YouTube sure has come a long way since launching in 2005 and being acquired by Google within a year for $1.65 billion. The company has today announced a collaborative project with a bunch of classical music institutions and artists in the context of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra program, and I think it’s awesome. Starting today until January 28, 2009, musicians are invited to submit two videos: a personal interpretation of an original Tan Dun composition, written specifically for this program, and a talent video designed to demonstrate their musical and technical abilities. The semi-finalists will be selected by an impressive panel made up of members from the London Symphony Orchestr ...

A fortnight after going on sale, Apple's shiny new 24-inch LED Cinema Display has been acquired, unboxed and photographed for your drooling pleasure. Not much to say here outside of what's told in terrific detail by the pixels above, but just like the new MacBook family, there's lots of gloss to go around. Check the read link for a few more looks.Filed under: DisplaysApple's 24-inch LED Cinema Display gets unboxed, is sure glossy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Compared to the ZzzPhone—a modern marvel of engineering and/or MSPaint—the i6-Goal is sort of boring: it's got no QWERTY, 3G, two-week battery, male enhancement powers, etc. It does, however, appear to be real. Announced by TechFaith Wireless and QIGI, two Chinese companies that very much seem to exist, the i6-Goal is a reassuringly modest accomplishment. The touchscreen phone is a relatively normal quad-band GSM phone, featuring a 2MP camera, GPS and an SD slot. The hardware actually looks quite similar to that of the HTC Touch, which perhaps not coincidentally can hackishly run Android. Notably, the handset will be the first released in both Windows Mobile or Android flavors, s ...

Raistlin84 writes "I'm a PhD student in theoretical physics who's recently gotten quite interested in AI design. During my high school days I spent most of my spare time coding various stuff, so I have a good working knowledge of some application programming languages (C/C++, Pascal/Delphi, Assembler) and how a computer works internally. Recently I was given the book On Intelligence where Jeff Hawkins describes numerous interesting ideas on how one would actually design a brain. As I have no formal background in computer science, I would like to broaden my knowledge in the direction of neural networks, pattern recognition, etc., but don't really know where to start reading. Due to my backgro ...

The newest device Nokia is promoting is the Nokia N97 smartphone, a mobile handset that carve a new space between the blurred space betwixt smartphone and the laptop. The Nokia impresses firstly with its slim line shell, new stylish design, usability and ergonomics. The Nokia N97 incorporates a kick-out full QWERTY kerboard which is hidden beneath a 3.5 inch widescreen 16.9 touch-screen display with the ability to tilt, a new homescreen that automatically delivers information via widgets and runs on S60 5th edition OS. Furthermore the Nokia N97 features A-GPS, 32GB onboard storage that is expandable via microSD up to a further 16GB totalling 48GB storage. The N97 battery promises to kick out ...

The newest device Nokia is promoting is the Nokia N97 smartphone, a mobile handset that carve a new space between the blurred space betwixt smartphone and the laptop. The Nokia impresses firstly with its slim line shell, new stylish design, usability and ergonomics. The Nokia N97 incorporates a kick-out full QWERTY kerboard which is hidden beneath a 3.5 inch widescreen 16.9 touch-screen display with the ability to tilt, a new homescreen that automatically delivers information via widgets and runs on S60 5th edition OS. Furthermore the Nokia N97 features A-GPS, 32GB onboard storage that is expandable via microSD up to a further 16GB totalling 48GB storage. The N97 battery promises to kick out ...

Like Wanted come to life, the Pentagon's now funding $22 million into researching bullets that could change course mid-flight to hit their targets. DARPA, the Defense Department's R&D office, is handing out $12.3 million to Lockheed Martin and $9.5 million to Teledyne Scientific & Imaging to design .50-caliber sniper rifles with guided ammo. DARPA had previously thrown money into laser-guided bullets, but the stuff Lockheed Martin's working on—called Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance (Exacto)—would be able to travel accurately regardless of the surrounding environment. Though public details are (obviously) scarce, the rifle may include “fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized ...

What can we say the guys over at Nokia have kept this beauty quiet, Dubbed the Nokia N97 this phone will well and truly give Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Storm the Apple iPhone 3G and the T-Mobile G1 a run for their money, all other smartphone may as well pack up and leave the race unless they could meet the Nokia N97 amazing spec. The Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia showed off today at an event in Barcelona the new Nokia N97, so here’s a little run down, you will get a touchscreen on the N97, a real slide out keyboard as well as speedy WiFi plus 3G, you will be able to customize your Nokia N97 with widgets (applications) although you don’t need to download them onto your device, ...

Just got this lovely email, pretending to be from Blizzard: Subject: Warning : World of Warcraft Account Notice From: donotreply@blizzard.com To: arfenhousetoo@gmail.com An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard’s EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here: WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here: WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is foun ...

Nokia has just announced its Nokia N97 at Nokia World 2008 convention at Barcelona, Spain. It is claimed as the world's most advanced mobile computer, designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers. The whole thing looks shiny and it has both touchscreen and QWERTY as some of us are sucks ... ...

The BlackBerry Storm has received a major operating system update just days after its release, while the Android T-Mobile G1 hasn’t really received anything major since its arrival into the big wide mobile world. The T-Mobile G1 is somewhat plagued with usability problems and is Google doing anything about it? Apparently not, the G1 still suffers from crashes with text messages, won’t allow a G1-er to hang up after a call, and dies after four hours on standby apparently. Isn’t it about time Google stopped concentrating on the G1’s Amazon MP3 Store and turned their attention to the problems at hand, or do they really want the G1 to fall so far behind par with the BlackBerry Storm that ...

The festive season is starting, and with the economy as it is everyone is looking for that bargain, millions search the internet trying to source that good deal for what they are looking for, and the same can be said for mobile phones. So here is a deal on the Google Android T-Mobile G1 for all the American Express card toting people out there. If you fancy a G1 for yourself, or maybe as a Christmas gift for someone, for a limited time you can order a T-Mobile G1 at a knock down price of $125.00 via MY Wishlist. So that’s a saving of $50.00 right there, however last I checked they were sold out, but word is there are more to follow so keep your eyes peeled on the site. Otherwise while your ...

Nokia has unveiled a new flagship touch-screen smartphone, the Nokia N97, which Nokia hopes will infuse new life into their N-series range of multimedia orientated mobile phones. Vice president of Nokia’s Devices unit, Jonas Geust, says: “This is really the start of the new N-series … really kicking off the next wave. What would there be these days without touch … Touch for this category of devices is going to be important. Qwerty is also going to be important.” The new Nokia N-series N97 is targeted at rivalling the likes of the HTC Touch Pro and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, and is expected to retail for around the same price point as the Nokia N95 and N96 and ...

Now this is a fight worth waiting for.[Photo courtesy of Robert Scoble]Filed under: CellphonesNokia N97 vs iPhone... Fight! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

It's been a long time coming, but after dabbling with touch on the midrange 5800, Nokia has finally brought a touchscreen to its brand new flagship S60 smartphone, the N97. But it's not quite a full dive into touch—there's still a horizontal QWERTY keyboard hidden below the 3.5" 640x360 resistive touchscreen and accesable via a smooth 30° flip mechanism. The N97 will run an even further touch-enhanced Symbian OS, S60 v5, which features the 5800's quick contacts bar and adds an assortment of customizable desktop widgets that can pipe in your Facebook info, RSS feeds and the like, much like those found on Nokia's internet tablet OS. The widgets will be open to third party developers and ...

An anonymous reader writes "Now that Intel has unleashed its next-generation Core i7 processors, all eyes are turned to AMD and its incoming wave of 45nm CPUs. To get a feel for AMD's future competitiveness, The Tech Report has taken a pair of 2.7GHz 45nm Opterons (with 75W power envelopes) and put them through the paces against Intel Xeons and older, 65nm Opterons in an extensive suite of performance and power efficiency tests — from Cinema 4D and SPECjbb to computational fluid dynamics and a custom XML handling benchmark. The verdict: AMD's new 45nm quad-core design is a notable improvement over the 65nm iteration, and it proves to be a remarkably power-efficient competitor to Intel' ...

New Camera Takes 40 shots per second and records high speed movies at 1000 fps Casio Computer Co., Ltd., today announced the release of its newest EXILIM® digital camera, the HIGH SPEED EXILIM EX-FH20. This remarkable new camera is capable of ultra high-speed burst shooting at 40 fps and can record high speed movies at up to 1000 fps. Its speed and ease of use truly puts this camera in a class of its own. In recognition of these unique characteristics, with today’s release of the new EX-FH20, Casio has launched the new HIGH SPEED EXILIM series, which includes this camera and the EX-F1, launched in March 2008. Casio expects the revolutionary capabilities of its HIGH SPEED EXILIM camera ...

Details are coming in but it's official. The N97 features a large touchscreen phone with a retail price at around 550 euros ($693.4) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009.developing...Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

In a move that will undoubtedly increase its street cred among technophiles and tinkerers alike, Atheros announced that it's releasing the specs to allow open source drivers for its ATH5K and ATH9K chip families. The move comes after Atheros first released some open source drivers for newer 802.11n chipsets and now the company is finally opening up its HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to developers, even using Linux as the reference public code base. No word on when any of this stuff will be released, but rest assured, we'll be on the lookout for more info -- we're sure the hackers out there are champing at the bit.Filed under: Wireless, NetworkingAtheros lets open source devs in on the WiFi ...

With energy conservation and easy eco-friendliness on just about everybody's agenda these days, one of the most popular concepts is the “Smart Home,” a living environment that knows just how much power you actually need to be comfortable and gives you not a drop more. Nokia's hopping on that wagon with its new Nokia Home Control Center, a Linux-based platform that will control your house's resources via your mobile phone. According to Nokia, the NHCC will allow third-party developers to create services that are added onto the accessibility platform. That way, you'll rarely come across an incident where some new smart home tech you bought doesn't actually work with your main controller. ...