Google streaming I/O conference 2011 live for those who can't make it

The Google I/O conference, a gathering of developers from across the globe to San Francisco's Moscone Center, sold out in under an hour. In an effort to encompass as many people as clearly want to join in with the conference, Google is going to stream the keynotes, sessions and Developer Sandbox, live via the Google I/O website. This is in addition to the already planned I/O Extended viewing parties that Google and others are hosting around the world.

So if were unlucky in getting tickets, stuck at home, or to your desk on May 10th and 11th, but really want to get in on the I/O action, check out the Google I/O Live page, where you can register your interest by displaying the Google I/O Live 2011 HTML5 badge on your site. Oh and check out the fancy, bouncing ball, countdown clock while you're there too.

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Finnish Court Orders ISP To Kick Accused File Sharers Off The Internet

Despite a recent UN report that condemns the idea of kicking people off the internet as a civil rights violation, a court in Finland has agreed with a request by the record labels to kick three accused files sharers off the internet with no notice at all. This isn't three strikes. It's basically one-strike. Record labels accuse... court tells ISP to kick them off. I'm so sure that'll make people start buying music again.

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Hanako 2 robot acts like a human dental patient, makes us say 'aah' (video)

No, she's not in a state of shock, nor is she hunting for plankton -- she's simply waiting for the dentist to polish her pearly whites, just like any other conscientious robot. Known as the Showa Hanako 2, this humanoid was originally developed last year as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures. Now, engineers at Japan's Showa University have updated their dental denizen, adding a motorized head and replacing her PVC skin with a more realistic silicon coating. She also boasts speech recognition capabilities and can execute freakishly natural movements, including blinking, sneezing, coughing and, under more unsavory circumstances, even choking. See her in action for yourself, after the break.

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Institute Double Take

By Nicholas Chornay

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

An empty hallway inside MIT Medical provides a study in texture and shape. The walls, ceiling, and floor are all different materials. One wall is brick, and the other consists of windows, though the texture from this perspective is dominated by the windows? wooden borders. The floor is smooth tile, while the ceiling appears to be concrete. The image is thus split into four nearly triangle-shaped regions. The borders between these regions seem to converge to a single vanishing point, and would do so were the hallway infinite instead of abruptly truncated by a glass double door.

Source: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N28/hallway.html

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Cisco takes the tablet to work

Cisco Systems sees big opportunity for its new tablet PC that focuses exclusively on business users.

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iSuppli: DDR4 crossover to come in 2014

Market research firm iSuppli has released a new report that takes a closer look at the DRAM module market. As one might expect, DDR3 dominates. It's expected to make up the lion's share of the market until 2014, when iSuppli thinks next-gen DDR4 modules will take the lion's share...

Source: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21200

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Windows 8 App Store images leaked?

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft's wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today's installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows App Store, which will likely feature prominently in Windows 8.

We've got our doubts about the authenticity of the image. In addition to showing several of the built-in games which already ship with Windows, Opera is listed -- and a competing browser seems like an odd inclusion this early on. Of course, with the browser ballot still in place in the EU for quite some time, Microsoft would probably need to include rivals like Opera and Firefox to stay out of trouble. We're also not sure why Clickgamer is shown beneath Angry Birds instead of Rovio -- the game's actual publisher.

It's still early, of course, so it's entirely possible that the Windows App Store image is genuine but merely using placeholder images and text for now. Anyone else thinking Windows Marketplace might be a more logical name? You know, to keep things consistent with Windows Phone and keep Apple's legal eagles at bay.

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Web Games Threaten the Console

A generation of new titles from the cloud have all the action and graphical richness of traditional shoot-em-ups and strategy games

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b4235037448495.htm

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BioShock Infinite the big winner in the E3 Game Critics Awards

BioShock Infinite ends up being the big winner in this years Game Critics Awards: Best of E3, with four wins, including the top prize for Best of Show.

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Vacation brain food

One thing I try to do on vacation is “tune up my brain.” Bill Gates taught me this because he’d take a stack of books on vacation and read them. On my vacation, just concluded, I read most of Inside the Plex, by Steven Levy. A book about Google. It is an awesome book and [...]

Source: http://scobleizer.com/2011/06/22/vacation-brain-food/

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WakeMate 2.0: Helping You Kiss Those Groggy Mornings Goodbye. For Real, This Time.

The story of WakeMate could be viewed as a warning to all tech-savvy entrepreneurs out there: building a hardware device is much more difficult than most web applications. The promise of WakeMate is compelling ?�it sells a $60 wristband that tracks your movements during the night, syncs to your smartphone, and wakes you up in the morning when you're in the lightest stage of sleep, thereby reducing grogginess (hopefully). But the going hasn't been easy. The company trudged through a year of delays, faulty units, and upset customers before it finally started shipping in December, only to run into another issue: customers who had WakeMate units were having issues with the accompanying smartphone�applications, which weren't properly syncing.�Which led to more negative reviews and frustration. But now things are starting to look up for WakeMate.

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Pressplane Raises $3.5 Million For Mobile Web Publishing App Zapd, Rob Glaser Joins Board

Seattle startup Pressplane just inked a new $3.5 million round, led by Madrona Ventures. Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks and now a partner at Accel, also invested personally and is joining board. Second Avenue Partners and chairman Mika Salmi (formerly of MTV Networks and Atom Entertainment) also participated. The money will go into further development of Zapd, a mobile publishing platform that lets people create good-looking, customized Websites directly from their iPhones. (You can see it in action on this episode of Fly or Die). Since its launch in March, Zapd has been downloaded 320,000 times with very little marketing.

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Silicon Valley should wake up to clawback culture

There's been a storm over Skype's private equity investors and their treatment of stock options, but is that storm a remnant of Silicon Valley?s cash-rich, founder-happy culture? Evidence from elsewhere would suggest that entrepreneurs just don?t know how good they?ve been getting it.

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SureFire's UB3T Invictus flashlight is super-bright, not quite incendiary

SureFire first announced its blindingly UB3T Invictus torch back in 2010, but it took until now for the company to get its 800-lumen flashlight out the door. As a point of comparison, the massive (almost as good a weapon as light) six D battery MagLite only spits out about 160 lumens -- so, yeah, the Invictus is pretty dang bright. Of course, pumping out that much illumination takes quite a toll on the three 123A cells inside its military-grade aluminum body. At maximum brightness the UB3T lasts just 1.7 hours, though, at the lowest 2-lumen setting it can keep (dimly) lighting your path for up to 150 hours. Unfortunately, you'll need to shell out $695 for the privilege of owning one, which seems a bit pricey when compared to the $150, 4,100 lumen Torch -- after all, you can't cook breakfast with the Invictus.

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Angry Birds Rio catapults into webOS App Catalog

After having been available for iOS and Android for around a couple of weeks, Angry Birds Rio, the latest edition of the casual gaming megahit, has finally reached webOS as well.

Angry Birds Rio has two episodes that contain over 60 new levels at the moment, but episodic updates are promised to arrive throughout this year. Let's not forget that Angry Birds Rio brings the biggest change to the franchise yet -- you no longer aim for little green pigs. This time, in fact, your anger is directed at monkeys who are to blame for holding other fowl hostage in cages.

Buy Angry Birds Rio for webOS for $1.99 from the webOS App Catalog

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Eight is Enough


Bloomberg: Google says FTC starts review of practices
TechCrunch on Skype's worthless employee stock option plan: Here's why they did it
EETimes reports PCI Express poised for 2x upgrade
X-bit labs: Seagate unveils industry's first hard disk drive for tablets
AppleInsider reports teardown of Apple's...

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�Torrent 3.0: How to Enable Streaming

The new version of the popular Bit Torrent client allows you to watch videos with progressive downloads which means you can preview a file before waiting for it to fully download. You need to enable the feature and set the video player to be used.
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Google turns over user data in 94% of US demands

Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft? Who knows?

The US government filed more than twice as many demands for data about Google users than any other other country in the past six months, according to figures the search behemoth supplied Monday.?

Source: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/google_user_data_subpoenas/

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Israel Ruiz nominated for EVP 
and MIT Treasurer

MIT Vice President for Finance Israel Ruiz SM ?01 has been selected to succeed Theresa M. Stone SM ?76 as executive vice president and treasurer of MIT. The nomination, made by President Susan J. Hockfield and the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation, will be confirmed by a vote of the full MIT Corporation at an annual meeting on Oct. 14.

Source: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N28/ruiz.html

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Tiny Tower picks up a million downloads in four days

Developer Ian Marsh of NimbleBit has been sharing some interesting facts and figures on Twitter about his new app Tiny Tower. Perhaps the most impressive overall is that the pixelated freemium tower simulation game has already gained a million players, despite only being on the App Store for four days. There's a large amount of engagement with these users as well; Marsh has also tweeted that each user is logging in for a number of different sessions during the day (the game encourages you to come back often to re-stock the various stores in your tower). That's added up to a lot of playtime -- over a quarter century and counting.

Perhaps most importantly for NimbleBit, Tiny Tower is seeing about 2.6% of its users actually invest in in-app purchases, which is about double the standard amount for Marsh's other big freemium title, Pocket Frogs. Obviously Nimblebit hasn't released actual dollars earned, but you can do the math to know that there's some money coming in already.

On a less-serious note, Marsh also tweeted something he calls "Tiny Tower Game Boy edition," basically just a grayscale graphics mode for the game. That's likely something that came up in development, but maybe NimbleBit is working on some new graphical styles (Update: Nope, NimbleBit was just messing around in Camera+. Oh well.). There is one update already out for approval (mostly bugfixes), and there's surely more to come.

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Video - The Quantum Frontier

MIT researchers have been leading the way toward quantum computers—devices that could solve problems too big for all today's supercomputers put together.

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SpaceShipTwo keeps passing glide tests

SpaceShipTwo, a privately built rocket plane designed to take tourists on suborbital flights, continues to chalk up more flight time as it glides through the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43540756/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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Asus expected to release $199 MeeGo netbook in July

Tablets have certainly booted netbooks out of the spotlight recently, but that doesn't mean the end of tiny, underpowered laptops. Quite the contrary. DigiTimes reports that next month will see the release of Asus' Eee PC X101, which will be available for a scant $199 with the MeeGo operating...

Source: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21197

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Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide

If you have an Iconia Tab A500 and an unbridled passion for running the latest Android software, we've got good news for you. Acer's 3.1 update for the 10-inch Tegra 2 slate has actually slipped out a little early and can now be downloaded at the source link below. It brings the resizable widgets and other goodies that Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer users have been savoring for a while, though that's naturally not been enough for some and there are already custom ROMs built off this leak that augment the upgrade with superuser privileges. Alternatively, should you be disinclined to flash your own tablet, you can just wait for Acer to start beaming Android 3.1 over the air to its European A500s on July 5th.

Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide

If you have an Iconia Tab A500 and an unbridled passion for running the latest Android software, we've got good news for you. Acer's 3.1 update for the 10-inch Tegra 2 slate has actually slipped out a little early and can now be downloaded at the source link below. It brings the resizable widgets and other goodies that Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer users have been savoring for a while, though that's naturally not been enough for some and there are already custom ROMs built off this leak that augment the upgrade with superuser privileges. Alternatively, should you be disinclined to flash your own tablet, you can just wait for Acer to start beaming Android 3.1 over the air to its European A500s on July 5th.

Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The road to antitrust is paved with good intentions

Google says it has received a letter from the FTC about an investigation, but maintains in a blog post that it's just trying to serve users the best way it knows how. Will this Little Orphan Annie act fly with the feds? Unlikely.

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Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it's now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system's hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of multiple disks, a simplified scheduling screen, and more informative tool tips. Auslogics has also fine-tuned the program's defragmentation and file consolidation algorithms.

For laptop users, there's a new option to lock the program if your system is running on battery power -- so scheduled operations don't kick in and drain your power source at an inopportune moment. If you happen to have an SSD installed in your PC, you can head to the Disk Defrag options and exclude it from scanning (many think that defragmenting an SSD is a very bad idea).

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a free download and works with most versions of Windows.

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How Fast Should Your Camera's Memory Card Be?

When you are shopping for a camera memory card, faster isn't always better because you can end up overpaying for performance you can't use. Here are some shopping tips.

Source: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/how-fast-should-your-cameras-memory-card-be/

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IE9: Disable pinning sites to the taskbar

Pinning a site to the taskbar in IE9 is an useful feature, but may also be an annoying thing when everybody in your family tries to pin their favorite websites to the taskbar. To keep your Windows taskbar organized, you may want to disable this feature.
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Source: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/15288/ie9-disable-pinning-sites-to-the-taskbar/

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True Blood Returns, Social Media Users Rejoice

Or, if I’m writing from my perspective, “Jessica Is Back!!!!” That’s right, HBO’s smash hit, True Blood starts its fourth season tonight on HBO, and it’s safe to say anticipation is running over. It was on Friday, when people still …

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