Yep it seems you are correct. I came across the post via my twitter feed, which led me to the THG article as the source. It seems THG got their info from Nokia, and while Nokia mentioned they were part of a consortium that won the grant, THG wrote it up as Nokia being the winner. I'll see if I can get /. to update the article.

But most users are just going to apply an instagram or hipstamatic filter (or use BB's filters). Besides, this is something they can change with an OTA update. If the feedback comes in that people really want an auto-sharpened image, BB can make that mod quite quickly.

Even the off-shored level1 tech support guy could have figured it out by reading step 2 of his manual.

There are a few good ones, and apparently 6600 android devs just signed up to develop for the playbook. it'll improve.

I got the Playbook yesterday and love it already. Bridge works great and the UI is very well thought out. There are some features that even to the iPad. When you type in a password field, the keyboard adds a number row to the top for example. That being said what are some good apps? I am using Lemma for my twitter client. Any other little gems?

You should listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson's interview on the Nerdist podcast. He disagrees with you. Ventures like the first space elevator will never be funded by profit-seeking people because the risks are too high. Columbus was funded by ... the government The moon landing was funded by ... the government It was research for research's sake. To see if we could do it, and then to figure out what to do with it once we did it (still haven't come up with an answer for the moon on that one). The private sector may build the 2nd space elevator, and the 2nd orbiting space base from the space elevator, but not the 1st.

Groupon CEO regrets selling stock via groupons "I had no idea that selling something for 1/4 its normal price was such a shitty idea. Who in their right mind would ever use this to sell anything?"

Oh also, they say they want to make transistors which use quantum interference to shut them off, not an electric field effect. In this case you don't need a band gap in the same way. You make a ballistic device (on), and then you apply some potential to the edges to mess up the quantum states so they interfere and the thing insulates. "This means that the way we will be doing graphene electronics will be different," he explained. "We will not be following the model of using standard field-effect transistors (FETs), but will pursue devices that use ballistic conductors and quantum interference. We are headed straight into using the electron wave effects in graphene."

From the link: "there is an important distinction between the graphene transistors that we demonstrated and the transistors used in a CPU. Unlike silicon, graphene does not have an energy gap, and therefore, graphene cannot be "switched off," resulting in a small on/off ratio." One of the issues with graphene is it doesn't have a band gap. You can create one if you can successfully dope it (unlikely), or if you can put it into a very narrow by relatively long shape (say 2 nm wide by 50 nm long). Once you have a band gap, you can turn it off completely.

I don't think T-Mobile had much choice in the matter did they? Didn't they have to go with AWS because all the regular 3G spectrum was already spoken for? I wonder what this will mean for the future of the AWS band and its phones. A lot of smaller carriers around the world were only able to get AWS spectrum and as a result are very limited in their phone selection (no iPhones for example). Either this is viewed as the death of a 34 million subscriber AWS network, thus killing any hope for an AWS iPhone, or it is viewed as the creation of a 130 million subscriber AWS network, increasing the likelihood of seeing AWS versions of more phones. It depends on AT&T's strategy and whether or not they push for AWS devices and use the network to offload current congestion or not. http://www.wifitalk.ca/uncategorized/att-acquires-t-mobile-usa/

Ah. I haven't kept up with the progress in the past several months. I just was impressed with the Cu CVD method out of Korea and they mentioned a lower solubility in Cu than in Ni which resulted in fewer C layers upon cooling. That was just in a preprint though.