When Apple killed Atom processor abutment in the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update, it was one of the aboriginal times they'd actively approved to stop hobbyist hackintoshing. It was aswell array of a dick move! Luckily, it's not traveling to stick.

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The (main) man abaft the NetbookInstaller software, which takes affliction of abundant of the under-the-hood tweaks to accomplish netbook hackintoshing approachable, heard the beefing cries of his flock, and handed down a decree from on high:

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The atom will be fixed. It'll just yield a few weeks.

This certainty, accumulated with the flip-flopping Atom affinity in beforehand 10.6.2 builds, credibility to the accident as an advised choice, not just some accidental bug. Update: Actually, there's an absorbing case to be fabricated the 10.6.2 dead Atom in all builds of the update. Interesting. —Thanks, Eduardo!

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Even better, for anyone who affable beeline into the 10.6.2 amend alone to acquisition themselves actual al of a sudden without a alive netbook, there's a quick fix: Downgrade your kernel! Application the aforementioned apprenticeship set you can do a fractional (excluding the kernel) advancement to 10.6.2, but you're apparently just best off cat-and-mouse until aggregate is patched up appropriate and proper. [Meklort, MyDellMini]

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So a Nexus 5 allegedly got larboard at a bar. It happens! And if it happens, pictures get taken and we advantageous association get to see what one of the a lot of advancing phones of the year looks like up close. It matches up absolutely accurately with the leaked buzz in the Android 4.4 Kit Kata promo video—horizontal Nexus branding, ample camera lens—and absolutely seems to be the aforementioned LG buzz canoeing through the FCC appropriate now.

Really, there's no abruptness with the Nexus 5 anymore. If leaks alpha analogous added leaks that bout that aforementioned aperture that shows the aforementioned thing, you're appealing abundant searching at the absolute deal. This is the next Nexus phone. And now that the Nexus 4 is off the agenda shelves, this is apparently the Nexus 5.

The phone—which acutely reads NOT FOR SALE on the aback and is fabricated by LG—has the beautifully apple-pie button-less foreground face we've developed acclimated to in the Nexus band but is beneath angled (a acceptable thing) than antecedent Nexus phones. It looks like what all phones attending like these days, which is mostly a acceptable thing. We'll see if that's accurate in absolute activity anon enough.

[9to5Google via GSM Arena, Thanks Richard!]

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You ability anamnesis a brace of weeks ago, a dude got hassled by airport aegis because they couldn't accomplish faculty of his MacBook Air. Turns out, it in fact does attending "very different" than 99 percent of the notebooks they're acclimated to seeing beneath the scanner, in a way that would "pique some interest" of aegis personnel, according to the TSA's Blogger Bob.

The culprit? Its solid accompaniment drive. Which agency any anthology with a SSD could've gotten your ass bankrupt by the Feds. Helpfully, they've back broadcast photos of what SSD notebooks attending like to aegis personnel, abbreviation your affairs of a affable atrium search. [TSA Blog via TUAW]

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To use Photoshop like a pro, you charge to apperceive your keyboard shortcuts—but with so abounding to remember, you can calmly feel added amateur than ever. This alternate app should advice you out, by cogent you in a breath which keys will advice you get to work.

Application Shortcut Mapper was created by Waldo Bronchart, and it's an alternate web app advised to be "a beheld shortcuts charlatan for accepted applications." So far, it caters for Photoshop, Lightroom and Blender. The keyboard blueprint is apparent as it would be if you accessible the program, cogent you what keys will advice you out. But it gets better: columnist addition key, like Shift or Space, and the affectation changes to acquaint you what anniversary key will now do. It's all color-coded, too, so you apperceive which key brings about what change if you've chased down a accurate keyboard aerial hole.

Of course, you could use a keyboard bury but (i) they amount and (ii) they don't change with keyboard presses either. In comparison, this is way better. It currently supports Windows, OS X and Linux and just the three above software packages—but it's accessible antecedent and on GitHub, so you can apprehend the account to abound with time. Go analysis it out. [Application Shortcut Mapper via Reddit via Peta Pixel]

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The little iPad Mini just got some big changes as appear in today's Apple accident — aboriginal and foremost getting a 7.9 inch Retina display. It's aswell got faster audacity after growing out of its angular little body. How's it run? Hands-on impressions say it's a accustomed iPad with a awning that'll draft your hair back.

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The Verge

[O]ur aboriginal consequence is that it's an accepted change from endure year — but sometimes that's all it takes to accomplish a abundant product. The aforementioned 7.9-inch affectation now appearance four times the pixels, a abounding 2048 x 1536 resolution, which makes argument aciculate and readable. Just as importantly, it makes iOS 7 attending abundant bigger than it does on the aboriginal iPad mini, which generally feels a little out of abode on lower resolutions. iOS 7 aswell allowances from the iPad mini's new 64-bit A7 processor, authoritative scrolling and aggregate abroad conspicuously faster and smoother. As with the iPhone 5S, though, some of that acceleration feels throttled by Apple's accommodation to accomplish you delay for overly-long alteration animations if affective amid folders and apps.

Cnet

The new book feels absolutely like the aboriginal bearing iPad Mini. This is a acceptable affair back the aboriginal Mini has a abreast absolute feel. However, while it feels great, it's all about that screen. And accustomed the Mini's abate 7.9-inch size, looks even bluff than the full-size iPad Air. However, to yield advantage of the new pixel-dense screen, you will be paying up over endure year's Mini. It's attractive however, so I'd brainstorm the new exceptional will absolutely be account it to some. Apple says the new iPad Mini is four times faster than endure year's archetypal and has eight times the cartoon performance, while still provided a declared 10 hours of array life. While that's acceptable and all, the aboriginal bearing iPad Mini isn't absolutely a achievement monster, abnormally in the gaming department.

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TechCrunch

The eye-boggling 2048 x 1536 awning looks accomplished in person, and for anyone advancing from a bearing one accessory it’s traveling to be a affecting change. The iPad mini itself is absolute hardly thicker and added than its antecedent to board the Retina Affectation with the aforementioned array life, abacus 0.01 inches and 0.05 pounds to the specs of the original, but that makes basal aberration to the absolute feel of the artefact in the hand.

AnandTech

Ars Technica

[N]on-Retina displays are assuming their age these days. The Retina mini fixes this absolutely with its 2048×1536 7.9-inch display. Putting the aforementioned resolution in a abate awning makes for an even bluff affectation than the iPad Air, and iOS 7's attenuate fonts attending accomplished on the new screen. It looks and feels like the aforementioned book as endure year, admitting it is absolute hardly thicker and added than it was endure year: it weighs 0.73 pounds instead of 0.68 and is 0.29 inches blubbery instead of 0.28. The aberration isn't abundant to accomplish the new mini adverse with accessories for the old one, nor is it simple to acquaint the aberration if you're in fact captivation the book in your hands, but it is there.

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It's no abstruse that we're appealing abuse aflame about the new Muppets cine advancing out this Thanksgiving. I mean, it's the Muppets. And the latest bivouac is aces.

The abiding drumbeat of trailers abusive aggregate from Green Lantern (possibly bigger than the cine itself), to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to cheesy adventurous comedies accept been hilarious. The new one gets into the branch of cocky parody, packs in assorted parodies of added movies, and again promises to be the actual endure apology trailer. Huh? Yeah. You've got to see it.

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And please, Muppets, accomplish added parodies. [YouTube]

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It looks like the canicule of absterge bottles arresting abhorrence into the hearts of airport aegis everywhere ability be numbered. Thanks to Los Alamos scientists, a new blazon of apprehension technology could accord airports the accoutrement they charge to assuredly acquaint if a aqueous is a abeyant threat—all with one simple scan.

Today, a ample allocation of the acumen we accept such a bound on-board aqueous allocation is that it's about absurd for airport aegis to acquaint the aberration amid liquids in-bottle. Michelle Espy, a Los Alamos Natinoal Laboratory physicist and MagRay activity baton explains:

One of the challenges for the screening of liquids in an airport is that, while acceptable X-ray based accoutrements scanners accommodate top throughput with acceptable resolution of some threats, there is bound acuteness and selectivity for aqueous discrimination. While MRI can differentiate liquids, there are a assertive chic of explosives, those that are complex, homemade, or may accept mixes of all kinds of being that are added challenging.

While neither X-ray or MRI techniques can confidently analyze a liquid's abeyant blackmail alone, together, they become far greater the sum of their parts. With allotment from the Department of Homeland Security, the aggregation accumulated the two to astounding results. When a aqueous alembic is scanned, a 3D amplitude agnate to the one beneath shows aegis admiral area this aqueous avalanche in agreement of proton agreeable and density, which again tells the scanner whether or not that accurate aqueous is safe to pass.

So far, the scientists has been able to attending at a advanced array of explosives in a abounding altered types of packaging with absolute success. In the video, the aggregation associates themselves even assume aporetic at how able-bodied the new scanning technology has been working. With such arch results, hopefully it shouldn't be too continued afore we're lounging by our gates with all the abounding admeasurement toiletries and beverages we can carry, active like kings. [Los Alamos National Laboratory]

It's one of the busiest biking weeks of the year, so what bigger time to yield a afterpiece attending how we get area we're going—and how we could be accomplishing it better. Check out added of Gizmodo's Air Biking Week posts here.

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If you are accoutrement for all things 8-bit and all things NES-like I am-you will adulation these three-dimensional renderings of archetypal Nintendo Entertainment System amateur by Justin Buonvino. So abundant that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago.

Without a doubt, my favorites are the attempt from aloft of Mario World 1 and the real-3D-made-to-look-fake-3D Zeldas, but the Excitebike has an appropriate agreeableness too. Thankfully, that's why desktop accomplishments cycling is there for. [Justin at Deviant Art via Geekologie]

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We've got leaked official top resolution shots, prices and descriptions of the new LEGO diorama sets for Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. They may not be the best LEGO sets in history or cover Indy in a thong (thank blast for that) but they action an absolute attending into the most-awaited cine of all time (at atomic for me). WARNING: new Indy IV cine spoilers ahead.

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7624 Boscage Duel
While Indy struggles to accumulate behemothic all-overs at bay (what? behemothic ants? For shame!), Irina Spalko (also accepted as Goddess Cate Blanchett) and Mutt (Indy's son) action anniversary added in an acute brand fight. Mutt almost avoids Irina's brand as she slices appropriate through the table. Set includes Mutt and Irina minifigures with swords, two athirst ants, and absolutely able Indiana Jones with whip, hat and accept bag. 90 pieces for $9.99.

7625 River Chase
In a adventuresome escape from the Soviets (not as bad as the Nazis, but we still abhorrence them), Indy and Marion chase off in an amphibian vehicle. But the Soviets are abutting abaft in a baiter of their own and are aggravating to anamnesis the brace with a net trap. Can Indy and Marion abstain them? (Can they? I don't care, as anon as we get Marion in the frame.) Set includes two Soviet soldiers and Marion minifigures and absolutely able Indiana Jones minifigure with whip, hat and accept bag. 234 pieces for $19.99.

7626 Boscage Cutter
Trapped in a makeshift hideout, Indiana Jones and Mutt accept to abstain the Soviet boscage cutter (can't delay for this one) as it slices down aggregate in its path. But armed with a arms (YES!), Indy is accessible to action his way to freedom. Set includes Dovchenko, two Russians, Mutt and absolutely able Indiana Jones with whip, hat and accept bag. 511 pieces for $39.99.

7627 Temple of the Crystal Skull

In the blood-tingling acme of their adventures, Indiana Jones and Mutt accept to ascertain the abstruse of the absent Temple of Akator (sounds like affliction medication) afore it avalanche into the easily of the alarming Irina Spalko (she's Cate Blanchett, who cares? Kill me.) But first, they accept to survive the abounding hidden perils of the age-old temple! 929 pieces for $79.99.

All of the sets will be accessible in May, if the cine debuts in theaters worldwide. [LEGO in Gizmodo]

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It's counter-intuitive, but a new syringe architecture could annihilate the affliction if accepting a attempt by application two abstracted needles that plan in quick succession. A address that could be harder to acquire for those who abhorrence getting pricked.

The aboriginal aggravate is in fact appreciably abate than the second, and delivers a baby bulk of bounded anesthesia that numbs the derma about the access point. Its inventor, Oliver Blackwell, claims the aboriginal bang feels affiliated to a fly landing on the approach of your hand. And by the time the additional beyond aggravate delivers its payload, the accommodating shouldn't feel a thing.

Not alone does the new aggravate architecture cut down on the amount of syringes bare if a accommodating does crave an analgesic afore a shot, but it should aswell accomplish activity for those who acquire to accomplish their own injections—like diabetics—a little beneath agonizing. [Oliver Blackwell Industrial Design via BBC]

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Apple's new iPhone 4S is just endure year's architecture loaded with a new academician and added memory. It will run your apps faster and Apple's new iOS5's Assistant, an bogus intelligence affairs that listens and interprets your orders, and a new camera.

It just looks exactly the same, but there's affluence of changes inside:

Design

It's the aforementioned old architecture as the iPhone 4. Nothing to say here. Aforementioned materials, aforementioned look. Plus: Your accepted case will work.

The guts

• CPU and graphics: The iPhone 4S now has the iPad 2's dual-core A5 CPU. It aswell has dual-core graphics, which will acquiesce for faster and added abundant 3D. Apple claims this accouterments aggregate makes the iPhone 4S seven times as fast as the iPhone 4 on games, and two times as fast on accustomed tasks.

• Internet speed: Like rumored, the new iPhone 4S runs on faster HSPA+ networks. That agency that your blast will download being faster from the Internet. Afore it was up to 7.2 Megabits-per-second downloads. Now they affirmation two times as much: 14.4Mbps. This depends on the carrier, of course. I don't apperceive about you, but on AT&T I never get the best acceleration they claim.

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Apple claims that, in absolute activity situations, they are fast or "faster" as the competition's buzz on faster 4G networks. We will analysis that claim.

Update: AT&T has acicular out that their buzz will be faster than Verizon and Sprint's because their iPhone 4S models will alone run on CDMA. The acceleration accession will alone plan on HSPA+ networks. If you wish that download acceleration increase, it seems that the alone advantage is AT&T. In accession to that, Verizon and Sprint's iPhone 4S would alone do articulation or data. AT&T's iPhone 4S will do both simultaneously.

• New camera: There's a new camera in the iPhone 4S. Its sensor is 8 megapixels, compared to the antecedent 5 megapixels. Much bigger than before. The a lot of absorbing affair is the sensor, however: It's a CMOS behind aflame sensor. Apple says that gets you 73% added ablaze than the iPhone 4 sensor. The closing was already absolutely impressive, so I can't delay to try this one. Apple has aswell adapted the lens system, with 5 lens elements. They say they get now f2.4, which is very good.

The camera arrangement is aswell faster than the antecedent version.

• New HD video: With the new sensor and new lens system, the camera now shots video at 1080p video with real-time angel stabilization and banausic babble reduction.

• Array life: Apple claims the new processor doesn't appulse the activity of the battery. All the contrary. They say it will accord you 8 hours talking array activity with 3G networks. If you set your buzz to 2G, you will get 14 hours of allocution time. 3G web browsing will accord you six hours of array life, while Wi-Fi admission runs up to nine hours.

Video playback sets the array at an absorbing 10 hours maximum, while music goes up to 40 hours. These numbers best the iPhone 4's antecedent abstract array life.

• New antenna design: Apple says that they accept afflicted the antenna system, apparently to break the signal abrasion problem.

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• Storage: The iPhone comes now with 16, 32 and 64GB of storage.

Siri, the acute assistant

Apple is aswell including Siri in the iPhone 4S, which will alone run in this archetypal (and apparently the iPad 2). The acumen is the charge for a faster A5 processor.

It can anxiety people, play music, forward and accept argument letters and emails, account them with a accustomed animal articulation or set up contest and meetings, admonish you of stuff... You can aswell behest in any app.

But the key about Siri, according to Apple, is that it isn't just articulation recognition. It really understands accustomed accent and follows circuitous commands. It's communicative too, so it will acknowledgment aback to you and you can acknowledgment aback to it. Think Enterprise's computer vs the accepted crop of articulation acceptance software.

This affair in fact seems smart, anticipation by the demos. It in fact interprets what you are saying. You don't allocution to it application commands. You just allocution to it like you would allocution to addition person. So instead of allurement "tell me the acclimate today" you can just say "Do I charge a raincoat?" and it will acknowledgment "It abiding does attending like rain today!" Or if you say "Wake me up tomorrow at 6am" it will automatically set up the anxiety for you. Or "hey, admonish me to buy milk later" and it will admonish you to buy milk as you canyon abreast a grocery store—yes, Siri is area aware.

Siri aswell pulls advice from Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha to accord you acute answers to your questions. You can even ask him for definitions, which Siri will apprehend out loud.

Apple has not appear if Siri would be accessible for developers, but I don't see why not. It's alone analytic to apprehend all apps to be chip in the abettor flow, so you can ask Siri to buy you two tickets for Avengers arena about 7 on a Sunday. That's the affectionate of being this affair seems able to do, although we would accept to try it to know.

Siri will alone abutment English, French and German in this release. Apple says that they will accumulate accretion the casework as time goes by.

Price and availability

The iPhone 4S would be accessible in atramentous and white. The 16GB archetypal would be $199, 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399. The iPhone 4 would still be accessible in atramentous for $99. All these prices crave a contract.

You can pre-order the iPhone 4S on October 7. It will be accessible on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint on October 14.

iPhone 4S all-embracing availability : Initially, the iPhone 4S will alone be accessible in the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.

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The State of the Union abode endure night was a snoozer, but we HDTV gearheads had fun jumping amid the networks, blockage out which net was able to bear the best HDTV arresting from lens to screen. This was a notable occasion, because all the networks were application absolutely the aforementioned feed—the aforementioned cameras, aforementioned everything—where the alone aberration was amid the Capitol basin augment and the viewer.

We took an HD ankle at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and HDNet, to see who delivered the crispiest, a lot of bright and a lot of attractive HDTV arresting of all.

For our eyeball test, we looked at a archetypal arrangement of HDTV stations on our Samsung 1080p advertence monitor, delivered via Time Warner Cable in the average bazaar of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sure, some of the differences ability be in the bounded transmitters, but this is a appealing acceptable adumbrative sample of HDTV agreeable supply in the US about aboriginal 2007. We took some pictures, all at the aforementioned F-stop and bang speed, and forth with those are a few amount judgments.

NBC
This account had a bit of a blooming tint—notice W's hair searching a little green. The all-embracing accurateness of the account was just average compared to the others. There were a few added compression artifacts apparent in the affective areas, and the complete was rather tinny, with a little too abundant addition in the midrange for my taste. Grade: B

Fox
This can't be HDTV. In fact, it's not. This is just a widescreen feed, and looked absolutely bleared compared to the others. Nevertheless, the colors looked added saturated than in the added feeds, and the complete was absolutely acceptable as well. Grade: D-

ABC
ABC was benumbed its video levels on the hot side, and its augment appeared to accept added of a blooming casting to the naked eye. It was aswell not absolutely as aciculate as its competitors, and there were apparent bend compression artifacts. Besides that, the compression was about good, and the complete was about according to the others. Grade: B-

HDNet
This was one fine-looking feed, and would accept won this action had there not been some array of awe-inspiring bend accessory axiomatic throughout the broadcast. It appeared that W's angel had been cut out and placed over the background. The complete from HDNet was actual good, though. Grade: B+

CBS
This augment gets the nod for the all-embracing best-looking account we received. There were a few arresting compression artifacts, and the accurateness and adverse were hardly bigger than all the others. Plus, the complete was the a lot of counterbalanced and distortion-free of all the examples. Grade: A- The winner!

Except for that lame-looking augment from the bounded Fox station, all the HDTV pictures during the State of the Union abode endure night were good-to-excellent from our Midwest angle point. If not beheld in accelerated succession, it would accept been acutely difficult to acquaint the aberration amid them.

It was a cogent exercise nonetheless, area I begin myself adulatory for no compression artifacts at all. We can alone achievement for that in the not-too-distant future. – Charlie White

How about you, readers:

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Netflix fabricated history endure night by scoring three Emmys—in the action acceptable the aboriginal aggregation to win awards for online-only shows.

Original Netflix shows were nominated for 14 awards, 9 of which were for House of Cards. In the event, House of Cards in fact won three of them: David Fincher took one home for best administering in a ball series, and the appearance aswell best up awards for outstanding casting and outstanding cinematography.

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The appearance was nominated for some bigger awards—like best drama—but added accustomed arrangement TV shows won out. Still, it's an abundantly absorbing feat, and shows just how actively humans are demography online drama.

With Netflix able at least 5 or added aboriginal shows a year, backed by a account of $300 million, things accept never looked bigger for aboriginal online content. Here's searching advanced to Orange Is The New Black. [Variety]

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This photograph of Fukushima's reactor 4—just appear by the Tokyo Electric Power Company—shows how they are cloudburst baptize central the reactor building.

See that red crane? That holds the corrupt beeline up to the top of the reactor building. Since the alien carapace is about destroyed, it's almost simple to cascade the baptize in. [Tepco]

Read the absolute Japan crisis timeline here, with reside updates.

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Radiohead, never ones to shy abroad from trying new things, has attempt its new video for "House of Cards" after application cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they've acclimated two adorned new technologies alleged Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. To shoot it application lasers and stuff. Let's breach it down here.

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The Geometric Informatics scanning arrangement employs structured ablaze to abduction abundant 3D images at abutting proximity, and was acclimated to cede the performances of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the changeable lead, and several partygoers. The Velodyne Lidar arrangement uses assorted lasers to abduction ample environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers alternating and cutting in a 360 amount ambit 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exoteric scenes and advanced affair shots.

Well, that's appealing neat. As you can see from the screenshots, it's appealing old-school-computers looking. Unfortunately, the video was declared to bead today but was delayed for some reason, so all we accept are the screens. I'll column the video as anon as it comes out. [Pitchfork]

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The rumor about Netflix analysis the scene, prepping a accessible alive cine band-aid to Xbox 360 and PS3 seems to be on the border of advancing true, according to Netflix themselves. They just appear a account that says they've surveyed subscribers to see how absorbed they were in alive movies over Xbox 360 (PS3 was not mentioned), but didn't say whether a affiliation was advancing amid them and Microsoft.

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Releasing a account about a survey? Sounds like someone's aggravating to jockey a bigger negotiating position while talks are still underway. On a agnate note, Netflix's online website seems to accept been down for a lot of of Monday, which makes the case for alive media even stronger. [Reuters - Thanks David!]

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just airtight the arena of the crime: all the pieces of the EDL (Entry Descent Landing) arrangement that formed flawlessly calm to cautiously put Curiosity on the apparent of Mars.

The angel was taken by MRO's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, 24 hours afterwards the landing.

You can see it all: the calefaction shield, the aback shell, the parachute and, finally, the sky crane, which comatose harder afterwards the umbilical cords were cut with guillotines accursed by pyrotechnic devices.

Gizmodo is accoutrement the Mars Curiosity departer reside from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Check all the online writing here.

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In the adventure for the a lot of acutely basal active shoe, things are accepting crazy. New Balance's latest access is an complete agile for aisle running. But does it accept what it takes to be the best?

What Is It?

New Balance's MT00, a rubber, sock-optional barefoot-style active shoe.

Who's it For?

Barefoot aisle runners who wish some aegis for their soles and don't wish the awe-inspiring toe-shoe look.

Design

The high is a beat fabricated of a light, breathable cobweb that's bound abundant to accumulate out sand. The footstep is a aggregate of firm, impact-resistant Vibram elastic and a lighter elastic to authority it together. The shoes dissuade you from heel arresting because they are a aught bead style, which agency the forefoot and the heel are on an even plane.

Using It

The aboriginal affair you'll apprehension is how crazily ablaze and adjustable these are. Then, you'll apprehension how attenuated they are at the toes. During ablaze aisle runs and artery runs on wet concrete, slippage was never an issue, but every now and again a bedrock would be in just the appropriate abode to bore the basal in amid the elastic lugs, and ho man, it absolutely hurts. Some of the little gaps action no protection, and cushioning is all but non-existent.

The Best Part

The lightness. At 4.4 ounces (124 grams), the aberration in weight amid cutting them and a bald basal is hardly noticeable. Incredible!

Tragic Flaw

That attenuated toe box. A key basic to barefoot active is absolution your toes ample out naturally. It gives you a nice solid abject and allows little adjustments to the active surface. This toe box basically defeats the purpose.

This Is Weird...

If you footfall on clammy ground, the baptize instantly seeps through the absorptive basal and soaks your foot. They don't lose grip, but it's uncomfortable, and it's a connected problem. They're for a trail, remember?

Test Notes

The softer elastic is acutely cutting down faster than the harder Vibram rubber. It will not last.

The laces tend to slip. They get bound in one abode and apart in another. Way too abounding re-ties, even if double-knotted.The central of the high is not decidedly smooth. It chafes during sockless running.Cleaning dog bits out of these things is a astounding affliction in the ass. It sticks amid the lugs, and in fact squishes up under them. You appealing abundant charge a hose.A basal abrasion occurred on the final run. It absolutely hurt. Now, it could accept happened with any shoe, but the attenuated toe box and the bound lacing absolutely contributed. Should You Buy It?

Unless you accept acutely attenuated feet, no. If you wish to try barefoot running, absolution your forefoot ample out by itself is a key component, and New Balance adulterated it. Along with the accessible sole and ambiguous materials, it's abundant to be a deal-breaker. This is an avant-garde product, but it still feels like a beta. For now, try the Merrells, and accumulate an eye on what New Balance changes for next year's model.

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New Balance Minimus Aught Aisle Specs

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Weight: 4.4oz
Drop: 0mm
Men's Sizes: 7 - 15
Women's Sizes: 5 - 11
Men's Colors: 7 options
Women's Colors: 7 options
Price: $110 (retail)
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Here's a blink into the not-too-distant future, if you can stop paying the cable companies for both TV and internet: a new router that lets you set up a wireless arrangement that pulls abstracts from a 4G cellular abstracts connection.

Netgear's got two new routers that affix to 3G or 4G: one that aswell has a congenital DSL modem (DGN2200M) that the cellular affiliation will act as a advancement for and one that doesn't (MBRN3000). The above drops in April for $179, while the closing arrives in March for $149. Now all you charge is a 4G wireless annual through a provider that will be able to handle your absolute household's bandwidth. Yeah, not quite, but it's nice to apperceive this is here. At least, in the meantime, there's the adequate-for-some-stuff 3G.

NETGEAR Introduces New Wireless Routers to Affix to High-Speed 3G/4G/WiMAX Cellular Networks, with Unparalleled Appearance and Authentic Common Performance

CES Innovations Award-Winning Router is Aboriginal to Accommodate 802.11n Wireless, ADSL2+ and 3G/4G/WiMAX for Bifold WAN Adequacy with Failover Protection

LAS VEGAS - January 6, 2010 - NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a common provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today appear two full-featured new routers for abutting to 3G/4G/WiMAX cellular networks. The 3G/4G Adaptable Broadband Wireless-N Router (MBRN3000) combines 802.11n wireless with connectivity to a accelerated cellular arrangement via an alien 3G/4G/WiMAX™ modem. The additional router is the Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem - Adaptable Broadband Edition (DGN2200M), which not alone combines 802.11n wireless and abutment for 3G/4G/WiMAX cellular connectivity, but includes a congenital ADSL2+ modem as well, authoritative it the industry's aboriginal Wireless-N router to accredit a DSL affiliation forth with a 3G/4G/WiMAX failover option.

As affirmation of its industry-leading features, the NETGEAR Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem - Adaptable Broadband Edition (DGN2200M) is an honoree in the Home Networking class of the Consumer Electronics Show Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Awards, the industry's accomplished accolade. NETGEAR will acquaint its new articles at two columnist contest today in affiliation with the aperture of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. See today's columnist release, "NETGEAR Introduces New Solutions at Consumer Electronics Show To Accredit Any Media on Any Screen, Anywhere at Anytime" at http://www.netgear.com/About/PressReleases/en-US/2010/20100105a.aspx.

The award-winning Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem - Adaptable Broadband Edition (DGN2200M) is the aboriginal wireless-N router in the retail bazaar to action a bifold Wide Area Arrangement (WAN) advantage for a failover 3G/4G/WiMAX Internet affiliation in case of DSL abeyance - ideal for baby businesses that charge a reliable advancement Internet affiliation with aught downtime. Competing routers do not action failover; are regionally focused with bound adaptable operators; accept beneath wireless range; are bound by how abounding wireless accessories can affix simultaneously; or are after the capabilities of a full-featured router. The Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem – Adaptable Broadband Edition addresses all of these issues, and sets a new bar for appearance and achievement accumulated in a alone router.

Both new NETGEAR adaptable broadband routers can be acclimated as a primary Internet affiliation in situations area no affiliation to a DSL, cable, fiber, or digital arrangement exists. By active an alien 3G/4G/WiMAX modem into the new NETGEAR routers, barter can bound set up a anchored or adaptable Wi-Fi® hotspot around anytime, anywhere, with the adeptness to allotment a alone accelerated cellular cable with assorted Wi-Fi enabled accessories such as a PC, iPhone™, iPod Touch®, PSP®, etc. The routers are ideal for adaptable professionals, emergency acknowledgment teams, architecture crews, digital offices and rural locations - wherever the accumulation needs to bound set up an Internet affiliation with both wireless and cellular connectivity options, and abstain big-ticket admission accuse or analytic for Wi-Fi hotpots.

"At NETGEAR, we accept to our barter to actuate what new appearance and technologies we should accommodate into our articles to abode their alone lifestyles and business needs. And while abutting via DSL, cable, cilia and digital broadband are consistently applicable options, accelerated cellular networks are growing at a astounding rate," said Som Pal Choudhury, NETGEAR's chief artefact band administrator for avant-garde wireless products. "Our new routers action barter the achievement of Wireless-N with the adaptability of admission via DSL or cellular networks, forth with a diffuse set of appearance altered to NETGEAR articles accouterment to the home and baby businesses. At NETGEAR, we strive to action our barter added networking choices, with added differentiated features, to abutment their added affiliated lifestyles and business needs."

Proven Compatibility

Cellular arrangement admission for routers are acceptable accretion accepted in abounding countries as advancement for DSL, as the cellular networks already action speeds abutting to, or even exceeding, active options. Cellular networks aswell action an addition advantage in locations area there are no accelerated active Internet admission available, or digital admission and active options are too expensive.

The new NETGEAR adaptable broadband routers are compatible, scalable and anxiously activated with top cellular carrier networks worldwide. Because adaptable networks are altered to every country, both new NETGEAR routers accept been authentic with over 50 3G/4G/WiMAX USB modems from altered manufacturers, beyond a amount of top bank cellular networks worldwide. This gives adaptability to end barter to about-face from one cellular provider to addition at any time.

A Altered Combination of Features

The new NETGEAR adaptable broadband routers allotment abounding altered appearance not ahead arranged into a alone device, including:

•Auto-detection capabilities for barter to baddest their country and the cellular account provider name for a hassle-free, plug-and-play setup.

•Live Parental Controls and agreeable clarification for homes and baby businesses, to accomplish the arrangement safer, added reliable and productive. Powered by OpenDNS®, this centralized affluent web clarification band-aid protects any accessory on the network, including smartphones, PCs, gaming consoles or any Internet-enabled accessory from a alone web-based interface - and actually chargeless to NETGEAR customers.

•Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), VPN (Virtual Private Network) pass-through and Denial of Account protection.

•Guest networks (multiple SSID) adequacy to accredit barter to set up assorted wireless networks aural a home or baby business. This is abnormally advantageous for ambience up a committed arrangement for guests to accord them admission to the Internet, but not added assets and files on the network.

•Automatic Quality of Account (QoS) for reliable video, articulation and gaming.

•A broadband acceptance beat to ensure authentic altitude of download Internet cartage (via DSL and/or cellular networks) with customized alerts if abutting to the account bandwidth threshold, to advice abstain balance acceptance charges.

•Push ‘N' Affix with industry accepted Wi-Fi Protected Bureaucracy (WPS) for deeply abutting accessories at the blow of a button.

•On/off switches for both ability and Wi-Fi to advice barter conserve energy.

•A bunched glassy case with LED indicators that can be beheld at any 180-degree angle, which can be positioned horizontally, angular or even wall-mounted.

•Optional car ability charger and a array backpack for complete adaptable usage.

Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem - Adaptable Broadband Edition (DGN2200M)

The CES Innovations Award-winning Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem (DGN2200M) is an 802.11n wireless router with bifold Internet admission options: to a DSL arrangement via a congenital ADSL2+ modem and to a accelerated cellular arrangement via an alien 3G/4G/WiMAX USB modem. It is the aboriginal wireless-N router in the retail bazaar to action barter an automated DSL-to-3G/4G/WiMAX cellular failover affection in case of a DSL outage, analytical for businesses. During an outage, its chip DSL modem briefly routes Internet cartage to the accessory cellular broadband arrangement via the alien 3G/4G/WiMAX modem. If the advancement cellular advantage is not in use, the router can be acclimated to allotment a USB accumulator accessory acknowledgment to the affiliation of NETGEAR ReadyShare®, which provides fast and simple admission for any computer in the arrangement to admission a alone alien USB accumulator device. The Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem – Adaptable Broadband Edition has been anxiously activated and authentic for affinity with top DSL and cellular carrier networks worldwide.

The Wireless-N 300 Router with DSL Modem – Adaptable Broadband Edition (DGN2200M) will be accessible common in April 2010 at an MSRP in the U.S. of $179. Photos and added advice are at http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/DGN2200M.asp

3G/4G Adaptable Broadband Wireless-N Router (MBRN3000)

The 3G/4G Adaptable Broadband Wireless-N Router (MBRN3000) for consumers and baby businesses unites 802.11n wireless and admission to cellular networks via an alien 3G/4G/WiMAX USB modem. It offers appearance that are about identical to those of the award-winning Wireless-N Router with DSL Modem (DGN2200M), but does not accept an chip DSL modem. It is advised for those barter who charge alone a WAN affiliation to a accelerated cellular network. It has been authentic for affinity with a ample ambit of cellular carrier networks worldwide. The 3G/4G Adaptable Broadband Wireless-N Router (MBRN3000) will be accessible common in March 2010 at an MSRP in the U.S. of $149. Photos and added advice are at http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/3GMobileBroadband/MBRN3000.aspx

Backed by a one-year assurance and 24/7 abstruse support, the new NETGEAR routers will be accessible common via arch retailers, absolute marketers, e-commerce sites, and value-added resellers. A accepted car ability adapter is accessible separately. A account of accordant 3G/4G/WiMAX USB modems and adaptable account providers is begin at http://www.NETGEAR.com/3G.

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