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Phoning it in: the dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry
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Imagine you're watching PBS right now and Bill Nye The Science Guy comes on. Suddenly Bill Nye's disembodied head is floating across your screen, with 1s and 0s streaming in and out of his ears. "Did you know," shouts Bill Nye (I don't know why he's shouting, but he...
Bill Gates to PC makers: Don’t be mad about Surface
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Microsoft may be going it alone in making its first tablet but company chairman and founder Bill Gates says that Windows PC original equipment manufacturers shouldn’t feel spurned. As Julie Bort of Business Insider notes, Gates was interviewed by PBS’s Charlie Rose on Monday night and was asked about the advantages...
‘Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview’ lands on iTunes in the U.S.
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We’ve told you before about the 70-minute Steve Jobs interview that started hitting select theatres late last year. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is made up of footage originally filmed in 1995 for the PBS series “Triumph of the Nerds”, but today, as noted by TNW, it appears the...
Reading Rainbow launches iPad app, we go hands-on (video)
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The rainbow chairs, miniature hot air balloons and child care at yesterday's Reading Rainbow press event were a welcome change from the standard mood lighting and Adele songs that set the scene for most tech launches these days. Of course, this wasn't just any press event -- this was...
Online Video Ad Startup LiveRail Introduces Checkpoint To Let Publishers Block Unwanted Ads
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LiveRail provides an ad serving platform used by a number of premium video publishers to insert ads into their content. The LiveRail for Publishers platform is designed to provide targeting and yield optimization capabilities, as well as campaign management and real-time analytics. That’s all pretty standard fare for publishers, and...
It's Time for Another Online Privacy Checkup
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Call us paranoid, but we're always looking for ways to preserve our privacy on the Internet. And, increasingly, most of those efforts center on the two biggest Internet destinations for most users: Facebook and Google. Love it or hate it, it's hard to be an online denizen these days...
Larry Page on Charlie Rose: “We’re still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data
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Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time. In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today’s surprising news that Chrome is now the most popular browser on the Internet. (“I’m really excited about that.”)...
'Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview' available on iTunes as $3.99 rental
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Following the death of Steve Jobs in October of last year, a flurry of interest in the Apple founder saw an hour-long interview from 1995 released in its entirety as a feature film. Entitled Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, the film is now available on iTunes as a $3.99...
Mozilla & The Knight Foundation Invest $1M In Crowdsourced Translation Startup Amara
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Let’s say you’re a video publisher who wants all the world to have access to your content… But translating videos into multiple languages is time-consuming and expensive — that is, unless you’ve got a team of volunteers to do it for you. One of the most efficient way to tackle...
PBS traces the history of animated GIFs: deal with it (video)
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PBS's Off Book has a new short doc available online called Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium which, as you may have guessed, traces the history and evolution of the animated GIF over the course of a very informative six and a half minutes. The makers don't settle...
‘Lost’ Steve Jobs interview debuts on iTunes
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The July 4th holiday presents an opportunity for people within the U.S. to take some time off, eat hot dogs, and relax, but it’s also when you’ll be able to grab at least an hour to yourself. We suggest using that time wisely by heading over to iTunes to...
LeVar Burton Hands-On With The New Reading Rainbow App [TCTV]
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As you may have read minutes ago here on TechCrunch, there’s a brand new iPad app on the market that brings the best of the Reading Rainbow show that many of us loved so much as kids to the current generation of budding bookworms. So it was a real...
Frontline investigates the cause of cell tower deaths tonight (video)
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You probably don't give much thought to the towers that blanket us with wireless signals and the technicians that climb up them, almost constantly, to upgrade the equipment. The PBS investigative journalism series, Frontline, does and tonight on your local PBS HD affiliate the findings from their investigation of...
Disqus Revamps Its Commenting Tools: Faster, More Social, And Now With Article Discovery
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Disqus is making Disqus 2012, the new version of its platform for managing comments and community, available to all of its publishers today. CEO and co-founder Daniel Ha (no relation to me) gave me a quick demo of the new features. He says one fo the most important additions is...
A brief history of the Multiverse
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Long Beach, California—TED convened in Long Beach this morning, and in the beginning, there was science. Dubbed The Observatory, Session 1 was about how we look at our world and choose to engage it. "Gazing out at the stars is the best way I know to evoke wonder," Chris...
PBS Just Released A Mini-Documentary About Animated GIFs
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PBS has a new series called "Off-Book" and uses an episode to take a look at the quirky backstory of animated GIFs, those repeatedly moving pictures that you see online. Still no consensus on the proper pronunciation of "GIF," though we're fans of the hard "G." Check it out:...
Aereo countersues broadcasters over its internet TV streaming service
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Now that Aereo has launched its antenna TV-over-the-internet service it can devote some attention to its legal issues, and today countersued the TV networks suing it (Fox, PBS, Univision, WPIX and WNET) in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. It's already filed another suit against Disney, CBS NBCUniversal and...
U.S. indicts Brit Ryan Cleary for Fox, PBS hacks
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Famed for allegedly targeting Fox, PBS, and Sony, the onetime U.K.-charged hacker Ryan Cleary is now facing charges in the United States. [Read more]...
Netflix: HD streaming to third-generation iPad is "on our roadmap"
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Netflix recently updated its iOS app to support the third-generation iPad's high resolution "retina" display. Unfortunately, the app still only plays back standard definition video. That could change soon, however, as Netflix says HD streaming is in the works. Netflix increased its highest available resolution to 1080p some time...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, GOOG, FB)
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Good morning! Here's the news: The new iPad was announced yesterday. Here's everything you need to know about it. Here's the breakdown on how much a wireless plan will cost you for your new iPad. Just like the iPad, the next iPhone probably won't have a name. After Introducing...
New TED Ed Has Vids With the Best Teachable Moments
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Over the years we have done numerous posts highlighting various TED videos. The videos are taken from various TED shows, which were started by Ricky Wurman in 1990. I was lucky enough to attend one of them back then. Today the TED folks have launched TED Ed "lessons worth sharing"...
LeVar Burton talks Reading Rainbow: from TV to e-books and beyond
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LeVar Burton demoing the new Reading Rainbow app on an iPad. LeVar Burton "The mission of Reading Rainbow has always been to use the prevailing technology of the day to steer children toward literature." That's what LeVar Burton—actor, celebrity, and brainchild behind the old television classic Reading Rainbow told...
Watch this: Frontline and ProPublica's 'Cell Tower Deaths' investigation
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If Jesse Hicks' report into why working on cell towers can be one of the most dangerous jobs in America has you curious for more, the full Frontline and ProPublica investigation can now be watched online over at the PBS site. Nearly 100 people have been killed working on...
Aereo hands-on: live TV in your browser, for $12 a month
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Aereo's premise is a clever one: for $12 / month, it streams over-the-air broadcast channels to almost any device with an HTML5-supporting browser — only iOS devices and Roku are supported now, but the company promises near-universal support is coming. It's designed to be a complement to Hulu or...
Are memes art?
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Could all those LOLcats, advice animals, rage comics, and various memes you've spent hours laughing online at actually be a new form of artistic self-expression? After taking a look at things from the perspectives of famous philosophers and artists like Andy Warhol and Aristotle, PBS's Idea Channel thinks so,...
Watch out, Aereo: Skitter.tv brings live TV to Roku
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New York’s Aereo is getting some competition in its quest to bring live TV online: Atlanta-based Skitter is launching a new service that streams TV stations like NBC, ABC and CBS straight to a Roku or WD Live set-top box. But unlike Aereo, which is currently duking it out with...
No Balance
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance. –Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview for the PBS/AOL Makers series...
The Rising Seas: Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Warns that Parts of the City May Need to Be Abandoned
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When the presidential candidates talk about the long-term economic security of the US, they often talk about the national debt, the viability of Medicare and Social Security, and the rise of China. But there's another issue that could have major implications for the nation's economy, and it's barely mentioned...
PBS iOS apps provide a sneak peek at upcoming 'Clinton' documentary
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PBS will be be airing its documentary Clinton just in time for Presidents' Day, but iOS users can get an early look on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Starting today, PBS has made the first hour of the four-hour retrospective on former President Bill Clinton available for streaming...
Two LulzSec hackers plead guilty to hacking charges
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Two LulzSec hackers may soon learn that it’s easier to break into government databases than it is to break out of jail. Ryan Cleary, 19, and Jake Davis, 18, on Monday both pleaded guilty in a London court to charges that they attacked both government websites and major commercial websites,...
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