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Science
Real Mouse Navigates Quake 2 Using A Trackball
8:50AM Dan Nosowitz | Neuroscientists at Princeton created a new way to study the neurons of the classic mouse-in-a-maze: Strap it to a suspended ball and have it run through a virtual maze. That first virtual maze? Derived from a Quake 2 level. More »
Gadgets
Princeton Students Hate The Kindle DX
7:00AM Adam Frucci | Bad news for Amazon, who’s hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversized Kindle DX: the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans. More »
Hardware
Data Encryption Easily Broken Using Keys Hiding In RAM
11:45AM Wilson Rothman | Scientists at Princeton have discovered a way to grab otherwise-protected data encryption keys from memory on a computer that’s just been powered down. This is pretty scary stuff, since the keys—which are well protected when the computer is on—are the one thing that keeps super-tight encryption from cracking. More »
Entertainment
Exclusive: The Secret Sauce That Goes Into an OLED High Def TV
9:00AM Wilson Rothman | UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course, the US Department of Defense. No one’s written about how they make these displays, panels that’ll make up our next generation of super-slim HDTVs, until now. This week, Benny and I visited Universal Display Corporation’s headquarters in Princeton, NJ for an exclusive tour of the factory, where we witnessed just how they make ‘em. More »
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Tiny Bluetooth Adapter is Mostly USB, Smallest Ever?
6:20AM Jason Chen | This Princeton Bluetooth adapter is probably the smallest USB adapter we’ve seen yet, being made of mostly a USB tip and a tiny little body. The USB adapter works on both PCs and Macs, has Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and sticks out only a tiny bit so you don’t accidentally snap it off. If our laptops didn’t already have Bluetooth, we’d be on this faster than Big Daddys on Little Sisters. [Princeton] More »
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