This morning’s earnings report may not have been BlackBerry’s favorite moment, but John Chen seems confident in his vision for the company’s future — and his ability to turn things around. Speaking with a small group of analysts and reporters, Chen …
Amsterdam is known for a lot of things, including their scenic canals. The city’s Canal District is turning 400 this year, and the city is celebrating by selling bottles of water obtained from the canal.
It’s an unusual souvenir but hey, at least it lets you take an actual piece (or rather, several hundred milliliters) of the attraction with you, complete with sediment. The water is bottled as Amsterdam Canal Aqua and has the background story of the waterway printed on the back of its label.
It’s obviously not potable, so don’t drink it if you know what’s good for you.
Each bottle of Amsterdam Canal Aqua is priced at €50 (~$69 USD.)
[via PSFK via Food Beast]
The wonderful thing about science is that researchers are always pushing to produce the latest, greatest and most wonderful findings they can. They never let up. And 2013 was no exception.
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The Lennon crater doesn't really look like him.
(Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution)
The words “Mercury” and “crater” don’t appear in the Beatles lyrics catalog anywhere, but they now belong as part of the band’s history. The International Astronomical Union has named a Mercury impact crater after John Lennon.
Lennon isn’t the only musician on Mercury, but he’s in good company. There are craters named for Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Puccini, and Aaron Copland. Lennon seems to be the only rocker among the planet’s rocks. In case you were wondering, Keith Richards doesn’t qualify yet to have a crater named after him. You have to be deceased first.
The Lennon naming comes along with nine other crater names, including tributes to Barney (writer Natalie Clifford Barney, not the purple dinosaur creature), Ca… [Read more]
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After stopping a Google bus two weeks ago, a group of protesters from what appears to be the same organization has stopped a bus full of Apple employees. This set … Continue reading
You like to mess with your phone? Unlock that bootloader and flash some ROMs? Soon there’ll be another option for would-be tinkers who want to run mods. Google just approved the first ever Android phone to run the ever-popular Cyanogenmod right out of the box.
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Lazy enough for you?
(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Look, I’ve got weaknesses, OK?
I have an unbalanced sympathy for the vertically challenged, the dimpled, and the low-voiced.
And then there’s my e-mail inbox. I allow e-mails from a multitude of companies to fester there like septic acne. I don’t know why I let them stay there. It’s like that college friend who says he’d like to stay for a few days and, three months later, he wants to remind you that you’ve run out of his favorite Frosties.
Once in awhile, I’ll whip down the page and click on “unsubscribe” a few hundred times. But then the e-mails come back, as if they’ve been procreating right under my eyes.
Now, though, there is new, free thingummy that makes ridding yourself of unwanted commercial come-ons just a little easier.
It’s called RemoveMe and it comes from a company called Powerinbox.
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(Credit: Dolby/Geoff Morrison)
While the majority of the TV industry prattles on about higher and higher resolutions, few talk about improving other, more important aspects of the TVs picture: contrast ratio and color.
Dolby, though best known for its audio technologies, has been doing a lot with video recently too. The latest development addresses dynamic range, or difference between light and dark, for televisions. The company says it wants to enhance not just contrast ratios, but the richness and realism of color as well.
Dolby won’t be announcing the official name of this tech until CES next month, but for now let’s call it the Dolby High-Dynamic Range Television System because it shares a lot of the same characteristics of HDR imaging. Here’s why it’s cool (potentially).
The multiple levels of picture quality There are three aspects to the picture that Dolby hopes to improve: Brightness, contrast, and color. In reality, all three of these things are related.
Increasing the brightness of a TV, in itself, isn’t difficult. You just use more LEDs, in the case of LCD TVs, and run them brighter. Easy. This does noth… [Read more]
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Between virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR’s Share portal and a recent infusion of $75 million, it’s not exactly a huge surprise to hear that the startup is branching out into game publishing as well. Former Electronic Arts senior VP David …
Today kicks off the two-day mechanolympics of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials at Homestead Miami Speedway. With teams from around the world competing in eight tasks, only one will take home the purse. Just a few hours in—watch live here—it’s still any robot’s game. We’ve got your odds right here, so you can bet on the future.
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