?Find Friends Nearby?: Facebook?s New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You [Updated]

fb friendshake 2 editedFacebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Currently Initially called "Friendshake" and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of "find friends nearby" (http://fb.com/ffn), it's another step in Facebook furthering its reach into mobile, and creating services to meet new people -- rather than building up more connectivity with the ones you already know. And, in keeping with Facebook's emphasis on being as ubiquitous as possible, for now it's not being delivered in a native app, but via the mobile web. Update: it's accessible via Facebook's mobile apps, too (see below the break for more details, including comments from the developer). The service comes a little under two months after Facebook announced the acquisition of Glancee, a mobile app that helps users discover people near them with similar interests, whose three founders have now joined Facebook and closed down their app. It is not clear if Friendshake has been created out of that acquisition, or if it has been developed along an altogether different thread -- or how the functions of the two may eventually dovetail.

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Schumacher escapes DRS penalty

Michael Schumacher has retained his podium position in the European Grand Prix after stewards decided to not impose a penalty on him. The German Mercedes driver was under investigation after having used his DRS when the yellow flags were on track on the final lap following the crash between Lewis Hamilton and Pastor Maldonado.

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Competition Style Surfing - Red Bull Future Surf Camp 2012 Australia

In the second episode of the Red Bull Future Surf Camp, Mick and the groms head to Forster Tuncurry where they score some perfect waves. The aspiring pros hit the waves to take on pro contest style heat surfing, with Mick and his team of experts on the beach providing insight and tips. Watch the impressive young guns shred! http://redbull.com.au

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Machine Speak: Robot Baby Learns Words

It's a cute little robot learning how to say "green" and "blue." And as part of a major project undertaken by robotics researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, it's also promising to transform perceptions of how robots -- and humans -- learn language. DeeChee, which is built to look, act and learn like a 6-to-14-month-old child, is the subject of a new research report.

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Because not everyone watches live, Tomorrowish is ?first social media DVR?

Over a year ago we wrote about Tweeplayer, then in beta, a technology that lets you play back tweets in sync with a TV show. The company, which changed its name to Tomorrowish, has become an important social TV tool for a social web that can spoil content for you in a second. After all, time-shifted playback is one of the biggest challenges facing social viewing today.

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Sony patent filing for glasses would share data face to face, carry more than a hint of Project Glass

Sony patent filing for glasses would scan realworld tags, carry more than a hint of Project Glass

Google might not realize it, but Project Glass isn't alone in the patent race these days. Sony has quietly applied for a patent on a familiar-looking smart glasses system whose advantage over Mountain View would be an emphasis on things in twos. Eyepieces are the most obvious, but Sony is also keen on sharing data between two friends: transmitters on a pair of glasses would send personal info through a likely very uncomfortable glance at someone else with the same eyewear. If your friends are more than a little weirded out from sharing by staring, the proposed glasses could still pick up information from visual tags on posters, products and virtually anything else. There's even the obligatory connection to a watch for sharing data with the rest of the world. Whether or not the patent leads to Sony head-mounted technology more advanced than a personal 3D TV is still up in the air, especially with Google currently hogging the spotlight... not that existing, more conservative designs have ever stopped Sony from rolling out wild concepts before.

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Intel aims at exascale computing by 2018 with Xeon Phi chips

Intel on Monday introduced a high-performance chip family called Xeon Phi, which provides a stepping stone for the company to reach the milestone of creating an exaflop computer by 2018.

A chip code-named Knights Corner will be the first Xeon Phi processor released by Intel later this year. Targeted at supercomputers, Knights Corner will have more than 50 cores and deliver power consumption breakthroughs while scaling performance when conducting complex calculations, said Rajeeb Hazra, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of technical computing.

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