As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kevin Smith Kevin Smith/Business Insider See Also The Bizarre Truth About The Largest Gadget Show On The Planet 11 Great Stephen Hawking Quotes For His 71st Birthday The 13 Most Surprising Stories From The Oscar Nominations The Consumer Electronics Show isn’t just all gadgets and tech. In a sea full of tech nerds and reporters, exhibitors have long since realized that having an attractive lady present at your booth will…
As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers via 23ABC Live Stream At least two people were shot at a California high school this morning, ABC 23 is reporting. The shooting was reported around 9 a.m. local time and the shooter was reportedly taken into custody about 20 minutes later. The unnamed shooter was a student at the school who didn’t show up for his morning class, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said in a press conference. “He then interrupted…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Daniel M. Russell Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can’t get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. The solution isn’t as simple as you might think…As is always the case with a question like this, you’ve got…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski Amazon launched its new AutoRip service today. The service works with the Amazon MP3 store to give you free MP3 copies of CDs you’ve purchased from Amazon dating all the way back to 1998. The AutoRip feature is turned on automatically, so if you purchase a CD from Amazon it will automatically download the MP3 version to the Amazon Cloud Player. When you log into your Cloud Player, any CDs you’ve…
As reported on Wired. BY ADAM MANN Image: A schematic drawing showing two of four planned small telescopes in the Minerva project, which will look for exoplanets in our stellar neighborhood. PlaneWave/Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) LONG BEACH, California — A new ground-based telescope project named Minerva will be dedicated to uncovering extrasolar planets in our nearby stellar neighborhood. Given its small size and relatively low cost, it could represent a way for astronomers to…
As reported on Wired. BY HUGH HART Paranoia Blooms in “White Tulips” Inspiration: Professor Alistair Peck in Episode 218 experiments on his own body to convert himself into a time machine so he can travel back in time to see his fiancée. Artist: Anthony Petrie Time Travel Stacks Up “The Plateau” Inspiration: In Episode 303, a pedestrian gets run over by a bus, nearly duplicating events of another accident the day before. Olivia finds a…
As reported on Wired. BY KIM ZETTER A precog in the film Minority Report who can see the future and predict events. Photo courtesy of Dreamworks/20th Century Fox Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you? New crime-prediction software used in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and soon to be rolled out in the nation’s capital too, promises to reduce the homicide rate…
As reported on The Verge. By BRIAN CRECENTE The small Connecticut community that made international news last week when it announced plans to voluntarily collect and destroy violent video games, said today it won’t be proceeding with that portion of its plan. Community members of Southington, Conn., a small community about 30 miles from the site of the Newtown massacre, held a town hall press conference this morning to say that while they have canceled the…
As reported on Polygon. By GRIFFIN MCELROY Dan Trachtenberg, creator of the acclaimed 2011 Portal-themed short film No Escape has been chosen to direct the feature-length film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s Y: The Last Man series of graphic novels, Vulturereports.An adaptation for Vaughn’s novels, which tell the story of a mysterious plague which kills every living male on Earth — save for escape artist Yorick and his pet monkey Ampersand — has been in the works for years. Vulture learnedfour months ago…
As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford We just met with Nuance at CES to get a first-hand look at the company’s new Wintermute project, which aims to provide a consistent voice assistant experience across platforms. The software works similarly to something like Siri, but it was demoed working on iOS, Android, Windows, and a smart TV — remembering your requests and preserving history across them all. For example, you could ask your phone to play…