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  • Maido-kun: Japan plans to send humanoid to the moon by 2015

    Maido-kun: Japan plans to send humanoid to the moon by 2015

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Japan loves robots, we know that much. Last year, the Japanese government announced it plans to to send a robot to the moon by 2020 (that was to be joined by a human astronaut 10 years later). Today, the Osaka-based "Space Oriented Higashiosaka Leading Association" (SOHLA) announced [JP, PDF] a quite similar undertaking: putting a robot on the moon by 2015.

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  • Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30 years

    Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30 years

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember Floppy discs? In case you haven't noticed (like I didn't), Sony is actually still making and selling those discs. But soon it's time to say goodbye, as the company now said [JP] it will stop production in March next year. Sony rolled out the world's first 3.5-inch floppy disc back in 1981. And believe it or not, even in 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million units in Japan alone.

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  • Rumor: Apple Thinking About Buying ARM. iPhone Rivals To Sleep With The Fishes?

    Rumor: Apple Thinking About Buying ARM. iPhone Rivals To Sleep With The Fishes?

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The following is very much a rumor, but if true, it would be absolutely huge. A UK publication is reporting that Apple is considering buying ARM Holdings -- aka, the company behind most of the world's mobile phone processors. If Apple were to buy them, it would likely reshape the mobile landscape completely. To be clear, London's Evening Standard is only citing "gossips" within the city's financial district. But those gossips aren't the only ones convinced there is something to this talk: ARM's shares went up 8.1 points today, with more than 5 million shares changing hands by midday, the paper reports. The deal, would apparently see Apple buying ARM for something in the neighborhood of 5.2 billion British pounds, or roughly $8 billion in U.S. dollars.

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  • Live Blog: Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement

    Live Blog: Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s that time again, folks. The day that is looked upon with excitement by fan boys and cynics alike: it’s an Apple announcement day. Apple has already made it perfectly clear that today’s announcement will bring details about iPhone OS 4.0 – but what ever will they be? Will it multitask? Will there be interface overhauls? [...]

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  • Not as cool as Gundam, but: Watch Gigantor protecting Kobe (video)

    Not as cool as Gundam, but: Watch Gigantor protecting Kobe (video)

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember Gigantor? Remember last October, when the Japanese city of Kobe erected a 18m high statue of the giant anime robot? Granted, the robo statue is nowhere near as big as its Gundam counterpart, but it's still pretty cool.

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  • HP and Dragon Training

    HP and Dragon Training

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    How to Train Your Dragon, from DreamWorks Pictures opened on Friday and promptly blew fire over most of the competition. Numerous outlets reported the film was Number 1 at the box office this past weekend, despite somewhat slower ticket sales than expected. In case those HP commercials featuring New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby (perhaps most well-known [...]

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  • Video: The $113.5 million F-35B Lightning II can float in the air for a little bit

    Video: The $113.5 million F-35B Lightning II can float in the air for a little bit

    Posted on March 20, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a certain amount of pride in seeing a country pump out something like the new F-35B Lightning II fighter jet. At $113.5 million per aircraft, it's about as far away from the meaning of the word "inexpensive" as possible. It makes you think, well, if we can afford things like that, why can't we afford things like this? But, whatever. The entire purpose of this post is to watch a legitimately exciting video. So, let's!

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  • How the iPad, and the slate computer, will evolve in the next two years

    How the iPad, and the slate computer, will evolve in the next two years

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    With the iPad hitting pre-order in two days and shipping in April, it’s important to think about when and why to buy the iPad. Based on our understanding of the product lifecycle and expected moves by Apple’s competitors, we foresee big changes in the ultraportable landscape with the ultraportable/netbook as we now know it mutating [...]

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  • What TiVo needs to do to make the Wall Street boys happy (and survive)

    What TiVo needs to do to make the Wall Street boys happy (and survive)

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    TiVo can't catch a break. The company just rolled out its next-gen platform and then finally ended a long court battle with Dish Network, causing its stock to surge to new heights. This all happened within the last two weeks. But then last night the company announced its sad Q4 2009 financials. You already know the problem. TiVo is having a real tough time signing up new customers and retaining current ones as content providers keep pushing their low-price DVR options. The company only managed to net 46k new subscriptions in the last months of 2009, bringing the total headcount to roughly 2.6 million. That's down from the 4.36 million subs TiVo had in January 2006. TiVo ended up losing $10.2 million during the fourth quarter even though revenue improved 16% to $68.5 million. It's sort of sad, actually. DVRs have lost their magic the last 10 years as cable companies offer cheap alternatives with smaller feature sets and none of the trademark TiVo charm. But TiVo can't die yet. I'm not ready to live in a TiVo-less world. The company must work on these three items in order to survive the next decade.

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  • RealNetworks settles RealDVD lawsuit: Has to cough up $4.5 million, stop supporting the software

    RealNetworks settles RealDVD lawsuit: Has to cough up $4.5 million, stop supporting the software

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Right around the time the world's financial markets started to collapse, back in 2008, RealNetworks, the folks behind RealPlayer, released RealDVD. It was a short-lived piece of software that made making DVD movie backups fairly painless—too painless for Hollywood, which immediately took RealNetworks to court, claiming all sorts of copyright infringement hokum. That's all in the past now, for RealNetworks has settled with the six "major" Hollywood studios to the sum of $4.5 million. Ouch.

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  • Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    It begins: Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is harshing on all our buzzes by announcing that according to an unidentified source at Hon Hai Precision, a CE manufacturer, the iPad could be delated until April. The source said that there were only 300K units available for a March launch, which may put a damper on what we're calling iPad Awareness Month. He expects Apple to sell about 1.2 million units in 2010 and 3.5 million in 2011.

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  • No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Don’t expect new console hardware from Nintendo in the near future. When asked “When do you think it’ll be time for new hardware?” in a recent interview with Gamespot, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway replied, “I don’t think it’ll be any time soon because even though our installed base is, at this point, 5 million households larger than the PS2 installed base was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.”

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  • LG Arena coming to Best Buy, extremely late to the party

    LG Arena coming to Best Buy, extremely late to the party

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    How excited can you get over a phone that was announced at last year’s Mobile World Congress and whose successor, the LG Arena Max, has already been spotted in the wild? Perhaps a $149.99 price point, a slick 3D UI, 5-megapixel camera and HSDPA 7.2Mbps? Yeah, I didn’t think so, either. After seeing this slide, I [...]

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  • Seoul, Korea at a 1:1500 scale

    Seoul, Korea at a 1:1500 scale

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Am I the only one who finds large-scale miniatures slightly ironic? If anyone else does, they obviously don’t find them ironic enough to stop making them. The Seoul Museum of History just finished up a full-city recreation that takes up a whopping 317.29-square meters. This project was finally finished after two years of work, involving [...]

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  • Apple is definitely NOT going to lose money making the iPad

    Apple is definitely NOT going to lose money making the iPad

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, iSuppli is at it again, and this time they are deconstructing the iPad. Admittedly they aren’t 100% sure about what exactly is inside the new device, they are taking their best shot at it and the numbers are pretty impressive. It doesn’t surprise me when an company makes money (in fact I’m more surprised [...]

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