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Submission + - Ortustech constructs a 9.6 inch 4K display (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From the article:
"Ortustech unveiled today that it had build a 9.6 inch display with a resolution of 3840x2160. This gives the display a resolution of 458.94 ppi. This is the smallest any manufacturer has been able to produce any 4K screens. While this is not the highest density display out there(Toshiba has displays that are around 500 PPI), it is still incredibly dense. The main advantage of screens this dense is either for a much smoother visual experience(reducing the need for Anti-Aliasing), as well as making the image displayed much more crisp and sharp."

Submission + - Android will surpass Windows by 2016 (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google's Android operating system will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft's Windows within four years, data from research firm Gartner showed on Wednesday, underlining the massive shift in the technology sector.

At the end of 2016, there will be 2.3 billion computers, tablets and smartphones using Android software, compared with 2.28 billion Windows devices, Gartner data showed.
Apple

Submission + - Apple "screwing" new iPhones out of simple DIY repair (arstechnica.com) 3

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concealment
concealment writes: "Apple is making it more difficult for iPhone 4 owners to perform simple DIY repairs by replacing common Phillps head screws with a rare "pentalobe" screws. While newer iPhone 4s have included the screws from the factory, it is also Apple policy to replace any Phillips head screws with the new pentalobe screws whenever an iPhone 4 is taken in for service.

Wiens said that Apple had used a similar screw on early unibody MacBook Pros to secure the integrated battery, but later adopted a tri-wing screw for that purpose. The latest MacBook Airs, however, also use pentalobe screws on the outside case, making it difficult to perform what would otherwise be a simple swap of the SSD, for instance."
Open Source

Submission + - Red Hat Devs Working on ARM64 OpenJDK Port (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Developers over at Red Hat are busy porting the OpenJDK to ARM’s latest 64bit architecture – the ARMv8, also known as the A64. The current OpenJDK ARM situation is rather unsatisfactory as there for the current 32-bit ARM processors, there are two version of VM for OpenJDK – HotSpot; one being a proprietary version by Oracle and another one free. The free version comes with a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that has quite a smaller footprint, which can’t compete with Oracle’s JIT. To avoid a similar situation for the 64-bit platform, the developers are working on an entirely free software.
Space

Submission + - 84 Million Stars in this 9 Gigapixel Image (vice.com)

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Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: "Looking up into the dark autumn sky in New York City, I’m still dumbfounded on the nights that I’m able to spot more than a dozen stars. The city’s light pollution is actually so great here that when I visit rural places I’m kept up at night by a sort of analog version of the internet: stargazing. But now it seems a single photograph could contain more stars than a night in the countryside ever could.

At the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, site of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) array, the VISTA telescope (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured a picture of unprecedented properties. The beast of an image, weighing in at nine-gigapixels (9,000 megapixels, which would print to about 23 × 30 feet) is now available in an interactive, zoomable format via ESO’s website."

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Alternatives for startups when domains are already registered 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Recently we've been trying to start a small company in Argentina. When trying to acquire the domains we need (.com and .com.ar) we found that they were already registered but not in use. We contacted the owners, which are companies or individuals that buy and sell domains for a living.

They said that .com would be a six figure domain (!), which is pretty impressive given that it's not a recognized brand or anything, it's a simple english noun.

On the other hand, for the .com.ar (which is actually free!!) we were asked around 2000.

We think this is outrageous. There has to be some legal way for small enterpreneurs to be able to start their own business without having to pay to these people.

Maybe if we register the name then we can request to be given priority over the domain?

Has any of you ever had to deal with a situation like this?
Patents

Submission + - Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by bobwrit
bobwrit writes: From the article:
"A judge at the High Court in London had originally ruled in July that the look of Samsung's Galaxy Tab computers was not too similar to designs registered in connection with the iPad.

He said at the time that Samsung's devices were not as "cool" because they lacked Apple's "extreme simplicity".

Apple still needs to run ads saying Samsung had not infringed its rights."
Android

Submission + - LG Nexus 4 Leaked/Unveiled (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From the article:

"Earlier today, several sources revealed the specs and leaked images of the next Google Nexus device. This device will most likely be the launch vehicle for the next iteration of the Android Operating System. which will likely be a small incremental upgrade over a larger one. The device has a 4.75 inch screen, but it also has a smaller top bezel than the Galaxy Nexus does. It'll contain a quad core Qualcomm processor, and 2 GB of ram to supplement that. It does have a different rear design, which takes from the Nexus 7's back. You can click on the image of the device above to see more of it's design."
Android

Submission + - LG Nexus 4 Leaked (examiner.com)

Submitted by bobwrit
bobwrit writes: From the article:
"Earlier today, several sources revealed the specs and leaked images of the next Google Nexus device. This device will most likely be the launch vehicle for the next iteration of the Android Operating System. which will likely be a small incremental upgrade over a larger one. The device has a 4.75 inch screen, but it also has a smaller top bezel than the Galaxy Nexus does. It'll contain a quad core snapdragon processor, and 2 GB of ram to supplement that. It does have a different rear design, which takes from the Nexus 7's back. You can click on the image of the device above to see more of it's design."
Moon

Submission + - A Supercomputer on the Moon to Direct Deep Space Traffic 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "NASA currently controls its deep space missions through a network of 13 giant antennas in California, Spain and Australia known as the Deep Space Network (DSN) but the network is obsolete and just not up to the job of transmitting the growing workload of extra-terrestrial data from deep space missions. That's why Ouliang Chang has proposed building a massive supercomputer in a deep dark crater on the side of the moon facing away from Earth and all of its electromagnetic chatter. Nuclear-powered, it would accept signals from space, store them, process them if needed and then relay the data back to Earth as time and bandwidth allows. The supercomputer would run in frigid regions near one of the moon’s poles where cold temperatures would make cooling the supercomputer easier, and would communicate with spaceships and earth using a system of inflatable, steerable antennas that would hang suspended over moon craters, giving the Deep Space Network a second focal point away from earth. As well as boosting humanity's space-borne communication abilities, Chang's presentation at a space conference (PDF) in Pasadena, California also suggests that the moon-based dishes could work in unison with those on Earth to perform very-long-baseline interferometry, which allows multiple telescopes to be combined to emulate one huge telescope. Best of all the project has the potential to excite the imagination of future spacegoers and get men back on the moon."
Facebook

Submission + - Wall Street Journal describes how Facebooks Outs your Most Personal Secrets (wsj.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The Wall Street Journal (FREE Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444165804578008740578200224.html) is reporting that Facebook revealed the sexual preferences of users despite those users have choosen "privacy lockdown" settings on Facebook.

The article describes two students who were casualties of a privacy loophole on Facebook—the fact that anyone can be added to a group by a friend without their approval. As a result, the two lost control over their secrets, even though both students were sophisticated users who had attempted to use Facebook's privacy settings to shield some of their activities from their parents.

Facebook spokesprick Andrew Noyes responded with a statement blaming the users: "Our hearts go out to these young people. Their unfortunate experience reminds us that we must continue our work to empower and educate users about our robust privacy controls."
The Military

Submission + - US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide (usatoday.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Despite billions of dollars in advanced electronics, radars,and sonar it seems the Navy needs to install backup cameras on their boats. "The Pentagon said late Saturday that it is investigating why a Navy submarine collided with an Aegis cruiser during routine operations at an undisclosed location."
The Matrix

Submission + - Is the Universe a Simulation? (phys.org) 2

Submitted by olsmeister
olsmeister writes: Ever wonder if the universe is really a simulation? Well, physicists do too. Recently, a group of physicists have devised a way that could conceivably prove one way or the other whether that is the case. There is a paper describing their work on arXiv. Some other physicists propose that the universe is actually a giant hologram with all the action actually occurring on a two-dimensional boundary region.

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