Week in science: neutrino detectors and clam reproduction edition
Ars photo essay: standing in the beam line of a neutrino detector: Join us as we travel underground at Fermilab, get bombarded by neutrinos that can't be bothered to interact with us, and get some photos of the detectors that capture these enigmatic particles.
Understanding why Japan's recent quake defied expectations: Three papers piece together what happened during the March earthquake in Japan, and raise cautions about other subduction faults around the world.
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Smartphone makers bow to demands for more openness
For many Android enthusiasts, "openness" is almost an 11th commandment. So when manufacturers began restricting full access to Android smartphones a couple years ago, many saw it as a cardinal sin. Good news for you smartphone modders: some manufacturers are beginning to see the light.
"Today, I'm confirming we will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices," wrote HTC CEO Peter Chou in a Facebook post on Thursday evening. "There has been overwhelmingly [sic] customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones."
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G8 summit: laws apply on Internet just like "everywhere else"
The G8 group of countries—France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan, Canada, Russia, and the US—met this week in Deauville, France to talk about a huge list of issues, including the Internet. In a lengthy statement released at the end of Friday's meeting, the countries agreed on a 22-paragraph communiqué in which they lay out their view of the Internet—and make clear that laws apply in cyberspace exactly as they do in the real world.
The document says plenty of good things about free expression, the democratizing power of the Internet, and the need for "non-discrimination and fair competition." It also notes that these goods “must be included in a broader framework” of respect for the law and of protection for intellectual property.
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Patent troll Lodsys also threatening Android devs
Two weeks ago, IP holding company Lodsys made waves by targeting small, independent iOS developers in a campaign to claim patent licensing fees for the use of in-app purchasing. That same company is now going after Android developers, citing the same dubious patent claims as the basis for requiring individual developers to pay for licensing of its patent.
Lodsys sent letters to at least a dozen iOS developers informing them that their use of Apple's in-app purchase APIs constituted infringement of its US Patent #772,078, "Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network." Lodsys claims this patent covers anything that might constitute an in-app upgrade button, and that Apple already licenses these patents, but the license does not extend to individual developers that implement in-app purchasing in their apps.
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Intel exec throws fuel on the "Intel to fab Apple chips" rumor fire
At an investor event in London, remarks by Intel CFO Stacy Smith gave a boost to the recent rumor that Intel may be in talks with Apple to fabricate the ARM-based chips that go into iPhones and iPads.
"If Apple or Sony came to us and said 'I want to do a product that involves your IA (Intel architecture) core and put some of my IP around it,' I wouldn't blink. That would be fantastic business for us," said Smith in a Q&A session with journalists.
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