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Researchers Build Robot Inspired By Caterpillars
The Researchers from Tufts University have built a robot that is able to mimic the way a caterpillar balls itself up to bounce away from predators. As you see the videos we had given, while the robot is quite bigger than the actual bug, is does indeed to do a good caterpillar intimation. The researchers…
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Android 3.1 Gets Namechecked By Adobe Flash Player 10.2
We have been inundated with tips that there is a sticky sweet new build of Android on the way for recent crop of slates that OEMs and carriers are rolling out and that just like that last time you will need that software to take advantage of all hardware rendering compositing that your Tegra 2…
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Motorola Xoom LTE Update Delayed
Motorolas Xoom LTE upgrade has been delayed. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha told that we will be seeing the Bionic, delay that we were already sulking about ans said that the company is waiting for its LTE rollout to get a little further along. So, it seems to be one less G for Xoom users until…
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NFL Mobile Apps Brings To You Live Tonight On iPhone, iPad and Android
The first round of the 2011 NFL draft kick off by today night 8.00PM, you can still get live updates through the NFLs app for iOS and Android devices. The NFL GameCenter apps that have been kicking around for iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones have been updated for the 2011 season in Lite and Premium…
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Android 2.3.4 To Nexus S, Brings Video And Voice Chat To Gtalk
Google is about to start delivering Android 2.3.4 to Nexus S devices out in the wild, and in among all the bug fixes and optimizations, users will find the addition of video and voice chat to Google Talk. You will be able to do it anywhere, by virtue of Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G or the force,…
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Ubuntu 11.04 Brings New Unity UI
Ubuntu 11.04 or Natty Narwhal, is now here and packing the significant changes from earlier editions of the Linux distro. The most obvious is arrival of Unity desktop environment, which was relegated to netbooks. It got integrated search, a combination launcher and taskbar, and app menus that have been moved to the top of the…
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Sony PSN Outage – Sony ‘Reviewing’ PSN Refunds For Affected Users
With Sony PSN was targeted by an unknown hacker, Sony admitted after a week of silence that users personal information has been compromised. Now an interesting move was made by Sony to get back its loyal user base. In the official FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) released in the event of the current outage, Sony sheds…
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Fake Windows Phone 7 Debuts In China
The smartphones platforms are legitimated by KIRF manufacturers tenacity to rip them off, and then Windows Phone 7 has truly arrived. We are looking at a larger than life HTC-branded knock-off of the Omnia 7, replete with 800*480, 4.8 inch display with capacitive touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon Processor. Given the massive size of this phone,…
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Qik Video Connect Apps Get Live iPhone to Android Video Chat And More
EVO and MyTouch 4G users have been able to enjoy the virtues of video calling through Qik for some time, but Skypes latest acquisition is finally letting a few more phones in on the action. Video Connect now works with some devices running Android 2.1 and up, iPhones, iPad2s and any iPod Touch with a…
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Sony PSN Down Due To Hacker Infiltration. Personal Information Of Users Compromised And Stolen.
Last Wednesday (April 20, 2011) Sonys PlayStation Network was down. That time Sony said that it is for maintenance and the outage would only last for a day or two. But now, Sony has announced that the outage was due to a hacker infiltrating the system and stealing PlayStation 3 and PSP players personal information.…
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Sonys New Freestyle Hybrid PC Tablet Slider And Next-gen Laptop
The electronic giant teased a couple of interesting VAIO laptops. First one is Freestyle Hybrid PC that slides between tablet mode and laptop mode like Samsung Sliding PC, but with a seemingly slimmer bottom-half sans trackpad. No word on specs, prices or availability here, but you may recall our proven tipster mentioning a 9.4-inch screen…
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HP TouchPad Hits FCC
The report expectedly remains confidential, but HP was at least kind enough to repeatedly mention TouchPad in its latest FCC filling, which saves us a bit of digging, and it means that the webOS tablet remains on track for a US launch soon sometime in June. It may get some cloud-based additions before then? HP…
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Windows Phone and BlackBerry Struggle To Attract
Windows Phone and BlackBerry Mobiles struggle to attract the developers attention. It applies to only the users of cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development entertainment, but it appears what Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. Only 29 percent of devs responded to the companys quarterly survey they were very interested in…
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Origin EON 17-S Gaming Laptop Up For Order
Origins EON 17-S gaming notebook, though a $3,000 dent in your wallet could severly compromise your purchasing power for the next few months. That is the starting price for this gaming laptop, with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-2920XM Quad-core Processor factory overclocked to 4.5GHz, and max the system out with 32GB of RAM, dual 480GB…
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CASIO GzOne Commando First Ruggedized Android Smartphone For Verizon
The official announcement has come; Casios macho GzOne Commando is coming to Verizon on April 28th for the price of $200 on-contract. In addition to meeting 810G military specifications for water, dust, shock, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and temperature extremes, it runs Android 2.2(Froyo) and features 3.6-inch (480*800) display, 5MP camera with autofocus, microSD…
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Coalition Of Companies Creates WebM CCL
When Google unveiled its WebM open source media format and declared it to be the one codec to rule all others, there were those who decried its usefulness and felt that H.264 should inherit the earth. WebMs power converted some of those, and rally to more to the VP8 / Vorbis cause, 17 companies have…
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Goes On Sale In US
The US had to wait for its Eee Pad Transformer launch little longer than rest of the world, but its finally got its wish today. Amazons order page for the $400 Honeycomb tablet appears to have gone from in stock to out of stock within mere minutes, while target the supplier fulfilling orders on behalf…
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Vibration Plays Impossible Music With Ball Bearings
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club has birthed vibration, a Robotic Vibraphone. Vibratrons Ardunio Mega controls 30 solenoid gates that drop steel balls onto the vibration keys, producing a note; an Archimedes screw recycles the bearings, turning them once more into sweet, sweet music. We should also note the vibration doesnt put decent salt-of-the-earth vibraphonists out of…
