FUNKY GREEN: 05/10/13

Friday, 10 May 2013

You probably can't leap over this six-foot homemade Piranha Plant (nor should you try)

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Foursquare's website now lets you sort businesses by price, hours and check-ins

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ISS Astronauts Preparing Emergency Spacewalk to Fix Critical System

The Minds Behind XPRIZE: The making of the next visionary challenge

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This week on gdgt: Fitbit's Flex may never leave your wrist

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Imágenes del eclipse anular de Sol de mayo de 2013

Eclipse parcial desde Sydney por Ángel R. López-Sánchez

A final Ángel «Lobo Rayado» no se pudo resistir y sacó la cámara, un objetivo de 250 milímetros, y un filtro solar e hizo esta foto del eclipse anular del 10 de mayo de 2013, aunque como él estaba en Sydney desde allí sólo pudo ver un eclipse parcial.

En 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse puts on a dazzling show in Australian Outback y en An Awesome Annular Eclipse! Images and Videos from Earth and Space hay más fotos y videos.

La más curiosa quizás sea esta de Geoff Sims en la que el Sol y la Luna salen ovalados por culpa de la distorsión provocada por la atmósfera poco después de haber aparecido sobre el horizonte:

Ring of fire: Eclipse de mayo de 2013 por Geoff Sims

Persiguiendo un eclipse de Sol por Australia, las aventuras de Ángel para cazar el eclipse de noviembre de 2012, que también fue visible desde Australia.

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Push notifications come to Chrome and Chrome OS with battery life as a focus

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Yahoo's Acqui-Hire Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Startup Loki Studios

Yahoo has been gobbling up startups. In the last week or so, it has announced the acquisition of Astrid, GoPollGo, and Milewise. In fact, in a tweet today, Yahoo said that it has “added 22 entrepreneurs to our growing mobile team,” thanks to the three aforementioned companies — plus a mobile gaming startup called Loki Studios.

I’ve reached out to both Yahoo and Loki Studios for details about the deal, but the news seems to be confirmed on the Loki website, where the front page currently announces that the team is joining Yahoo:

It has been a difficult but immensely rewarding journey. We collaborated closely with an incredibly supportive community to continuously iterate and improve upon [Loki Sutdios' game] Geomon. We were fortunate to have been advised by some of the best mentors in the industry and befriended many of our peers along the way. We surmounted immense obstacles, formed tightknit bonds, and worked through a few too many sunrises.

Now, our journey continues. We are thrilled to be joining the exceptional folks at Yahoo!. We believe fully in their commitment to creating outstanding mobile products. We are excited to learn from, work with, and contribute to one of the most well-known pioneers of the tech industry.

The note is signed by seven Loki team members, so it sounds like they’re all joining Yahoo.

The startup had backing from DCM’s Android-focused fund and it was also part of the StartX incubator for the Stanford community.

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FCC proposes boosted in-flight WiFi speed with 14GHz spectrum by 2020

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Fuga tirando a seria de refrigerante en la Estación Espacial Internacional

Una fuga de amoníaco en uno de los circuitos de refrigeración de la Estación Espacial Internacional ha obligado a desactivar uno de sus paneles solares.

Aunque la situación no supone peligro alguno para la tripulación o para la nave sí es lo suficientemente seria como para que en control de la misión se hayan planteado llevar a cabo un paseo espacial no previsto para ver qué pasa y, quizás, intentar repararlo.

De todos modos el que no esté previsto no quiere decir que no estén preparados para ello, pues la reparación de este tipo de fugas es uno de los casos para los que se entrenan.

Lo he contado para RTVE.es en Una fuga de refrigerante en la EEI puede llevar a realizar un paseo espacial no previsto .

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Editor's Letter: 3D printing grows up

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Amazon Cloud Drive Photos gives iOS users one more safety net

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Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon Becomes Official

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Every Single Major League Baseball Game Is Your Deal of the Day

University student crafts app that helps blind smartphone users snap photos

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Bing now loads related Facebook posts, lets you share search results from the social sidebar

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Mobile Gaming Backend OpenKit Now Available To All Developers

OpenKit, an open source social for mobile games, is now open to all developers, according to co-founder Peter Relan.

The service was first announced in December and has been in private beta since earlier this year. There are apparently 1,500 developers already testing the service.

Relan previously told me that he started OpenKit in response to the shutdown of OpenFeint, the GREE-acquired social platform for mobile games that he co-founded. Developers still need something like this, Relan said, and he wants to build it in a way that’s both “good business and developer friendly.”

OpenKit’s current features include cloud storage (allowing a player to save their game on one device and load it up on another), leaderboards and achievements, user authentication (for Facebook, Google+, and Twitter), and plug-ins that connect games with the Unity engine. Plus, it works on both iOS and Android, and it’s being developed as an open source project, so developers can always take their data elsewhere, or use the code to build their own backend service.

OPenKit isn’t live for players yet. Relan told me today that that’s coming in a couple of months — there are more social features planned, but he said he’s specifically waiting to integrate with the Google Games service that’s rumored for the Google I/O conference next week.

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Apple's Got a Huge Waiting List of Cops Who Need iPhones Cracked

US Navy's Ion Tiger drone leans on liquid hydrogen for longer-lasting spy flight

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Freeman on a free OS: Half-Life 2 now available on Steam for Linux

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Engadget Podcast 343 - 05.10.13

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Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman on the NES console and its Power Glove peripheral

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Samsung SM-C101 hits Bluetooth SIG, rumored to be next Galaxy Camera

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Please Don't Lose Your Windows 8 Nerve, Microsoft

Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photo App for iPhone

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Sharp reportedly firing 5,000 employees, narrowing focus on smartphone displays

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iPhone Growth Lowest Since 2007 Launch

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21st Century Fox's First Logo Fixes What Wasn't Broken

Ubisoft working with Kaspersky Lab to make Watch Dogs' hacking more true to life

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Awesome Video Answers Questions About MōVI, Camera Super-Stabilizer

Olympus PEN Lite E-PL6 brings OM-D focusing to lower-cost cameras

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Boobs? Brayola Wants You To Snap A Pic Of Your Bra For The World's Viewing And Judging Enjoyment

Who wants to see some boobs?

Thanks to a new feature from Brayola, the startup looking to pair your boobs with the right bra, you can not only check out an endless stream of breasts but perhaps you can even find a bra that fits correctly.

According to the company, 80 percent of women are wearing the wrong size bra. Shocking, no? But the new Fit or Not feature from Brayola aims to change all that, and not in the most traditional way you might imagine.

Brayola already helps women find the right bra by asking them to give information on their favorite bras that they already own. Tell the service about the make, model and size of your favorite bras, and its engine will help you find more bras that will fit in a similar way.

With Fit or Not, the company is trying to help educate users on sizing, as that’s the most important factor in purchasing a bra that you’ll love and be comfortable in.

To start out with Fit or Not, you try on a bra and (prepare yourself for this) take a picture of your boobs. Brayola monitors all pictures uploaded to the service to ensure that no one’s face is ever pictured. Obviously, a tattoo or incriminating birthmark will blow all that anonymity to shreds if shown to the right person, so it’s understandable if the idea is a bit panic-inducing.

However, founder Orit Hashay believes that since the photos don’t show anyone’s face, are uploaded under usernames or handles (as opposed to being attached to your real name) and are uploaded to a community of fellow bra-wearing women, it’s not quite as risky as one might think.

Once the photo is uploaded, users of the service instantly have the option to say yes, no, or pass. Then, a “bra expert” steps in and makes the final call.

I know what you’re thinking — if 80 percent of women are wearing the wrong size bra, why would I care what they think about the fit of my bra. They’re clearly misinformed.

But hold up just one second. In reality, the polling is more for those voting than for the woman trying on a bra. According to Hashay, women want to know whether or not they guessed right on the fit of a bra, and are many times surprised when a bra expert steps in and says that the majority of voters were actually wrong.

To Hashay, it’s a feature centered around education.

To use Fit or Not or Brayola in general, head on over to the website and sign up.

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