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This is basically the San Francisco version of Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher's 'Snuff Box' club: (Can I haz invite?)

Caterpillar launches incredibly durable Cat B15 Android phone in North America -

Android Studio, and the new build system, are both previews only (the version number for Studio is 0.1, the build system is at version 0.4). When it gets closer to release, both the documentation, and command line tools, will be brought up to date.

Interactive playgrounds are technology-enhanced installations that aim to provide rich game experiences for children playing in them by combining the benefits of traditional playgrounds with those of digital games. These game experiences could be attained by addressing three design considerations: context-awareness, adaptability and personalization. We propose to use social signal processing (SSP), a field of research that encompasses the automatic analysis of social behavior, to enhance current interactive playgrounds to meet these criteria. This paper surveys SSP techniques and how they can be used to automatically sense and interpret children’s social interactions during play, adapt the playground’s game mechanics to induce targeted social behavior, and learn from the sensed behavior to meet players’ expectations and desires. We discuss the challenges and opportunities faced when introducing SSP into the interactive playground.

Ready for an unconventional upgrade? How about this: You can turn an old, pokey external hard drive into a blazingly fast one with about 10 minutes of your time and $15 of your money.read more

I certainly agree with the concepts in this video IO/session, and appreciate the feature of the new build system However, my question is about : 1) the standard android project tree (and changes or abandonment thereof) , which this presentation does not mention... 2) the project tree incompatibility I found today between the *../sdk/tools/android

Aruba Networks became the latest company to announce Wi-Fi access points that can support over 1Gbps throughput, at the cellular industry's CTIA show in Las Vegas this week.read more

Did you catch the free in-flight WiFi tip from earlier?

Keith and I are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TeleBT, a new Altus Metrum ground station product providing the equivalent of TeleDongle plus Bluetooth. TeleBT working with AltosDroid on an Android device provides everything needed to monitor a rocket in flight, record telemetry, and know how to walk right to the airframe after it's back on the ground. The Bluetooth capability of TeleBT is also supported by AltosUI on Linux, and with a micro USB cable TeleBT works just like TeleDongle on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems running AltOS version 1.2.1 or later.

Bit9 has teamed with FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, which each have sandboxing technologies, in order to share information related to zero-day attack code.read more