Ben, Lyle and Bonnie cover the week’s news.
Google is forking the Webkit rendering engine and calling this new fork “Blink”.
Petman is designed to test chemical suites.
Go ahead and watch the creepy video of this robot walking in a suite of clothing.
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Friend of the show and friend of mine Jim Warner from UCSC networking and all around geek has a great web page about the mobile coverage of the central coast of California.
Testing cell phone coverage is about to start again and :
The CPUC will be conducting its third round of mobile testing at 1,200 points around the state starting April 8 and the CPUC Broadband Deployment Department is interested in generating some local press around the testing. We will be getting a schedule of where and when testers will be gathering mobile test data and are looking for any local media contacts you have who are interested in covering broadband deployment and Digital Divide issues in your community. We would like to coordinate some local news stories in concert with our mobile testing.
They even have an Android Crowed Sourced Testing App
A $2 billion particle detector attached to the International Space Station has detected the potential signature of dark matter annihilation in the Cosmos, scientists have announced today.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was attached to the space station in May 2011 by space shuttle Endeavour
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium’s rendering engine back when we started. Thanks to the hard work by all in the community, WebKit has thrived and kept pace with the web platform
Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink. Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit, has confirmed with TNW that it will be following suit.
Ben loves this book. If you’re a Star Trek DS9 fan, check this book out!
The Kepler space telescope
The comet was discovered in September 2012 by the Russian observatory called International Scientific Optical Network
Facebook has announced
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have long been considered the future of computing and a new projection from market research firm Gartner shows just how important the mobile market has become. According to the firm
