- Google yesterday announced a bug-bounty program that will pay researchers $500 for each vulnerability they report in the Chrome browser and its underlying open-source code. Chris Evans, who works on the Chrome security team, said the base bounty would be $500, but that “particularly severe or particularly clever” bugs would reap rewards of $1,337 each. – Google
- Mozilla has officially introduced Firefox for Maemo, the first officially launched version of Firefox () for Mobile. It’s been in testing for some time, but now it’s available for download for those of you who own an N900 smartphone. The new mobile browser comes equipped with an array of quite awesome features: the awesome bar, weave sync (sync your bookmarks, passwords, tabs, and history between mobile and desktop), tabbed browsing, and location-aware maps are all part of this launch. – Mozilla
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SAN FRANCISCO—An Apple product unveiling is usually a bit of a letdown. That’s the downside of the company’s iron-fisted secrecy: The entire press gets so worked up that when the new device finally makes it to the stage, it inevitably seems far less grand than you’d imagined. (MacBook Air? Yawn.) But I won’t lie: I’ve been waiting for the Apple tablet for a long time, and in the moments before CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage this morning, I’m positively giddy. Rumors of the tablet’s existence go back at least to 2002; in all that time, the company hasn’t said a single solid word about it. So when Jobs finally spills the beans after about 10 minutes of wind-up, I’m floored. iPad? After all that time, you’re going to call it that, really? First, the features: It’s an aluminum-and-glass touch-screen machine that’s about the size of a Kindle. The iPad is extremely thin, and it weighs just a pound and a half. It runs on a proprietary Apple microprocessor, can hold 16 to 64 GB of data (depending on which model you get), and its battery (allegedly) lasts up to 10 hours. The device goes on sale in two months. (Apple didn’t say the exact date.) Prices range from $499 (16 GB, Wi-Fi only) up to $829 (64 GB and a 3G wireless modem). A cellular data plan through AT&T costs $15 a month for up to 250 MB of bandwidth and $30 a month for unlimited data. There’s no contract—you can cancel your data plan at any time without any fee. (When I asked an Apple rep whether iPhone owners could use the same plan for both devices, he didn’t know the answer.)
After decades of false starts, planners are finally beginning to make headway on what could become the largest, most complicated infrastructure project ever attempted in the US. The Obama administration got on board with an $8 billion infusion, and more cash is likely en route from Congress. It’s enough for Florida and Texas to dust off some previously abandoned plans and for urban clusters in the Northeast and Midwest to pursue some long-overdue upgrades. The nation’s test bed will almost certainly be California, which already has voter-approved funding and planning under way. But getting up to speed requires more than just seed money. For trains to beat planes and automobiles, the hardware needs to really fly. Officials are pushing to deploy state-of-the-art rail rockets. – More
Sports broadcasting will enter a new dimension in 2010 … the third dimension, as ESPN will unveil the industry’s first 3-D network.
ESPN 3D will showcase a minimum of 85 live sporting events during its first year, beginning June 11 with the first 2010 FIFA World Cup match, featuring South Africa versus Mexico, ESPN and ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer announced.
Other events to be produced in 3-D include the 2011 BCS National Championship Game, college basketball and football contests, up to 25 World Cup matches and the Summer X Games. Additional events will be announced at a later date.
“ESPN’s commitment to 3-D is a win for fans and our business partners,” Bodenheimer said in a statement. “ESPN 3D marries great content with new technology to enhance the fan’s viewing experience and puts ESPN at the forefront of the next big advance for TV viewing.”
ESPN has been testing ESPN 3D for more than two years, even showing a USC-Ohio State college football game in select theaters and to 6,000 fans at the Galen Center on USC’s campus.
“This is a turning point for 3-D,” Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro told USA Today.
The Nexus One not only runs Android, but is the first “Google phone” to grow up and remain in-house. While built by HTC, the Nexus One is available through google.com/phone, may be purchased without a carrier, reflects the company’s design aesthetic, and sports the newest version of Android. The phone marks a surprising step for Google, even if reviewers aren’t blown away by the device itself. Most agree the new phone is great, but so are many of its rivals.
Here’s what CNET has to say about the Nexus One.
This wasn’t how you were hoping to spend your time at the security gate. You wanted a flight, not a prostate exam. Fortunately, TSA won’t have to grope you—at least, not yet. But they will have to look at you, including the private bits. Here’s the deal…
You won’t have to show them to the people standing next to you. But you’ll have to show them to the Transportation Security Administration. You’ll stand in front of a machine that sees through your clothes. It will capture every contour of your body and relay this picture to a screen in a nearby room. In that room, somebody who works for TSA will study the picture, including your gonads. They’ll study your gonads because that’s where bombers hide bombs. Go take a look at the ABC News photo of the
underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged Detroit bomber. Look where the packet of explosive powder was sewn: right into the crotch. You don’t need advanced training in Yemen to figure out why it was put there: because it’s the last place TSA wants to look. Well, almost the last place. Four months ago, another al-Qaida agent smuggled the same powder into a Saudi palace and tried to blow up the Saudi chief of counterterrorism. Saudi investigators think the bomber in that incident, like the Detroit bomber, hid the powder in his underwear. CBS News tells a different story: The Saudi bomber hid the powder in his rectum. Which theory is correct? It’s hard to know, since the Saudi bomber, his underwear, and his rectum ended up all over the room.
You get the picture: Bombers hide bombs where we’re least likely to probe them: under the breasts, behind the scrotum, up the bum. So that’s where we have to look.
WiReD.com recently reported about a host of cool things you can do with Nintendo Wii’s innovative wireless controller besides just rescuing the princess. The most impresive comes from Microsoft researcher Johnny Chung Lee who’s YouTube video below makes this shit look easy.
Internet search giant Google has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS.
The free and open source system is initially aimed at low-cost netbooks and does away with many of the features of a traditional program.
All programs are designed to run in a web browser and all the user’s data is stored on Google’s servers.
Engineers from the firm said the first computers running the system would be available before the end of 2010. – Get the Full Load
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) for Mobile. It’s been in testing for some time, but now it’s available for download for those of you who own an N900 smartphone. The new mobile browser comes equipped with an array of quite awesome features: the awesome bar, weave sync (sync your bookmarks, passwords, tabs, and history between mobile and desktop), tabbed browsing, and location-aware maps are all part of this launch. – Mozilla
After decades of false starts, planners are finally beginning to make headway on what could become the largest, most complicated infrastructure project ever attempted in the US. The Obama administration got on board with an $8 billion infusion, and more cash is likely en route from Congress. It’s enough for Florida and Texas to dust off some previously abandoned plans and for urban clusters in the Northeast and Midwest to pursue some long-overdue upgrades. The nation’s test bed will almost certainly be California, which already has voter-approved funding and planning under way. But getting up to speed requires more than just seed money. For trains to beat planes and automobiles, the hardware needs to really fly. Officials are pushing to deploy state-of-the-art rail rockets. – 
Sports broadcasting will enter a new dimension in 2010 … the third dimension, as ESPN will unveil the industry’s first 3-D network.
The Nexus One not only runs Android, but is the first “Google phone” to grow up and remain in-house. While built by HTC, the Nexus One is available through google.com/phone, may be purchased without a carrier, reflects the company’s design aesthetic, and sports the newest version of Android. The phone marks a surprising step for Google, even if reviewers aren’t blown away by the device itself. Most agree the new phone is great, but so are many of its rivals.
Internet search giant Google has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS.
