From the 'Real Time Linux' files:
With all the excitement about the Sunday AM (ET) landing of the NASA Curiosity rover on Mars, I've felt that something has been missing.
I've seen multiple press releases from vendors all highlighting how their tech is helping NASA.
One of the releases I got was from Intel's Wind River division. Wind River has a robust embedded Linux operating system offering...

Code sharing giant GitHub has rolled out some significant changes to the site’s notifications system, making it easier to keep track of interesting projects without being notified of every single change.

GitHub has always made it easy to “watch” a project, which means you’re notified whenever there are any updates. Now the company has added another level of watching, dubbed “stars,” to the mix

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If you plan on updating your iPod, iPhone or iPad with iOS6 beta, you will notice something missing: that retro TV icon symbolizing the YouTube app. Apple has announced that the YouTube app had been removed from the latest version of iOS6 because its “license to produce the program had expired.”

The Apple version of the YouTube app had been on the iOS since the iPhone was first launched in 2007. Google

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Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired

I’ve been in the process of quitting smoking

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Sometimes, there is this need to see things in a different light. Even if it is slightly just a bit outside of the standard, people can easily see the difference and uniqueness. Just a slight variation of an established idea can help make a certain device or object stand out and with its own ingredient of fascination to offer. Such is what this unique 9.5 Degree Chair offers.

The 9.5 Degree Chair is so named because of its looks. Unlike a straightforward chair, this unique chair stands at a 9.5

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For people who like to play casual games, they don’t usually like to play games that they need to finish step by step. Considering that such players do not have that much time to spend on playing, they just want to play a game that they can play at any one sitting. The new Megatroid Android game app may be one such game.

The Megatroid Android game app is a side scrolling shooting game that may be a

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When Samsung first launched its Galaxy Note smartphone with a stylus and a massive 5.3-inch screen, the electronics maker argued that the Note was the first in a whole new class of device — neither a phone nor a tablet, but something in between. Well, we weren’t buying the hype. When Wired tested the Note, we discovered it was neither a phablet nor a tablone, but rather just a really big smartphone.

Samsung’s next Note, however, definitely won’t be a phone. On Monday, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Note 10.1 will launch sometime in August, and will be a full-fledged tablet. In fact, the Note 10.1 is essentially the same device as the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, except

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In day four of Apple v. Samsung trial proceedings, Samsung defended itself against Apple’s claims that the Korean company is a design thief. Samsung questioned witnesses to show that its product strategy focuses on “the democratization of the smartphone,” that no consumer in their right mind could really get confused between a Samsung and an Apple product, and that the iPhone’s shape isn’t original, anyway.

“Consumers do a considerable amount of study and take a considerable amount of time to make their phone choices,” Samsung chief strategy officer Justin Denison told the court

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The latest iOS 6 beta holds a bit of a surprise: no built-in YouTube application. iOS 6 beta 4, released on Monday, is available as an update for registered iOS developers.

In a statement, Apple told Wired, “Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store.”

YouTube

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In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into

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From the 'Open Source Leaders' files:
Robyn Bergeron became the Fedora Project Leader earlier this year. In her tenure so far, the Beefy Miracle (aka Fedora 17) has been released. She's also had to contend with Secure Boot and is now busy getting everything lined up for Fedora 18.
I recently got the chance to chat with Bergeron, to talk about what she's doing. She told me that there are a lot of good things about the job of Fedora Project Leader (FPL) One of those good things is the fact that people aren't afraid to raise the flag if you're something is missing...

Bluetooth speakers have somewhat become more common now that there are more Bluetooth devices around. It offers users a means to use wireless speakers with their Bluetooth devices wherever they go, except somewhere wet, that is, like a pool or the beach. But EcoXGear aims to change all that with its new EcoXBT Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker.

The EcoXGear EcoXBT Bluetooth Speaker is a portable waterproof wireless speaker featuring 2 full range stereo speakers for mobile use. It is powered by

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While there are now game apps available for almost any genre available, there is a segment that requires some attention if game developers are to look for a niche. The beer-drinking crowd may be a group of people that may have a shortage of game apps to play with, especially during some of their fun beer drinking sessions. But they shouldn’t be sulking any time soon, now that there is a game called Beer Or

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It’s unlikely Ernest Hemingway would have thought much of programming. Staring at a screen all day hammering out Perl doesn’t seem like something Papa would have enjoyed. A typewriter in the Cuban sun was more Hemingway’s bag.

But what would it have looked like if Hemingway had cracked open Vim and written a few web apps? Angus Croll, an engineer at Twitter, has one answer in a great post that looks at how some famous writers might have written code. Here’s Croll’s take on how Hemingway

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Google has added yet another trick to the company’s Page Speed web optimization service — a page rewriter that turbocharges your site by making sure that your visible, above-the-fold content loads before anything else.

Google started on its web optimization quest with the Page Speed browser extension, then it moved the Page Speed tool online with an API and then created the Page Speed Service

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Richard Dudley imagines a world where strawberries grow in perfect rows and every day a robot army tastes their colors before harvesting the ripe ones. No, that isn’t LSD talking. The research scientist at the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory is building a bot that uses multiple wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to identify the sweetest, ripest fruit — then plucks it from the vine.

Strawberries are a fickle, high-value crop, and harvesting them is costly. Lucky for Dudley

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Nokia is set to debut its initial lineup of Windows Phone 8 devices at the company’s Nokia World event in early September, according to a Bloomberg report. Nokia World takes place September 5 and 6, putting the company’s Windows Phone 8 reveal a week ahead of the rumored September 12 iPhone announcement date.

Unveiling its latest Windows Phone 8 phones at Nokia World would give Nokia some time

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