As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Inside the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge. A view of the outside, including an 80-foot column that descends below sea level. The team enters the bridge. Into the pillar. Each section has a distinct code. Burtt balances above an open trap door. Prepping the mid-side mic. Watch where you point that thing. Bang. Below sea level, the water seeps in through thick concrete. View as gallery …
As reported on The Verge. By Dan Seifert This coming January is likely to be the first time that anyone outside of a production facility will get a look at jOBS, the new biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher. The movie, which was initially announced in April of this year, covers 30 years of Jobs’ life from 1971 to 2000 as an entrepreneur and leader of such companies as Apple, NeXT, and Pixar. It also stars Dermot Mulroney, Josh…
As reported on The Verge. By Paul Miller Going offline helped me kick the habit. But my body wasn’t quite ready to let go It was late June, about two months after I left the internet. I was in Mexico City, and there was no HBO in my hotel room, so at around midnight I ventured out into the narrow, dark streets, bouncing from convenience store to convenience store in search of a magazine. I tried…
As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF There are hundreds of devices to choose from when you’re considering a new desktop computer, laptop or mobile device. We’re overwhelmed by all of the choices we have, but choice is good. When it comes to computing, as far as operating systems, there are three huge players: Microsoft, Apple and Google. Yes, Google. A curious thing happened during Chrome’s rise to being the most-used browser – an operating system was born. Perhaps…
As reported on Engadget. By Mark Hearn Not stopping with its recent update for Android, Evernote gave Skitch for Windows 8 some new features on Monday. Software version 2.0.1128 adds multiple bug fixes and portrait mode support for tablets with x86, x64 and ARM processors. In addition to these enhancements, the new Skitch app for Windows 8 features faster syncing and sharing options for image files up to 25MB, which should hopefully appease the appetite of photogs…
As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman Better, faster, stronger. The new iMac claims to be better in all the ways you’d expect a refreshed product to be better: it steps up to Ivy Bridge, and packs NVIDIA Kepler chips for stronger graphics performance. It sports an improved display that cuts down on glare by 75 percent. But thinner? For the first time in the product’s history, the iMac is missing a built-in optical drive, which allows it to…
As reported on Engadget. By John Browning We’ve taken you through a tour of Window Managers in Linux, and now it’s time to show you the Window Manager’s bigger brother: the desktop environment, or DE for short. With a sea of choices out there, we can see where Linux newbies might feel a bit overwhelmed. Catch us after the break and we’ll show you some of our favorites, along with a few honorable mentions. First things first: a…
As reported on Engadget. By Deepak Dhingra While all-in-one printers usually tote print, copy, scan and fax capabilities, we’re hardly ones to complain if we get something more. The aptly-named HP Hotspot LaserJet Pro M1218nfs also crams in a WiFi hotspot — opening up the world wide web for access on up to eight devices at a time. Other than swallowing a wireless hub, the laser printer also boasts Apple AirPrint along with HP’s ePrint and wireless direct for tether-free printing. Out in…
As reported on Nj.com By Tom Wright-Piersanti A student waits for the school bus in Bridgewater this morning. Temperatures across the state could hit 60 today.Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger When was the last time you hung Christmas lights while wearing gym shorts? A warm front will provide New Jerseyans with a brief oasis from winter’s chill through the beginning of this week, pushing temperatures 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal, according to the National Weather Service.…
As reported on Mashable. by Christopher Mims If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile startup Jolla, at some point it occurs to you that the company it most resembles is Apple. Not the Apple of today, which is basically a half-trillion-dollar supply chain with a design appendage, but Apple back when it was Steve Jobs obsessing over the creation of the Macintosh, which was radical in its focus on the user. In demos,…