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From Engadget: Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids

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Eric Schmidt has said that Google will make cash available through its investment into Teach First to buy Raspberry Pi and Arduino units for British schoolchildren. He was at the UK’s Science Museum to talk about Mountain View’s partnership with the charity, which puts top university graduates into schools to teach disadvantaged kids. The Android-maker wrote a cheque to fund over 100 places on the scheme, aiming to get bright computer scientists to reintroduce engineering principles to pupils. Mr. Schmidt hoped that with the right support, kits like the Raspberry Pi would do for this generation what the BBC Micro did three decades ago.

 

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From Engadget: Navy plans ship-based LTE for close-quarters communication

Navy plans ship-based LTE

Bandwidth is a precious commodity on military vessels. Ships in the US Navy fleet are generating more data, but the pipe it’s getting pumped through isn’t getting any larger. What’s more, with limited connectivity options on the table, the sea-faring military wing is missing out on all the smartphone and app store fun. Rather than turn green with envy, or turning their dress whites is for camouflage cargo pants, the Navy is beefing up its mobile tech arsenal, beginning with the U.S.S. Kearsarge, U.S.S. San Antonio and U.S.S. Whidbey Island. The ships will serve as test beds for a nautical LTE system, with a range of about 25 miles. The 4G network will serve as a localized platform for wirelessly feeding data to sailors, as well as a way for the enlisted to connect to the outside world. On the backend, the Marines are working on a new satellite broadband service that should be able to provide ships with 300 megabits of shared bandwidth. Satellite internet and off-grid LTE might induce yawns in some, but they’re certainly a major part of modernizing our fighting forces. For more info, check out the source link.

 

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From Ars Technica: Oracle v. Google: no patent infringement found

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Oracle v. Google

Oracle Corp.’s long legal crusade to get a cut of Google’s Android revenue is drawing to an unsatisfying close for the company. A ten-person jury found today that Google did not infringe two Java-related patents that Oracle had used to sue the search giant.

That means Oracle isn’t likely to get anything at all from the trial, other than a tiny amount of damages from one copied function. The trial dragged on for nearly six weeks in a San Francisco federal courtroom, and both sides hired some of the nation’s top technology lawyers to try the case.

Judge William Alsup, who oversaw the proceedings, thanked the jurors for their hard work on the case. He noted that the six-week trial was the longest civil trial he had presided over in his judicial career.

 

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From Engadget: NVIDIA outlines Kai platform, hopes to make good on quad-core $199 tablet promise

NVIDIA outlines Kai platform, hopes to make good on quad-core $199 tablet promise

When NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang talked of $199 Tegra 3 tablets, we were nothing but skeptically hopeful. Now, it seems those were more than just words. During a recent stockholder meeting, VP of Investor Relations, Rob Csongor, revealed the firm’s strategy to deliver on this budget quad-core promise. Announcing the “Kai” platform, Csongor stopped short of giving specifics, but implied that the architecture or hardware borrows much of the “secret sauce” from Tegra 3, and will enable lower-priced higher-performance devices. Jump on the source link, and listen in from about 33 minutes, if you want the full spiel.

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