The iPhone and iPad are fantastic gaming devices, but unfortunately a lot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons on the touch screen and it just doesn’t work that well. Thankfully, a jailbreak app called Blutrol lets you turn a handful of different gamepads into controllers for any game with touchscreen buttons. Here’s how to set it up. More »
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How to Use a Gamepad for Any iOS Game (Not Just Emulators)
The Shams Power Company opened their Shams 1 concentrated solar power station this week in Abu Dhabi. The station generates 100 MW and can power 20,000 homes while reducing CO2 emissions by 175,000 tons per year. More »
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Formed in 2009, the joint partnership of STMicro and Ericsson was never profitable as top customer Nokia lost market share to Apple and Samsung. [Read more]
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Chipmaking venture ST-Ericcson to close, cut 1,600 jobs
If you’re a Windows 7 user and you’ve been dragging your heels when it comes to that Service Pack 1 upgrade, then prepare to get an extra dose of encouragement from Microsoft. Starting tomorrow, the company will begin deploying SP1 via Windows Update to all neglected PCs, and just so you’re aware, the update won’t require your consent. The push will happen a phased rollout over the next few weeks, and as for the consequence of not upgrading, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7 RTM as of April 9th. Naturally, PCs that are managed by system admins can be shielded from the deployment, but for everyone else, it seems that you’d best prepare for the inevitable. Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments Via: TNW Source: Microsoft
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Compulsory upgrades to Windows 7 SP1 will start rolling out tomorrow
An anonymous reader writes “Tom’s Hardware has published a lengthy article and a set of benchmarks on the new “Haswell” CPUs from Intel. It’s just a performance preview, but it isn’t just more of the same. While it’s got the expected 10-15% faster for the same clock speed for integer applications, floating point applications are almost twice as a fast which might be important for digital imaging applications and scientific computing.” The serious performance increase has a few caveats: you have to use either AVX2 or FMA3, and then only in code that takes advantage of vectorization. Floating point operations using AVX or plain old SSE3 see more modest increases in performance (in line with integer performance increases). Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps
Researchers say the tech, which could help spot heart disease, multiple sclerosis, specific cancers, and more, may make MRI scans a standard procedure during annual exams. [Read more]
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New MRI ‘fingerprinting’ could spot diseases in seconds
In last week’s Hacker Challenge , we asked you to share your best hotel room hack . We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us some clever ways to automate a hotel room. More »
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Hacker Challenge Winner: Automate Your Phone With Old Hotel Key Cards
An anonymous reader writes “Hackers can influence real-time traffic-flow-analysis systems to make people drive into traffic jams or to keep roads clear in areas where a lot of people use Google or Waze navigation systems, a German researcher demonstrated at BlackHat Europe. ‘If, for example, an attacker drives a route and collects the data packets sent to Google, the hacker can replay them later with a modified cookie, platform key and time stamps, Jeske explained in his research paper (PDF). The attack can be intensified by sending several delayed transmissions with different cookies and platform keys, simulating multiple cars, Jeske added. An attacker does not have to drive a route to manipulate data, because Google also accepts data from phones without information from surrounding access points, thus enabling an attacker to influence traffic data worldwide, he added.’ ‘You don’t need special equipment for this and you can manipulate traffic data worldwide,’ Jeske said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Researcher: Hackers Can Jam Traffic By Manipulating Real-Time Traffic Data
Modern technology battles the force of erosion to unveil Bronze Age carvings on the surface of Stonehenge. [Read more]
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3D scan of Stonehenge reveals hidden ax-head carvings
An anonymous reader writes “When cell phone unlocking became illegal last month, it set off a firestorm of debate over what rights people should have for phones they have legally purchased. But this is really just one facet of a much larger problem with property rights in general. ‘Silicon permeates and powers almost everything we own. This is a property rights issue, and current copyright law gets it backwards, turning regular people — like students, researchers, and small business owners — into criminals. Fortune 500 telecom manufacturer Avaya, for example, is known for suing service companies, accusing them of violating copyright for simply using a password to log in to their phone systems. That’s right: typing in a password is considered “reproducing copyrighted material.” Manufacturers have systematically used copyright in this manner over the past 20 years to limit our access to information. Technology has moved too fast for copyright laws to keep pace, so corporations have been exploiting the lag to create information monopolies at our expense and for their profit. After years of extensions and so-called improvements, copyright has turned Mickey Mouse into a monster who can never die.’ We need to win the fight for unlocking phones, and then keep pushing until we actually own the objects we own again.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own