Nintendo’s next console will debut at E3 in June, moving the maker of Mario and Zelda into the HD era. The news, first reported by Game Informer today, confirms rumors that have been swirling for months in the wake of slowing game releases from Nintendo. More
The haunting songs produced by whales are shockingly similar to human pop music: one single hit tune spreads across the ocean, and becomes the preferred whale mating tune. And, just like the modern music industry, it all runs on remixes. More
Today Apple released iOS 4.3.2, a minor update recommended for all (non-jailbroken) iDevices. The release focuses on fixing two particularly problematic bugs: Facetime freezes/random image displays and connectivity issues with 3G-enabled iPads. Update through iTunes if you haven’t jailbroken your device, otherwise you might want to wait a little bit. More
Google adds a voice input option to its language translation tool, Chrome’s pre-stable channels have a built-in Print Preview flag, and Safari plans its own do-not-track browser feature. More
Continue reading Intel and Micron announce new 20nm NAND Flash manufacturing process
Intel and Micron announce new 20nm NAND Flash manufacturing process originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Not all creatures have soft squishy eyes like us mammals — the mollusks known as chitons have hundreds of primitive visual sensors all over their body, and they’re made of a rock called aragonite. More
We were just pondering this very thing yesterday — would Intel dedicate itself to Thunderbolt and give USB 3.0 the cold shoulder — and now we have our answer from the Santa Clara crew, albeit delivered from Beijing. The Chinese capital is the site of Intel’s currently ongoing developer conference, which is where Kirk Skaugen, VP of the company’s Architecture Group, assured the world that the promise for native USB 3.0 support in Intel chipsets will be fulfilled. Not this year, mind you, but it’ll be with us in 2012 as part of the Ivy Bridge CPU refresh. That matches AMD’s plans to support USB 3.0 in Fusion APUs, and was augmented with a strong word of endorsement from Skaugen about the connector’s future. He urged developers to embrace USB 3.0 on an equal footing with Intel’s proprietary Thunderbolt interconnect, describing the two technologies as “complementary.” If you say so, captain.
Intel to support USB 3.0 alongside Thunderbolt, coming with Ivy Bridge in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It’s amazing what an electric motor and some lithium-ion junk in the trunk can do. For the SWIGZ team, which earlier bested some internally-combused competition on the track, the results are 190MPH from a standing start, completed at the Mojave Mile event. As you can see in the video below the 241HP bike wasted no time in getting up to that speed — also wasting no time getting into an unsettling head shake and speed weave. Thankfully it was all over in less than 30 seconds and the new (unofficial) record was recorded: 190.6MPH. Fastest for an electric bike in a standing mile — and pretty darned quick for any bike.
Continue reading Chip Yates goes 190MPH on an electric motorcycle, takes you along (video)
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Start capturing traffic from Android phones, and you’ll learn something about security. Google encrypts Gmail and Voice requests, but not Calendar. Twitter’s semi-secure, Facebook not at all. And some apps capture GPS locations for no good reason. [Freedom to Tinker] More
Start capturing traffic from Android phones, and you’ll learn something about security. Google encrypts Gmail and Voice requests, but not Calendar. Twitter’s semi-secure, Facebook not at all. And some apps capture GPS locations for no good reason. [Freedom to Tinker] More