Samsung’s Ultrasonic Smartphone Case Helps Guide the Blind

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March 14, 2014

Samsung has released three new assistive technology accessories for its Galaxy Core Advance smartphone designed to be used by people with disabilities and visual impairments. The South Korean giant says it developed the tools â€” a cover that can help users avoid obstacles, a text-reading stand, and a voice label â€” after conducting “in-depth interviews” with disabled and visually-impaired people.

The new Ultrasonic Cover slips around the outer edges of the Galaxy Core Advance. Samsung says it can guide its user around unfamiliar areas by sensing the presence of people or obstacles up to two meters away and providing warnings through small vibrations or audio cues. The Optical Scan Stand can detect, scan, and read text on paper placed…

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How to set up Open WebMail in CentOS

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The Linux Foundation

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March 14, 2014

Webmail interface is one of must-have services for any mail server. Most of us are used to native email client software, but what if your favorite client software is not available for any reason? For example, you have left your laptop at home, or your phone’s data plan just went dry, or maybe you are […]
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Alpine Linux 2.7.5 released

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Alan Lacerda

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March 14, 2014

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2.7.5 of its Alpine Linux operating system. Download it: http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/cgi-bin/dl.cgi/v2.7/releases/x86/alpine-2.7.5-x86.iso

Pi Day Celebrations Kick Off With a ‘Pi in the Sky’

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CNET

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March 14, 2014

Pi Day skywriting by AirSign aircrafts in Austin.

(Credit: Sara Stevens)

With everybody’s favorite holiday around the corner — Pi Day, of course — celebrations have already begun to take place around the US.

Sky gazers in Austin, Texas, may have noticed something interesting happening with skywriting airplanes on Thursday — namely, a “pi in the sky.”

To celebrate Pi Day and honor the great mathematical constant of 3.141592 etc., AirSign aircrafts took to the skies to attempt to spell out the infinite pi sequence across 100 miles of sky in Austin.

Microsoft Closing in on Apache’s Web Server Crown

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The Register

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March 14, 2014

And sprinting up on the inside, here comes Nginx!

50 million more of the world’s web servers started to run Microsoft’s internet information server (IIS) during February, according to Netcraft.…

TV-Centric Mini-PC Runs Android on Quad-Core ARM9

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LinuxGizmos

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March 14, 2014

Ugoos is shipping an updated version of its UT2 TV-centric Android mini-PC, based on a 1.6GHz quad-core RK3188 SoC, and backed by 2GB RAM and 32GB flash. Like the earlier Ugoos “UM2″ HDMI-stick style device, the “UT2″ runs Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) on a 1.6GHz quad-core Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 SoC, and offers HDMI, dual-band […]

NASA’s R2 Bot to Receive Legs Via SpaceX

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LinuxGizmos

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March 13, 2014

NASA’s Linux- and ROS-based R2 humanoid robot will soon receive a set of robotic legs in a SpaceX resupply launch, marking the first trip of ROS into space. NASA’s second-generation Robonaut 2 (R2) was shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in Feb. 2011, and began to see limited duty there about a year ago. […]

Linux Mini-PC and JavaScript Speed IoT Development

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LinuxGizmos

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March 13, 2014

Marvell has reached its Indiegogo goal for “Kinoma Create,” a Linux- and JavaScript-based hardware/software platform for quick and easy development of IoT gizmos. Kinoma Create is defined by Marvell’s Kinoma division as a “construction kit” for developing Internet of Things (IoT) consumer electronics and companion apps. The platform “helps software developers become makers, makers tackle […]

GoG Dropping a Teeny Hint About Linux Support

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Muktware

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March 13, 2014

Good Old Games or GoG is a well-known site to any gamer as a place where one can get games completely DRM free and almost always with additional goodies that they can’t find anywhere else. Now it seems that they will be adding to the good praises that they have been receiving by spear heading a DRM free revolution, by adding support for Linux games in their catalogues.

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KDE Ships Second Beta of Applications and Platform 4.13

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KDE

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March 13, 2014

The KDE community today released the second beta of Applications and Development Platform 4.13. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues.

A partial list of improvements can be found in the 4.13 Feature Plan. A more complete list of the improvements and changes will be available for the final release in the middle of April.