Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/skype-to-roll-out-five-way-video-calling-next-week-remote-party/
Continue reading Skype to roll out five-way video calling next week, remote partying to surge
Skype to roll out five-way video calling next week, remote partying to surge originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 10:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Survey says: most teens don't have a data plan, almost all send texts originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/oczs-enyo-may-be-the-sexiest-usb-3-0-external-ssd-this-world-ha/
Continue reading OCZ's Enyo may be the sexiest USB 3.0 external SSD this world has ever seen
OCZ's Enyo may be the sexiest USB 3.0 external SSD this world has ever seen originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/nokia-microsoft-partnership-bears-first-fruit-communicator-mobi/
Nokia-Microsoft partnership bears first fruit: Communicator Mobile comes to E52 and E72 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 16:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/roku-teases-revamped-netflix-channel-user-interface-on-video-co/
Continue reading Roku teases revamped Netflix Channel user interface on video, coming in June
Roku teases revamped Netflix Channel user interface on video, coming in June originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 17:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading ClamCase iPad case magically turns your tablet into a laptop
ClamCase iPad case magically turns your tablet into a laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 20:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/an-eyeful-of-adobes-android-tegra-prototype-tablet-running-ai/
Continue reading An eyeful of Adobe's Android / Tegra prototype tablet running Air
An eyeful of Adobe's Android / Tegra prototype tablet running Air originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 20:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Archos Vision 3 with VGA cam arriving this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 22:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Last time on let's-speculate-about-Apple-products, the New iPhone rumor mill dug up dirt on video chat and a 5 megapixel camera. Now, it appears there might be one more reason to call it the iPhone HD. MacRumors reports that the iPhone SDK 4 beta includes the value "AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720," leading some to believe Cupertino's next phone will record video in 720p. Mind you, the iPhone 3GS was technically already capable of that feat, so this might not have anything to do with a new handset, but honestly, at this point the iPhone's camera wouldn't be competitive recording in a smaller format anyhow.iPhone OS 4 unlocks 720p video capture, further solidifying iPhone HD? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 22:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/google-invests-startup-predicts-future
Recorded Future appears to be a data analytics company that tries to calculate what the future might hold by applying search-engine like capabilities to highly specific data sets in order to deduce what's probable to happen down the road. By scanning the Web for the frequency and nature of references to a certain person or occurrence, Recorded Future computes what it calls a "momentum value" for each entity in its database. From there, it tries to project future happenings, be they stock market swings or terrorist attacks.
A blog post on Recorded Future's Web site explains:
The momentum value indicates how interesting a certain event or entity is at a particular time, and is continuously updated. In computing the momentum value, we take into account the volume of news around an entity or event, as well as what sources it is mentioned in, what other events and entities it is mentioned together with, and several other factors.
The post continues:
The momentum measure is used to present the most relevant query results in our web user interface, but it can also be analyzed using statistical methods to predict possible future changes in momentum, which in turn can be valuable e.g. for trading decisions.
It sounds more reliable than a crystal ball, and honestly it sounds like a good fit for Google. Recorded Future's analytics tools could prove valuable to the search giant, especially if they prove useful at crunching large volumes of data into useful, actionable information -- a task that is Google's bread and butter. We'll try to guard our optimism and not dwell on the fact that such prediction models sounds vaguely similar to some of the risk management models employed by once-mighty investment firms.
Google plans to invest $100 million in startups through Google Ventures this year alone, so regardless of whether Recorded Ventures pans out, we predict Google will be just fine.
While other brain sims, like IBM's Blue Brain, use high-powered supercomputers to mimic the computing power of the human brain, Furber thinks that if we really want to recreate the brain synthetically, we need a more practical, affordable, low-power approach.
As such, he's building Spinnaker -- for Spiking Neural Network Architecture -- out of a chip that flopped as a follow-up to the BBC Microcomputer but that is now used in all kinds of mobile devices. A Taiwanese firm is churning out the chips, each of which will contain 20 ARM processing cores, each of which can model 1,000 neurons. By that math, Spinnaker needs 50,000 total chips at minimum to reach the 1-billion-neuron goal.
While Furber and company wait in Manchester, UK, for the chips to begin arriving, they've cobbled together a pared-down, 50-neuron version for testing. That model can already control a Pac-Man-like video game, and Furber's first goal once he gets working on the real deal is to teach Spinnaker to control a robotic arm. This, of course, is a precursor to his teaching it the full range of tasks required to control a humanoid body.
Coaxing a non-brain into acting like a real brain is no small task, but Furber is eager to get started on the teaching phase. He aims to have a 10,000-chip version working -- and learning -- before the end of this year.
Source: http://lifehacker.com/5530727/wolframtones-generates-unique-midi-ringtones-for-your-cellphone
WolframTones works by defining a set of loose criteria for each musical genre (such as classical, dance, jazz, and hip hop), and then generating a random MIDI tune every time you hit that genre's button. It works remarkably well—the tones are not a jumbled mess, they actually contain a melody and tend to (mostly) fit the genre you selected. Plus, each time you click it, you'll get something new, and probably never get the same one twice.
There are some more advanced features, like showing variations of your currently generated tone, as well as even changing the instruments on each track within the tone. You can also change the musical scale, tempo, and duration. It's pretty cool if you're sick of your ringtone, or your phone only supports MIDI. And, of course, it's all free—though standard messaging rates will apply when you send a tone to your phone.
Source: http://lifehacker.com/5530755/free-audio-editor-strips-audio-from-youtube-and-video-files
By entering a URL, you can strip audio from YouTube videos online. It downloads the YouTube video in FLV, then strips the audio from the FLV file. Free Audio Encoder will also strip audio from normal videos, such as those in AVI format.
We've covered Free Audio Editor before, and discovered the program was powerful and intuitive with its streamlined interface. The newest version remains a good pick for getting basic audio work done, and still offers rich features such as CD ripping/burning, text-to-speech conversion, and audio editing. While open-source audio editing programAudacity is in the same league, Free Audio Editor's updates give it a different use case for those grabbing what they can from the web.
Free Audio Editor is freeware for Windows only. A Deluxe version goes for $29.99 and unlocks a few obscured features, but the basic version will get you very far.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5531356/intels-atom-z6-moorestown-chips-will-run-android-and-meego
Other OSes will likely be seen sporting Z6XX chips, but for now Intel's only talking about the two more recent platforms. We can expect to see it in phones, clocking up more than 1.5GHz, thrusting its sword into the throat of the mighty Snapdragon, and when used in tablets or netbooks it could go as far as 1.9GHz.
Battery life, well. 5 hours so far for web browsing, though standby time is said to be 10 days. In a briefing with Intel, TechRadar saw three-way video conferencing and the ability to play Quake 3 and 1080p video decoding demo-ed on an Aava Mobile device. [TechRadar]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/confirmed-blackberry-two-way-sync-for-gmail-is-now-live/
We've just heard from the boys and girls at RIM that the company did, in fact, deploy the long-awaited two-way Gmail synchronization capability to North American BIS users this week. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means that if you've got a BlackBerry on any North American carrier that isn't going through BES, Gmail should behave more like it should -- deleted items will disappear from your phone, emails read elsewhere will show up as read on the device, and you'll have access to all of your sent items. Oh, and you can create and delete labels from the comfort of your QWERTY thumb board, too, which is a sweet deal. Sure, the feature might be literally years late as far as we're concerned -- but hey, better late than never.Confirmed: BlackBerry two-way sync for Gmail is now live originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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