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Google Fiber is officially coming to Austin, Texas

Hear that? It’s Austin, being weird enough to add yet another reason to live within its city limits. As rumored , Google Fiber will be rolling down to one of Texas’ most esteemed towns in the near future, joining the Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri metro as the only locales (so far) in the US of A offering the outfit’s Fiber-based TV, phone and 1Gbps broadband services. Mum’s the word on an exact rollout, but we’ll update this post as we learn more. Filed under: Internet , HD , Google Comments Source: Gig.U

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Facebook Home official, replaces your app icons with social info (video)

Today Facebook finally took the wraps off Home , a suite of apps and a home screen replacement for Android phones. It’s not just a new UI for launching apps however; it replaces the lockscreen with Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people instead of apps. There is a standard paginated launcher, that is always just a swipe away. But the focus is on the full-screen images that are your new welcome screen. These are status updates from friends that you can easily flip through and double tap to like when someone posts something exciting. Plain text status updates are placed over a user’s cover photo, to keep the appearance consistent with photo-centric posts. Notifications are presented as small cards, which Facebook applies an algorithm to, in order determine the updates that are most important to you. Just like with the standard Android UI you simply swipe notifications off screen to dismiss them. But, if you want to remove all of them in one shot, you long press a single notification and the rest will be drawn to it and you’ll be able to dismiss the entire stack. Gallery: Facebook’s Android event: Facebook Home Filed under: Software , Mobile , Facebook Comments

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UK’s online music royalties generate more cash than radio for the first time

The UK’s Performing Right Society has announced that the cash generated from online music licensing has surpassed that of radio for the first time. The society’s 2012 report reveals that digital royalties brought in £51 million ($76.7 million) from stores, ringtones and subscription services, compared to the £47 million ($70.6 million) generated by folks listening to the wireless . The rest of the motherland’s music industry, however, has less to celebrate, thanks to big drops in physical media sales, people shunning pubs and clubs as well as big falls in live music events. You know, it’s almost as if it won’t be long before you’ll only be able to buy music online . Filed under: Portable Audio/Video , Internet Comments Via: The Guardian Source: PRS (.PDF)

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ASUS unveils GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini graphics card destined for little rigs

It’s easy to chop and change components in spacious towers , but small PCs need upgrading, too. If your stunted desktop has fallen into the “minimum system requirements” category for the latest games, then maybe the newly announced ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini graphics card will interest you. Quite the mouthful, we know, but its long name contrasts with its small size — the dual-slot, 2GB card measures 6.7 inches on its longest edge, shaving almost 3 inches off the reference design. There’s no reason you can’t put the card in a regular case, of course, but it’s intended mainly for compact rigs with mini ITX or micro ATX motherboards. We don’t have pricing or release info yet, but if the cost of NVIDIA’s GTX 670 is anything to go by, expect to drop at least a trio of Benjamins on the petite version. Glamor shots and all the finer specs are available at the source links below. Filed under: Desktops , Gaming , Peripherals , ASUS Comments Via: Fareastgizmos Source: ASUS (1) , (2)

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FTC reveals $50,000 Robocall Challenge winners, alarms Rachel from card services (video)

The FTC has managed to find two non-violent solutions to its Robocall Challenge , aimed at blocking auto-dialing telemarketers, thanks to winners Serdar Danis and Aaron Foss. The pair, who will receive $25,000 each, came up with variations on a system that would pre-screen calls before ringing your phone while allowing the FTC to blacklist known scammers at the same time. Google took a non-cash prize in a separate category with a scheme that would foil caller-ID spoofing often used by boiler rooms like the notorious “Rachel from card services” outfit, which has over a hundred numeric aliases. The FTC receives a whopping 200,000 complaints per month about the nuisance and screened nearly 800 submissions (see the More Coverage link), many of which show a certain, shall we say, passion for the topic. Check winner Foss’ video submission after the break. Filed under: Misc Comments Via: Huffington Post Source: FTC

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Hacker turns Kindle Paperwhite into wireless Raspberry Pi terminal

The Raspberry Pi is all about low-cost computing, which makes this particular hack quite fitting, as it allows you to make a terminal for your lil’ Linux machine out of something you may already have at home: a Kindle Paperwhite . Displeased with the glare from his laptop’s screen on a sunny day, Max Ogden was inspired to find something better and ended up with this Paperwhite hack . It builds on the original “Kindleberry Pi” method for the Kindle Keyboard , although Ogden had to massage it for the newer model and added some extra hardware to make the setup as wireless as possible. You wouldn’t call the end result a monitor, as such — the Paperwhite logs into an SSH session running on the Pi, so it “pretty much only works for terminals.” That’s probably for the best, as Ogden guesses the lag between wireless keyboard and e-ink screen is around 200ms, but at least it has portability, battery life and sunlight readability in the ‘pros’ column. Details of the project can be found at the source below, meaning only time (and probably, a few peripherals) stands between you and the ultimate hipster coffee shop machine . Filed under: Misc , Software , Amazon Comments Via: Raspberry Pi Source: Max Ogden

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NVIDIA outs GeForce 700M GPUs for notebooks, boasts inclusion by ‘every leading manufacturer’

In NVIDIA’s ongoing efforts to monopolize the technical-sounding graphics card market , the California-based components manufacturer today announced a fresh mobile line of GPUs aimed at notebook computing. That’s five new GPUs in total, with the GeForce GT 720M and 735M making up the “mainstream” segment, while the GT 740M, 745M, and 750M make up the “performance” portion of the lineup. All five cards include NVIDIA’s “GPU Boost 2.0” tech, which allows the GPU to alter its clock speed on-the-fly for the sake of efficiency — although this is mainly a software-level upgrade over the first iteration of Boost, and it’s still the same familiar Kepler architecture under the hood. It won’t be too long before we start seeing the newest NVIDIA mobile GPUs in notebooks at retail, as the PR says they’ll be in notebooks from “every leading manufacturer” in the coming months. Filed under: Gaming , Laptops , NVIDIA Comments

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Visualized: Unreal Engine 4 ‘Infiltrator’ demo gives an impressive peek at next-gen gaming

Just in case you missed it last night buried in our interview with Epic Games VP Mark Rein , the company showed off a new real-time demo at GDC 2013 this week, titled “Infiltrator.” The nearly four-minute clip, showcases a sci-fi shootout created with its Unreal Engine 4 , and remarkably powered by a single GeForce GTX 680 . Now that we’ve piqued your curiosity a bit, check out this gorgeous display of futuristic espionage after the break, plus a bonus clip of the “Elemental” UE4 demo running on a PlayStation 4 dev kit in real-time. Filed under: Gaming , Software Comments

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FCC confident in its mobile phone radiation limits, seeks second opinions

Cast your memory back to last summer. Sweep away memories of iPhone 5 leaks galore , and you might remember that the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) asked the FCC to reevaluate its radiation limits for mobile phones. Now a few seasons later, the FCC has finally wrapped up a report that responds to the GAO, and there are no changes to its RF radiation levels in sight because it feels comfortable with its current caps. “We continue to have confidence in the current exposure limits, and note that more recent international standards have a similar basis,” reads the report. However, given that its guidelines were adopted in 1996, new research on radiation and the proliferation of mobile devices , the FCC would like some feedback regarding its restrictions. It’s put out a call for comments from concerned parties and even federal health and safety bodies. Though the freshly-released document didn’t rock the proverbial boat, it made one change worth noting. The pinna (outer ear) is now classified an extremity, which means the FCC allows devices to hit the tissue with more radiation. Feel like poring through 201 pages of regulatory minutiae? Click the source link below for the commission’s full dossier. Filed under: Cellphones Comments Via: The Verge Source: FCC

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DOS emulator brings Raspberry Pi back to the ’90s for Doom LAN parties

Who can forget the first time they obliterated their buddy with a BFG9000 during a spirited Doom game ? Raspberry Pi coder Pate wants to resurrect those good times with an rpix86 DOS emulator that opens up the world of retro PC games like the aforementioned FPS pioneer along with Duke Nukem 3D, Jill of the Jungle and others. It works by creating a virtual machine your Dad would be proud of, based on a 40Mhz 80486 processor, 640KB base RAM, 16MB extended memory, 640 x 480 256-color graphics and SoundBlaster 2.0 audio. Of course, the Pi is worlds beyond that with a 700Mhz ARM CPU, 512MB or RAM and HDMI out — so, most enthusiasts with one of the wee $35 boards will likely be all over hacking it to play those classics. Filed under: Misc , Peripherals Comments Via: Geek.com Source: rpix86 blog

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DOS emulator brings Raspberry Pi back to the ’90s for Doom LAN parties