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Microsoft

The next Windows 8.1 update might skip the Start screen by default

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Microsoft already gave Windows 8 users the option to boot their machines directly to the desktop, but a future update could make the classic interface standard. According to known leaker WZor, the latest Windows 8.1 test build skips over Microsoft’s tiled interface by default. Of course, those aren’t the only changes — WZor also posted screenshots showing that the OS’ power options (sleep, shut down and restart) have been moved to the Start Screen, and modern UI apps now feature a “minimize”…

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Entertainment

Angry Nerd: Calm Down, Dorks. Disney Will Not Ruin Star Wars

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRIS BAKER Need Text Will Disney Ruin Star Wars? Some internet geeks are up in arms about Disney buying the Star Wars IP from George Lucas. Angry Nerd advises them to chill out. Are they worried that Disney will add annoying cutesy characters to boost kid appeal, or reduce the movies to fodder for endless spinoff shows and cartoons and merchandise? WELL THAT ALREADY HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO, YOU SCRUFFY-LOOKING NERF…

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Application

With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water

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As reported on The Verge. By Dieter Bohn This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it’s much more than just a news reading app — it’s a complete reimagining of Facebook itself. Once you’ve used it, you may never want to open the standard Facebook app again. Although it doesn’t replicate every feature of Facebook’s main app, it has enough to fill the majority of what people use it…

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Culture Tech

Welcome To The French Tech Ecosystem

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Romain Dillet   This is the story of a city that keeps reinventing itself. Over the past three weeks, I’ve been walking around Paris to meet with the brightest minds of a tech ecosystem in the making. My experience is as personal as it is relevant about what makes a startup ecosystem work, and why Europe is the next frontier.   When I first decided that I wanted to move to…

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Business Cloud

Amazon might launch Kindle-powered checkout system and cloud-based payment service

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON Amazon might still be working away on its far-out delivery drone project, but it’s also reportedly cooking up something else, admittedly a little tamer, too: a Kindle checkout system and a P2P payment service. Yes, the former’s exactly what it sounds like — a Kindle tablet equipped with proprietary software and a credit card reader (like Square), at least according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon supposedly acquired GoPago (a mobile payment platform for…

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Hardware Dev

Dell’s new Android HDMI dongle turns screens into virtualized desktop computers for $130

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As reported on Engadget. BY MICHAEL GORMAN Dell’s betting that a bunch of businesspeople want to be able to carry their work computer around in their pocket. Not literally, of course, but with the release of the company’s $130 dollar Wyse Cloud Connect dongle (formerly known as Project Ophelia), you can do just that. It connects to any TV or display with an HDMI or MHL port, and hooks up to mice and keyboards via Bluetooth or mini-USB. There’s also…

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Culture Entertainment

Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Photo courtesy Oculus   PARK CITY, Utah – I never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m onstage with Beck. He’s wearing his usual hat-and-blazer combo, and covering one of my favorite David Bowie songs. Out past the crowd is a full choir — a few faces I recognize because they played with Beck during last year’s Station to Station rolling art extravaganza — and a massive musical ensemble. People are…

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Art Entertainment Film

Inside the design of David Lynch’s ‘Dune’

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster The reception for David Lynch’s theatrical take on Dune was mixed, to stay the least. But for all of its narrative issues, it certainly was a lovely film to look at. Writing on io9, former concept artist Ron Miller provides some insight into how the world of Arrakis was created. Miller — whose job included crafting large-scale paintings to represent scenes from the film — touches on “the immense effort that went…

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Internet

.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow

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As reported TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous registrarsworldwide. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) already made four new gTLDs in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic scripts available, but this is the first time new gTLDs will become…

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Google

Google Brings Chrome Apps To Android And iOS

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois Google’s offline Chrome Apps are about to find their way to both Android and iOS. Using Apache’s well-known open-source Cordova platform for turning web apps into native apps, Google today launched a developer preview of a toolchainfor building native apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Using these tools, developers can take their existing Chrome Apps, wrap them into a native shell and submit them to Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Google is making a…

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