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Google Updates Chrome For Android, iPhone And iPad With Focus On Speed, Search And Sharing

By admin | March 5, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Ever since Google launched its Chrome browser on multiple mobile devices, more people have been getting used to syncing their desktop browsing experiences for on-the-go usage. Being able to have one browsing experience wherever you go is handy, but when a browser doesn’t move as fast as, say, Safari on the iPhone, it’s hard to dedicate yourself to making the switch. Google knows that and has pushed updates to its…

Silicon Valley Has Hit Peak Lameness

By admin | March 5, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by JACK MCKENNA Hey Bros of Virool, I know you think it’s cool that your launch party is being written up in TechCrunch. But seriously, half-naked girls in silver mono-kinis dancing in front of floating arithmetic, fractions and percentage signs? Why would women want to work for this company? When did Silicon Valley become so thin on actual technology that startups had to have “nerd” or “science”-themed parties to have cred? You’re YC-backed for chissake. How much…

Science Story

Physicists steer light on superconducting chips, forge our quantum computing future Alt

By admin | March 5, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee We’re still years away from quantum computing becoming an everyday reality, but the physics geniuses over at the University of California Santa Barbara have made a discovery that might speed that process along. A team under professor John Martinis’ tutelage has developed a way to manipulate light on a superconducting chip at the quantum level, allowing the group to control the wave forms of released photons with a switch and a resonator. That…

Cloud Story Tech Trends

Tokyoflash’s cryptography-inspired Kisai X watch tells time via pyramid lens, LED lights

By admin | March 5, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert Tokyoflash, maker of highly conceptual, anything-but-your-average-wristwatch products like the Kisai OTO and the Kisai Maru, is outing its latest device: the Kisai X. Like many of the company’s timepieces, the X is the result of fan submissions. In this case, it was co-designed by Firdaus Rohman and Heather Sable, who clearly were inspired by cryptography. Like several other Kisai watches, the X doesn’t put a priority on easily decipherable digits. In fact,…

Business Culture Trends

Bartendro cocktail mixing robot lands on Kickstarter, wields Raspberry Pi (video)

By admin | March 5, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos If you prefer robot bartenders to lack limbs that could be used against you in the impending robopocalypse, Bartendro might be your kind of bot. After two years of building and tweaking, the folks at Party Robotics have finally polished theirRaspberry Pi-powered cocktail-making rig and have posted it to Kickstarter. Born from a need to re-create mixed drinks in perfect proportion, Bartendro uses food-grade tubing, pumps and custom-built electronics to pipe liquids out with a measurement accuracy…

Art Engineering

Wired’s Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture

By admin | March 4, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world’s cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail. New York by Gehry, New York City Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry went residential for the first time on…

Entertainment

Spielberg to revive Kubrick’s abandoned ‘Napoleon’ project for TV

By admin | March 4, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Berg this week said he’s developing a new TV miniseries based on Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay for Napoleon — the late director’s ambitious, and perhaps most tantalizing unrealized project. Spielberg revealed his plans to revive the script during an interview with France’s Canal+, though details on its progress and planned release date remain unclear. “I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay — for a miniseries not for a motion picture — about the…

Science Tech

Scientists say child has been ‘functionally cured’ of HIV infection with early treatment

By admin | March 4, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek Medical researchers announced today that, for the first time, a child born with HIV appears to have been cured. Doctors are hopeful that the results may be replicated and used to treat infants infected by pregnancy or delivery in the first few days of life. DESPITE ENDING TREATMENT THE CHILD NOW HAS NO IDENTIFIABLE LEVELS OF HIV According to the National Institutes of Health, a two-year…

Culture Trends

Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks

By admin | March 4, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Man was not meant to spend all day hunched over a dimly lit screen; disturbingly high incidences of obesity, joint pain and fatigue are our bodies’ not-so-subtle ways of saying they want to get up and move around. After piloting a walking desk – a standing desk attached to a treadmill – for a month, I’m convinced they should become the default workstation. Immediately, my daily calorie burn jumped 30.7 percent, and I…

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