Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Solar energy supercharged our power grid and gadgets this week as Inhabitat showcased a hot solar laptop set within a transparent case that allows sunlight to shine straight through it.
We’ve seen quite a few devices designed to help hearing impaired users communicate via phone or computer , but Japan’s NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories has just announced a new animated translation system to help get important news to deaf viewers . While televised subtitles may work for those who understand the language, people who were born deaf and learned sign language from an early age can have significantly more difficulty
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NHK’s automated, animated sign language translator adds gestures to subtitles (video)
Madfinger Games, the Czech Republic-based company behind Samurai II: Vengeance, has just announced Shadowgun — a futuristic, shoot ‘em up game for Tegra 2-equipped Android phones and tablets. Available on both the Tegra Zone app and Android Market, Shadowgun promises to bring console-quality graphics and performance to mobile platforms — presumably with the extra geometric detail and high-res textures we’ve seen in other Tegra 2-tailored games . Madfinger is also developing a version for devices powered by NVIDIA’s forthcoming quad-core processor, alluringly known as Project Kal-El
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Madfinger announces new Shadowgun game, with Tegra 2 and Kal-El support
Ah, another possibly vaporous, yet intriguing addition to a long line of haptic patents and prototypes . Today’s offering: a KDDI smartphone mockup (utilizing Kyocera display technology) promising to render sensation through multiple layers of applied touchscreen pressure
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KDDI haptic smartphone prototype promises up to seven layers of touch, only shows off two
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Did you know that the cell phone in your pocket could be causing the collapse of bee colonies?
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: floating trains, dead bees, dirt-powered phones and Cornish pasties
Even a woman with a 40 Gbps internet connection might feel a twinge of jealousy at this news — Japan has successfully tested two separate 100 terabit per second data links that use a single optical fiber to carry their loads. New Scientist reports that NEC scholars stuffed the light from 370 lasers into 165 kilometers of fiber to achieve a speed of 101.7 Tbps, while NICT researchers set a new record of 109 Tbps using a special fiber with seven cores to manage the trick. We imagine that Alcatel-Lucent and NTT aren’t sitting still
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Researchers create two 100 terabit per second optical connections, dare us to torrent something
Hello, and welcome to Engadget. I’ll be your new host, Tim Stevens, taking over as Editor-in-Chief and leading you through this wonderful land of technology and innovation… maybe checking out a couple of KIRFs on the way, too.
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Welcome to Engadget
We’re in a lull, people. It’s not technically winter anymore, though on some days looking outside, we’d be hard pressed to say it’s spring
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In Case You Missed It: Mar. 27 – Apr. 2
This week in gaming we looked at the latest in the George Hotz case and wondered which serial number is the “right” one…
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Week in gaming: Sony vs. Hotz, 3DS battery, Dragon Age 2 characters
Ars System Guide: March 2011 Edition : The latest installment of the Ars Technica System Guide brings Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor to our recommendations for the first time. The Budget Box, Hot Rod, and God Box all get updates, but only one gets the Sandy Bridge treatment—read on to find out which one. Amazon on Cloud Player: we don’t need no stinkin’ licenses : Amazon has apparently launched Cloud Drive and Cloud Player without securing streaming licenses from the music industry.
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Week in review: Google gigabit going to Kansas
March was a big month for Web browsers, with major new versions of both Internet Explorer and Firefox .
Status.net , the trailblazing open source, distributed Twitter-alternative for businesses, today announced a new project called Freelish.us – a great looking social bookmarking service designed to pick up where Delicious left off.
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The Ideal Delicious Alternative? Status.net Launches Freelish.us!
Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases, with the result that pages served up by the attacked systems include within each page one or more references to a particular JavaScript file. The attack appears to be indiscriminate in its targets, with compromised machines running ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP, and no doubt others
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Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far
In August of 2009, the Cassini orbiter was in place as Saturn reached a point where its rings were illuminated by the Sun edge-on. The images it captured showed a regular, repeating pattern of bright and dark stripes within the planet’s C-ring
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Jupiter and Saturn’s rings show echoes of comet collisions
When you rolled out of bed this morning, did your thoughts turn to preserving your data in the case of hardware failure? If so, you either work with databases or you remembered that today, March 31, is World Backup Day . In fact, it’s the first World Backup Day
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World Backup Day: what are you doing to make sure you’re covered?
It seems more than a little bit strange, but apparently after the mid-season NBA trade flurry the iOS version of NBA Jam will be receiving a big roster update to bring the game up to speed with the current situation in the NBA. What’s so strange about that? Well, iOS and other mobile platforms are the only ones getting that update
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NBA Jam iOS Gets Something Console Gamers Wont
NFC-enabled mobile payments are coming to the London 2012 Olympics, thanks to a new partnership between Samsung and Visa, both sponsors of the upcoming Games.
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Samsung and Visa Team up to Bring NFC to London 2012 Olympics
Mohamed Hassan had just installed anti-malware software on his new Samsung laptop when, much to his surprise, the software alerted him to the presence of a keystroke logger. A brand-new machine, and it was apparently already recording every password and username he typed. He returned the computer for an unrelated reason, and bought a second Samsung laptop to replace it
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Samsung laptop keylogger almost certainly a false positive
First posted a week ago , Microsoft has updated its Windows Phone 7 update pages for the US and the rest of the world . The good news is that most networks are now rolling out the copy-and-paste update codenamed “NoDo,” giving users of the platform the much talked-about feature, as well as some healthy performance boosts and other minor improvements. The company does warn, however, that due to its “gradual” updates, it could still take two weeks to receive the update, even if other users on the same network have it already
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Updated Windows Phone schedule: good news for most, AT&T still awful
If there’s one iOS developer who continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible on the iPad, it would have to be Readdle. This week, the company released an update to their popular PDF Expert app, adding the ability to stamp PDF files — a feature usually only found in expensive desktop programs such as Adobe Acrobat
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PDF Expert 2.3 Gains Ability to Stamp PDFs on iPad
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Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
