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In two weeks the U.S. Treasury will auction 11 supercars valued at nearly $3 million, including a Ferrari Enzo. If you ever bought a piece of electronics at Best Buy that didn’t work, here’s where your cash may have gone. More
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…Make it an SSD. I am not making spurious claims or waving my silly little e-willy around here. It’s the single most immediately noticeable system upgrade I think I’ve ever done, and as such I’m keen it isn’t stranded in a techhead and rich-gonk ghetto. This is an upgrade for any PC gamer, not purely for the well-monied ‘performance enthusiasts’ who get a bit worryingly sweaty when looking at bar charts. More
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< >Wondering what Google’s answer to Amazon’s cloud music player for Android will look like? Then it would seem you now have your answer –the Tech From 10 website somehow managed to receive a developer version of the Android Market, which allowed it to download Android Music 3.0 and try it out for themselves. That site’s unfortunately down at the moment (along with the download of the app itself that it was providing), but it doesn’t look like there’s too many surprises to be found. Things are almost identical to the existing Android Music player in terms of appearance, while the settings menu has expectedly been augmented with various streaming-related options. Android Market itself has also apparently been tweaked slightly, and the developer version included a few other surprises as well, including new camera and desk clock apps. Unfortunately, we haven’t yet been able to try it out ourselves, but you can keep an eye on the source link below for the downloads to return.
Update: Looks like Droid Life is also hosting some downloads of its own. You can find them here.
Thanks, Joe
Google’s new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Get ready for a nuclear-powered spacecraft—maybe! The Russian Federal Space Agency says that it will hold talks with Nasa and a number of countries on April 15 to see if they can’t get started on creating a “nuclear engine” by 2012. Such an engine, it’s believed, would only cost around $600m to develop.
There’s a few issues here, and the first is the expectation that people will freak out upon hearing “nuclear-powered spacecraft,” particularly after what’s happened in Japan these past few weeks. Odds are we won’t be able to travel to far-off world using currently available engines, so if we’re serious about getting off this planet—let’s not forget Stephen Hawking’s warning—we’re going to have to seriously think about bigger, more powerful engines.
Whether or not the engine being proposed by Russia will be used for propulsion or merely to generate electricity is unclear.
What is clear, however, is that Nasa isn’t exactly hurting for nuclear engine designs. It’s just a matter of sorting out the funding, and possibly trying to calm the nerves of the public.
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All systems: The next version of Ubuntu’s Linux desktop, due out April 28, will feature some really big changes, including a very new desktop shell running Unity, a “Test Drive” for apps, and a default LibreOffice installation. Try it all out and see how it runs with the public beta. More
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Yes, the times are changing. Yes, we’ve cut back on purchasing CDs, DVDs, and BDs lately. Yes, we still have plenty of discs lying around in jewel cases on dusty shelves or in enormous three-ring binders. And yes-most definitely yes-we want to be able to access all these movies and songs from our PC, television, and our shiny new smartphone. More
As the saying goes, everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes Texas Instruments’ (TI) share of the semiconductor market. The Dallas-based firm announced today that it will pay $6.5 billion for National Semiconductors. With the acquisition complete, National will become a branch of TI’s analog segment, which is now positioned to make up 50 percent of the company’s revenue. According to a joint press release, TI held the biggest chunk of the analog semiconductor market in 2010 at 14 percent, and with the new addition that number’s bound to get even bigger. Full PR after the break.
Continue reading Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductors for $6.5 billion in cash money
Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductors for $6.5 billion in cash money originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
As the saying goes, everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes Texas Instruments’ (TI) share of the semiconductor market. The Dallas-based firm announced today that it will pay $6.5 billion for National Semiconductors. With the acquisition complete, National will become a branch of TI’s analog segment, which is now positioned to make up 50 percent of the company’s revenue. According to a joint press release, TI held the biggest chunk of the analog semiconductor market in 2010 at 14 percent, and with the new addition that number’s bound to get even bigger. Full PR after the break.
Continue reading Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductors for $6.5 billion in cash money
Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductors for $6.5 billion in cash money originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Whoa, Nelly! AMD, a company that has struggled to nail its ship dates in years past, has just pulled the ultimate 180. If you’ll recall, we heard last month that its quad-core Llano APU was on track for a Q3 2011 release, but now, we’ve word straight from the equine’s mouth that the action will be going down far sooner. In fact, AMD’s Singapore plant just celebrated the first shipment of the company’s 32nm Llano A-series APUs, complete with discrete-level graphics and a promise to change the way we think about netbook / nettop / ultraportable performance. Of course, just because these chips are headed out to OEM partners doesn’t mean that they’ll be gracing the pages of your favorite PC maker tomorrow; Chief Financial Officer and Interim CEO Thomas Seifert notes that AMD is looking forward to seeing Llano-based machines during this quarter, but given that Q2 just got going, we may be waiting awhile still. Nothing like a little Zacate to tide you over in the meantime, right?
Continue reading AMD ships 32nm quad-core Llano APU, expects systems ‘later this quarter’
AMD ships 32nm quad-core Llano APU, expects systems ‘later this quarter’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This video of the KR1, Kevin Rupp’s hand-made guitar synth based on the Zoybar platform is pretty darn wild. It features a Line 6 Pocket Pod, a Line 6 Relay G30 wireless transmitter, a Korg Kaossilator Pro Synth Loop station, and Sanyo Pedal Juice re-chargeable battery. You can record and play over multiple loops and drum fills and then solo over them like a boss.
Here is a better-lit version of the KR1 in action. Now all he needs is a little monkey and a tin cup and he can be a 21st century organ grinder.
Thanks, TK
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KR1 Is One Wild Guitar Synth