How to install Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad (CyanogenMod 9 Alpha)
The first public build of Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for the HP TouchPad. The tablet originally shipped with... more »
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Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
RepRap, Arduino, Opencores are just some of the projects that might change the very way you have been thinking about using hardware.
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From Sand to Processor or How a CPU is made
It is hard to believe, but a modern processor is the most complex finished product in the world. Here comes a question: What is so... more »
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Richard Stallman's Computer Setup
I’m Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement. I campaign for computer users’ freedom – for instance, your freedom to... more »
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Systems Management, Cloud Services Likely in Dell's Software Acquisition Plans
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the... more »
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Home Automation, Kinect, Netduino (and a Squirt Gun)
Today's Hardware Friday post comes to us from Dan Thyer (@LogicalDan) and takes us back to the Netduino and Kinect world (plus just looks... more »
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Using the Kinect to teach CPR
The final inspirational project in our run up to v1 week is a project that looks to use the Kinect to help save lives by teaching CPR.
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Kinect to 3D Printer with a little magic
Today's inspirational project shows how in the future we might be able to make the virtual Kinect 3D real...
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Programming Bluetooth (in C)
If you have a remote device that's hard to access, save by Bluetooth, here are the ins and outs of accessing it via Bluetooth. In C for... more »
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The Tablet That Every Linux Lover Has Been Waiting For
Spark tablet is an opensource OS based on the Linux kernel, which runs on the Plasma Active UX. Naturally it’s a typically geeky tablet... more »
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Running tests in parallel – utilize all your processor cores to accelerate your development cycle
From my experience the main problem with long running test suites is that team starts to simply ignore them. When you have to wait one... more »
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Paradigm shift or cheap Chinese tat? KDE developer launches open source tablet
Aaron Seigo has announced the 'Spark', a low-end Linux tablet featuring the Plasma Active UI -- but not everyone's enthusiastic.
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Developers rise up against Motorola and Verizon over bootloader controversy
It looks like Moto's RAZR 'Developer Edition' hasn't gone down well . . .
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$270 Spark Linux tablet is powered by (and generates funds for) KDE Active Plasma
You’ve got a ton of choices right now if you’ve started shopping for the perfect tablet to meet your needs. But which one do you pick?... more »
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Will the use of SSD increase the speed of DBMS?
SSD is faster than HDD. Period. Everyone knows this. Consequently many users think that switching from HDD to SSD will dramatically... more »
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Are investors crazy to bet on Nokia now? Probably
Shares of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) were up as high as 4.7% Thursday after the Finnish mobile device maker posted a fourth-quarter net loss of... more »
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Microsoft Paid Nokia $250m for Windows Phone Use
In its statement, Nokia also revealed the amount that it receives from Microsoft for its utilisation of the Windows Phone platform,... more »
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Q&A: Android design chief, Matias Duarte, details Google's mobile future
By most measures, the Android platform is an enormous success. It dominates the smartphone space in terms of market share, with over a... more »
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China’s Homegrown Supercomputers
In late October 2011, the Sunway BlueLight MPP made headlines as China's first high-performance computer to harness the power of a... more »
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The Future of Bluetooth
Bluetooth is known to many as the basis of wireless headsets, or perhaps keyboards. BT in fact has far more potential, as a collection... more »
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Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!
David Ungar is "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the challenge of building computer software systems that work like magic and fit a... more »
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IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms
IBM announced Thursday that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of... more »
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing
General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're... more »
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Allwinner A10: A GPL-compliant computer for $15
This is getting seriously ridiculous. Relative to the power and feature sets computers are getting cheaper and cheaper. But they don't... more »
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1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife
CES 2012 Victorinox is making a Swiss Army penknife with a 1TB USB stick inside it, claiming it's the world's highest USB stick capacity.
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