LG's first 55-inch OLED HDTV pops up in the FCC's database

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/lgs-first-55-inch-oled-hdtv-pops-up-in-the-fccs-database/

Although LG and Samsung exhibited dueling OLED HDTVs at CES earlier this year neither has been able to put a model on US shelves yet. that may change soon since we just spotted this 55EM9700-UA from LG in the FCC's database. Flashing WiFi and Bluetooth modules as well as a December 2012 build date, our only picture of the unit is from behind, powered off, although the photographer makes a cameo via reflection. An appearance in what remains of 2012 seems unlikely, but the odds that next thing in television display technology will actually arrive soon are getting better -- assuming lawsuits don't put the breaks on everything. While you look for an extra $10,000 or so in that holiday budget, check out better pics in the gallery, and a promo video plus a pic of the label after the break.

Gallery: LG 55EM9600 press shots

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Samsung product page confirms Galaxy Camera coming to Verizon LTE

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/samsung-galaxy-camera-verizon-lte/

Well, it was all but confirmed at Photokina, but the release of AT&T's HSPA+ Galaxy Camera threw a few doubts our way. Still, it looks like an LTE version of Samsung's Jelly Bean shooter will be in fact making its way stateside, landing on Verizon's 4G network no less. From a quick glance at the EK-GC120's spec sheet, most of the features seem to be in line with the global variant, with an obvious exception in the network field -- this flavor lists only 700 MHz compatibility, so you might have some trouble hooking up overseas.

Pricing and availability info is still up in the air (the "Shop" link currently lands us at a 404), but we've reached out to Verizon and Samsung for those still-pending deets, and we'll pass along the good word as soon as it hits our inbox. For now, at least you can rest assured that the most compelling Android-powered shooter will be getting an LTE boost, so if you're currently in line to snag that lesser-equipped AT&T variant, you might want to step aside and wait for the 16-megapixel shooter to hit Big Red.

Update: Just moments after our post went live, Samsung pulled the product page. The specifications list is still active though (for now), so if you want to sneak a peek at the official sheet, you can hit up that respective source link below.

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The 25 Most Disruptive Apps Of 2012

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This was a huge year for apps.

Apple's App Store surged to more than 700,000 apps and is still growing. Google's Android Play Store also swelled to around 700,000 apps as of October 2012, significantly closing the gap between the two rivals.

As the year nears a close, we took a look at some of the industry game changers of 2012.

Brewster changes the way we look at our address book and relationships

Brewster is a personalized address book that understands your social networking relationships and merges everything into a beautifully-designed app. The goal is to make it easier to manage your contacts. And to that end, the app delivers.

Our favorite feature is the ability to mass email or text a group of friends.

Price: Free

Available for: iPhone

The Fancy challenged us to think outside of the box when it comes to e-commerce apps

The Fancy is changing how we discover and purchase things that we like. Think of The Fancy as a social version of Amazon or a shopper-friendly version of Pinterest.

The Fancy was so cool this year that there were even talks of Apple buying the service.

Check out our walkthrough of the Fancy >

Price: Free

Available on: Android and iOS

Fantastical made a better iPhone calendar than Apple's built-in app

Fantastical's goal is to be fast and friendly. It realizes that people are always on the go and makes it very easy to quickly pull up the app, check your appointments, and avoid complications.

The team built Fantastical for iPhone from the ground up because they didn't want to just port a desktop app to the iPhone and be done with it.

Price: $1.99 (launch price). Flexibits plans to raise the price to $3.99 at some point, so if you want an alternative to the iPhone's built-in calendar, now's a good time to try it out. 

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Weird New Substance Flows Like a Liquid Then Remembers Its Shape In Water

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-substance-solid-liquid-2012-12

An awesome new metamaterial created by researchers at Cornell University can flow like a liquid  then when put in water it returns to its original shape.

A matematerial is a material that is man made and can not be found in nature.

Biologist and environmental engineer, Dan Luo, created this hydrogel using synthetic DNA. Single strands of DNA will lock onto other strands with a complimentary sequence, serving as a great building block for self assembling materials.

The hydrogel was created by using a mixture of synthetic DNA and a polymerase enzyme, which is what makes DNA chains longer and weaves them with other DNA strands.

"During this process they entangle, and the entanglement produces a 3-D network," Luo explained in a release from the university.

The researchers described their new substance as working like a rubber band, which has a shape but can be twisted, stretched, and deformed.

The material also has small empty spaces that can absorb water, and resembles a sponge. Because of this hydrogels may one day be used to deliver drugs slowly into patients as it degrades in the body.

The new hydrogel was published Dec. 2 in the journal Nature Nanotechology. An awesome video of the gel being hydrated and returned to its original shaped can be seen here.

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Hands-on with Transporter, the peer-to-peer social storage solution

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/hands-on-transporter-peer-to-peer-social-storage/

You may have missed Transporter's unveiling on Kickstarter earlier today, so let us provide a quick refresher -- it's a device that, when used in tandem with one or more other Transporters, enables simple and secure peer-to-peer file sharing. Unlike many Kickstarter projects, however, Transporter's already in the beta testing stage of development and the hardware is ready for prime time. We had a chance to see the thing in person this evening, so we figured we'd open it up and give you a glimpse of what lies beneath its onyx exterior. Join us after the break for our impressions.

Gallery: Transporter hands-on

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Amazon's Silk Browser Can Be Hacked to Provide Free Grid Computing

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5966502/amazons-silk-browser-can-be-hacked-to-provide-free-grid-computing

Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds. But what if you could gain access to all that computing power for free?

It turns out that you can, using a loopholes in a new type of browser which taps the cloud to boost web page load speeds. Amazon's Silk browser as well as Opera Mini and another browser called Puffin all use this trick to help render web pages on mobile devices, which can lack the computational punch to handle complex web scripts or graphics-heavy pages, for instance.

William Enck at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and colleagues found a way to use those cloud browsers to perform free computations of their choosing. They used bit.ly links to exchange data between different cloud browsers, so as to stay below a data threshold built into the browsers to prevent buggy web pages using up too many resources. With multiple cloud-browser instances linked, they were able to process data for free, running processes for which Amazon charges $0.08 per hour.

They tested their method using just 100 megabytes of data so as not to overload browsers' cloud, getting the browsers to count and sort words in a document.

The hack performed as well as legitimate cloud computing techniques. Although Enck's team tested the loophole only with mundane tasks, it could be put to nefarious uses, such as launching denial-of-service attacks or cracking passwords, they write in a paper due to be presented this week at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Google gives WWF $5 million to fund wildlife-observing drones

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/google-gives-wwf-5-million-to-fund-wildlife-observing-drones/

Most of the drone-related news these days may focus on military or police use, but those are far from the only applications for the unmanned aerial vehicles. Case in point: the World Wildlife Fund, which has now received a $5 million grant from Google's Global Impact Awards program to fund UAVs designed to monitor endangered species. Details on the drones themselves remain light, but the WWF says they'll be used to detect poachers and tagged animals on the ground, and then relay that information to a command center and mobile law enforcement units. What's more, while that initial funding will only provide something of a testbed, the WWF says it's focusing on "easily-replicable technologies," with its ultimate goal being to create an "efficient, effective network that can be adopted globally."

[Image credit: WWF]

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Insert Coin: Transporter, the collaborative, internet connected, peer-to-peer storage hub (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/insert-coin-transporter-the-collaborative-cloud-storage-hub/

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line.

Although cloud storage is a mainstay of modern teamwork, there's any number of problems that come along with trusting it explicitly: the limited space for the money, the heavy dependence on a constant connection and the risk that a hack could expose sensitive projects. Veterans from Drobo, Sling Media and TiVo (among others) think they've got a much safer solution in the Transporter, a dedicated internet connected storage hub. Once online, the funnel-shaped device stores and automatically syncs files with the Transporters of invited friends and groups -- and only their Transporters. The focused sharing space keeps data both private and accessible offline, while free accounts limit the costs to the hub and a 2.5-inch hard drive, if it isn't already in the box.

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Mushkin shipping 'world's first' 480GB mSATA SSD in January for $500

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/mushkin-480gb-msata-ssd-500-jan/

Today, component maker Mushkin announced plans to ship the "world's first" 480GB mSATA solid-state drive. Priced at a respectable $500, the made-in-the-USA Atlas SSD is expected to ship beginning in early January, and features a SandForce SF-2281 controller with an unthrottled IOPS, a SATA III (6Gb/s) interface and a three-year warranty. At a little over $1 per gigabyte, ultrabook power users looking to push their storage capacity beyond its current 256GB boundary may want to keep an eye out for this burly option in the coming weeks. For more details, check out the press release after the break.

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Galaxy S III 'Premium Suite' features detailed: Multi-Window, Page Buddy and more (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/galaxy-s-iii-premium-suite-features-detailed-multi-window-pa/

Samsung started pushing a new Jelly Bean update to its Galaxy S III phones yesterday, and it's posted a video breaking down some of the features. Many of the "Premium Suite" upgrades are cribbed from the Galaxy Note II, but we're sure users will still enjoy multi-window, a customizable notification panel, smart rotation and more. The video shows off the new multitasking, NFC and reader features, plus contextual awareness tweaks that adjust the phone around your actions. Some of the other new features are apparently being saved for part two of the video, but if you need something to keep busy until 4.2 eventually arrives you can check it out after the break.

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Google+ makes you feel at home with Communities, 'a place for whatever you're into'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/google-communities/

Google's social service has provided a venue for chatting and collaborating with family and friends, but it hasn't exactly been the best place to get to know strangers who happen to share similar interests. That seems to be the idea behind Communities -- think of it as Facebook Groups, but within the Google ecosystem. Google+ Communities can be open to anyone on the network, but they can be private if you wish, so members have the opportunity to share photos, forum posts, and even add Hangouts and Events without worrying about that content being available to anyone and everyone on the web. The network's latest feature is set to roll out today, so keep an eye out for the Communities icon to hit your Google+ sidebar. You can also snag a sneak peek in the intro video just past the break.

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The Hardware Hackers Use to Crack Your Passwords

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5966169/the-hardware-hackers-use-to-crack-your-passwords

We often write about the ingenious new tricks developed by hackers to penetrate security systems, but rarely do we see how they go about their work. Here's the kit they use to crack your password.

At a recent security conference, called Passwords^12, researcher Jeremi Gosney showed off the kind of rig that hackers use to crack passwords. It's shown in the photograph above.

You're looking at a cluster of five 4U rack servers equipped with 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards, capable of communicating at up to 10 Gbps. On that is run a password cracking program which can churn through 348 billion NTLM password hashes per second.

In other words, plenty of secure passwords can be brute force attacked given a little time. For some perspective, that means a 14 character, LM-encrypted Windows XP password will fall within six minutes. There's plenty more technical detail over at Security Ledger if you're interested.

In the meantime, though, this should make you think twice about the kind of passwords you use: if you don't have long, random strings in use, hackers will be able to nail you. As Boing Boing puts it, yesterday's "password that would take millions of years to break" is this year's "password broken in an afternoon". Set 'em long and strong, people. [Security Ledger]

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Samsung HDTVs get an IPTV app for LG U+ in Korea, most US providers are still slacking

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/samsung-hdtvs-get-an-iptv-app-for-lg-u-in-korea-most-us-provid/

Here in the US, Samsung has consistently pushed the idea of using its HDTVs to watch cable / satellite without a set-top box at CES for the last several years. So far it has actually managed to launch support for DirecTV and Verizon FiOS video via IP although other providers demonstrated are still missing (Time Warner, Comcast), and now it's launching IPTV support at home in Korea with LG U+. The app lets Smart TVs directly tune into any of 138 broadcast channels as well as video on-demand, apparently without any box in the house. While we wait for easier IP access stateside -- and it's going to be an even longer wait now -- Samsung's also rolling out IPTV access with Estonian provider Elion, while LG U+ has already announced a set-top box with integrated Google TV, NFC and more. Maybe next year really is the year we get to ditch the cable box -- but also, maybe not.

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MetroPCS announces the Samsung Galaxy Admire 4G: 3.65-inch screen, LTE and $169 price tag

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/metropcs-samsung-galaxy-admire-4g/

Perhaps it's because the holiday season is well upon us, but MetroPCS decided now was the perfect time to welcome Samsung's Galaxy Admire 4G to its growing portfolio of wallet-friendly handsets. With today's introduction of the overhauled Admire, the Wireless for All carrier is surely expanding on its LTE-on-a-budget promise, as the device comes priced at a mere $169 (and that's without a beloved two-year commitment, of course). Naturally, this means we can't expect many high-end, drool-inducing specs onboard, but that's not to say some folks out there won't appreciate the 3.65-inch, HVGA display, a 1GHz CPU, 3-megapixel rear shooter and a taste of Google's famed Gingerbread -- after all, there's always that other galactic brethren if you're interested in getting more bang for your buck. The Samsung Galaxy Admire 4G will be up for grabs starting today on the MetroPCS website, while those looking to stop at nearby brick-and-mortar shop are going to have to wait until tomorrow to pick one up.

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AMD reveals Opteron 3300 and 4300 processors for the penny-pinching enterprise

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/amd-opteron-3300-4300/

As a followup to its flagship Opteron 6300 launch last month, AMD has just released several more Piledriver-based processors meant for the server room. One eight-core and two quad-core models are part of the Opteron 3300 series, while the Opteron 4300 series gets six new CPUs: one quad-core, three six-core and two eight-core designs. With all this new silicon, IT pros may have concerns about compatibility issues -- but fear not, for all of AMD's new gear has sockets that fit in with the 3200 and 4200 series to make upgrading a painless process. Designed for small-to-medium sized businesses and web host servers, the chips are relatively inexpensive with prices ranging from $174 to $501, a far cry from the the $575 to $1,392 price of the higher-end 6300.

Despite the low cost, AMD claims the CPUs have a 24 percent performance per watt increase and 15 percent less power usage than their predecessors. The chip maker will likely still face an uphill battle against Intel's mighty Xeon, but businesses looking to save a little cash might be the Opteron's saving grace. There's more detailed specs on the newly announced processors at the source, and you can get a peek at the pricing table after the break.

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