Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/powercolor-jumps-on-the-eyefinity-bandwagon-breaks-off-a-wheel/
PowerColor jumps on the Eyefinity bandwagon, breaks off a wheel originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/hp-slate-priced-at-400-for-june-launch-atom-cpu-confirmed/
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HP Slate priced at €400 for June launch, Atom CPU confirmed? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/dell-adamo-xps-alive-and-kicking-back-for-order-on-dell-com/
Dell Adamo XPS alive and kicking, back for order on Dell.com originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/apple-patent-application-offers-more-evidence-of-projector-plans/
Apple patent application offers more evidence of projector plans originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/npr-and-wsj-building-flash-free-pages-for-ipad-apple-quietly/
NPR and WSJ building 'Flash-free' pages for iPad, Apple quietly delays select iPad accessories originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/best-buys-3d-bundle-pricing-isnt-as-much-of-a-deal-as-it-appea/
Best Buy's 3D bundle pricing isn't as much of a deal as it appears originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dell debuts wireless, 3D-capable S300w short-throw projector originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/5495378/paypal-20-bumps-money-between-iphones
Of course, if all of you have PayPal accounts, you don't all need iPhones to "bump" your money—you can still send money the traditional way by loading up the app and entering an email address, or drawing from a recent contact. But with two iPhones running PayPal, it's easier to set a dollar amount, move them into proximity, then confirm that the "bump" means you're transferring that cash to the sucke—er, person who picked up the tab.
Beyond that proximity feature, PayPal 2.0 also adds a means of splitting up a restaurant check or other group purchases and "billing" other PayPal users for the amounts due. Bill reminders, money withdrawals, and other features you'd expect from the online payment system are still in place, too.
PayPal 2.0 is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models running at least the 3.0 firmware. If you've got a killer use for PayPal on iPhones that we didn't cover, do tell us in the comments.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5495353/this-is-what-your-wikipedia-edits-look-like
It's not just a one-off visualization for adding to our Tumblrs either. It's the work of Many Eyes, a website set up by a pair of computer scientists at IBM, to catalog visual representations of data. Looking at the site now, two years after Wired brought it to light and interviewed founder Martin Wattenberg, recent artworks tackle the issue of migration in the US, and cremations.
When asked by Wired back then why he's so keen to visualize data, Watterberg responded that:
"Language is one of the best data-compression mechanisms we have. The information contained in literature, or even email, encodes our identity as human beings. The entire literary canon may be smaller than what comes out of particle accelerators or models of the human brain, but the meaning coded into words can't be measured in bytes. It's deeply compressed. Twelve words from Voltaire can hold a lifetime of experience."
Wikipedia data remains a favorite for them though, thanks to the "idea of completeness" Watterberg talks about, that even though all the data on Wikipedia equals a terabyte or so, "it's huge in terms of encompassing human knowledge." [Many Eyes via Wired]
Memory [Forever] is our week-long consideration of what it really means when our memories, encoded in bits, flow in a million directions, and might truly live forever.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5495454/att-zero-charger-sucks-absolutely-no-vampire-power
UPDATE: It looks like another company beat AT&T to it and did things better. From Volt-Star:
It is our understanding that the AT&T device automatically shut down when the device or cell phone is unplugged. The VoltStar Eco Charger goes one step farther and shuts down once the phone is charged.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5495601/big-data-big-problems-the-trouble-with-storage-overload
Walmart's transaction databases are a whopping 2.5 petrabytes. There are more than 40 billion photos hosted by Facebook alone. When there's this much data floating around, it becomes nearly impossible to sort and analyze. And it's only expanding faster: the amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years.
We've also running out of space. The Economist reports that the amount of information created will more than double the available storage by 2011.
And the data we can store becomes more and more difficult to sort for future generations of researchers and businesses.
This may not seem like such a huge deal, but take a more recent, practical example. To produce the definitive word on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, court-appointed examiner Anton R. Valukas had to sift through 350 billion pages of electronic documents. That's three quadrillion bites of data. So how'd he look through all that information?
Simple. He didn't. Instead, loose search parameters were used to cut the number of emails and documents roughly in half, then teams of lawyers pared down what was left to a "manageable" 34 million pages. Valukas's final report was an expansive 2,200 pages long, but there's no way he was able to process all of the relevant documents, or that he was able to tell the whole story.
If there's hope to be found, it's in metadata. Much like library cards kept you from having to read every book, Google arranges your search queries and Flickr your photos. Even the tags on Gizmodo make it more manageable to find relevant content. But while metadata gives things searchable labels, the fact that it's often crowd-sourced means that those labels are at best inconsistent and at worst incomprehensible.
We've also made some advances visualizing big data, a relatively new field simply because it's only recently become a necessity. Whether graphing stock market data or turning large chunks of text into word clouds, it's imperative that we find ways to look at data that our brains can process more easily than they can long strings of raw information:
The brain finds it easier to process information if it is presented as an image rather than as words or numbers. The right hemisphere recognises shapes and colours. The left side of the brain processes information in an analytical and sequential way and is more active when people read text or look at a spreadsheet. Looking through a numerical table takes a lot of mental effort, but information presented visually can be grasped in a few seconds. The brain identifies patterns, proportions and relationships to make instant subliminal comparisons.
Processing information through images becomes ever more important if we ever hope to keep up with it.
We have a more thorough record of our lives and the world around us now than we ever have before. We can map the human genome in a week, for goodness sake. All of which is wonderful! We should absolutely be leaving behind as much of a record of our existence as possible. But we should also figure out how to manage it, and present it, before big data balloons totally out of our control. [Economist]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5495856/a-google-tv-set+top-box-is-coming
Google hopes that the new platform will succeed where dozens of lesser efforts have failed—to truly and seamlessly integrate web content onto TVs, bringing services like Twitter and sites like YouTube, in addition to games, webapps, and, of course, Google's search, to the big screen. The Google TV software reportedly includes a version of Google's Chrome browser for doing some light surfing, as well.
The Times says Google TV will be delivered on set-top boxes that use Intel Atom chips and run an Android-based platform, though the technology will also reportedly be built directly into Blu-ray players and TVs from Sony. Additionally, Google is working with Logitech to built a keyboard-equipped remote control for the platform.
Though spokespeople from the companies wouldn't comment on the project, the Times notes that Intel and Logitech have recently put out job listings for programmers with Android experience.
Television is a relatively unexplored frontier for Google. It's one of the few spaces left in which the company it is yet to extend its services (as well as its advertising.) But Google TV is far from a sure thing. Many companies have struggled to figure out the right user interface to finally make web on TV make sense. Google's interfaces tend toward toward the functional, rather than the beautiful, but on a big screen, the sexiness factor cannot be ignored.
Bringing web content to TVs is a role that's still very much up for grabs. If Google TV, which has reportedly been in works for months, is the right solution for the problem—Gmail was for web mail, Buzz was not for social networking—then it could very well could be the platform that finally brings the power of the internet to the realm of the couch-potato. [NY Times]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5495174/this-is-the-cloud-inside-microsofts-secret-stealth-data-centers
Microsoft's cloud capability isn't just interesting because Ballmer told us it was. It's the only serious hardware company that also has a serious cloud capability. (Google can't touch Microsoft's hardware, and Apple can't touch either in online services.)
As for these servers, you should get the basic concept: Networked storage with hot-swappable drives. Take that idea, extend it to power and cooling, and multiply it by thousands of drives, and you get what Microsoft is deploying for its cloud services—be it Exchange Server or Bing or Office 2010. It's a shipping container that's a fully self-contained server system. And true to its modular design, it can also be one piece of a larger network of servers, that can be set up anywhere, in a hurry.
The portability isn't the only thing that's relatively new: These systems used to require a fire hose to cool them down, but now they have a garden hose, and the water is only needed when temperature rises above normal operating temperatures.
The data center in Chicago, shown in pictures and video here, went live last summer and when completed will cover 700,000 square feet and demands 30MW of energy; one day demand will reach 60MW. Microsoft is exploring alternatives to power from the grid: A similar data center in Quincy, Washington uses hydro-electric power, 27MW worth. Here's how the Chicago center was "built":
Microsoft says it's got "more than 10 and less than 100 data centers worldwide." Vague, right? Secrecy is the key to the data game—Google is equally paranoid, maybe more. Microsoft says it's not about competition, just that the data stored on this stuff has to be kept completely confidential. It's stated part of Microsoft's online privacy policy: "We store customer information on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities."
Quite a few controlled facilities, even if Microsoft won't say exactly how many. What's sure is that the number is getting bigger. Judging by this viddy, the global deployment process can seem a little like Dr. Evil trying to take over the world, or at least you trying to win a game of Risk.
[Microsoft's Datacenters Blog]
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/acer-unveils-its-thin-and-light-aspire-timelinex-1830t/
Acer unveils its thin and light Aspire TimelineX 1830T (update: other models too!) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/samsungs-3d-bd-c6900-blu-ray-player-now-shipping-for-real/
Samsung's 3D BD-C6900 Blu-ray player now shipping, for real originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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