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Intel's new "Beacon Mountain" ADE supports Intel Atom- and ARM-based devices running Android 4.2 and up.

What a week! Google I/O 2013 kept us busy and then last night it was Yahoo and Tumblr trying to get it on. I am just surprised I even had time to breathe, forget reading. But somehow I managed and here are seven gems I can recommend for your reading pleasure. If he ran your hometown basketball team, you loved him. If your team was on the other side, then you had no time for Phil Jackson. And even though he has bowed out of the game, basketball won’t leave him alone. The New York Times Magazine tries to answer why. The legend of Malacrianza, Costa Rica’s Killer Bull. What a great read by Ashley Harrell and Lindsay Fendt. Depositor’s haircut: James Meek goes to Cyprus and finds out what went wrong. Probably the best thing I read this week. Inside Indian generic drugmaker, Ranbaxy: Fortune investigates and finds some nasty stuff. And much of it not legal. BitCoin’s winner’s curse and the auction theory about bubbles, Vitaly Gordon, a data scientist with LinkedIn writes. Jockeying for position: How boxers and briefs got into men’s pants. Please don’t tell me you don’t want to read this piece. Will you pay higher price for ethical clothing? I know I will, and I will actually buy less if I have to in order to do the right thing.

Debating the merits of Nokia's decision to go Windows Phone-exclusive is liable to spark an outbreak of vicious bickering in these parts.But you can't deny that Nokia's Lumia handsets are slowly getting better and better. Whether or not you like the brightly coloured designs, Windows Phone 8 has become a fantastic OS and so we were happy this week to have our first taste of the new flagship Nokia Lumia 925.That wasn't all either – we've played with some fun toys in the last seven days so have a browse and make sure you haven't missed anything exciting…Hands on: Nokia Lumia 925 reviewThe Nokia Lumia 925 is a tricky beast to rate. Nokia tells us that this is a phone designed for the more technologically minded, the person that wants the latest and greatest handset from the brand. However it seems that person would be disappointed by the Lumia 925, with its average specs and minimal upgrade from the 920 - at least when it comes to the internals. But there's no doubting that it's going to be a market-leading cameraphone, and with things like the dedicated camera button (sounds obvious, but makes a huge difference) the 925 is definitely going to be a front runner for anyone that wants one of the most powerful portable cameras around.Samsung PS64F8500 reviewFirst impressions of the Samsung PS64F8500 in action are little short of dazzling. Literally. The huge screen defies not only every plasma TV we've seen before but even our expectations of what plasma is capable of by serving up extreme levels of brightness that actually manage to rival those that have proved so useful in making LCD the most popular TV option. Even more amazingly, these unprecedented plasma brightness levels remain seemingly completely intact if you turn all the lights in your room up to max, because Samsung's new on-screen filter design stops plasma cells being 'infiltrated' by ambient light.Hands on: BlackBerry Q5 reviewThe BlackBerry Q5 is one for the aficionados who can't afford, or refuse to splash cash on the highly priced Q10, with the solid BlackBerry typing experience at the heart of everything it does. Without knowing the price it's difficult to say how it will stand up against other handsets, but anyone who isn't a BlackBerry fan and is in the market for a reasonably priced smartphone probably won't be taken with the Q5. That said if BlackBerry manage to price the Q5 low enough it would make it a seriously attractive proposition with its decent power under the hood, HD display and rapid internet browser. We're just going to have to wait and see.And this week's other reviews...Cameras and camcordersNikon Coolpix S5200 reviewNikon Coolpix S9500 reviewPanasonic HX-WA3 reviewAVSamsung BD-F6500GamingHands on: Nvidia Shield reviewMonitorsViewsonic VX2770Smh-LED reviewPhilips Brilliance 928X4QJAB reviewPhilips Brilliance 278G4DHSD reviewNEC EA244WMi review

New submitter TheJish writes "The RPiCluster is a 33-node Beowulf cluster built using Raspberry Pis (RPis). The RPiCluster is a little side project I worked on over the last couple months as part of my dissertation work at Boise State University. I had need of a cluster to run a distributed simulator I've been developing. The RPiCluster is the result. I've written an informal document on why I built the RPiCluster, how it was built, and how it performs as compared to other platforms. I also put together a YouTube video of it running an MPI parallel program I created to demo the RGB LEDs installed on each node as part of the build. While there have certainly been larger RPi clusters put together recently, I figured the Slashdot community might be interested in this build as I believe it is a novel approach to the rack mounting and power management of RPis." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

KeywordPhrase: TSSDR Affiliate Tech Reviews for May 18, 2013HIGHLIGHT REVIEW  Kingston MobileLite Wireless Portable Card Reader @ TechnologyX As technology advances faster and faster, data keeps getting bigger and bigger. Even mobile devices such as smartphones and cameras have large storage requirements. High-definition video and pictures are taking more and more space, and carrying around bulky external drives and notebooks to off-load media [...]This content was created by The SSD Review - The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource |

EVGA has teased its dual-fan "Active Cooling Xtreme" (ACX) graphics card cooler.

Praise be! Dust: An Elysian Tail's XBLA exclusivity window has come to an end and will be coming to PC, via Steam, on May 24. Yes, that's just one week away! One of the most brilliant 2D side-scrolling action games in years is finally spreading its wings on another platform. Oh, to finally experience Dust's hand-painted art in glorious resolutions only capable on a computer monitor. For those who missed it the first time Dust: An Elysian Tail is the story of ... err, Dust, a mysterious figure and his powerful sword the Blade of Ahrah. The Blade empowers Dust with insane strength and so we get the intense "easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master" combat system therein. Basically, things start with genocide and every goes to hell from there. Dust: An Elysian Tail will surprise you, I promise. Check out Dust: An Elysian Tail on PC, via Steam, starting May 24 for $14.99. Expect a small discount during launch week, however. It'd normally be a preorder bonus, but it doesn't appear that Dust will be taking preorders. That mean's you'll have to flag your calendar yourself! Don't let this one pass you by. Oh, here's a quick reminder, Dust: An Elysian Tail was made by one dude -- just one -- over the span of almost four years. Mind boggling. Comment on this article (0)

Can I loan Glass to someone else? A: Yes. The philosophy of the Explorer Edition is "one device for one person," but we understand that there are situations where you might want to loan the device to a family member, friend, or colleague. Please don't sell, rent, or otherwise make a profit off the device. That's not allowed, nor is it in the Explorer spirit. - Andrew Grush, Mobile Magazine

[PJ: Since Newegg is singing the praises of both sides' attorneys' performance at oral argument in Alcatel v. Newegg, I thought you'd enjoy to hear the oral argument before the Federal Circuit. The panel of judges was made up of Judge Linn, Prost, and Dyk. And Newegg prevailed.] - Federal Circuit Oral Argument

Newegg Inc., the leading electronics-focused e-retailer in the United States, today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Newegg's 2011 victory against Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. in a patent infringement lawsuit. On May 15, 2013, the Federal Circuit upheld the original decision, only days after listening to the parties' arguments in Washington, D.C. on Friday, May 10, 2013. In October 2011, only Newegg and one co-defendant, Overstock.com, took the case to trial. Other companies that had also been sued or threatened by suit by Alcatel-Lucent paid tens of millions of dollars to Alcatel-Lucent to avoid trial. Newegg and Overstock's refusal to pay Alcatel-Lucent for patents they did not believe they infringed paid off not only for them, but also for other similarly situated companies. Alcatel-Lucent had asserted that the online retailers infringed three patents covering basic e-commerce functionalities used by virtually every e-commerce site. A jury in the Eastern District of Texas found unanimously in favor of Newegg and Overstock and invalidated a critical patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent. Newegg's Chief Legal Officer, Lee Cheng, issued the following statement: "Newegg is thrilled about the Federal Circuit's decision. We believe this decision is an indication of the strength of the merits of our case. "To date, we have invalidated four e-commerce patents that have been used to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in protection money. We believe that fighting patent trolls is the right thing to do. Our customers, at least, don't have to subsidize costs to trolls." - Newegg press release