Day: January 25, 2013

Entertainment Film

9 Films Everyone’s Talking About At Sundance This Year

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Esther Zuckerman “Don Jon’s Addiction” Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in his directorial debut “Don Jon’s Addiction” alongside Scarlett Johansson. 200 Years of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Book Design How Two Hedge-Fund Giants Turned a Schoolyard Fight into a TV Battle Royale Here’s Video of Crocodiles Being Handcuffed in South Africa This Dolphin Stranded in Brooklyn Must Save Itself ‘American Idol’: The Louisiana Letdown The Sundance Film Festival is underway, and reviews are…

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Apple iPhone Story

Unlocking Your Phone Without Permission Becomes Illegal Tomorrow: Here’s Why You Should Care

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Kevin Purdy After this upcoming weekend, you have to ask your phone company if you want to use the phone you (kind of) bought from them on any other carrier’s network. You used to be able to ask for, or purchase, or hack your way to an “unlocked” phone, but that will be illegal after Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. The Librarian of Congress believes cellphone companies are doing a good enough…

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Business Hardware Dev

Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky. Photo: Wired/Bryan Frank   Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world’s most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server loaded with software that typically drives the Facebook website and started messing with the CPU. Every processor includes something called a cache — a place to temporarily store data without sending it all the way back to…

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Culture

Wired’s Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture

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As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world’s cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail.  The Shard, London Pritzker prize-winning architect Renzo Piano designed The Shard as an irregular pyramid with a glass exterior, evoking a…

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Culture

Stunning Whale Shark Photos Aim to Help At-Risk Species

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER   At first glance, Kristian Schmidt and Shawn Heinrichs’ photos of models swimming with whale sharks off the coast of the Philippines appear heavily Photoshopped. But while the levels and colors have been manipulated and the backgrounds tweaked, the most striking part – the models’ proximity to sharks – is real. While a bit whimsical, the photos have recently gone viral and lead to a new awareness of the whale shark,…

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Apple Retail Sales

Good Deal: $200 off all MacBook Air models at Best Buy

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Apple’s MacBook Air remains one of the finest laptops we’ve reviewed here, though they do come at a cost. If you’re interested in Apple’s most portable portable, Best Buy has a good deal going on today and tomorrow — all four standard MacBook Air models are $200 off and come with free shipping.That means the entry-level 11-inch model costs $799 right now, which gets you an 11.6-inch screen, 64GB of…

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Business Microsoft

Microsoft posts $21.46 billion revenue for Q2 2013, Windows division up despite PC decline

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft’s Q2 2013 earnings report is in, and the company is announcing revenue of $21.46 billion — just a 2.7 percent increase from the same period last year. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.76 and Microsoft recorded $6.38 billion net income. While PC sales are slowing down, Microsoft’s Windows division posted revenue of $5.88 billion, a 24 percent increase from the prior year thanks to the…

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Art

Mind-bending GIFs push the limits of art and processors

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Nowadays, the word “GIF” has become all but synonymous with the frivolous and whimsical, but Croatian Paolo Čerić is proving that there’s more to the medium than just cats and LOLs. Čerić, 22, is currently studying at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, where he experiments with new ways to create art from code. His animations, published to his Patakk Tumblr, are equal parts mesmerizing and…

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Article Google

Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution

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As reported on The Verge. By Verge Staff The new Google way is weird, but it’s working By Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Infamously, the company used to focus on A/B testing tiny, incremental changes like 41 different shades of blue for links instead of trusting…

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Microsoft Mobile Verizon

Verizon Said To Be Getting A Flagship Nokia Windows Phone (Codenamed “Laser”) Of Its Own

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO Don’t get me wrong, HTC’s Windows Phone 8X is great and all, but the rest of Verizon Wireless’ Windows Phone lineup (think the Nokia Lumia 822 and Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey) is a bit lacking in the oomph department. If a new report from The Verge’s Tom Warrenholds true though, that may not be the case for too much longer. According to sources within Verizon, the carrier is gearing up to…

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