United Spent Money To Remove Safety Equipment From a Brand New 787 Jet

 . The 787 wearing ANA colors.
When Boeing delivered its new 787 airplane to United Airlines back in September, it was a moment for celebration. However, the Air Line Pilots Association has a problem with last-minute changes to the jumbo jet. Apparently, a key piece of safety equipment was purposely left out. The piece in question is a safety gate that's designed to prevent bad guys from rushing the cockpit when the pilot goes to the bathroom. A well-placed cart can supposedly perform the same service, but it's still disconcerting that a planned safety feature was removed from a final production plane.

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2013 Nissan Sentra

Nissan Brings A Subtle All-Arounder To The Toughest Block In Town. Creating a competitive new compact sedan in the US is perhaps the hardest chore that big automakers face today. Shoppers in this slice of the market really do require a single vehicle that will do just about everything for them: get great fuel economy, give a comfortable and confident ride, have a usable back seat with plenty of cargo space, offer an abundance of techy bells and whistles.










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Apple publishes 'Samsung did not copy' statement through gritted teeth

Whatever you think of the continual legal tussles between Apple and Samsung, a UK court's decision to force the former into publicly acknowledging that the latter did not copy its design will have seemed a little egregious even to the most ardent sammy-sympathiser. Well, that post is now live - on Apple's site at least - and as you might expect, is studiously manicured to almost not feel like an acknowledgement at all. The opening legalese notes that Samsung did not infringe "registered design No. 0000181607-0001," before going on to point out in perfect lay-terms the positive comments Judge Colin Birss made about its own slates.

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New York Times website blocked in China after expose on Premier Wen Jiabao's wealth

I guess it was inevitable, although many would deem it to be silly and downright an admission of guilt, as China blocked the website of The New York Times after the paper revealed the kind of wealth that Premier Wen Jiabao and his family built throughout his tenure as a top government official. It seems that Wen's wife and relatives have raked up at the very minimum, a whopping $2.7 billion, where the majority of it was made while Wen was in still in power.

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Feds ironing out rules for autonomous cars

With the increasing development of autonomous vehicles, and even some states issuing licenses for self-driving cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration decided it was high time to lay out a set of rules for these advanced vehicles. According to a Detroit News report, NHTSA is embarking on a research project that could take two to three years, at the conclusion of which, the administration will write rules to govern driverless cars.

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More Samsung Galaxy Premier (GT-I9260) photos arrive

It was just a couple of days ago when we saw leaked photos of the Samsung Galaxy Premier, otherwise known as the GT-I9260. Well, you know for sure that this particular device is well on its way to the market, considering how even more leaked photos of the Galaxy Premier has hit the deck, and just in case you need to refresh your memory, the Galaxy Premier will sport a 4.65" Super AMOLED Plus display, accompanied by an 8-megapixel camera. It will come with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean right out of the box, and according to some whispers on the street, the Galaxy Premier will arrive this December, sporting a street price of approximately 400 Euros.

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Corning's Gorilla Glass used in over 1 billion devices worldwide

As some of you guys know by now, Corning's Gorilla Glass has been used in many of mobile devices, with some manufacturers using it as a means of marketing just how tough and high quality are the materials used, but have you ever wondered just how many devices out there actually use Gorilla Glass. Well in their quarterly earnings release, Corning has revealed that there are over 1 billion devices worldwide that currently employ the use of their Gorilla Glass.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon hands-on

So far we've had the opportunity to review the global edition of the Samsung Galaxy Note II - as well as get our hands on three of the five variants known to be making their way to the US - but tonight we got our first official look at Verizon's particular flavor. Not that it's much different than the rest of the crowd: it's loaded with the same specs we've seen on the N7000 model (5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display at 1,280 x 720, 3,100mAh battery and a quad-core Exynos processor clocked at 1.6GHz), with the exception of Verizon-specific LTE bands, and have the same button layout that we've come to expect.








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Visualized: Nikon's Small World microscope photography contest winners

3D render. The latest submission to deviantART. No, that's a microscopic photo of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo taken by Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael Taylor at 20X magnification, and it's the latest winner of Nikon's annual Small World Photomicrography Competition. Not surprisingly, the runners-up in the contest (drawn from some 2,000 submissions) are just as impressive - hit the links below for a look at all of them.

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CyanogenMod code fixed to prevent unlock gestures from being logged locally on handsets

If you're one of the root-and-ROM brigade, it's also likely that you have a keen eye on what goes on under the hood of your mobile OS. It might, then, come as a surprise to users of CyanogenMod, that a line of code could have been logging your phone-unlock gestures and patterns. Gabriel Castro, a developer involved in the project, was surprised to spot the rogue logging, that seems to have been part of an update regarding grid sizes for screen locks in August.

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Nikon out the mirrorless 1 V2 in North America

Nikon is going full steam ahead in the Mirrorless market and just a year after its first Nikon 1 V1, the Japanese company announced today the new and improved 1 V2. With a design drastically different from the 1 V1, the V2 comes however with a full set of improvements including but not only a new 14.2Mpix Expeed 3A image sensor that will let you shoot amazing slow motion videos at 1200fps but also still pictures at 15fps for 45 continuous frames. The V2 is also capable to shoot 1080 60i and 30p videos and comes with a ISO Range going from 160 up to 6,400 as well as Nikon's Advance Hybrid AF.



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Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant launches on Android, but only on ICS for now

Dragon Go. has been given the elbow, with the slightly more professional sounding Dragon Mobile Assistant taking its place. Nuance has expanded on its predecessor's verbal commands, with new functionality for maps (you'll be able to bark direction requests at the new app and it'll plan the route), alongside a hands-free wake-up feature activated by saying "Hi Dragon" - we hope you have a high embarrassment threshold. Other Siri-esque features include weather updates and dictated SMS and email responses. The beta app can be downloaded from today, although compatibility is limited to Android Ice Cream Sandwich and above for now.

Engadget , Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant launches on Android, but only on ICS for now, Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant launches on Android, but only on ICS for now

GM to patch Chevrolet Volts with firmware update

It looks like cars are not exempt from this thing known as firmware updates now, as General Motors (GM) has announced that their 2013 Chevrolet Volt (approximately 4,000 of these Volt plug-in hybrids were affected) would be on the receiving end of a firmware upgrade, and this exercise can be done after you send your ride back to your dealer. According to Michelle Malcho, a spokeswoman for General Motors, who mentioned over a telephone interview, this firmware upgrade is a must have, just to make sure that your precious new Chevy Volt would not end up stalling when in motion.

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Advantive cuts build and operational costs by 30% with Interoute Virtual Data Centre

Interoute’s IaaS platform delivers scalable, cost efficient cloud computing for Microsoft System IntegratorLondon, 24 October 2012 – Advantive, an international provider of Microsoft based ICT solutions, applications, consultancy and maintenance, has reduced the cost of extending its ICT Application development and production platform by 30% using Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Advantive is also using Interoute VDC to host its Narrowcasting solution InnovationScreen in a SaaS model. Advantive provides innovative ICT solutions, specialist consultancy and maintenance for Microsoft technology.

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Retina MacBook Pro 13 announced

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro has just been announced, where it measures a mere 0.75″ thin – shedding off 20% of its predecessor's thickness, resulting in a net weight of just 3.5 pounds, now how about that. This is clearly the lightest MacBook Pro to date, where it will feature connectivity options such as dual USB 3.0 ports, HDMI output, an SD memory card slot, two Thunderbolt ports and MagSafe 2 support.

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ASUS outs ET2300 all-in-one desktop with articulating, 23-inch touchscreen, optional Thunderbolt

If you're a PC maker launching a new lineup of Windows 8 devices, you're going to look awfully square if you don't have at least one touch-enabled all-in-one to show off. Clearly, ASUS got the memo. Here at a press event in New York City, the company announced the ET2300, a 23-inch desktop whose display can be pushed down to lie basically flat - a pretty ubiquitous form factor these days. Starting with that IPS screen, it has 1080p resolution and promises horizontal viewing angles of 178 degrees. Under the hood, it runs your choice of Core i3, i5 or i7 processor, with either integrated Intel graphics or NVIDIA's GT 630M GPU.

Engadget , ASUS outs ET2300 all-in-one desktop with articulating, 23-inch touchscreen, optional Thunderbolt, ASUS outs ET2300 all-in-one desktop with articulating, 23-inch touchscreen, optional Thunderbolt

Honda warns dealers to clear out 2012 Civic stock, 2013 emergency refresh on sale Nov. 29

Thanks to an anonymous tipster, Autoblog has learned that the so-called "emergency refresh" of the Honda Civic is just around the corner. In fact, the automaker is already urging its dealers to clear out remaining 2012 model year stock because "The changes made to the 2013 model will make the outgoing 2012 Civic a difficult model [to] sell when they are side to side." Those are the words of David Hendley, Assistant Vice President of Honda National Sales excerpted from a recent letter to dealers.

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Apple Store taken down before 'little' event

Don't worry, we know.

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LG Introduces Windows 8 Slider Laptop and All-In-One PC

LG is the latest to introduce its Windows 8-compatible devices, consisting of the V325 all-in-one PC and a laptop that slides into a tablet. The 11.6-inch LG H160 hybrid PC features an LG-made IPS panel, up to 178 degrees of visibility, an auto-slide button, and just 15.9mm thickness despite having a built-in keyboard. It also comes with HDMI output, a USB port, a microSD card slot, WiFi connectivity, and a battery life of up to 10 hours.
Meanwhile, the LG V325 all-in-one comes with a 23-inch touchscreen display with up to 10-point touch sensitivity.

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Pre-orders for Microsoft Surface with Windows RT start shipping

If you're one of the many people who pre-ordered Microsoft's Surface with Windows RT, you could be getting your tablet just in time for its official October 26th ship date - and perhaps even before then. According to a few reader tips and a confirmation email sent to WP Central, those tablets are indeed in the shipping stages and could arrive as early as next week depending on your selected delivery method. While there have been reports of delays in UK and Canada, those were apparently incorrect, and we have no reason to believe the US shipments won't be on time.

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Hyundai shows SEMA-bound Veloster by Ark Performance

Want your car to reflect as well as enable your active lifestyle. Then you may want to check out the ARK Performance "Alpine" concept coming to this year's SEMA show. Ark began with standard 201-horsepower Hyundai Veloster Turbo and, using various bits from the Ark catalog, ramped power up to 232 horses with a torque boost to 240 pound-feet. The extra oomph comes from an ARK exhaust, test pipe and turbo up-pipes, a K&N intake, Nitrous Express Proton kit, Ark oil cooler and a Koyo radiator.

Beneath the coupe is an Ark coilover system, big brake kit and strut bar.

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ARM-powered Chromebook lands at Play store for $249

Samsung's brand new ARM A15-based Chromebook is now available direct from Google at the Play store. The $249 WiFi only laptop was already available to pre-order through Amazon, but now you can go straight to the source, and Mountain View promises to have one of the light-weight machines in your hands within 3-5 business days. If you're more interested in the 3G-equipped version of the 11.6-incher, you'll still have to take your business to Amazon for now. Though, there's still no word on when the $329 laptop will be released.

Engadget , ARM-powered Chromebook lands at Play store for $249, ARM-powered Chromebook lands at Play store for $249

Samsung Cuts LCD Supplier Relationship with Apple

It's over. Samsung has announced that it will no longer supply LCD panels to Apple beginning next year. A senior Samsung official, who declined to be identified, told The Korea Times that it was due to “insufficient margins” after Apple updated its supply pricing strategy.

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Fujitsu Floral Kiss Ultrabook

The Fujitsu Floral Kiss ultrabook comes with pre-installed Windows 8 apps like a digital scrapbook for collecting website bookmarks, a diary and a daily horoscope checker. Available in “feminine pink” and “luxury brown”, the laptop features an Intel Core i5 processor and a 500GB hard disk drive. The Fujitsu Floral Kiss also provides access to My Cloud, Fujitsu's proprietary personal cloud service. No word on pricing at this time.

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Small Jeep and Fiat SUVs to be built in Italy

In a bid to fill some of its empty Italian production capacity, Fiat plans to build a pair of small SUVs at its plant in Melfi starting in 2014, according to Automotive News Europe. With most Chrysler plants running at or near full capacity, the Melfi facility will probably build the new Fiat and Jeep SUVs for export to North America. The final decision could come as soon as this weekend. The new small Jeep is expected to replace the Patriot and/or Compass, which are both produced in Chrysler's Belvidere, Illinois plant.

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Joyetech EGO-T e-Cigarette review

Quick hands up please, how many Gadgeteer readers smoke.  Another quick poll, how many have tried to give up.  I know I have, multiple times.  I've tried Nicotine Replacement Treatment (NRT) in the form of gum, hypnotism, cold turkey (not smoking, not the meat ) and Zyban. Yet after 30 years I'm still smoking.  Well I've now been cigarette free for 3 weeks with the help of the Joyetech EGO-T e-cigarette.  From day one of receiving this item I haven't picked up a smoke or even been tempted.




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