Dec 14
Hitachi announces a few storage solutions based on 3TB internal hard drives.
Dec 14
A month after cutting the cord on his subscription TV service, CNET editor David Katzmaier reconnects.
Dec 14
A month after cutting the cord on his subscription TV service, CNET editor David Katzmaier reconnects.
Dec 14
App Store users in the U.S. today can see a preview of the “Tron Legacy” iAd built specifically for the iPad by Apple and Disney.
Originally posted at News – Apple
Dec 14
Andy Rubin’s full D: Dive Into Mobile interview video posted
Posted in: gingerbread, Google, motorola, nexus s, NexusS, tablet, Today's Chili, video
Android boss Andy Rubin almost always makes for an entertaining interview, and his appearance at AllThingsD‘s D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco last week was certainly no exception. The introduction of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Nexus S were the official news items of the day, but Rubin took the opportunity to showcase the next version of the platform — Honeycomb — running on a prototype Motorola tablet that no one had seen before. He also runs through a breakdown of Android’s business model (hint: it’s profitable), muses about video calling, and gives us a look at that crazy new 3D-capable Google Maps app. Follow the break for the footage.
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Dec 14
Romantic drama out of Israel invites viewer participation in selecting narrative developments. The interactive technology could show up in commercials and TV shows, too.
Dec 14
Change Your Google Talk Status to Away
Posted in: Features, Freeware, Google, Newly Released, Screenshots, Software, Tips and Tricks, Today's ChiliThis article was written on October 29, 2007 by CyberNet.
I absolutely love Google Talk because of its simplicity, and the fact that I’ve got all of my friends using it is a huge plus. There is only one thing that I really dislike with the instant messenger, and it’s that I can’t change my status to away.
A free program called gAlwaysIdle is looking to solve that problem. It provides an option in the Google Talk right-click menu that will let you always have your status set to away, whether or not your are using your computer:
It has three different modes that you can choose from:
- Normal Idle – Uses the default Google Talk settings
- Always Idle – You’re always set to idle
- Never Idle – Makes sure you are never set to away even when you’re not at your computer
As you can see from the screenshot above I was using this on Vista, but anytime I tried to change the status I got a fatal error. The only way to get around this is to run Google Talk as an administrator, or to disable the User Account Control (UAC) all together. My guess is that this program adjusts registry settings on-the-fly, and without the proper permissions in will crash and burn. As soon as I ran Google Talk as an administrator it worked as expected.
I wish that Google Would just implement this feature themselves … it would be so much easier. 
gAlwaysIdle Homepage [via Life Rocks]
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Dec 14
Scientists Find First Evidence of Universes Beyond Our Own
Posted in: space, Space Tech, Today's Chili
As it turns out, the Universe may not be all that universal.
Everything we know and can see may be but one tapioca ball in a gigantic cosmic bubble tea. That is just one of the possibilities that can be inferred from data collected from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
Some background on the cosmic background: When using a traditional optical telescope to look between the stars, the far ends of the observable Universe appear pitch black. However, if you were to switch to a radio telescope, a faint ripply background glow is detected emanating from all directions. This is the CMB (which is strongest in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum, thus the name).
The CMB is often described as the residual energy leftover after the Big Bang. It also represents the farthest observable boundaries of our Universe (and the farthest back in time). Scientists have no direct way to detect what, if anything, is beyond.
However, one guess of what is lies beyond is the theory of “eternal inflation.” Eternal Inflation hypothesizes that our universe is just one fixture of a larger multiverse. The theory speculates that our universe as being a bubble that exists in a larger void among other self-contained universii (other universes which may even follow radically different laws of physics).
If this theory is true, cosmologists might expect to see “bruises” in the CMB where our universe bumped into others. According to a recent report from a team at the University College London, they may have discovered just that, and maybe even as many as four colossal brush-ups. The paper [PDF here] is based on data collected from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP), which has been collecting data from the far reaches of the (known) Universe for the past decade.
However, since no one knows exactly what a cosmos-sized bruise might look like, this remains, for now, just a very intriguing theory. However, scientists are hopeful that a more detailed dataset will come from the European Space Agency’s ongoing Planck mission which launched in 2009.
Crazy.
via PopSci, image credit: ESA/ LFI & HFI Consortia
Dec 14
According to reports, Yahoo, the Web’s once-dominant search site, is planning to layoff between 650 and 700 employees–or around five percent of the company’s staff. The layoffs are said to be spread across the company, but primarily occurring in its product group.
The massive staff cut is an attempt for the company to hit financial targets–really unfortunate timing, 10 days ahead of Christmas. The latest cut is the fourth in three years–two of which have occurred in the two years since Carol Bartz was hired on as the company’s CEO. The layoffs have been rumored for a number of months now.
Bartz, for her part, is still outwardly confident that the company is improving under her watch.
Yahoo services, meanwhile, have been experiencing some downtime–no word on whether this is related to today’s news.
Dec 14
Voyager 1 will exit solar system soon, is so close to the void it can taste it
Posted in: NASA, space, Today's Chili
Endurance: it’s important in every race, including the space race, even though many pundits would argue that it kind of fizzled a long time ago. Thirty-three years prior to now, NASA‘s Voyager 1 began its journey to check in on the outer planets. It accomplished that goal in 1989, and has since moved on to bigger and better things — you know, like leaving the solar system. Ten billion miles away, Voyager 1’s Low-Energy Charged Particle Instrument is spitting out “solid zeroes,” which means it’s not detecting any more outward movement from solar winds. The heliopause (read: the official edge of the solar system) is just a few short years away for the radioactive-powered spacecraft, which is frightening to think about regardless of your experience in Space Camp. What will happen once it enters interstellar space? We’re not sure, but we’re trying to set up radio comms with its earth-bound synthesizer progeny for some kind of freaky space jam. We’ll keep you posted.
[Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech]
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