Jul 31
LOS ANGELES — Two years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District tried to spruce up its lunch menu, with cafeteria ladies dishing out chicken tandoori, sushi, and broccoli and beef with brown rice.
The kids hated it.
Jul 31
Twitter just released its latest transparency report detailing government requests for information requests, content removal requests and copyright takedowns. Not just one or two but all three categories are up in the first half of this year.
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Jul 31
A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered in 2007.
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We’re soon going to be able to live forever.
One resuscitation expert offered recently that death will be reversible.
So the distinctions between the past and present, between history and dreaming, may blur considerably.
It was delightful, therefore, to read Wednesday morning that a world-famous scientist is musing about re-creating a woolly mammoth.
The Guardian explains how the very same scientist who cloned Dolly the Sheep is now considering bigger fish, as it were.
Stem-cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut (make a sheep and you become a “Sir”) has begun to muse on the possibilities of taking centuries-old cells and bringing one of Hollywood’s favorite animals back to life.
In an article for the very serious journal The Conversation, Wilmut expressed excitement about frozen mammoth bones found in nort… [Read more]
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Jul 31
Leaked from today’s 404 episode:
– Old enough to remember Paperboy? Now you can relive it in VR with the Oculus Rift.
– Extreme homeless man makeover: What do homeless people really need?
– Adult Swim is making a Mike Tyson cartoon where he solves mysteries with the help of a smart-talking pigeon.
– Nintendo sold 160K Wii U units worldwide last quarter.
– A video voice mail from Mossimo in Canada. Thanks Mossimo!
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Jul 31
This is an awesome shot of a test F-35 zipping around California’s Edwards Air Force Base sent to us by a tipster. Can you imagine this buzzing by your window?
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Jul 31
The OstrichCopter is quite a sight.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)
More than a year ago, artist Bart Jansen literally launched an unusual tribute to his beloved deceased cat Orville by having the tabby preserved and attached to a remote-controlled quadrocopter. OrvilleCopter may have been one of the first taxidermied animals to go flying, but he’s not the last.
Orville has a new buddy, the OstrichCopter. It’s exactly like it sounds. Jansen and technical engineer Arjen Beltman took a male ostrich who had died on an ostrich farm and attached the skin of it around a quadrocopter. It comes complete with neck, head, and feathers that ripple in the wind as it takes off.
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Jul 31
Last month Nokia launched its much rumored Lumia 1020 smartphone amid much fanfare. There was a lot of anticipation surrounding the event, but now that it has gone by, we must wonder what Nokia has in store for us in the future. The folks over at Windows Phone Central claim that Nokia has an event scheduled for September 26-27 in New York. It is not yet known exactly what Nokia would be announcing at that event, in fact it is too soon to say that this might be a product unveil event. For all we know, it could be a tea party for Nokia employees.
Nevertheless, the alleged event has got the rumor mill churning. Only recently a Nokia RX-114 tablet was spotted, so many believe that Nokia might be unveiling its first ever Windows powered tablet in New York this September. Last week we saw a purported display panel of the much rumored Nokia phablet, so naturally there’s speculation supporting the theory that Nokia is gearing up to launch its first ever phablet. Whatever Nokia ends up launching, or if the event does turn out to be a tea party after all, we’ll definitely keep you in the loop.
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Jul 31
3D printing is more popular and accessible than ever, and printers are on course to get even cheaper soon. But printing is only one side of the equation; what about taking 3D pictures? There’s a convenient, handheld gadget in the works that could do just that, and way cheaper than anything else has before.
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Jul 31
AdSense is one of the most used ad networks online. The platform itself is very diverse. Google makes much of its revenue through advertisements, a part of which trickles down to publishers through AdSense. Publishers are able to manage the performance of ads and check up on revenue stats through the AdSense web portal. Today Google has finally released the official AdSense app for Android. The app currently only works with Android smartphones, no word as yet when native tablet support will be baked in.
It goes without saying that AdSense is one of Google’s most important services, so it never really made sense why the company hadn’t rolled out an app for its own mobile platform. Through the app, publishers can check revenue stats, manage various reports as well as check up on ad units, set payment alerts and also view top custom and URL channels. The app is a blessing in disguise for all those publishers who constantly feel the need to steal a glance at their AdSense account, provided that they use Android smartphones. Google’s official AdSense app is now available for download from Google Play Store.
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Jul 31
Google is experimenting with a “hyper-local news card” for Google Now that flags up location-specific information, such as nearby store promotions, social activities, or breaking news. The new card, currently in internal testing as Google works on the overall “Explore” experience, was confirmed by VP of search and assist at the company, Johanna Wright. Speaking
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