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New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items
June 10, 2013 12:10 pm | by FRANK BAJAK, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsHarried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer. A free application for mobile devices written by Jose Augusto Montiel lets people notify one another where flour, sugar, milk, cooking oil and toilet paper are for sale.
NSA claims know-how to ensure no illegal spying
June 10, 2013 12:07 pm | by KIMBERLY DOZIER, AP Intelligence Writer | News | CommentsThe supersecret agency with the power and legal authority to gather electronic communications worldwide to hunt U.S. adversaries says it has the technical know-how to ensure it's not illegally spying on Americans. But mistakes do happen in data-sifting conducted mostly by machines, not humans.
Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program
June 10, 2013 11:59 am | by JIM KUHNHENN LARA JAKES, Associated Press | News | CommentsEager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation's top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is authorized by Congress, falls under strict supervision of a secret court and cannot intentionally target a U.S. citizen.
10 Years of Screaming at Circuits
June 10, 2013 11:53 am | by Screaming Circuits | Blogs | Commentsladies and gentlemen and engineers of all ages... Screaming Circuits, A Milwaukee Electronics company, is celebrating ten years of specializing in speedy prototype assembly.In honor of your great support, we're having a party! Come and see where it all happens....
Obama: US, China sailing 'uncharted' cyberwaters
June 10, 2013 11:48 am | by JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent | News | CommentsThe United States and China are in "uncharted waters" as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in the California desert.
Introduction to Fractional Factorial Designed Experiments
June 10, 2013 11:41 am | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | Blogs | CommentsScientific inquiry is aided by sensible application of statistical tools. I grew up around the best minds in applied statistics. My father was an eminent applied statistican, and George Box (the person in the video) was often around our house … Continue reading →
Globally, people resigned to little privacy online
June 10, 2013 11:29 am | by FRANK BAJAK & JACK CHANG, Associated Press | News | CommentsU.S. government snooping does not surprise global Internet users, who say they already have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives and Internet companies often acquiesce. Concerned privacy activists called on people to better protect their digital data.
NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
June 10, 2013 11:06 am | by ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer | News | CommentsWe knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security camera at a street corner, connected with friends online or talked on a smartphone equipped with GPS, we knew, too, it was conceivable that we might be monitored.
Yes, manufacturing is back in the U.S.
June 10, 2013 10:56 am | by Harry Moser, Contributor | Blogs | CommentsPD&D Executive Editor David Mantey recently published the article “Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.?” The article offers some good insight on the reshoring debate, as well as some common misinterpretation of the subject. Mr. Mantey and his subject Mr. Young acknowledge that reshoring, or not offshoring, has become a viable alternative in the consciousness of the business world.
'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
June 10, 2013 10:37 am | by ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsNeil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum, but not a single NASA facility is christened in honor of the man whose "giant leap" made him the first to walk on the moon. All that could soon change on the fringes of the Mojave Desert...
Denials in surveillance program require decoding
June 10, 2013 10:29 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsGoogle CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal information transmitted on various online services.
Display system comes with a controller-only option
June 10, 2013 10:21 am | Product Releases | CommentsParker’s Electromechanical Automation Division announces the release of the next generation of its Parker Factory Display (PFD) visualization system. PFD offers unprecedented flexibility and impact for delivering critical messages to associates on the factory floor.
Leak of NSA programs tests US, China ties
June 10, 2013 10:14 am | by GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press | News | CommentsA day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected quarter -- an American intelligence contractor was leaking highly sensitive U.S. surveillance programs from his hiding place in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
Source module features -134 dBc/Hz phase noise at 10 KHz offset
June 10, 2013 10:08 am | Crystek Crystal | Product Releases | CommentsCrystek Microwave announces the release of a 2 GHZ RF Source, the CRFS75-2000. Crystek designed the module using proprietary circuitry and SAW (surface acoustic wave) resonator technology to provide ultra-low jitter/phase noise performance with true SineWave output.
Engineering Newswire 41: New suits designed for 'space diving'
June 10, 2013 9:53 am | Videos | CommentsHi-tech inventors at Solar System Express and biotech designers Juxtopia are collaborating on a suit set to release in 2016, which will allow adrenaline junkies to space dive from up to 62 miles above the Earth's surface - at the very edge of space - and safely land using thruster boots instead of a parachute.
