Sigma's unique dp2 Quattro camera can be yours in August for $999

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/12/sigma-dp2-quattro/

The dp2 Quattro is a strange looking camera. Its extra-wide design is quite unusual, but if Sigma's CEO is to believed, the 29-megapixel shooter will deliver superior image quality thanks to its unique sensor design. The Quattro layers pixels in order to capture red, green and blue colors vertically -- there's no need for interpolation, resulting in shaper, more vibrant photos. The company claims that the dp2 can output an equivalent of 39 megapixels, based on tests that pit the chip against traditional sensors. The dp2 is expected to ship in early August for $999, including a fixed 30mm (45mm equivalent) f/2.8 lens. Pricing info for the dp1 and dp3, which come with permanently attached 19mm and 50mm lenses, respectively, is not yet available.

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Amazon launches free streaming music service for Prime members

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/12/amazon-launches-free-streaming-music-service-for-prime-members/

It looks like the rumors were true: Amazon has just launched Amazon Prime Music with a million-plus songs and unlimited streaming with no ads or restrictions. As we noted earlier, the service is free to Prime members (only in the US for now) who've paid $79 to $119 for a subscription, and Amazon clearly hopes that it'll be yet another carrot to lure new subscribers. You'll also be able to download music to listen offline, which will be available on Kindle Fire, iOS, Android and Mac/PC devices anywhere, thanks to Amazon's Cloud Player -- now known as Amazon Music. The site has already been stocked with hundreds of "expertly programmed" playlists like "Powerful Women of Pop" and we were able to successfully sign up and start listening ourselves. Note that while a million songs sounds like a lot, Spotify currently has 20 million songs and Deezer has 30 million. In addition, the site doesn't seem to carry much! new mus ic yet, with quite a few songs in the Billboard Top 100 missing. Still, given other Prime perks like free shipping, streaming and the lending library, it might be enough.

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Cheap, tiny robots serve as terrain scouts for expensive ones (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/11/uc-berkeley-eth-zurich-robots/

Big robots like Cheetah and Big Dog cost a lot to make, so it would be such a shame if they get put out of commission after slipping on, say, a patch of ice. To prevent that from happening, UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich researchers propose sending a team of small, expendable robots ahead of the big, expensive one to scout terrain conditions -- in the event that they do get used for real missions, that is. The researchers demonstrated their idea at the IEEE robotics conference in Hong Kong, where they used UC Berkeley's tiny cardboard robot called VelociRoACH to do recon work for ETH Zurich's StarlETH.

They loaded the smaller machine with the ability to send back terrain data to the bigger quadruped, which, in turn, is equipped with a camera to monitor its minion's location. Thanks to this kind of setup, the scout robot can tell the main unit if an area's too unstable to step on, and the bigger machine can avoid that exact spot. During real missions, that'll probably mean losing scouts along the way, but that's the idea anyway: sacrifice cheap robots for the sake of the multi-million creation.

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An Austrian Teen Discovered The Vulnerability That Set Off TweetDeck's Outage

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/austrian-teen-tweetdeck-outage-2014-6

TweetDeck was down for about an hour Wednesday while the company was fixing a vulnerability allowing cross site scripting attacks (XSS) that caused a tweet with some code and a little heart in it to be retweeted over and over.

The script in the tweet was being rendered as code in users' browsers. Attackers could execute code (like making an account automatically retweet) on anyone's computer just by tweeting it out. 

TweetDeck fixed the vulnerability, which may have first been discovered by an Austrian teen. The Verge reports that at 8:05 this morning, the Twitter account @FiroXL, which belongs to a 19-year-old named Florian, tweeted a Javascript tag along with a heart symbol and a German phrase that means something along the lines of "I wonder if this will work":

He basically discovered that if he included the heart in his tweet, TweetDeck would execute Javascript or HTML from plaintext (that's why all the spammy tweets you saw in your timeline had hearts at the end of them). As soon as he discovered the vulnerability, he tweeted "Discovered vulnerability in TweetDeck." 

From there, other Twitter users started using the technique. TweetDeck shut down its service while it made the security fixes necessary to fix the bug.  

SEE ALSO: A String Of Disasters At PayPal Has Capped eBay's Toughest Year Ever

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