Ericsson Plans On Making Human USB Connection Available By Next Year

You read that right. Ericsson is indeed working on a human USB connection. While most of you may know the company for being a supplier of telecom equipment, which is a fairly accurate perception, Ericsson has been trying to re-brand itself as much more than just that. And this is its latest attempt to do so by spinning out a novelty.

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Thunderbolt On Windows Causes Hot Plugging Issue

Thunderbolt has been, until now, something which Mac users were concerned about and used. Users who tooled different hardware didn’t get to use the motherboard and try their hands on it. However, that seems to be changing now. A new Z77A-GD80 MSI motherboard has been tested with Windows and the results are posted below.

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Foxconn Gears Up To Build Apple Television Set

We have long been hearing of an Apple TV set which was supposed to be the next-generation TV. When Steve Jobs said in his biography that he had finally cracked the puzzle of TV set, he surely meant something big. While Apple has been very quiet about its plans, Foxconn chairman has now revealed that his company is gearing up to produce Apple TV sets.

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Floating Robots With GPS-enabled Smartphones Will Track Water Flow: UC Berkeley

At the University of California, a group of engineers have deployed a fleet of 100 floating robots in the Sacramento River. The robots were GPS-enabled and equipped with Smartphone. The purpose of the engineers was to demonstrate the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state’s most precious resources.

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[Tutorial] How To Reduce Latency For Video Games

When you play video games in network (locally or on Internet), the latency is very important. It corresponds to the response time between when you press a button or move the mouse and when the desired action is executed in the game. By default Windows combines small packets into one before sending them. By disabling this feature, small packets will be transferred immediately without delay, thus reducing your latency. In this tutorial I will show you which steps you need to perform inside Windows 7 in order to make this work.

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A Novel Design Keep Robots In Balance After Getting Kicked

We have seen many Humanoid Robots. Normally, these humanoid robots fall down or can’t maintain their balance while kicked from any side. But, recently University of Tokyo’s JSK Lab researchers have developed a high-torque, high-speed robotic leg based on a novel electrical actuation system which lets a robot maintain its balance and stand even if get kicked.

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HTC One X 4G Smartphone With Android 4.0 From AT&T

HTC brings a new powerful smartphone runs with Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich). The 1.5 GHz dual-core processor let you access the Android 4.0 with super power to communicating and sharing, multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and much more. This phone comes with AT&T’s super-fast 4G LTE connectivity. The other features like a massive pixel-packed 4.7-inch HD 720p multi-touch display with rich entertainment for the Beats Audio integration, a 8-megapixel camera with Full HD 1080p video capture and lot more.

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Siemens ‘eHighway Of The Future’ Concept Proposes Electrification Of Trucks On Highways

This week at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, Siemens has announced its ‘eHighway’ concept. The eHighway concept introduces the idea of diesel-electric hybrid trucks which can work like a electric trolley when overhead electric lines are available and work as a diesel truck when overhead electric lines are not available. Siemens says that the technology can significantly reduce carbon emissions by reducing the use of fossil fuels in trucks.

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