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ET deals: $400 off Dell U2711 27-inch WQHD monitor, $50 off remote spy tank, and more May 16, 2013 at 3:30 pm
We’ve got another roundup of the best deals across the web, and leading today’s list is the lowest price ever on Dell’s UltraSharp U2711 monitor. This 27-inch display sports a 2560×1440 resolution and a gorgeous IPS LCD panel, now available for just $599 marked down from $999. Also from Dell is its unique XPS 12…
MIT constructs synthetic analog computers inside living cells May 16, 2013 at 10:06 am
Inspired by early computer designs, researchers at MIT have created synthetic analog computers that use genetic machinery — in other words, living cell calculators. In addition to arithmetic, these computers can also perform more complex function like taking logarithms and square roots. While these machines are not as convenient as any inexpensive calculator, especially for dealing with big numbers, they can process number up to four digits, and are a heck of a lot smaller.
Google finally comes of age at I/O 2013: Less cheap thrills, more money-making maturity May 16, 2013 at 9:13 am
In the eyes of the thousands of developers who are attending Google I/O 2013, yesterday’s keynote will have been a riotous roller coaster ride of new and exciting news. From a consumer’s perspective, though — and there were one million of them watching the live stream from home — the keynote was a bit disappointing. Why did Google decide to focus on developers on the one day of the year that the whole world is looking on? The short answer is that, for some reason, Google didn’t have many major products to show us. For the long answer, read on.
Google I/O keynote: Unlocked Galaxy S4, new music service, and better Maps May 15, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Today was filled to the brim with interesting announcements at Google I/O. While Mountain View was focused heavily on new tools and services for developers, a few snazzy consumer-facing features made their way into the keynote as well. No, there isn’t any new fancy hardware, but Google is clearly taking usability and consumer-friendly interfaces very seriously going forward.
Homeland Security seizes account of largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox May 15, 2013 at 4:23 pm
The Department of Homeland Security has moved to shut down Mt. Gox’s ability to transfer funds to customers via payment processor Dwolla. The issue is straightforward: Mt. Gox’s Wells Fargo account isn’t registered as a money transfer service despite having acted in that capacity for 18 months.
Tesla Model S is now the best-selling luxury car – with an asterisk May 15, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Tesla tops Mercedes, Lexus, BWW and Audi. That’s if you compare the Model S to the competitors’ costlier sedans. Still, Tesla outsells the best-selling combustion engine luxury car by 50%.
ET deals: $530 off new Alienware M18x dual-GPU flagship gaming laptop May 15, 2013 at 1:35 pm
We’ve come across a decent number of high performance computers in our deal hunting travels; machines with top-tier quad-core processor, high-end GPUs, fast SSDs, and the like. But we can easily say these are the fastest, most powerful laptops we’ve ever found a deal for.Alienware’s M18x is its top-tier flagship laptop. It is built around…
US Navy’s X-47B becomes first unmanned jet to launch from a carrier May 15, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Off the coast of Virginia, on the deck of the USS George H. W. Bush, the US Navy made history by successfully launching the first unmanned aircraft.
Google I/O 2013: Watch the live stream here and follow our live blog May 15, 2013 at 12:34 pm
At 9am PST (12pm EST, 5pm BST) today, Google I/O 2013 will begin — and you can watch the live keynote video, and follow ExtremeTech’s live blog, right here. Google I/O is Google’s annual developer-oriented conference, but we can still expect a deluge of consumer-related news from Google’s Android, Chrome, Maps, and Glass teams.
Smart dust: A complete computer that’s smaller than a grain of sand May 15, 2013 at 11:58 am
Called the Michigan Micro Mote, or M3, this tiny computer features processing, data storage, and wireless communication. Researcher Pabral Dutta thinks it will be the next revolution in computing.
