Jul 16
Jul 16
“The story of your life.”
With that phrase, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the company’s new Timeline profile in the fall of 2011. The social network’s original profile page, he explained, was the first place where most people “felt safe expressing their real self” on the internet, but it was only the “first five minutes of your conversation.” A major redesign in 2008 extended that to “the next 15 minutes.” Timeline, though, was the “next few hours.” Your true self, in full.
To illustrate the point, Zuckerberg went on to show a promotional video that put This Is Your Life to shame by recapping one man’s life from his own birth to the birth of his child (and then some) in just over a minute. Facebook has always wanted to be your online identity — your internet, in many ways — but it was now also bringing something else to the fore that once had a tendency to fade into the background; your memories.
Jul 16
Do you think that Google themselves are getting too big for their own britches? Some might say so, while others think differently. The online search as well as advertising giant has decided to block Google Ads on websites that offer […]
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Jul 16
Microsoft’s Outlook Web App for iPhone and iPad is available today, offering offline email capabilit
Posted in: Today's ChiliMicrosoft’s Outlook Web App for iPhone and iPad is available today, offering offline email capabilities and voice commands. The iOS native app has all the capabilities of Outlook Web App, best for those whose workplaces already subscribe to Office 365. [Verge]
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Jul 16
Ready to tackle new challenges and experiences, Tim Van Damme, the Lead Designer for Instagram, will be leaving the Facebook-acquired company to join up with Dropbox. Van Damme has a healthy track record, having designed for Instagram since January of 2012, as well as Gowalla and TenForce prior to that time. He’ll join former Facebook designers Rasmus Andersson and Soleio Cuervo in his new position starting in early August; in the meantime, he’ll be taking a few weeks off, though we wonder if he’ll be sharing any pictures of his vacation or the amazing food on you-know-what.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Facebook
Source: AllThingsD
Jul 16
Have you ever leaned over a railing and felt your stomach drop at the sight and perceived depth of the stories below you? Normally I stay away from railings because of my fear of heights and because I feel like I might drop down to my death if I lean too forward.
Silly, but that’s what I feel every time I look down, anyway.
Making people all over realize this fear is magician Rahat Hussein, who pulled a third-story fall prank on unsuspecting people shopping at the mall. If I were there, I’d probably scream my head off and stay away from railings for good.
Rahat pranked individuals who thought they were auditioning to be a television show host. Instead, they ended up with no gig and a huge scare after the fake interview.
[via Laughing Squid]
Jul 16
"Pacific Rim" has some of the coolest giant robots ever seen onscreen.
(Credit: Legendary Pictures)
The scene: Tokyo lies in ruins. A child is alone in the wreckage and terrified as a colossal monster approaches. The creature’s on an unstoppable rampage and the kid’s fate looks sealed. Until a savior steps in at the last moment.
Fast forward: The kid is introduced to an international military program that builds giant robotic machines to fight marauding alien monsters. But the machines must be piloted by people with special neurological abilities. Naturally the kid has this power, and is chosen to mount humanity’s last defense against the invasion.
If you saw “Pacific Rim” over the weekend, you know this story. But it feels very familiar if you’ve also seen “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” the blockbuster 1995-1996 anime series that redefined the giant robot sci-fi genre in Japan. What does Guillermo del Toro’s big budget sci-fi slugfest owe to that franchise?
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Jul 16
The history of baseball equipment—just like the game itself—beats a meandering path, full of eccentric characters and bizarre details. That’s partially because many parts of the game—from gloves to bats—were left up to the design of the players themselves.
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Jul 16
Jul 16
HP Android smartphone returns with “Brave” specifications [UPDATE: HP Denies]
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt’s time to get serious about HP releasing another smartphone, in this case code-named HP Brave and ready for Android excellence. This device is being teased as rolling with GSM/WCDMA/LTE abilities right out of the box paired with a 4.5-inch 900 x 1600 pixel display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor. You know what that means? It means that HP somehow made a mistake and put a display from 2012 on a device that’s got enough power under the hood to work with a panel from 2014.
This device has appeared in the benchmarking system known as AnTuTu, meaning there’s always the possibility that it’s not entirely legitimate. AnTuTu doesn’t often have falsified results, but the ability to do so does still exist – keep that in mind when you read through the rest of this article on a device that has, on the other hand, been rumored more than once.
Above: The HP Slate 7 running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
UPDATE: HP denies this machine’s existence in an extremely brief statement:
“The photo is a fabrication and is not a photo of anything HP has in the works. Someone is making stuff up.” – HP Representative
Earlier this year, HP Senior Director of Consumer PCs and Tablets for Asia-Pacific, Yam Su Yin suggested that, with regard to an HP smartphone, “the answer is yes but I cannot give a timetable. … It would be silly if we say no,” she said, “HP has to be in the game.”
This new “Brave” device is said here to be working with a 5 megapixel camera on its front, a 14.5 megapixel camera on its back, and a single LED flash (again, on its back). This back-facing camera is tipped here as being able to film 1080p video, and we wouldn’t be surprised if the front-facing camera had the ability to film 720p video at least.
The list of specifications here suggests that this machine is working with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, well within the realm of real possibility. With the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 we’re seeing a clock speed at 2.0 GHz per each of its four cores paired with ARM-made Adreno 300 GPU power to back it all up. And it’s definitely not running WebOS.
VIA: PhoneArena; Amoeba
HP Android smartphone returns with “Brave” specifications [UPDATE: HP Denies] is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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