Friday, 31 May 2013

Remember Me Gets A Live Action Prologue

Capcom’s new IP, Remember Me , launches next week. In preparation for the title, Capcom has released a live action trailer that serves as a prologue for the title. It’s a little depressing, but memory manipulation is hardly ever a happy thing. That will probably be the main sticking point of Remember Me. Remember Me comes out June 4 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.Cyber Network News (Internet News)Quantum Science News (Science News)ARE YOU AWAKE!!!!News...

Judge Rejects Google's Warrantless National Security Order Challenge

A California judge has rejected Google's petition to dismiss more than a dozen secretive Federal Bureau of Investigation requests for users' data. The requests, called National Security Letters (NSL), come without a judge's warrant and usually include a gag order preventing recipients from discussing them publicly.In its case, Google argued that 19 NSLs it has received...

Kenyan High School High Jump Video: How It Went Viral

By now, you've probably seen the incredible YouTube footage from a track and field meet in Kenya. To the backdrop of bouncy music, two contestants — one of them barefoot — take turns gaining momentum before clearing an impossibly tall high jump bar then landing without mats in front of a cheering crowdIn the aptly-titled "Kenyan High School High Jump," the combination...

Iron in Egyptian Relics Came from Space

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‘The Pun Also Rises’ Author John Pollack Talks At Google

Author John Pollack recently gave an “At Google” talk, which Google has now made available for all to enjoy.“Some people may dismiss puns as the lowest form of humor. But this attitude is a relatively recent development in the sweep of history,” Google says in the YouTube description. “In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack – a former Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, and winner of the world pun championship – explains how punning revolutionized...

Robert Rodriguez’ Two Scoops Is Finally Finished

Robert Rodriguez teamed up with BlackBerry earlier this year to create a short film called Two Scoops. He called upon the community to fill in a role, create a weapon and design a monster for the final film. All of that is now finalized and the film is ready for your eyeballs.Clocking in at 10 minutes, the short film isn’t going to win any awards. In fact, you may not even be able to get past the first five minutes. But hey, it’s a free Rodriguez...

Greta Van Susteren On Colleagues: “Have These Men Lost Their Minds?”

Greta Van Susteren had something to say about her Fox colleagues after a video went viral yesterday which showed the men talking about the roles of men and women as breadwinners.Lou Dobbs, Doug Schoen, Eric Erickson and Juan Williams all weighed in on how they feel about women supporting their households, and it wasn’t pretty.“We’re seeing….something going terribly wrong in American society, and it’s hurting our children,” Williams said.“I’m so used...

Teacher Fakes Illness for a Year, Claims She’s Dying to Avoid Work

Many working adults know that playing hooky isn’t just reserved for kids, but the lies one Polk County, Florida teacher made up to skip out on work are just plain shocking.According to school district officials Ashley Barker, a first-grade teacher at Laurel Elementary School, concocted a convincing story of illness in which she claimed she and her father were both dying.As WFTV reports, the deception went on for an entire year. During that time,...

Promising New Therapy For Lung Cancer

A novel therapy for the most common form of lung cancer shows promise and seems to yield largely manageable side effects, according to new research that will be presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The researchers, from Fox Chase Cancer Center, are conducting an ongoing clinical trial to determine whether the compound is more effective...

Eric Roberson Performs At Google

Two-time Grammy-nominated artist Eric Roberson recently performed at Google NYC, where he played five songs and gave an interview (which starts about 40 minutes in). Google has now made the performance/talk available for all to enjoy.Songs include: Change For Me, Dealing, an improvised song with the audience, Shake Her Hand and Couldn’t Hear Me. Cyber Network News (Internet News)Quantum Science News (Science News)ARE YOU AWAKE!!!!News Just For You...

TSA Cuts Out Backscatter Body Scans at Airports

When the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began using backscatter X-ray machines, privacy advocates balked at the notion of TSA employees seeing a colorless image of passengers’ naked bodies. Not long after, naked airport protests embarrassed the TSA and worries of the the general ineffectiveness of the devices began to widely circulate. Now, the devices have been completely removed from U.S. airports.According to a CNN report, the removal...

Reaction in Action: Before and After Pictures at the Atomic Level

[caption id="attachment_12843" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Courtesy of University of California-Berkeley"] [/caption]Imagine watching a chemical reaction in real time: atoms breaking bonds with their neighbors and forming new arrangements as heat or pressure changes. That's what scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley came close to achieving in these images. Using an atomic-force microscope...

Samuel L. Jackson Just Trolled the Internet

Samuel L. Jackson followed through with his promise on Friday, after asking Reddit users to submit a 300-word monologue for him to read out loud.But not without punking the Internet in the process. Here's the beginning of his much-anticipated monologue:Hi, I'm Samuel L. Jackson. I'm sorry to disappoint you, Reddit, but I've decided to break the rules of my own competition,...

Here’s What It Took To Bring Mickey Mouse Back To Video Games

Aside from Epic Mickey and Kingdom Hearts, Mickey Mouse has been largely absent from video games for the past 10 years. That used to not be the case back in the 80s and 90s when Capcom and Sega made fantastic games starring classic Disney characters. Now Disney is bringing those games back.So, what is it like to create a remake to one of the most beloved Mickey Mouse games of all time? The team at Sega Australia and the creators of the original title...

Tumblr’s Creative Director and First Designer Is Leaving the Company

Jacob Bijani, Tumblr’s creative director and their first designer, is leaving the company after 5 years.He announced his departure in a blog post where he says that he’s sure the future of Tumblr will be “incredible.”Here’s his short post:Today was my last day at Tumblr. Five years ago I joined a team of four as Tumblr’s first designer, creative director, and product engineer. That team has since grown to 182 of the most wonderful and talented people...

Tumblr's Creative Director Quits

Tumblr's creative director and fifth employee, Jacob Bijani, has left the company less than two weeks after it was acquired by Yahoo. In a post to his personal Tumblr, Bijani writes that he plans to take some time off "to digest the last few years" and that he has "about a dozen different projects planned" — projects, we assume, he'll want to get started after that break.SEE...

Twitter Makes Editing Your Profile Much Easier

Twitter has just made editing your profile much easier by adding inline editing for the profile picture, header photo, and basic information on the desktop.Now, you can edit your profile inline (without having to go to a separate profile editing page). Just click the “edit profile” button on your “me” page and you’ll be able to change both your header and profile photos plus your bio, location, and website information.Either click the image you wish...

Houston Fire Critically Injures 2 Firefighters

Houston firefighters this afternoon responded to a fire at a Bhojan Restaurant in Houston. According to the Houston Fire Department, the blaze injured four firefighters, who were take to hospitals in the area. The call for the fire went out just after noon on Friday, and by 1 pm the fire was upgraded to 5-alarm status. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.According to a Houston Chronicle report, the fire had quickly spread to a Southwest...

Is It Worth It To Your Site To Help Google Build Its ‘Knowledge’?

Search is moving more and more toward structured data, which in turn, is leading search engines to delivering the information users are seeking without the need of having to send them to third-party sites. Google, in particular, is making tremendous use of this data in offerings like its Knowledge Graph and in Google Now, and it’s still very early days for both products. Google continues to provide webmasters with tools to help build Google’s structured...

Updating Your Twitter Profile Is Now Much Easier

Twitter has now made it even easier to upload a new profile picture, header image or background image to your profile.You can edit profile photos by clicking the “Edit Profile” button at the top of your Twitter profile page, which will allow you to click and edit individual parts of your profile –- such as the profile picture, background image and even your personal description....

Obama Wants You to Follow The Audubon Society on Twitter, Sort Of

President Barack Obama has a Follow Friday suggestion for all you Twitter users out there: environmental/bird appreciation group The Audubon Society.#FF: @audubonsociety — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 31, 2013 What's up with this #FF? It's a playful response to a recent slideshow from satirical news outlet The Onion, "19 Tweets From The Audubon Society/Barack Obama Twitter...

Wonderful Things: Desmids, Microscopic Plants of Unusual Beauty and Oddball Behavior

Sometimes I want to show you something just because it's wonderful. So today I'm introducing a new feature: Wonderful Things. The name is taken from my blog's masthead, but is also inspired by Howard Carter . When he broke in to the tomb of Tutankhamun, he stuck a candle in the hole and surveyed the contents. After a pause, his patron Lord Carnarvon asked him if he saw anything. "Yes," Carter replied. " Wonderful things. "So here's Wonderful Thing...

Colonoscopies Clarify Inner Workings of Minds

Memories are story shaped. As are understandings. To remember, or make sense of, a thing is to have a story about it. Colonoscopies and correcting cathartic errors can probe the inner workings of these stored stories.Memories aren't machine-like recordings. They resemble movies more than raw footage. They are carefully lit and edited. Daniel Kahneman says of this filtering and forming, that " Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling...

Digital Wand Brings Abstract Paintings to Life

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Former Windows Boss Knew Windows 8 Would Be Polarizing

Shortly after completing work on Windows 8, former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky left Microsoft. He hasn’t said much since, but he finally opened up during an interview yesterday at D11. The general message seemed to equate to he knew Windows 8 would be polarizing, but it was the right thing to do.Early on, Sinofsky was asked about the reaction Windows 8 received from the early testers. If you recall, there was a lot of negativity surrounding Windows...

Oscar Pistorius In Hiding, Surrounded By Pics Of Girlfriend

Oscar Pistorius has gone into hiding since he shot and killed his girlfriend, model and law school graduate Reeva Steenkamp. He now lives with his uncle in Pretoria, South Africa, and would be unrecognizable to anyone who knew him before the tragic incident.Pistorius’ uncle, Arnold, says his nephew is inconsolable and has surrounded himself with photos of Reeva; while the state prosecutors want to try him for murder, the Olympian claims it was a...

Hulu Plus Gets a Facelift on Wii, Roku and Samsung TVs

Hulu has rolled out a new interface for Hulu Plus on Roku, select Samsung TV and Blu-ray players and the Nintendo Wii.The update mirrors changes made to the PlayStation 3 Hulu Plus interface last fall and this spring's Apple TV redesign.The update is more living room-centric, with a focus on larger artwork, an easier way to scroll through recommendations and improved search....
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