Day: January 13, 2014

Film Internet

Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report

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As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT The future we see in Her is one where technology has dissolved into everyday life.   A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough. After poring over the work of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists trying to figure out how, exactly, his artificially intelligent female lead should operate, Jonze arrived at a critical…

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Why can’t CES quit booth babes?

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries At this year’s CES, women in tight skirts are back on the floor — but the booth bro and booth bot are catching up It’s pretty common to see scantily clad women at trade shows for industries dominated by men, and CES, the electronics trade show that lures around 150,000 people every January, is typically no different.     But last year, for whatever reason — maybe it…

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Entertainment TV

First trailer for new ‘Game of Thrones’ season promises more bloodshed

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As reported on The Verge. By Kwame Opam Last season of HBO’s Game of Thrones ended with a bang, but, as Jaime Lannister says, the war isn’t won yet. In the first trailer for the fourth season, the fighting continues and Westeros is plunged further into darkness. We’ll be watching when the season starts on April 6th.  

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Microsoft

Rumored Windows ‘Threshold’ Update Could Recast Microsoft’s Key Platform

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Microsoft mostly kept its head down during CES, but with its Build developer conference on the horizon and several platforms to unify, the company has a busy few months ahead of it. Recently, both Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley wrote on Microsoft’s future ‘Threshold’ Windows update. Threshold is not what Microsoft will release in 2014. That code, an update to Windows 8.1, will likely land in the first half of this year,…

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Business Hardware Dev

Why Commercial Drones Won’t Deliver Tacos Anytime Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois Amazon scored one of the greatest tech PR coups in recent history when it got CBS to put its quadcopter-powered delivery service on air the day before Cyber Monday. Sadly, CBS pretty much ignored that this was a pretty unrealistic proposal for the time being, not in the least because commercial drone flights will remain illegal in the U.S. for the next few years. If journalists aren’t even allowed to…

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