You know that incredibly satisfying feeling you get when a lawnmower finally starts on the second or third yank of its pull cord? You can relive that exact same experience in your kitchen when making salsa or guacamole with this chopper that shreds your veggies as you yank on its plastic handle that’s tethered to a similar pull cord.
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The burden of college readiness seems to fall on our K-12 system. How are we preparing students for this college-ready work? This is where the controversy sets in. We all have different opinions of what that looks like in terms of instruction.
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As Edward Snowden, the young American accused of blowing the whistle on NSA surveillance tactics, continues his search for a new home in a new country in order to avoid extradition and perhaps a lengthy prison term in a U.S. prison, he needs to ask himself a couple of things.
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As the company stands now, Apple may not seem too invested in the television space. All they have is the Apple TV to show for it, compared to a slew of mobile products like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Obviously, this seems to be changing, as CEO Tim Cook has said himself that Apple is interested in television, but seeing as how they only have the Apple TV, the company owns 56% of the streaming box market.
That’s a pretty impressive number considering that the Apple TV isn’t the company’s main focus. As for other streaming boxes that have taken a piece of the pie, Roku comes in as the second most-popular streaming box at 21.5% and the “Other” category (which Google TV is most likely a part of) owns 15.9%. TiVo comes in at a measly 6.5%.
While the Apple TV isn’t the company’s main focus, they’ve been consistently adding new content and updating the device with new features in order to keep it up to date and relevant when competing against other streaming set-top boxes.
Of course, it certainly helps that the Apple TV comes with AirPlay, which allows Apple users to stream content from their iOS device or Mac directly to a television wirelessly through the Apple TV. This is one of the most popular features on the Apple TV. If you’re not using Netflix or Hulu Plus on the device, then you’re most likely using AirPlay, and this is a huge selling point.
Back in December, Tim Cook noted that the television space is “an area of intense interest” for the company. It’s been several months since that statement, and an Apple event has passed without any mention of television from Apple, but we’re guessing it’ll be a little while longer until we see something from them that lives up to Cook’s “intense interest” quote.
VIA: GigaOM
Apple TV taking over the living room, claims over half of streaming box market is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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From his amazing solo Pseudopodia (in which he tumbles, rolls forward and morphs his body onstage like a veritable human coil) to a recent Houdini-like escape from a small red gym bag where he was wrapped up, chained and twisted like a pretzel, Kuribayashi never ceases to amaze.
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Marijuana is not a harmless drug. It has measurable and predictable effects that, at least in some users, interfere with their ability to learn, remember, pursue goals and make the most of life.
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PayPal just made 56-year-old Chris Reynolds a quadrillionaire. Yes, a quadrillionaire. For a little while, anyway.
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It’s a long way up.
(Credit: Google Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Like Napoleon, Google knows how to invade.
Unlike Napoleon, it wouldn’t send its army of camera-wielding invaders into a Russian winter.
However, it did send its people, clothed and fed, up the Eiffel Tower to record the very sensations that 7 million visitors experience every year. The results can be seen here. Just click on “museum view.”
In a veritable travelogue of a blog post, Google’s Mark Yoshitake exposed details of this trek toward the sky.
The Eiffel Tower Company collaborated with the Google Cultural Institute (oh,yes, there is one) to create an exhibition that goes where few high school field trips have gone before.
With the Street View trolleys leading the way, the company’s operatives captured some stunning images that have been placed together with archival material for exalted levels of edification.
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Apolitical, peaceful, spontaneous: since January 2011, the Tunisian revolution has been called many things. Yet it was first and foremost a revolution of the youth.
From the figure of 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation triggered the Arab Spring, to the faces of Tunisia’s adolescent martyrs dead under Ben Ali’s bullets, the country’s salvation undoubtedly came from its younger generation.
Yet more than two years later, Tunisia’s disgruntled youth is decidedly disconnected from its decision makers. Both domestic and international observers have asked: “Why did you allow older generations to confiscate your revolution?” “Where is Tunisia’s revolutionary youth?”
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