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Auto-tracking sentry gun build
The beginnings of an Aliens-style (except, you know, without all the actual bullets and killing and so forth) automatic sentry gun from diederick. The tracking platform is obviously flexible, but… Read more »
Motorola CLIQ lands in T-Mobile USA stores today
Motorola's Android-laden CLIQ has been available to existing T-Mobile USA users for a hot minute now, but not until today has the handset been widely available to all that care… Read more »
Schools of robotic fish to collect data, stomp out human threat
Robotic fish. The phrase alone sends shivers of excitement down our collective spines here at Engadget. Undoubtedly, Michigan State University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Xiaobo Tan feels… Read more »
North Brooklyn Hackerspace opening Friday: Alpha One Labs
A new hackerspace is opening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY: Alpha One Labs. Alpha One Labs hackerspace was founded in the summer of July 2009. Boasting radical inclusivity, Alpha One Labs… Read more »
Apple pitching $30 a month TV service for iTunes to the networks?
According to Peter Kafka over at AllThingsD, he's had "multiple sources" tell him that Apple is shopping around a subscription service to TV networks that would give iTunes users a… Read more »
Soyea's MID Z5 features an Atom CPU, 3G, and a significant price tag
Sure, there are some of us who like to play around -- and a first-generation Android MID might be lots of fun to those folks -- but how about the… Read more »
Storing data in waves: Delay line memory
It's the '60s, and you don't have access to a semiconductor fab to make piles of cheap memory for you, so how could you store data on your computer? Well… Read more »
HP Mini 311 unboxed, torn apart
Someone on the big wide internet has the HP Compaq Mini 311 and did up an unboxing for us all to share in. Spoiler alert: the packaging is about as… Read more »
PlayStation Home 'not a priority right now' for Sony, most people seem to feel the same way
Just earlier this month we'd been hearing word from Sony that it was seeing PlayStation Home as more of a "social game platform" than a "social network," and now we're… Read more »
Ex-AMD CEO Hector Ruiz steps down as Globalfoundries chairman amid insider trading scandal
We won't dive back into all the backstory that led to former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz's current troubles as the chariman of AMD spin-off Globalfoundaries, but let's just say that… Read more »
