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NVIDIA Tegra 4i update adds LTE-Advanced speeds

Posted on May 21, 2013 By

NVIDIA’s mobile processor for mainstream smartphones – Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas.

First shown at Mobile World Congress in February at Cat 3 100mbps, this Tegra 4i demo is fully based on a software update – no new hardware, no new processor. This showcases the adaptability and flexibility of NVIDIA’s software-defined radio technology.

Speed to Burn: Tegra 4i chewed through 150 Mbps of data in a demo at CTIA this week.

An additional advantage of the technology is its tiny size. Because the modem is designed with general purpose Deep Execution Processors (DXP), it’s 40 percent the size of a conventional LTE modem. The benefit is a fast, high performance, adaptable modem in a tiny footprint.

Tegra 4i’s modem is also multi-mode. It delivers 4G LTE Advanced and is backward compatible so it can offer LTE Cat 3, 3G, and 2G. That means it will work even where LTE networks aren’t available. Other LTE Advanced features will be coming soon in software.

The CTIA demo used a tester which emulates an LTE Cat 4 network because live local LTE Cat 4 networks don’t exist yet. In this demo Phoenix – the Tegra 4i reference smartphone – is connected to the tester and shows 150 Mbps.

We also demonstrated Phoenix running on a live ATT LTE network – showing video streaming over LTE and voice calls. It’s a great proof point of our strong progress in Tegra 4i modem stability and performance.

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U.S. Navy dolphins find antique torpedo

Posted on May 21, 2013 By

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A Howell torpedo on display at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum.


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The Naval War College Museum)

Unlike Acoustic Kitty, the U.S. military’s dolphin program, active since the 1960s, has had quite a bit of success. Dolphins, you see, are capable of producing sonar, and have an aptitude for learning commands, proving to be much more useful than machines for aquatic mine detection.

“Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man,” explains Braden Duryee, operations supervisor for the SSC Pacific Biosciences Division. “They can detect mines and other potentially dangerous objects on the ocean floor that are acoustically difficult targets to detect.”

This time, though, two of the trained bottle-nose dolphins have discovered something much more interesting than mines off the coast of Coronado, Calif: a late 19th century Howell Automobile Torpedo, the first self-propelled torpedo in the U.S.

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Military bottle-nose dolphin K-Dog with its handler, Sergeant Andrew Garrett.


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U.S. Navy)

Unlike previous torpedoes, it was propelled by a hand-wound flywheel that weighed around 60 kilograms and needed to spin at around 10,000 rotations per minute. Conceived in 1871, the torpedo wasn’t officially approved for construction until 1877, and then used until 1885-1886. It was quickly superseded in 1892, meaning only 50 of the torpedoes were ever produced.

Until this discovery, in fact, only one Howell torpedo was known to still exist, housed in the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. (Of course, Howell was pipped at the post by Melbourne, Australia, inventor Louis Brennan, who patented his steerable propeller torpedo in 1877.)

The dolphins had been trained by U.S. Navy specialists to touch the front of the boat with their noses if they find something, and the back of the boat if they don’t. During a shallow-water dive last month, a dolphin by the name of Ten surfaced and touched the front of the boat, confusing the human handlers, who didn’t expect any finds in the area. When it happened a week later with a dolphin named Spetz, a marker was placed, and divers were sent in for examination and retrieval. They discovered, after extensive research, that it was a 130-year-old torpedo.

“It was apparent in the first 15 minutes that this was something that was significant and really old,” Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the SSC Pacific Biosciences Division, said. “Realizing that we were the first people to touch it or be around it in over 125 years was really exciting.”

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Sky Sports for iPad adds more live camera options ahead of Champions League final

Posted on May 20, 2013 By

ENJOY THE BEST MOMENTS FROM THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL FROM ANY ANGLE WITH SKY SPORTS FOR iPAD

Want to relive the match-winning goal from behind the net? Review the controversial decision that changed the course of the game? See if the ball really did cross the line? Decide for yourself with Sky Sports 360 – a new multi-camera highlights feature available in the award-winning Sky Sports for iPad app.

Launching just in time for the upcoming Champions League final clash between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich at Wembley Stadium this Saturday 25 May, Sky Sports 360 means that for the first time ever, Sky Sports viewers can turn their armchair into the director’s chair.

Found within the Champions League Events Centre of the Sky Sports for iPad app, Sky Sports 360 lets you select and replay all the most exciting saves, tackles, and near-misses during the game from over 20 different camera angles.


Live multi-camera technology from EVS makes feeds from around the pitch available during the game, allowing fans to quickly and easily pick their choice of highlights and a camera angle to enjoy all the very best game-defining moments – with the option of slow-motion too.

The Champions League Event Centre is just one of a host of second screen experiences available to Sky Sports subscribers as part of the award-winning Sky Sports for iPad app. Others currently available include F1® Race Control and the Premier League Match centre, with many more available when a sport is live, for example The Masters offering live coverage, up-to-date aggregated twitter feed and match statistics. The app also covers the biggest sports stories of the day together with information on the latest fixtures, results and standings, access to all 6 Sky Sports channels live, Sky Sports News radio.

David Gibbs, Director of Sky Sports Digital Media, commented: “This is great news for the Sky Sports for iPad app, which keeps getting better and better. This is about putting the technology into the hands of the viewer and allowing them to recapture the big moments in the final. It’s the first time we’ve offered this through our app and it’s another example of our investment in the Sky Sports viewer’s experience.”

Sky Sports for iPad is available at no extra cost to all Sky customers who take Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. Sky Sports for iPad is available for free from the App Store on iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore.The Sky Sports for iPad App is also available to non-Sky customers on a standalone basis for £4.99 per month through In-App Purchase (excludes access to Sky Sports 1-4 and Sky Sports F1®).

The UEFA Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich at Wembley Stadium on 25 May is live on Sky Sports 1 HD. Sky Sports 360 will be available for the final this weekend and for the forthcoming 13-14 season.

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Amy Holland 020 7032 1498 | Consumer PR
Alison Hackney 020 7032 1451 | Sky Sports

About Sky Sports for iPad app

The award-winning Sky Sports for iPad app covers the biggest sports stories of the day together with information on the latest fixtures, results and standings. Key features include live streaming of Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and 4, Sky Sports News and the Sky Sports F1® channel, Sky Sports News radio, homepages for football, rugby union, rugby league, cricket, golf, tennis, F1® and boxing, as well as team news pages for football and cricket teams which can also be used to personalised a users’ homepage

About Sky

Sky entertains and excites more than 10.3 million homes through the most comprehensive multichannel, multi-platform television service in the UK and Ireland. Sky continues to break new ground with its own portfolio of channels: Sky 1 combines its commitment to UK production with the best of the US; Sky Living pushes ahead with fresh and innovative entertainment formats; Sky Arts is the UK’s only dedicated arts channel brand; Sky Atlantic is the home to HBO and other iconic drama and comedy, Sky Sports is still raising the bar in sports broadcasting; Sky News remains a pioneer in television news; and Sky Movies is leading the way in High Definition and on-demand.
Sky also works with dozens of other broadcasters on the satellite platform, as well as online and on mobile through the ground-breaking Sky Go service. Sky has also led the UK into the age of high definition television, launched Europe’s first 3DTV channel, Sky 3D, and offers customer even more flexibility and choice through Sky On Demand its internet-delivered video on demand service. Since launching Sky Broadband and Sky Talk in 2006, the company has also been the UK’s fastest-growing home communications provider.
Sky believes in making a wider contribution to the communities in which it operates, not least by increasing participation in, and access to, the arts, supporting grassroots sports, and taking positive action on the environment.

About EVS

EVS provides its customers with reliable and innovative technology to enable the production of live, enriched video programming, allowing them to work more efficiently and boost their revenue streams. Its industry-leading broadcast and media production systems are used by broadcasters, production companies, post-production facilities, film studios, content owners and archive libraries around the globe. It spans four key markets – Sports, Entertainment, News and Media.

Founded in 1994, its innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionised live broadcasting. Its reliable and integrated tapeless solutions, based around its market-leading XT server range, are now widely used to deliver live productions worldwide. Today, it continues to develop practical innovations, such as its C-Cast second-screen delivery platform, to help customers maximise the value of their media content.

The company is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Approximately 465 EVS professionals from 20 offices are selling its branded products in over 100 countries, and provide customer support globally. EVS is a public company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371. For more information, please visit www.evs.com

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Smart necklace is key to secret iPad diary

Posted on May 20, 2013 By

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Lock down your digital diary.


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Dano)

Dano’s iHeart Locket takes the wearable technology trend and makes it cute. The smart necklace works with the iPad to lock down digital diary entries and keep secret crushes and innermost thoughts safe from prying eyes.

The gold heart necklace, designed with preteens and teens in mind, works with the iHeart Locket Diary App for iOS. The diary app holds text, pictures, speech-to-text audio, and written notes, making it more of a digital scrapbook than a simple journal.

Each locket contains a unique code to keep the diary private, especially from marauding siblings. Push a button on the locket and all those secrets are hidden as if written in disappearing ink. Nobody else needs to know that you’re madly in love with Justin Bieber.

Selling for $24.99, the locket could be seen as a way for parents to encourage their children to journal, while still respecting their kids’ privacy. It’s an interesting digital upgrade to the old method of writing in a blank book, hiding it under the mattress, and hoping for the best.

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The preteen crowd is a good bet for this gadget.


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Dano)

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Sony’s not showing its new PlayStation 4 just yet, but here’s a taste (video)

Posted on May 20, 2013 By

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What does the PlayStation 4 look like? We didn’t find out back at Sony’s big New York City reveal gala in February, but it looks like we’re edging ever closer to that moment: June 10th at 6PM PT seems to be exactly when we’ll find out. Hey, wouldn’t you know it, that lines up with Sony’s E3 2013 press conference, which we’ll be liveblogging right here on Engadget. The coincidences simply won’t stop! A new tease video today gives us a few glimpses at what we might see in a few weeks, but for now you’ll have to be sated by looking through individual video frames. Take a look (and then another, and then another) just below the break.

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Jolla smartphone lets fly with Sailfish OS

Posted on May 20, 2013 By

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The Jolla phone.


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Jolla)

The first phone running Sailfish, the open-source operating system from the people who tried to get MeeGo going, is the Jolla, it’ll cost you 399 euros ($512), and it’s coming by the end of the year.

Jolla — pronounced “yo-la,” not “joller” or “holler” — is the name of the phone and the Finnish company that makes it. It has a 4.5-inch screen, a dual-core chip, 16GB of storage expandable via microSD, 4G, an 8-megapixel camera and a battery you can replace yourself.

Sailfish is “Android app compliant,” which hints you’ll be able to install standard
Android apps on it. Jolla hasn’t explained what this means in practice, but it sounds like you’ll be able to sideload apps from Google Play, and that it’ll be very easy for Android developers to translate their wares to Sailfish.

If you plop down 100 euros ($128) for a pre-order, you’ll help fund the mobile’s production and bag an exclusive “other half.” Jolla doesn’t explain what that means, but from the phone’s split design I’m guessing it’s the removable backplate, like fashion-forward Nokias of old.

Here’s Jolla’s launch video [warning: LOUD]:

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of “Jolla is first phone with new Sailfish OS, out this year for £340” at Crave UK

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