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Wednesday, 12-December-2012 10:43:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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You know you're doing well when the Victorian Police issue an official recommendation for people to not use your product - in this case, Apple Maps. Tests on the mapping system by police confirm the mapping systems lists Mildura in the middle of the Murray Sunset National Park, approximately 70km away from the actual location of Mildura. Police are extremely concerned as there is no water supply within the Park and temperatures can reach as high as 46 degrees, making this a potentially life threatening issue. More here and here.
Meanwhile mpot spotted this cloud-assisted GPS. In a paper published by Microsoft Research in November, researchers reported that a prototype "cloud offloaded GPS" sensor they developed, called CLEO, pushed raw GPS signal information to a remote server for processing. The result: CLEO was able to generate high-precision location information while reducing the amount of power consumed by the sensor by three orders of magnitude. "In other words," the researchers wrote, "with a pair of AA batteries, CLEO can theoretically sustain continuous GPS sensing (at 1s/sample granularity) for 1.5 years."
I thought we'd heard about this before, but Sony have officially farewelled the cassette Walkman. It's not quite the end of the cassette, though: Sony (and other manufacturers) will continue to produce tape decks and boom boxes, though we suspect it won't be for long now.
In the latest tech falling-out, Instagram have dropped Twitter support. In July, Twitter stopped letting Instagram users find friends via Twitter they may want to follow on the photo app. (They did the same for popular blogging site Tumblr after buying rival blogging platform Posterous.) In the most recent move, users began noticing that images posted to Twitter were cropped weirdly. By Monday, sending an Instagram photo to Twitter simply posted a link directing followers to Instagram's recently beefed-up website.
Gaakor noticed Richard Stallman accusing Ubuntu of being spyware. If a user goes through and makes a purchase, Amazon provides Canonical with a cut in the form of an affiliate fee. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has defended the decision on his blog, but is facing mounting criticism from users who are used to getting a free OS with no strings attached. It’s a simple matter to disable the feature, but Stallman doesn’t think users should accept this as the solution.
NVIDIA have a new auto-configurator called GeForce Experience, thanks gunna. To help solve this problem, NVIDIA has built a gaming supercomputer designed specifically to test thousands of different hardware configurations to find the best settings for each game. The user simply installs GeForce Experience on their system and the app will automatically download the best settings from the server based on the user’s specific hardware configuration. These settings can be applied per game or across all games as desired.
Metku have a guide to building a tiny retro arcade, by pulling apart an old gaming handheld. So, the build will focus on the Game Boy Advance SP. It will work as a donor device and give out its innard for greater good. I wonder what folks in the Retro & Arcade forum will think.
From charliebrownau: Get Metro 2033 for free. Go to the Metro Facebook page, like the page. Once done, reveal the Steam code, copy code into steam and download the free copy of the game for Windows PC. The offer runs to 16th December 2012.
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