Photo Album. Student fears in 'jobless America' Student fears in 'jobless America' : lostgeneration. Google Says Android, Chrome OS Will Eventually Converge : Android. Google Says Android, Chrome OS Will Eventually Converge. There's no Chrome OS tablet in the works.
Instead, the notebook OS will converge with Android. During a briefing on Tuesday to introduce the new Samsung Chromebook and Chromebox, Google's vice president of engineering Linus Upson said that the company is not working on a Chrome OS tablet. Instead, Google expects to see a slow convergence between Chrome OS and its popular mobile platform for tablets and smartphones, Android. "We have our hands full in delivering a wonderful experience on desktop and laptop and the Android team have their hands full bringing a great experience on phone and tablet," he said. "But the two teams are working together even more closely.
" Upson said that although there will be a slow convergence between the two operating systems, that doesn't mean Google will eventually have one platform spread across multiple devices. How Headphones Changed the World : Foodforthought. Technology - Derek Thompson - How Headphones Changed the World.
A short philosophical history of personal music Adapted from flickr/Matthew Hickey If you are reading this on a computer, there is an excellent chance that you are wearing, or within arm's reach of, a pair of headphones or earbuds.
To visit a modern office place is to walk into a room with a dozen songs playing simultaneously but to hear none of them. Up to half of younger workers listen to music on their headphones, and the vast majority thinks it makes us better at our jobs. In survey after survey, we report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive. Earth, 2099 : Futurology. City of the future by !blackangel559 on deviantART.
ELI5: How can drugs like PCP or bath salts make you a cannibal? : explainlikeimfive. Google+ Events leaks out through Google Calendar, will let your knitting circle schedule a Hangout. Patent Wars. I'm starting to see why my new phone was delayed. : dataisbeautiful. Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google's New Knowledge Graph Search. I'm actually finding it pretty handy.
I was worried about the condensed search results, but it's okay. I still wish they would let it spread out more on a widescreen monitor. At any rate, for the obvious searches at least, it's nice to have that material right there. One immediate benefit (at least, I think it's a benefit): When I do a quick search on something, I can get the gist about the subject from Wikipedia without actually having to go to Wikipedia and risk getting stuck on one of my hours-long jags. I swear, last week I went to look up something quick about London. 3 hours later, I'd read all about London, ancient London, Westminster, The East End, Eastenders (the people and the entire history of the show), the Kray brothers, and heraldry.
Introducing “Mozilla Webmaker:” helping the world make the web. Today, we’re proud to launch “Mozilla Webmaker,” a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web.
The goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web. With new tools to use, projects to create, and events to join, we want to help the world increase their understanding of the web and take greater control of their online lives. Mozilla Thimble App. Chilling Video of 80-Year-Old in Skydiving Accident Goes Viral. Newly released footage of a grandmother's skydiving accident went viral over Memorial Day Weekend.
The clips show Laverne Everette grudgingly jumping from a plane before partially slipping out of her harness during a tandem skydive in California on her 80th birthday in 2011. The fast-thinking instructor grabs her to prevent a complete free fall and then immediately employs their parachute. They land safely. Learn to code.
Mozilla Webmaker Aims to Teach You to Code and Change You from Web Consumer to Creator. It is really a lot less about which language to learn as it is about how to think about the act of programming.
Knowing what the statements of some language do means nothing if you do not have any idea about how to string them together in a coherent way to accomplish something meaningful. Learn to think programming (algorithms and data structures). Translate those thoughts into the language of choice. Many years ago I actually wrote FORTRAN for money. Today I am teaching myself how to program Objective-C and do iOS apps. Mozilla Thimble Teaches You HTML and CSS with a Side-by-Side HTML Editor. Murder victim's family wants justice, even if it sets convicts free. Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio. Advertisement A portfolio is a must-have for any designer or developer who wants to stake their claim on the Web.
It should be as unique as possible, and with a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you could have a one-of-a-kind portfolio that capably represents you to potential clients. In this article, I’ll show you how I created my 2-D Web-based game portfolio. The 2-D Web-based game portfolio of Daniel Sternlicht1. Daniel Sternlicht - Web Designer, Front End Developer. “Live” Message updates. Contact Images fixed. Store Messages Longer. We recently launched a few new features and fixes in the MightyText Web app.
If you aren’t using the new web-based app – you can learn more about it here. (1) Contact Images problem fixed Some users had a problem where all Google Contact images weren’t loading properly. Next step in the Chrome OS journey. Last year we announced a new kind of computer This is the next step All of you haiku fans (like many of us on the Chrome team) can stop here; the rest can read on for more details.
A year ago we introduced a new model of computing with the launch of Chromebooks. We’ve heard from many of you who’ve enjoyed the speed, simplicity and security of your Chromebooks at home, at school or at work. (Thanks for all the wonderful feedback and stories!) Chromebook: The (always) new computer. Buy Chromebook devices from Acer and Samsung. Samsung Chromebox Reviewed. Last week, Chromestory brought you complete specs and price of upcoming Samsung Chromebox.
And then an unboxing video. Changes to the Field Trials infrastructure. Transparency for copyright removals in search. We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. Polish and performance. We continue to work toward a simpler, more beautiful Google, and today we're accelerating these efforts with a new Google+ app for Android phones. The update includes lots of highly-requested features—like the ability to start a hangout on the go, and to edit posts inline—as well as a stream that celebrates the rich content shared across Google+. Second Generation Samsung Chromebook, They Leaked It!! - Price and Full Specs Here. There Are Two Chromeboxes - Here is the Second - $499.99 With Intel Core i5.
First of all, thank you Jeff Earls for this amazing piece of news. You are right, Almost everyone missed the second Chromebox. Here is the full specs for you. Specs Samsung Chromebox with Intel Core i5 This one is more powerful than the $329.99 version with 1.9GHZ Intel Celeron /Intel Core i5. And the price, is a bit higher for its better processing power. A faster, simpler Google Search app for iPhone. Starting today, when you use the Google Search app on your iPhone, you’ll see a completely redesigned interface that gives you faster results, beautiful full-screen image search, and a simple way to access all your Google apps in one place. Search by voice, by typing, or with your camera Get results, fast When you’re on the go, you usually want to get things done quickly. Autocompletion of search suggestions is significantly faster in this latest version of the app, bringing you search predictions instantly with each letter you type.
You’ll also notice that results load faster, and checking out webpages is easy with the slide-in panel. Quickly swipe back and forth between webpages and your search results, and swap between search modes like Images and Places with a swipeable menu. Full-screen image results take advantage of every inch of the screen Swipe or tap on the edges to move between images Simple access We’ve put all of your favorite Google services in one place for easy access. Samsung Chromebox Unboxing Video! Well, here you go guys, as I promised in my last post about Samsung Chromebox Price and Specs, an unboxing video of Samsung Chromebox.
Watch the video first, and then I will do the talking. Okay, I had a question about the Chromebox + Keyboard + Mouse combo. Well, looks like that is also going to be an option, because in this unboxing video, you will see a user manual that talks about a mouse and keyboard that comes with the Chromebox. However, the unit that we have on this unboxing video is just a Chromebox and then a power cable. Chromebox, the power cable, and some documentation stuff, that’s it? Samsung Chromebox Specs and Price Leaked!! A tribute to Bob Moog, sonic doodler. Singularity Institute. US Gov Announces the "Presidential Innovation Fellows" Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Steven VanRoekel, the US Chief Information Officer and Todd Park, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President announced the Presidential Innovation Fellows, a six month program that will bring in innovative developers and designers across the US startup scene to Washington DC, where they will collaborate with the public sector on “game-changing solutions” that will “deliver significant business results.”
In other words, the US Government knows it’s inefficient and lacks the kind of innovation that the private tech sector knows best, so it is boldly taking a startup-inspired approach to rapidly improve itself. Each team of innovators will work together “on focused sprints while being supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country.” Presidential Innovation Fellows. “We must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government…” - President Barack Obama, January 21st, 2013 The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the principles, values, and practices of the innovation economy into government through the most effective agents of change we know: our people. What teachers really want to tell parents. Earth’s Core - The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us. The truth about Germany's nuclear phase-out. There's been plenty of debate and speculation recently on the carbon impact of Germany's nuclear phase out.
Last week my colleague Damian Carrington presented what looked like proof that the impact was negligible: German emissions fell in the period and anyhow Germany remained a net exporter of electricity. Rethinking the War on Drugs. Rethinking the War on Drugs : TrueReddit. [May 28th, 2012] The enigma 1,800 miles below us, what motivates you, and what teachers really want to tell parents. : tldr. Siberian Traps. New research suggests apes have human-like personalities : science. New research suggests apes have human-like personalities. New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM : science. Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips. High performance access to file storage Cheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London.
Himba tribe colour experiment. TIL that all cheetahs are virtually genetically identical. Species-wide, their DNA shows the about the same lack of diversity as very inbred lab rats. : todayilearned. Festival Review: The Top Sets at Movement 2012. Toba catastrophe theory. Homo floresiensis. Homo erectus soloensis. Google X Labs: Could Google Take the Torch in Inventing the Future? : Futurology. Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK. PARC (company) Google X Labs: With Steve Jobs Gone, Could Google Take the Torch in Inventing the Future?
After the recent posts on "how much I should charge" I present to you, pricing strategy. : web_design. Pricing Strategy for Creatives. If we are running out of helium, why is it still used to inflate party balloons? : askscience. Chromebox, I'm not sure how I feel about this, but would be more interested in it if it was $99. : google.
ESPN.com - Fear & Loathing in America. Explosion of Digital Information : Futurology. 2jwpq.jpg (970×980) RMAxL.jpg (500×421) Personifications of INTP type-functions : INTP. Why do scientists say alien planets need water sources to host life forms? Why can't alien life forms survive on whatever foreign elements exist on their planets? : explainlikeimfive. What 'fan theories' have blown your mind with their devastating logic? : AskReddit. Loose Connections - Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil. Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Ken Doyle, Safecracker. Tab Player by simurai. The Ultimate Google I/O 2012 Preview. Meet Alfred, your personal robot! ASUS PadFone Demo Video.
Original equipment manufacturer. Sebastian Thrun Interview on Google Glass and Car's. Native Client: When to use the technology. My mom's life advice: "There are two types of jobs in this world: those you shower before, and those you shower after. The after jobs remind you to work hard for the before ones." What's the best (and/or strangest) life advice you've every received? : Ask.
Home for wayward academics. Jim Jefferies funny ass hell. Keyboard Cat Redux. The Ronin Institute aims to harness the brainpower of the high-educated underemployed : lostgeneration. This Is How We Ride. Psychonauts, what are your thoughts on the Eight-circuit model of consciousness? : Psychonaut. Plan_en.jpg (812×749) Russia 2045: The Future of the Avatar Project : Futurology. The Brain May Disassemble Itself in Sleep. BBC News: Kaspersky has discovered 'Flame', the world's largest discovered cyber-attack : technology.
News - Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say. Earth took ten million years to recover from Permian-Triassic extinction. Anoxic event. GUY MARTIN TT Isle of Man Lap on-board Honda 1000 - 2 of 2. Helmet-Cam OnBoard Sebastien Vettel FP2 2012 Monaco GP. Mika Häkkinen @ Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld. First Time Ever Eye-Level Camera Formula 1 - Lucas di Grassi. Paul Di Resta Helmet Cam Monaco 2012.