Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner from Tuscon to San Diego to dodge the jury-tainting effects of extensive pre-trial publicity in Arizona. The case is a particular flash point in Arizona, where the state’s chief federal judge, John M. Roll, was gunned…
Continue reading …An international currency system ruled by the American dollar is a “product of the past,” complained China’s president, who vowed the yuan will eventually bump the buck. President Hu Jintao conceded it would be a “fairly long process,” but indicated that the US dollar and American fiscal policy is undermining…
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The Facebook tale ‘The Social Network’ wins top honors at the Golden Globes with four prizes, including best drama and director. (Jan. 17)
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Apple’s proprietary dock connector may keep would-be peripheral manufacturers at bay , but if you want to build your own iOS companion devices, there’s another way. You might have noticed that the Square credit card reader uses Apple’s 3.5mm headset jack to transmit power and data at once, and gadgeteers at the University of Michigan are busy open-sourcing the same technique for all the DIY contraptions you can dream of. Project HiJack has already figured out how to pull 7.4 milliwatts out of a 22kHz audio tone, and built a series of prototype boards (including working EKG, temperature, humidity and motion sensors) that transmit data to and from an iOS app at up to 8.82 kbaud — using just $2.34 worth of electronic components. See the basic principles at work in the video above, and — as soon as the team updates Google Code — find out how to build your own at the links below. iPhone headset socket hijacked to power DIY peripherals (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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By Mike Luckovich Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
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By Mr. Fish Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
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By Bill Boyarsky Republicans have their biggest statehouse majority in more than 80 years, and they’re taking orders from a man who wants to take government and “drown it in the bathtub.” Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
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January 17th: Ben Franklin born; Warsaw liberated from the Nazis; Eisenhower’s farewell address; Magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Japan; Al Capone, Muhammad Ali born
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By Barry Lando American officials were for Tunisia’s ousted despot before they were against him. Across the Middle East and Central Asia it’s the same: U.S. allies are invariably corrupt dictators, maintained in power by lavish patronage and the military. Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
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After the Jets beat the Patriots in Foxborough yesterday, there was one consistent theme coming from all the Jets players: Nobody believed we could do this. That’s not exactly true. First of all, New York, plenty of people believed you could do it. That doesn’t mean anyone thought they would or should do it, but if people didn’t think the Jets at least had a shot at beating the Patriots, it wouldn’t… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Business Insider Discovery Date : 17/01/2011 07:04 Number of articles : 6
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