Huntsville robotics team takes third place in world championship (with video)
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — A team of Huntsville students last week placed third in a robotics world championship. The seven-member team, Monkey Madness, won third overall at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship, behind only teams from Livingston, N.J., and Mexico City. The local team is made up of five Huntsville…
Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status
Nearly 7,000 people in the United States die each year while waiting for an organ transplant. It is a number that Facebook hopes to lower with its vast network of 161 million members in this country. The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Facebook to start advertising…
Netflix Puts Skids on Kids’ Nets: Analyst
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Mayweather/CottoWhile it’s not the Mayweather/Pacquiao boxing match fans want to see, this is the fight we have. Miguel Cotto believes he’s in position to send Floyd Mayweather Jr. home with his first ever loss and surprisingly, some boxing experts agree with him. We’ll see if Cotto’s strength is enough to…
Foursquare for Blackberry updated with NFC support
NFC stands for Near Field Communication, which is a standard for low-speed wireless short range communications between electronic devices. Popular applications of NFC are public transportation passes and some form of electronic wallet, but many more applications remains to be tested and implemented. NFC is a cousin of RFID and…
Samsung grabs biggest smartphone share in Q1, says IDC
IDG News Service – The worldwide smartphone market grew 42.5% year-over-year during the first quarter, as Samsung Electronics overtook Apple for the smartphone leadership position, according to IDC’s estimates. Vendors shipped 144.9 million smartphones during the first three months of 2012 compared to 101.7 million in the same period last year, Samsung sold 42.2 Since…
Wave Robotics team cooperates, competes at FIRST Robotics championships
Oshkosh Wave Robotics team cooperates, competes at FIRST Robotics championships in St. Louis ST. LOUIS If engineering, science, art and technology make up the body of Oshkosh’s Wave Robotics team, ‘coopertition’ is at its heart. A link to this page will be included in your message
Researchers create dynamic view of city based on Foursquare check-in data
The millions of “check-ins” generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynamic view of a city’s workings and character, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say. In contrast to static neighborhood boundaries and dated census figures, these “Livehoods” reflect the ever-changing patterns of city life….
Google engineer at heart of WiFi controversy identified, report says
An unnamed “former state investigator” has revealed the identity of the Google engineer who wrote code to scoop up personal information from passing WiFi networks: his name is Marius Milner, according to a report from the New York Times. A full version of the Federal Communications Commission report revealed Sunday…
Microsoft mute on Nook app’s bundling with Windows 8
Computerworld – Microsoft on Monday declined to say whether Barnes and Noble’s Nook app for Metro will be embedded into Windows 8 or Windows RT. Earlier in the day, Microsoft announced it was investing $300 million to acquire a 17.6% stake in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will include As part…
