FUNKY GREEN: 03/08/13

Friday, 8 March 2013

Chrome OS fends off all hacks at Pwnium 3, others fall at Pwn2Own

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Gabe Newell, John Carmack and more talk VR at SXSW, watch live here at 7PM ET

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T-Mobile to begin selling BlackBerry Z10 to business customers March 11th for $249.99

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MARS App Uses Augmented Reality to Help You Identify Things Around You

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RetroMadrid 2013: un fin de semana de informática retro, rol y aventuras

Grandes máquinas nunca mueren.

Si no tienes nada mejor que hacer en un fin de semana frío y lluvioso, los espacios culturales del Matadero de Madrid son un sitio mejor que cualquier otro, porque se celebra RetroMadrid 2013 :

RetroMadrid 2013 conjuntará el mundo de la informática clásica con otras aficiones que giran en torno al rol y la aventura conversacional, de ahí el lema de esta edición.

En el evento se celebrará además el 30º aniversario de uno de los primeros grandes estándares informáticos, el MSX, con el encuentro MadriSX y un homenaje al mítico videojuego La Abadía del Crimen.

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Come say hi at our first Engadget+gdgt Live event in Austin tomorrow night!

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The Engadget Interview: Bre Pettis talks MakerBot's Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner

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Editor's Letter: Expand gets expanded

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IntuiLab shows a tool to build Leap Motion apps, no coding chops required (video)

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Neo N003 may deliver a 1080p smartphone for $145, but don't expect miracles

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La Guía del Autoestopista Galáctico cumple 35 años

Don't panic and carry a towel

El 8 de marzo de 1978 a las 22:30 la BBC emitió el primer episodio de la Guía del Autoestopista Galáctico , una comedia para radio que acabaría convirtiéndose en una obra de culto de la ciencia ficción gracias, sobre todo, a su adaptación como novela.

Esta novela terminaría por ser la primera de una trilogía de seis de la que el sexto volumen fue en realidad escrito por Eoin Colfer varios años después de la prematura muerte de Douglas Adams, el creador de la serie.

Las tres primeras me parecen muy buenas, especialmente la primera, que después de todos los años que hace que la descubrí sigue provocándome la risa cuando la releo, pero reconozco que no he sido capaz de terminarme Y una cosa más…, la sexta.

Además de a libros, la Guía del Autoestopista Galáctico ha sido llevada a juegos de ordenador, al cine, y a la televisión, y nos ha servido a todos para averiguar que la respuesta a la vida, el universo, y todo lo demás es 42.

Y que nunca hay que ir a ningún sitio sin una toalla y unos cacahuetes.

Un saludo desde ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.

Keep Calm and Learn History, el porqué de la famosa frase que ahora se ve en todas partes.

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Reticulating splines for reticulating times: the SimCity debacle

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Hinge Helps You Find Dates Based On Your Mutual Friends

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Makerbot Digitizer Will Let Anyone Scan and Print Physical Items in 3D

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Google Fiber TV channel lineup sees its first 3D additions with 3net and ESPN3D

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MakerBot unveils prototype Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, promises easier 3D printing

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Intel Capital President: Disrupt Alum Expect Labs “Fits In Nicely” With Voice Plans For Ultrabook

Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel, boasts over 120 portfolio companies to have listed publicly on the NASDAQ alone. In celebration of that, President Arvind Sodhani rang yesterday’s closing bell, and we caught up with him to chat about the future of the Ultrabook platform, wearable computing, and advancements in voice and gesture technology.

Intel Capital has actually invested in two of our most recent Disrupt alumni, Ark and Expect Labs, which focuses on predictive voice transcription to help you out as a digital assistant while you’re on the phone.

Sodhani hinted quite strongly that Expect Labs could potentially be the company to bring voice support to the Ultrabook platform, a promise Intel made in October of 2012.

“Our platforms, ultrabooks, tablets and laptops, will have a digital personal assistant on them in the next several years,” said Sodhani. “They’ll anticipate what you want to do next, what you need, and they’ll be context-aware.”

“Expect Labs fits into that very nicely,” said Sodhani. He also mentioned that Intel is looking at other companies for both speech and gesture recognition, but Expect Labs is clearly in the running.

Along with the rapid expansion of the cloud, Sodhani believes that 2012′s onslaught of voice-powered technology will only continue to grow alongside gesture-recognition technology.

As will wearables. Though Intel Capital hasn’t yet invested in wearable computing hardware, Sodhani admits that they’re certainly open to it should the right opportunity arise.

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Live from MakerBot's SXSW Keynote

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HTC Facebook Smartphone Specs Leak Online

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Patient has 75 percent of his skull replaced with 3D-printed prosthetic

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Present.me Makes It Easy to Give a Presentation Anywhere

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The Engadget Show Mini: Mobile World Congress with Stephen Elop and more

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Dynamic Signal Launches VoiceStorm To Manage Employees’ Social Media Promotion Efforts

Dynamic Signal, the social marketing company led by Adify co-founder Russ Fradin, is launching a new product today called VoiceStorm that encourages, manages, and measures employees’ efforts to promote a company on social networks.

Fradin told me that VoiceStorm is functionally similar to Dynamic Signal’s existing platform, which helps companies run word-of-mouth marketing campaigns — it’s just built for employees rather rather than customers or fans. Basically, Fradin aims to replace all those team emails and in-person encounters where someone is nudging everyone else into tweeting something, posting it on Facebook, and so on.

“One of our first clients said to us, ‘Hey, can we get our employees to join this community as well?’” Fradin said. “Our employees are really our best advocates. We want to be able to send content to them and make it super easy for them to be able to get that content.”

VoiceStorm can automatically pull content from a company’s RSS feeds, and users can also upload content that they find elsewhere for approval. So when an employee logs into their dashboard, they might see the latest job listings, or a press release about a big product launch, or a TechCrunch article about their latest venture funding. Then they can select the content that seems worth sharing, write their own message, and push it to all of their connected social accounts.

Management, meanwhile, can see who’s doing the most sharing and getting the most clicks. The site even includes a leaderboard of the most successful employee advocates. Fradin argued that this allows companies to quantify the value of that promotion, and to reward employees accordingly. For example, if someone’s sharing eventually leads to the hiring of an important team members, that could save the company tens of thousands of dollars in recruiting fees.

There are other companies, including Addvocate, pursuing trying to help employees promote the company on social media.Fradin said that with VoiceStorm, the key ingredient is mobile messaging. Managers can not only add content to the system, but they can also send it as a push notification to specific groups within the company. So if TechCrunch had a big scoop that we wanted to promote immediately, VoiceStorm could actually send alerts asking all the writers to tweet it right away.

On the flip side, if employees just want to visit the VoiceStorm site once a day, they can also queue up a number of social media updates, then the service will automatically space them out so that they don’t all post at once. (Fradin said there’s not much technical intelligence in the scheduling — it’s less about optimizing the timing and more about making it convenient for the employee.)

VoiceStorm is free for up to 40 users, with final pricing to be announced later.

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Inestable

Tan gozoso como relajante e inestable. Para quien le gusten estas cosas, claro: miles y miles de rodamientos metálicos sobre una superficie con movimientos de vaivén. Una obra de Tommi Grönlund y Petteri Nisunen, expuesta en Berlín.

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