Apple revealed a lot of news at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, but it didn’t discuss or show of any iWatch. Still, a new report from Japanese newspaper the Nikkei says that an iWatch is indeed on its way, with a targeted ship date of October. The gadget will include a curved OLED screen and health tracking functions, and be powered by iOS 8, Nikkei reports.… Read More
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Apple iWatch Coming In October With Curved OLED Screen And Health Tracking, Says Nikkei
The Internet of Things is coming to a garden near you. Last fall, a company called Soil IQ made the finals at TechCrunch Disrupt with a soil monitor that continuously sends data on moisture and temperature back to the cloud. It was co-founded by a Princeton grad and soil scientist named Jason Aramburu, who had worked with hundreds of Kenyan farmers to increase crop yields. He then teamed up… Read More
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Edyn Is A Gardening Monitor That Sends Moisture, Temperature Data Back To The Cloud
First time accepted submitter Randy Davis (3683081) writes ‘A report from Forbes says that Sprint buying T-mobile for $32 billion is almost done. This will clearly rock the top two telecommunication companies in the U.S., Verizon and AT&T. The news report also said that T-mobile will give up 67% share in exchange of 15% share of the merged company. Officials of both Sprint and T-Mobile are confident that FCC will approve this deal since AT&T’s $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV got approved.’ One reason for that confidence: “The predominant feeling is that combined T-Mobile and Sprint will be able to offer greater competition to Verizon and AT&T , ranked first and second respectively in the U.S. market. It will also give Sprint greater might in the upcoming 600 megahertz spectrum auction, especially since part of it excludes both Verizon and AT&T from bidding.” InforWorld puts the potential price even higher, and points out that the deal could still fall apart. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Big Telecom: Terms Set For Sprint To Buy T-Mobile For $32B
itwbennett (1594911) writes “ActiveLink, which is 80% owned by Panasonic, is building heavy-duty strength-boosting suits that the company says can help workers shoulder the burden of heavy gear and protective clothing and could be useful at nuclear plants. ‘Our powered suits could be used to assist and support remote-controlled robots in emergencies, ‘ ActiveLink President Hiromichi Fujimoto said in an interview. ‘Workers could wear the suits to carry PackBots to their deployment point and to work in low-radiation areas.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Robotic Exoskeletons Could Help Nuclear Plant Workers
An anonymous reader writes “Google is planning to spend over $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions around the world. ‘The projected price ranges from about $1 billion to more than $3 billion, the people familiar with the project said, depending on the network’s final design and a later phase that could double the number of satellites. Based on past satellite ventures, costs could rise. Google’s project is the latest effort by a Silicon Valley company to extend Internet coverage from the sky to help its business on the ground. Google and Facebook Inc. are counting on new Internet users in underserved regions to boost revenue, and ultimately, earnings. “Google and Facebook are trying to figure out ways of reaching populations that thus far have been unreachable, ” said Susan Irwin, president of Irwin Communications Inc., a satellite-communications research firm. “Wired connectivity only goes so far and wireless cellular networks reach small areas. Satellites can gain much broader access.”‘” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
It’s hard out there for men and women who are not the multi-armed goddess of destruction and rebith, Kālikā. MIT researchers have created a pair of robotic arms that connect to your shoulders and give you another pair of pinchers to help you lift heavy objects, keep objects in place while you attach them overhead, or subjugate Lord Shiva with your power to both create and destroy. Read More
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These Extra Arms Will Help You Lift Heavy Objects Like A Super Cyborg
If you need a laptop that’s also a tablet that’s also a cellphone that’s also a Windows 8.1 machine that’s also an Android device, I think we found just the laptop for you. Dubbed the Asus Transformer V (as in “Five, ” not vendetta) the device dual boots into Android instantly and has a little ZenFone stuck to the back of the screen, a feature that… Read More
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Asus Goes Nuts With Their Transformer V Dual-Boot Win8/Android Laptop
schwit1 (797399) writes “As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives — including their Social Security numbers — in a new national database being assembled by two federal agencies. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau posted an April 16 Federal Register notice of an expansion of their joint National Mortgage Database Program to include personally identifiable information that reveals actual users, a reversal of previously stated policy. The FHFA will manage the database and share it with CFPB. A CFPB internal planning document for 2013-17 describes the bureau as monitoring 95 percent of all mortgage transactions. FHFA officials claim the database is essential to conducting a monthly mortgage survey required by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and to help it prepare an annual report for Congress.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Federal Database Will Track Americans’ Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info
Mark.JUK (1222360) writes “Chinese ICT developer Huawei has confirmed that it was able to achieve a record transmission data rate of 10.53Gbps on 5GHz frequency bands in laboratory trials of their new 802.11ax WiFi (WLAN) wireless networking standard. The testing, which was conducted at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen, used a mix of MIMO-OFDA, intelligence spectrum allocation, interference coordination and hybrid access to achieve the result and the new technology could hit the market during 2018.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps
An anonymous reader writes “The SparkFun team took a tour of a factory in China that manufactures LEDs. They took lots of pictures showing the parts that go into the LEDs, the machines used to build them, and the people operating the machines. There’s a surprising amount of manual labor involved with making LEDs. Quoting: ‘As shipped on the paper sheets, the LED dies are too close together to manipulate. There is a mechanical machine … that spreads the dies out and sticks them to a film of weak adhesive. This film is suspended above the lead frames … Using a microscope, the worker manually aligns the die, and, with a pair of tweezers, pokes the die down into the lead frame. The adhesive in the lead frame wins (is more sticky), and the worker quickly moves to the next die. We were told they can align over 80 per minute or about 40, 000 per day.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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