Online Net Meeting

July 29, 2010 – Need a primer on some IT terminology? Join I.T. Jinglehopper (aka Neal) and Jackson as they discuss the term botnet.

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B is for Botnet [ABCs of IT]

Amazon announced a new Kindle this week with dramatic improvements over its predecessors.

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Amazon’s new Kindle rachets up e-reader price battle

On World Tech Update this week we show you exclusive video of the Defcon badge, Amazon announces a new Kindle, Panasonic shows off a 3D camcorder for consumers, General Motors announces pricing for the Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric car and more!

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World Tech Update, July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010 – At Black Hat 2010, Tim Greene talks with researcher Anthony Lineberry about their presentation on the ability for hackers to attack Android phones.

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Black Hat: Android phones can be hacked

When attendees to the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas pick up their badges this week, they’ll notice something they’ve never seen before on a Defcon badge, a programmable persistent display that will work even without batteries.

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Exclusive: Defcon badge includes programmable persistent display

General Motors has released pricing and warranty information on its hybrid-electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt. Customers began pre-ordering the vehicle at select dealers on Tuesday.

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GM announces pricing for Chevrolet Volt

A team of students and faculty at Cornell University claim that their Ranger robot has set a new world record for non-stop distance walked by an untethered, legged robot – 23 kilometers, or 14.3 miles.

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Cornell’s Ranger robot breaks record, walks 23 km on single charge

July 28, 2010 – A new car by Nissan is fitted with a prototype safety system developed by Nissan that helps avoid rear end collisions.

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New Nissan car automatically stops to avoid collisions

If you’re hurtling along the road towards a stationary car it’s a pretty good idea to hit the brakes … but in this car you don’t have to. The car is fitted with a prototype safety system developed by Nissan that helps avoid rear end collisions.

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A new Nissan safety system automatically stops cars to avoid a collision

Panasonic has unveiled its first two consumer camcorders capable of recording video in 3D. They look like regular video cameras and can record conventional 2D images, but by adding a lens adapter, they can capture in 3D.

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Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D camcorders

July 27, 2010 – Teams from nine universities gathered at NATO’s Undersea Research Center to pit their robotic submarines against each other.

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Robotic submarines navigate underwater course autonomously

Bill Gates spoke at the 18th International Aids Conference in Vienna and said that the world has an opportunity to reduce the number of AIDS infections by 90 percent in the coming decades.

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Gates calls on nations to continue the fight against AIDS

Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, spoke to users at the company’s Tweetup Japan 2010 in the Japanese capital on July 23. (Japanese consecutive translation edited out)

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Raw video: Twitter CEO Evan Williams in Tokyo

In this episode of Akibatteru, Hiroko takes a trip across Tokyo bay in a boat designed by a famous manga artist, and travels to Suginami to check out the anime museum.

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Akibatteru 16 – Tokyo river bus and Suginami Anime Museum

IBM on Thursday announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allow workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system.

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IBM introduces zEnterprise System