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Chrome OS and Chromebooks explained

Chrome OS and Chromebooks explained | Android Central: "A little while back at Google I/O Google introduced the world to Chromebooks. Svelte machines that run Google's own OS, Chrome OS. Chrome OS is unlike any other OS that's hit the shelves. It's fast, lean, and easy to use. Chromebooks look to continue that theme. They are fast (relatively), lean, and easy to use."

Proof: Super Mario Dies On The Cover Of His First Home Console Game

Samsung says it's competing with Apple, not copying it

Samsung says it's competing with Apple, not copying it | PhoneDog

Remember in the middle of last month when Apple added more patents to its suit against Samsung and alleged that Samsung made "products that blatantly imitate the appearance of Apple's products?" Well Samsung has finally responded to the amended complaint, adding more patents of its own and defending its devices against Apple's claims. In its answer, Samsung repeatedly states "The Samsung Defendants admit that they have not ceased competing with Apple notwithstanding Apple's efforts to avoid such competition" and explains that it's competing with, not copying, Apple. Samsung also points to its patent portfolio as well as its position in the market ("During the last half of 2010, Samsung sold more Android-based devices worldwide than any other company.") to defend itself. Finally, Samsung dropped two patents from its countersuit against Apple and added four patents relating to things like displaying data on a "portable telephone."

Developer API for Google+: It's coming

Developer API for Google+: It's coming | CNET News

Google's new social network, Google+, has only been public for two days, and developers are already interested in access to the service so they can roll out add-ons and improvements.

Fortunately for them, and ultimately for Google+ users, developer access is coming. It's simply a matter of time. As Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, told me at a Web 2.0 Summit cocktail party tonight, "I'm a developer guy at the core. It is inconceivable I would build something without a platform."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20075974-250/developer-api-for-google-its-coming/#ixzz1QrjidfLC

Dramatic Sunrise Over Moon’s Tycho Crater Mountains

A spacecraft circling the moon snapped this dramatic image of the sun rising on the mountains in the middle of Tycho crater.

The 51-mile-wide depression is all that remains of a catastrophic asteroid impact 108 million years ago. Planetary scientists think the guilty asteroid was a fragment from a larger space rock, another piece of which wiped out the dinosaurs.

A robot gets sensitive skin

iPhone 5 and iPad 3 reveal in September tips supply chain

iPhone 5 and iPad 3 reveal in September tips supply chain - SlashGear

Another day, another Apple production rumor, and as the whispers in Taiwan would have us believe that Apple’s suppliers are already gathering together materials for iPhone 5 and iPad 3 manufacture, ahead of an official unveil in September and commercial release in October. Your favorite component gossip source, DigiTimes, has it on anonymous authority that Foxconn – which will be slapping all the parts together – will be making a single fifth-gen iPhone, rather than both a cut-price iPhone 4S and flagship iPhone 5.

Infancy of Universe Seen in Brightest Quasar Yet | Wired Science | Wired.com

Meet ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar ever found. A team of European astronomers have used a number of telescopes, data from The European UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and five years of searching to find it.

A quasar is a very bright, very distant galaxy that is juiced up by asupermassive black hole at its center. The black hole in the middle of ULAS J11 has a mass 2 billion times that of our sun, and the overall galaxy is the brightest object in the early Universe.

Droid 3 accessories leaked, Moto's new slider gets wireless charging back plate and more -- Engadget

So, you've read the rumors, scoped out the leaks, and circled multiple dates on your calendar -- just to cover all of your Droid 3 bases. You can now add a catalog of accessories to the stack of intel for this Motorola slider, including an inductive battery door (most likely harnessing the power of Qi), and a smattering of cases and screen protectors. Also thrown in the mix is a 1930mAh extended battery so you can fuel a marathon of South Park reruns and take full advantage of the last week of unlimited data from Verizon. Although knowing about the accessories is nice, we'd prefer to find out the important stuff... ya know, like how much Big Red's new Droid will cost.

SleepWell smart WiFi tech could double smartphone battery life - SlashGear

A new system for intelligently power-cycling WiFi connections could see smartphone battery life doubled, by cooperating with nearby wireless devices rather than competing with them. SleepWell is the handiwork of Duke University graduate student Justin Manweiler: whereas in congested WiFi environments devices like smartphones and tablets have to stay awake in order to snatch their moment of connection, SleepWell allows devices to enter wireless sleep mode until their turn to get online.

Dial-up Sound Slowed Down 700%

Most if us have been on broadband so long that the sound of dial-up is terrifying regardless what speed it is played at. This is still pretty nifty:

Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks

Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flowing.