CHICAGO — The Illinois Supreme Court puffed life back into Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral campaign on Tuesday when it restored his name to the city’s ballots, at least for now, and agreed to decide whether he should be allowed to run for mayor. The decisions arrived at a dizzying pace, only a day after a panel of the Illinois Appellate Court had ordered Mr. Emanuel’s name stricken from the ballot, saying his time in Washington as White House chief of staff meant that he failed to meet a requirement of residing in Chicago for a year before the Feb. 22 election. The Supreme Court’s orders were seen as a positive sign for Mr. Emanuel (the court could have chosen to…
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Toyota is recalling nearly 1.7 million cars, the bulk of them in Japan, for various defects that may cause fuel leakage. (Jan. 26)
Continue reading …AMD Radeon HD 6990 shows up in its metallic flesh, looking larger than life
January 26, 2011 No Comment
What does the next great superpower of desktop graphics look like? Well, it shares an unmistakable family resemblance to the current champ , but its dimensions have somehow been made even larger. Yes, we’re talking about AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 — a dual-GPU monstrosity that’s set to serve as the company’s 2011 flagship — which has just been shown off at an Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day gathering. Aside from the crazy imagery (one more after the break and a gallery at the source), we’ve found a promise that this polygon deliverator will be available in late Q1 2011. Which gives us just enough time to rent out a room big enough to house it. Now, when’s Crysis 2 coming out? [Thanks, Christopher] Continue reading AMD Radeon HD 6990 shows up in its metallic flesh, looking larger than life AMD Radeon HD 6990 shows up in its metallic flesh, looking larger than life originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Corporate mismanagement, excessive risk-taking by Wall Street, and inadequate government regulation caused the 2008 financial crisis, according to a 576-page report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, due to be released today. The report blames policies by both the Clinton and Bush administrations, as well as Fed chairmen Alan Greenspan…
Continue reading …Google ‘not happy’ with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Having a Market full of apps is a very good thing for owners of Android handsets, but those owners buying few premium apps is a bad thing for developers who keep that Market full. That, of course, is also bad news for Google, which is make a variety of changes to appease devs, some of which Android Platform Manager Eric Chu outlined at the Inside Social Apps conference yesterday. After already nuking the 24 hour trial period Google is now working on an in-app payment system, which would enable the direct-selling of add-ons, costumes, and enough other bits and bobs to ensure you’ll never buy a fully-featured app again. Google is also negotiating with more carriers to allow users to have app purchases appear on their bill, rather than using a separate payment system, as is already possible on AT&T. Finally, a team of honest to gosh humans is working on helping to weed out apps that violate the company’s terms of service, sifting through the Market to find bogus downloads. We wonder if they’ll also be looking for free apps that quite capably provide the functionality of premium ones. Those, it seems, are the greatest threat to the paid apps — and perhaps the greatest asset of the Market itself. Google ‘not happy’ with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …A member of Britain’s House of Lords could be facing time in the jailhouse for fiddling his expenses to swindle taxpayers out of $18,000. A jury found Lord Taylor of Warwick—who lied about having a residence outside of London in order to claim travel expenses—guilty of false…
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Cairo: A vibrant protest group Wednesday called for continued demonstrations across Egypt hours after police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in Al Tharir…
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There’s no question that AMD’s new Fusion Zacate platform is pretty killer when it comes to ultraportables or notbooks (as we like to call ‘em), but there’s no reason the affordable, solid-performing APU couldn’t power a budget 15.6-inch system, right? Well, that’s certainly the way a few laptop manufacturers see it. Following in the footsteps of Toshiba’s Satellite C655D , MSI’s decided to cram its 15.6-inch CR650 with AMD’s latest Fusion APU. Equipped with a Zacate E-350 CPU with Radeon HD 6310 graphics on the same die (the same chip in the HP dm1 we just reviewed) , there’s no doubt the rig can handle full HD and light games without a hiccup. We’re not exactly drooling over the design, but it does have the basics, including a DVD drive, six-cell battery, HD webcam, and speakers that claim superior SRS sound. It will also be configurable with 250, 320, or 500GB hard drive and DDR3 RAM. There’s no word on the price just yet, but our guess it should ring up at under $600 when it finally hits shelves. MSI CR650 scores an AMD E-350 Zacate APU originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Black women can have larger waistlines and be larger in general than white women and still be relatively healthy, according to new research.The study of 6,400 volunteers examined abdominal obesity and body-mass index and found that black women had higher thresholds than white women for both measures before…
Continue reading …Vint Cerf on IPv4 depletion: ‘Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?’
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Father of the internet, Vint Cerf , is taking one on the knuckles this week for the inevitable diminution of the world’s IPv4 addresses. Last Friday, The Sydney Morning Herald ran a sensational story titled, “Internet Armageddon all my fault: Google chief,” in which Cerf warned of an end to unique IP addresses “within weeks.” The story was, of course, a bit tongue-in-cheek, considering the industry has long anticipated and prepared for said Armageddon. Back in 1977, Cerf led a team of DARPA researchers in creating IPv4, which limits IP addresses to four 8-bit numbers or 32-bits total, providing for 4.3 billion addresses: not nearly enough by today’s standards. In the article, Cerf said he never expected his protocol to take off, adding, “Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?” The IPv4′s successor, IPv6, which enlists four 32-bit numbers or 128 bits total, was developed soon after Cerf’s protocol and is now getting attention from internet giants like Google and Facebook, who will launch World IPv6 Day this June. Considering IPv6 makes for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique addresses, we probably won’t be hearing of an IP apocalypse anytime soon. Vint Cerf on IPv4 depletion: ‘Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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