Day: March 1, 2013

Military

The Most Elite Special Forces In The US

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Geoffrey Ingersoll via AmericanSpecialOps.com/photos/ Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, America has gone bonkers for U.S. Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general.  Skip to the units > The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled for spending and personnel increases while the rest of the military looks to be making cuts. End strength goals indicate that America’s entire crop of military operators will top off at 70,000.…

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Business Entertainment

Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects Industry

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER A funny thing happened during the Oscars, but it wasn’t anything that came out of Seth MacFarlane’s mouth. Rather, it was a moment during Life of Pi VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer’s acceptance speech for Best Visual Effects that quickly became emblematic of the problems currently plaguing the Hollywood special effects industry. The traditional time-to-end-your-speech music began playing just as Westenhofer thanked his family, and right after he said, “Sadly, Rhythm & Hues is suffering…

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Culture

DRINK AND REVIVE: THE RISE OF BARCADE

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As reported on Polygon. By Simon Parkin Video games owe a great deal to the American bar. It was here, on sticky carpets, before glinting taps and amidst woozy patrons, that the medium made its public debut — when Atari founder Nolan Bushnell installed his first arcade cabinet, Computer Space, in the Dutch Goose near Stanford University in 1971. The video game — a homeless invention — flourished in the drinking context. A year afterComputer Space‘s arrival…

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Science Space Story

NASA’s discovery of third radiation belt around Earth will mean ‘rewriting textbooks’

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon Scientists used to think that the Van Allen belts — two nested rings of charged particles surrounding the Earth — bulge and swell in response to what’s happening on the sun, but are otherwise more or less fixed in place. Well, according to a new findingannounced by NASA, the rings are actually much more malleable than originally thought. New data shows their structure reconfigured in response to a…

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Google

Google’s CFO says Motorola’s products aren’t ‘wow’ by Google standards (update)

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations. Google’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today said that products in Motorola’s pipeline are “not really to the standards that what Google would say is wow — innovative, transformative.” The surprisingly honest admission came during Pichette’s session at the Morgan Stanley…

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Business Cloud

Salesforce 4Q Revenues Up 32% With $3.05B For The Fiscal Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Salesforce.com has announced its fourth-quarter earnings with revenues of $835 million, up 32%, compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 51 cents. Financial analysts had expected revenues ranging from $825 million to $830 million. EPS was estimated to come in at 40 cents. For the full fiscal year 2013, the company reported revenue of $3.05 billion, an increase of 35% from the prior year. Salesforce.com is reporting that revenue…

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Military News

Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty For Supplying WikiLeaks, Says Newspapers Ignored Calls

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Private First Class Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks. Reading from a 35-page statement, Manning said he leaked diplomatic cables to “spark a domestic debate as to the role of the military and foreign policy in general,” but denies aiding the enemy. Perhaps most revealing, Manning said that he first attempted to go to media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, but his…

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Entertainment

Telefonica shows off streaming 4K video on home fiber HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The future of TV is supposed to involve streaming video, and it’s also supposed to involve 4K TVs — but melding the two has been difficult. Telefonica wants to show that the feat is at least possible with mere mortal connections: it’s been using Mobile World Congress to show 4K video streaming on a 100Mbps fiber-to-the-home link. As our Spanish teammates can attest, the (admittedly very local) demo works as well as you’d…

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