April 6, 2012 – Ken May

Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit’s also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: the R10000G Home Router and SR10000 Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi. Of course, we just had to test these claims out for ourselves, and see if these units really were formidable enough to leave our own router crying in the corner. We devised three simple experiments to see how they hold up in the real world — head on past the break to find out how they fared.

Gallery: Amped Wireless R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Continue reading Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | | Email this | Comments

The Neurology of Gaming Infographic

Click here to view: https://kenmay.net/?attachment_id=7925

Worst IT Security Breaches Ever Infographic

Click here to view: https://kenmay.net/?attachment_id=7921

Intel 313 SSDs bring improved caching to ultrabooks, desktops, life in general

Just like Intel’s older 311 batch of small cache SSDs, the new 313 series is designed to sit alongside a traditional spinning HDD in order provide a tasty blend of speed and capacity. These newer drives are still SATA II, so there’s no 6Gbps action here, but they use superior 25nm SLC flash, offer faster speeds for the same price (starting at $120 for 20GB) and are explicitly approved for use in the coming wave of Ultrabooks — so don’t be surprised if that’s where you meet ’em next.

Intel 313 SSDs bring improved caching to ultrabooks, desktops, life in general originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink PC World | source Intel | Email this | Comments

See the article here:
Intel 313 SSDs bring improved caching to ultrabooks, desktops, life in general

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Will Be Magic on the iPad [Blip]

Wizards of the Coast finally realized how amazing the Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers series would be on the iPad, with Apple’s tablet joining PC, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live when the game’s 2013 installment launches this summer. More »

Continued here:
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Will Be Magic on the iPad [Blip]

Dropbox enables drag-and-drop uploads on web browsers

Finished convincing friends, family and perfect strangers alike to sign up to Dropbox — and selfishly upping your own storage in the process. The cloud storage service has just made changes to its web-baser interface, adding drag-and-drop functionality from your folders and desktop. The feature works across Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers and once the site detects the movement, it’ll start uploading to that ethereal data cloud in the sky. You can start dragging those files around at the source now.

Dropbox enables drag-and-drop uploads on web browsers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink The Next Web | source Dropbox blog, Dropbox | Email this | Comments

See more here:
Dropbox enables drag-and-drop uploads on web browsers

Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones

An anonymous reader writes “American scientists and engineers are researching a new generation of UAV’s that would be nuclear-powered. Why do this? They would have the capacity to stay over a target area for months and only be limited by the ordinance they could drop on a potential foe. They would be similar to a nuclear attack submarine but not limited to the amount of food on-board. The article notes: ‘The blueprints for the new drones, which have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories – the U.S. government’s principal nuclear research and development agency – and defense contractor Northrop Grumman, were designed to increase flying time “from days to months” while making more power available for operating equipment, according to a project summary published by Sandia,’ the paper reported.”