[Some of the content in this entry could not be displayed on this device.] Every work week Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock of DC Brau shovel about 1,500 pounds of soggy grain out of their mash tun. Left to itself, this used-up barley (it resembles “dehydrated oatmeal,” according to Skall) would begin to fester, turning sour and smelly in a day or less. Read full article > >

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Amazon does not say so, but the company is soon likely to release an improved version of the device, which is generating a lot of negative customer feedback.

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Carrier IQ, the company that has been accused of installing surveillance software on smartphones, clarified what its program does in an updated statement to the press late Thursday. “We measure and summarize performance of the device to assist Operators in delivering better service,” the statement read. “While a few individuals have identified that there is a great deal of information available to the Carrier IQ software inside the handset, our software does not record, store or transmit the contents of SMS messages, email, photographs, audio or video.” Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple fans are amped. The computer and gadget maker is expected to announce a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone this week — more than a year after it unveiled the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday morning. The invite says “let’s talk iPhone,” implying the normally secretive company intends to show off the latest version of the device. In the past, Apple has typically introduced a new iPhone during the summer, but this year it was expected to hold off until the fall. Read full article > >

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Amazon’s got something up its sleeve for Wednesday, and the general expectation is that the company will unleash an Android-based tablet unlike any other, with its own, independent flavor of the market-leading operating system. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler reported that he’s had a hands-on session with the device and that it will be a 7-inch slate with a backlit, capacitive color touchscreen. Sounds pretty standard for an Android tablet, right? Maybe even less functional than your average Android slab, since Siegler reports that the tablet will have no camera and will be WiFi only. Read full article > >

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Questions arise about the device’s future.

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BlackBerry Maker Stock Plummets

Just 16 months after announcing the acquisition of Palm, HP has said today that it will “discontinue operations for webOS devices.” What this means for existing stock of the slow-selling TouchPad and the brand new Pre 3 is unclear, but the company does say that it will “continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward” — not exactly rosy language for webOS’ future as a consumer platform. In fact, it seems like a strong possibility that HP is done with webOS altogether — it’d be an odd play to keep it relegated to printers and the enterprise side of the business if it’s not going to be involved on the device side. Licensing to third parties remains a possibility, but we haven’t heard anything on that front. Read full article > >

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It’s not just for the very obese any more: Now, slightly less heavy Americans can use the Lap-Band, the device that helps shrink stomachs and provides an alternative to the more invasive gastric-bypass surgery. The device’s manufacturer, Allergan, said…

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Fraser Speirs, the software developer behind FlickrExport, Viewfinder, and a number of other products, has been visiting and talking with schools who are interested in using Apple’s iPad to help create a better learning environment, but aren’t sure how. Speirs, who teaches computing at Cedars School of Excellence, has found that most schools simply replace old PC labs with iPad labs and aren’t using the tablet the way it was meant to be used. I speak to a lot of schools who envisage the iPad in the roles that PCs formerly occupied. The “laptop trolley” becomes an “iPad trolley”. The “checkout netbooks” become the “checkout iPads”. The “PC lab” becomes the “iPad lab”. That’s not how the iPad is designed and, it seems to me, the iPad is an extremely uncomfortable fit for those roles defined in an earlier era. The iPad is not another “thing” to have in your classroom in the way that you might buy one thermometer for every seat in your science lab. You can’t easily share an iPad the way you might have pupils share a digital camera. The iPad is an intensely personal device. In its design intent it is, truly, much more like a “big iPhone” than a “small laptop”. The iPad isn’t something you pass around. It’s not really designed to be a “resource” that many people take advantage of. It’s designed to be owned, configured to your taste, invested in and curated. The idea that you can use an iPad without leaving a data footprint on the device is not outright wrong, but such an approach to this device will either lead to confusion or a lot of time taken up with “restoring” iPads back to known-clean backup images. Hardware sharing is a solved problem on Macs and PCs with multiple-user operating systems. iOS, for better or for worse, simply isn’t that kind of OS. Read the full story at Fraser Speirs . H/T Daring Fireball .

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Roger Ebert has a new prosthetic chin after losing much of his lower jaw to cancer in 2006. The silicone piece was sculpted to look like his face before his surgery. “This device would fit over my lower face and neck and, colored to match my skin,…

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Finally: On Tuesday, Verizon will announce their plans to carry the iPhone. The announcement, at a private event in New York City, marks the end of AT&T’s three-year hold on the device, but Verizon may be losing money this year with the new…

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More than 20% of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator — a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias — in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests.

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A bomb was found on a train in Rome on Tuesday, although it appears that the device could not have been detonated. It was found in a train at a station in Rebibbia, on Rome’s outskirts. Security teams were called in but the station was not evacuated….

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Where do we sign-up? Google’s upcoming laptop, the CR-48, which will run on its Chrome operating system, won’t be for sale until mid-2011, but they’ll soon inaugurate a pilot program that will provide the device to some individuals and businesses. The…

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Virgin bossRichard Branson launches a digital magazine for Apple’s iPad, ahead of the expected debut of a digital newspaper for the device.

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