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Man skydives from 13 miles above Earth, isn’t satisfied (video)

March 20th, 2012 No comments
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Your worst nightmares? Felix Baumgartner’s breakfast. Determined to cement his legacy in the Pantheon of Daredevilry, the famed skydiver successfully leapt from an altitude of more than 70,000 feet last week — and that was just a trial. It’s all part of Baumgartner’s attempt to complete a record-breaking 120,000 foot “spacedive” later this year and, based on early returns, he seems well on his way. His latest jump, completed on March 15th, saw the fearless Austrian carried up to more than 13 miles above the Earth, protected only by a pressurized suit and capsule that hung from a 165-foot high helium balloon. Not long after jumping out, he reached a maximum speed of 364.4 mph, with the entire free fall lasting a little over eight minutes, according to Red Bull Stratos, which is sponsoring the effort. The idea behind last week’s run was to test out the balloon and pressurized capsule, though Baumgartner is apparently hoping to complete another jump from about 90,000 feet above ground, before attempting the record breaker sometime this summer. Somewhere, Yves Rossy is furiously polishing off his jetpack. For more details on the equipment used to pull off the feat, check out Red Bull Stratos’ video, after the break.

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Man skydives from 13 miles above Earth, isn’t satisfied (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor

March 20th, 2012 No comments

We wouldn’t exactly be going out on a limb by suggesting that the new iPad is Apple’s hottest tablet to date — even before Tim Cook confirmed as much earlier today. But while Apple has plenty of reason to brag about the device’s sales figures, it’s slightly less motivated to be forthcoming about its tendencies to create more heat. 10 degrees more, in fact, according to infrared camera confirmation obtained by Tweakers.net. After five minutes of running GLBenchmark, the site used its infrared cam to confirm what many of you have already suggested: the new iPad runs a little hot. According to the site’s measurements, Cupertino’s flagship slab reached 33.6 degrees centigrade (92.5 Fahrenheit), compared to 28.3 centigrade (82.9 Fahrenheit) with the iPad 2. That’s certainly not enough heat to cause a tablet to spontaneously combust, but if you happen to be one of those new iPad owners that noticed a difference, you can now rest assured that your internal thermometer hasn’t missed a beat.

Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor

March 20th, 2012 No comments

We wouldn’t exactly be going out on a limb by suggesting that the new iPad is Apple’s hottest tablet to date — even before Tim Cook confirmed as much earlier today. But while Apple has plenty of reason to brag about the device’s sales figures, it’s slightly less motivated to be forthcoming about its tendencies to create more heat. 10 degrees more, in fact, according to infrared camera confirmation obtained by Tweakers.net. After five minutes of running GLBenchmark, the site used its infrared cam to confirm what many of you have already suggested: the new iPad runs a little hot. According to the site’s measurements, Cupertino’s flagship slab reached 33.6 degrees centigrade (92.5 Fahrenheit), compared to 28.3 centigrade (82.9 Fahrenheit) with the iPad 2. That’s certainly not enough heat to cause a tablet to spontaneously combust, but if you happen to be one of those new iPad owners that noticed a difference, you can now rest assured that your internal thermometer hasn’t missed a beat.

Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android study finds privacy and security risks related to in-app advertising

March 19th, 2012 No comments
Android has certainly taken heat for malware-related bits in the past. Now, a recent study by computer scientists at North Carolina State University reveals that over half of the 100,000 apps from the Android Market Google Play include so-called ad libraries, which are essentially handed out by Google or third-party devs to retrieve ads from servers and launch them on your phone. Of these, 297 were classified as “aggressive,” as they’re allowed to run code from a remote server. Furthermore, Dr. Jian along with his squad of researchers found that more than 48,000 of the apps put to the test could track location via GPS, while other accessed info could range from call logs, contact numbers, to the apps list on your device. It’s unclear if this also applies to Android slates, though this particular study conducted only included handsets.

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Android study finds privacy and security risks related to in-app advertising originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more

March 19th, 2012 No comments

The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google’s little side project. While that is particularly interesting to developers looking to boot Android or run apps on the stock Linux kernel (FYI: optimized power management and other infrastructure that didn’t make it this time will arrive in the next release, 3.4) and represents a resolution to the issues that kept the two apart for so long it’s not the only new feature included. There are improvements to file systems like Btrfs, memory management, networking, security and much, much more. Hit the source link below for the full changelog or grab the code and from the usual locations and get your compile on directly.

Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How would you change the Nook Tablet?

March 19th, 2012 No comments
It’s hard not to make a series of reductive comparisons between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. After all, it’s the conflict between Barnes & Noble and Amazon that frames these two 7-inch tablet / e-reader hybrids. This one is $50 more expensive, but is technically more impressive: you get more expandability, it’s faster and the screen is better for images and video. Statistically, at least three out of every ten e-book readers purchased were Nooks, so plenty of you out there use ‘em. What we want to know, is what are they like to use on a daily basis? What little gripes did we not pick up during our week-long review and, if William Lynch was reading what you had to say, what would you change?

How would you change the Nook Tablet? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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