Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, said Neil Hand, vice president at Dell. The upcoming tablets will be lighter and faster, though Hand did not provide any further details on release dates or specifications of the XPS 10 successor. Microsoft shipped Windows RT for ARM-based devices and Windows 8 for Intel-based devices in October last year. The XPS 10 was released shortly after, with prices starting at US$499. The tablet now starts at $449, and Windows RT tablets are offered by Samsung, Asus and Microsoft, whose Surface RT starts at $499.
One of the most popular file formats for movie files is AVI. Although it is gradually being eclipsed by its newer (and iOS friendly) brethren format MP4, AVI still remains one of the favorite file formats for storing video files downloaded from the net. But there may be certain parts of the file you want rid of, or parts you want to keep as a separate file. In that case, BRIZ Software's AVI Splitter ($20, 30-day free trial) is a good pick for point-and-click cutting and splicing of video files.
If Microsoft ever releases the smartwatch that the . Yet hardware is a critical component of Microsoft’s mobile-focused reinvention, and the company can’t let crappy tablet sales dim its ambition. The Surface family must grow larger if Microsoft is to realize its , and if you really begin to think about what a Surface Watch might offer, the concept suddenly segues from misguided and far-fetched to “Hmmm... I might actually buy that thing.” The watch won't look anything like the MSN-connected shown in the image above, but it could go down in flames like the Paparazzi if Microsoft doesn't nail the gadget's design and intent. With that, I describe the Surface Watch that I would want to buy, and wax fantastically on four more Surface brand extensions. If you can’t sell customers a $1,000 Surface tablet, maybe you can sell them a Surface smartwatch that’s priced to move. Let’s say this device is $150 (the same as Pebble’s smartwatch). Let’s say it grabs Microsoft’s modern UI, and tosses a new Live Tile on your screen every 10 seconds. How’s that for a conversation starter? With its always-on connection, the Surface Watch throws tweets, news headlines, and other streaming bits and bobs directly onto its touchscreen face.
project on Monday announced that it's closing its doors for good. on Monday morning. “The only exception are those features which are already being worked on. We will continue to provide bug and security fixes until the last day of support, however.” Fuduntu's last release will be version 2013.3, he added. September 30 will be the last official day of Fuduntu Linux.
The Internet? Kind of a cesspool. And as the parent of kids who are now old enough to operate a Web browser, you can bet I'm keen on checking their activities and filtering out the inappropriate content. Thankfully, Windows 8 offers some solid tools for doing just that. (Windows 7 does, too, but Microsoft made them easier and more robust in the new version of the OS.) For example, you can limit your child's Web browsing to age-appropriate sites and block or allow specific sites as needed. You can impose time limits, perhaps locking out the PC during hours when you're at work and not able to supervise. And you can control what games and apps can be played and purchased. To get started, you'll need to set up an account for your child. Here's how to do that in Windows 8:
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday appealed a judge's ruling allowing the President Barack Obama administration to keep mum on its legal basis for its drone targeted killing program of Americans.
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Disasters often strike without warning¿and if you have family or friends who are in or near harm¿s way, you¿re going to want to get in touch. Unfortunately, that isn¿t always so easy: Cell signals and land lines can be jammed with the massive amount of calls flowing in and out of an area. Here are some of the best tips we know for getting in touch, but this is by no means a complete list. If you have tips, please share them with us in the comments.
Word of explosions in Boston -- along with pictures, and even warnings against speculation about them -- are rocketing across social media.
Feeding tubes, Scotch tape and water bottles have all become improvised weapons in an ongoing clash at Guantanamo Bay between guards and hunger-striking detainees.
High-def finally has come to e-readers.
The same technology used for airport body-scanning and kitchen ovens has been adapted to reveal the secrets of artworks.
A new cable car in Austria ascends nearly 2,000 feet up the side of a glacier in just five minutes, and at the top, there's great skiing ¿ plus a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi.
Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency.
New data collected by mathematicians and oceanographers in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean could dramatically improve climate models.
Twice a year, the Materials Research Society challenges scientists to turn images of their materials into art. Here are the spring 2013 first-place winners, as well as a selection of our other favorites.
So far, North Korea hasn't launched a missile as expected to celebrate its founder's birthday. But that doesn't change the U.S. military's posture on and near the Korean peninsula.
The fields of psychology and cognitive neuroscience have had some rough sledding in recent years. The bumps have come from high-profile fraudsters, concerns about findings that can't be replicated, and criticism from within the scientific ranks about shoddy statistics. A new study adds to these woes, suggesting that a wide range of neuroscience studies lack the statistical power to back up their findings.
Mars Direct, unveiled 23 years ago this month, produced a paradigm shift in NASA Mars planning. Since 1993, all NASA plans for piloted Mars missions have had their roots in the Mars Direct plan.
When I call musician Jonathan Coulton and comic book writer Greg Pak, they¿re sitting together at an undisclosed location somewhere in New York City: ¿our secret Code Monkey dungeon,¿ says Pak. This morning, the duo launched a Kickstarter for Code Monkey Save World, a comic book series that combines the characters and narratives of Coulton¿s songs into a single narrative universe¿or as Coulton prefers to call it, the JoCoverse.
Tucked behind your professional, yet pretty, profile picture, the descriptions of all your past jobs, and that column of "People You May Know" is a section of LinkedIn that most people have never heard of, let alone seen. And yet it's the real reason why you should actually care about sprucing up your LinkedIn profile and network.
The difference between the standard internet access that shapes our imagination and a fiber-to-the-home connection is as great as the difference between no electricity and an electrified life. But I don't want Google serving the whole country, because we still need policies that lower the barriers to entry for competitors. Without competition, the incumbents won¿t invest in offering better service. Yet ¿ there is something very valuable about the news that Google Fiber is coming to Austin. It makes clear that America¿s current backwards status when it comes to high-speed internet access isn't inevitable...
Facebook's mobile phone platform might not just make smartphones easier to use; it could make them cheaper as well, if the social network takes the logical step of subsidizing smartphone and tablet purchases with ad dollars.
The internet makes possible the kind of business that founder and CEO Bayard Winthrop wants his Northern California-based clothing manufacturer American Giant to be. If Winthrop is right, it's also the kind of business that could reboot U.S. manufacturing.
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Most people know about Google's famous multi-colored bikes. They're hard to miss, scattered around the company's Mountain View campus like hundreds of discarded toys. But you may not realize that Apple runs its own bike operation, and it too spans hundreds of bikes. The difference is that Apple squirrels its bikes away in parking garages where employees must badge-in to use them -- so they're much harder to spot. Typical Apple.
E-books are getting the Spotify subscription model.
Hours after Google announced Google Fiber in Austin -- the second city in which Google Fiber will be rolled out -- AT&T pretended it, too, will build a 1-gigabit network there. No one actually believes this is true. What you're seeing is a bit of gamesmanship. But I think AT&T¿s press release reveals much more between the lines: It¿s complaining about the deal terms by which Google got the rights of way in Austin. And, it¿s confirming the very message it¿s been trying to deny for years: that only when there's real competition will AT&T invest in making a better service.
Gadgets cost money. A lot of money. And now that you¿ve paid your taxes, you probably have no money. But that doesn¿t mean denying yourself the joy of a shiny new gizmo to replace the worn-out junk you should have ditched last year. Here is the best gear for broke geeks.
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This image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula was taken with the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Elephant Trunk is a dense, elongated cloud of gas inside a bright cluster of stars known as IC 1396. The trunk conceals many young protostars that are in the process of forming.
The dark features here look like raindrops, but are actually sand dunes. This spot was targeted by CRISM because the dunes are rich in the mineral olivine.Olivine-rich dunes are very rare on Earth, as olivine rapidly weathers to clays in a wet environment. There is also olivine-rich bedrock in the central peaks of Copernicus Crater on the Moon.
When the Daily Dot reported on a dating sim that involved buying your Tyrannosaurus crush a new ukulele, I was all in. After all, how many chances does a girl get to woo an apex predator of the late Cretaceous?
The man arrested today in connection to the shooting of two women at a suburban Virginia mall announced his crime minutes in advance on the 4chan message board.