The process of drafting a constitution is usually long, intricate and politically fraught — but with 160 different active constitutions to draw from, it's also uniquely amenable to data analysis. With that in mind, Google has partnered with the Comparative Constitutions Project to launch a new site called Constitute, devoted to comparing the world's constitutions. It examines nearly 350 constitutional themes, organized into topics like the duties of a citizen and the role of the executive. The result is a comprehensive view of how countries structure their governments, and a powerful tool for any would-be founders. As one co-founder put it, "If want to see what African constitutions have to say about the rights of women after 1945, you...
Game Of Thrones has been weighed, measured, and found pretty comparable to Lord Of The Rings, at least according to GoT author George R.R. Martin. After “the Internets explode” last year in the first GRR (Martin) vs JRR (Tolkien) battle, MTV Geek again asked Martin to explain why his characters are way better than characters created by a long-dead author who can’t speak for himself. Ever the diplomatic fanboy, Martin takes the character battles rather seriously, arguing that while an Uruk-hai might beat an Unsullied in one-on-one combat, the Unsullied are undoubtedly the better-trained army en masse. The final tally comes to LoTR: 3, GoT: 3, with three battles left to be debated through the ages until the Wall collapses and Helms Deep crumbles.
Zach Galifianakis has hosted a lot of episodes of Between Two Ferns, but his latest may be one of the funniest. This time around, Galifiankis sits down with “Baby” singer Justin Bieber who, while clearly having received a lot of coaching, really takes a beating from the comedian. With questions like “you’ve had three hairstyles. What’s next for your career?” and a suggestion that Bieber calls his fans “beaners” instead of “beliebers,” Galifianakis really goes for it, and, oh, does it work. Nickelodeon fans, make sure to watch it through to the end for a goopy surprise.
To mark the end of Breaking Bad, we’re reprinting Malcolm Harris’s 2012 essay on the show’s racial politics, “The White Market,” with a new introduction about gangster endings and the role of pop criticism
When I wrote this essay a year ago, there weren’t any literal Nazis in Breaking Bad and the show was about drugs. Neither of those things are true now. The end of the series looms behind this half-season the way a long novel’s final 50 pages feel in your hand; whatever is happening it is going to be all over soon.
Last year the most common critique of this piece I heard of was that the audience wasn’t supposed to identify with Walter White at all, that he is unambiguously a bad guy and we’re supposed to learn from his example. Having forfeited his last chance for a peaceful death in the penultimate episode, there’s little doubt things will end painfully for Walter. Taken as a whole, his story isn’t exactly an endorsement of megalomaniacal entrepreneurialism, but we don’t take narratives as a whole. Stories — especially ones as long as Breaking Bad — aren’t just fables, with everything in service of a didactic ending. Especially in gangster stories.
Take the two most famous cinematic gangsters of all time, both played by Al Pacino. Tony Montana and Michael Corleone are icons, some of the 20th century’s most influential characters, and exemplars of masculinity for countless boys — gangsters and not. Breaking Bad takes from both, and seems likely to end somewhere between the two. Scarface ends with Tony mistakenly killing his best friend, watching his sister get shot, and dunking his head in a pile of coke before being executed by his enemies. The Godfather Part II ends with Michael profoundly alone, a widower and divorcee, the wife who wasn’t murdered having aborted his child so as not to bring more evil into the world. His father is dead, his mother is dead, his brother Sonny is dead. To top it off he orders the execution of his other brother Fredo. It doesn’t bode well for Walt.
But despite these cautionary endings, they don’t sell Scarface and Godfather t-shirts at every tourist shop in Manhattan because people like to remind themselves about the dangers of hubris. Stories and the characters in them are more than lessons, and a narrative’s most ideologically weighty elements don’t map onto a seventh grade worksheet about major themes. Long after we’re done watching we hold moments with us: shot angles and character dynamics, snippets of dialog and unquestioned premises. The point of critically examining cultural objects like Breaking Bad isn’t to place them in categories good or bad, to predict the ending, or even to decode what’s “really” happening; the point is to pay attention to our attention, to look at how it’s being held, on what, and how someone’s making money on it. If pop criticism is to be good for anything, it’s that.
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If you judged by TV and movies alone, you’d think “pure” drugs were seeping out of American society’s every pore, along with hot doctors and secret agents gone rogue. Even if suburban 15-year-olds don’t ask their dealers for THC percentages after seeing Oliver Stone’s Savages — and smart money says some of them are — craft beer isn’t the only boutique intoxicant buzzing around the nation’s subconscious. In the shadow of the high-fructose-corn-syrup backlash, everyone from the Olive Garden to the proverbial Brooklyn popsicle startup is trying to cash in on craftsmanship. Meanwhile, screenwriters (clever advertisers in their own right) have found that the easiest way to hook viewers on drug-dealer protagonists is to sell crack as small-batch artisanal rock cocaine.
Would AMC’s Breaking Bad be as popular if high school chemist turned meth cook Walter White made an average product instead of his “99 percent pure” blue glass? From the pilot on, the quality of White’s output has driven the show’s narrative arc. As a careful midgrade cook with DEA connections, he could have flown under the radar in a community overrun with the stuff and taken care of his chemo costs and family just fine. But what makes White more attractive than your garden-variety tweaker to both international cartels and viewers alike is his craftsmanship and attention to detail. He brings class to the New Mexico meth scene.
For a show set in the dirty world of methamphetamine, Breaking Bad is obsessive about cleanliness. Hardly an episode goes by without a discussion of potential impurities. The equipment always seals perfectly, the vats stainless steel. But that’s how you make meth! No, it’s not. That’s how Walter White makes meth on Breaking Bad.
White isn’t some junkie cook; he’s a scientist. The exurbs are going crazy for the special meth that only he can make because it’s pure and a scientist made it with stainless steel and it’s blue. That’s how a timid high school teacher became a regional drug kingpin over the course of a year. The point isn’t that the show is unrealistic or hard to believe, but the narrative function of the ways in which it is: Which disbeliefs are viewers asked to suspend, and which ideologies are they encouraged to retain?
As far as Breaking Bad is concerned, Walter’s meth is bought and used in unadulterated form, whereas in any believable scenario distributors would dilute (“step on”) the product for sale. Finally, toward the end of the fifth season, Walter is forced to explain to a new organization that customers will pay more for his product than, say, one that was 85 percent pure. The other manufacturer seems to accept Walter’s logic even though, as an ostensibly experienced dealer, he should know it doesn’t make any sense. America isn’t flooded with pure meth, and it’s not because our chemists are too ethical. The illegal drug market simply doesn’t reward peerless expertise in the same way celebrity cooking shows do.
The idea that people will always pay more for purer or small-batch products makes a lot of sense to demographics used to paying more for quality gimmicks — conveniently, the same demos advertisers pay a premium for. But it doesn’t make sense for the consumers Breaking Bad so sparingly depicts. When we do see White’s ultimate customers, they’re zombies: all scabs and eroded teeth. We’re not talking about impulse buyers or comparison shoppers here; it’s a textbook case of what freshman economics students call inelastic demand. As Stringer Bell told D’Angelo Barksdale in another show about drugs, in direct contrast to what Walter claims, “When it’s good, they buy. When it’s bad, they buy twice as much. The worse we do, the more money we make.”
Demographically, the viewers AMC wants are more likely to do a lot of pills than unscrew a light bulb to smoke some ice, even if the substances are chemically similar. There are plenty of expert scientists making tons of money cooking up and selling amphetamines, but they’re not robbing trains or toting guns. Big Pharma brings in a $250 billion annually in the U.S. alone, much of it from the same chemical compounds in White’s lab. When it’s 89 percent pure, it’s illegal meth; when it’s 99 percent pure, methamphetamine is sold by Lundbeck Inc. under the trademark name Desoxyn, for “the short-term management of exogenous obesity.” Walter isn’t making crank; he is manufacturing black-market pharmaceuticals.
A Breaking Bad in which the street dealers were diluting the product would have had Walter and his partner Jesse Pinkman competing with every local operation, struggling to set up a larger distribution network without costly middlemen and, well, interacting with meth users a lot. But The Wire on Ice isn’t sexy enough to sell a Dodge, and a teacher slanging to his fucked-up former students would turn stomachs, not open wallets. Suffice to say it would be a darker show.
Which brings us to the other thing that sets White and Pinkman apart from their competitors: color. And I don’t mean blue.
The white guy who enters a world supposedly beneath him where he doesn’t belong yet nonetheless triumphs over the inhabitants is older than talkies. TV Tropes calls it “Mighty Whitey,” and examples range from Tom Cruise as Samurai and Daniel Day Lewis as Mohican to the slightly less far-fetched Julia Stiles as ghetto-fabulous. But whether it’s a 3-D Marine playing alien in Avatar or Bruce Wayne slumming in a Bhutanese prison, the story is still good for a few hundred million bucks. The story changes a bit from telling to telling, but the meaning is consistent: a white person is (and by extension, white people are) best at everything.
In Savages, another recent story of Mighty Whitey getting people stoned, Berkeley-educated botanist Chon (maybe the only name whiter than “White”) and his war-vet buddy Ben combine exported Afghan seeds and a public-Ivy STEM degree to create a strand of superweed. A narrator asserts Afghanistan is the source of the best weed on earth with the same revelatory reverence that Anthony Bourdain might declare Iberia the source of the best pork. It’s not enough that these two 20-somethings grow and sell weed; they have to do it better than anyone else by a huge margin. Chon and Ben’s bud has a THC content of 40 percent (the 2011 Cannabis Cup winner Liberty Haze tops out at 25 percent) and sells for a laughable $6,000 per pound. The botanist-manager uses his profits the way you’d expect a self-respecting white person to: sustainable charity projects in Asia and Africa.
Because of their (third-)world-beating products, Ben and Chon, and Walter and Jesse, attract the interest of the big bad other in the American drug imaginary: Mexican cartels. The cartels (often referred to in the singular, as if monolithic) are merciless and invincible, with money and power that seems limitless. But for all their government connections and firepower, the cartels have a Kryptonite: white people.
You see, the Mexicans need white college graduates because only the white graduates know the secret drug recipes. But these white craftsmen don’t want to work for such swarthy operations, and so, despite being far outmatched in both resources and experience, they contrive plots to bring down the heretofore untouchable organizations.
The scene in Breaking Bad’s fourth season, when Pinkman — a failure at high school chem — shows up a room of Mexican scientists is full of supremacist glee. The Mexicans can wave their skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there’s no competing with the only white guy in the room. These plots expect viewers to cheer while pale protagonists repeatedly triumph over their southern enemies, leaving them dead or in jail. By the start of season five, White is so successful that Breaking Bad becomes no more diverse than Big Love, leaving the show’s anchoring team visually indistinguishable from the senior cadre of a skinhead gang. In the recent half-season finale, White goes so far as to actually enlist the Aryan Nation to perform a series of expertly timed prison assassinations. But Walter is a bad guy! He still drives the car the show is trying to sell you.
The drug world is a convenient setting for selling white supremacy because it allows for a white underdog in an openly racialized conflict. Besides the War on Terror, there aren’t a lot of other scenarios in which it’s possible to root for the particularly American cocktail of meritocracy, the little guy, the good guy, and the white guy, all at the same time. Put it this way: A show about a small American toy manufacturer laying waste to the villainous and inferior Mexican industry would be such a transparent and reactionary play on post-NAFTA anxieties that no luxury advertiser would dare sponsor it. But when Jalopnik‘s Travis Okulski expressed understandable confusion about what Chrysler thought it had to gain from being associated with an abusive husband and meth cook, the luxury carmaker responded with a staid “The placement on Breaking Bad is part of an overall marketing strategy to place products in TV shows and movies. This vehicle was the right fit in terms of the plot line and the character.”
White-washing the illegal drug market involves depicting it like markets wealthy viewers are more comfortable and familiar with, namely those of the farmers market or the local pharmacy. Walter White combines the ostensible moral complexity television audiences demand in a post-Soprano protagonist with a cleanliness that allows him to market expensive cars. The U.S. is still very much a white supremacist country, but classic cowboys-kill-Indians narratives don’t play with wealthy viewers or the critics who help determine those tastes. And Jack Bauer can drive only so many cars. For the credulous viewer who likes to imagine he’s a couple of life crises from being the Larry Bird of meth — and for the people who sell him stuff — White is right.
Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman is getting his own spin-off, but poor Huell is still stuck in that sad, lonely hotel room waiting for Hank. Fortunately, Vince Gilligan has thoughtfully (and not really) come up with a spin-off for the big man. Huell’s Rules looks like something that Tyler Perry would produce for TBS and finds the whole Babineaux clan shacking up together in that one little rule. Hijinks ensue, of course, but the family always comes together, because that’s what good family members do when they’re not stealing children and contributing to the shooting deaths of each another.
Yes, this man actually has a nose growing on his forehead. It's part of a cutting-edge transplant procedure, and doctors will eventually replace his damaged nose with the new, healthy organ.
Hollywood's addiction to remakes and reboots continues unabated, with dozens of films in development. And meanwhile, bookshelves are straining with hundreds of original, thrilling novels that have never been adapted to the screen. Here's a second dose of our list of books that should be adapted instead of yet another remake.
Com David Goyer no comando... Tenho sérias dúvidas.
Comic book properties have dominated the box office, and now they're making a big splash back on television, where many of Marvel and DC's characters made their live action debuts long ago. A John Constantine TV show is in development at NBC, reports Deadline. The gruff magician and detective of the supernatural is largely known to the masses from the eponymous 2005 feature film headlined by Keanu Reeves, but Constantine was originally created by Alan Moore in 1985, and he was the main character of Vertigo's Hellblazer comic, which ran for over 20 years before it was replaced by DC Comics' Constantine earlier this year.
NBC has purchased the rights for an adaptation of Constantine for television, and so far the network has committed to...
Calculator watches were the Geek cred of the 80’s. Today everyone is getting smart watches. How can the hip Geek stay ahead? [Gabriel Anzziani] to the rescue with his Oscilloscope Watch! [Gabriel] has made a cottage industry with his micro test tools. We’ve featured his Xprotolab and Xminilab on here on Hack a Day more than once. The Oscilloscope Watch basically takes all the features of the Xprotolab and squeezes them down into a wrist watch.
The Oscilloscope Watch includes an oscilloscope, a logic analyzer, an arbitrary waveform generator, and of course it tells time. The Oscilloscope Watch’s processor is the AVR XMega128. [Gabriel] has even included a link to the schematics (PDF) on his Kickstarter page. We really like that 3D printed case, and hope [Gabriel] opens up his CAD designs for us to work with.
Like its predecessors, the Oscilloscope watch won’t be replacing your Tektronix scope, or even your Rigol. Much like a Swiss army knife or Leatherman tool, the Oscilloscope Watch packs a bunch of tools into a small package. None of them are as good as a full-sized tool, but in a pinch they will get the job done. If you are wondering where the probes connect. [Gabriel] states on the Kickstarter page that he will design a custom 9 pin .100 connector to BNC adapter to allow the use of standard probes.
The screen is the same series of Sharp Memory LCD’s used in the Pebble watch. [Gabriel] chose to go with the FPC version of the Sharp LCD rather than the zebra connector. We’ve learned the hard way that those flex circuits snap at the LCD glass after only a few flexes. Hopefully this won’t impact the hackability of the watch.
Before Watson dominated in Jeopardy! there was Deep Blue, another IBM supercomputer that — in a feat that once seemed impossible — defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997. The story of that match will now be brought to the silver screen, reports Deadline. Disney has purchased the rights to create a film adaptation of The Machine, a play by Matthew Charman. He will write the screenplay for the movie, and Mandeville Films is set to produce it, though it's all still very much in the early stages.
The Machine debuted this summer at the Manchester International Festival, and made its way over to the US earlier this month at New York's Park Avenue Armory (pictured above). The play depicts the television broadcast of...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (left) meets with President Barack Obama at the White House in 2012.
Revelations about the American government’s ongoing electronic surveillance have sent shockwaves across the globe, but few countries have reacted as boldly as Brazil, where lawmakers are currently considering a plan to cut ties — quite literally — with the US.
Earlier this month, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced plans to create an undersea fiber-optic cable that would funnel internet traffic between South America and Europe, bypassing the US entirely. Rousseff also urged legislators to pass an amendment that would force Google, Microsoft, and other US web companies to store data for Brazilian users on servers...
Apple has won the right to use the name "iPhone" in Brazil, promising to bring an end to a 6-year-old battle over the trademark in South America's largest country. A court ruled that Brazilian consumer electronics firm Gradiente, which began selling an "iphone" last year that runs on Android, must now share the trademark with Apple.
Judge Eduardo de Brito Fernandes called Apple's iPhone "world renowned" and said giving Gradiente exclusive rights to the name would be unfair. "All the (Apple) product's renown and client following have been built on its performance and excellence as a product," the judge ruled, according to AFP.
Gradiente first requested the trademark in 2000 through the INPI, Brazil's intellectual property office....
theodp writes "If he'd had his druthers, Bill Gates told a Harvard audience, Ctrl+Alt+Del would never have seen the light of day. However, an IBM keyboard designer didn't want to give Microsoft a single button to start things up, and thus the iconic three-finger-salute was born."
He was always Heisenberg. I know this isn’t a revelation nor am I the first one to say it, but long before his tightie-whitie-clad first cook, Walter White was already breaking bad. It’s pretty clear that Vince Gilligan and the brilliant storytellers around him don’t want us to reduce morality ... More »
Continuing a viral promotion that began with Jeff Daniels hilariously bumbling his way into winning an Emmy for The Newsroom, Jim Carrey tweeted the above first look at the upcoming Dumb And Dumber To—the sequel in which it is that idiot Time who will make fools of us all. Carrey posted the photo as a bit of dual self-promotion, advertising not only the film but also his new children’s book, How Roland Rolls (to which the answer is, presumably, “away from vaccinations”), with both Daniels and the movie’s official feed responding in kind.
Germany's Chaos Computing Club claim to have tricked Apple's new TouchID security feature this weekend. In a blog post on the breakthrough, the CCC writes they bypassed the fingerprint-reader by simply starting with "the fingerprint of the phone user photographed from a glass surface."
The entire process is documented by hacker Starbug in the video above, and the club outlines it in a how-to. For this particular initiative, the CCC started by photographing a fingerprint with 2400 dpi. Next the image was inverted and laser printed at 1200 dpi. To create the fingerprint mask Starbug finally used, latex milk was poured into the pattern, eventually lifted, breathed on (for moisture), and pushed onto the sensor to unlock the phone. In this sense, it's hard to definitively state the hackers "broke" the TouchID precautions, because they did not circumvent the security measure without access tothe fingerprint. (TouchID could similarly be cleared with a GTA V-like strategy of knocking the phone user unconscious and pressing finger-to-sensor.) However, the CCC did successfully trick TouchID into working as advertised for an individual who wasn't the phone user.
The CCC and Starbug in particular are well-known critics of biometric security systems. Back in 2008, Starbug even cloned the fingerprint of a German politician who advocated for collecting citizens' unique physical characteristics as a means of preventing terrorism.
Ned's younger brother and Night's Watch ranger Benjen Stark takes center stage in this action-packed fan-made film. On a scouting mission north of the Wall, the ranger makes a terrifying discovery.
A GIF version of the Flashed Face Animation Effect has been making the rounds recently, prompting us to ask: why the hell do these faces look so grotesque and distorted when we're not focusing our eyes on them? We spoke to a neuroscientist to find out.
In the future, when dictionary definitions are supplemented with looping animations, the word "frivolity" will almost certainly be accompanied by a clip of this otter at Sea Life Oberhausen in Germany, playing with a rock and generally enjoying life.
Do not watch this Funny Or Die video until after watching “Ozymandias,” last Sunday’s episode of Breaking Bad. Dean Norris has shown himself to be game for anything related to his role as Hank Schrader, and this clip is no exception, as it follows the fantasy version of Hank’s ass-kicking Mineral Man spinoff with an equally off-the-wall continuation that takes shots at Talking Bad and Low Winter Sun. We won’t ruin the twist, but Norris’ role on CBS’ Under The Dome might have something to do with it. Keep having fun with your victory lap, Mr. Norris.
William Shatner decided not to boldly go into orbit, on board Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceship. According to Branson, this is because Shatner is "scared of airline travel." Probably because of those gremlins on the wing, right?
Esse glass é uma forma de sinalizar que quer ser comprado pelo Google?
Steve Kondik and company announced earlier this week that the CyanogenMod ROM has been incorporated into Cyanogen Inc, with the aim of strengthening the pseudo-platform and reaching more users. Since the first announcement Cyanogen has been teasing one major hardware partner, and it looks like that has been revealed.
O Google já revelou o codinome da próxima versão do Android, a 4.4: KitKat, em parceria com a Nestlé. Mas detalhes como novas funcionalidades e, não menos importante, a data de lançamento, continuam um mistério. O Google não diz, oficialmente, nenhuma palavra sobre isso....
Yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page announced what is perhaps his company’s most audacious project: a life science startup called Calico that will pursue solutions for aging and its associated diseases. As Time Magazine put it, Calico hopes to cure death. In many ways, this new venture seemed to come out of left field. But Page actually has a long history with the search for immortality.
Page has long been a fan of Ray Kurzweil, the legendary inventor and author who popularized the concept of the Singularity, a theoretical tipping point where technology becomes so advanced it begins to radically alter the fabric of our existence. In the documentary Transcendent Man, Kurzweil openly talks about his ambition to achieve eternal life, even...
As Conan O’Brien celebrates 20 years in the talk show business, he’s been having some friends and old pals on Conan to talk about the early days of Late Night. Yesterday, O’Brien welcomed original Late Night writer Louis CK, who dished on the insecurity he felt while writing, and talked about a joke he convinced O’Brien to tell that absolutely bombed. While it might seem pretty funny now, 1993 was a long, long time ago—as evidenced by the photo of the original writers that O’Brien showed during the interview.
The whole thing’s below, and it’s well worth watching. CK is, as always, hilarious, and it’s nice to see two old pals just hang out and shoot the shit.
Interested in owning Walter White’s beat up Pontiac Aztek from Breaking Bad? Well, then it’s time to figure out how to make meth, make some, sell it, get involved with a drug kingpin, destroy your family, screw your friends, and make some money, because a bunch of props from the hit AMC show are about to go up for auction. Screenbid, a new prop auction site, is selling off about 250 props from the show, including Skyler White’s 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a couple of pretty important Hazmatsuits, the iconic charred pink teddy bear from the bottom of the White’s pool, Tuco’s Lucite-encased grill, and Walter White’s incriminating copy of Leaves Of Grass, complete with Gale’s “To my other favorite WW” inscription. Everything available is pretty damn iconic, from Tio Salamanca’s bell and wheelchair to a bunchofHank’s minerals ...
trbdavies writes "The Associated Press reports: 'President Dilma Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company's network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google. The leader is so angered by the espionage that on Tuesday she postponed next month's scheduled trip to Washington, where she was to be honored with a state dinner.' Among Brazil's plans are a domestic encrypted email service, laying its own fiber optic cable to Europe, requiring services like Facebook and Google to store data generated by Brazilians on servers located in Brazil, and pushing for 'international rules on privacy and security in hardware and software during the U.N. General Assembly meeting later this month.'"
Like so many of us, George R.R. Martin watched last Sunday’s episode of Breaking Bad instead of finishing the next installment of our massively popular fantasy saga that we’ve been putting off, much to our fans’ frustration. And then, after the shock of “Ozymandias” subsided, George R.R. Martin finally put fingers to keys and began to tap out what we’ve all been longing to read: a blog about how awesome Breaking Bad is, particularly how “there’s no way in hell” Martin’s own Game Of Thrones—or any other show for that matter—stands a chance at defeating it at the Emmys next year. Also, as Martin writes in the thing that you definitely wanted most to read from him, “Ozymandias” led him to conclude, “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros. I need to do something about that.”
darthcamaro writes "At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds joined fellow kernel developers in answering a barrage of questions about Linux development. One question he was asked was whether a government agency had ever asked about inserting a back-door into Linux. Torvalds responded 'no' while shaking his head 'yes,' as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter. Torvalds also admitted that while he as a full life outside of Linux he couldn't imagine his life without it. 'I don't see any project coming along being more interesting to me than Linux,' Torvalds said. 'I couldn't imagine filling the void in my life if I didn't have Linux.'"
Steve Kondik and company announced earlier this week that the CyanogenMod ROM has been incorporated into Cyanogen Inc, with the aim of strengthening the pseudo-platform and reaching more users. Since the first announcement Cyanogen has been teasing one major hardware partner, and it looks like that has been revealed.
O Google já revelou o codinome da próxima versão do Android, a 4.4: KitKat, em parceria com a Nestlé. Mas detalhes como novas funcionalidades e, não menos importante, a data de lançamento, continuam um mistério. O Google não diz, oficialmente, nenhuma palavra sobre isso....
