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History Repeats Itself: KDP Select Is Amazon.com’s ‘Payback For Playback’
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 11:50 pm
New submitter brennanw writes “Anyone who was active on mp3.com during the late 90s/early 2000′s will find Amazon.com’s KDP Select awfully familiar: authors who make their works exclusive to Amazon c. […]
Higgs Signal Gains Strength
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 11:26 pm
ananyo writes “Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The new papers (here here a. […]
MIT Crowdsources and Gamifies Brain Analysis
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 11:07 pm
MrSeb writes “There are around 100 billion neurons in a human brain, forming up to 100 trillion synaptic interconnections. Neuroscientists believe that these synapses are the key to almost every one. […]
Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 10:15 pm
Brad Lucier writes “The Saylor Foundation has a vision: Free and open materials for a complete undergraduate university education. To that end, they’ve announced the first winners in their Open Textb. […]
Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:32 pm
An anonymous reader writes “If we break a bone it can take weeks or even month to heal depending on the type and severity of the break. In some extreme cases the complexity of the fracture can make i. […]
Apple Could Lose $1.6 Billion In iPad Lawsuit
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:51 pm
redletterdave writes “Proview Technology, which currently uses the ‘iPad’ name on several of its products including computer monitors, stands to win up to $1.6 billion and an apology from Apple for a. […]
Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:09 pm
An anonymous reader writes “Today Google announced the availability of a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android. Unfortunately, it’s limited to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices. Googl. […]
The 20th IOCCC Winners Announced
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:46 pm
An anonymous reader writes “The 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest ended on February 5th, 2012, and the list of winners has been announced. According to the page, the source code for all th. […]
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Flash, Bang, Ow! Less-Lethal Bullet ‘Attacks Three Senses’
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Less-lethal weapons-makers are busy coming up with their own brainy bullets…Like a munition that senses when it strikes soft flesh, and then deploys a devastating payload to “attack three of the fiv. […]
Fast-Spreading Animal Virus Leaps Europe, UK Borders
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:32 pm
A newly identified disease dubbed the Schmallenberg virus is moving rapidly through livestock in Europe, and it has authorities both worried and puzzled. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports.
Why Telcos Would Be Testing an Apple iTV Prototype
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:47 pm
According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, telecom companies Rogers and Bell Canada have in their labs an early prototype of Apple’s rumored television set. Although the possibility of an. […]
The Amazon Store? Maybe Try An In-Store Shop First
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:46 pm
Apple has been successful with its retail stores for reasons that are almost entirely specific to Apple. There is no reason, besides ego, for any company to mimic Apple’s approach unless that approach. […]
Red Hat Appliance Smooths Storage on Amazon Cloud
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:19 pm
Open source vendor Red Hat today rolled out its Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services, which it said “enables organizations to extend their datacenter storage to the cloud.”
Why Lady Gaga Deploys a Sound Only Your Smartphone Can Hear
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:13 pm
A startup called SonicNotify embeds inaudibly high-pitched audio signals within music or any other audio track. When a compatible app hears that signal, it triggers any available smartphone function t. […]
Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:34 pm
A one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files got a major legal boost when a federal judge late Monday refused to shutter it at the request of Capitol Records.
Adobe Builds Flash Sandbox for Firefox
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:18 pm
Adobe has partnered with Mozilla to build a more secure version of Flash for Firefox. As with a previous effort for Google’s Chrome browser, Adobe wants to make sure that something as simple as watchi. […]
Engadget
Engadget
Google Voice update for Android brings design refresh and asynchronous SMS
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 10:39 pm
A new version of Google Voice has just crawled out of the woodwork, and while the changes are minor, we think most users will like what’s in store. First and foremost, we were greeted with a new, dar. […]
Microsoft strikes deal with 24/7, promises to ‘redefine’ customer service
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:46 pm
A partnership between Microsoft and customer service company 24/7 may not exactly sound like the most exciting proposition on the face of things, but the two are making some fairly lofty promises, and. […]
Pentax refreshes its rugged camera lineup with the Optio WG-2 series
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:00 pm
Exactly twelve months after the unveiling of the Optio WG-1 family, Pentax is now introducing the successors to its colorful and ruggedized shooters. And while its macho design hasn’t changed much, t. […]
Canon unveils two AirPrint printers, thinks you should print more stuff from your iPad
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 8:32 pm
Want to print stuff from your iPad, but hate drivers and cords and stuff? Good news, Canon’s offering up the Pixma MX512 and MX432, two all-in-one inkjets that offer up Apple AirPrint support, lettin. […]
Chrome Beta for Android hands-on (video)
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:54 pm
So, Google is finally making the move we’ve been expecting for some time now and bringing Chrome to Android. Now, you’ll need a device running Ice Cream Sandwich to get the new mobile browser up and. […]
Reminder: Vote for the 2011 Engadget Awards!
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:48 pm
We’ve sorted through the nominations and now we’re relying on you to determine the real tech winners from 2011. So, if your smartphone of choice didn’t get all the love you hoped it would, hop on ove. […]
Sony Tablet P’s product manager shows off prototypes, tells the clamshell story
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 7:20 pm
Still baffled by the Tablet P’s existence? Well, Sony’s here to help! Earlier today, our brethren over at Engadget Chinese met up with Takeshi Goto, the head honcho of VAIO and mobile product produci. […]
Microsoft and British agency create child-friendly version of IE9
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 6:51 pm
As the entry age for web access heads ever southwards, preventing young minds from the perils of the internet is a growing concern for parents. For this reason, Microsoft teamed up with the UK-based. […]
