Aug 24

Mobile Miscellany: week of August 19th, 2013

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Mobile Miscellany week of August 19th, 2013

If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a free TV streaming service for Bell subscribers, the arrival of NFL Mobile to BlackBerry 10 and little bit of Windows Phone love from General Motors. These stories and more await. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that’s happening in the mobile world for this week of August 19th, 2013.

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Aug 24

Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real

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Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real

The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren’t real. Yet. Elon Musk has been cooking up something very Stark-y, and he’s planning to show it off soon.

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Aug 24

Julie Harris Dead: Broadway Star And 5-Time Tony Best Actress Winner Dies At 87

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NEW YORK — Julie Harris, one of Broadway’s most honored performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles in “I Am a Camera” to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in “The Belle of Amherst,” died Saturday. She was 87.

Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said.

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Aug 24

Michael Jensen, Gay ‘Woven’ Author, Gets Mormon Church’s Backing In Publishing Dispute

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SALT LAKE CITY — More than 40 Mormon authors are backing a gay writer in his dispute with a Utah publisher over a reference to the writer’s boyfriend.

Authors Michael Jensen and David Powers King say Sweetwater Books, a division of Cedar Fort Publishing & Media based in Springville, canceled publication of their young-adult fantasy novel “Woven” because of the flap.

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Aug 24

Yahoo buys image recognition firm IQ Engines to reorganize Flickr

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DNP Yahoo buys image recognition startup IQ Engines

Flickr is a killer resource for photographers of all stripes, but navigating through its massive photo catalog is far from elegant. Hopefully, Yahoo’s purchase of IQ Engines can change that. According to the image recognition startup’s website, IQ will be applying its skills to improving photo organization and search functionality to the online photo repository. Maybe its first order of business will be arranging all of Yahoo’s new logos.

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Aug 24

Why Harry Styles Hates The Word ‘Famous’

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It seems like the boys of One Direction have been promoting their new documentary, “This Is Us,” non-stop this month.

Among the many (hilarious) gifsets we’ve seen on Tumblr from their press conferences around the movie, this one might be the most thoughtful. See below for Harry Styles’ surprising answer when asked by a reporter why he hated the word “famous.”

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Aug 24

Travers Stakes 2013: Will Take Charge Pulls Upset At Saratoga Race Course (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A little tinkering by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas paid off in a big way in the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Will Take Charge, with a new rider in Luis Saez, caught Moreno in the final stride and won racing’s Mid-Summer Derby by a nose to give the 77-year-old Lukas his third Travers win and first since 1995.

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Aug 24

Ready, Set, Cleave! – Zombie Chomper Knife from Ka-Bar

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Ka-Bar Zombie Knives

 Are you ready for the Zombie Apocalypse? Are you sure? Your zombie killing kit needs to include the Zomstro Zombie Cleaver knife by Ka-Bar to ensure your survival and success in the undead realms of the future. Only the best equipped will last through the long night of the walking dead.

 

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Aug 24

Jim White: Wordmule

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Do you watch Breaking Bad? If not, what is wrong with you and also you are missing out because—among many, many other fantastic things—it recently featured the fantastically weird "Wordmule" by Jim White.

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Aug 24

New York Times Endorses Christine Quinn, Joseph Lhota For New York Mayor

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The New York Times has endorsed two candidates in New York’s 2013 mayoral race: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for the Democratic primary and former MTA head Joseph Lhota for the Republican primary.

It seems that picking a candidate to endorse from the Democratic field was no easy task for the paper’s editorial board. Anonymous sources told Politico on Friday that the board’s support was divided between Quinn and Public Advocate Bill De Blasio, “who is more ideologically aligned with the Times.”

The board nods to this tension in their endorsement, but ultimately singles out Quinn as the more practical choice. “Ms. Quinn inspires the most confidence,” they write, “that she would be the right mayor for the inevitable times when hope and idealism collide with the challenge of getting something done.”

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