Nike’s sportswear designers were recently assigned a very specific task: Come up with the best performance wear possible to be worn by a highly select group of 1,600 men.

Those men are the professional players belonging to the 32 teams of America’s National Football League, and today Nike presented their new uniforms, signalling their status as the League’s new official apparel manufacturer both on and off the field. The Elite 51 uniforms combine Nike’s manufacturing, materials and research prowess into “a completely integrated system of dress” that is lighter, stronger, and more flexible than previous iterations.

The baselayers have foam impact protection built into “hit zone” areas like the shoulder, hips and tailbone. The thighs are protected by lightweight carbon-fiber plates. The seams are strategically placed and designed to lie flat to avoid chafing the wearer. The fabric used is Nike’s Dri-FIT mesh, designed to wick moisture away from the player.

The outer layer of the uniforms are constructed with Nike’s Flywire technology, originally designed for footwear, which weaves fibers together in a particular way to add support where it’s needed without creating bulk and weight. The jerseys achieve what’s known as a “lockdown” fit, encompassing the bulge of the pads and shrinking back down to the wearer’s body, eliminating any loose inch of clothing that a defender might get their fingers onto.

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The formal unveiling of LG’s Viper this morning may not have piqued your interest, but Sprint loyalists hellbent on maintaining access to an unlimited plan may want to take a second look. Initially pointed out by TechHog, and confirmed to us today by a Sprint spokesperson, the carrier’s impending LTE data network will indeed be included on its existing Everything plans. In other words, the Viper — as well as any other LTE smartphone, Galaxy Nexus included — will be able to surf the LTE superhighway without limits. To date, the “unlimited” nature of Sprint’s data remains a huge differentiator in a world full of hamstrung options, tiers and throttles, and it’ll certainly be used to get the attention of heavy users in the months ago. We also reconfirmed that Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio are on track to receive LTE in “midyear 2012,” with “other markets following in the third and fourth quarters.” Huzzah!

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sl4shd0rk writes “Taking a page out of the TSA handbook, the Supreme Court has voted to allow strip searches for any offense, no matter how minimal. The article cites these two tidbits from Justice Anthony Kennedy: ‘Every detainee who will be admitted to the general [jail or prison] population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed,’ and ‘Maintaining safety and order at detention centers requires the expertise of correctional officials.'”

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Hugh Pickens writes writes “In spring of 1940, the Census Bureau sent out more than 120,000 fact-gatherers, known as ‘enumerators,’ to survey the nation’s 33 million homes and 7 million farms. Now as the 72 years of confidentiality expires, the National Archives website buckled under the load as the 1940 census records were released and 1.9 million users hit the archives servers in the first four hours the data went public and at one point, the Archives said, its computers were receiving 100,000 requests per second. Data miners will have the opportunity to pick and chip through more than 3.8 million digital images of census schedules, maps and other sociological minutiae. What will we learn from this mother lode? The pivotal year 1940 ‘marked the beginnings of a shift from a depressed peacetime to a prosperous wartime,’ says David E. Kyvig, author of Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939. The vast data dump, Kyvig says, will allow historians ‘to look closely at particular communities and how people within them were doing in terms of employment, income and material comforts.’ The 1940 census was the first Census that looked deeper into the details of much of American life. ‘As we see how the country evolved over the subsequent 20 years, where we have aggregate census data … we ought to be able to see more clearly how government spending bettered everyday life, confirmed Keynesian economic theory and revealed that, before the war, the New Deal did too little, rather than too much, to stimulate the U.S. economy.””

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Developers behind the Flashback trojan for the Mac have updated it to exploit a vulnerability in the Java software framework that has yet to be patched for machines running Mac OS X, an antivirus firm warned on Monday.

Flashback.K, as the latest variant is called, is able to hijack Macs even when users don’t enter an administrative password. Instead, it does this by exploiting a critical Java vulnerability classified as CVE-2012-0507, F-Secure researchers wrote in a blog post. Although Oracle released a fix for the security threat in February, a patch has yet to be released for OS X users. That’s because Apple distributes Java updates itself and the company has yet to make one for the specific flaw, or indicate when it plans to do so.

Flashback first surfaced in September as a trojan that masqueraded as an installer for Adobe’s Flash Player. Over the past few months, it has taken on increasingly sophisticated features, including the ability to bypass built-in OS X malware protections and attack code that exploits long-ago patched Java vulnerabilities. The version analyzed by F-Secure is the first known time Flashback has exploited a vulnerability for which no fix is currently available.

Although Apple stopped bundling Java by default in OS X 10.7 (Lion), it offers instructions for downloading and installing the Oracle-developed software framework when users access webpages that use it. Some security researchers have for years criticized Apple for lagging behind Microsoft and Linux distributors in releasing Java updates to its users. F-Secure has recently joined others in counseling Mac users to disable Java on machines that don’t regularly use it. The antivirus provider also has provided instructions for checking if your Mac is infected.

Attacks that exploit CVE-2012-0507 recently went mainstream when they were added to automated exploit kits such as Blackhole. Once it infects a Mac, Flashback changes the contents of some of the webpages it displays.

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It took almost exactly a year, but Philips is finally free of its pesky, money-losing TV problem. As planned, the company transferred its television business into a joint venture with Hong Kong-based TPV Technology called TP Vision — an arrangement that endows TPV with a controlling 70 percent stake. (Philips will still receive royalties on top of whatever it earns through this venture, and plans to sell Philips-branded sets in the US through a separate partnership with Funai.) Though the deal was first detailed a year ago, Philips only announced today that the transaction had closed. Now that it has, the newly formed company will produce Philips-branded TVs in a bid to make it one of the “top three players,” according to TP Vision chief Maarten de Vries. As you’d expect, all of the 3,300 employees that previously fell under Philips’ television division will now be in the employ of TP Vision, and Philips’ various manufacturing sites have been transferred over too. All of that and a healthy dose of rah-rah in the full PR below.

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A number of online retailers listed an Intel 330 SSD over the weekend, which would have been cool except that the drive was supposed to remain in the shadows until given a proper announcement. Some sellers pulled their listings pronto, but not before giving us a good glimpse at the drive’s likely specs. These include the arrival of the SATAIII 6Gbps interface in this budget line, the same 25nm NAND fabrication process used for last year’s 320, and promised sequential read / write speeds of up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s. None of this is especially thrilling, perhaps, when you recall that a similarly-specced SSD, the SanDisk Extreme, topped even the premium Intel 520 in recent benchmarks, but it all starts to make sense when you look at the pricing. SabrePC lists $149 for the 120GB variant, which is a full $40 cheaper than SanDisk’s rival, $60 cheaper than the Intel 320, and only enough to pick up 60GB-worth of Intel 520. There are also 60GB and 180GB flavors, listed at $89 and $234 respectively. Assuming these prices hold tight, and that there’s no repeat of the 320’s firmware issues, this could be a bargain drive worth waiting for.

Update: Amazon UK helpfully lists April 13th as launch day.

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