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#57 – Cam [Chris Hallbeck - MiniMumble]
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EduNão conhecem os consumidores brasileiros.
Rumors spread on Monday that Apple was adding support for 128GB storage in iPhones and iPads, and leaked retail information suggested that a 128GB iPad was just around the corner. The reaction to news of the rumor was both visceral and mixed—some users who regularly bump against the existing 64GB storage limit welcomed the notion that Apple would increase the capacity of its mobile devices, while others largely considered 128GB to be overkill for something that isn't a "real PC."
But just one day later, Apple announced it would indeed start shipping a 128GB iPad starting next week, on February 5. As rumored, the device will cost $799 for a Wi-Fi model or $929 for a Wi-Fi + Cellular model with LTE networking compatibility. The pricing falls right in line with Apple's existing pricing structure; entry-level models have 16GB of storage and start at $499 and $629 respectively, with each doubling of storage capacity adding an extra $100 to the price.
Some viewed the news as a positive. "Between some large games, iOS Garageband, and some computer development tutorial videos I loaded into VLC, I ran out of room quickly [on my 64GB iPad]," Ars reader spittingangels wrote.
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Panoramic web tools like Google Street View have given us new ways to see the world online, but most of them aren't as impressively scenic as this giddy view from the world's tallest building. Stitched together from 70 photos taken atop the 2,700-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the interactive image is a fantastic use of 360-degree photography, especially when you shift from a sweeping view of Dubai's skyscrapers to zoom in on tiny details like roads or harbors.
Photographer Gerald Donovan made the piece in honor of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Photography Award (HIPA), which will be presented in Dubai this March. The Burj Khalifa, meanwhile, is known as one of the settings of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — unlike...
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Using the Video Experimenter shield for Arduino, a group in Brazil developed a way to translate live closed captioning to a number of different languages. Called Easy Way Subtitles, the project uses the Video Experimenter Shield to get the closed captioning text from the broadcasted signal and turns it over [...]
Occasionally, as is his propensity to fall into peril, massive life threatening traps and the odd giant fish tank, Batman has had to fight a few sharks in his time.
Now seeing as how it’s Batman, we usually give him the benefit of the doubt in the sh*t odd’s department, as he’s good with this sort of thing. He fights super powered super villains and one time he killed Darkseid the god of frigging death! So we give him a bit of leeway. The rest of us would be packing out an ‘all you can eat’ Jaw’s buffet with less fight than a baby deer, but Batman however, being a martial arts, super detecting billionaire would absolutely have that shark in a fight. Damn straight!
And here he is in ice doing just that. Batman Vs Shark, with Batman owning that shark and letting it know just who it’s f**king with!
Source: ObviousWinner
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“The design of our new map was inspired by antique maps and star charts, and alludes to the historic connection between submarine cables and cartography.”
EduEle está passando esse batom já faz uma hora e nada acontece.
The Joker’s return in Scott Snyder’s current Bat-Odyssey, aptly titled: Return Of The Joker, has delivered us a whole new level of fear and insanity from the creepy no faced bastid!
The below Greg Capullo art from Batman #13 ‘Death of the Family’ featuring everyone’s favorite mad man applying lip stick was creepy enough, but now with it’s reworking into a GIF it’s even freaking creepier.
‘Hello Bat’s’
Play the laugh track below and then run your cursor over the image at the same time for a particularly surreal effect:
Source: Geekologie
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Groundhog Day has always been an odd little day. If the name of the day itself doesn’t make this apparent, imagine explaining it to someone from a foreign country, or an alien. (“It’s, um, this day where we pretend that a big ground squirrel can predict the weather?”) February 2nd has become, like Valentine’s Day or April Fool’s Day, a largely symbolic gesture, in this case representing our desire for winter to conclude.
Since the movie Groundhog Day came out, though, the day has also begun to remind one of the concept of time travel. So, starting with the premise that time travel is inarguably awesome, I wonder... should Groundhog Day become an appreciation of time travel?
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EduPrevejo piadas sobre o preço dos X-Box deixando os jogadores durangos.
Joseph Dumary
Next-gen TV—with a 4K "Ultra HD" picture resolution—was this year's hot topic at CES. But its success may be in the hands of console gamers.
With leaked details of octal-core processor banks paired with 8GB of RAM, the PlayStation 4 "Orbis" is sounding powerful (just for comparison of RAM alone, the 8GB of system memory is roughly 32 times more than the current model). But to see where 4K comes in, it's worth taking a trip back seven years.
In 2005, very few people had an HDTV. According to one study, there were "as many" as 10 million homes with high-definition screens—globally. The problem, according to many commentators, was the lack of HD content: nobody wanted to buy an HDTV because there was little HD content; very little HD content was made because there were very few people to sell it to. Classic catch-22.
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Whatever you thought of The Amazing Spider-Man, it couldn’t be denied that Marc Webb had put together an amazing cast. But at the rate the sequel is snapping up stars, it could wind up topping even its predecessor on that front.
Paul Giamatti has entered talks to join the movie in the role of the Rhino, a hulking villain whose dim intelligence is balanced by severe strength and the ability to charge at superhuman speed. Meanwhile, Felicity Jones has also begun negotiations for an unspecified role. Should the two close their deals, they’ll be joining returning stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, along with franchise newcomers Jamie Foxx, Shailene Woodley, and Dane DeHaan. More details after the jump.
THR broke the news of Giamatti and Jones’s casting. The character of Rhino made his debut in 1966, as a Soviet thug named Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich whose special suit granted him superhuman levels of strength, speed, and durability. His name comes from the costume, which features a deadly horn on top. Rhino has become a more sympathetic character in recent years, even allying with Spider-Man. Interestingly, Giamatti has publicly expressed his desire to play the character in the past. Watch him talk about the franchise with Conan O’Brien below.
Via @seantee, Paul Giamatti talking on Conan O’Brien about how much he wants to play the Rhino in a Spider-Man movie. youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Gwcw…
— Matt Singer (@mattsinger) January 28, 2013
The addition of Rhino to The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s rogues gallery suggests that the series could be building up to a showdown against the supervillain group he Sinister Six in the third film. The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s Rhino and Electro (Foxx) and The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Lizard (Rhys Ifans) have all been part of the group at various points of the comic book timeline. In addition, DeHaan’s upcoming character Harry Osborne is the son of the Green Goblin, and in one comic storyline eventually becomes the Green Goblin himself. If he suits up as a villain, that leaves just two more characters to be introduced in the third film to potentially round out the group.
Update: Latino Review has some interesting theories on where the casting of Giamatti as Rhino is headed. Here’s the abbreviated version: Rhino actually appears in the Amazing Spider-Man video game tie-in, as the result of an ill-advised experiment by Rajit Ratha (Irrfan Khan); he can also be spotted on the DNA tree in the lab along with the Scorpion. LR’s favorite theory is that Giamatti will play a non-superpowered version of the Rhino, highlighting the dark consequences of some of Oscorp’s work.
It’s a lot of speculation, to be sure. The choice of villains in Webb’s films could just as easily be rooted in picking characters that weren’t exploited in Sam Raimi’s trilogy.
Regardless of what happens (or doesn’t) with the Sinister Six, there are definitely some bad times for Peter Parker coming up ahead. It’s been widely reported that the next two films will build up to the iconic “Death of Gwen Stacy” storyline from the comics. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 lands in theaters May 2.
The battery is one of the biggest inhibitors to designing the shape and weight of wearables. If you ever forget that, just go back and look at the very first prototype of Google Glass, Google’s digital, multi-media glasses project in a photo taken by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson. In addition to making you look like a Borg, you can see the first prototype’s got a backpack attached to it that Jurvetson says was full of batteries to power the device.
In the above photo, Google X’s Sarah Price is showing off the original prototype in a slide while sporting the current model, which is way more refined, has a much smaller battery and can still power the glasses for a day. The next prototype — but still an early version — is below.
And finally the current version below that you can see Googlers sporting around the campus and elsewhere (I saw a pair in the wild at a Mission pub this weekend).
Top two photos courtesy of Jurvetson, creative commons. Bottom photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk.
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For a few years now, [Jomegat] has been thinking about Sting, the sword wielded by [Bilbo Baggins] and later [Frodo] in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sting glows blue whenever an orc is near. Assuming the Elvish magic created by Tolkien is in reality highly advanced Elvish technology, [Jomegat] figured out a way to make his plastic Sting detect WiFi-enabled orcs.
Since The Hobbit was released, toy stores have been flooded with related merchandise that included a wonderful toy version of everyone’s favorite orc killing weapon. The only problem was how to add orc sensors to this plastic Sting. [Jomegat] assumed all orcs carry a cell phone, and being the low creatures they are, would always have their WiFi turned on. [Jomegat] found a very inexpensive WiFi detector key chain that would sense these phone-carrying orcs and light up to alert our warrior to imminent danger.
After acquiring the materials crafted from Elvish magic technology, [Jomegat] opened up the plastic hilt of Sting and installed the WiFi detector. Now, whenever Sting senses the preferred wireless connection of the orc, the blade glows a bright blue.
[Jomegat] was eaten by a grue shortly after completing this project.
There's a palpable buzz at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and much of it is swirling around an obscure, black-and-white movie that may never see a commercial release. That's because Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow is more than just a film; it's an exercise in guerilla moviemaking, and a meditation on our own gawk-fueled culture.
The movie debuted at Sundance on Friday to largely glowing reviews, though its incredible backstory began three years ago, when Moore decided to shoot a film at Disney World without Disney's permission. Armed with a Canon camera and a skeleton crew of actors, the 36-year-old director began surreptitiously filming at both Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland in Anaheim, taking every precaution to keep...
The Hollywood Reporter revealed last Monday that Warner Bros. acquired the rights to John McAfee's Last Stand, and just one week later, development of a separate John McAfee movie has been announced by Impact Future Media. The film, titled Running in the Background, will be adapted from McAfee's personal memoirs — Future Media says McAfee "entrusted Impact Future Media with the exclusive intellectual property rights to his official life story." The developer announced last year that it had obtained the rights from McAfee, but it wasn't clear if it would obtain funding or actually get a product in development. Now, Impact Future Media says it will budget $28 million for the film, and has selected Equinoxe Films to produce and distribute...
The New York Times details a campaign from a Michael Jackson fan group that sought to bury an unfavorable book on Amazon with promotion of anonymous one-star reviews. While fake reviews are thought to be a widespread problem on Amazon, the Times says that the campaign by "Michael Jackson's Rapid Response Team to Media Attacks" has been the biggest and most successful: the group reportedly submitted dozens of one-star reviews (the lowest rating), worked to promote those ratings, and took credit for the book's temporary removal on Amazon. The Times says two points made by Randall Sullivan in the book (titled "Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson") seem particularly infuriating to fans: that Jackson's extensive...
Sure most people are familiar with the popular consoles of the last three decades like the Sega Genesis or the Playstation, but what about the lesser known consoles like the Arcadia and the CD-i? Check out all the consoles big and small with this massive visual history.
Evolution of Video Game Consoles [via Visual.ly]
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Message boards on Reddit and 4chan were ablaze last January over a freshly exposed vulnerability in certain models of Trendnet home security cameras. This flaw, when manipulated correctly, allowed users to surreptitiously gain access to thousands of at-home IP camera feeds, providing a veritable online playground for peeping toms. In response, Trendnet issued a firmware update that purported to eliminate the threat, though nearly one year later, it's apparent that many owners never took action.
Earlier this month, Network World reported that many Trendcam users were still exposing their live feeds to the public, through a Google Maps-powered web app. The site requires no password or additional software, and provides not only real-time...
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Apple executives Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and Phil Schiller.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened to hit Palm with patent litigation if the company did not stop poaching valuable employees, according to a newly unsealed court filing (hat tip to Reuters). The document surfaced as part of a lawsuit between former employees of companies like Apple, Google, and Intel over the companies' no-poaching agreements; US District Judge Lucy Koh denied parts of a request to keep some documents sealed, revealing Jobs' comments to Palm CEO Edward Colligan.
According to the document, which was filed late Tuesday, both Apple and Palm hired one another's employees during Colligan's tenure between 2003 and 2009. Colligan claims Jobs called him in August of 2007—roughly two months after the public launch of the iPhone—to propose "an agreement" wherein Palm and Apple would not hire employees away from each other. Colligan's statement notes that the agreement contained a pretty strong "or else" clause: "Mr. Jobs also suggested that if Palm did not agree to such an arrangement, Palm could face lawsuits alleging infringement of Apple's many patents."
Colligan sent an e-mail response to Jobs expressing his concern over the discussion. "Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal," Colligan wrote to Jobs on August 24, 2007.
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America's Astronomer-in-Chief drives his point home by showing magazine covers with NASA's iconic Earthrise photo.
Rob Pegoraro
Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
Where Obama emphasized the utility and necessity of government doing what citizens cannot do individually across the breadth of society, Twitter's favorite astrophysicist focused on the case for government having a unique capacity to fund basic research.
The occasion for Tyson's speech was the launch of the new House Science and National Labs Caucus, founded by Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-IL; Fermilab is in his district), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM; Los Alamos is in his), and Alan Nunnelee (R-MS). This group isn't the only one aiming for better science funding—the Research And Development Caucus has similar goals and a six-year head start—so the new caucus opted to call attention to its launch with a name-brand guest at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium.
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The YouTube "dancing baby" takedown case, made Internet-famous by lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation back in 2007, looks like it will actually go to a jury about six years after it was filed.
US District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled today [PDF] that neither Universal Music Group, which asked for the video of a dancing toddler to be taken off YouTube, nor EFF, which represented the child's mother, will win their case on summary judgment. Today's order, which responds to issues raised at an October hearing, means the case will have to proceed to a jury trial if there's no settlement.
EFF argued that Universal's takedown was an illegal one, because the video that Stephanie Lenz posted of her son Holden dancing to Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" should have been "self-evident" fair use. But here, Fogel agrees with Universal that there's basically no such thing as "self evident" fair use.
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Pictured here: members of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps advance through a cloud of smoke during a gas mask drill, ca. 1942. The masks, combined with the nurse's uniforms, look like something out of a 1940s comic book. These are the ladies we want saving us from peril. More at Retronaut and Adventures in Geneology. More » 
Anamorphic illustrations that reveal themselves in the presence of a cylindrical mirror, go back to the 1500s. Jonty Hurwitz takes a similar idea but plays it out in sculpture form, creating distorted objects that reveal a clear image only in front of that shiny cylinder. More » 
Flickr user ben6835 covers surrealist René Magritte's self portrait, "The Son of Man," with a pop culture twist. Instead of the artist and the apple, this series features movie and comic book characters, each with its own individual totem obscuring his or her face. More » 
