and soon, Ice Cream Sandwich tablets.
Honeycomb is a world of ruined fairy tales right now. The stock OS and apps are fine, but there are just a handful of usable apps even now, six months after the OS launched. Ice Cream Sandwich promises to right this wrong by being a unified Android experience for the end-user and developer. And so, it’s rather curious why HTC is pushing its first Android 3.x tab to retail at the end of Honeycomb’s life cycle. The OS is reportedly scheduled to launch in Q4 of 2011, or rather, just after the Puccini hits the market.
The only likely conclusion to this aforementioned quandary is that, yes, tablets are not a priority for HTC. Market timing and placement is a paramount to a product’s success and the Puccini is going to be set up to fail.
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