President Obama touched down in a rainy Portuguese capital Friday morning. He’s in Lisbon for two days of meetings with NATO allies and the European Union. (Nov. 19)
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In his first speech since the Fed announced a $600 billion bond-purchase plan, Ben Bernanke defended the plan saying it’s needed to boost the economy and reduce unemployment. (Nov. 19)
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November 19, 2010 No Comment
Oh, sure — you’ve got a smorgasbord of virtual machine clients out there for the iDevice in your life, but you haven’t had this one. Until today, of course. Splashtop (the former DeviceVM ) has just unleashed its Remote Desktop app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, enabling users to funnel Windows PC content onto their handheld. The catch is an obvious one — you’ll need a WiFi connection to make the magic happen, though we’re assuming you wouldn’t even want to imagine how sluggish the process would be over 3G. The company claims that this app will let users “watch movies, listen to music, or access any other Windows files and programs, including full web browsers with Flash,” and you’ll need a WiFi-connected Win7, Vista or WinXP machine nearby to take advantage. We’ve got a feeling this won’t work nearly as well as advertised (sorry, it’s just the nature of tunneling / emulation), but those willing to take the plunge can tap into the App Store as we speak. Continue reading Splashtop Remote Desktop brings Windows PC access to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Filed under: Software Splashtop Remote Desktop brings Windows PC access to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An explosion ripped through New Zealand’s largest coal mine Friday while about 30 people were underground, officials said. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface hours later, while more than two dozen were missing. Police said that shortly before the blast the electricity went out in the mine, which may have caused ventiliation problems. That may have contributed to a buildup of gas underground. The explosion was powerful enough to blow one driver off his machine deep in a tunnel, and one mine safety expert said gas was a possible cause of the blast, although spokeswoman Barbara Dunn stressed it was too early to say why it occurred….
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The backlash against the new mandatory screening regime at airports continues. At least one New York City council member is trying to have body scanners banned from local airports. But does the city have the authority? Says councilman David Greenfield, “if the TSA disagrees with us they can sue us.” Wired: Federal law gives the TSA jurisdiction over airline security, but Greenfield says he believes the city has the authority to prohibit a particular type of screening. “The city owns the airports,” says Greenfield. “They’re operated by the Port Authority…. Hopefully we’ll get the law passed soon, and if the TSA disagrees with us they can sue us.” The TSA had no immediate comment Thursday. Read more Related Entries November 18, 2010 Look Who’s the Decider Now November 18, 2010 GM’s Big Day
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Haitians angry over the cholera outbreak ignored pleas from health workers to stop violence that is disrupting treatment efforts in the capital. Meanwhile treatment centers across the country are filling up. (Nov. 19)
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We might be busy refilling our inkwells in preparation for CES 2011 , but let’s not forget that some of the CES 2010 exhibitors are still working feverishly on bringing their innovations to market. Copia is one such company, though in the time between its January debut and today it’s had to abandon its plans for own-brand e-readers and has fully transitioned itself into a software offering — with apps available for the desktop, iPad, Windows Phone 7 now, and Android and other touch devices following soon. Copia allows Facebook Connect logins, which should give you a hit at its premise — it aims to meld an ebook store in with a vibrant and active online reading community, with a litany of social and sharing features making it perhaps more attractive than the somewhat more limited social skills on offer from the current ebook market leaders. Unannounced OEM partners have been engaged to deliver the Copia platform on upcoming e-reading devices, though whether the whole thing sinks or swims will be entirely up to you, the user. See a video demo of what Copia’s about after the break. Continue reading Copia’s ‘social reading’ platform goes live, abandons hardware plans Copia’s ‘social reading’ platform goes live, abandons hardware plans originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Hey Xbox 360 Kinect owners, want to spice up those family shadow puppet shows? Then check out the installation prototype created by Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson using an Xbox Kinect connected to a laptop using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. The openFrameworks system tracks the elbow, wrist, thumb, and tips of the fingers to map a skeleton onto the movement and posture of an animated puppet. And get this: it was made in a day. So just imagine the Kinect homebrew we’ll have around this time next year. See it in action after the break. [Thanks, Pradeep ] Continue reading Kinect hack creates world’s greatest shadow puppet (video) Kinect hack creates world’s greatest shadow puppet (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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First Bluetooth , then USB and now PCI Express. It’s clearly the era of version 3.0, and given that the PCI Express specification has been humming along at 2.0 speeds for over two years now, we’d say an update was definitely due. Thankfully, the PCI-SIG has announced the availability of the PCIe Base 3.0 specification to its members today, and the highlights are certainly notable. There’s a new 128b/130b encoding scheme and a data rate of 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), doubling the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe 2.0 specification. And since we’re sure you’re fretting it, we’ll go ahead and affirm that it maintains backward compatibility with previous PCIe architectures. We’re also told that based on this data rate expansion, “it is possible for products designed to the PCIe 3.0 architecture to achieve bandwidth near 1 gigabyte per second (GB/s) in one direction on a single-lane (x1) configuration and scale to an aggregate approaching 32 GB/s on a sixteen-lane (x16) configuration.” A lot of technobabble, sure, but one thing’s for sure: your next graphics card is bound to murder your current one if paired with a PCIe 3.0 motherboard. Continue reading PCI Express makes the 3.0 leap, doubles bandwidth over PCIe 2.0 spec PCI Express makes the 3.0 leap, doubles bandwidth over PCIe 2.0 spec originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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