Skype 5 for Mac leaves something to be desired -- we know it, you know it, and looks like Skype knows it too. That's why our fav VoIP app is soliciting the help of you, the people, to improve its UI. Skype's running a competition to find the one chat style to rule them all, and it starts taking custom CSS submissions April 8th. The contest has three rounds, with one judges' and one people's choice in each, followed by the selection of a grand prize winner from the six finalists. People's champs get an Apple TV and those picked by the judges snag a WiFi iPad 2, and all the winners get a copy of CSS3 for Web Designers and a year's subscription to Skype Unlimited World Extra. The grand prize is an eleven-inch MacBook Air, an iPad2, and the ego boost that comes with knowing your chat style forged in the flames of competition will be included in a coming release of Skype. Up to the challenge? Hit the source link for the full details.

Skype wants the people to fix Skype 5 for Mac, will you answer the call? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sometimes humor is the best mechanism to explain an opaque topic. Public Knowledge, a group that concerns itself with defending consumer rights in ?the emerging digital culture,? has released a report today entitled ?Peak Bandwidth.? Keep in mind today's date, is all I have to say. The report says that the ?era of plentiful, low-cost bandwidth is approaching an end. The supply of bits, the raw material of our information economy, is rapidly dwindling? unless mitigation is orchestrated on a timely basis, the economic damage to the world economy will be dire and long-lasting.? You hear that, we're running out of bits!

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Today?s LogicBUY deal offers savings on the newly released Dell XPS 8300 desktop with Core i5-2300 2.8GHz Quad core cpu, Wireless-N, 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5450.  Optional upgrades include: Intel 2011 Core i5/i7 processors, up to 16GB memory, Blu-ray, ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 discrete graphics, and more. Recommended configuration:  $1147.99 – $298 off [...]

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Before we all get in a huff about this, Google has been very eager to point out that the facial recognition app it's developing will work on a strictly opt-in basis. That means if you don't want it to scan all of Facebook, Flickr and the rest of Google's vast hoards of internet knowledge to find you, identify you, and collate your name, phone number and email address into a handy data sheet, it won't. Okay? So relax now, everything's fine. Seriously though, Google's latest research venture sounds like a dashing stride into a minefield of privacy concerns as it aims to use people's faces to instantly identify them and provide any salient info about them. Project leader Hartmut Neven, whose company Neven Vision was gobbled up by Google in 2006, says the team is being very cautious in how it addresses people's rather apt apprehension, but he insists there's actually great value in having a face-recognizing and data-mining app. Great value for the app's user, perhaps, but we'd rather just stick to business cards, if you ask us.

Update: Google has reached out to clarify that there are no plans to introduce functionality of this sort yet, not without "a strong privacy model in place." More importantly, however, the linking of facial recognition to personal data is described as "inventions of the reporter" rather than something the company's actively pursuing.

Google working on a face recognition app that leads to your personal info? (update: Google says 'no') originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researchers at U.C. Berkeley are working on new chip that could analyze a drop of blood to detect hundreds of illnesses, including HIV, all at once and in minutes. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports.

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Researchers at U.C. Berkeley are working on new chip that could analyze a drop of blood to detect hundreds of illnesses, including HIV, all at once and in minutes. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports.

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After weeks of rumors that IBM and various other major IT companies would buy the troubled maker of high-end hardware and the ubiquitous Java, Oracle Corp. announced this morning that it will buy Sun Microsystems, according to sources cited by Reuters....

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Although the iPad 2 isnt the dramatic redesign that some observers had hoped it would be, the company has managed the difficult feat of balancing expectations and economics, and in the process has raised the bar for the competition. The new model includes front- and rear-facing cameras and a new dual-core processor, is lighter and thinner than the original, and is available in any color you want, as long as its black or white. But the pricing hasnt changed from last year: the iPad 2 starts at $499 for the WiFi-only 16GB model, and the top of the line unit (with WiFi, 3G mobile networking from AT&T or Verizon and 64GB of storage memory) still comes in at $829. But will developers will be able to take full advantage of the dual-core processor environment upon the expected release of iOS 5 later this year? If so, the new CPU and the apparent doubling of the devices working RAM to 512MB should open up significant new possibilities and provide users with a more stable platform than the original iPad. - ...

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HeyWire, a service developed by MediaFriends that offers a free SMS service is debuting its Facebook App that will allow Facebook users to send both texts and Tweets via SMS (from a real phone number) from within Facebook. Via the new HeyWire Facebook App, Facebook users can text worldwide without any per messaging fees and Tweet via SMS from within Facebook. Here's how it works. Similar to other free texting apps, HeyWire users are given a real phone number to send and receive unlimited texts with friends and family worldwide.

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Android tablets, everyone's got one, but none are quite like HTC's 7-inch Flyer. Built out of a single piece of aluminum and a great many chunks of silicon, it struts along at a 1.5GHz pace, carries a handy dandy capacitive stylus called Scribe, and offers up a tablet-ified version of HTC's Sense skin on a 1024 x 600 display. It's also the only portable of its kind (so far) to offer the OnLive cloud gaming service. So many features, you'd think someone would go to the effort of summarizing them, perhaps in the form of a stylish video, no? Well, HTC has done exactly that, and its latest product overview vid is embedded for you just after the break.

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