Apple has just let loose the official iOS 4.2 beta builds for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch for the developers, so don’t be surprised if you saw someone somewhere experiencing multitasking on the iPad yet not jailbreaking it. Additionally, Apple has decided to bestow a name upon its new printing experience (the direct-to-printer tech the company showed off at its fall event). And that name? AirPrint (pff!). In a piece of PR just issued by Apple, it’s noted that owners of HP products with ePrint tech will be the first to take advantage of the new tool – so that’s something. We don’t need special AirPrint-enabled printers to use it. Lucky? Read more…

I’ll be frank that I’ve not missed my IE8 icon. In fact, it took me about 3 seconds to figure out where my IE icons where, when I first installed this new beta. We’ve been so accustomed with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, that it’s a shock to see one of my colleagues using IE8. It has been a ‘culture’ to fire up IE on a freshly-installed Windows and used it to download Firefox or Chrome. After that, IE would be hardly touched. That’s due to the ‘slowness’ of the IE application, which I can’t stop to curse about every time I fire it up. Well Microsoft is hoping that all this will change. Read more…

Intel has demonstrated their Light Peak system in IDF 2010, which will be a great bus system to handle super heavy traffic with huge chunk of data. The Light Peak system will be able to handle 10 gigabits/s, though it’s possible to scale to 100 gigabits/s in the near future. Intel demonstrated two setups illustrating Light Peak’s potential at IDF.

First up was a Compaq notebook connected to an Avid HD I/O box, which was in turn connected to two more devices, which is an external Western Digital dual-drive solution with a Light Peak connector, and an HDMI adapter driving 1080P video content.According to Intel, Light Peak enabled Avid to move mixing control to the Compaq notebook software suite. Bandwidth is now sufficient to pass uncompressed extremely high sampling rate audio streams between the notebook and the Avid HD I/O box. Read more…

It’s been too agony long for the wait of Gran Turismo 5. And yes, it’s taken too damn long. But making the wait that much more painful is news fresh out of Tokyo that a special vehicle will be available for thumb-thrashing fun.

It’s not some uber-exotic that you pine for while staring longingly at photos on the web, nor is it some championship racecar from today or a bygone era. It’s nothing you’ve seen or heard about before – it’s called the X1 Prototype. Read more…

Space tourism; how bombarding can this business go? How often do you hear of people booking flight tickets to the space at Nasa Airlines? Nasa might not be heavily promoting their space tourism flights, but Boeing is getting ready to.

Boeing has declared plans to add space tourism to its CST-100 – or Crew Space Transportation-100 – low orbit flights by 2015. Operated by a partnership with Space Adventures, the flights will be able to carry up to seven passengers about 62 miles above Earth’s surface and the craft are currently being developed with the help of NASA.The space shuttle could also be used as a ferry to get people to and from the various space habitats companies are working away at. There’s no word on what the pricing of one of these journeys will look like, but I assure you it’s going to be more than just a limb and a thigh and your right eye.

SOURCE via CNET

Sometimes a wallet can show your exclusivity from the common crowds. Louis Vuitton and Coach for example. But you know you’ve gone too much, way too much ahead when you need your finger prints to open your wallet and get some notes for that juice in the vending machine. Read more…

With the introduction of the E600 Atom platform, Intel is hoping to bring down the overall cost of system integration. Intel announced the Atom Processor E600 series over at the end of their keynote at IDF 2010 in San Francisco. It’s a Moorestown-like SoC designed for embedded applications.The E-series is a 45 nm part, 32nm and 22nm Atom series parts will follow. Read more…

I’ve seen DVDs of cutscene for Final Fantasy, but we’ve yet seen a big scale of cutscenes from big titles being sold in DVDs. Activision is planning to strip all of the cutscenes from Starcraft 2, turning them into one big hella of movie somehow, and sell it for 20 to 30 bucks. Why are they doing this? Cause they think you’d buy them of kush. Anything that’ll make a profit would be a good business after all.

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A Wells inventor has put together a machine that he claims is the first step in creating free energy from perpetual motion. He says it produces more power than it consumes. However the patent office will not register the design – because if it works, it breaks the laws of physics.

The machine, which basically shaped out of leftover bicycle parts and a windscreen-washer motor, uses high-powered magnets and a series of flywheels to seemingly create energy from gravity. The outcome, only a tiny amount of power is provided by the washer motor, using a rubber band cut from a bicycle inner tube. The flywheels keep turning even though it would seem unbearable for the motor to move the weight of the machine. Read more…