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DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories ->

Submitted by pacopico
pacopico writes "Bloomberg Businessweek reports that DARPA will pay for the creation of two new TechShops in Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh. The $3.5 million deal includes 2,000 TechShop memberships for military veterans and will have DARPA employees performing top secret work at night. They're part of the iFab team, trying to make factories that can be reconfigured on-the-fly through software. Maker mayhem."
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Java

Say Goodbye to Browser Choice?->

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plawson writes "c|net offers an in-depth discussion of the browser's future, making the case that "new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs." Given the vertical integration of many mobile systems, the article predicts that "... the only opportunity you'll get to truly change browsers is when your two-year smartphone contract expires..." The trade offs are security and performance. Web pages that rely on JavaScript and JIT will be big losers. How important is browser choice on a smartphone or tablet compared with a PC?"
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Tesla S Set to Hit Streets in June

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An anonymous reader writes "Tesla announced that customer delivery of the Model S, the company's first premium electric sedan, will begin on June 22, 2012. To celebrate the occasion, select customers will be invited to receive their new cars at a private event held in Tesla's Fremont, California factory.

Regarding the hardware underneath, Tesla claims that the Model S comes with the most energy-dense battery pack in the industry. Combined with best-in-class aerodynamics, the Model S can reach 300 miles in a single charge, the longest range of any electric car in the world. As powerful as it is efficient, the 40kWh battery and three phase electric motor propels the sedan from 0-to-60 mph in an ample 4.4 seconds."
Apache

Is APache Tomcat NOW Enterprise Ready?->

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ekimminau
ekimminau writes "I have seen a number of outdated articles discussing whether or not Tomcat is considered "Enterprise Ready". The majority of them state it is fine for "light weight" applications but most fall back to a position similar to this http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2008/jw-01-tomcat6.html from JavaWorld in 2008.

My question to Slashdot: Do you feel that with TomEE (Tomcat Enterprise Edition) that Tomcat is more than just a light weight niche player and now stands with the rest of the "Enterprise Ready" Application servers?"
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Science

MIT creates superhydrophobic condiment bottles->

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An anonymous reader writes "First we had a superhydrophobic spray that meant no dirt or sweat could stick to your clothes. Then the same coating was applied to circuit boards to make them water resistent. Now MIT has gone a step further and solved one of the ongoing problems of using condiments: they've figured out how to make a food-safe superhydrophobic coating for food packaging. It means ketchup and mayonnaise will no longer be stuck to the insides of the bottle, and therefore there will no longer be any waste.

What's amusing is this seems to be a happy accident. The MIT team was actually investigating slippery coatings to stop gas and oil lines clogging as well as how to stop a surface from having ice form on it. Now their lab is filled with condiments for continued testing of their food-safe version."
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Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't->

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An anonymous reader writes "A man with one clock knows what time it is, goes the old saw, a man with two is never sure. Imagine the confusion, then, experienced by a doctor with dozens. Julian Goldman is an anaesthetist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After beginning to administer blood-thinning medication during an urgent neurological procedure in 2005, Mr Goldman noticed that the EMR had recorded him checking the level of clotting 22 minutes earlier. As a result, four hospitals in the northeast had their medical devices checked, and found that on average they were off by 24 minutes. The easy solution that devices could have used since 1985? NTP."
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Facebook, Zuckerberg sued over IPO->

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mrquagmire writes "Facebook shareholders have sued the social network, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a number of banks, alleging that crucial information was concealed ahead of Facebook's IPO.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan this morning, charges the defendants with failing to disclose in the critical days leading up to Friday's initial public offering "a severe and pronounced reduction" in forecasts for Facebook's revenue growth, as users more and more access Facebook through mobile devices, according to Reuters, which cited a law firm for the plaintiffs."
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Seagate to Buy External Drive Maker LaCie->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "Hard drive maker Seagate today announced an exclusive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in external drive maker LaCie. The all-cash transaction would be worth about $186 million, or $5.17 a share. LaCie Chairman and CEO Philippe Spruch is expected to join Seagate to run its consumer storage products organization. Seagate Chairman Steve Luczo said LaCie's products would compliment Seagate's own drive products and allow it to expand its line by adding a "premium-branded" direct-attached storage (DAS) line. The move will also help Seagate develop better software."
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Comment: Re:GNU? (Score 1) 382

by timothy (#40087773) Attached to: Linux 3.4 Released

Actually, this is a glitch / weakness in the backend system.

"Linux" is actually the primary topic that it's marked with, but some of our topics and section names interact with each other in ways that are ... let's call it "interesting." It's a bit frustrating sometimes, and I'm sorry for the glitch.

timothy

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. -- Dr. Konrad Adenauer