Brits left unaffected by last month’s US launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 can now get in on the Ice Cream Sandwich action: the silver version of the tablet recently landed at Carphone Warehouse in the UK, and the white model is reportedly coming on May 18th.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 lands at UK’s Carphone Warehouse

Were you asleep at mission control during Endeavor’s final flight ?

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Artificial Space Shuttle Explorer readies for launch at sea, journey to Houston

Oh, how we will miss New Orleans. It’s been a long and busy week in the Big Easy as tens of thousands of calories were sacrificed in the name of bringing you the most comprehensive coverage of CTIA’s annual spring show

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CTIA Wireless 2012 wrap-up

China’s search giant Baidu has already got its foot in the mobile platform door , now it plans to wedge it open a little further. Reuters report that the firm will be announcing a new partnership next week that will involve a new smartphone running an updated version of its mobile operating system , this time called Baidu Cloud. There’s no word right now on who is supplying the hardware, with vice president Wang Jing only going as far to say it’s in talks with “global” manufacturers.

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Baidu announces new smartphone partnership, stops short of saying who with (update: ZTE?)

SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace are teaming up to cross-promote their private aerospace tech. The duo are kicking off a tour in Asia to drum up governmental and business support for the Falcon 9 rocket and BA’s BA 330 floating habitat

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SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace drum up support for the space hotel of the future

For an upgrade with a fairly underwhelming number like 0.8.3 attached, the latest version of the Spotify desktop client brings the goods. First up is much requested the ability to create radio stations based on playlists or albums, with the click of a button (that would be the Start Playlist Radio or Start Album Radio button, for the record), generating a queue of similar music. A new boost to search brings up music in the main view when you hover over it in search results, while embeddable HTML codes have been added to right click functionality

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Spotify offers up playlist radio stations and more with latest upgrade

Per usual, the Dev-Team whiz-kids have been hard at work trying to make your jailbroken iOS life a tad bit easier.

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Redsn0w 0.9.11b1 now allows post-iPad 2 devices to downgrade to an older firmware

If you were still holding out for those 3D-erific videos of cute dogs and sumo wrestlers for your American 3DS via Nintendo’s “Itsu no Ma ni Terebi” service, bad news just got badder. In short, it’s not coming

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Nintendo to pull the plug on 3D TV service in Japan

Looking for the real dirt behind all the salacious, earth-shaking news from the Cellular Telephone Industries Association’s 2012 throwdown? You won’t find it here, and that’s only because you won’t find it any where, because there wasn’t any. What we can offer instead, though, is a recording of two men having a startlingly civil and even-tempered discussion about the issues such a dearth leaves in its wake

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Engadget Podcast 293 – 05.11.2012

Sprint may already count the LG Optimus Elite among its roster of smartphones, but today that handset is finding a second home at Virgin Mobile. The $150 Gingerbread-powered device is now up for pre-order, and Virgin says it will start shipping on May 15th. Though the 3.5-inch HVGA display, 800MHz CPU and 5-MP rear camera aren’t exactly impressive specs, the Optimus Elite stands out as the carrier’s first phone to include NFC and Google Wallet for mobile payments.

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LG Optimus Elite on pre-order at Virgin Mobile; carrier’s first NFC phone in the US