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ET deals: Toshiba Satellite P75 17-inch laptop (refurb) for $529 July 17, 2014 at 9:04 am
The Satellite P75-A7100 packs a quad-core Core i7-4700MQ processor, a very strong CPU that will power through both everyday and more demanding tasks with ease. It also features a large 17.3-inch 1920×1080 display, providing a great picture and making this a great choice for viewing multimedia. Audio is covered by premium Harman/Kardon speakers, so you’ll get a sound as crisp as your visuals here too.
UK, the world’s most surveilled state, begins using automated face recognition to catch criminals July 17, 2014 at 8:03 am
Police in the UK have become one of the first major police forces to deploy automated facial recognition technology to catch criminals. The British police will be using NEC’s NeoFace technology, which can match faces from crime scene photos or videos against a database of images in just a few seconds. Combined with the highest density of CCTV cameras of any country in the world, police body-worn cameras that are constantly recording, and a CSI-like smartphone and tablet app that allows for face and fingerprint matching in the field, it is rather hard to be a criminal in the UK nowadays.
Tegra K1 GPU posts some beastly benchmarks – but can Nvidia get devs to actually use it? July 16, 2014 at 2:27 pm
Nvidia’s Tegra K1 is benchmarking like a beast — is this the chip that will give the company what it needs to establish a premium gaming experience on Android?
Meet Jibo, the world’s first family robot – built by MIT’s social robotics master July 16, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Cynthia Breazeal, an MIT professor and one of the pioneers of social robotics, has unveiled “the world’s first family robot.” Called Jibo, the all-white desktop-sitting robot has more than a passing resemblance to a certain robot from a recent animated Pixar movie. The robot, which will cost around $500 when it’s released, will have a range of abilities that will hopefully make it the perfect companion to have around the house — such as telling stories to kids, automatically taking photos when you pose, easy messaging and video calling, providing reminders for calendar entries, and companionship through emotional interaction.
Curiosity finds massive metal meteorite on Mars as it moves into more dangerous, exciting territory July 16, 2014 at 10:03 am
NASA’s Curiosity rover has encountered a massive iron meteorite on Mars. At roughly two meters (6.5 feet) wide, and who knows how much beneath the surface, the meteorite (dubbed “Lebanon”) might be the largest ever discovered on Mars. In other news, Curiosity recently celebrated its first Martian anniversary, and is now about two thirds of the way to its primary target of Mount Sharp, which it should reach in early 2015.
Tesla announces the Model 3: At half the price of the Model S, Tesla wants to take EVs mainstream July 16, 2014 at 8:30 am
Tesla’s Elon Musk has revealed his company’s plans to take on compact executive cars, such as the BMW 3-series, with the Tesla Model 3. The all-electric Model 3 (which was originally going to be called the Model E) will be around 20% smaller than the Model S, and will have a shorter range of around 200 miles — but it will have ‘strong performance’ like the Model S and start at just $35,000 (the Model S starts at around $70,000).
Intel’s mobile division has lost an astonishing $2 billion so far this year July 16, 2014 at 7:15 am
Intel’s Q2 results are excellent and the company’s profits much improved — but its mobile divisions continue bleeding money. When it called this contra-revenue, it wasn’t kidding.
Apple and IBM team up to conquer the enterprise market, and crush Microsoft, Blackberry, and Android July 16, 2014 at 5:30 am
Apple and IBM are pairing up in a major enterprise play to merge their respective hardware and software solutions. This is a huge move with potential implications for the entire enterprise segment.
ET deals: Dell XPS 8700 desktop with GeForce GT 720 for $700 July 15, 2014 at 5:01 pm
This desktop packs the new Core i7-4790 quad-core processor (up to 4GHz), a CPU that will be able to fly through pretty much whatever tasks you throw at it. Not only that, but there’s also a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 graphics card to give your gaming a boost. Though the graphics card isn’t quite as high end as the brand new processor, it’s still a powerful card, and this combo will ensure that you’ll be able to use this computer for a wide variety of intensive and everyday tasks.
Crowdfunded satellite rescue mission becoming frantic as time runs thin July 15, 2014 at 3:24 pm
The public has raised more than $150,000 to save a long-retired satellite called ISEE-3 — but a deadline is fast approaching, and the team might not be ready in time.
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