An anonymous reader writes "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new Orion processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and to enable 1080p ...

Photovoltaic cells are becoming cheaper and more efficient each year, but there are still some questions regarding their long-term sustainability. ...

Terrance Terich from Treblezine writes for Bleeding Cool; I’d imagine that if one made a Venn diagram of fans of independent music and comic book collectors, that there would be more crossover than at first anticipated. I am merely ...

Trailrunner7 writes "The United States has a responsibility to take a leadership role in securing the Internet against both internal and external attackers, a duty that the federal government takes very seriously, the country's top military cybersecurity official said Tuesday. ...

GovTechGuy writes "On Friday we discussed news that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott opened a probe into whether Google ranks its search listings with an eye toward nicking the competition. Google suggested the concerns have a major sponsor: Microsoft. In ...

jamie tips a post at Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog about an extremely unusual astronomical phenomenon originating from a binary system about 3000 light years away. Quoting: "The name of this thing is AFGL 3068. It's been known as a ...

After months of pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist pulled its adult services listings offline over the Labor Day weekend. Visitors to ...

Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. ...

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are ...

(David Knezevic and Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh) Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels — on an ...

Folks, you may remember a particular harsh and comical critic Mike from Milwaukee (of Red Letter Media), or Mr. Plinkett as he now likes to be called. Who dissected and basically tore apart Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace ...

​AMC has greenlit The Walking Dead for a second season. This is good news in general, but also good news in particular since the first episode of the first season hasn't aired yet, and won't until October 31st. It's obviously ...

Earlier this week, a research note from analysts at Stifel Nicolaus suggested that a group of private companies had reached "general agreement" on a ...

esocid writes "An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann. ...

After nearly a month of rumors foreshadowing the deal, it's now official: Intel is buying Infineon's wireless unit for $1.4 billion in an all-cash ...

A Virginia judge has blocked an attempt by Virginia state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to pursue a well-known climate scientist on fraud charges. ...

snydeq writes "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future ...

mewshi_nya writes "A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit alleging 11 technology companies are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab that Allen financed more than a decade ago. Named in the lawsuit: Apple, Google, AOL, ...

Paul Allen, entrepreneur and cofounder of Microsoft, has filed a lawsuit against 11 companies for infringements on his Web search patents. Announced on Friday ...

Seen here practicing its pews, an unmanned robotic death & destruction copter went rogue while flying around Washington DC. I suspect it was coming to my old apartment. Thank God I never forwarded my mail! A software error, combined ...

Generally, we assume that making decisions as a group is beneficial because groups can come together to make better choices than their members would ...

Walking at one’s own pace for 40 minutes three times a week can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, combat declines in brain function associated with aging, and increase performance on cognitive tasks, researchers have found. The new study used ...

You can finally get Netflix in your pocket, thanks to the company's long-awaited update to its iOS app. Previously, users could only watch Netflix ...

​But you can't say he doesn't know his stuff. I'm generally not a fan of just linking to other sites -- I'm not trying to be an ass, it's just there are plenty of other sites that do that -- ...

Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton has written a piece on a new program called Collage that can circumvent censorship by embedding messages in user-generated content on sites like Flickr. The program demonstrates that a long-standing theoretical concept can be reduced to ...

It must be election season, because the Attorneys General from 17 states have once again banded together to try and bully Craigslist into getting ...

Beware gemstones bearing gifts. Diary of a Second Life trainwreck: Late 2006: Enterprising programmers begin trying to reverse engineer the Second Life client, with Linden Lab’s blessing. This work is promptly leveraged by equally enterprising and far less moral programmers to introduce ...

Modern Warfare 2 was not especially loved in PC gaming circles

Now that video game consoles have hit their mid-life and online and social games are becoming more prevalent, one Electronic Arts exec believes that skyrocketing development costs are on their way back down. "I think budgets for games have actually ...

The second SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter meeting will be held on Friday, August 27th, 2010, at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-2907), starting at 6 PM. The meeting will feature Dr. Sarah Marr (SENS Foundation ...

Apple has not had much of a history with respect to enterprise computing, but an analysis of second quarter sales shows Apple making big ...

Kurofuneparry writes "Pennsylvania generally and Philadelphia specifically have had a number of budget issues and some bloggers are seeing the results. From the article: "yes, cash-strapped cities can't very well ignore potential sources of income. But at the same time, ...

microbee writes "Early this year, Topix, a popular community forum, faced investigation from 33 state Attorneys General for the practice of charging a fee for 'expedited review' of content that was flagged as inappropriate. The case was settled on August ...

cedarhillbilly writes "An article by Matt Asay in the Register takes on Google Wave from the perspective of visionary change versus incremental change. He suggests that visionaries should focus on smaller transformations of our day-to-day lives rather than leapfrogging. 'Much ...

Hosted by AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International), the Unmanned Systems North America 2010 event is the largest display of robotic and unmanned systems hardware in the world. AUVSI’s 2010 convention will host 450 exhibitors, 140 technical presentations, and indoor ...