Friday, July 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
The BBC reports that soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, England are using an iPad application to practice firing artillery at an enemy who is several miles away.
“If we can use this sort of technology, we can probably shorten the amount of training and that is pretty key nowadays when people are so committed to operations in Afghanistan,” said Major Rich Gill, an army training officer involved with introducing the application.
“...if we can use this to reduce the amount of training it’ll be fantastic.”
Continue reading Soldiers use iPad for war training.
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
The new Mac Pro will go on sale Monday, August 9th, according to Apple.
The updated machine features up to twelve cores and was announced Tuesday.
The new Mac Pro with a stock configuration will retail for $2,499.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 06:04 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
In-Q-Tel, an independent non-profit that invests for the CIA and Google Ventures are both independently supporting the same budding web analysis and prediction firm.
The upstart is Recorded Future, a Cambridge, MA-based company led by former Swedish Army Ranger and doctor of computer science, Christopher Ahlberg.
Recorded Future studies the internet to identify present and future relationships between events, individuals, groups, and actions.
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says CEO Christopher Ahlberg.
Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel both invested in Recorded Future in 2009, reports Wired, with undisclosed amounts under $10 million each.
Continue reading CIA, Google invest in web prediction.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 03:23 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Apple is seeking a senior software engineer to help build “a revolutionary new feature in the very foundations of Mac OS X.”
“We have something truly revolutionary and really exciting in progress and it is going to require your most creative and focused efforts ever,” reads the job description.
“An ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), five years of professional experience developing C / C++ / Objective-C libraries or frameworks for use on end user systems, experience with developing for Internet technologies and services, and a passion for doing ‘really hard’ things that have never been done before.”
Continue reading Job opening hints of new major Mac OS X feature.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 02:00 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
A survey of 300,000 iPhone and Android applications conducted recently by mobile security research firm Lookout indicates that 33% of free App Store apps can provide information on a user’s location.
Furthermore, 14% of free, Apple-approved App Store software can access users’ contacts and 23% include code from third-party sources.
Lookout presented their findings, produced from what they call “the largest mobile application dataset ever created,” at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Continue reading Study: 14 percent of free App Store software can browse user contacts.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
An FCC filing brought to light Wednesday reveals a device Sprint hopes will penetrate some of the Apple iPod touch market.
The Peel, a ZTE-made 3G-to-WiFi hotspot device that functions as an iPod touch case, would give the iPod and adjacent machines a constant 3G connection without the need for MiFi.
The Peel has a separate battery and would likely be charged with a mini-USB port, according to MacNN.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 09:57 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Two patent applications reported on by AppleInsider suggest future iPhones may use photo and video data coupled with motion sensing and GPS to generate three dimensional models of an environment which a user could then navigate “in an order other than that of the recording.”
“By walking with the device in the user’s real environment, a user can virtually navigate a representation of a three-dimensional environment,” reads one application titled “Generating a Three-Dimensional Model using a Portable Electronic Device Recording.”
Continue reading Future iPhone to render 3D environments?
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 08:17 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
MacNN reports that problems achieving the correct paint thickness on the front panel of the white iPhone 4 may have been solved, according to a source.
The new iPhone demands that the paint be applied to the front panel “in a way that doesn’t affect the proximity sensor or create light bleeds.”
Having conquered this obstacle, the source reports, Apple could be ready to start shipping the white iPhone 4 very soon.
