Day: January 30, 2013

Politics

Top CIA Officials To Bigelow: Our Torture Boxes Were Bigger

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Geoffrey Ingersoll Zero Dark Thirty Top CIA officials have weighed in on Zero Dark Thirty. Their conclusion: Kathryn Bigelow simply did not correctly portray the Agency’s torture box — the real torture box is much more comfortable.  Yes, three top spooks — Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, John Rizzo, former deputy counsel of the CIA, and Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA…

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Politics

Obama Is More Popular Now Than At Any Point In The Last Three Years

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Brett LoGiurato The poll found that 60 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the President, while only 37 percent view him unfavorably. He has an especially strong image among his base of Democrats (92 percent) and among Independents (also 60 percent). The amount of people who view Obama “strongly” favorably (39 percent) also outpaces the amount that view him “strongly” negatively (28 percent) for the first time in two…

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Article

Know When to Be a Squeaky Wheel

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Holly Johnson We’ve talked about customer service, good and bad, a lot here at Lifehacker. Unfortunately, poor customer service is something we all have to deal with at some point—and often, it takes a lot more than politeness and persistence to get your way.Get Rich Slowly’s Holly Johnson offers her best tips for tackling these difficult situations. A few months ago, I decided that I needed new furniture. I didn’t want new furniture. My 3-year-old…

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Article Hardware Dev

Welcome to IBM’s Supercomputer Waterworld of the Future

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN Computers are just too damned hot. It’s becoming a real problem. Big internet companies like Facebook have taken Intel to task over the issue and — sensing a real opportunity — other companies have started to build new systems using the same kinds of low-power processors you’ll find in your mobile phone. In fact, 2013 is likely to be the year that we get an inkling of how far…

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Article Culture

7 Massive Ideas That Can Change the World

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF Photo: Getty Images; Illustration: Carl Detorres Tesla. Prius. Volt. The auto industry is stocked with radical new designs that reduce the environmental impact of driving. The airplane industry has been incrementally improving fuel efficiency for decades, but it’s maxing out the potential of current designs and will soon need to come up with a similarly transformative rethink. And it has to move fast. Air travel is set to explode—more than…

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Application Games

Arma Tactics coming to Project Shield

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As reported on Polygon. By EMILY GERA Developer Bohemia Interactive is developing a new title in the Arma franchise, a turn-based strategy game called Arma Tactics, designed for Nvidia’s upcoming Project Shield handheld device. In Arma Tactics, players take control of a four-member Special Forces squad and work their way through story-driven and randomly generated missions. Players can either take a direct approach through the game or adopt a stealthier way of playing, while making use of both basic and…

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Entertainment Film

‘Sin City’ sequel adds Julia Garner and Eva Green to growing cast

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AS reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor New additions join Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited sequel Deadline is reporting that both Julia Garner and Eva Green have signed on to the cast ofSin City: A Dame to Kill For, joining Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s upcoming sequel. Green, who starred in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and played a…

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Business Cloud

Ballmer dismisses Dropbox as a ‘little startup’ with 100 million users

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has dismissed Dropbox as a “fine little startup” in an interview with Bloomberg this week. Discussing the recent launch of Office 2013 and Microsoft’s late entry into the cloud with its SkyDrive service, Ballmer says that 100 million Dropbox users is a “pretty small number” in comparison to the number of Office users. “We’ve got a lot more Office users,” he says, while discussing Hotmail and SkyDrive users too.…

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Apple

Apple trademarks its retail store design

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved Apple’s request to trademark the design and layout of its iconic retail stores — stores that other US companies have tried in recent years to imitate. Apple had to fight to get its store trademark, with the patent office rejecting Apple’s request twice. In the second rejection, the USPTO said that Apple’s design wasn’t “inherently distinctive,” prompting Apple to file…

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Application Google

Rave ‘Reviews’ For North Korean Gulags On Google Maps

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN It’s no secret that the Internet has a hard time taking things seriously. “Best. Gulag. Ever.’, raved Google user, C. Quinn, about Yodok North Korean prison. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt probably expected his recent high-profile visit to the isolated dictatorship to have a more sobering impact on online discourse. But, after Google asked users to help identify important roads and landmarks for the newly mapped country, it should have…

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