Month: March 2013

Science Tech

Scientists say child has been ‘functionally cured’ of HIV infection with early treatment

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek Medical researchers announced today that, for the first time, a child born with HIV appears to have been cured. Doctors are hopeful that the results may be replicated and used to treat infants infected by pregnancy or delivery in the first few days of life.   DESPITE ENDING TREATMENT THE CHILD NOW HAS NO IDENTIFIABLE LEVELS OF HIV   According to the National Institutes of Health, a two-year…

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Culture Trends

Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Man was not meant to spend all day hunched over a dimly lit screen; disturbingly high incidences of obesity, joint pain and fatigue are our bodies’ not-so-subtle ways of saying they want to get up and move around. After piloting a walking desk – a standing desk attached to a treadmill – for a month, I’m convinced they should become the default workstation. Immediately, my daily calorie burn jumped 30.7 percent, and I…

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Social Networking

If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MICHAEL ARRINGTON Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoughts here. Bilton’s theory is that Facebook wants to incent people to pay to promote their content, so they show unpaid content to far fewer people. Hunter Walk has other theories (and correctly…

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Mobile

Samsung Stays Secretive With Its First Galaxy S IV Teaser Video

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO Now that Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S IV will be revealed in a grand event in New York on March 14, mobile nerds only have one mystery to mull over — what is the damn thing going to look like? Well, Samsung isn’t telling just yet, but it has seen fit to release the first in a series of strange teaser videos for its newest flagship handset. The clip…

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Microsoft Mobile

Microsoft planning ‘next release’ of Windows Phone for this holiday season Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos A new job listing over at Microsoft has revealed when the outfit is planning to serve up the next iteration of its smartphone OS. According to the post, work on the current version is being finished up and they’re “getting ready for our next release targeting the holiday of this year.” Presumably, the update will be part of the widerBlue umbrella of tweaks for Windows. Though a vague “next release” doesn’t offer any…

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Android Application

Chrome for Android build may tout a proxy-based speed boost Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas A fast smartphone will only go so far toward improving browser load times if the connection isn’t there to back it up. If a discovery within a recent build of Chrome for Android is any hint, Google may have its own solution to that bottleneck. New code flags reference Google-run proxy servers that would squeeze pages using SPDY, improving performance at least slightly for the bandwidth-deprived. While there’s not much more to…

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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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