This week gaming company Valve made public a new operating system based on their game collection and environment: SteamOS. As Steam continues to be a central part of the gaming community here in 2013, dominating the world of digital distribution of games the world over, SlashGear took the opportunity to speak with one of the […]
Impassioned blog posts, eloquent spoken word poems and a seemingly endless series of news stories about mothers who have been shamed for breastfeeding out in the open are slowly but surely helping people to realize that feeding a child in a public place is normal. But we’re not quite there yet.
A Today.com poll of around 10,000 people shows that attitudes are still evolving: fewer than 40 percent of respondents said they thought nursing in public was a “non issue,” while nine percent of respondents said they felt “empowered,” and an equal proportion felt “embarrassed.”
In a segment of the TODAY Show’s week-long #BornTODAY series devoted to breastfeeding, correspondent Jenna Wolfe took her 5-week-old baby, Harper, to a number of New York businesses and landmarks like FAO Schwarz and the Plaza hotel (concealed camera in tow) to find out if anyone would challenge her legal right to nurse.
If you picked up Chromecast earlier this summer, there’s a good chance you’ve been exploring Google’s digital content library. Now the company is trying to make it a little easier for you, updating its Google Play Movies & TV app to present television content in a more straightforward, linear manner. Gone is the app’s episode-focused browsing experience, for instance, replaced by a more organized list of television programs that filter into sequential lists of episodes. Each show’s card is smaller too, allowing more to fit on a single screen. Diving into a program’s folder shows not only the purchased episodes, but now also prompts the user to buy the next episode in the series. Content that has been pinned for download can be accessed more quickly as well, and can be filtered through a new On Device menu for offline viewing.
The changelog also notes that the update brings “several bug fixes,” which seems to have disabled screenshots on some devices (according to Android Police.) Holding power + volume down still managed to snap an image on our HTC One, however. A mild disappointment, to be sure, but it’s hard to argue with a cleaner, more efficient interface. Snag the update for yourself at the Google Play link below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Google
Via: Android Police
Source: Google Play
Netflix has enabled Super HD video for all of its streaming subscribers, having trialled the low-compression system earlier this year in an ISP-dependent test run. Then, Netflix only offered the service – which is 1080p Full HD, but using less compression for better quality visuals – to those viewers using an ISP with a direct […]
Martin Freeman will star in FX’s miniseries remake of “Fargo,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
He’ll play Lester Nygaard, “an insurance salesman who has seen better days. Henpecked by his wife, his life is changed forever when a mysterious stranger comes to town.” William H. Macy played the role in the Coen Brothers’ 1996 film, which earned him an Oscar nomination.
As previously announced, the aforementioned mysterious stranger is named Lorne Malvo, and will be played by Billy Bob Thornton. Malvo is described by FX as a rootless, manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction.
(Credit: RAC WA)
Emotiv and the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia have joined forces to come up with a slightly unusual solution for the dangers of driver inattention.
The so-called Attention Powered Car features a neuroheadset made by Emotiv, creator of a range of electroencephalography-based monitoring gear.
The EPOC headset.
(Credit: Emotiv)
When worn, the headset, known as the EPOC, measures electrical activity in the brain to gauge how focused the driver is on driving.
The headset interfaces with custom software installed in the car, with any lapses in concentration resulting in the vehicle slowing down safely to about 9 mph as a way of alerting the driver to his or her inattention.
In fact, the car — a Hyundai i40 — will only run at full capacity when it senses that drivers are giving their full attention to the task at hand.
According to Pat Walker, RAC executive general manager:
The impact of inattention is now comparable to the number of deaths and serious injuries caused by speed and drink driv… [Read more]
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Times were tough for American businesses during World War II. Rationing by the U.S. government made conducting business a lot harder, but Americans largely understood that it was a necessary sacrifice if they hoped to win the war. But with tight restrictions on certain foods, restaurants like White Castle had to get creative when designing their menu.
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Distracted driving, whether due to cell phone usage or other reasons, is a major cause of car crashes and the related fallout both in the U.S. and abroad, something that has prompted the NHTSA to propose an in-car system to automatically block cell phones. The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, more commonly called RAW […]
Say what you will about Apple’s business practices, but its philanthropy work is hard to discount. Cupertino has raised over $65 million for Product Red’s fight against AIDS since 2006, the charity tweeted today. The announcement comes from the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, where the male half of Bonoprah took the stage, commenting that the tech giant “is certainly leading the crew” in terms of donations to the effort — something that should speak much louder than a broken click wheel ever will.
Filed under: Apple
Via: Electronista
Source: (Product) RED (Twitter)
Instead of giving your unwanted memory cards away to your parents, or putting them someplace safe where they’ll inevitably get lost, this easy-to-build kit lets you turn a bunch of unused microSD cards into a far more useful SSD drive.
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