April 4th, 2012
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A new algorithm developed by the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at MIT’s Computer Science could lead to an exciting fast prototyping tool, being dubbed “smart sand.” Immerse an object in the sand, tiny cubes that send simple proximity messages to each other, which relay through the swarm and determine which blocks are adjacent to the object to be modeled, and those that aren’t. Using this data, it’s possible to create a map of the subject to be replicated.
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Self-sculpting ‘smart sand’ can assume any shape, create instant prototypes (video)
April 4th, 2012
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Not long after acknowledging that a leap year bug had borked a handful of its GPS devices, TomTom’s releasing a fix to solve the problem. The company says some nav systems had tracking issues beginning March 31st, claiming the intercalary conundrum was mainly caused by a bug in the third-party software
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TomTom releases fix for leap year bug, gets GPS devices back on course
April 4th, 2012
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April 4th, 2012
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The good news: Google has started testing those augmented reality glasses we heard about earlier in the year. The bad news: if the artsy shots of the test units are to be believed, they won’t make you look like some ’80s cinematic anti-hero. In fact, the things wouldn’t look too out of place in a New York Times style story. The software giant let it be know that, while it hasn’t quite got a sale date on the wearables, it’s ready to test ProjectGlass amongst the non-augmented public
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Google testing heads-up display glasses in public, won’t make you look like Robocop
April 4th, 2012
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When Acer’s Aspire Timeline Ultra notebooks made their first appearance at CES, these 14- and 15-inch laptops seemed like little more than the successors to Acer’s TimelineX series. Thin-and-light laptops, complete with optical drive and some likely reasonable prices. While there’s no mistaking that DVD burner and mainstream screen size, we now know a few things we didn’t then: the 15-inch version you see up there packs NVIDIA’s next-gen Kepler graphics… and Acer’s calling it an Ultrabook. Acer’s branding that there Ultra M3 as an Ultrabook because it’s less than 20mm (.8 inches) thin, but given that 15-inch display, numpad, optical drive and graphical horsepower, it’s hard to think of this as anything other than a mainstream laptop
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Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 review
April 4th, 2012
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So you paid attention to pundits and bought that Galaxy S II outright in the hopes that future software updates would arrive on your device first. And then reality came crashing in. It appears SIM-free is not the way Samsung wants consumers to be, as carrier-agnostic handsets in the UK will be the last to receive Ice Cream Sandwich
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Samsung stalls UK Ice Cream Sandwich roll out for unlocked Galaxy S II
April 4th, 2012
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What once was an oddity is now an unstoppable force. With five million units shipped to date, the Galaxy Note’s enjoying its well-earned place at the center of Samsung’s universe and the company’s looking to spread the cheer.
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Ceramic White Samsung Galaxy Note careens into Canadian hearts starting today
April 4th, 2012
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It’s beginning on a very limited basis, but Bharti Airtel is achieving a rather significant milestone in India: it’s set to become the very first operator to deploy LTE service within the country. Having won spectrum for four markets nearly two years ago, the company will debut its ZTE-built 2300MHz next-gen network in Kolkata (Calcutta). There’s no word on when the coverage will expand to the other three circles — the operator’s announced that Nokia Siemens will be heading up the effort in Maharashtra later this year, followed by Punjab and Karnataka — but we imagine the initial deployment will be a good test to make sure Bharti’s network is up to the task first. [Thanks, Shweta] Bharti Airtel first to deploy LTE in India, launching in Kolkata this month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:20:00 EDT
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Bharti Airtel first to deploy LTE in India, launching in Kolkata this month
April 4th, 2012
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In a turnaround from a lower court ruling, three Australian Federal Court judges ruled yesterday that Google was responsible for its advertisers’ content and that it breached the country’s trade law by hosting misleading ads. The case centered on four ads in particular, in which the advertisers used the names of their competitors to ensure the ads appeared in search results for said companies. That, the court ruled, was likely to mislead folks searching for those competitors. While there’s no fine imposed on Google with that judgement, the judges are asking Google to change its practices and to pay court costs.
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Australian court holds Google responsible for misleading search ads
April 4th, 2012
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The Vertex 4 is a big deal for OCZ, because it’s the company’s first top-end SSD to come with an in-house Indilinx controller. We first saw an earlier version of this proprietary silicon put to good effect in the Octane drive a few months ago, and by most accounts the Vertex 4′s updated Everest 2 controller continues in the same vein. The new drive will ship in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB varieties, with MSRPs of $179, $349 and $699 respectively, which stacks up well against Intel’s 520 series . Bearing in mind that only the larger two variants have been sent out for review so far, the general feedback is that the Vertex 4 is reliable and indeed excels in certain key benchmarks like random write performance, which Anandtech described as “incredible.” On the other hand, read performance and some other real-world benchmarks were less earth-shattering, and most reviewers have been quite measured in their conclusions. Storage Review , for example, suggested that the new Vertex’s attractiveness will grow over time, as pricing gets more aggressive and OCZ’s decision to use its own controller pays dividends in terms of support and firmware tweaks.
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OCZ Vertex 4 SSD released, wins calm praise on the review circuit
