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USAF-funded Tests Demonstrate Low-cost Secure Satcom Options
Space News - 21 Oct 2013 06:27
The findings are among the first to come out of $84 million worth of studies the Air Force funded in 2012.
Facebook's Referrals To Media Sites Up 170% YOY, New "Stories To Share" Tells Pages What To Post
TechCrunch - 21 Oct 2013 20:00
Facebook wants to get more news content in its feed by proving to media sites it's their premier social ally. Today it announced referral traffic to media sites is up an average of 170% this year, and it launched the "St...
Rankings: America's Favorite Monster Is ...
Live Science - 21 Oct 2013 14:12
Americans cannot get enough vampires, according to a nationally representative survey on beloved movie monsters conducted even before "Twilight" revived the bloodsucking trend.
IBM's do-it-yourself kit makes Internet of things accessible
PC World - 21 Oct 2013 23:22
IBM and hardware partner Libelium hope to cut through the complexities of the so-called "Internet of things" through a do-it-yourself kit allowing users to test and deploy sensor networks. The companies on Monday introdu...
Apple stock soars on eve of iPad announcements
L.A. Times - 21 Oct 2013 20:28Twitter turns to open source to prevent service disruptions
PC World - 21 Oct 2013 18:10
To prevent disruptions and scale up its service while keeping costs down, Twitter has had to drastically change its core infrastructure, taking up open source tools while doing so. Twitter processes about 6,000 messages ...
Rumor: Nikon to Announce a Full-Frame to Rival the A7 in the Next Three Weeks
PetaPixel - 21 Oct 2013 16:26
There’s no denying that the Sony a7 and a7R made quite the splash in the photographic industry both before and after their official arrival. With full-frame sensors, a mirrorless design and price tags that make at leas...
Reports of a Nikon FM2 Styled Camera With the D4′s Guts Excite Photographers
The Phoblographer - 21 Oct 2013 15:03
The report states that it will be something like the older Nikon FM2: a film camera and quite a beautiful one actually. (Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) The post Reports of a Nikon FM2 Styled Camera With the D4′s Guts...
Eye-Fi Mobi Card, Now Available In 32GB
Cult of Mac - 21 Oct 2013 13:00
Eye-Fi has just added a new 32GB model to its Mobi card lineup. This means that you can now shoot for days and then, when you decide to transfer all those photos to your iPad, iPhone or Mac, sit for…
The Adidas miCoach Smart Run Is a Serious Running Watch
Time - 21 Oct 2013 11:45
Recently, I did a little bit of fawning over the Fitbit Force, the new activity-tracking smartwatch from the makers of the top-rated Flex. It's a great device for those who'd like encouragement to be a little bit more ac...
Get Ready To Desparately Miss All Your Old PlayStations
The Huffington Post - 21 Oct 2013 23:42Major Alzheimer's risk factor linked to red wine target
Science Daily - 21 Oct 2013 21:31
The major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), present in about two-thirds of people who develop the disease, is ApoE4, the cholesterol-carrying protein that about a quarter of us are born with. But one of t...
Astronaut Uses Single Hair To Show Newton's Laws | Video
Live Science - 21 Oct 2013 20:34
On-orbit astronaut Karen Nyberg proves Cady Coleman told 'Gravity's Sandra Bullock the truth: a single strand of human hair pushed against a handrail aboard the ISS sprang Nyberg backwards in microgravity.
Lightning strikes: ONR adds speed, precision to JSF manufacturing
Phys.org - 21 Oct 2013 17:50
A faster, more precise way to create cockpit enclosures may end up saving the F-35 Lightning II program a significant amount in manufacturing costs.
Apple may conjure up iPad keyboard to mimic Surface Touch Cover
CNET - 21 Oct 2013 17:16
The company is working on a prototype iPad keyboard that would borrow from Microsoft's Surface Touch Cover, claims a former Apple employee.
Not Just CGI: The Incredible Tech of Horror-Movie Monsters
Live Science - 21 Oct 2013 14:17
Hollywood has advanced far beyond monsters in floppy rubber suits. Pulling technology from fields as diverse as dentistry and automobile racing, special effects' gurus create creepy monsters, gruesome murder victims and ...
How to get a discount on nearly everything you buy online
CNET - 21 Oct 2013 14:00
Read this exclusive excerpt from the new book, "The Cheapskate Rules," then get a deal on the book itself!
11 Cool Facts About Comets You Didn't Know
The Huffington Post - 21 Oct 2013 13:58Coordinates: Robot Games: A Challenge for the Machines and the Controllers
The New York Times - 21 Oct 2013 12:00
A December contest held by a Pentagon agency will show how far technology has come, and how far it has to go to catch up to sci-fi movie depictions.
What just happened?! Looking back on last week
DP Review - 21 Oct 2013 11:45
Last week was incredibly busy here at dpreview, with major new cameras from Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm and Panasonic as well as new lenses from Samyang, Sony and Sigma. It was a week of late nights and early mornings, and now...
Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100 II
Photography Blog - 21 Oct 2013 10:00Apple's Oct. 22 event: Join us Tuesday (live blog)
CNET - 21 Oct 2013 09:00
Apple's holding an event tomorrow in San Francisco. New iPads, Macs, and software are expected. Join CNET for live coverage.