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Marines field autonomous support vehicles based on winning robot design (video)

Angel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Since their third-place finish in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge , TORC Technology’s had quite a climb — the company founded by Virginia Tech graduates has since provided IED-scouting Humvee kits to the US Military, and a vehicle for the blind uses the drive-by-wire platform that they designed. Now, the Marines are testing a TORC kit called the Ground Unmanned Support Surrogate (GUSS), which autonomously navigate off-road terrain.

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Solar Impulse returns from 24 hour test flight 26 hours later

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:58:00 +0000

Rest easy, fans of solar-powered aeronautics. Captain Piccard’s Solar Impulse has safely returned after 26 hours in the air — powered by nothing but the sun. The four-engine aircraft, which features 12,000 solar cells arranged on its wingspan, reached a height of almost 29,000 feet before touching down at Payerne Airport near Berne, Switzerland today

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YouTube launches Leanback, mobile site gets HTML5 revamp (video)

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Looks like YouTube ‘s having quite the day. The site has officially rolled out Leanback, its television-friendly interface first espied during Google TV’s big unveiling .

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Junaio’s augmented reality app for iPhone and Android can add cartoons to your otherwise-boring existence

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:14:00 +0000

As an augmented reality navigator that you want to use for finding pizza joints and friends on Foursquare and Twitter, you’ve got more polished options than Junaio’s new 2.0 release — Layar and Yelp, just to name a couple — but Junaio has at least one interesting differentiator with a feature it calls “Glue.” Basically, independent content providers can develop their own Junaio “channels,” which function in the same way as a Layar layer — it’s a particular set of points of interest that’ll be displayed in the current view. With Glue, though, Junaio isn’t just using your positional information as a point of reference, it can also scan the image for specific objects that developers have programmed their channel to look for, and when such an object is found, crazy things can happen

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Amazon Kindle dual-screen e-reader patent granted, Barnes & Noble Nook potentially in trouble

Admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:04:00 +0000

Looks like the battle for e-reader dominance between Amazon and Barnes & Noble could soon expand beyond the recent spate of price drops and into the courtroom as well: the USPTO just granted a 2006 Amazon patent on e-readers with secondary LCD displays (like the original Kindle’s scroller-navigation panel ), and several of the claims are potentially broad enough to cover the Nook and many other devices with both electronic paper and LCD displays. What’s more, Amazon agreed not to file for any corresponding foreign patents during the four-year approval process and thus wasn’t required to publish the patent application — meaning this is likely a complete surprise to the entire industry

Opera 10.6 hits Windows, Mac and Linux with faster Javascript, WebM video support

Admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:19:00 +0000

Four short months after Opera 10.5, the Scandanavian potato boilers are back for more — the latest version of their lightweight web browser features not only claims to be the fastest, but the first final browser with WebM video support . While we actually noticed a variety of web videos felt choppy with the Windows version, there’s no denying it’s a speedy little hummingbird; Engadget felt snappier on Opera than Chrome or Firefox by far

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NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video)

Admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:33:00 +0000

Robonaut2 may have fantastic biceps , but raw muscle won’t put a man humanoid on the moon — that takes rockets. Rockets like the one in this RR-1 prototype lander, recently outfitted with a Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment (GENIE) system to let the craft safely descend to the lunar surface. On June 23rd, NASA and partner Armadillo Aerospace put the system to the test, hoping it could figure out the complex algorithms necessary to process volumes of data from the laser altimeter, GPS and inertial sensors, and quickly enough to steer the rocket engine accordingly..

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OnStar users now sending Google Maps directions to their cars, definitely living in the future

Admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:50:00 +0000

July is upon us — do you know what that means?

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Early Windows 8 features to include startup performance boost, visual login, and improved graphics (Update: Windows Store app store, too?)

Admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:05:00 +0000

Sure, Microsoft might be selling seven copies of Windows 7 a second , but that doesn’t mean Redmond isn’t planning for the future: the software giant is purportedly beginning to prep ODMs on Windows 8, if these leaked slides are to be believed. It doesn’t look like anything is nailed down just yet, but some interesting larger themes are being discussed, like improving startup and and wake-from-sleep times to be nearly instantaneous, the addition of higher-speed interconnects like USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 3.0, hard drive encryption, ambient light sensitivity, and facial recognition login / out.

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iOS 4 privacy policy updated: Apple can anonymously collect location data, you can take away iAds’ cookies

Admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:31:00 +0000

It may not be a big deal — Android’s done it for years — but some will no doubt be interested to learn that Apple can monitor your GPS. In the latest revision of its privacy policy, presumably updated for iOS 4 , it revealed the company can anonymously track the “real-time geographic location” of devices and is free to share that data with “partners and licensees” as well.

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