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Martin Jetpack hits the 5,000 feet milestone, could come to market within 18 months (video)

Posted: 29 May 2011 02:35 PM PDT

Martin Jetpack hits the 5,000 feet milestone, could come to market within 18 months (video)


Martin Jetpack hits the 5,000 feet milestone, could come to market within 18 months (video)
OK, so the Martin Jetpack may not have gone into commercial production quite as soon as we'd anticipated, but there's still hope on the horizon. Over the weekend, Glenn Martin's flying machine successfully climbed some 5,000 feet above sea level, marking a new milestone in the 30-year, $12 million project....

Android 3.1 update for ASUS Eee Pad Transformer leaks out

Posted: 29 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT

Android 3.1 update for ASUS Eee Pad Transformer leaks out


Android 3.1 update for ASUS Eee Pad Transformer leaks out
ASUS' official Android 3.1 update should be coming soon enough, but Eee Pad Transformer users that just can't wait now have another option at their disposal. A seemingly final version of the update leaked out over the weekend and, by all accounts, it appears to work just fine. Of course, there aren't a ton of surprises considering that it's stock Android 3.1, but the early reports suggest that performance and general...

This is the ASUS PadFone

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:16 PM PDT

This is the ASUS PadFone


This is the ASUS PadFone
Wow, so our theory and mockup turned out to be pretty much spot on: indeed, the oddly named ASUS PadFone does tuck itself into a shielded docking bay on the back of its companion tablet, and the latter's hinged cover appears to pop up upon releasing the latch. You can also just about make out the two ports inside which are likely to be HDMI and micro-USB -- one for driving...

Skype taken to task by angry users over claimed crapware payload

Posted: 29 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Skype taken to task by angry users over claimed crapware payload


Skype taken to task by angry users over claimed crapware payload
The Skype forums are a hive of panic and abuzz with accusations that either the company is bundling crapware with its VoIP app or has a serious security problem. Users are reporting that a strange, new, and difficult to uninstall program is finding its way on to their PCs called EasyBits GO....

Metaphor recognition software aims to distinguish friend from foe

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:32 AM PDT

Metaphor recognition software aims to distinguish friend from foe


Metaphor recognition software aims to distinguish friend from foe
While it's only right that people be protected from bad poetry, this could be taking things a tad too far. Intelligence officials at the Office of Incisive Analysis (no, really) have determined that metaphors could be of vital significance to national security. By, well, incisively analyzing the way people use metaphors in everyday conversations, they believe they can reveal "underlying beliefs and world views" -- such as negative feelings towards a...

Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility

Posted: 29 May 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility


Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility
Filed under: Etc., Natural Gas Shell's Prelude FLNG rendering Shell's latest fossil-fuel-extracting vehicle will dwarf every U.S. naval ship. The Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility will be nearly one-third of a mile long and tip the scales at up to 600,000 tons. That's six times heavier than the U.S.' largest aircraft carrier. In short, the Prelude FLNG is a floating drilling rig and refrigerator secured to the seafloor by tethers....

Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace

Posted: 29 May 2011 09:22 AM PDT

Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace


Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace
If you're an Android gamer, chances are you've heard of Nesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid and Gameboid: they're all video game console emulators developed by yongzh, and many ranked among the most popular paid apps on the Android Market. This week, they've got something else in common, too -- they've all been abruptly removed....

RSA SecureID hackers may have accessed Lockheed Martin trade secrets, cafeteria menus

Posted: 29 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT

RSA SecureID hackers may have accessed Lockheed Martin trade secrets, cafeteria menus


RSA SecureID hackers may have accessed Lockheed Martin trade secrets, cafeteria menus
RSA SecureID dongles add a layer of protection to everything from office pilates class schedules to corporate email accounts, with banks, tech companies, and even U.S. defense contractors using hardware security tokens to protect their networks. Following a breach at RSA in March, however, the company urged clients to boost other security methods, such as passwords and PIN codes, theoretically protecting networks from hackers that may have gained the ability to...

UK's CABLED project adds 2 wireless charge-capable Citroen C1s

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:53 AM PDT

UK's CABLED project adds 2 wireless charge-capable Citroen C1s


UK's CABLED project adds 2 wireless charge-capable Citroen C1s
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Citroen, UK Electric Citroen C1 ev'ie Arup, leader of the UK's CABLED (Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Vehicle Demonstrators) project that is trialing at least 110 plug-in vehicles, has added two Citroen C1 electric vehicles into the mix, each fitted with the HaloIPT's wireless charging technology. Neil Butcher, Arup's project leader of CABLED, had this to say regarding the importance of trialing wireless charge-capable vehicles: We feel that having HaloIPT...

ASUS PadFone shown off in proper brightness ahead of launch?

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:19 AM PDT

ASUS PadFone shown off in proper brightness ahead of launch?


ASUS PadFone shown off in proper brightness ahead of launch?
We've already seen a glimpse of ASUS' "pad or phone" duo -- likely to be named PadFone -- hanging out in their latest teaser pic, and now thanks to the folks over at Notebook Italia, we can finally gaze at their much brighter, non-silhouette form. Despite the awkward cropping, the leaked product shot above echoes the same shape and set of Android soft keys as seen previously....

Treebot climbs trees, is a robot (video)

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:19 AM PDT

Treebot climbs trees, is a robot (video)


Treebot climbs trees, is a robot (video)
Remember when you didn't consider climbing trees a chore? Treebot doesn't -- but then, it wasn't programmed to know boredom. The robot was designed by a team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the express purpose of shimmying up trees autonomously, figuring out the best route up a trunk using built-in touch sensors....

Droid Bionic benchmark reports PowerVR GPU, new SOC inside?

Posted: 29 May 2011 02:26 AM PDT

Droid Bionic benchmark reports PowerVR GPU, new SOC inside?


Droid Bionic benchmark reports PowerVR GPU, new SOC inside?
A very strange thing popped up on mobile graphic benchmarking site NenaMark the other day -- an entry for the Droid Bionic. Now, it would be very easy to fake this test, and you'd be right to be skeptical given the incomplete score and the fact that it's reporting PowerVR's SGX 540 GPU, instead of the Tegra 2 we saw at CES....

D-Wave sells first commercial quantum computer to Lockheed Martin

Posted: 28 May 2011 11:36 PM PDT

D-Wave sells first commercial quantum computer to Lockheed Martin


D-Wave sells first commercial quantum computer to Lockheed Martin
Who found ten million dollars to drop on the first commercially available quantum computer? Lockheed Martin, it seems, as the aerospace defense contractor has just begun a "multi-year contract" with the quantum annealing experts at D-Wave to develop... nothing that they're ready or willing to publicly discuss at this time....

How would you change HTC's Thunderbolt?

Posted: 28 May 2011 08:15 PM PDT

How would you change HTC's Thunderbolt?


How would you change HTC's Thunderbolt?
We know we're opening a can of worms that can never be resealed here, but it's true: we're desperate to know how you'd change HTC's Thunderbolt if given the chance. Verizon's LTE wunderchild has had all sorts of issues from the beginning, some of which are still ongoing. Tough battery life, random reboots, you name it....

Reserve Power: Stand Off, Part 1

Posted: 28 May 2011 07:09 PM PDT

Reserve Power: Stand Off, Part 1


Reserve Power: Stand Off, Part 1
Ross Rubin contributes Reserve Power, a column focused on personal perspectives and products. With handset screens getting larger and applications such as streaming primetime shows and video chat becoming more prevalent, it's not surprising that some handsets such as the HTC Evo 4G include a built-in kickstand. Most phones, though, suffer from Clapper commercial syndrome -- when they've fallen, they can't get up....

Visualized: Samsung wants to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

Posted: 28 May 2011 06:02 PM PDT

Visualized: Samsung wants to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3


Visualized: Samsung wants to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3
Samsung lawyers recently asked the court to make Apple show them the as-yet-unannounced iPhone 5 and iPad 3, claiming that they need to know what Apple's products will look like ahead of time to avoid future lawsuits and uncanny similarities. If only it were that easy.Visualized: Samsung wants to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 May 2011 20:55:00 EDT....

AMD ships five million Fusion chips, says it's sold out

Posted: 28 May 2011 05:29 PM PDT

AMD ships five million Fusion chips, says it's sold out


AMD ships five million Fusion chips, says it's sold out
Sounds like Notbooks are making a dent: AMD says it's shipped five million Fusion processors since the architecture's debut, according to a report at CNET. In January, the company said the hybrid CPU / GPU chips had momentum, and as of last month it was quoting 3.9 million APUs out in the wild, but this week AMD says that demand has overtaken supply and it's completely sold out of the Atom...

Apple testing A5-packing MacBook Air?

Posted: 28 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Apple testing A5-packing MacBook Air?


Apple testing A5-packing MacBook Air?
We've seen it put its processing power behind the iPad 2 and heard rumors of its presence in the upcoming fifth-gen iPhone, but could Apple really be considering putting its mobile-minded A5 processor in a MacBook Air? According to Japanese website, Macotakara, a trial of the ARM chip is already underway....

Mitsubishi targeting Europe's public sector to boost i-MiEV sales to 25,000 units in FY 2011

Posted: 28 May 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Mitsubishi targeting Europe's public sector to boost i-MiEV sales to 25,000 units in FY 2011


Mitsubishi targeting Europe's public sector to boost i-MiEV sales to 25,000 units in FY 2011
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, Europe/EU Euro-spec Mitsubishi i-MiEV In an effort to boost sales of its electric i-MiEV, Mitsubishi Motors will reportedly reach out to Europe's public sector, including police departments, utility companies and even numerous municipalities, and hype them on the electric jellybean. According to the Nikkei (sub. req.), the Japanese automaker is supposedly banking on the notion that Europe's public sector, which puts an emphasis on environmental protection, will be more than...