Google and TU Braunschweig independently develop self-driving cars

There’s a Toyota Prius in California, and a VW Passat halfway around the globe — each equipped with bucket-shaped contraptions that let the cars drive themselves. Following their research on autonomous autos in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a team at Germany’s TU Braunschweig let the above GPS, laser and sensor-guided Volkswagen wander down the streets of Brunswick unassisted late last week, and today Google revealed that it’s secretly tested seven similar vehicles by the folks who won that same competition. CMU and Stanford engineers have designed a programmable package that can drive at the speed limit on regular streets and… Read More

Ubuntu 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ officially released

On the tenth day of the tenth month in the tenth year (read: today) Ubuntu Linux has hit its 10.10 revision, though it’s mostly more of the same. The new Unity desktop interface makes cramped netbook screens more organized, software purchase support might legitimize Ubuntu as an app platform, Ubuntu One brings a free 2GB of Dropbox-like cloud storage to automatically synchronize files and folders, and streams music to Android and iPhone devices too… for a price. There’s also full multitouch support, if you’ve got… Read More

81% of children under the age of two are already online

The vast majority of children are getting online records before they can walk or talk, and sometimes even sooner, according to a study by security company AVG. Online records can be anything: uploaded prenatal sonogram photographs, tweeting pregnancy experiences, making online photo albums of children from birth, and even creating e-mail addresses or social networking accounts for babies. According to the research, the average digital birth of children happens at around six months.

A company by the name of Research Now… Read More

Half of Microsoft’s employees aren’t Ballmer fans

Microsoft employees have had a rough time in the last few years, Vista wasn’t the success they’d hoped for, Windows 7 was, KIN flopped, and so on. It’s a rollercoaster ride, and probably quite frustrating for those softies that want to see Microsoft succeed. CNNMoney.com reports that an ongoing survey of over 1,000 Microsoft employees shows that many recent failures may be being blamed internally on Microsoft’s CEO. In the survey, only half of the respondents believed that Ballmer’s performance was satisfactory.

The… Read More

LogMeIn Hamachi 2.0.2.85

For those who want to access the home desktop remotely and do not have a VPN on company structure, LogMeIn Hamachi can build connections to remote networks. LogMeIn Hamachi is a simple and effective tool that can create a virtual network, connecting two or more computers and allows you to share a printer, documents, programs, music, videos, games and more. Just run the program on both machines and create a new VPN network between them. But the most interesting is that LogMeIn Hamachi can… Read More

JYouTube 1.0

JYouTube is a program that serves you to download videos from YouTube. Just copy the address of the desired video and paste it in the “Video URL”. Now click “Start” and choose the format and the folder where the file will be saved. JYouTube reflect that it was made for those who want to put videos in mobile phones.

JYouTube can quickly download any video from YouTube. The application makes the conversion of the media during the download and at the end you have… Read More

 
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