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Lockheed Martin, Navy team up to deploy communications buoys for submarines

Admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Lockheed Martin has announced that it’s completed a critical design review for a system that enables submarine communication while below periscope depth. Part of the US Navy’s Communications at Speed and Depth Program, buoys are launched by the sub, which can then connect nearby to military networks or satellites

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Britain’s Ministry of Defence unveils unmanned Taranis combat aircraft

Admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:22:00 +0000

Well, it looks like Boeing’s unmanned Phantom Ray stealth aircraft just got a bit of company courtesy of Britain’s Ministry of Defence. It’s now unveiled the BAE-built Taranis, which is not just an unmanned aircraft, but an unmanned combat aircraft that promises to be capable of penetrating enemy territory — as opposed to something like a Predator drone that’s only suitable for use if the airspace is under control. As you might expect, complete details on the aircraft are still being kept under wraps, but the MoD says there’s “more than a million man hours” behind it, and that its first flight trials will begin early next year

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Britain’s Ministry of Defence unveils unmanned Taranis combat aircraft

Skype says Fring violated its Terms of Use, ‘damaging our brand and reputation’ in the process

Admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:29:00 +0000

It looks like Fring’s recent decision to block Skype access to its iPhone 4 video app was the final straw for Skype, who charges that VoIP network was in breach of the Terms of Use and EULA for the Skype API. “Over time,” writes General Counsel Robert Miller, “Fring’s mis-use of our software was increasingly damaging our brand and reputation with our customers.” Although they’ve “been talking with Fring for some time to try to resolve this amicably,” Friday’s action is being called “disappointing [for] our customers, who have high expectations of the Skype experience.” He goes on to say that “Skype will rigorously protect our brand and reputation, and those developers that do not comply with our terms will be subject to legal enforcement.” Meaning, presumably, that in the case of more Fring shenanigans there will be some sort of red-hot legal action.

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Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes

BlaineSnook64 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:36:00 +0000

It’s all about how you hold it, apparently. Intel’s Labs have churned out a proposal for a new user-identifying system to be embedded into remote controls.

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Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes

Acer’s LumiRead 600 hits the FCC with slow bursts of 2.4GHz radiation

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:12:00 +0000

Acer’s 6-inch LumiRead e-reader just hit the FCC, but there’s not a lot to learn — the company smartly withheld the user’s manual and detailed images, so all we have are the triplicate forms of stalwart government employees trying to irradiate themselves. Those thankfully painless tests reveal that the Kindle-alike will have standard 802.11b/g WiFi alongside its monochrome E Ink screen, and the whole 532MHz Freescale iMX357 kit will be powered by a 3.7V, 1460mAh battery.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

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

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Onkyo’s HT-S7300 and HT-S6300 HTIB bundles are totally ready for 3D, man

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:32:00 +0000

Shocker of shockers — Onkyo has outed a pair of home-theater-in-box bundles, and both of ‘em are 3D ready. Crazy, ain’t it?

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Onkyo’s HT-S7300 and HT-S6300 HTIB bundles are totally ready for 3D, man

Pulsar clocks spin closer to reality

Angel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:08:00 +0000

Contrary to popular legend, Pulsar wristwatches don’t use the light of dying stars to keep time.

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Onkyo netbook gets covered inside and out with Miffy

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:06:00 +0000

Miffy (or Nijntje) is a small, Dutch, female rabbit who appears in picture books. How exactly she became a cultural hit in Japan we don’t know, but we do have a good idea how she found herself plastered all over this netbook: some combination of Onkyo having a bunch of extra C4 units lying around and Namco-Bandai having a Miffy license it wasn’t fully utilizing

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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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