Day: January 4, 2013

Culture

Bill Gates Is $7 Billion Richer Than He Was A Year Ago

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Julie Bort He’s the second-richest. You read that right. Despite his considerable, praiseworthy charity work, the Microsoft cofounder is getting wealthier. In 2012, he wound up $7 billion ahead with a net worth of $63.4 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index published today. That’s not to say that he isn’t giving a lot of money away. He is. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is working with a $36.2 billion endowment, most of it from Gates.…

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Business

It Took Wired Magazine 20 Years To Get 50% Of Its Ad Sales From The Web

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Jim Edwards Wired Wired magazine was first published in 1993. Built to cover new technology and, especially, the web as it developed in the frenzied late 1990s tech bubble, the magazine has always been a leader in the discussion of how best to monetize new media.  Except when it came to itself, apparently. The magazine only gets half its ad sales revenue from online ads.And that was just this year. Usually, the…

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Entertainment Politics

The Violent Film Roles Of 8 Celebrities Fighting For Gun Control

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna Fox Cameron Diaz is one of a few celebrities to call for tighter gun control. It was later pointed out the actress has starred in a few gun-happy movies. Celebrities were very outspoken about gun control in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting last month.  Late December, many joined together to create a video for the “Demand a Plan” campaign. The movement’s goal is to get Congress to pass legislation that will require gun buyers to…

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Economy

The 10 American Housing Markets That Made Tremendous Turnarounds In 2012

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Mamta Badkar Dave Gates via Flickr The U.S. housing market turned the corner in 2012. The latest home price report from Trulia says home prices were up 5.1 percent year-over-year nationally.  And the pace of increases has also picked up in the year. With home prices up 0.8 percent quarter-over-quarter in Q1, and up 2.3 percent in Q4. We drew on Trulia’s latest report to highlight the top ‘turnaround markets’ of 2012 i.e.…

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Entertainment Film

Video: How Dredd 3D Shot Its Brain-Melting Slow-Mo

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Easily the best part of Dredd 3D (after Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd scowl, obvi) is the slow-mo/Slo-Mo – both the movie’s drug of choice and the camera technique used to create the retina-stimulating scenes that accompany its use. To create those acid-trippy images the filmmakers used a 3-D rig that was outfitted with Phantom Flexhigh-speed cameras capable of shooting at a whopping 3,000 frames per second (and higher). That footage was then…

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Politics Pure News

Connecticut town holds drive to collect and destroy violent video games

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As reported on Polygon. By BRIAN CRECENTE A small community about 30 miles from the site of the Newtown massacre is organizing a voluntary video game return program, aimed at collecting violent video games from families and likely burning them. The Violent Video Games Return Program offers up gift certificates in exchange for violent games, music and movies turned in during an event later this month. The collected items will then be broken and later incinerated…

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Entertainment Film

Meet the Hollywood eccentric who invented high frame rate film 30 years before ‘The Hobbit’

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom Douglas Trumbull tried — and failed — to bring HFR to theaters in the 80s. With digital cinema, he’s getting another chance The hyperreal high frame rate style that came into theaters with The Hobbit is usually described as cutting edge, but it’s older than most of the people buying tickets. HFR has actually had a nearly 40-year journey to the theaters, starting from a small Paramount lab run by Douglas Trumbull.…

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Legal News Tech

Member of file-sharing group given 5 years in prison for uploading movies

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson Jail terms for members of the BitTorrent-based movie-sharing group iMAGiNE continue to set records: Wired reports that Jeramiah Perkins, who helped lead the group, has been given a 60-month sentence for his role in helping to record and distribute movies online during their theatrical run. Perkins’ sentence exceeds the 40-month one given to fellow member Gregory Cherwonik, making it the longest American jail sentence for file sharing. In their original indictment (PDF),…

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Engineering News

‘Lego Axle Sorter’ is a mesmerizing miniature feat of mechanical engineering

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Lego engineer Akiyuki has created a machine that can sort Lego pieces automatically. Akiyuki, whose “Great Ball Contraption” was a big hit on YouTube last year, managed to power the complex machine using a single motor. The “Lego Axle Sorter AS-L40A” is able to pick up a pile containing 10 different types of Lego from a bucket and sort them into separate containers. It may not be as…

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Application

Tinder: Finding Traction On Campuses, IAC’s New Dating App Makes It Easy To Break The Ice

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring people together. The problem is, of course, that there are infinite variations on social and mobile dating, from compatibility engines and social, Facebook-based platforms to game-ified bracelets and live video dating. Then there are the quasi-dating, people-meeting sites like Grouper. Some work, most don’t. A…

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