And it’s less buggy, much smoother to use. If you’re a developer for iOS, you’ll be able to download the iOS 4.2 beta 2 right now.

SOURCE via Apple

Living in Abu Dhabi has never been so ‘fun’ before. Police in Abu Dhabi has taken traffic violations very seriously as of late, and they’re reportedly adding a new tool to their arsenal – public shaming. Ouch! After the evening news bulletin, videos will be shown of various traffic offenses along with the fines and penalties they incur. They have already lined up 30 such video violations and plan to run the series for a month.

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You’ve got to hand it to Antec: It never runs out of ideas. We were pretty sure the font of never-seen-before innovation would have gone dry after the unveiling of the Skeleton  wall-less case. But no, the component manufacturer has now come out with a new case that sounds like it could be almost as revolutionary as the Skeleton was, even if it’s (slightly) more conventional in appearance: the LanBoy Air. Sounds funny right? Hopefully Apple won’t start consider suing Antec. Read more…

Petaflop, what does it mean to you? Yes, it does sound a lot as it’s the next step after teraflop. Does 10 petaflops sounds a lot to you? Because Fujitsu has done it with the upcoming “K” supercomputer. It’s able to crunch through 10 quadrillion operations every time you blink your eye. Now, compare that to the current champ of processing farms, Cray’s Jaguar, which can handle only (only!) 1.75 petaflops of workload and you’ll know that we’re talking about a seminal leap in performance. Japan’s Riken Research Institute is the fortunate addressee on the crates of ultrafast SPARC64 VIIIfx processors that Fujitsu is now shipping out and the current plan is to have everything up and running by 2012. In total, there’ll be 80,000 CPUs, each possessing 8 cores running at 2.2GHz, which will be housed within 800 racks. So yes, there’ll be a machine somewhere on the Japanese isle with 640,000 processing cores at its disposal. Sadly you’ll never have the chance to play Crysis with this.

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SOURCE via CNET

To me, owning a Ferrari F430 is already a dream. But to some, they’re a common sight. But Ferrari has a more special F430, from their Scuderia branch. The Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M is a beast! But what happens when you take a very unique slightly ‘special edition’ of a Ferrari, and slap it with something even more special and make it limited? When I say limited, I’m saying a one-off, world’s only one model. The Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M Carbon Fiber Edition. What a mouthful. It’s commissioned by Carrozzeria Zanasi of Maranello Italy, and is now up for sale at Ferrari Beverley Hills for a bizarre amount of $650,000. Yes, that amount might not be anything shocking if compared to the almighty Bugatti Veyron, but it’s still unique and rare in its own. Somehow this Scuderia Spider is more appealing to me than the Veyron. Well, not like I can own any of them.

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Amazon has just announced that they will be supporting the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, in addition to the BlackBerry mobile app that they’ve already got on hand. Not much was said about this, but it’ll most probably means a Kindle app for the new PlayBook so that you will also read, besides playing with your PlayBook. Makes the PlayBook much more education oriented. And also, Whispersync will be available on your PlayBook too. Read more…

RIM is announcing a few changes and new things for developers of their Blackberry platform over at the Blackberry Developer Conference in San Francisco.

WebWorks development platform.

Basically a quick way for web developers to get into the BlackBerry app game by offering a tightly-integrated platform for HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript code with hooks to native BlackBerry OS functions and a packager for turning them into “real” BlackBerry apps.

BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform.

RIM’s historically held BBM very, very close to the chest, but it’s starting to open up a tad with this particular announce. Don’t look for BBM on other platforms, but third-party app developers will now be able to tap into the system for sending and receiving messages, files, user profiles, and invitations. Interestingly, the company is pitching it as a platform for multiplayer gaming, using BBM as a conduit to move information between devices in real time.

BlackBerry Advertising Service.

Google bought AdMob and Apple bought Quattro, but RIM’s taking a more democratic approach to its advertising platform, allowing both “simple” and “rich media” ads to be served from a handful of providers “with only three lines of code.” It’ll be 60 / 40 revenue split between develops and RIM.

BlackBerry Payment Service SDK.

This one’s launching in beta this week, bringing third-party in-app payments over credit card, PayPal, and carrier billing (available on AT&T right now, more carriers by the end of the year). It’ll be out of beta before 2010′s out.

SOURCE via Engadget

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced in their annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, by CEO Mike Lazaridis, the company’s new tablet called the PlayBook. The tablet will employ an OS created by the recently acquired QNX (just like the rumour said) called the BlackBerry Tablet OS. It’ll offer full OpenGL and POSIX support alongside web standards such as HTML5. All these will be tied into RIM’s new WebWorks SDK. Read more…

Electric cars have been awesome. But awesome stuff still has drawbacks. Nothing’s perfect right?  The battery has been an electric or hybrid car’s biggest cost killer all this while. A full set of cells is around half the cost of many such vehicles, and they can’t last forever anyway. They’ll likely need replacement in about 10 years’ time, which means we’ll soon have a huge number of formerly very expensive and still very toxic entities lying about. So, many companies that produce cars containing the things are taking this opportunity to hypothesize what to do with them when you’re through.

They could, of course, be stripped down and recycled, but after a decade they should still offer around half of their capacity, enough to buffer the power generated in a home solar array or wind turbine. In other words: reuse is the name of the game, with SolarCity and Tesla partnering to see if the former can make use of the latter’s depleted batteries. GM (creator of the Chevrolet Volt) and Nissan (grower of the Leaf) have recently established similar partnerships with various energy and electrics firms, meaning that today’s greenest cars could continue their enviro-friendly ways in the future — even as their shells rust away in the scrap heap. Great news to know, that these companies have taken such effort to think of the future.

SOURCE via Venturebeat

Kno has called their upcoming single-screen tablet the “world’s first” tablet textbook. How on earth did they missed out the iPad and e-Books, I’m not sure as well. Plain ignorant? Anyway, both devices, the dual-screen tablet and single-screen tablet, will be released on a late 2010 date. The device would be a single 14.1-inch capacitive IPS display with presumably 1440 x 900 resolutions. The dual-screen would simply be double of that. Read more…