During Apple’s Super Tablet 16 this week, Tim Cook boasted of processing performance that kicks Nvidia’s Tegra 3 in the face. By a factor of four. Don’t believe the hype—ever. More »
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From Gizmodo: Whoever Wrote the Duqu Trojan’s Framework Wrote It in an Unknown Programming Language
From Engadget: Happy Biiiirthday Mr USAF X-37B Robot Space Plane
The X-37B was only meant to stay up in space for a gestational nine months, but a full year has now passed since launch and the US Air Force apparently has little interest in bringing its baby home. On the contrary: according to Space.com, the plan is to send up another unmanned space plane to keep the X-37B company on its [CLASSIFIED] missions. Whatever it’s getting up to in that airless playground, it must be doing something right. Air Force Lt. Col. Tom McIntyre says the craft is “setting the standard for a reusable space plane and, on this one-year orbital milestone, has returned great value on the experimental investment.” Which is a fine way of saying [STILL CLASSIFIED].
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From Droid Life: Slice Released on Android, One Hell of an Online Shopping Organizer
 
Slice, an online shopping organizer, made its way to Android today. If you do any or all of your money spending online, this is an app you should probably download immediately. All it takes is an email address that you send most of your online receipts to and it starts going to work. And what I mean by “work†is that it scans recent purchases and then grabs all of the important information out of them including tracking numbers. So once that email arrives in your inbox, Slice begins tracking its progress including when it will arrive on your doorstep. You can add up to 5 email accounts, in case you use more than one. It will tell you how many items you have purchased online over the years and how much you have spent (Yikes!). Again, an amazing tool for those that spend their days shopping over this wonderful thing called the Internet.
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Cheers Jeff!
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From Engadget: Toshiba builds scanner that can identify fruit without a barcode, yup
During our hurried supermarket sweeps, we’re aiming for the Granny Smith, yet somehow always come away with French Jonagold. That’s why we’re in awe of this new supermarket scanner from Toshiba-Tech that can identify individual species of fruit and veg from sight. Rather than a cashier keying in a produce code, a camera with optical pattern recognition technology filters out “visual noise” before identifying the genus of your apple by shape, surface pattern and coloration. It’s also able to scan labels and coupons, but so far the database only contains a handful of items. It’ll take over a year (when each thing has been harvested and scanned) to build a database necessary to make it commercially useful. Still, if you can’t bear to wait those precious seconds as your server finds the right code for lettuce, head on past the break to watch your future in action.
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From Lifehacker: Download Any MP3 from SoundCloud with This Bookmarklet
Music-hosting service SoundCloud makes it easy to share your voice, music, or any other audio with a few clicks. It’s great, but sometimes you’re desperate to actually download and save a track from SoundCloud. This handy bookmarklet, courtesy of github user pheuter, adds a Download MP3 link to any track on SoundCloud. More »
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From Autoblog: Official: 2013 Chevy Malibu’s turbo four rated at 269 HP, 0-60 in 6.3 seconds
Filed under: Budget, Sedan, Chevrolet
We weren’t exactly smitten with the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco when we got the chance to tae one out for a spin, thanks in part to the eAssist wizardry aimed at improving the vehicle’s fuel economy. With a lackluster drivetrain, regenerative brakes and low rolling resistance tries, the Malibu Eco simply isn’t capable of keeping its head high among the competition. Even so, we were told to wait for the Ecotec 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder set to debut this year. Now we know why. According to General Motors, the engine is good for 269 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. More importantly, all that torque comes on at a very low 1,700 rpm.
The direct-injection engine helps the Malibu hit 60 mph in a scant 6.3 seconds. Trust us when we say that’s an improvement over the Eco model. While there’s no word on fuel economy, we would expect the engine to return well better than the 17 mpg city and 26 mpg highway supplied by the outgoing 3.6-liter V6, an engine that was only good for 252 horsepower.
This isn’t the first time GM has dabbled with a turbocharged four-cylinder. The company supplied buyers with a 2.0-liter Ecotec in vehicles like the Pontiac Solstice GXP, HHR SS and Cobalt SS that put out 260 horsepower. See belowfor the full press release.
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