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Oct 31

Google Earth 7 gets tour guide and 3D imagery features

Earlier this year, Google released tour guide and 3D imagery for Google Earth mobile. The features allow users to view cities in 3D, and to go on guided tours of over 11,000 faraway places from the comfort of their handheld. As of today, those features are now available on the Google Earth 7 desktop application.

The tour guide feature works as, well, a tour guide. You can go on a virtual tour through various locations, getting suggestions for local places that you might be interested in. A flyover will take you over historical landmarks, famous places, and other points of interest. Tidbits of information about items and locations are provided via Wikipedia.

The second feature, 3D imagery, has been enjoyed by Android and iOS users for a while now. With this feature, desktop users can now see detailed three-dimensional flyovers of many of the world’s biggest cities, including Rome, Munich, Mannheim, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Long Beach, Denver, and more. Says the announcement, “The experience of flying through these areas and seeing the buildings, terrain and even the trees rendered in 3D is now consistent across both mobile and desktop devices – making all of your virtual travels more realistic than ever.”

Using these features on your laptop or desktop is much nicer than using a mobile. In particular, the 3D city imagery, when viewed on a large monitor or HDTV, are pretty phenomenal, with crisp details and definition. You can get the new features by updating your current installation, or by downloading Google Earth 7 from the Google Earth website.

[via Google]

Google Earth 7 gets tour guide and 3D imagery features is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Oct 31

Hurricane Sandy 2012: New York City Struggles Back After Killer Storm

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NEW YORK — Flights resumed, but slowly. The New York Stock Exchange got back to business, but on generator power. And with the subways still down, great numbers of people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in a reverse of the exodus of 9/11.

Two days after Superstorm Sandy rampaged across the Northeast, killing more than 70 people, New York struggled Wednesday to find its way. Swaths of the city were still without power, and all of it was torn from its daily rhythms.

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Oct 31

Steve Nash Injury: Lakers PG Hurts Left Knee Against Blazers

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In just his second game with the Los Angeles Lakers, veteran guard Steve Nash injured his left knee against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Nash appeared to bump knees with Blazers rookie guard Damian Lillard late in the first half Wednesday night and limped off the court. He was helped to the locker room.

The Lakers initially reported the injury was not serious and Nash was able to play. But just 1:16 into the second half it was clear he was struggling and he headed back to the locker room.

YouView software update adds surround-sound, faster boot times and grouped recording

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Rocking a YouView box? You’ll shortly be in line for a software bump that’ll give you a few handy tweaks. The update will speed up the device’s boot-from-standby time, let you group recordings by series so you can watch ’em box-set style and pump out surround-sound audio if you’ve got the right gear. It’ll also provide a few useful UI tweaks, like offering the option to hide BBC red button prompts, letting you roll live TV backwards by 15 seconds or forwards by 60 seconds. It’ll be available on Humax-branded boxes over the next few weeks, followed by the TalkTalk branded units shortly afterward.

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Oct 31

Campaign Final Days For Aides To Obama And Romney ‘A Special Kind Of Madness’

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WASHINGTON -– In the closing days of a presidential campaign, there is often little each side can do other than hold on to their hats.

The candidates play it safe, their campaigns compete to out bluster each other with conference calls and strategy memos, and each new poll enters the political bloodstream with a noticeable jolt.

But when it comes to the command centers that have pulled the levers and driven the message from President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago and Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign office in Boston, these last few days are a weird anticlimax as senior aides come to the point where they have done almost everything they can do, barring an unforeseen development that needs attention.

AT&T and T-Mobile offering free roaming in New York and New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy

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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, telecommunication giants AT&T and T-Mobile are now working together to allow network roaming in areas severely damaged by the storm, especially New York and New Jersey. This means that AT&T and T-Mobile customers will now be able to place calls on either of the networks without any changes to their current rate plans and service agreements.

Both carriers are using the latest network technology that are based on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) standards which allows sharing of voice and data traffic.

It’s important to note that both carriers were previously denied to merge last year. AT&T attempted to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion in 2011. The deal, which could change the game, was eventually denied by the federal regulators. But in spite of the failed merger, it’s nice to hear that both carriers are still working together hand in hand.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: AT&T and T-Mobile opens up networks in New York and New Jersey to ease communications woes, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 variants for AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon stop by the FCC,

Oct 31

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Not Crazy About "Mad Men," The Very Cool "Peter Gunn," Goofy Carol Burnett And More

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What’s going on? Why have even more TV shows been pouring onto DVD and BluRay lately? And not just full season offerings but elaborate boxed sets of entire runs of shows? A couple things. DVD sales are slowing but the one area of strength is TV shows; people may not bother to purchase every movie that comes out on DVD anymore, but they see a lot of value in buying an entire season of a show they like. So if that’s where the money is, that’s where studios will focus their energy. Plus, it’s a lot easier to sell a digital download of a movie as opposed to 12 or 20 episodes of a show. So again, when it comes to TV, consumers like BluRay and DVDs. Finally, all the studios believe physical copies of movies and TV shows are a thing of the past. Paramount even handed off a chunk of its valuable library to Warner Bros. and said, we can’t be bothered putting them out on DVD and BluRay. (They kept the digital rights.) In a few years, they imagine everyone will either access streaming video via Netflix, Hulu and the like or just buy a digital copy.

So for all these reasons it’s a mad dash to cash in while the getting is good. So fans of classic TV get to dig into lavish sets devoted to The Fugitive and The Carol Burnett Show and Poirot and Peter Gunn and on and on. Here’s hoping studios and music unions (one of the big roadblocks keeping certain shows off of DVD because of high royalty demands) wise up and cut deals so we can finally see shows like The Wonder Years, I’ll Fly Away, Hill Street Blues and (fill in the name of your favorite TV show missing on DVD) come out on disc while they still can. Here’s a rundown of some terrific sets that came out just in the last two or three weeks. It’s impossible to put them in order of preference: many of these are gems we’ve been waiting a long time for.

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Archos announces 80 Cobalt Android tablet

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Just in case the world doesn’t have enough lower-end tablets, Archos has launched the 80 Cobalt, a dual-core Android slate with a yet-unannounced price tag that will probably be relatively inexpensive, if the specs are any indication. There’s no information on launch date yet, but we’re guessing it’ll be out in time for the Christmas rush.

The Archos 80 Cobalt has a 1.6GHz dual-core processor (unnamed), as well as a quad-core GPU. There’s 1GB of RAM, and an 8-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 768. It runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Ports include a micro USB 2.0 and standard 3.5mm audio jack.

While the 80 Cobalt does have a (rear) webcam, it comes in at just 2-megapixels. For those impromptu video conferencing sessions, there’s a 0.3-megapixel front camera as well. Inside you’ll find 8GB of internal storage space and a microSDHC expansion slot with support for up to 64GB if you need more space for you apps and files.

Overall, the 80 Cobalt isn’t something that will make tablet-lovers pay much attention, as it matches dozens of other Android slates with similar specs. However, if the price ends up being lowish, as seems to be the case, this could make a decent cheapo slate for the kids or to give as a Christmas present. No word yet on when this tablet’s going to be released.

[via Android Community]

Oct 31

Restored Fresco Curry: A Tasteful Tribute to a Terrible Touch-Up

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Japanese artist, blogger and curry cook Takeda Take has taken the disastrously (but hilariously) botched restoration of the Spanish fresco “Ecco Homo” to a new, delicious level.