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Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad, courtesy of puzzle app Triple Entendre! May 14th 2012, 15:01 Finally, a contest where everybody gets something for free! The Van Buren Boys, the folks behind addictive iPhone / iPad puzzle app Triple Entendre, is offering up a sparkling new Apple tablet for you to win, alongside eight free titles. If you aren't the lucky winner, don't despair: the company has made the game completely free for a limited time to spread the word about its latest update, so head here to download your copy. And as always, good luck! Continue reading Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad, courtesy of puzzle app Triple Entendre! Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad, courtesy of puzzle app Triple Entendre! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Data Killer tuns hard drives into blank slates with the push of a button (video) May 14th 2012, 14:36 Let's say you're embroiled in an international tale of espionage and intrigue, and you've got hard drives filled with incriminating evidence and top secret information. You could dispose of that potentially dangerous data by manually wiping each disk with multiple passes of a disk erasing app or, you could pop them in the Data Killer and be done with it in seconds. Platform of Japan demonstrated the information obliterating devices at the Information Security Expo. A large powerful magnet realigns the bits on the surface of the drive's platters eliminating all trace of the data that existed before, without physically damaging the hardware. With just the push of a button a Data Killer can wipe practically any magnetic media, including tapes or an aging floppy disk. The data disposals even come in different sizes, allowing you to kill just a single 3.5-inch disk or up to 14 at a time. The larger models can even accept an intact laptop. Check out the video after the break to see it in action. Continue reading Data Killer tuns hard drives into blank slates with the push of a button (video) Data Killer tuns hard drives into blank slates with the push of a button (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 10:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  DigInfo TV  | Email this | Comments Intel sets sights on 5nm chip; already gearing up fabs for 14nm production May 14th 2012, 14:12 Ivy Bridge, Intel's first generation of chips to use the 22nm fabrication process, is hardly out of the gate, and yet talk has already turned to the company's next manufacturing technologies. According to Xbit Labs, which got its hands on some telltale slides, Paul Otellini et al. have the roadmap for 10nm, 7nm and 5nm processes locked down, and the company is preparing fabs in the states and Ireland to make chips using the 14nm fabrication method. Given that timeframe, Intel says 10nm chips will ship in 2015, with work on 5nm technology beginning that same year. While the slides in question look legit -- and that timeline matches previous reports -- we're not sure just when these mystery slides first made the rounds. Alas, we'll have a good few years to sort 5nm fact from fiction. Intel sets sights on 5nm chip; already gearing up fabs for 14nm production originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 10:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink TechEye  |  Xbit Labs  | Email this | Comments You think your Leica's expensive? This one cost $2.8 million (video) May 14th 2012, 13:49 If you've ever baulked at the price of Leica's rebadged Panasonic cameras, then spare a thought (or some change) for the anonymous buyer of this 1923 0-Series snapper. Vienna's WestLicht Photographica auctions flogged the prototype for €2.16 million ($2.77 million) and is now the most expensive camera ever sold -- beating this $1.9 million 0-Series from last year. If you'd like to see the surprisingly relaxed way the auctioneer handles the recession-baiting sale, head on past the break for the footage. [Thanks, Rakesh] Continue reading You think your Leica's expensive? This one cost $2.8 million (video) You think your Leica's expensive? This one cost $2.8 million (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 09:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Leicarumors  |  WestLicht Photographica  | Email this | Comments China builds $3.7 billion, 1,373 mile power cable, how was your afternoon? May 14th 2012, 13:28 The State Grid corporation of China is constructing a power line capable of transmitting a staggering 37 billion kWh per year. The record-breaking cable stretches from the power rich eastern Hami Prefecture to the energy-starved city of Zhengzhou towards the east. Costing a twitch-inducing $3.7 billion, when it's completed in 2014, it'll be the most capacious link in the world. Rather than rest on that particular laurel, the company is commencing work on a second, slightly smaller line that'll be used to transmit wind and solar power from Hami to the rest of the country -- here we were thinking that skipping our lie-in was an impressive feat. China builds $3.7 billion, 1,373 mile power cable, how was your afternoon? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 09:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink The Register  |  China Daily  | Email this | Comments Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet May 14th 2012, 13:11 Samsung made much ado over the Galaxy S III's 2,100mAh battery, but we've been wondering whether or not that power pack was a major perk or just a necessity to offset that hefty Exynos 4 Quad. One of what looks to be a growing number of escaped pre-release devices was put through the ringer in battery tests and came out looking spic-and-span: it lasted for just over 10 hours for video and voice, or long enough to make even a tablet like the new iPad or Transformer Prime break a sweat. Web browsing wasn't quite so hot, though, which at a bit over five hours was well behind the seven hours of an iPhone 4S. Don't expect the seemingly infinite battery of the Droid RAZR Maxx, and don't be surprised if final devices handle differently, but those with the international Galaxy S III should make it through at least a few interminable meetings watching their favorite reruns... not that we'd condone such a thing. Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 09:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  GSMArena  | Email this | Comments

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