Open source Linux tablet showcases KDE Plasma Active technology

[Updated: Feb. 2] -- Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based & Mer& operating system. The seven-inch & Spark& tablet features a 1GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, an SD slot, and a projected price of about 200 Euros ($262)....

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Skate highlights from the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington

While the fans at Huntington Beach's Nike U.S. Open of Surfing were officially there for the action in the water, some of the best skaters in the sport were throwing down just a few feet from the water's edge. The event hosted two skate comps: the Damn-Am in the street park and the Coastal Carnage in the big blue bowl. Here are highlight videos from both comps. Ben Raybourn ended up taking out the Coastal Carnage, and amateur Dylan Witkn took the Damn-Am.

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Google's Plan to Steal TV's Election Audience

NBC, CBS, ABC: Watch out, Google has you in its sights. If the company has its way, viewers looking to follow the U.S. elections won't tune in to network and cable news outlets - they'll log on to YouTube.

To achieve this, the company launched the YouTube Election Hub, a multi-sourced video channel designed to aggregate coverage and commentary from across media outlets old and new. Alongside clips from the likes of ABC News, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed is a curated feed of videos from other sources. YouTube will also be streaming debates and other important election-related events live from this landing page. 

In 2008, Net-centric viewers could stream the presidential debates from a laptop hooked up to one's TV, but not in a particularly elegant fashion. This year, debates and other key events will all be housed on YouTube's new politics channel, which can be accessed from the browser, AirPlayed to an Apple TV or viewed on any of the native YouTube apps for Boxee, Apple TV or Roku. For cord-cutting Americans who just jumped through hoops to watch the Summer Olympics, the election season should be relatively painless. 

But Google's plan promises to be much more than that: It may be a glimpse of the post-television future. Funneling everything onto one page potentially will give viewers a 360-degree view of November's elections, candidates and issues. By collecting a range of sources and perspectives in a single hub on a very popular site, YouTube will break down the institutional and ideological barriers have have historically existed between outlets. 

It sounds Quixotic, but if anyone can beat the networks at their own game, it's the Google/YouTube colossus. By virtue of its size and relationships with content owners, YouTube stands uniquely positioned to make a major impact. Television is still very much dominant, to be sure. But YouTube has been aggressively repositioning itself to compete more directly with traditional TV, and it has already eclipsed radio as a source of free music among U.S. teens. Depending on how viewers react, the elections may end up being a referendum not only on the state of union, but on the future of television.


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