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Submission + - New smartphone with forked version of Android from (xda-developers.com)

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cortex
cortex writes: "XDA developers is reporting on a the release of a new smart phone, which runs a forked version of Google's Android operating system.

"Dell and Baidu, the Chinese search giant with over 80% marketshare in its home-country, unveiled the Streak Pro on Tuesday (via Computerworld). The device has a 4.3 AMOLED screen with 960×540 resolution and packs a 1.5 GHz dualcore Qualcomm processor. Most notably, however, is the operating system it runs: a forked Android version dubbed Baidu Yi, which replaces Google’s services with those of Baidu."

How will this impact Google's support for Android and open source in general?"
Android

Submission + - Amazon Fire Tablet (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by cortex
cortex writes: Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world’s largest online retailer, unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s bestselling iPad with a device that’s smaller and less than half the price.

The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199, compared with $499 for Apple’s cheapest iPad, Amazon executives said in interviews with Bloomberg Businessweek. The device, a souped-up version of the Kindle electronic- book reader, will run on Google Inc.’s Android software, the Seattle-based company said.
Games

Submission + - Sid Meier's Civ World on Facebook (facebook.com)

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cortex
cortex writes: "We have some exciting news to share with you about Civilization for Facebook! As you can see from the new look of this page, the official title for our game is Civilization World (Civ World). Why a name change you say? The name better reflects the main theme of the game; in Civ World you will be joining your friends to form nations, which will compete with other player-nations to rule the world. Civ World’s shaping up to be a really fun Facebook game, as well as another addictive Civilization experience."
News

Submission + - FILM ADDS 3D TO ANY LCD SCREEN (diginfo.tv)

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autospa
autospa writes: "Japanese firm Global Wave recently debuted film sheets that bring 3D to any LCD screen. The sheets will be available for 12.1-inch, 21.5-inch and 23-inch monitors as well as for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and the application is compatible with both Windows and iOS."
Security

Submission + - Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Nextgove reports that Michael Hayden, former director of both the NSA and the CIA, says the United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks and several current federal officials, including U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander, also have floated the concept of a ".secure" network for critical services such as financial institutions, sensitive infrastructure, government contractors, and the government itself that would be walled off from the public web. Unlike .com, .xxx and other new domains now proliferating the Internet, .secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. "I think what Keith is trying to suggest is that we need a more hardened enterprise structure for some activities and we need to go build it," says Hayden. "All those people who want to violate their privacy on Facebook — let them continue to play." Clay Dillow writes that on the existing internet everyone does everything online anonymously, and while that’s great for liberties, it’s also dangerous when cyber criminals/foreign hackers are roaming the cyber countryside. Under the proposed .secure internet "you may not be able to go to certain neighborhoods of the Web without showing your papers at a checkpoint--and perhaps subjecting yourself to one of those humiliating electronic pat-downs as well," writes Dillow. "Those who want to remain anonymous on the Web can still frolic about in the world of dot-com, but in the dot-secure realm you would have to prove you are you.""
Science

Submission + - Kelly: The Future Of Science (edge.org)

Submitted by smitty777
smitty777 writes: There is an interesting article on Kevin Kelly's vision of the future. Among some of his predictions:
  • There will be more changes in the next 50 years than in the last 400.
  • This will be the century of biology
  • Computers will keep leading to new ways of science
  • New ways of knowing will emerge
  • Science will create new levels of meaning

But the second half of the article (Speculations On The Future of Science) goes into the details: the multiple hypothesis matrix, zilionics, deep simulations, and hyper-analysis mapping are among some of the more interesting predictions. One of the more interesting quotes FTA: "Technology is, in its essence, new ways of thinking. The most powerful type of technology, sometimes called enabling technology, is a thought incarnate which enables new knowledge to find and develop news ways to know. This kind of recursive bootstrapping is how science evolves. As in every type of knowledge, it accrues layers of self-reference to its former state."
Sadly, I was led to this article after reading this piece on the future of the US Space Program.
Patents

Submission + - Apple Ordered To Pay $8M For Playlist Patents (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A federal jury in Texas has decided against Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit an ordered it to pay $8 million to Personal Audio LLC, a patent licensing company (aka troll). The lawsuit started in 2009. Last year Apple's three fellow defendants (Sirius XM Radio, Coby Electronics and Archos) settled. Apple said the patents were invalid and not infringed. The patent holder demanded $84M and will now get about 10% of that amount. Juries in East Texas frequently rule in favor of patent holders. In the same district court Lodsys has already filed four lawsuits. In one of them it targets seven app developers and Apple has moved to intervene. The first two developers were already given a deadline: they must answer Lodsys's complaint by July 21, unless they request an extension.
Idle

Submission + - This website knows when you're angry... (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: or sad, or happy, or... Face.com provide a free API that lets you apply face detection and recognition to photos that you submit to it. Now it can also tell you what their mood is. It also detects the gender of the person, the state of their lips — sealed, parted or kissing — and if they are wearing glasses. At the moment the range of moods detected — happy/sad/angry/surprised/neutral — doesn't make it the equal of Cal Lightman of "Lie to Me" but it's a start....

Submission + - The Business Model of Fake Anti Virus Companies (internetsecuritydb.com)

Submitted by damian2k
damian2k writes: Researchers from the Departments of Computer Science and Economics of the University of California (Santa Barbara) have recently released the results of their yearlong investigation into three fake anti virus companies. Details of which banks were involved was covered by krebsonsecurity.com.
This post includes additional figures regarding the scammers daily and yearly sales as well as the average selling price of their fake products.
Censorship

Submission + - Five concerns about Australia's new net filter (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: As you might have heard, this month Australia gets a new Internet filter, using Interpol's blacklist of 'worst of the worst' child pornography sites. In general, it seems like most people don't object to the idea in principle, but concerns are being raised around the transparency of the scheme, which so far has no civilian oversight, unclear backing legislation and an appeals process which does not exactly inspire confidence. Why is it those who want to implement this kind of filtering never quite address these sort of concerns up-front?
Idle

Submission + - AppAssure threatens customer for telling the truth (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After receiving an unsolicited sales email from AppAssure, targeted customer David B. Schlosser told the salesman the email began with a lie. Imagine Schlosser's surprise at learning the salesman planned to report him — and imagine his further surprise when someone from AppAssure called the next morning to threaten to kick his posterior.
Science

Submission + - Brain Reading: translating brain waves into words (latimes.com)

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cortex
cortex writes: "In a first step toward helping severely paralyzed people communicate more easily, Utah researchers have shown that it is possible to translate recorded brain waves into words, using a grid of electrodes placed directly on the brain. The device could benefit people who have been paralyzed by stroke, Lou Gehrig's disease or trauma and are "locked in" — aware but unable to communicate except, perhaps, by blinking an eyelid or arduously moving a cursor to pick out letters or words from a list.

Researchers have made tremendous strides in developing ways for patients to move a computer cursor or even an artificial arm using electrodes implanted in the brain. But researchers have been reluctant to implant electrodes in the speech centers for fear of causing irreversible damage.

Some researchers have been attempting to "read" speech centers in the brain using electrodes placed on the scalp. But such electrodes "are so far away from the electrical activity that it gets blurred out," Greger said.

He and his colleagues instead use arrays of tiny microelectrodes that are placed in contact with the brain, but not implanted. In the current study, they used two arrays, each with 16 microelectrodes."

Comment Re:Way to go (Score 1) 452

by cortex (#31473004) Attached to: Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom
Two shows: "The Daily Show" and the "The Colbert Report". This is a good litmus test. Would Chavez allow these shows, or their equivalent, to be broadcast? They are very popular in America, and attack the flaws in our politicians and political systems with "news" reports. Every free and open country should have shows like this.

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