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Unidentified Flying Missile-like Object Seen off California Coast
A streak across the sky visible rising out of the Pacific has sparked a great deal of discussion and concern as nobody seems to be taking credit for it—from NASA to the U.S. military. Two videos have surfaced of the “launch” but neither of much quality to actually see much more than a blur and ...
Google Calls Facebook to the Mat as Contact Portability Smackdown Continues
“Trap my contacts now,” reads the Google contacts export form when viewed during Facebook registration. This stems from a battle between Facebook and Google over data portability—or particularly, that Facebook just doesn’t like to let go of anything it takes in (even when the user wants them to.) Yesterday, SiliconANGLE covered how Facebook found a ...
Kinect Open Source Drivers Finished: Full RGB Input With Depth Sensing
It looks like Hector Martin may be one step closer to the $3,000 bounty offered by Adafruit for open source Kinect drivers. Just today he announced and published full drivers with some caveats and to-do yet: TODO: 9 – TONS of cleanup. I mean LOTS. 10 – Proper buildsystem (CMake probably) 11 – Determine exactly ...
Google Improves AdSense with New Interface
Google is rolling out a brand new interface for their AdSense backend for advertisement publishers. The beta appears to totally revamp the underlying paradigm of the back end to shuffle things into different areas, putting an overview screen front and center, with earnings, alerts, messages, etc. We picked up this story from the Google Inside ...
Android and SOCOM: The New Meaning of Killer App
Android is going black beret. With the military always on the lookout for technology that can better aid their fighting forces in the field and the proliferation of out-of-the-box solutions already available in the civilian markets for smartphones, they’re looking to Android to fill the gap. We tune into Cody Hahn at Android Guys, who ...
Groupon Seeking $3 Billion Valuation
In true journalistic fashion, several anonymous sources materialized to tell Bloomberg about Groupon’s private search for new funding—to the tune of a $3 billion valuation. Looking at how well saturated the web seems to be with the company’s advertisements (I happen to live in a city which they cover) it looks like they might actually ...
New Windows Phone 7 Models Appear In U.S. Stores, Now Also With Xbox LIVE
Microsoft has released a new operating system version for Windows Phone 7 and those phones are beginning to hit the shelves now. The new models appearing in U.S. stores debut at around $200 retail, but discounts may bring them down as low as $150 for subscribers willing to buy a new contract. According to Wired, ...
PiCloud Reaches $1.4m in First-Round Investment Funding
Python programming language library producer PiCloud would like to introduce coders to the joys of running in the cloud. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup just raised $1.4 million in their first round of investments and is still seeking more. Their system is a library, imported into Python code, that allows easy connectivity to the cloud, along ...
Kinect Camera Feeds Already Cracked, Hacker Not Interested in the Bounty
Like most hackers, Alex P knew a challenge when he saw one and couldn’t resist. He spent this last weekend playing around with Microsoft’s brand new Xbox Kinect camera and has successfully gotten it to work on a Windows 7 machine. This could be good news for MAKERs and DIYers everywhere—although it could raise Microsoft’s ...
Clearwire in the Midst of Layoffs Due to Financial Drain
Wireless Internet service provider Clearwire has gone into crisis mode recently with significant losses in revenue from a lack of financing and constantly extending costs. To stave off financial doom, the company is cutting its workforce by almost 630 people (15% of 4,200 employees). They’re hoping to stay afloat while they work out a better ...