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Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus mini PC launches with E-450 APU, gets reviewed

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Zotac and its XBOXes — just when you think your next dorm room PC couldn’t get any smaller… it does. The latest in the stable is the long-winded Nano XS AD11 Plus, a hysterically titled small form factor PC equipped with a dual-core 1.6GHz AMD E-450 APU, Radeon HD 6320 GPU, 2GB of DDR3 memory and an HDMI output. There’s also a 64GB mSATA SSD, a pair of USB 3.0 sockets (as well as a couple of the USB 2.0 variety), a gigabit Ethernet jack and a bundled MCE-compatible remote. In a smattering of reviews that also cropped up alongside the box’s launch, we’ve learned that the E-450 moderately bests the prior E-350 rigs and soars past similarly equipped Atom-based machines; the mSATA SSD is perhaps the biggest upgrade, however, easily helping the system as a whole feel far faster than those with mechanical hard drives. Hot Hardware was pleased with the overall showing, though they did note that the include USB WiFi adapter gave ‘em headaches when trying to stream high-bitrate content from a NAS / home server. Worth the $359? Hit those More Coverage links to help you decide. Gallery: Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus mini PC Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus mini PC launches with E-450 APU, gets reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink TG Daily | | Email this | Comments

 

Dyson's engineers head off to the races, create dragsters using spare parts, DC-16 motors (video)

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Dyson engineers certainly know a thing or two about creating innovative vacuums and fans Air Multipliers , but did you know they’ve also dabbled in the world of high-speed racing? Such is apparently now the case, as these folks were tasked with building go-kart drag racers out of spare parts, resulting in a variety of wheeled wonders viaing for the fastest run on a makeshift strip in the office. Of course, there was a catch — all of the dragsters had to use the motor from Dyson’s DC-16 handheld vacuum in a battle for maximum torque. We won’t spoil the outcomes for you, so scroll down to catch a video mashup of all the hijinks in the video below. Continue reading Dyson’s engineers head off to the races, create dragsters using spare parts, DC-16 motors (video) Dyson’s engineers head off to the races, create dragsters using spare parts, DC-16 motors (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments

 

Google puts False Start SSL experiment down, nobody notices

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Back in September of 2010 Google started experimenting with a new Chrome feature called False Start, which cut the latency of SSL handshakes by up to 30 percent. While the delay in forging a secure connection never seemed like a major concern for most, the pause (which could be several hundred milliseconds long) before a browser starts pulling in actual content was too much to swallow for Mountain View engineers. The tweak to SLL was a somewhat technical one that involved packaging data and instructions normally separated out — reducing the number of round trips between a host and a client before content was pulled in. Unfortunately, False Start has proven incompatible with a number of sites, in particular those that rely on dedicated encryption hardware called SSL Terminators. Chrome used a blacklist to track unfriendly sites, but maintaining that repository proved more difficult than anticipated and became quite unwieldy. Despite reportedly working with over 99 percent of websites Adam Langley, a Google security researcher, has decided that False Start should be retired with version 20 of the company’s browser. The change will likely go unnoticed by most users, but it’s always a shame to see efforts to make the web as SPDY as possible fail. Google puts False Start SSL experiment down, nobody notices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink Ars Technica | Imperial Violet | Email this | Comments

 

Scientists create the first universal quantum network, are scared to restart the router

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We all know that most networks are, well, just not “quantumy” enough. Good news, then, that German boffins at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have created the first “universal quantum network.” We’ve been hearing about plain old quantum computing since the first qubit was sent, but now we have to get our tiny minds around the idea of a quantum internet too. Data was sent using single rubidium atoms in reflective optical cavities and single photons emitted over optical fiber. Given that data was only successfully transmitted 0.2% of the time, and the network spanned just 21 meters, a complex LAN with multiple nodes is a way off just yet, but the proof of concept is there. If that concept is the early ’90s internet that is. Scientists create the first universal quantum network, are scared to restart the router originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink Extreme Tech | Scientific American | Email this | Comments

 

Boeing to launch super secure Android phone, hopes it takes off

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You know what we’ve always wondered? Why doesn’t Boeing just hurry up and release a phone? Joking aside, this is really happening. The news comes via National Defense Magazine which reports that the airplane manufacturer is developing an Android handset which will have strong security credentials. Currently dubbed “the Boeing phone” we hope the firm puts more thought into its aircraft than its project codenames. Before you start folding out your green, however, be warned that despite running Google’s popular OS, and being a cellular device, the price point is still likely to be more jumbo jet than paper plane, with a Boeing exec pointing out that competitor offerings typically float around the $15-20,000 mark. He goes on to point out that it won’t cost as much as this, but will still likely be out of our reach back here in coach. No word on any sort of specification at the minute, but if you fancy yourself as a high-flyer (or more likely, you work in defense) keep an eye out for this landing later on this year. Now, what if Samsung made a plane..? Boeing to launch super secure Android phone, hopes it takes off originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink TechCrunch | National Defense Magazine | Email this | Comments

 

AT&T HTC Titan II review

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Titan. It’s a ballistic missile and one of Saturn’s moons. The word also plays a huge role in Greek mythology and in normal use refers to something of enormous power and influence. So it’s understandable, then, why HTC seems to prefer it as a name for its phones. So much so, in fact, that the release of the LTE-enabled Titan II on AT&T actually marks not the second, but fourth iteration of the name: if you recall, the company once released two Windows Mobile devices called the TyTn . We had mixed feelings as we watched the latest Titan get introduced at AT&T’s Developer Summit in January. On the one hand, we were intrigued by the idea of a smartphone with a monstrous 16-megapixel camera, as well as LTE — something the world previously hadn’t seen on a Windows Phone device. But the announcement also took place a mere two months after its predecessor launched on AT&T’s network, which gave us the sinking feeling Ma Bell’s new strategy was to crank out a plethora of refreshed phones boasting only a couple of new features (see: the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket ). So what of this sequel we have before us? Will it come out victorious like Remember the Titans or a disaster like Titanic ? Is it worth it to new customers to shun the free Nokia Lumia 900 and shell out $200 for this guy instead? Follow us down the page and we’ll fill you in. Gallery: HTC Titan II review Continue reading AT&T HTC Titan II review AT&T HTC Titan II review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments

 

Pebble smartwatch raises $100,000 in two hours, retires on a beach

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It always pleases us when interesting Kickstarter projects do well . Especially ones that fly as well as this. Just two hours after launching, the Pebble watch from Allerta landed $100,000 in pledges. Two. Hours. When you consider the phone-friendly e-paper timepiece was being offered at $115 a pop, that’s a lot of individual supporters, and therefore pre-orders to fulfill. Of course, we like to think we played a small part in this story, but the credit ultimately has to lie with the product developers themselves, who clearly captured people’s imaginations. And then some. At time of writing, the tally’s run to well over $1 million with 36 days still to go. Pebble smartwatch raises $100,000 in two hours, retires on a beach originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink Phone Arena | Kickstarter | Email this | Comments

 

CE-Oh no he didn't!: Tony Fadell calls Honeywell out on patent claims

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Smart thermostats might not be the cut-throat world of litigation like, say, mobile phones , but that doesn’t mean the odd feather doesn’t get ruffled from time to time. Nest CEO, Tony Fadell, is understandably protective of his company’s product, so when competitor Honeywell laid a stack of patent infringement claims at his door, unsurprisingly he was none too pleased. How displeased? Well, enough for him to drop this clanger: “Honeywell is worse than a patent troll.” Then going on to quantify with “They’re trying to strangle us, and we’re not going to allow that to happen.” We think that makes his feelings on the matter pretty clear. Well, when you’ve been SVP of Apple’s iPod division, it’s easy to see how patience with such things might wear thin. CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Tony Fadell calls Honeywell out on patent claims originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | The Verge , Nest | Email this | Comments

 

Amazon CloudSearch brings A9 to devs and businesses

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Amazon certainly isn’t the first to offer hosted search services for third parties, but its model might make it the simplest option. Businesses or devs looking to create custom search indexes need only to upload what they want to make searchable and Amazon takes care of the rest — including deciding how much hardware to provision based on index size and traffic. Using the company’s A9 search engine, CloudSearch can quickly whip up complex query tools, including support for Boolean functions. For more details check out the PR after the break. Continue reading Amazon CloudSearch brings A9 to devs and businesses Amazon CloudSearch brings A9 to devs and businesses originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments

 

Three iPad giveaways in three days: day two, courtesy of CloudOn!

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The amazing three day iPad giveaway campaign continues, and we’re only halfway through. Day two is already here, and it’s time to enter to win another new iPad. This time it’s CloudOn ( iTunes link ) that’s hooking you up with the opportunity to nab a 16GB WiFi-only version, as a way of celebrating Tuesday’s release of its latest update in the App Store. The free app gives you the ability to create, edit and share Office docs with Dropbox, Adobe Reader and Box synchronization as well as a few other goodies. This time around, you’ll need to answer a specific question in the comments as part of the entry process: what are two things you’d like to see on your iPad to help you stay productive while on the go? Good luck! Continue reading Three iPad giveaways in three days: day two, courtesy of CloudOn! Three iPad giveaways in three days: day two, courtesy of CloudOn! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments