As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent A user named Zhouwei has taken a thorough look at the latest APK for the Google Glass Explorer edition and found a few gems, including a possible app store called the Boutique. That would make sense given that there’s no central repository for apps right now, and the code indicates that Glassware and APKs could be synced to the hardware via such a market. Other changes of note are a lock-screen…
As reported on TechCrunch. by ANDREW AUERNHEIMER This is an essay by Andrew Auernheimer akaWeev, a hacker who was convicted of hacking AT&T’s iPad customer information service and sentence to 41 months in prison. He mailed this essay from prison. In the homes and organizations of the powerful one finds the totems of predators. The Bohemian Grove bows to the owl spirit of Moloch. Both the USA and the Nazis took the eagle. Warmongers are…
As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Olivarez-Giles A DARPA-funded project has built contact lenses that can zoom in and out in to aid those with degrading eyesight. A group of researchers — from the UC San Diego and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) — said in a report that it has built a 2.8x zoom contact lens that could eventually fit on human eyes. The group’s telescopic lens currently relies on a set of 3D…
As reported on Wired. BY PETE BROOK Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters), Synchronized Swimmer and Artist, Miami, FL. (Issue 9) Mr. Henry X, Weed Dealer, New York, NY. (Issue 01) Meredith Ostrom, Artist, New York City. (Issue 08) Kalle Lindmark, Artist, Malmo, Sweden. (Issue 07) Jonathan Hulland, Human Rights Activist, Rangoon, Burma. (Issue 12) Joey Frank, Artist, Resident at The Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY. (Issue 05) DJ Harvey, DJ and producer, Venice, CA. (Issue 03) Gui…
As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Next time you fire up the Nook app on your Android tablet, you’ll be able to browse HD magazines — assuming your device has a 1280 x 720 screen. Introduced three months ago on Retina iPads, the feature now jumps to the latest version of the Android app, along with a number of other updates. New magazine titles aside, version 3.4 lets you enlarge book illustrations and adds support for the system’s…
As reported on Engadget. By Joseph Volpe “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I’ve been to see ALICE — though there was no looking glass to jump through, just a retina scanner and one very long elevator ride down into the earth. I’ve toured a CMSthat has nothing to do with online publishing. I’ve even gently laid my body on the most powerful particle accelerator in the world…
As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN IT spend globally — from devices through to data center investments and the services that run on them — it set to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, but that represents shrinking growth of only 2% on 2012, as more expensive items like PCs and on-premise software continue to get pushed out by less expensive, newer things like lower-cost tablets and cloud services.Gartner, the analyst house publishing these numbers today, projects spend…
As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon An Italian neuroscientist believes he’s figured out how to do a full human head transplant. Or body transplant, depending on your perspective. In a recent paper, Dr. Sergio Canavero of the University of Turin explains how the procedure would work, describing how a “clean cut” with an “ultra-sharp blade” could leave the two severed spinal cords in the condition to be re-attached. “It is my contention that the technology…
As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT Peder Norrby collects screenshots of glitches in Apple Maps. Image: Peder Norrby Of the handful of self-inflicted blunders Apple’s had to deal with over the last few years, the Apple Maps debacle stands apart simply because it was so hard to miss. Where Antennagate had been an invisible plague and Ping was almost instantaneously forgotten, Apple Maps announced its screwiness from day one, unapologetically misplacing businesses and matter-of-factly routing…
As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala A unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket exploded moments after leaving the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, destroying its payload of three satellites intended for Russia’s Glonass GPS system. Fortunately no-one was injured, but local news service Interfax is reporting that nearly 500 tons of fuel from the craft has contaminated the crash site. There’s no word on what caused the disaster, but this model’s recent history is fraught with equipment failures — so if you’d…