Introducing Engadget’s next giveaway: Five iPhone 5s in five days!
By Brad Molen posted Oct 27th 2012 11:21AM A lot of you out there have been anxiously awaiting the holidays, and — more importantly — an excuse to get your hands on the latest iPhone. In fact, the demand is so high that Apple is still experiencing inventory shortages. We don’t want that little niggle getting in your way, of course, so we’ve teamed up with five different companies to get you set up with an...
For a beginner-friendly distro, try Linux Lite 1.0.0
For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, and the other leading Linux distributions, casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as well, each with a particular purpose and target audience in mind. New ones pop up regularly, too, offering yet another fresh twist on the desktop Linux theme. Case in point: On the same day Microsoft’s...
Apple Introduces iPad mini
Everything you love about iPad — the beautiful screen, fast and fluid performance, FaceTime and iSight cameras, thousands of amazing apps, 10-hour battery life* — is everything you’ll love about iPad mini, too. And you can hold it in one hand. Learn more Read the original post: Apple Introduces iPad minidetailsa
Butlers, lunar rovers, snakes and airboats: the best of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute
By Brian Heater posted Oct 27th 2012 12:45PM How was your week? We got to spend a couple of days trekking around the Carnegie Mellon campus in Pittsburgh, PA to check out some of the latest projects from the school’s world renowned Robotics Institute — a trip that culminated with the bi-annual induction ceremony from the CMU-sponsored Robot Hall of Fame. Given all the craziness of the past seven days, you might have missed...
Google postpones October 29th event over Hurricane Sandy worries
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 27th 2012 1:56PM We hope you weren’t basing your calendar around Google’s big Android event on October 29th. The company has confirmed to us that it’s postponing the event to an as yet undetermined point in the future due to Hurricane Sandy, whose East coast arrival will follow so closely before the New York City gaterhing that Google isn’t willing to take the chance on its big day. If...
