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05/23/2013
Good, Bad, and Evil Things: Cataloging Crimes Against Taste
The nebulous territory of ?good? and ?bad? taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn?t buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let?s call it a bad-design-o-meter.
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Daily Crunch: Shape
Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: TomTom Discovers Apps, Puts Twitter, Yelp And More In The Go Live 1535 M PND Windows 8?s New Explorer: This One Goes To 11 Review: Fujifilm X100 New Zelda And Golden Wiimote To Arrive November 20th Video: New Atomic Clock Reaches A 100 Quadrillionth Of A Second AccuracySource: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/daily-crunch-shape/
05/22/2013
Google Thinks Gayest and Worst Mean the Same Thing
When you search for something on Google, Google knows what you're looking for even if you're not saying it exactly. Google search is smart like that. Like if you search for 'hilarious videos', Google will also show you results for 'funny videos' too (words that Google equates as synonyms pop up in bold in Google search results). Which is why it's troubling that Google thinks 'gayest' and 'worst' mean the same thing.
BuzzFeed found that when you search for 'gayest trends' or 'gayest disney movies', Google will list '10 worst men's fashion trends of the decade' and 'the eight worst movies in Disney history' among its results, with 'worst' being bolded. As in gayest means worst. Newsflash! Gayest does not mean worst.
But of course it's naive to think that people don't use the term 'gay' to represent something as 'being bad' (even in 2013). You can still hear it on playgrounds, suburban coffee shops and random streets across America. But just because it's common doesn't mean it's not wrong. It's a problem that needs to be fixed. And what's most odd is to see the insensitive homophobic 'definition' of the word be reflected in Google searches. You would think Google would make some effort to scrub its algorithm clean. Google told BuzzFeed:
Google?s results, including when a search term is synonymized with another, are a reflection of content on the web and how people search. These results are determined by algorithms and we don?t manually correct this process, but we are always looking at how we can improve our algorithms.
Algorithms are jerks. [BuzzFeed]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/google-thinks-gayest-and-worst-mean-the-same-thing-509439984
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Apple named world's most valuable brand for third year running
Apple continues its streak as the most valuable brand in the world, outperforming Google, IBM, McDonald?s, and Coca-Cola, with Google surpassing IBM to become the second most valuable brand. The BrandZ report, which names the 100 most valuable companies in the world across several categories, says that Apple?s brand value increased 1% as the entire technology sector remained declined slightly from last year, lacking a surge of growth from both Apple and Facebook.
Without the surge in Apple and Facebook brand value that helped drive category growth, Technology declined 1 percent in the BrandZ? 2013 ranking, after five years averaging 8 percent annual category growth.
Other notable placements include Microsoft, which fell from number 5 to number 7, and Yahoo, three years absent from the list, returned at 92. Samsung, Apple?s chief mobile hardware rival, which jumped from 55 to 30, experiencing a surge in growth. Apple remains at the top, however, well ahead of the rest of the list, in both technology and overall. Their growth may have slowed over the last year, but if the exciting new products on their way later this year make a splash, there?s little doubt that Apple will remain on top for a long time to come.
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Next week we'll tell you all about #TM13, today we'll give you a chance to win a trip for two to NYC for the launch party!
Enter to win a free trip for two to the TM13 launch party in NYC - visit MobileNations.com/tm13 and sign up for email updates! It's just that easy!
For the past month or so, we've been teasing you about our new online event, code-named #TM13. That ends next week, when we officially announce the event, and tell you all about it. In the meantime, here's one last tease:
The tease
If you liked our old Smartphone Round Robins -- where there editors of Android Central, CrackBerry, iMore, and Windows Phone Central stopped being platform champions for a month, switched devices, and shared our thoughts -- you're going to love #TM13. It takes that conversation to the next level.
The party
While TM13 is an online event, we're going to celebrate the kick off with a real-life party. We'll provide the full details and open up RSVPs next week, but it'll be held the evening of June 6th and it'll be held in New York City!
If you're in NYC, you'll really want to be there. It's going to be a night to remember -- the first time we've ever held a cross-site Mobile Nations meet-up with all of our site editors in attendance!
The contest
If you're not in NYC, we're going to give you the chance to win a free trip for two so you can still be there!
To enter, all you need to do is head on over to mobilenations.com/tm13 and signup for #TM13 updates. If you've already signed up, you're already entered, what could be easier?
Once TM13 is revealed next week, we'll be announcing the winner of the trip the next day so we can get it booked ASAP!
That's it for now! I've said too much already! I'll just leave you with this -- hurry up and enter!
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Gadgets Week In Review: Parts
Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Okay HP, Let?s Make Some Lemonade Review: Brite-Strike Rugged Flashlights The Vibram Trek LS And Bormio: Ugly, Crazy Monkey Shoes Get Even Crazier Giant Gundam Robot Statue Returns To Tokyo ? In Parts Kickstarter Project Empowers Students, Plays The Mario Theme With PlasmaSource: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/gadgets-week-in-review-parts/
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Add a Windows 8 user tile to your Windows 7 taskbar
In the earliest Windows 8 images, we saw Windows Live integration on the taskbar. In the far right corner, there's a user tile displayed. If you'd like to do the same on Windows 7, download Taskbar User Tile from DeviantArt user AngelWZR.
Once installed, your current picture will appear on the taskbar. Click it, and a menu appears which allows you to log off, switch users, and access the control panel. Right now, the mod only works if your taskbar is displayed on the bottom of your Windows desktop.
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Skype 5.3 for Windows released, improves mobile video call quality
Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. You can now see your friends' presence icons when contact cards are collapsed, and the topic editing button is now always visible on the conversation header. For a complete list of changes, hit up the Skype Garage blog.
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Skype 5.3 for Windows released, improves mobile video call quality originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Toyota pulls Cydia theme and ads to appease Apple
It's not like we should be surprised, considering Apple has claimed in the past that jailbreaking is illegal -- but at the same time, did the Cupertino cronies hear about the ruling that made circumventing DRM, and thus jailbreaking, legal? Anyway, whether Toyota was supporting illegal, legal, or deliciously gray and ambiguous, activity, it doesn't matter: Apple asked Toyota to remove the theme, and Toyota graciously bent over and capitulated.
This story raises a much more interesting topic, though: this is the first time a multinational company has publicly acknowledged and embraced the jailbreak community. Considering jailbreaking is technically legal, and Cydia's creator, Jay Freeman, estimates that up to 9% of OS devices are jailbroken, it simply makes good, commercial sense to target jailbreakers with ads. Toyota was simply trying to make some money, for shame!
As long as Apple continues to throw around its increasingly-expansive mass, the legality of jailbreaking will continue to be inconsequential. It will be interesting to see if another big company dares embrace the jailbreak community after this, too.
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Review: Phorus Play-Fi Wireless Speaker System
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/review-phorus-play-fi/
Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs
Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any device. Now it's providing a way to monetize those videos, thanks to an integration with ad delivery platorm FreeWheel.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GD9JAd84Iyc/
Elephant Quest is an addictive, deep platformer
Elephant Quest is one platformer that managed to prove me completely wrong. Yes, you do run and jump around, and you also shoot at stuff. But the game has much, much more going for it.
Basically, as you run, jump and shoot, you gain experience points and level up. Hitting Space brings you into an interface where you can convert your experience points into Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Dexterity points. Once you've "specialized" your points, you then get to pick what exact skills you'd like to enhance in each field. For example, you could use your dexterity to enhance your weapons or increase your swiftness.
The game is played in a huge maze; you go through rooms using doors, and there's a large map. As the name implies, there are quests you can take, too. For example, one quest had me searching all over the place for ten balloons.
The bottom line is that this is a surprisingly deep game that just might ensnare you for a good bit longer than you intended to play. Beware!
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Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look
If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You're then presented with two further choices -- a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.
There's no winning or losing, really. Each "game" usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.
The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.
All in all, it's a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you're at it.
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DropSpace adds real Dropbox sync to Android
DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox - that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background.
When you run the app you're prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which device folders you'd like to sync to the cloud. It's a straightforward mapping process: You select a folder on the device, and then specify where in Dropbox it should go.
The interface is rather clunky, at least for now. The biggest annoyance is that you can't edit your "sync list": if you add a folder and then wish to remove it, you must delete the entire list of folders and start over.
In terms of functionality, it works quite well. I tested it with the camera folder, and it was nice to be able to take my photos using the lean default Camera app and have them sync up to the cloud instantly.
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Xbox One: All the Nerdy Details You Don't Know Yet
You saw the news yesterday. The Xbox One was everywhere
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Internet Explorer 9 nears 4% share on Windows 7, IE6 extinction countdown picks up steam
It's also interesting to note that there are now more than 1,000 sites utilizing Internet Explorer 9's Windows 7 integration features -- like the new desktop notification support we showed you in Hotmail.
But perhaps the best news of all is that Microsoft's IE6countdown.com now has more than 400 partners and is generating nearly two million pageviews per month, helping to lure users away from the woefully out-of-date browser. Can the end come soon enough, DS readers?
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Good, Bad, and Evil Things: Cataloging Crimes Against Taste
The nebulous territory of ?good? and ?bad? taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn?t buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let?s call it a bad-design-o-meter.
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HTC loses several high-profile executives [Updated]
Departures include VP of Global Communications, Chief Product Officer, Asia CEO
Update 2: HTC has confirmed the departure of Lennard Hoornik, and says CFO Chialin Chang will take over in the interim. Engadget is also reporting that Head of Global Digital Service Elizabeth Griffin will be leaving HTC later this week. Meanwhile, The Verge's Chris Ziegler tweets that he's "catching wind of a bunch more departures."
Update: CNET reports that HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik has become the latest HTC exec to part ways with the company, following two months of leave.
Original story: HTC's Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera has left the company, The Verge is reporting. Kodera's exit is the latest in a string of top-level departures at the struggling smartphone maker, including VP of Global Communications Jason Gordon, who announced his exit late last week.
In recent months product strategy manager Eric Lin has also called it quits, and The Verge reports that global retail marketing manager Rebecca Rowland and director of digital marketing John Starkweather have also left. Writing on Twitter this Monday, a vocal Lin advised friends still working at HTC to "leave now," adding, "you'll be so much happier, I swear." Across the Atlantic, HTC EMEA President Florian Seiche recently departed for Nokia.
Sources for The Verge suggest that the U.S.-based marketing departures could be the result of new CMO Benjamin Ho moving key decision-making away from the company's Seattle office and back to the Taipei headquarters. The site also quotes a source singling out the ill-fated HTC First for criticism, describing it as "a disaster." The "Facebook phone" recently had its price cut from $99 to 99 cents on-contract amid disputed reports that carrier partner AT&T may have decided to drop the handset.
On the other hand, sales of the flagship HTC One appear to be picking up. Production capacity is set to double this month to keep pace with "strong demand," according to recent comments from HTC North Asia president Jack Tong. However the One will continue to face fierce competition from Korean giant Samsung, whose Galaxy S4 is expected to hit its 10 millionth unit shipped this week. And HTC's financials remain precarious following early component supply issues with the HTC One.
Only time will tell how HTC will be able to meet the challenges it's facing, however we can be sure this series of high-profile departures is unlikely to help matters.
via The Verge
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Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?
A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking: "What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian." I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It?s a lot harder than I thought it would be. Then the pre-movie trailers starting playing. The new Will Smith (and son) flick, After Earth: dystopia. The new Guillermo del Toro flick, Pacific Rim: dystopia. Even the new Superman flick, Man of Steel, could be classified as a technological dystopia (more below).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JQtEg9z2AOo/
Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5%
Interestingly, we can see IE9 dipping between March 20 and 21, just before the 'Important' Windows Update rolled out. It's hard to say whether IE9 is only growing because of the installed-by-default Windows Update, but that small dip definitely sticks out -- did excitement peter out? Did people download IE9, try it out, and summarily uninstall it? Perhaps, given their close proximity, the stats show an attention shift from Microsoft to Mozilla?
Numbers-wise, if the bottom left corner of the graph shows 2.3 million downloads for IE9, we can guesstimate that that it has now been downloaded 5 million times. Firefox is clocking in at 37 million downloads after five days of public availability.
We wonder whether Microsoft knew its release schedule would coincide so closely with Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 9 -- a great browser by almost every metric -- was never going to do well against anything emanating from the maws of Mozilla. The main thing, though, is that Microsoft has now shown that it's serious when it comes to the Open Web. If Internet Explorer 10 is good, and 11 and 12, then we might finally see it compete with the zealous Mozillan horde.
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ZAGG introduces a pair of new iPad Mini keyboards with backlit keys
Accessory maker ZAGG has introduced a pair of keyboard covers for the iPad Mini that work great in low light, as both come with backlit keys. A physical keyboard is a great accessory to have for anyone who does anything constituting work on their iPad, and these new options from ZAGG look promising.
The ZAGGkeys Cover claims to be the thinnest iPad keyboard on the market, coming in at just 6.3mm. Coming with a 'unique hinge' that allows the iPad to be positioned at virtually any viewing angle, as well as being reversible for a kickstand like effect for viewing. The backlit keys come with 7 different color options and 3 different lighting levels, and the cover boasts battery time of 3 whole months. And, as is the norm for iPad cases, it's magnetic so it snaps shut over your iPad Mini's display. Retail price for the ZAGGkeys cover is set to be $99.99 and will be available in silver or black.
The ZAGGkeys Folio takes the same ideas as the Cover, and turns it into a full body protecting case. It features the same hinge design, colors for the backlight on the keys, and it too will carry you through 3 months on a full battery charge. The price is also the same, at $99.99.
Both are expected to be available sometime during the summer, though no indication exactly when. If you've been looking for a great keyboard for your iPad Mini, would you be considering picking one of these up?
Source: ZAGG (Businesswire)
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Leaked Android Music app images and hands-on review
If you don't have Android 2.3 -- or don't want to root your phone to install the leaked Music app -- take a look through our gallery, and then read on for our initial hands-on impressions.
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How We Imagined the Internet Before the Internet Even Existed
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. Sounds obvious today. But in 1968, a full year before ARPANET made its first connection? It was downright clairvoyant.
Sometimes a vision of the future can be so accurate that it's hard for those of us living in the future to understand what made it visionary in the first place. In the late 1960s the human side of networked computing wasn't a given. Few people looked at the hulking machines of the time and thought that they'd be great dating facilitators some day. The ARPANET was created for resource sharing between academics and other serious-minded people. In their early days, these networks weren't seen as a tool for something like ordering a pizza or sharing cat GIFs with someone halfway around the world.
Connecting People
The human element?the idea of average people interacting with computers, but more importantly with other people ? was not a front-of-mind concern for the people who laid the foundation of the internet as we know it. Which is what makes a 1968 paper that predicted the extent of that human element so special.
The paper was written by J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, illustrated by Rowland B. Wilson, and appeared in the April 1968 issue of Science and Technology. The article includes some of the most amazingly accurate predictions for what networked computing would eventually allow. Granted, amazingly accurate with a retro-futuristic twist that keeps it firmly a product of its time.
Take the light-pen. The top image shows off a late-'60s light-pen and rather presciently imagines how computer-augmented romance might take off. The computer, we see, improves the man's drawing in such a way as to make his proposal less repugnant. The self-correcting stylus may not exist yet, but OkCupid and other digital matchmakers are a mainstay of our digital lives.
The article rather boldly predicts that the computerized networks of the future will be even more important for communication than the "printing press and the picture tube"?another idea not taken for granted in 1968:
Creative, interactive communication requires a plastic or moldable medium that can be modeled, a dynamic medium in which premises will flow into consequences, and above all a common medium that can be contributed to and experimented with by all.
Such a medium is at hand?the programmed digital computer. Its presence can change the nature and value of communication even more profoundly than did the printing press and the picture tube, for, as we shall show, a well-programmed computer can provide direct access both to informational resources and to the processes for making use of the resources.
The paper predicts that the person-to-person interaction that a networked computer system allows for will not only build relationships between individuals, but will build communities.
What will on-line interactive communities be like? In most fields they will consist of geographically separated members, sometimes grouped in small clusters and sometimes working individually. They will be communities not of common location, but of common interest. In each field, the overall community of interest will be large enough to support a comprehensive system of field-oriented programs and data.
Google Now, Back Then
The article even hints at the veritable Internet of Things (which ostensibly justifies the high cost of gadgetry, or "data-gathering instruments"):
In each geographical sector, the total number of users?summed over all the fields of interest?will be large enough to support extensive general purpose information processing and storage facilities. All of these will be interconnected by telecommunications channels. The whole will constitute a labile network of networks?ever-changing in both content and configuration.
What will go on inside? Eventually, every informational transaction of sufficient consequence to warrant the cost. Each secretary?s typewriter, each data-gathering instrument, conceivably each dictation microphone, will feed into the network.
The idea of technology as a buffer is certainly an appealing one. And in theory, things like email can provide us with that buffer. When it comes down to it, you only have to check your email when you want to, and no one is forcing you to respond. This kind of brush-off, of course, is a little harder to do when an insurance salesman physically knocks on your door.
Licklider and Taylor called their futuristic buffer tool OLIVER, a kind of individualized automated personal assistant used by everyone. OLIVER acts intelligently, learning what should be prioritized for its user.
A very important part of each man?s interaction with his on-line community will be mediated by his OLIVER. The acronym OLIVER honors Oliver Selfridge, originator of the concept. An OLIVER is, or will be when there is one, an ?on-line interactive vicarious expediter and responder,? a complex of computer programs and data that resides within the network and acts on behalf of its principal, taking care of many minor matters that do not require his personal attention and buffering him from the demanding world. ?You are describing a secretary,? you will say. But no! Secretaries will have OLIVERS.
At your command, your OLIVER will take notes (or refrain from taking notes) on what you do, what you read, what you buy and where you buy it. It will know who your friends are, your mere acquaintances. It will know your value structure, who is prestigious in your eyes, for whom you will do what with what priority, and who can have access to which of your personal files. It will know your organization?s rules pertaining to proprietary information and the government?s rules relating to security classification.
Some parts of your OLIVER program will be common with parts of other people?s OLIVERS; other parts will be custom-made for you, or by you, or will have developed idiosyncrasies through ?learning? based on its experience in your service.
In an age of telegrams and phone calls, the authors imagined computer networking as a fantastic replacement for inefficiencies. Even business trips, they insisted, would be a thing of the past.
You will not send a letter or a telegram; you will simply identify the people whose files should be linked to yours and the parts to which they should be linked-and perhaps specify a coefficient of urgency. You will seldom make a telephone call; you will ask the network to link your consoles together.
You will seldom make a purely business trip, because linking consoles will be so much more efficient. When you do visit another person with the object of intellectual communication, you and he will sit at a two-place console and interact as much through it as face to face. If our extrapolation from Doug Engelbart?s meeting proves correct, you will spend much more time in computer-facilitated teleconferences and much less en route to meetings.
If OLIVER and the paper's other online efficiencies sound familiar, it's because they're basically the endgame of Google Now and Siri: Technology that knows you so well, it does your thinking?and in some cases, living?for you.
A Digital Utopia
In the end, Licklider and Taylor predict that all of this interconnectedness will make us happier and even make unemployment a thing of the past. Their vision of everyone sitting at a console, working "through the network" is stunningly accurate for an information-driven society that fifty years ago would've looked far less tech-obsessed.
When people do their informational work ?at the console? and ?through the network,? telecommunication will be as natural an extension of individual work as face-to-face communication is now. The impact of that fact, and of the marked facilitation of the communicative process, will be very great?both on the individual and on society.
First, life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity. Second, communication will be more effective and productive, and therefore more enjoyable. Third, much communication and interaction will be with programs and programmed models, which will be (a) highly responsive, (b) supplementary to one?s own capabilities, rather than competitive, and (c) capable of representing progressively more complex ideas without necessarily displaying all the levels of their structure at the same time-and which will therefore be both challenging and rewarding. And, fourth, there will be plenty of opportunity for everyone (who can afford a console) to find his calling, for the whole world of information, with all its fields and disciplines, will be open to him?with programs ready to guide him or to help him explore.
The primary question, they insist, is whether everyone can afford to be online. Once that hurdle is surpassed, the impact of this brave new world on society as a whole will be positive:
For the society, the impact will be good or bad, depending mainly on the question: Will ?to be on line? be a privilege or a right? If only a favored segment of the population gets a chance to enjoy the advantage of ?intelligence amplification,? the network may exaggerate the discontinuity in the spectrum of intellectual opportunity.
On the other hand, if the network idea should prove to do for education what a few have envisioned in hope, if not in concrete detailed plan, and if all minds should prove to be responsive, surely the boon to humankind would be beyond measure.
The article is a fascinating explanation of networked computing tech written mere months before the internet's first sputtering breaths. Again, many of their predictions don't read as terribly futuristic to those of us here typing away in the early 21st century. But that's precisely what makes them so astounding.
You can read the entire paper online [pdf]. Many thanks to Morten Bay for sending this article my way.
Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-we-imagined-the-internet-before-the-internet-even-e-508731883
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Twitter Finally Has Two-Factor Authentication: Here's How to Get It
It's about damn time. After an endless
Of course, you'll have to opt in for the new, long overdue security measure to be put into place. And once you do, you'll be required to enter a six-digit code every single time you log into Twitter?a slight nuisance, maybe, but a very necessary addition to a service as prominent and as (previously) easy to crack as Twitter.
How to Enable 2-Factor
- Should you choose to enroll (and you should, seriously... now), direct yourself on over to your account settings page.
- Next, select the option to "Require a verification code when I sign in," which will require a confirmed email address and phone number.
- If your phone number isn't already confirmed, Twitter will send your phone a text for verification. Enter the code it gives you to verify your phone, and you're all ready to go.
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The service is currently rolling out, so if you don't have it yet, you should soon. This is an absurdly easy way to protect yourself from an attack. So even if you don't think you might be a target, there's absolutely no reason not to
Source: http://gizmodo.com/twitter-finally-has-two-factor-authentication-509351107
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Tesla Motors repays Department of Energy loan nine years early
With a wire transfer of $451.8 million, Elon Musk has finally made good on his promise to repay the hefty loan Tesla received from the Department of Energy well ahead of its 2022 due date, beating even Musk's own five-year estimate. This comes on the heels of a very profitable first quarter, and is yet another sign the electric car maker is doing quite well on the greener side of things, despite a touch of bad press earlier this year. For more on what Tesla has to say about this milestone, check the press release after the break.
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Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud
Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency. Jared Verdi, one of the co-founders of Thumb Labs along with Rich Kern, tells TechCrunch that financial terms of the Thumb Labs acquisition are not being disclosed. The news follows on from Adobe’s acquisition of another New York-based design startup, Behance, a platform for designers and others in the creative industries to share their work, which Adobe picked up in December 2012 reportedly for around $150 million. Earlier this month, Adobe put the Behance acquisition into context when it announced a massive push on its Creative Cloud strategy, with social/community features powered by Behance. Verdi tells TechCrunch that Thumb Labs will see out existing contracts it has with other clients, but as of May 31, it will focus its efforts exclusively on making mobile apps for Behance. That’s a position it knows well. Thumb Labs, which officially launched as a business in 2011, created the first mobile app for Behance, and as it points out in a note announcing the deal on its site, “We have been working closely with their talented team ever since.” That’s included a new version of the Behance app, and its Creative Portfolio app. There are under 10 people working for Thumb Labs right now, Verdi says, and all of them are joining Adobe, based out of New York. Thumb Labs’ other clients have included a roster of startups, such as TechStars alum Bondsy (a platform to trade goods with friends); CanDoBaby (an app to make baby books); and ReadyForZero (a debt management app). The main part of Thumb Labs’ work will now be focused both on maintaining Behance’s existing apps, as well as developing new ones. This will include “definitely some tablet work”, including an iPad app, as well as apps for more platforms beyond Apple’s, and in general making Behance’s main site design responsive so that it’s more mobile-web friendly. Over time, there will be more focus on other Creative Cloud initiatives, which makes sense considering how linked the rise in cloud services has been with the boom in smartphone and tablet use. “We’ll also be working with other teams at Adobe for integration into the Creative Cloud. Mobile is a big part of that,” VerdiSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0w0vMWxf-Yg/
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Corel VideoStudio X4 giveaway
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Classic Shell now makes Internet Explorer 9 look like IE8
If you used Windows XP for a long time (who didn't?), one of the biggest changes when moving to Windows 7 or Vista was the massively-altered Explorer. While the new Explorer introduces some useful new features, it also removed just as many -- which is where Classic Shell comes in!
We've covered Classic Shell before, but here's the crib note: Classic Shell restores almost every Windows XP-era Explorer feature. The best change, in our opinion, is the reemergence of the 'up' arrow, meaning you now navigate without using the Windows Vista/7 'breadcrumbs' address bar. The status bar yet again shows the total size of your selection, and -- praise be! -- the diabolical Windows 7 Copy File 'copy and replace?' dialog has been replaced with a Windows XP lookalike (image after the break).
New to the most recent version of Classic Shell is the ability to make IE9 look like IE8. With Classic Shell the title bar yet again has a caption, so you can see the full title of Web pages. The current security zone and loading progress indicator have been put back into the status bar, too. If you enable 'Show tabs on a separate row,' it's almost like using IE8.
Finally, Classic Shell replaces the omnipotent Windows 7 Start Menu with the age-old 'classic' Windows 2000/XP-style Start Menu. Classic Shell makes the Start Menu skinable, too, if you're into the kind of thing.
As awesome as it sounds, we've only touched on a small section of Classic Shell's feature set. Check the Classic Shell site for a complete list. There's a few more images of Classic Shell in action after the break.
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Google Thinks Gayest and Worst Mean the Same Thing
When you search for something on Google, Google knows what you're looking for even if you're not saying it exactly. Google search is smart like that. Like if you search for 'hilarious videos', Google will also show you results for 'funny videos' too (words that Google equates as synonyms pop up in bold in Google search results). Which is why it's troubling that Google thinks 'gayest' and 'worst' mean the same thing.
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