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One million Lumia smartphones sold gives Nokia a light of hope
Betting big on Windows Phone and its new Lumia smartphones was a ballsy move for Nokia. Despite minor shortcomings on the Lumia 800 and 710, Nokia's managed to sell 1 million Lumias, putting the company back on track to growth.
Betting big on Windows Phone and its new Lumia smartphones was a ballsy move for Nokia. Despite minor shortcomings on the Lumia 800 and 710, Nokia's managed to sell 1 million Lumias, putting the company back on track to growth.
Japan’s NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10 Times, Shoot High-Res Pictures Of Molecules (Video)
A team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have developed a new light source technology that might pave the way to some pretty spectacular applications in the future. The core piece of the technology are “high-quality” quantum dots , tiny nano particles, that boast higher stability and optical frequency than those created the conventional way. By using the so-called “Sandwiched sub-nano separator structure”, NICT says their quantum dots can be utilized in optical frequency bands ...
A team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have developed a new light source technology that might pave the way to some pretty spectacular applications in the future. The core piece of the technology are “high-quality” quantum dots , tiny nano particles, that boast higher stability and optical frequency than those created the conventional way. By using the so-called “Sandwiched sub-nano separator structure”, NICT says their quantum dots can be utilized in optical frequency bands ...
How nuclear physicists are changing the art world
Though not all art needs to be checked for forgery, it remains a problem in the art world that, until now, was combated mostly by art historians (and their studied but subjective knowledge). Now, ion beam accelerators allow scientists to take a crack at quelling art forgeries.
Though not all art needs to be checked for forgery, it remains a problem in the art world that, until now, was combated mostly by art historians (and their studied but subjective knowledge). Now, ion beam accelerators allow scientists to take a crack at quelling art forgeries.
RIM’s New Playbook: The CEO Sneak
It was a big day for football fans, with both the AFC and NFC Championships taking place this afternoon and this evening. The games grab more than a few eyeballs every year — last year’s championships grabbed 54.8 million and 51.9 million viewers, respectively . While the numbers aren’t out yet for today’s games, the viewership is expected to be equally as enormous. That’s why so many in the Twittersphere have been so quick to point out that, nestled quietly behind a hotly contested NFC Championship between ...
It was a big day for football fans, with both the AFC and NFC Championships taking place this afternoon and this evening. The games grab more than a few eyeballs every year — last year’s championships grabbed 54.8 million and 51.9 million viewers, respectively . While the numbers aren’t out yet for today’s games, the viewership is expected to be equally as enormous. That’s why so many in the Twittersphere have been so quick to point out that, nestled quietly behind a hotly contested NFC Championship between ...
Look Ma, no hands! Self-driving BMW flies down the Autobahn
We've seen plenty of concepts for self-driving cars, but now BMW has thrown their hat into the ring. Best of all, instead of showing off their car in the relative safety of a test track, they've gone for one of the most challenging driving environments in the world, the speed limit free German Autobahn.
We've seen plenty of concepts for self-driving cars, but now BMW has thrown their hat into the ring. Best of all, instead of showing off their car in the relative safety of a test track, they've gone for one of the most challenging driving environments in the world, the speed limit free German Autobahn.
SOPA: Who’s really responsible?
Over the New Year's weekend, I was reminded of an old comedy record called The First Family, a hilarious and enormously popular spoof of the Kennedy administration from the early 1960s, pulled from circulation after JFK's assassination in 1963.
A friend in my age demographic had never heard of it. So I attached an MP3 file of one of the tracks I had made from my CD copy and emailed it to him.
In the wake of all the SOPA brouhaha, ...
Over the New Year's weekend, I was reminded of an old comedy record called The First Family, a hilarious and enormously popular spoof of the Kennedy administration from the early 1960s, pulled from circulation after JFK's assassination in 1963.
A friend in my age demographic had never heard of it. So I attached an MP3 file of one of the tracks I had made from my CD copy and emailed it to him.
In the wake of all the SOPA brouhaha, ...
Daily Crunch: New Eyes
Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: HumanBirdWings Guy Survives First Test Flight Marketing Genius: Two Twins Giggling As They Sell You Designer 3D Glasses Math-Blind AI Teaches Itself Basic Number Sense Watch This Delightful Crowdsourced Star Wars Fan Film Immediately iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Finally Get Proper, Untethered Jailbreaks
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Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: HumanBirdWings Guy Survives First Test Flight Marketing Genius: Two Twins Giggling As They Sell You Designer 3D Glasses Math-Blind AI Teaches Itself Basic Number Sense Watch This Delightful Crowdsourced Star Wars Fan Film Immediately iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Finally Get Proper, Untethered Jailbreaks
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Sortable comparison-shops electronics, saves your shopping sanity
I have a terrible, horrible time making any sort of electronics purchase. Why? Because I have to find the exact thing that's absolutely perfectly fantastic for me in every single possible way, and it's exhausting. A newish web service called Sortable says that they're able to step in and do all that hard work, offering up exactly what you want in an easy and friendly way. Oh, really?
I have a terrible, horrible time making any sort of electronics purchase. Why? Because I have to find the exact thing that's absolutely perfectly fantastic for me in every single possible way, and it's exhausting. A newish web service called Sortable says that they're able to step in and do all that hard work, offering up exactly what you want in an easy and friendly way. Oh, really?
Sea Change: Apple Guts Textbook Publishing
The days of the $500 college textbook bills are, it seems, over. With Apple’s announcement of iBooks 2, the world of textbooks is changed forever. Education is a hard nut to crack. There are bright spots and clever new ideas, but technology hasn’t quite figured out how to do a better job than the “old ways.” That’s why Apple’s decision to launch iBooks 2 and the attendant editing tools is so important: it tears down a number of entrenched technologies while maintaining the scaffolding of familiarity. It ...
The days of the $500 college textbook bills are, it seems, over. With Apple’s announcement of iBooks 2, the world of textbooks is changed forever. Education is a hard nut to crack. There are bright spots and clever new ideas, but technology hasn’t quite figured out how to do a better job than the “old ways.” That’s why Apple’s decision to launch iBooks 2 and the attendant editing tools is so important: it tears down a number of entrenched technologies while maintaining the scaffolding of familiarity. It ...
Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, Pearson First Textbook Publishing Partners For Apple’s iBooks 2
Today at Apple’s education event, the company introduced iBooks 2, a textbook platform that effectively transforms $200 textbooks into iPad apps at a much more reasonable price. But of course, a textbook platform isn’t worth a thing without the educational powerhouse publishers behind it. Luckily, the first up to the bat on the iBooks 2 platform are names we know well: Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They’re responsible for 90 percent of the textbooks sold. Pearson will be offering Algebra 1, Biology, Environmental Science and ...
Today at Apple’s education event, the company introduced iBooks 2, a textbook platform that effectively transforms $200 textbooks into iPad apps at a much more reasonable price. But of course, a textbook platform isn’t worth a thing without the educational powerhouse publishers behind it. Luckily, the first up to the bat on the iBooks 2 platform are names we know well: Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They’re responsible for 90 percent of the textbooks sold. Pearson will be offering Algebra 1, Biology, Environmental Science and ... 
