You want Pearl Harbour with that?
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When Alison Rowe went for her first job on civvy street after leaving the Navy, she was asked whether – as a woman – she’d be able to handle driving a government car. Her polite, but firm response, was that she’d parked a warship in Pearl Harbour and felt she could manage a car.
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Tranquil PC Skinny Ripper is a slim music-archiving server
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If you’ve been avoiding ditching your CDs because ripping them all to an easily digestible and streamable format has proven too much of a hassle, then Tranquil PC might have the answer for you. The Skinny Ripper is a slim, fanless server with an optical drive that automatically rips any disk you insert and saves the contents to the internal 1TB drive. The embedded version of Fedora also has Subsonic music streaming...
Renesas MP5232 SoC promises dual-core processing and LTE connectivity for less cash
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There’s a trend underfoot to bring high-end smartphone capabilities down to a price that even Joe Sixpack is willing to swill. We saw evidence of this from MediaTek earlier in the week, and now the crew at Renesas is looking to join the race with its MP5232 system on a chip (SoC). This entrant touts a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, along with HSPA+ and LTE radios on the same chip — much like offerings from competitors...
Kraftwerk performing 3D-enhanced retrospective concerts over 8 nights at MoMA
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New York City isn’t Europe and eight straight nights isn’t exactly endless (though, it’s plenty long if you’re talking about lamp oil), but this humble metropolis is good enough for electronic and Krautrock pioneers Kraftwerk . The robo-rockers are heading to MoMa on April 10th and will be playing eight albums in chronological order, starting with Autobahn , over eight nights.
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Doodle Defense game uses Kinect to turn white boards into displays, dry-erase markers into weapons
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Tower defense games have been done in damn near every way possible: on consoles, mobile apps, and online flash-based games. However, there’s a new Kickstarter project, called Doodle Defense, that’s putting a new spin on that simple gaming idea using some open source algorithms, a whiteboard, computer, Kinect and a projector.
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Backlash Against FLA Head’s Early Praise for Foxconn, Apple
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Fair Labor Association president Auret van Heerden’s comments about working conditions at iPhone factories are criticized by labor groups and even his own second-in-command.
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Apple loses China smartphone market share in Q4
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HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s share of China’s smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011 amid competition from Chinese vendors and as some consumers delayed purchases to wait for the iPhone 4S launch.
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