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Oh Apple. Is it that you can’t see the things you’re doing, or that you simply don’t care how they look? If you’ll recall, few months ago Jobs and co. kicked up quite a dust storm over a seemingly innocuous application called Podcaster, which allowed you to receive over-the-air updates of new podcasts [...]

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In the not-so-distant future, developers at Carnegie Mellon University hope to send their customizable Modular Snake Robots on search-and-rescue missions into caves, mines, collapsed buildings and maybe even to Mars.

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In the not-so-distant future, developers at Carnegie Mellon University hope to send their customizable Modular Snake Robots on search-and-rescue missions into caves, mines, collapsed buildings and maybe even to Mars.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics Magazine …

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Google’s Android mobile platform will become commercially available before year end, just as the company promised. But with one caveat: It will lack some of the features Google (GOOG) first intended. Seems that in order to get Android out the door in time for the holiday shopping season, the company has been forced to defeature [...]

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Developers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research have conceived a system called Photo Tourism that will allow the viewing of large photo collections in 3D. For example, if you have 20 photographs of the Eiffel Tower taken from various angles, the algorithms will map them …
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When you think that way, VCs, entrepreneurs, developers, everyone –> You’ll start making really great products that mean something to real people. Until then, everyone will just be trying to be heard over the din of everyone else yelling how great they are. Update: Here’s a podcast that explains why, if I were David [...]

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One reason startups and developers are so excited about the iPhone is because they can create richer mobile applications for it and it promises to become a more open platform than the carrier-controlled home decks on most other cell phones. But don’t be so sure that they are not trading one walled garden for another. [...]

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Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook f8 Conference, July 23, 2008 – Facebook today introduced the latest advancements to Facebook Platform during its annual f8 developer conference, calling on its more than 400,000 developers [...]

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Developer kannuu has released an early version of a new SDK, intended for iPhone developers. Rather than assisting in general programming, the SDK aids in implementing kannuu’s indexing and search technology. Also available for inserting is kannuu’s user interface, which centers around an on-screen, four-way direction pad, pointing to the most li…
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