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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Second CM9 build for Galaxy Note looks a bit more functional
Yesterday we reported on the first CyanogenMod 9 build for the (international) Samsung Galaxy Note, noting that it was still early days, and that a couple of major bugs would make it a non-starter for many users. In particular, the lack of working phone calls was a deal-breaker for us. However, the devs at TeamHacksung have followed up with a second build today, fixing most of the serious glitches, including voice calls and video recording.
There are still some issues to be ironed out, including DSP Manager and Movie Studio, but kudos to the developers for moving so quickly to squish bugs. If you're rocking an international (GT-N7000) Galaxy Note and are comfortable with experimental custom ROMs, then hit the links below to get started.
Source: TeamHacksung, XDA; Thanks @android_indian!
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
EchoStar outs its HDT-610R Ultra Slim Box, says it's 'world's slimmest' DVR
EchoStar has come a long way since unveiling that HDS-600RS early last year, and today the European company's taking the wraps off of its newest DVR, the Ultra Slim Box HDT-610R. Keeping true to its moniker, the 610R measures in at a slim 14mm thin, while weighing in at just under two pounds. Physical features aside, EchoStar's managed to stuff a 500GB hard drive inside the DVR's scrawny body, as well as a couple of USB 2.0 incisions and single Ethernet and HDMI ports. On the software end, the device is equipped with a Freeview+ HD feature that offers subscription-free access to over 50 "high quality" and four high-def channels -- though, you will have to pay a one-time fee for the service. The HDT-610R will be available for pre-order starting May 4th, with Amazon, John Lewis and Mapling being the first online vendors to have it for up for grabs. No word on pricing yet, but in the meantime all you Euro folks can gander at the PR below to soak up the rest of the deets.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
New Zealand gas research to help farmers' bottom line
Scientists have long accepted that gas from farm animals is a major factor in climate change, but how do you stop cattle and sheep from doing what comes naturally?
That's the question consuming researchers in New Zealand who hope that by measuring every belch and bleat of their sheepish subjects they can come up with a solution.
Researcher Peter Janssen says the project, in which the animals are kept in perspex boxes so that their emissions can be measured, has the potential to make a real difference in the fight against global warming.
"The renewed emphasis on climate change, plus new technologies, have given us hope that we can do something that wasn't possible before," said Janssen, who is working on a vaccine to stop livestock producing methane.
Global livestock numbers are being driven higher due to increased demand, particularly for beef and dairy products as a result of human population growth, leading to increases in emission levels.
The UN estimates 18 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change come from livestock.
But the figure is even higher in New Zealand, where about 35 million sheep and eight million cows account for half the greenhouse gas emissions in an economy heavily reliant on primary industry.
In a nation which prides itself on its "clean, green" image, New Zealand is keen to minimise the problem and has established a NZ$50 million ($41 million) programme aimed at curbing agricultural emissions.
"(It) is probably the largest and certainly the most comprehensive in the world," said Janssen who is the principal investigator at the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre.
The problem is the animals are ruminants, meaning they partially digest their food by fermenting it in a compartment of their stomach before regurgitating it, along with copious methane, so it can be chewed again as cud.
As part of the programme, scientists house cattle and sheep in perspex boxes for two days at time to find why some tend to produce less gas than others and measure how different foods affect gas levels.
The centre in the North Island town of Palmerston North uses genome sequencing -- determining an animal's hereditary information -- to try to minimise the large amounts of methane gas that sheep and cows naturally produce.
"New technologies, particularly in genome sequencing, have allowed us to understand methane microbes in a way that was just not possible in the 1960s and 1970s," Janssen said.
"We can now identify those organisms and target them specifically to work on vaccines for inhibitory molecules that target only methane-producing microbes."
Dairy NZ sustainability spokesman Rick Pridmore, whose organisation works with scientists at the Palmerston North centre, said not all attempts to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases in New Zealand had gone down well with farmers.
He said that in 2003 the government tried to address the issue by imposing an annual research levy on livestock farmers but scrapped the idea after a backlash over a policy that was widely mocked as a "fart tax".
Pridmore said while the title was a misnomer -- 90 percent of the methane from livestock comes from burps, not flatulence -- opposition to the proposal among farmers was real.
"Even the public didn't get it," he said. "In New Zealand, I think it was probably fair to say we were sceptical about climate change.
"But that's all changed in the last five years or more, I think farmers are on board now."
The major goal, described as a "silver bullet" by the dairy industry, is the quest for a vaccine that will prevent livestock generating methane altogether.
Pridmore said a low-cost vaccine would not only help the environment by reducing the amount of methane released into the atmosphere but increase digestive efficiency in livestock, meaning they required less feed.
"That's called a silver bullet and right now I would say that silver bullet is probably about 15 years away," he said.
"Once it comes in, I think every farmer would want to use it."
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Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More
Socialcam is hustling to be the "Instagram for video" app of choice, battling neck-and-neck for the top spot in the iTunes app store with its main rival, Viddy. It turns out that Socialcam now has a number of very powerful people rooting for it to win: An angel investor list that reads like a "who's who" of tech and entertainment industry heavyweights. I've been hearing whispers about Socialcam's crazy angel round for weeks now, and I've finally verified the full list of the startup's seed backers. I've pasted the entire list at the bottom of this post, but the names include Tim Draper, Yuri Milner, Ari Emmanuel, Laurene Powell Jobs, Ashton Kutcher, Brian Chesky, Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, and many more.new york auto show khalid sheikh mohammed masters par 3 gwen stefani overeem laron landry mary j blige burger king
Failure to understand hackers led to Sony security woes
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The exploits of the hacker known as Geohot have been in the news for years, but to people outside the world of tech it has been more like a series of isolated events than one cohesive story. A new account by The New Yorker adds little information but binds the last five years of hacking into a single thread, showing convincingly that what has contributed most to companies' security woes has been an inability to understand the motivations of those who hack.
Sony has been a favorite target for hackers recently, and it all started when George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, opened?up a PS3 to new uses. He wasn't sticking it to the man -- this kind of "jailbreaking" is a time-honored tradition among hackers, the epitome of man vs. machine.
"It?s competitiveness, but it isn?t necessarily competitiveness with other people," Hotz told the New Yorker. "It?s you versus the system. And I don?t mean the system like the government thing, I mean the system like the computer. ?I?m going to stick it to the computer. I?m going to make it do this!'"
Sony had?repeatedly trumped the PS3's security, yet Hotz cracked it in a month. They retreated and restricted what the device could do, and he cracked it again, but faster and better. Each round of patching led to increased righteous indignation among a noisy but small group of users. Eventually, though,?that group took matters further, launching an all-out attack on a company they now?considered an oppressor. Soon, websites started crashing and?the PlayStation Network and other Sony?online services were breached.?
What began as a spat with a single tinkerer ended up costing the company potentially?hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention quite a bit of credibility, as anonymous hackers spent the next year?attacking them and the highly?public legal battle with Hotz grew into a David vs. Goliath situation.
Hackers didn't break into PSN to collect credit card numbers, they did it for two reasons: first, to protest Sony's handling of the PS3 jailbreak patch and to make the company realize that its boasting was far from justified. Second, for fun. Hotz says: "I don?t hack because of some ideology.?I hack because I?m bored."
It took a long time for Sony to do what they probably should have done in the first place: Call up Hotz and ask for his help. Facebook, quicker to seize on the opportunity a talented hacker like Hotz offered, had already employed him for eight months.?If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, they say -- or if you're a billion-dollar company, make 'em join you.
What hackers like Hotz represent is the future; they may be super-advanced users today, but in a few years their needs and wants will be mainstream. Who would have thought that hackers' wildest dreams in the early days of Playstation, of streaming video and installing Linux, would become standard features??Hackers see these needs before their peers, and using the skills they've learned as digital enthusiasts, they supply for their own demand.
If companies like Sony recognize these prodigal sons?of skill and foresight as the jewels they are, and not as vague threats to be put down, they might not only avoid some expensive troubles, but they could improve as a company and provide better for their customers. The story of Geohot and his peers shows this clearly, and hopefully that lesson is being learned in the tech industry at large.
Geohot once wrote on his blog that "Hacker is to computer as plumber is to pipes." People learned a long time ago to remain on good terms with their plumbers, mechanics, electricians, and so on. They're learning that it's just as important to be on good terms with their hackers.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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