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New York Public Library now lets you use 20,000 historical maps for free

By admin | April 1, 2014 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Ever wanted to see what New York City’s maps looked like before skyscrapers took over… or before Americans took over, for that matter? It’s now easy as pie. The New York Public Library has published more than 20,000 of its historical maps under aCreative Commons public domain license. You can freely download, manipulate and publish cartography created between 1660 and 1922, a large chunk of which explores New York City’s neighborhoods in…

Verizon FiOS Media Server arrives as Quantum TV DVR that records up to 12 channels at once

By admin | April 1, 2014 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER We double checked the calendar too, but no, it’s not an April Fools joke — Verizon’sFIOS Media Server is finally available in a few areas as a part of the new Quantum TV package. The VMS1100 upgrades the standard cable boxes used by Verizon and other providers by shoving six tuners and a 1TB hard drive into a box that then feeds TV to other smaller set-top boxes in the…

Google

Android Wear: the age of Google smartwatches begins

By admin | March 31, 2014 by admin

As reported The Verge. By Chris Welch After months of rumors, Google is officially entering the wearables market. On March 18th, 2014, the company unveiled a specialized version of Android — Android Wear — designed to power smartwatches and other wearable products. On the same day of its major announcement, Google also revealed that it’s already signed on a number of hardware partners including LG and Motorola to help realize its vision. Android Wear promises to…

Environmental

Nobody will escape the effects of climate change, UN warns

By admin | March 31, 2014 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Panel warns that impacts may be ‘severe, pervasive, and irreversible’ unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control A United Nations panel today said that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the globe, warning in a major report that they will likely be “severe, pervasive, and irreversible” in the years to come. The report, released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concludes…

Business

How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)

By admin | March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account.As of this afternoon, it’s seen just shy of 3 thousand retweets. What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sketchy? Were they suddenly lurking around their users folders, digging for copyrighted material hiding amongst personal files? Nope. The system is neither…

Microsoft

The Resurgent, Post-Windows Microsoft

By admin | March 31, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Peter Yared Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive. Microsoft had become an oft-ignored, behemoth to the North, despite $77 billion in revenue, $57 billion in gross profits and $21 billion in net income. It seemed that the mobile revolution had passed it by. Although Steve Ballmer was already making many of the right moves, it took new CEO Satya Nadella to fully accept that Microsoft had to move…

iPhone

Ultrakam lets your iPhone capture higher resolution film-like video clips

By admin | March 31, 2014 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN While Sony and Samsung are busy making phones with 4K recording capabilities, one developer has worked its pixel magic to get more from iPhone cameras. Ultrakam is the first iOS app capable of recording 2K film resolution, letting iPhone 5s owners shoot 2240 x 1672 pixel video (that’s 70 percent more pixels than 1080p) and output movie-quality footage at the touch of a button. There’s support for the iPhone 5 and 5c, as well as…

Entertainment

Inside the greatest sci-fi film never made

By admin | March 28, 2014 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Before ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Alien,’ there was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ In the late 1970s, science fiction and cinema changed forever. Star Warshelped usher in the era of the outer-space blockbuster, while Ridley Scott’s Alien crystallized a sinister vision with some of the most horrific creature design ever seen. But as the new documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune argues, neither may have become the classics we know today were it not for another epic film — one that…

Google

Wearing Google Glass makes you look like a dick on a Segway, says designer Marc Newson

By admin | March 28, 2014 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Speaking with Dezeen about his new range of glasses, renowned designer Marc Newson took some time out to throw some serious shade at Google Glass. Although Newson, whose diverse designs have spanned products, furniture, aircraft interiors, and fashion, feels that wearable technologies are the future, he is whole-heartedly against Google’s idea of what that future will look like. “What Google have done thus far, I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing. It looks pretty…

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