As reported on Mashable. by Brian Anthony Hernandez jOBS, the independent film about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will arrive in theaters in April, the movie’s distributors announced Thursday. The film — not to be confused with the one Sony Pictures is creating based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late tech luminary — will star Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and is still slated to premiere this month on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival. Along with…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Some of the most common New Year’s resolutions people make are to decrease their debt (or get out entirely) and to lose weight or get healthy. Before you embark on either of those, make sure that the other isn’t getting in the way and you’re not spending money losing weight. You can have both, you just have to be careful. Over at US News Money, Geoff Williams explains that many…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski 6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money Ever scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a few of the worst offenders. Technology myths spread through a number of channels. Perhaps it’s as…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Roger S. Gil Denial may be the biggest way we lie to ourselves. While it can help, we often do more harm than good when we refuse to accept the truth and enable maladaptive behaviors and relationships. Here’s how denial works, how it affects your choices, and what you can do to fix the problem. What Is Denial? Full size Denial is a psychological defense mechanism that helps a person…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Jacob Tomsky I’ve worked in hotels for more than a decade. I’ve checked you in, checked you out, oriented you to the property, served you a beverage, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service (before and, sadly, after), cleaned your toilet, denied you a late checkout, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&M’s out of your minibar, laughed at your jokes, and…
As reported on Wired. BY BRANDON KEIM Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquetFather of Fractals. Less appreciated, though, is the process underlying his work: Mandelbrot relied as much for guidance on visual imagery as whiteboard formulae. Primitive computer printouts were his maps to uncharted mathematical terrain, their dot-matrix patterns a “here be dragons”…
As reported on Wired. BY KARISSA BELL Photo: Matthew Reamer Finally, skiing minus all that cold wet snow. With inflatable tires, elaborately adjustable bindings that allow your heels to lift, and optional ski-style poles, Skikes are designed to replicate cross-country skiing. But unlike conventional Nordic skis, they work indoors. So now we can pretend the cubicle aisles are snow trails. OK, the janitors keep griping about the shredded paper we sprinkle around to enhance the…
As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN A Navy diver in Mideast waters inspects an anti-mine system, October 2012. This is exactly the sort of thing the Navy wants a robot to do instead. Photo: Flickr/U.S. Navy The Navy’s next wave of robots will take on one of the most dangerous missions on the open water: destroying mines. Anti-mine warfare is a critical mission for the Navy, as nations like Iran can mess with the…
As reported on Wired. BY CLIVE THOMPSON The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge were meant to capture motion. Decades later, GIFs enabled his photos to be put in motion. Dwight dancing on The Office is great. Dwight dancing in an unstoppable GIF loop is positively epic. A kitten in Japan who injured her jaw (she’s fine), OMG Cat catapulted to internet stardom when Justin Bieber parodied her expression as part of an April Fools’ Day prank. Originally pulled from a Conan…
As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft has officially responded to Google’s planned Gmail ActiveSync removal in a statement issued to The Verge today. The company says it has been left “surprised and disappointed” by Google’s decision that will affect the syncing of personal Gmail contacts and calendar for new WIndows Phone devices. Microsoft briefly responded to Google’s decision late last year, but today’s statement appears to indicate that the company has no plans to support Gmail contacts and calendar…