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Benchmark. Barcodes. Nerd. Don’t fall for these scams | The Christian Student UK. This enormous 10TB disk drive will hold 15 hours of VR footage. SlashGear - Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions. Learn-Networking.com. New York City is Turning Trash Cans Into WiFi Hotspots. 458 1ShareNew Solar-powered trash bins in New York City might soon provide more than just waste disposal. Bigbelly, a waste management company with trash and recycling cans located across the city, wants to turn its garbage centers into free WiFi hotspots that can support the bandwidth equivalent of an entire small business. A pilot project in downtown Manhattan has been ongoing since last winter, when the company rigged two of its 170 neighborhood trash cans with WiFi hot spots. Tests of the signal quality and number of people who could connect to the network showed that the dank location of the WiFi units wouldn’t be a problem.

Each unit had a bandwidth of 50 to 75 megabits per second. The smart trash cans will not only be used to power the Facebooking of passersby, but could also provide the city with a new way to collect data about its garbage. New York City has a history of ambitious plans to turn everyday city sights into hotspots. [h/t: CityLab] The MINIX 3 Operating System. Welcome - Linux Wireless. 3D Printer Gives You Chocolate When You Work Out. If being chased by imaginary zombies doesn’t speed up your run, you may need to take more drastic measures—like rewarding yourself with chocolate. EdiPulse, a project from Rohit Ashok Khot, Ryan Pennings, and Florian "Floyd" Mueller at Exertion Games Lab in Australia, combines the wearables trend with 3D printing in order to gamify exercise and produce visible rewards.

The EdiPulse uses a Polar heart rate monitor that measures beats per minute, and sends that information through to a mobile app. The data gets saved on the Polar website, and once the workout is complete, the app translates the data for the 3D food printer. The printer then prints either a chocolate message or emoticon. The harder you work, the thicker the chocolate. In order to determine the number of chocolate layers printed, heart rates are divided into four zones: very light activity, light activity, moderate activity, and hard activity. Each activity zone also corresponds with a different emoticon. [h/t PSFK] The Linux Foundation. ASIMO. Development history[edit] P3 model (left) compared to ASIMO Honda began developing humanoid robots in the 1980s, including several prototypes that preceded ASIMO. It was the company's goal to create a walking robot which could not only adapt and interact in human situations, but also improve the quality of life. The E0 was the first bipedal (two-legged) model produced as part of the Honda E series, which was an early experimental line of humanoid robots created between 1986 and 1993.

This was followed by the Honda P series of robots produced from 1993 through 1997, which included the first self-regulating, humanoid walking robot with wireless movements.[6][7] The research conducted on the E- and P-series led to the creation of ASIMO. Development began at Honda's Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan in 1999 and ASIMO was unveiled in October 2000.[8][9] Features and technology[edit] Form[edit] Abilities[edit] Mobility[edit] Impact and technologies[edit] Specifications[edit] Android (operating system) Operating system for mobile devices Linux distribution At its core, the operating system is known as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)[3] and is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License.

However, most devices run the proprietary Android version developed by Google, which ships with additional proprietary closed-source software pre-installed,[4] most notably Google Mobile Services (GMS),[5] which includes core apps such as Google Chrome, the digital distribution platform Google Play, and the associated Google Play Services development platform. Firebase Cloud Messaging is used for push notifications. While AOSP is free, the "Android" name and logo are trademarks of Google, who restrict the use of Android branding on "uncertified" products.[6][7] The majority of smartphones based on AOSP run Google's ecosystem—which is known simply as Android—some with vendor-customized user interfaces and software suites,[8] for example One UI.

History 2000s. ​$100,000 awaits woman who threw away rare Apple 1 computer. An e-waste recycler hopes to find a woman who threw out an Apple 1 computer that has been sold for $200,000. Recycling company CleanBayArea in Milpitas, California, has written out a $100,000 check for a mystery woman, aged around 60 to 70 years old, who dropped off the rare computer in April without leaving any contact details. According to the company's website, the woman left "a couple of boxes of e-waste", apparently without realising the value of one item inside it -- an Apple Computer 1 that was buried beneath a bunch of cables and old keyboards.

Apple patents phone where bending is a feature, not a flaw Apple has been granted a patent that could lead the way to a fully flexible iPhone that's actually built to bend in your pocket. Read More The recycling firm said it has sold the computer to a private collector for around $200,000 and now needs to find the woman to give her a 50 percent cut of the sale value. "We thought it was fake. Gadgets, Google, and SEO. Information Technology. Programmation Web. PC Scammers | The Christian Student UK. Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. Vintage Computers and Emulators. 17 obscure Windows tools and tricks too powerful to overlook. Intel turns its attention to desktop performance, unveils 8-core Haswell-E processor. Intel took the wraps off its most powerful consumer CPU at the PAX video-game conference in Seattle, WA, today.

Intel’s Core i7 High-end Desktop Processor Family, code-named Haswell-E, consists of three unlocked processors that support hyperthreading, DDR4 memory, and Intel’s all-new X99 chipset. The top-of-the-line Core i7-5960X boasts eight cores (16 processor threads), 20MB of cache, and 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes. This $999 processor runs at a base clock frequency of 3.0GHz and torques up to 3.5GHz in turbo mode. The Core i7-5930K provides six physical cores (12 processor threads), 15MB of cache, and 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes.

Its base clock frequency is 3.5GHz (up to 3.7GHz in turbo mode) and costs $583. The Core i7-5820K is also a six-core (12 processor threads) CPU with 15MB of cache, but it supports only 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes. Since all three processors are unlocked, system builders and end users can tweak the PC's BIOS to run the CPUs at even higher clock speeds. The big changes Target customers. TouchPico on Indiegogo: Android PC with Projected Touch Screen. TouchPico. Alienware just built the Mac Pro of gaming PCs. Top 15 Scams You've Probably Fallen For.

Windows 9: Goodbye, Charms bar, hello virtual desktops? Reports about the next major Windows release keep getting better and better. It looks like Microsoft has finally come to its senses and will dump the Charms bar in Windows 9 (also known as Threshold) slated for release next spring. Even better, Microsoft is planning a surprise for multi-taskers with the addition of multiple virtual desktops. Microsoft hasn't released any official details, but multiple news sites report these changes are for real. That's good news for desktop users and it also means we can probably knock at least two items off our Windows 9 wish list. Charmless Windows On Wednesday, WinBeta reported that the Charms bar was on its way out in Windows 9, at least for desktop users. The Charms bar is the pop-out side bar on the right-hand side of Windows 8 and 8.1 that contains options such as search, share, and settings. The Charms bar was always problematic since there were no visual cues within the UI to hint at its existence.

More desktops for your desktop. Home Magazine. The Phone Call Is Dead. Photo © 2008 mike | more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It’s on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline. My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” but as consumer inertia is somehow still keeping our parent company Aol in the dialup business, I thought it might be prudent not to include an ETA on the death of the call.

Less obsolete but more annoying than a handwritten letter, the phone call is fading as a mode of communication even if the nostalgic will be singing its praises for awhile. We reached a breaking point in 2008 when text messaging topped mobile phone calling in usage, and we’ve been living in a world dominated by text based communication ever since (Thanks Twitter). If old media has taught us anything, it’s that it takes most industries at least a generation to be completely disrupted, especially something as powerful as Big Telco. PC Scammers | the christian computer and media user.

Are you a responsible digital citizen? TechEBlog. Technology News - Computers, Internet, Invention and Innovation Tech. Super User. Internet - How To Information. Low price memory. MicroSD. Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format for use in portable devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS navigation devices, and tablet computers. The Secure Digital standard was introduced in 1999 as an evolutionary improvement over MultiMediaCards (MMC).

The Secure Digital standard is maintained by the SD Card Association (SDA). SD technologies have been implemented in more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models.[1] The Secure Digital format includes four card families available in three different form factors. The four families are the original Standard-Capacity (SDSC), the High-Capacity (SDHC), the eXtended-Capacity (SDXC), and the SDIO, which combines input/output functions with data storage.[2][3][4] The three form factors are the original size, the "mini" size, and the "micro" size.

Electrically passive adapters allow the use of a smaller card in a host device built to hold a larger card. Overview[edit] SD[edit] Stack Overflow. Nokia e71 blog. Technology News - Computers, Internet, Invention and Innovation Tech. Silicon.com. Technology News. Technology: Green Living. Electric fins and inflatable paddleboards Unbelievable to hear yet true, this amazing electronic machine is a universal electric conversion kit for stand up paddleboards, long boards and Kayaks. This electric motor can be installed in less than a minute and has a highly efficient battery that propels you for almost six hours on a single charge. Electric fins and inflatable paddleboards Read more...

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