Valve's love for Linux continues... Their latest sign of the game company's compassion for the open-source operating system is by joining the Linux Foundation...
Work has begun on a new generation of USB that will break compatibility with existing connectors in order to improve ease of use and allow for thinner devices. The new connector, called Type-C, is an addition to the existing USB 3.1 specification and is expected to be finalized by the middle of 2014. Type-C will be around the size of a Micro USB plug and, like Apple's Lightning connector, will finally be reversible — in other words, no more frustrated attempts to charge your phone with an upside-down cable.
This is the only connector one will need across all devices.”
In a press release, USB 3.0 Promoter Group chairman Brad Saunders said that Type-C is intended to "meet evolving design trends in terms of size and usability” while allowing for future scalability in charging and data transfer rates. Type-C "will enable an entirely new super-thin class of devices from phones to tablets, to 2-in-1s, to laptops to desktops and a multitude of other more specific usage devices,” said Alex Peleg of Intel. “This new industry standards-based thin connector delivering data, power and video is the only connector one will need across all devices.”
Since Type-C is an entirely new connector, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group will also have to include a specification for adapters and cables so that the countless USB chargers out there aren't immediately rendered useless. But the need for a new USB standard is in many ways overdue, recently highlighted by Apple's sleek Lightning connector and devices like the Galaxy Note 3 with its speedy but clumsy and oversized Micro USB 3 port.
When Android founder Andy Rubin stepped away from the mobile operating system he helped create, rumors suggested he would pursue his livelong love of real robots instead. Now, The New York Times reports those rumors are true: Google has purchased seven different robot companies for a new robotics initiative, and placed Rubin in charge.
"I have a history of making my hobbies into a career."
The story apparently comes from Rubin himself, who granted the Times an interview, but sadly wouldn't provide many details about Google's plans. Apparently, the robot group is distinct from the Google X lab which has recently become synonymous with the company's crazier hardware projects like self-driving cars and Google Glass. However, Rubin told that the new division — which could even be spun off as a separate company — is still pursuing a "moonshot" of that sort. Currently, Rubin is hiring roboticists for the project, which the Times reports will have offices in both Palo Alto and Japan. It's not clear what kind of robots the group will build, but several of the companies involved previously built humanoid robots and robotic arms, and it seems like Rubin is suggesting that Google's creation will be able to move, reach, and grab things like a person.
"I have a history of making my hobbies into a career," Rubin told the Times. "This is the world's greatest job. Being an engineer and a tinkerer, you start thinking about what you would want to build for yourself."
Some images from the new Deluxx Fluxx pop-up arcade opening today at Art Basel Miami through the 7th. Created by NYC street artists Faile and Bast, the arcade features handmade beautiful psychedelic street collage consoles, new videogames, foosball and pinball. Wish I could see it in person.-LT
Take a turn with the specially created and programmed video games and pinball machines, or play a round of psychedelic foosball. Harkening back to the golden age of arcade games, contemporary punk rock and graffiti culture, this neon-laden, interactive, mixed media installation gives the audience a chance to genuinely engage with the work without feeling the pressure of the traditional gallery environment.
“But think about it in terms of television. Would HBO make “Game of Thrones” if the government set the price for how much they could charge for it, and every competitor network — Showtime, AMC, the Garden Network, SciFi, Comedy Central, NBC, Fox — they all got to show the show at the same time? That’s what they did with songs, right? So they’ve completely flattened our business model. There is no business model. There’s just this pittance that the government mandates that we songwriters receive.”
"The Appalachian State Mountaineers are the athletic teams that represent Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, United States. The Mountaineers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and have been a member of the Southern Conference since 1972. Appalachian fields varsity teams in 20 sports, 10 for men and 10 for women. The football team competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly I-AA, but will transition to Division I-FBS in 2014. Appalachian State will join the Sun Belt Conference in all sports except soccer and wrestling, which the Sun Belt does not sponsor. Those teams will remain as Southern Conference members in those sports." (Source: Wikipedia)
Please note: The above image (of Yosef) is the alternate logo. The primary logo is below. And this only applies to the athletics of Appalachian State, not the university itself.
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Opinion/Notes: You can't argue with "vintage", even if Victory Yosef looks like an Amish Hipster. They'll probably sell more merch with it in a month than they did in the last 14 years with the very sporty "Yosef Head".
Select Quote: "The excitement that Victory Yosef has generated among our students, alumni and fans since we introduced it as a throwback logo last fall has been overwhelming," Appalachian State director of athletics Charlie Cobb said. "Due to its popularity, it only made sense to make Victory Yosef a permanent part of our branding. We hope that it endures as a recognizable mark of Appalachian athletics for years to come."
This scene, captured by a video camera hidden in a wiring closet at MIT, was the beginning of a probe that led to federal charges against the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz.
The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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'As Santa streaks through the sky this Christmas Eve, Rudolph merrily guiding the way, he will be flanked by some new and unusual companions: a jet-fighter escort, bristling with missiles.
That is the twist that — to the dismay of at least some child advocates — the US military has chosen to put on this year’s version of its traditional animated tracking of the yuletide journey.'
Moseley, a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney, supports his claim with a verse from the Book of Luke in which Jesus declines to act as arbitrator when someone asks him to compel a brother to divide their family inheritance.
“In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing ‘Jesus Christ supported socialism’ heresy,” Moseley writes. “When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth — to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other — Jesus refused...Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world,” Moseley writes. “It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.”
As an atheist, I don't usually play this scripture game. But this is too easy:
...we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things.
I could go on. Meanwhile, other Republicans are arguing against Francis's comments by saying that unfettered capitalism doesn't exist. I don't know which argument is more divorced from reality.
Shannon Gibney says that the students reacted in a hostile manner to the lesson in her Introduction to Mass Communication class, with one of them asking her, “Why do we have to talk about this in every class? Why do we have to talk about this?”
“His whole demeanor was very defensive. He was taking it personally. I tried to explain, of course, in a reasonable manner — as reasonable as I could given the fact that I was being interrupted and put on the spot in the middle of class — that this is unfortunately the context of 21st century America,” she explained in an interview with City College News.
