Controlling Your Home with the Touch of an iPad
When you step off the elevator into the 8,000-square foot Savant Experience Center, it feels less like a showroom and more like a swanky Manhattan abode. “We wanted to develop a space where technology blended in with the environment,” says Robert Madonna, chief executive of Savant Systems, a Hyannis, Mass.-based home automation company. ”We built a high-end New York City ‘apartment’ and…everything is automated.” The Savant Experience...
Nexus 7 with North American 3G passes through the FCC, might spoil the surprise
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 25th 2012 12:53PM At this rate, there might not be much new to show in Google’s playground. ASUS has passed a ME370TG tablet through the FCC’s approval process — which sounds ordinary, until you remember that the current Nexus 7 is the ME370T. The G, from all appearances, refers to 3G: there’s an Intel XMM 6260 chipset inside supplying HSPA that would work for all North American GSM...
Apple Unveils New iTunes
Apple today announced the new iTunes for Mac and PC, featuring a redesigned player, seamless integration with iCloud, and a new look for the world’s most popular online music, apps, TV, and movie stores. The new iTunes features a simpler, cleaner interface that keeps your favorite iTunes content at the forefront. With iCloud integration, music, movie, and TV purchases made on any of your iOS devices or computers is displayed in your...
University researchers claim DNS boosting tool can speed Web performance by 40%
Offerings such as Google Public DNS, OpenDNS and other public domain name system services promise increased security and privacy but can fall short on Web performance, according to a Northwestern University research team that has developed a tool it says can address that shortcoming. Read the original post: University researchers claim DNS boosting tool can speed Web performance by 40%cheapest car insurance in florida
Visualized: Nikon’s Small World microscope photography contest winners
By Donald Melanson posted Oct 25th 2012 1:18PM 3D render? The latest submission to deviantART? No, that’s a microscopic photo of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo taken by Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael Taylor at 20X magnification, and it’s the latest winner of Nikon’s annual Small World Photomicrography Competition. Not surprisingly, the runners-up in the contest (drawn from some 2,000...
