Month: March 2013

Entertainment Tech

Movie studios sign on for satellite-based digital delivery to theaters HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler We doubt we’ll see any reduction in ticket prices, but the process of bringing new movies to theaters could get easier very soon as five major studios have signed on with the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) to use its satellite distribution network. Lionsgate, Universal, Disney, Warner and Paramount are all on board with the scheme, which says it will provide participants access to “a host of delivery options”…

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Google Glass learns how your friends dress, picks ’em out in a crowd Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Facial recognition? Pah. Dahling, the only way to find someone in a crowd is to pick out what they’re wearing. InSight is an app being developed for Google Glass by Duke University that helps you identify your chums, even when they’ve got their back to you, by channeling its inner Joan Rivers. All your pals have to do is submit some self-portraits to the app, which then creates a spatiogram — identifying…

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America’s Cup Brings Beautiful Big Cats to the Bay

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM FISHER   Swedish team Artemis Racing under perfect conditions during a training session for the America’s Cup World Series. Photo: Abner Kingman     France’s Energy Team is among 11 crews competing in the AC World Series in San Francisco. Photo: Gilles Martin-Raget     A China Team crew member secures the boat as it is lifted into the water. The AC45 is a smaller version of the wickedly fast AC72…

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Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley

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As reported on The Verge. By Noah Davis Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and one of Inc’s“15 Women to Watch in Tech”, was trying to raise money for the female-focused job site that was growing 30 percent a month and reaching 250,000 dedicated active users every month by June of 2012. She pitched herself, her co-founders — whom she met while working at McKinsey & Company — and the Muse to any and every…

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Apple’s next iPhone: a rumor roundup

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As reported on The Verge. by Jacob Kastrenakes The iPhone 5 came out less than six months ago, but rumors of Apple’s next phone are already swirling. There were signs in January that Apple may already be testing a new iPhone, and The Wall Street Journal reported that a low-cost version of the iPhonemay arrive this year. Though it’s never certain that rumors will add up, nearly everything about last year’s iPhone 5 was leaked in advance of the phone’s debut. Let’s take a…

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Kids Love The Apple Store So Much They Pee On The Seats

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Don’t ever sit on the black balls at the kids table in Apple retail stores, recommends supposed former employee and Redditor Mister_Rabbit. It seems that as 370 million people visit an Apple Store each year, a few of the kids are leaving something behind when they go. Though we can’t verify if he really worked there, Mister_Rabbit writes: “Going through my old photos from when I worked in Apple retail…

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Culture

I’m Glad I Was An Unpaid Blogger

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN I was an unpaid blogger and I’m proud of that. After following the recent back and forth between an established journalist and The Atlantic over the depressingly low pay of freelance writers, I thought I’d explore what it meant to me to work for, essentially, free. Corporate health insurance and a moderate savings account are new additions to my life after spending five impoverished years as an underpaid freelance blogger, sleeping…

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The Truth About Google Glass

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS There’s very little to be said about this viral video except that it’s a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after Google Glass is launched. In fact, I suspect it will almost be impossible to get away with this stuff once Glass hits its tipping point as potential dates will be wary of your motives when you blurt out “Google Jennifer Swanson” before sipping your…

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NYC awards six Reinvent Payphones finalists, asks public to select favorite via Facebook

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As reported on Engadget. By Joe Pollicino The payphone. Despite how connected our world has gotten in the last decade or so, the majority of the 11,000 payphones in NYC stem from a 1999 contract. Due to expire and renew in October 2014, the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) has been actively figuring out how and what type of modern solution it wants to replace roughly all 11,000 of them with. You’ve heard about…

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Business Culture

ASUS Transformer AiO launching Q2 for $1,299 and up, marries Windows 8 desktop with monster Android tablet

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg We were beginning to think the ASUS Transformer AiO was just a figment of a summer daydream after hearing nothing of it since our chance look many months ago. As it turns out, we were right about the furtive FCC filing last December, and with all that paperwork in order, we’ve now been granted a formal introduction. The Transformer AiO (all-in-one) is very true to its name, as like the Autobots, it has…

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