Day: November 1, 2013

Entertainment

Track the scariest movie locations of all time with The Geography of Horror

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop When trying to figure out what movie to watch for Halloween, you can pick from your favorite franchise, director, or even type of scare — but what about using location? That’s what location analytics company Esri makes possible with The Geography of Horror. It’s an interactive map that takes the top 200 horror films, as listed by the IMDB, and maps out where they were set across the globe. Films are broken…

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Environmental

Dead meat: how to raise livestock in a post-antibiotic era

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As reported on The Verge. By Katie Drummond When will American farmers put antibiotic drugs out to pasture? We’ve been warned for years that our reckless use of antibiotics threatens to render the drugs useless — ushering in a public health crisis that could see once-benign germs become deadly. But overzealous prescriptions for human patients are only one part of the problem: experts increasingly agree that antibiotics in animal agriculture contribute to resistant infections in people.…

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Tech Travel

New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Darrell Etherington For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead. Now, we’ll be able to do that officially and more, according to the FAA. The American government organization overseeing air travel today announced that travelers won’t face regulations that are quite as strict when it comes…

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Android Apple

Nexus 5 launcher and apps ripped from factory image, available for download

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Can’t wait for your freshly ordered Nexus 5 to show up? This might grab your attention: the Android community has already ripped a handful of the phone’s apps from Google’s official factory image. Droid-Life has collected the essential applications (calendar, clock, email, camera hangouts, and others), but the full Nexus 5 experience requires Google Play Services, Google Home (the new launcher) and the revamped Google Search, specifically. As always, side-load with caution — these…

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Tablet

Barnes & Noble’s Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter, with less Simple Touch for $119

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater As a ketchup bottle once famously said: Good things take time (we’re paraphrasing here, of course). Roughly a year and a half ago, Barnes & Noble made its top-notchNook Simple Touch even better with the addition of GlowLight. Before the end of the year, however, the company had been outdone by both Kobo and Amazon in that department; the two e-reader competitors launched devices with more uniform and brighter front-lighting technologies. Since then, those companies…

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