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This translates into an installed base of over 3.1 billion HDMI products deployed worldwide which represents an increase of 34% over 2011. "During 2011, HDMI technology expanded its reach in the consumer electronics space and started to penetrate new market segments such as automotive and portable handheld devices," said Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. The HDMI Forum, Inc. was launched in October 2011 to foster broader industry participation in the development of future versions of the HDMI Specification. Mad Catz readies latest gaming headset: F.R.E.Q 5 makes you look a bit like one. Mad Catz® Announces Cyborg™ F.R.E.Q.™ 5 Pro Gaming Headset for PC and Mac New Stereo Headset Expands Award Winning Cyborg Range SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. ("Mad Catz") (AMEX/TSX: MCZ) announced today the F.R.E.Q.5 Pro Gaming Headset for PC, expected to ship Spring 2012 and being released under the Company's Cyborg professional gaming brand.
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Polaroid cameras back from the dead (again) after deal with Vivitar-owner Sakar. Exclusive Partnership Provides Sakar with Rights to Design and Manufacture Polaroid Digital Still Cameras and Digital Video Products in North America and Portions of Latin America MINNEAPOLIS– Jan. 9, 2012 – Polaroid today announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Sakar International Inc., a leading provider of consumer electronics. Sakar will leverage its expertise in designing and manufacturing Vivitar photographic equipment to continue extending Polaroid's market footprint. Under the agreement, Sakar will develop a line of Polaroid-branded digital still cameras and digital video products as part of a licensing program that has substantially expanded the Polaroid portfolio in the past year.
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Fancy hitching a ride? You better start planning your move to Beijing's Mentougou district, which is where Huashi will commence building its first 186km of track at year's end. Comments. Google teases Samsung-built Chromebox, desktop version of Chrome OS. The Social Network. The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.
It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, the other principals involved in the website's creation. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.[3] The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010. The film received widespread acclaim, with critics praising it for its screenplay, editing, score, acting and direction. Plot[edit] In late 2003, 19-year old Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Screenplay[edit] Casting[edit] Filming[edit] Chris Hughes. Chris Hughes (born (1983-11-26)November 26, 1983)[2] is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.
He is currently the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012. Early life and education[edit] Hughes grew up in Hickory, North Carolina,[3] as the only child of Arlen "Ray" Hughes, a paper salesman, and Brenda Hughes, a public-school teacher.[4] He was raised as an evangelical Lutheran.[5] He is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[4] In 2006 he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.[1] Career[edit] In March 2009, Hughes was named Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, venture-capital firm.[7] Personal life[edit] Depictions in media[edit] References[edit] Articles.
Dustin Moskovitz. Background and education[edit] Moskovitz was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in Ocala, Florida. He is eight days younger than Zuckerberg.[6] He attended Vanguard High School, graduating from the IB Diploma Program. Moskovitz attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before he moved with Mark Zuckerberg to Palo Alto. He went to work full-time on Facebook.[7] Career[edit] Facebook[edit] Four people, three of whom were roommates — Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz — founded Facebook in their Harvard University dorm room in February 2004. After Facebook[edit] Philanthropy[edit] Moskovitz co-founded the philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his girlfriend (and now wife) Cari Tuna in 2011.[13] In June 2012, Good Ventures announced a close partnership with charity evaluator GiveWell.[14] Media depictions[edit] Moskovitz is played in the film The Social Network by actor Joseph Mazzello.
External links[edit] Justin Rosenstein. Personal life[edit] Rosenstein grew up in San Francisco Bay Area and attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA. He was a successful high school Lincoln–Douglas debater. He pursued an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Stanford University. Career[edit] At Google[edit] Rosenstein dropped out of a graduate program in computer science at Stanford University in 2004 to join Google as a software engineer.[2] At Google, Rosenstein also worked as product manager for Google Page Creator.[3] Page Creator was later restricted in sign ups to just 3 million users as new users were asked to use a new webpage publishing service by Google called Google Sites instead.[4] Finally, to focus on Google Sites, all existing content on Page Creator was transferred to Google Sites in 2009.[5] In 2006, he was working on a project code named Platypus.[6] At Facebook[edit] In 2007, he left Google for a lead engineer position at Facebook working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz.
Asana (web application) Asana (/əˈsɑːnə/) is a web and mobile application designed to enable teamwork without email. It was founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook.[1] Asana’s stated mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.[2] Asana is a teamwork communication manager. The product supports many features, including workspaces, projects, tasks, tags, notes, comments, and an inbox that organizes and updates information in real-time.[10] The product is designed to enable individuals and teams to plan and manage their projects and tasks without email.
Each team gets a workspace. Workspaces contain projects, and projects contain tasks.[11] In each task, users can add notes, comments, attachments, and tags. In April 2012, Asana released its API[19] to third-party developers. Asana is free for teams of up to 15 people. Deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true. Deductive reasoning (top-down logic) contrasts with inductive reasoning (bottom-up logic) in the following way: In deductive reasoning, a conclusion is reached reductively by applying general rules that hold over the entirety of a closed domain of discourse, narrowing the range under consideration until only the conclusion(s) is left.
In inductive reasoning, the conclusion is reached by generalizing or extrapolating from, i.e., there is epistemic uncertainty. Note, however, that the inductive reasoning mentioned here is not the same as induction used in mathematical proofs – mathematical induction is actually a form of deductive reasoning. Simple example[edit] An example of a deductive argument: All men are mortal.Socrates is a man.Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Law of detachment[edit] P → Q. The Decline and Fall of the Oil Age. Inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning (as opposed to deductive reasoning or abductive reasoning) is reasoning in which the premises seek to supply strong evidence for (not absolute proof of) the truth of the conclusion. While the conclusion of a deductive argument is certain, the truth of the conclusion of an inductive argument is probable, based upon the evidence given.[1] The philosophical definition of inductive reasoning is more nuanced than simple progression from particular/individual instances to broader generalizations.
Rather, the premises of an inductive logical argument indicate some degree of support (inductive probability) for the conclusion but do not entail it; that is, they suggest truth but do not ensure it. In this manner, there is the possibility of moving from general statements to individual instances (for example, statistical syllogisms, discussed below). Description[edit] Inductive reasoning is inherently uncertain. An example of an inductive argument: For example: Criticism[edit]
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