Month: May 2013

Art Entertainment Tech

Klingons to invade Bing translator, BIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHegh!

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Though some may look down on Star Trek‘s fictional Klingon language and invoke the infamous phrase uttered by William Shatner — “Get a life!” — Microsoft’s Bing translation team doesn’t see it that way at all. As part of a marketing join-up with Paramount Pictures, the service will be offering translation of the fictional tongue to and from its other 41 languages to support the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. According to the LA Times,…

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Fatal America’s Cup Crash ‘Was Not on the Radar for Any of Us’

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As reported on Wired. BY KATIE M. PALMER Artemis Racing crew members gather at a Treasure Island dock the day after the deadly crash of their 72-foot-long catamaran on Friday, May 10, 2013, in San Francisco. Sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson was trapped underwater when the high-tech catamaran capsized during America’s Cup training. Photo: Noah Berger / AP   Sailors of catamarans — those light, fleet, double-hulled sailboats — accept capsizing as a part of the game…

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Application

Helplessness, despair, and Street View come together in ‘GeoGuessr’ Google Maps game

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Google Maps is usually for helping you navigate, but a new game based on Street View is about being almost hopelessly lost. GeoGuessr drops you at a random Street View location across the earth, leaving you to move around the map as much as you’d like before ultimately taking a guess at where you’re actually standing. Though you’ll occasionally get lucky and start off right in front of a hotel billboard…

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Application

Forget sex: how the idea behind Bang with Friends could revolutionize social interaction

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Apple’s Find My Friends, a mostly-unrelated concept. Perhaps you’ve heard of Bang With Friends. It’s a rather controversial thing. Simply put, it’s a Facebook and mobile app that lets you pick which of your friends you’d like to “bang.” Oh, but it’s more clever than that: the app won’t reveal your intentions until that friend picks you back. Then, theoretically, you can clandestinely meet for a night of sex…

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Culture

You Can’t Have It Both Ways

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS   Gun control is control of all guns. This tautology, in a developed society, is non-negotiable. If guns can exist in our country, then gun plans can exist, and, although I’m firmly on the side of draconian control over most weapons, I find the move to ban Defense Distributed’s plans for their Liberator pistolunconscionable. Guns exist, so these plans, too, should exist. To be clear, I think Cody Wilson’s ideas are libertarian…

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Hardware Dev

Samsung To Launch 5G By 2020, Hits Speeds Of 1Gbps In Tests

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Samsung Electronics has developed core technology that will allow it to deliver high-speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020, the company announced today. The system allows data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of 4G LTE networks tech and can offer data transmission speeds of up to several tens of Gbps per base station. Once 5G…

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Culture

Email, Still A Sonofabitch

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MG SIEGLER Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I had not been checking my email all day). I was wrong. It was a disaster. It may as well have been Inbox Trillion. There was no way I could get through…

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Google

Quickoffice In The Browser: The Reason Why Microsoft Is Suddenly So Scared Of Google’s Productivity Tools

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS We’re just a few days away from the start ofGoogle I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during its massive, three-hour keynote on Wednesday, there is something brewing in Mountain View that has Microsoft’s Office division on edge. Over the course of the last week, Microsoft started a very negative anti-Google Docs campaign that fits the mold of its…

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Mobile

Sony Xperia ZR announced, allows underwater photography up to five feet of depth (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Sony’s ratcheted up its water-resistant device tech a notch with the launch of the Xperia ZR, a new 4.6-inch, 720p Android smartphone that’s waterproof to 1.5 meters (5 feet). Sony boasts that its new device will let you film your snorkeling adventures in full HD quality, with HDR in both video or 13-megapixel stills thanks to the Exmor RS image sensor — there’s also a dedicated camera button like the one…

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What Went Wrong in the Deadly America’s Cup Crash

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM FISHER The Artemis Racing AC72 catamaran, an America’s Cup entry from Sweden, lies capsized after flipping over during training in San Francisco Bay. Artemis Racing said Andrew “Bart” Simpson, an Olympic gold medalist from Great Britain, died after the capsized boat’s platform trapped him underwater for about 10 minutes. Photo: Noah Berger/Associated Press   Another America’s Cup boat crashed today, this time with fatal results. The team is nominally Swedish,…

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