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Teen dies trying to hold onto iPad during theft, police say
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It’s a natural instinct to resist if someone tries to steal something out of your hand.
In Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon, that instinct might have cost a 15-year-old boy his life.
As the Las Vegas Sun reports, Marcos Vincente Arenas was walking down the street, holding an iPad.
Police say an SUV pulled up alongside him. A man allegedly got out of the passenger seat and tried to wrest the iPad from Arenas.
The teen wouldn’t let go of the device, so, investigators say, he was dragged along by the alleged thief toward the vehicle.
He was still near the passenger door when the car took off. Arenas was run over and died in hospital of his injuries.
Police have issued descriptions of both the driver and the passenger of the SUV, said to be a white Ford Explorer or Expedition.
This is the latest and most gruesome example of the phenomenon known as “Apple-picking.”
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NASA craft to visit asteroid approved, destination chosen
A rendering of OSIRIS-REx from a NASA concept video.
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NASA’s plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to earth, is moving forward and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years.
NASA has announced that the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a key confirmation review Wednesday, approving the spacecraft to move into development phase. Translation: We’re building a new spaceship, y’all!
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Low Latency No. 62: No one is safe
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iPhone robot is an alarm clock with attitude
Tim-e can wake you up with interactive games, music, or snarky comments.
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For the snooze kings and queens of the world, an even more annoying alarm clock is a must. Well, here’s a droid with a “hilarious personality” that looks like it needs a good kick.
Tim-e is an iPhone dock with arms and legs. It wriggles and dances and is generally annoying. But that’s the whole point.
The subject of a Kickstarter campaign that’s aiming for $150,000, Tim-e (pronounced “Timmy”) uses your iPhone screen as an animated face.
In the promo video below, it has a blue, animated mug and puts on a snarky routine. It recalls the genie from Disney’s “Aladdin.”
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Forget Google Glass, Recon debuts Android-friendly glasses at I/O
Recon Instruments Chief Marketing Officer Tom Fowler tested the company’s Jet heads-up display sunglasses during a chilly bike ride earlier this year.
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No doubt, Google executives will spend plenty of time at the annual Google I/O conference that begins Wednesday in San Francisco talking about Google Glass, and all the opportunities for developers to create programs for the geeky eyewear.
But outside the conference hall, a Google partner will unveil a pair of sunglasses that comes with its own heads-up display. Even though Google invited the company, Recon Instruments, to demonstrate the glasses at its premier developer event of the year, the specs have nothing to do with Google Glass.
Instead, Recon is launching Jet, heads-up display glasses using its own technology. Recon’s glasses come with a tiny monitor, like Google Glass, except that it sits near the bottom of the field of vision for the right eye rather than the top. The heads-up display unit includes a dual-core processor; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity; GPS and movement sensors; and a high-definition camera; among other features. That technology lets people wearing Jet-equipped glasses track and film their movements, for example, and upload that data to the Web.
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Desktop Othermill carves out circuit boards, jewelry
Othermill is a lightweight three-axis mill that works with CAD files.
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What if you could easily add custom-designed circuits to DIY projects like 3D-printed stuff? Here’s a small mill that can churn them out with precision and power.
Othermill is a Kickstarter project that has quickly exceeded its fundraising goal. It’s designed to be a portable, desktop three-axis mill that can produce printed circuit boards, jewelry, molds, and other objects.
Conceived by the wizards at San Francisco-based R&D shop Otherfab/Otherlab, known for its crazy inflatable robots, Othermill works with CAD software to cut material in three dimensions. Unlike 3D printing, it cuts material away instead of adding it.
The machine is a 10-inch cube and weighs 15 pounds. It has a brushless DC motor and high-speed spindle that operates with any milling tool with a 1/8-inch-diameter shank. The cutting bed area is about 4x5x2 inches.
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New Google Nexus phone to replace de-stocked Nexus 4?
Will the Nexus 4 be little more than a hill of jelly beans compared to the next Nexus?
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The Android faithful are getting giddy over what Google goodies could be revealed at next week’s Google I/O developers’ conference, and the de-shelving of the Nexus 4 at retailers has some wondering if a new pure Android phone is about to replace it.
Two U.K. retailers, Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U, have discontinued sales of the Nexus 4 this week, and the number of U.S. retailers still offering the phone online also seems to be shrinking. Check Google’s official retail locator for the latest pure Google phone and the only outlets that pop up in most places (I checked New York, San Francisco, and Denver) are all T-Mobile stores.
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The 404 1,268: Where we buy beats behind bars (podcast)
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3D holograms show if baby’s smiling in the womb
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Remember back in the olden days, when you had to wait til your baby came out of the womb to start determining whose nose and chin it had?
Pioneer, maker of speakers, receivers, and headphones, is moving into the in-utero-baby-picture biz with 3D holograms that give a remarkably detailed look at a baby’s early visage.
The company does that using a full-color hologram printer. The device, which fits into a briefcase, can record a full color card-size hologram in 120 minutes, and single-color holograms in 90 minutes.
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Relive Earth’s wild history of meteor strikes
In 2010, photographer Henry Lee snapped this stunning image of a Geminid meteor flying over the horizon of Alabama Hills, Calif.
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Aside from death and taxes, there’s another thing certain in life: meteors. To get a historical perspective on just how many dazzling space rocks have fallen into our skies in recent times, peep at Carlo Zapponi’s visual graph called Bolides, which puts meteor strikes in a chronological view.
Inspired by the Greek word bolis (missile), Bolides features data from a range of historical meteor records, ranging from MetBase to London’s Natural History Museum catalog of meteorites, and displays the data in a way that makes you want to click around and explore.
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