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Apple

Apple’s new Mac Pro now on sale, will ship by December 30th

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN After months of waiting, Apple’s new Mac Pro is now available to order through its online store. Coming just a day after the company announced the availability of the trashcan-shaped desktop, the quad-core and six-core models start at $3,000 and $4,000 respectively. Should you order today, Apple says it’ll ship your new Mac Pro by December 30th. That base model will get you a 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon CPU, 12GB DRAM, two AMD FirePro…

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Big update for Final Cut Pro brings improved support for 4K and the new Mac Pro

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG As Apple’s finally put its redesigned Mac Pro up for sale, the company’s also seen fit to update editing software Final Cut Pro. Version 10.1 optimizes rendering and playback for the new Mac, but for users of other “select” Macs, the most significant change will likely be the addition of 4K monitoring over Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI. Since 4K playback requires a lot of bandwidth, it’s probable only new Retina MacBook…

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Space

$19 million might produce the first ever image of a black hole

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Astrophysicists think there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It’s supposed to be four million times more massive than our Sun, but despite its stupendous size, we’ve never been able to see it. That might soon change. The European Research Council has given 14 million euros ($19.3 million) to the creators of BlackHoleCam, a project that will use radio telescopes and supercomputers to try to…

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Google

Google Glass Gets ‘Wink To Shoot Picture’ Mode, Lock Screen, YouTube Uploading And Hangouts Chat

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As reported TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino Google has just announced a massive update to Google Glass which adds a lock screen, Hangouts chat, direct YouTube uploading via a Glass app and a ‘wink to shoot a picture’ mode. The wink photo mode is obviously interesting as developers had dug up references to it in the Glass firmware a while ago and it’s just making an appearance now. You can shoot images by simply turning the mode on and winking your…

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Microsoft

Microsoft Chief: “Nobody Ever Buys Windows. They Buy Windows PCs.”

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Alex Wilhelm Earlier today ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley published another installment in what appears to be an orgy of access, this time with outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Regarding its executive changes, Microsoft today reported that it will not announce its new leader until 2014, cooling speculation that the new CEO would land before the end of this year. Ballmer’s remarks are worth reading, of course, but two segments stand out. For one, his…

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Android Application

Evernote for Android graced with refined note editing, external keyboard support

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As reported on Engadget. BY ALEXIS SANTOS  Sure, the year might be winding down, but the folks at Evernote have still managed to sneak in another update for their Android app. By wielding the upgraded application, users can edit notes without fear of losing text styling they’ve applied in the program on other platforms, and view attachments in-line with their digital scrawlings. External keyboard support has been baked in as well, alongside recognition for key shortcuts for creating notes, bullets, numbered lists…

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Tech Trends

Meta Pro promises Tony Stark-style computing with a $3,000 pair of sunglasses

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As reported on Engadget. BY MICHAEL GORMAN As opposed to the rudimentary capabilities of the current king of wearables, Google Glass, a company called Meta is building a full-fledged augmented reality computing platform into a pair of aviator shades and a pocket computer. The platform aims to provide the kind of user experience heretofore seen only in Hollywood films — think Tony Stark using J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man. It’s been about four months since we last touched base…

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The Beautiful UI Design Behind Automatic, a Driving App That Saves You Gas

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As reported on Wired. BY JOSEPH FLAHERTY Automatic has developed a new quantified-self gizmo that promises to save drivers thousands of dollars per year and stall the greenhouse effect by reeducating drivers in real-time. Photo: Automatic   Do you know how much money it costs you to slam on your brakes? Or the annual cost you incur by speeding? Probably not, and even though the average American drives 13,476 miles per year, aside from a brief driver’s ed…

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Culture Education Film

The science of ‘Her’: we’re going to start falling in love with our computers

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Popper Why do humans become emotionally intimate with AI? In the new Spike Jonze film, Her, a man falls in love with his operating system. In some ways it’s a commentary on modern society and our increasingly intimate relationship to technology; it’s about the smartphones we bring to bed and the computers we wear to work. But there is also a lot of truth to the idea that people might fall…

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Science

Earth Wind Map turns raw weather data into neon art

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with numbers, isn’t the easiest to visualize without a degree in meteorology. That’s where the Earth Wind Map can come in handy. It takes the the Global Forecast System’s data — updated every three hours — and applies it to a zoomable map.…

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