The Atlanta Thrashers’ sale and move to Winnipeg is not yet official, but Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed already is talking as if losing the team is inevitable.
Mars Rover Down: Spirit is Dead
NASA has confirmed news that was as inevitable as it was unwelcome: orbiting Mars satellites will cease search operations for the fallen rover at the end of the month.
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer now has an “Expected Delivery 1-10 Business Days” at Staples
If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the hard-to-find Android 3.0 ASUS 10.1″ Eee Pad Transformer then you better be heading over to Staples Canada online store. They have removed the “out of stock” and now list both the 16GB and 32GB models as ready to ship with an “Expected Delivery 1-10 Business […]
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Students walk out in advance of teachers strike
Some Saskatchewan students stage a walkout of their own in advance of the teachers’ two-day strike scheduled to start Wednesday.
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10 More Experimental Features You Should Enable from the Gmail Laboratory [Gmail Labs]
We’ve highlighted top 10 Gmail Labs you should enable before, but you’ll find more than ten useful features hidden inside Gmail’s Laboratory, and Google’s releasing new ones all the time. Here are ten more powered-up Gmail Labs worth enabling. More »
Facebook Adds “Subscribe Via RSS” Option to Pages
Facebook appears to have added a “Subscribe via RSS” option to Pages. The link, found at the bottom left side of Pages beneath the profile picture, leads to an Atom feed of wall posts by the Page that can be auto-discovered by clients.
The RSS option will assist users that want to stay up to date with news distributed from specific Pages without constantly having to check Facebook. Some people that might find this especially useful include those tasked with industry or corporate communications policy compliance, researchers, or those whose access to Facebook is blocked by an employer, educator, or government.
This link joins RSS links on Notes as evidence that RSS is not dead on Facebook, despite the site more actively supporting JSON-based API feeds. In the past, Pages could sometimes be subscribed to via SMS, but now most Pages show both RSS and SMS options. Some clients have also had limited access to RSS feeds of Pages in the past, but there was no official option for this on Pages.
Before, some thought Twitter’s API and RSS options made it a better choice for producing content to be received by certain types of clients. Though Facebook’s Graph API still doesn’t support subscriptions, Page wall RSS subscriptions bring it closer to parity with Twitter. They will also permit some experimental users of Facebook, where certain types of posts can trigger actions in controlled by clients.
Before And After of the Day
Before And After of the Day: Missourian Aaron Fuhrman — a self-taught landscape photographer — has been traveling around Joplin, photographing heartrending panoramic shots of the devastation left in the aftermath of Sunday’s tornado.
Fuhrman lined up one of these panoramic photos with a Google Street View screencap of the same intersection to illustrate the comprehension-challenging extent of damage caused by the twister.
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At last, we know what "the event" is on The Event [Video]
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When a show gets canceled before its time, it can go out gracefully or it can go out like an oily smack on the trousers. Unfortunately for The Event, we got the full smackage. More »
Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold
Normally, we don’t report news of games going gold. After all, when a game is hitting its release date, it’s not really news. But when that game is Duke Nukem Forever, it’s a whole different story.
Gearbox announced in a tweet today that Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. DNF has had more release dates than Elizabeth Taylor had husbands. From its announcement back in 1997 to going gold today, the development of this game has been a sordid saga of delays, revamps, engine changes, and more.
Since 2K assumed the reins of the franchise last year, the development has proceeded apace. Now, the day that many believed would never come has arrived. Duke’s coming back, and the discs are being pressed right now. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s actually going to launch. I may not believe it until I can hold it in my hand.
DNF will land in stores on June 14, and will be available on PC, PS3, and XBox 360.
The Hacker’s Keyboard Gives Android Devices Real Keyboard Functionality [Downloads]
Android: The Hacker’s Keyboard is a free keyboard replacement app that gives users all the keys that would normally be available on an actual physical keyboard, including all the function, number, and arrow keys. Since this adds so many keys, users have the option to keep the regular mobile-style keyboard while in portrait mode. More »
Acer’s 10-inch Oak Trail tablet running Android 3.0 rumored for July delivery
Paul Otellini already told us that we’d see new Android tablets running Intel silicon at Computex. Now DigiTimes is quoting loose-lipped upstream component makers who claim that Acer is set to launch its 10-inch Android 3.0 tablet built upon Intel’s Oak Trail platform in July. Mind you that’s the retail date, making the May 31st kickoff of Computex the perfect event to demonstrate the unARMed Android tablet for the first time in public. Of course, Acer was early with its Android-based netbook back in 2009 so it’s no surprise to see the company with another Google first in 2011. And really, without a suitable Microsoft tablet OS available until 2012, you can bet that Intel’s going to be pushing the Honeycomb port to x86 hard over the coming months with rigs from Lenovo and ASUS also tipped by DigiTimes. Oh, and for whatever it’s worth, the Taiwanese rumor rag also says that Acer is “evaluating” an Oak Trail with MeeGo tablet. Which version, we wonder?
Acer’s 10-inch Oak Trail tablet running Android 3.0 rumored for July delivery originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 06:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Finally, a GTA San Andreas-Style Game is Coming to Android [Video]
Games on Android kinda suck. I’m forever scrolling through the Market or reading our Android apps round-ups, hoping for something—anything!—to whisk me away from Words With Friends hell. Upcoming GTA San Andreas-clone 9mm, from Gameloft, definitely looks hopeful. More »
How to Sync Google Chrome Bookmarks with Your Android Phone
If you’ve got Google Chrome on your desktop and Google Android on your phone, you might be thinking… why can’t I use the same bookmarks in both places? Here’s how to sync your bookmarks between computers and also to your Android phone.
This article was written by Mitch Bartlett from Technipages.com, where he covers lots of tips for mobile phones.
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Rapture Predictor Harold Camping: Apocalypse Rescheduled for October 21 [Oops]
Harold Camping, the radio host who predicted the world would end on Saturday, made his first post-non-apocalypse public appearance on his radio show Monday night. “The first question,” he told listeners, “is ‘Camping, what about you? Are you ready to shoot yourself or go on a booze trip or whatever?'” More »
Researchers create 26 terabit-per-second connections with just a single laser
Remember that pair of 100 terabit-per-second connections we told you about earlier this moth? Impressive? Sure, but not entirely practical thanks to the massive banks of lasers (370 to be exact) that guzzled several kilowatts of electricity. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany haven’t hit 100Tbps yet, but they were able push 26Tbps using just one, lonely laser. The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum. A detector at the receiving end is able to distinguish between the various colored data streams, based on tiny differences in arrival time, and recombine them into a high-speed torrent of ones and zeros. The scientists behind the project believe that, eventually, the technology could make its way into commercial use and be integrated into silicon chips. Now, someone needs to hurry up and jack our FiOS connection into this thing — all this talk of terabits-per-second and graphene modulators, yet we’re still jealous of grandma Löthberg.
Researchers create 26 terabit-per-second connections with just a single laser originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 May 2011 19:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ballmer: ‘next generation of Windows systems’ coming next year
The name “Windows 8” may have been tossed around a lot as of late, but Steve Ballmer himself has only just now uttered the name for the first time in public at the company’s developer forum in Japan. What’s more, while he didn’t divulge a ton of specifics, he did say that the “next generation of Windows systems” will be coming out next year, and that “there’s a whole lot more coming,” including “slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors.” As ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley notes, the distinction between “slates” and “tablets” as two separate form factors is certainly an interesting one, as is the fact that he curiously didn’t use the name Windows 8 in connection with those next generation Windows systems. What does it all mean? Perhaps Microsoft’s Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, will have more to say during his appearance at the D9 conference next week — Winrumors is reporting that he may even be set to demo the company’s Windows 8 Tablet UI. And, yes, you can count on us being there to bring it all to you live.
Ballmer: ‘next generation of Windows systems’ coming next year originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 May 2011 17:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Eee Pad Transformer gets overclocked to 1.4GHz, deemed less than stable
While many of you continue your quest for an Eee Pad Transformer, some folks, predictably, have already figured out how to overclock it. Netarchy over at the XDA forum posted a custom kernel allowing hackers to crank the tablet’s clock speed to 1.4GHz, the same peak reached by the ViewSonic G Tablet. Beware, though, that performance at that speed has proven unreliable, so for now the dev recommends a more modest 1.2GHz to avoid data loss, a meltdown, and “injury of assorted puppies.” Par for the course, really.
Eee Pad Transformer gets overclocked to 1.4GHz, deemed less than stable originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 May 2011 15:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Kobo unbuttons for $129 eReader Touch Edition, we go hands-on (video)
Kobo today kicked off Book Expo America with the launch of a new six-inch, one-button touchscreen e-reader — named, appropriately enough, the Kobo eReader Touch Edition. Priced at $130 — $10 cheaper than Amazon’s Kindle — the pocket-sized device strives for a reading experience more akin to that of old timey paper books, courtesy of a Zeforce infrared touchscreen, new Pearl eInk technology, and a freescale i.MX507 processor for faster page turning. Click on through for more details and our impressions of this little reader.
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Amazon’s Android tablet coming in 10- and 7-inch models with quad-core Tegra power?
We’ve pretty much accepted that Amazon will release a proper Android tablet in 2011. The details, however, are still unclear. Enter Silicon Valley analyst, Tim Bajarin, who claims to have some inside information from his sources in Taipei. If correct, then we should see Amazon launch a 10-inch LCD tablet before the holidays. He’s also heard of a 7-inch model and plans to use NVIDIA’s new quad-core Tegra SoC in order to blaze a path into the crowded tablet market. Interestingly enough, Tim’s sources say that Amazon wanted to use a switchable “black and white E Ink-like display and a color LCD” hybrid but the two vendors approached (Qualcomm and Pixel Qi?) won’t be ready with a suitable display until 2012 or 2013. Of course, Samsung — the rumored DNA at the core of Amazon’s tablet — has plenty of experience with 10- and 7-inch Android tablets and the decision to go LCD aligns with those rumors of a Fringe Field Switching display reported by DigiTimes earlier this month. So while none of this is verified, at least it gives us something more to chew on while we “stay tuned” for whatever Bezos is cooking.
Amazon’s Android tablet coming in 10- and 7-inch models with quad-core Tegra power? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 May 2011 10:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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