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Volta BCN electric motorcycle announced, set to go on sale in Q2 2012

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Volta BCN electric motorcycle announced, set to go on sale in Q2 2012


Volta BCN electric motorcycle announced, set to go on sale in Q2 2012
Your all-electric motorcycle options are getting more and more plentiful these days, and it looks like you'll soon have yet another option consider. Volta Motorbikes officially announced its new Volta BCN motorcycle this week, with a complete unveiling set for the EICMA Motorshow in Milan next month. It will be available in three different models -- the BCN Sport, BCN City, and BCN My Volta -- each of which pack the...

Royal Society opens its archives to the web, is less elitist than the name suggests

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:26 AM PDT

Royal Society opens its archives to the web, is less elitist than the name suggests


Royal Society opens its archives to the web, is less elitist than the name suggests
Get ready science nerds, you're about to get a lifetime's worth of reading material for free. The venerable Royal Society, the over 350-year-old British scientific organization, has just opened up its archives to the web-dwelling public. Thats over 60,000 scientific papers dating back to the first ever peer-reviewed research publication in 1665....

Refresh Roundup: week of October 24, 2011

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Refresh Roundup: week of October 24, 2011


Refresh Roundup: week of October 24, 2011
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix....

Chefs Cooking Up New Ways to Prepare Venomous Lionfish

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Chefs Cooking Up New Ways to Prepare Venomous Lionfish


Chefs Cooking Up New Ways to Prepare Venomous Lionfish
Lionfish isn't your standard restaurant seafood fare like halibut, salmon, or tuna. But thanks to a campaign to rid coastal waters of the invasive and potentially devastating species, chefs from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the Bahamas to the Carolinas are dreaming up new ways to put it on the menu.

Bright House TV app brings rebranded Time Warner Cable TV to the iPad

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Bright House TV app brings rebranded Time Warner Cable TV to the iPad


Bright House TV app brings rebranded Time Warner Cable TV to the iPad
Congratulations Bright House Networks customers, your off-brand Time Warner Cable experience now includes live TV streaming on your iPad. The Bright House TV tablet app has hit iTunes and is, unsurprisingly, a direct clone of the TWCable TV app, although it's not the latest version as it doesn't have parental controls yet....

Volta Motorbikes BCN City to debut at Milan Motorcycle Show

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Volta Motorbikes BCN City to debut at Milan Motorcycle Show


Volta Motorbikes BCN City to debut at Milan Motorcycle Show
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels The Spanish electric motorcycle company Volta Motorbikes revealed its striking prototype back in May to a local audience, but now armed with a final production version of its BCN City, it's going global at the Milan Motorcycle Show (EICMA). While there will be three separate models in the BCN line-up, they all reportedly share the same basic components and performance specs....

Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012, challenges Nokia to a twist contest

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:41 AM PDT

Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012, challenges Nokia to a twist contest


Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012, challenges Nokia to a twist contest
Flexible displays? Samsung's got 'em, too. A few days after Nokia showed off its Kinetic Device prototype under the blue lights of Nokia World, Samsung made mention of its own plans to unleash some bendy mobile devices on the world. A spokesperson for the company was scarce on details, but noted that the flexible displays are targeted for 2012....

Telsa Roadster to return in 2014, 3-Series fighter in the works

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 02:27 AM PDT

Telsa Roadster to return in 2014, 3-Series fighter in the works


Telsa Roadster to return in 2014, 3-Series fighter in the works
Didn't have enough time to count 10 million pennies before the original Tesla Roadster went out of production? Well you're in luck, because there'll be a successor. Space cadet and entrepreneur extraordinaire, Elon Musk, confirmed to Autocar that a new Roadster would return in 2014. Unlike its Lotus-based predecessor, the redux will apparently be based on Tesla's third-generation platform, which the automag muses will likely be built on a"shortened version of...

Siri port now talking to Apple servers, avoiding Cydia

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:56 AM PDT

Siri port now talking to Apple servers, avoiding Cydia


Siri port now talking to Apple servers, avoiding Cydia
A little cajoling from a clever developer got Siri talking to the iPhone 4 and the iPad, but Apple's tight-lipped servers kept the conversation effectively one-sided. The last-gen port was still missing something, and developer Steven Troughton-Smith knew where to find it: a jailbroken iPhone 4S. In an interview with 9to5mac, Troughton-Smith said getting Siri to talk to Cupertino's data servers only took ten minutes after he had all of the...

Lenovo's upcoming LePhone S2 seen running Android as well as Windows Phone, look...

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:56 AM PDT

Lenovo's upcoming LePhone S2 seen running Android as well as Windows Phone, looks confused


Lenovo's upcoming LePhone S2 seen running Android as well as Windows Phone, looks confused
We're not quite sure what's going on here: you see, Lenovo's been cosying up to Android for its smartphones and tablets all this time, so we were a bit surprised when one of its product managers posted some photos of a Windows Phone-powered handset (even Engadget makes an appearance). More interestingly, this mysterious phone looks identical to the upcoming Lenovo LePhone S2, which features a heavily customized Android 2.3.4, 1GHz Qualcomm...

Siri Ported To iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 11:27 PM PDT

Siri Ported To iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G


Siri Ported To iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G
In a moment as historic as Alexander Bell's call to his assistant, an iPhone hacker wrote on Twitter that he had successfully ported Siri to the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. He wrote "Actually, it just worked," informing the world that he had completely ported Siri to the iPhone 4 and that more versions are on the way....

Facebook testing 'Trusted Friends' feature, the password unlock we hope you neve...

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 10:36 PM PDT

Facebook testing 'Trusted Friends' feature, the password unlock we hope you never have to use


Facebook testing 'Trusted Friends' feature, the password unlock we hope you never have to use
Here's a situation: you create a Facebook account. You fall in love with said account. You're on it all day, every single day. And then, your computer explodes. You go to login on a new machine, and you realize that your minty fresh browser has no recollection of your Facebook password....

Ask Engadget: best streaming music solution?

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:51 PM PDT

Ask Engadget: best streaming music solution?


Ask Engadget: best streaming music solution?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Katie, who is totally down with the stream. The radio stream. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody -- there are way...

myPlex makes streaming your media simple, gives you one queue to rule them all

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 06:27 PM PDT

myPlex makes streaming your media simple, gives you one queue to rule them all


myPlex makes streaming your media simple, gives you one queue to rule them all
Plex is one of the more popular solutions to the problem of how to get all that (legally downloaded, of course) media sitting on your home PC to your various devices for consumption. But, like many of its competitors, getting the whole shebang set up isn't always the easiest task....

Classy: Google Is Running Zagat Ads Against Mobile Searches For “Yelp”

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 06:27 PM PDT

Classy: Google Is Running Zagat Ads Against Mobile Searches For "Yelp"


Classy: Google Is Running Zagat Ads Against Mobile Searches For "Yelp"
If you search for "Yelp" on Google from your mobile phone the top paid result, even above the organic result to Yelp.com, takes you to Zagat.  I am only seeing this on mobile searches. While it is a common practice for companies to advertise against their competitors' names in search advertising, in this case it is Google itself which is bidding for that search term and taking the top spot....

Ford's Driver Alert System keeps you in the right lane, recommends java on occasion

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:45 PM PDT

Ford's Driver Alert System keeps you in the right lane, recommends java on occasion


Ford's Driver Alert System keeps you in the right lane, recommends java on occasion
It ain't the first automaker to do so, but Ford's taking a step in the 'stay in your own lane!' direction with a new technology package for the Explorer. The Driver Alert System is slated to launch in early 2012, and it'll tout new lane keeping technologies, including a system that can help detect drowsy drivers....

It’s Time For Google To Let Google Voice Live Up To Its Promise

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:45 PM PDT

It's Time For Google To Let Google Voice Live Up To Its Promise


It's Time For Google To Let Google Voice Live Up To Its Promise
Last week TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote a post highlighting the fact that iPhone users can get a surprisingly good experience using Google Voice if they're willing to switch to Sprint. Google Voice on the iPhone typically has some hurdles, mostly because Apple won't let the native Google Voice app 'take over' the dialer the way it can on Android (not to mention the fact that the iOS GV app is...

Apple reportedly acquires C3 Technologies, iOS Maps overhaul on the horizon?

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 04:18 PM PDT

Apple reportedly acquires C3 Technologies, iOS Maps overhaul on the horizon?


Apple reportedly acquires C3 Technologies, iOS Maps overhaul on the horizon?
Last we saw of C3 Technologies' 3D mapping software it was making an appearance on Sony Ericsson's X10, but if 9 to 5 Mac turns out to be right, its next stop could be the iPhone. According to the publication, Cupertino recently scooped up the Saab spin-off and C3 execs have since been working closely with the iOS division....

Not so ultimate Ultrabook: MacBook Air KIRF features mini-HDMI port, 3.5 hour ba...

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Not so ultimate Ultrabook: MacBook Air KIRF features mini-HDMI port, 3.5 hour battery life


Not so ultimate Ultrabook: MacBook Air KIRF features mini-HDMI port, 3.5 hour battery life
Hey, who wiped the MacBook Air logo off? Nah, we're kidding -- it's a KIRF. Sure, Apple's svelte 13-incher may have a duo of USB ports and an SD card slot, but this rig adds in a 3-in-1 card reader and and an odd, combo RJ45 / VGA jack (which we assume needs an adapter)....