Month: January 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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Google

Google just made it really easy for strangers to email you

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio You no longer need someone’s email address to send them an email. At least, that will soon be the case if you want to email another Google+ user. A new Gmail “feature” will let you simply type in anyone’s name into Gmail’s “to” field and send them an email. Google announced the new Google+ integration on its Gmail blog today, but company representatives have clarified to The Verge that — by…

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Gametime Aims To Provide The Best Mobile Experience For Last-Minute Sports Ticketing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Anthony Ha Online ticketing services are moving onto mobile, but Brad Griffith, CEO of a startup calledGametime, says the experience still isn’t good enough. For example, Griffith (whose previous startup Zappedy was acquired by Groupon) recalled using the mobile app from “a current leader in the space” to purchase baseball tickets recently, but he didn’t realize until the last minute that he had to print those tickets out. As a result, he and…

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PC Retail Sales

After A Troubled 2013, The PC Market Looks For Stability

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Today Gartner released a preliminary set of results for the global PC market in the fourth quarter of 2013, indicating that PC sales fell 6.9% to 82.6 million units. 2013 has certainly been a historically tough year for PCs and the industry that builds and sells them. Gartner, with its fourth quarter predictions now mostly in place, estimates that the PC market shrank 10% during the year. Total unit volume was 315.9…

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Wearable Google Helpouts streaming camera shares GoPro heritage, we go hands-on (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY ALEXIS SANTOS  Ambarella isn’t exactly a household name, but the 10-year-old company’s silicon has long found its way into GoPro cams and other hardware thanks to its video-compression chops and low-power tech prowess. Word broke last month that Google commissioned the outfit to produce a reference design for a wearable camera that would stream to its Helpouts service, which lets folks ask experts for help over video. Here at CES, the manufacturer’s brought along a…

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Culture Tech

Why Cops and Cable Guys Will Be the Pioneers of Wearable Tech

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As reported on Wired BY MARCUS WOHLSEN ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES Delivery Drones Already Exist — And They’re Way Bigger Than Amazon’s Giant Fembots Dance With Dinosaurs in the Weirdest Show on Earth The Next Big Thing You Missed: If the Apple Store Sold Groceries Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the…

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