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The history of life, the universe and everything - visualised | Datablog
www.guardian.co.uk
How do you show everything that has ever happened? Everything. This visualisation takes the biggest of big data - the universe itself - and makes it manageableSimon Rogers...
Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D limited edition Android phone arrives June 29th (video)
www.engadget.com
Sharp's heavily customized NERV Edition SH-06D phone finally has preorder and release date info on Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, and Neon Genesis Evangelion fanboys will want to get there early. It appears there will only be 10,000 of the phones available, with 3,000 sold via NTT DoCoMo's online store...
Facebook's New, Entirely Social Ads Will Recreate Marketing
www.fastcompany.com
Leaked documents show Facebook making a radical departure from traditional online display advertising into a world where ads are conversations and brands automatically tell you which of your friends is already on their side.Facebook appears ready to launch a new set of premium ad units, and, based on a review...
The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign
www.theverge.com
A group of Googlers showed off some never-before-seen design prototypes today at SXSW that showed a very different design direction from what was recently rolled out across the Google universe. While 2011's launch, dubbed "Strawman," was one of the biggest in the company's history, Google made similar efforts to...
DEAR DEMOCRATS: We Do Need To Talk About How Big You Want The Government To Be
www.businessinsider.com
Unfortunately, most of the talk from the Republicans on how we're going to get our debt-and-deficit problem under control is crazy-talk. The Republicans generally just want to slash government spending, even though federal tax rates and receipts are historically low (see chart below). Most non-partisan economists, meanwhile, agree that...
"Everything incriminating has been burned": Anons fight panic after Sabu betrayal
arstechnica.com
Shocked by the betrayal by top Anonymous/LulzSec hacker Hector "Sabu" Monsegu, the last of the original LulzSec members still publicly unindicted is understandably nervous about his own fate. The hacker known as "Avunit" left LulzSec well before the group "disbanded" last year, but he could still face charges—and he...
Faster-than-light neutrino result apparently a mistake due to loose cable
arstechnica.com
Since September, scientists have been scratching their head over results that appear to show neutrinos travelling between Switzerland and Italy faster than light would. As far as anyone could tell, the team behind the results had done everything they could to eliminate errors, and had even released some preliminary...
Google Drive SDK version 2 supports Android and iOS apps, common file tasks
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Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive. A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building the cloud storage into their mobile apps, whether it's downloads, uploads or on-the-spot...
Google Places for iOS becomes Google+ Local, adds voice search in the process
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It was only a matter of time before Google+ Local started spreading to the mobile space, and iOS looks to be its first landing spot through a rebadge of the Google Places app. Apart from achieving harmony with Google's rapidly swelling social universe and letting us check Zagat ratings...
Finding the Universe's cosmological constant using something we can create in the lab
arstechnica.com
Those of you who know my writing will know that I don't use many analogies.Analogies have a very useful place in helping people understand difficult concepts, but they also have a tendency to be a end up strained beyond their limits. Now, imagine how I would react to a...
'First light' instrument ready
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One of Europe's main contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope - an instrument that will help identify the first stars to shine in the Universe - is built and ready to ship to the US....
Hubble Telescope findings predict collision between Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies
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The Hubble Space Telescope has once again taken science fiction and turned it into reality. Considerably more extreme than images of a fading star, new findings have allowed NASA astronomers to predict that the Andromeda Galaxy (otherwise known as M31) is on a collision course with our very own...
'Minecraft' creator Notch names next project '0x10c', promises 'hard sci-fi' gaming
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"It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy."...
NUIverse app for Microsoft Surface 2.0 is a multitouch, universe simulating wonder
www.theverge.com
If you've ever played around with Google Earth you know how difficult it can be to explore just our planet — forget about the entire universe. Microsoft Surface 2.0 app NUIverse makes it all look incredibly easy however, with Natural User Interface (NUI, get it?) support for zooming, panning,...
Do real programmers ‘like’ Facebook?
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Do software programmers care about Facebook? More specifically, do they use Facebook — which claims 845 million active users — as a resource to collaborate with their peers, keep up with what’s going on in the programming universe? The answer, according to an informal poll on Hacker News is, no. Programmers like...
“The Most Outstanding Fact.” This might be one the most Earth shattering videos you ever watch.
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Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This was his reply:...
World's first two-megajoule ultraviolet laser fired in California: no, you can't buy one
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The Wolverines may have concocted the "most intense" laser in the universe back in '08, but it's a group of grinners at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California that can now lay claim to firing the planet's first two-megajoule ultraviolet laser. Earlier this week, a 1.875-megajoule shot was...
Microsoft shows off some gooey NUI goodness on the Surface 2
thenextweb.com
Well, we love this. I don’t know if you are a space junkie (if not, try this, it will help), but if you cannot vibe with the following clip, please check in your nerd badge on your way out. To refresh your memory, Microsoft used to build a product called...
Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other
arstechnica.com
Most online game developers deal with the persistent problem of in-game cheating by simply issuing blanket bans, hoping to eliminate the problem players from their universe entirely. Rockstar is taking a slightly different tack for online play in Max Payne 3, however, letting them continue to play in a quarantined,...
'Evangelion' fans rejoice: NTT Docomo releasing NERV edition SH-06D Android phone
www.theverge.com
We like to imagine we're hunkered down in a bunker waiting for the next Angel attack whenever we pick up our cellphones, which is why we're so psyched about this NERV edition Sharp SH-06D coming out on NTT Docomo. Slated to arrive in June, the device is timed to...
Pioneer adds two new Elite receivers to its 2012 lineup
www.engadget.com
Pioneer's 2012 AV receiver lineup is growing by two with the new VSX-42, priced at $450, and the $650 VSX-60. Both feature six HDMI inputs on the back, Ethernet, video scaling, optional Blutooth ($99) with A2DP, AirPlay, DLNA, Panadora and iOS or Android apps. The VSX-60 sets itself apart...
How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy (Again)
www.theatlantic.com
This isn't your grandfather's stargazing: The amount of data we have on our universe is doubling every year thanks to big telescopes and better light detectors....
Instagram and Hipstamatic to announce photo-sharing partnership
www.engadget.com
Historically, Instagram has been the definition of closed. It's only available on one platform (iOS), and no third-party services were allowed to port content in via an API. According to Fast Company, that's changing today. It's bruited that Instagram will be opening its doors ever-so-slightly to one Hipstamatic, enabling...
Mass Effect 3 conquers the universe
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The third Mass Effect game sticks with the winning formula of strategic action, alternating with dialogue-heavy exposition. [Read more]...
Higgs boson revelation set for July 4: Fireworks, or dud?
news.cnet.com
Physicists in Europe are ready to offer up their latest findings on a mysterious subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson. And the universe may never be the same. [Read more]...
Polyglot Path: Mobile Sharing App Adds 7 New Languages Including Traditional Chinese, UK English
techcrunch.com
In response to Facebook’s ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social network. Most of the life-sharing that happens on Path takes place at home — among friends and close friends. And while some...
A burp of light from a black hole reveals that it ate a star
arstechnica.com
The easiest way to spot a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is when it expels a huge jet of matter in one of the most energetic displays in the Universe. While astronomers have spotted these huge black holes at the centers of most galaxies, not all are active—meaning the jet...
"A World Where There Are No Keyboards": Dashlane, The Mobile Future, And Mega-Passwords
www.fastcompany.com
Meet Emmanuel Schalit. With his security service, all you have to do is remember one password, and Dashlane will do the rest. "We are about convenience and security," he says.Emmanuel Schalit is the CEO of Dashlane, a “secure personal data assistant.” Though on the face of it, Dashlane is another...
Netflix announces “TEDTalks Shows”, available on instant streaming
thenextweb.com
Today, Netflix announced that it will offer “TEDTalks Shows” for its streaming members in the US, Canada, Latin America, UK and Ireland. While the annual TED Conference is invite-only and costs a whopping $7,500 to attend, Netflix’s partnership with TED means a selection of these awe-inspiring talks will be available...
Ridley Scott and Hampton Fancher in 'Blade Runner' sequel talks
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The director and screenwriter of sci-fi noir classic Blade Runner are in talks to collaborate on a sequel. Production company Alcon Entertainment has announced that Ridley Scott and Hampton Fancher are developing the idea, which is confirmed to be a new story set "some years after" the original film's...
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