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Also known as the Galaxy Portal in the UK, Samsung's i5700 is today officially entering the Eclair portion of its Android existence. We got a nice leak of the 2.1 ROM in February, whose small glitches will no doubt have been ironed out in this official release. You'll need to either hook up to the Samsung neural network using their proprietary PC Studio 7 software to leech the upgrade or just buy a new handset -- it all depends on the ratio between your disposable time and income. Guess this will make the Spica that little bit more seductive to Rogers customers, who only just got the option to own the handset last week. Full PR after the break.

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As of December, RealD cinemas alone served 100 million moviegoers, and even if the vast majority recycle, that's still a ton (probably several thousand tons, in fact) of plastic 3D glasses. According to a company called Ceroplast, those glasses aren't biodegradable; if so many as 10 million pairs end up in a landfill, it would result in C02 emissions equivalent to burning 50,000 gallons of gasoline. Of course, Ceroplast wouldn't be quoting statistics if it didn't have a greener solution. Under the brand of partner Oculus3D (whose co-founder Lenny Lipton is RealD's former CTO), it's presently making biodegradable polarized shades out of polylactic acid that it intends to deploy -- along with the company's proprietary OculR projectors -- as early as summer of this year. As for which theatres you should expect to see them in, well, we're still in the dark on that one.

Oculus3D vies to be be the greener solution in disposable 3D shades originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Few can build 'em like Benjamin Heckendorn. Fewer still bother to try. Two college kids managed to do a bang-up job anyhow building this fully loaded, Jasper-juiced Xbox 360 laptop. With a built-in 17-inch Gateway monitor, keyboard, functioning Xbox Live camera and Wireless Network Adapter, this brick hits all the right notes -- yet remains remarkably stylish for a learn-as-you-go student project. If you agree, you can read a remarkably detailed account of how they built it at the source link, see a proof-of-completion video after the break, or even further their education by purchasing the mean machine on eBay for your very own.

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dcollins writes "Researchers at Denison University in Ohio have shown that giving PlayStations to young boys leads to slower progress in reading and writing skills. Quoting: 'The study is the first controlled trial to look at the effects of playing video games on learning in young boys. That is to say, the findings aren't based on survey data of kids' game habits, but instead on a specific group of children that were randomly assigned to receive a PlayStation or not ... Those with PlayStations also spent less time engaged in educational activities after school and showed less advancement in their reading and writing skills over time than the control group, according to tests taken by the kids. While the game-system owners didn't show significant behavioral problems, their teachers did report delays in learning academic skills, including writing and spelling.'"

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After a nearly two-week search that concluded in California, authorities arrested yesterday a New Jersey man who they believe is a central figure in the torture slayings of a young couple found buried behind a Camden rowhouse last month.

TRENTON - A New Jersey appeals court ruled yesterday that a conservative tea-party group should have the right to try to throw a U.S. senator out of office, but also said the group may have to wait for a final decision by a higher court before proceeding.

When surveillance cameras twice captured images of a Philadelphia woman using a toilet in a Cherry Hill holding cell during her arrest on drunken-driving charges, police followed proper protocol, authorities said yesterday.

Kim Ferlazzo, 45, juggles three jobs - as a supermarket cashier, a notary public, and a substitute teacher - to try to provide for her family.

An injunction sought by the family of a Haddonfield High School student challenging an off-campus drug-and-alcohol policy was rejected yesterday by a state administrative law judge.

As soon as his daughter left home to pick up her boyfriend at Lenape High School on Monday, Lee Ormerod got a feeling.

Just two weeks into his job as Burlington County's new administrator, Paul Drayton Jr. faces questions over his personal finances - and one freeholder is calling for his dismissal.

When Gov. Christie told school districts yesterday afternoon they should expect aid cuts up to 5 percent of their overall budgets, Jim Devereaux, the Cherry Hill district's assistant superintendent of business, couldn't believe what he was hearing.

TRENTON - Gov. Christie proposed a budget yesterday that he said would chart a "historic new course" for New Jersey by sharply reducing spending and holding down taxes, doing so by cutting deeply into state programs for the needy and suspending property-tax rebates for 2010.

The fight over whether to tax sugared beverages moves to a new front today as City Council hears testimony on whether the proposed levy will put people out of work.

The woman had just had an abortion at Kermit Gosnell's clinic. Her heart had stopped and ambulance workers couldn't get her out a locked clinic door. So they cut a padlock and had to wait for staff to find a key to a second lock.

When you walk into her high school, the first thing you see are bars on the windows, student Mariah Porter said.

It is the type of case that challenges the scales of justice like few others. A doting parent - or a trusted babysitter or caregiver - inexplicably forgets a child inside a vehicle, where rising temperatures quickly kill the youngster.

Charlie Baltimore eyed the pizza in the cafeteria of the High School of the Future with simmering contempt. "In a year," the school administrator vowed, "we're going to eliminate pizza."

In this System Builder Marathon, we get to make a great $1,500 Core i7-920 enthusiast PC and then pit it against the Core i5-750 system from our previous series. Is the extra money for the Core i7-920 worthwhile, or can the Core i5-750 go the distance?



Intel Core i7 - Intel Core i5 - Personal computer - CoreI7-920 - Newegg