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Submission + - KDE Releases Calligra Suite 2.8 (calligra.org)

Submitted by KDE Community on Friday March 07, 2014 @07:05AM

KDE Community writes: The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. Major new features in this release are comments support in Author and Words, improved Pivot tables in Sheets, improved stability and the ability to open hyperlinks in Kexi. Flow introduces SVG based stencils and as usual there are many new features in Krita including touch screens support and a wraparound painting mode for the creation of textures and tiles.

Submission + - iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Like 'Sonny' Too Expensive to be a Reality (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by concertina226 on Friday March 07, 2014 @07:01AM

concertina226 writes: "Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler," Angle tells IBTimes UK.

"The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve, rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus."

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