An anonymous reader writes “Google has snapped up a parcel of patents from Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese electronic manufacturer more commonly known as Foxconn, in a move seemingly designed to bolster its Glass headsets against potential competitors. In a statement obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Hon Hai described the patents sold to…
Ten top new games for phones ’n’ slabs
August Bank holiday weekend time-wasters……
Modern mobile man — giving up a fat wallet for a slim wallet
I carry around a smartphone, a Fitbit, keys, and a wallet. Yet my wallet looked like something out of the 1980s. I needed to catch up with fashion………
Lotus founder Colin Chapman: The best and the brightest
Andrew Noakes profiles Lotus’ founder and master engineer, Colin Chapman…….
Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge?
New submitter pausz42 writes “The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford University are promoting RoboSimian, a simian-inspired robot able to face environments which are hostile for men. In the DARPA Robotics Challenge the selected teams have to develop an autonomous robot able to get into a car, drive it to a disaster site and perform…
NIST Ytterbium Atomic Clocks Set Record For Stability
New submitter bryanandaimee writes “An optical lattice clock like the one discussed earlier on Slashdot has broken the stability record. Comparing two OLC’s using trapped atoms of Ytterbium, the stability of the clocks was measured to 2 parts per quintillion (10^18). While the previously reported OLC used strontium, these clocks, built by another group, use…
Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It?
Aguazul2 writes “I live in Peru and use OpenVPN to connect to my own Linux VPS in the UK for non-live TV. Recently the VPN connection has slowed to a crawl (5% previous rate). Further investigation shows that all connections to my VPS from Peru (even HTTP) are equally slow, whilst the rest of the…
Top 10 Steve Ballmer quotes: ‘%# @!!’ and so much more
The Monkey Boy rap dance?……
Search For Evi Nemeth Continues
oneiros27 writes “Although the initial search for Evi Nemeth (and some other people who didn’t write Unix books) ended, family and friends of the missing crew are funding a private search effort for the crew. They’ve managed to get more images from DigitalGlobe of the drift area, but now need help looking through the pictures….
NSA Paid Millions To Cover PRISM Compliance Costs For Tech Companies
… Read more http://packetstormsecurity.com/news/view/22974/NSA-Paid-Millions-To-Cover-PRISM-Compliance-Costs-For-Tech-Companies.html
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