Day: February 4, 2013

Art

Learn why art matters with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new web series

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster Museums can be overwhelming — often, there’s simply so much to see that it’s hard to properly interact with each piece you come across. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is looking to change that with 82nd and Fifth, a new web series aimed at teaching you why 100 different pieces from the museum matter. In each episode museum curators examine one work — whether it’s an…

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Entertainment

Extended ‘Iron Man 3’ Super Bowl spot shows dramatic airborne rescue

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford Marvel Studios may have locked up a product placement deal for Iron Man 3 with China’s TCL, but that doesn’t mean that the studio is ignoring traditional, all-American promotion. Take the new 30-second Super Bowl spot, for example, where Tony Stark plucks falling passengers out of the sky in the aftermath of an air disaster. The video below is an extended version which mixes the new footage with some that’s been…

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Google

Maybe Those Chromebooks Weren’t Such A Crazy Idea After All

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS When Google launched its Linux-basedChrome OS in early 2010 and its Chromebookpilot program later that year, most pundits didn’t quite agree with our own MG Siegler’s premise that Google had dropped a “nuclear bomb on Microsoft.” A few years later, it sure doesn’t look like Microsoft has much to fear from Chrome OS. But despite its slow start, it looks as if the Chrome OS momentum is slowly picking up. Google has…

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Google

Don’t Mess With The GOOG

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS A couple of years ago I wrote in this space: “A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline.” Well, credit where it’s due. These days Google has put its problems behind it and is soaring from strength to strength. Contenders keep coming and trying to claim its crown–and failing. I give you Apple Maps and Facebook’s Graph Search as an example. I…

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Mobile OS Story Tech

StormFly Wants To Childproof Your Computer With Its Ubuntu-Booting USB Bracelet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO When I was but a wee lad, I hosed my share of family computers simply because I wanted to help out — once I tried to free up space on a 6GB hard drive by deleting anything larger than 1MB. You can imagine how well that played out. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the founders of Barcelona-based Now Computing went through something similar, because they’ve just recently launched a Kickstarter…

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Apple Application Story

Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end of the ad for the new Star Trek movie, which pointed viewers to Appstore.com/StarTrekApp instead of, perhaps, Facebook.com/StarTrekMovie or the movie’s homepage, which is the kind of link that usually gets this prime spot…

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Application Cloud

Cloud-Music Player AudioBox Lands On iPhone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR Following a significant reboot late last year, cloud-music playerAudioBox has released a new app for iPhone that lets users stream their cloud-stored music collections on Apple’s device. It supports most of the features found in the startup’s desktop HTML5-based offering, including the ability to access music stored on a home PC or via an array of 3rd party cloud storage services, such as DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and Box.com, in addition to support for…

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Mobile

BlackBerry Super Bowl ad shows the few things a Z10 can’t do (video) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas BlackBerry vowed to pull out all the stops to get BlackBerry 10 noticed — and the company certainly isn’t holding back with its promised Super Bowl spot. The ad claims that it’s easier to show what the Z10 can’t do in 30 seconds than what it can, and goes to extremes that include setting a man on fire and giving him elephant legs. We do still get a glance (or rather, Peek) at the…

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Android Application Story

Wine coming to Android, will run Windows apps on Google’s mobile OS

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Android apps on Windows? Been there, done that. Try running Windows programs on Android for size. Alexandre Julliard, the developer behind the Wine compatibility layer, gave an update about an ARM-friendly flavor of the software and showed off a version that runs on Android at the 2013 Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. According to Phoronix, the demo of a Windows app running on Android was “horrendously slow,” but Julliard…

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HP intros the Pavilion 14 Chromebook, its first Chrome OS device: available now for $330

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman Remember last week when HP leaked a 14-inch Chromebook on its own site? That was a big surprise, to say the least — the company has never put out a Chrome OS system before, and we weren’t aware this was even that popular a category. Well, HP just officially announced the Pavilion 14 Chromebook, and pretty much the only surprise is the availability date: we had heard it would go on sale February…

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