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Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Un fallo en el traje espacial de Luca Parmitano obliga a abortar un paseo espacial
Karen Nyberg se apresura a ayudar a Luca a quitarse el casco
El paseo espacial que tenían que haber llevado a cabo Chris Cassidy y Luca Parmitano hoy para realizar distintas tareas en el exterior de la EEI tuvo que ser cancelado de emergencia cuando el casco de Luca comenzó a llenarse de agua.
Al final todo quedó en un susto, pero la situación pudo haberse puesto realmente peliaguda de haber provocado el agua algún fallo en los sistemas del traje de Luca –de hecho al final fallaron los auriculares y micrófono– o de haberle impedido ver, lo que también se le estaba poniendo complicado, por no hablar del efecto que podía tener la acumulación de agua sobre su cara.
Lo he contado para RTVE.es en Una fuga de agua en una escafandra aborta un paseo espacial en la Estación Internacional .
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The True Story Behind 'OK Glass'
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Verizon to host event on July 23rd, likely involves new Droid devices
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Twitter for BlackBerry 10 updated: revamped UI, multiple account access and more
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Google simplifies new Maps preview with instant access (video)
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Microsoft asks US Attorney General to intervene on security disclosures, denies assisting with NSA interceptions
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Google reportedly pitching streaming online TV service to multiple media companies
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The origin of 'OK, Glass,' as told by Google's Amanda Rosenberg
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Google Crafts a Breathtaking Tour of Eiffel Tower
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Nikkei: NEC to halt smartphone business after Lenovo deal falls through
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Yahoo announces Q2 2013 earnings: $1.13b revenue, $137 million net profit
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Electronic Frontier Foundation sues NSA, calls surveillance programs unconstitutional
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Outlook Web App comes to iOS devices in native form
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In Search of the Ultimate Selfie
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Chrome beta brings improved suggestions to address bar, Android users get new WebRTC benefits
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Rumor: Sony Xperia i1 'Honami' Boasts 20-Megapixel Camera
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Whatsapp for iOS updated with multiple photo support, iCloud chat history backup
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Last Chance To Get Tickets To The Seattle Meetup + Pitch-Off On July 18
There ain’t no party like a TechCrunch party ’cause a TechCrunch party don’t stop.
So hopefully you’re ready, Seattle, because in just two days theTechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is going to rock your socks off.
On Thursday, July 18, entrepreneurs, VCs, technology enthusiasts and TechCrunch writers will come together under one roof to talk tech, hear some pitches, and drink some beer. It’s expected to be a generally merry event.
There are a very small number of tickets left to the event, so if you’re interested in throwing down $5 for a drink ticket and an evening of startup-flavored fun, head over here or hit up the form below.
For those of you who are just now finding out about this, the Seattle Meetup + Pitch-Off includes a sixty-second pitch-off competition where startups have one minute to explain to a panel of judges why their product is the best. Judges will include TechCrunchers and local VCs.
First place will receive a table in Startup Alley at the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt. Second place will receive 2 tickets to the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt. Third place will receive 1 ticket to the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt.
Companies participating in the pitch-off have already been chosen, but the beer remains unpoured. So come on out. Be a part of that.
And if Seattle’s a little too far up the coast for you, no worries. TechCrunch is headed to San Diego on August 22.
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KeepSafe, The Private Photo Gallery App, Raises $3.4M And Grows To 13M Users
KeepSafe, which creates a private photo vault on people’s phones, just raised $3.4 million in a round led by Floodgate. They’ve also grown to 13 million users and 6 million of those are active every month.
The app creates a password-locked photo gallery on people’s phones.
This is probably not a perfect way of putting it, but one could argue that KeepSafe attacks a market that overlaps a little bit with Snapchat.
Many of the reviews for KeepSafe on the Google Play market say things like, “The best to hide hot pics” or “Great if you have kids and a spicy sex life with your wife.”
So it seems that there is an audience of parents who often let their kids borrow and play with their phones, but don’t want them to see more adult content.
That said, the app’s founder Zouhair Belkoura has always said that he and most other users rely on KeepSafe for more mundane things like separating out work sketches and ideas from personal photos of friends and family.
Most privacy-centric social networks and photo-sharing apps that I’ve seen have had trouble growing and competing with Facebook or Instagram, but KeepSafe seems to solve a basic problem that many people and parents want fixed.
The app was only launched a year and a half ago, and six million monthly actives is not a bad place to be right now.
With the round, Mike Maples of Floodgate will join the company’s board. Existing investors like Asset Management and Strive also participated.
KeepSafe will use the funding to hire more engineering and product development talent. They earn revenue through selling premium services like providing a fake PIN unlock screen. (One wonders why someone would want to pay for a fake PIN lock screen in addition to a normal PIN screen one, but maybe we live in an extra paranoid society where people have things they want to double-protect.)
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Nubia Z5 mini official, touts full-size hardware at a tiny price
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Appcelerator Raises $12.1M To Expand Into Asia And Help Enterprises Build The Best Apps
Appcelerator, a Mountain View-based startup that helps businesses create and track the performance of mobile apps, just raised another $12.1 million in a round led by EDB Investments from Singapore. One other new investor was The Social Internet Fund while previous investors like Mayfield Fund, Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures, Relay Ventures, Translink Capital, eBay, and RedHat also participated.
It brings Appcelerator’s total funding to more than $63 million. The company is one of the very best-known around in helping big brands build consumer-facing apps and they cater to clients like eBay, Merck, Mitsubishi Electric, ZipCar, PayPal and Ray-Ban.
The company will use that funding to build out a bigger presence in Asia with a new regional headquarters in Singapore that will have its own research and development center and a data center. (Hence, that’s why it makes sense to pick a local Singapore-based investment firm like EDB to lead the round.) The company says it will likely hire around 20 employees there, on top of the 150 it has already.
They’ll also look at potential acquisitions in addition to scaling up product development, sales and support. The company has grown by about 130 percent year-over-year in sales, and its ecosystem supports more than 480,000 mobile developers and 55,000 apps on 145 million devices. Partners include multinational giants like Germany’s SAP and India’s Wipro.
CEO Jeff Haynie, who is on his third venture backed startup with Appcelerator, tells me that the company has seen more revenue in the first six months of this year than it did in the previous one.
Appcelerator’s offering has several prongs. They have an open source mobile development environment called Titanium and they have other products that help with the life cycle of the app so that companies can track how their apps are performing with users and manage them across multiple platforms. Their platform can monitor how applications are actually performing and also support them with a mobile-backend-as-a-service product, like with what YC-backed Parse does as part of Facebook.
Facebook’s recent deal to buy Parse for north of $85 million including retention creates some competition for the company, although Appcelerator’s offering really doesn’t overlap 100% with Facebook’s products for mobile developers. (Facebook has more of a focus on distribution through products like app install ads, and then of course, they handle identity management through the social graph.) Appcelerator has cross-platform developer tools, analytics, performance testing, and so on.
“Facebook has a really interesting opportunity, but our business model is much broader than that,” Haynie said. “The Parse deal was very good for us, but maybe not so good for other smaller players in the market.”
Appcelerator also have a massive marketplace of add-ons that enterprise customers can tap into to add different kinds of features and APIs in their apps.
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Instagram Designer Tim Van Damme moving to Dropbox
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This is Your Life: Facebook and the business of identity
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Dish opens Hopper DVR to handful of third-party mobile app developers
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Huawei officially outs MediaPad 7 Youth tablet, availability set for Q3
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Xbox One has play as you download functionality as well
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Bubba Watson's hovercraft golf cart available now for $58k, that's one dollar for every jealous comment
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Intuitive Aerial takes the Oculus Rift on its first FPV drone flight (video)
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NYC partners with Cablevision, Time Warner Cable to bring WiFi hotspots to city parks
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Scientists use sound waves to lift and move objects, make cup of joe in mid air
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Alleged Sony Xperia 'Honami' specs reveal beefy 20MP camera sensor
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OneNote for Windows 8 gains Office 365 integration, touch keyboard improvements
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Sony PS4 dev kit FCC filing shows off extra ports, 2.75GHz max clock speed
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Does This Infographic About 'Little Things' Confirm the HTC One Mini?
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Cómo lavarse la melena en el espacio, versión Luca Parmitano
Después de ver cómo Karen N. Nyberg se lava la melena en la Estación Espacial Internacional ya decíamos que Luca Parmitano había optado por otro tipo de solución a este problema…
Y así es cómo se lava él el pelo: Inside the ISS - Not Hair Raising Hygiene .
(Vía Universe Today).
- ¿Cómo lavarse las manos en el espacio?, Si lloras en el espacio, ¿caen las lágrimas?, Cómo beber café en caída libre, y De visita en un camarote de la Estación Espacial Internacional, algunas otras cosas que hemos ido aprendiendo sobre la vida a bordo de una nave espacial
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BlackBerry A10 specs reportedly leak, hint at big battery and Verizon model
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Xiaomi Nets $2.16B In First Half Of 2013, Beating Its Entire 2012 Revenue
Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi sold 7.03 million handsets in the first half of 2013, the company announced today. Over that period, the Beijing-based startup made RMB 13.27 billion (about $2.16 billion) in revenue.
Xiaomi’s latest figures means it sold almost the same number of phones in the first half of 2013 as it did in all of 2012 and made more than double the amount of revenue in the first half of 2013 as the $957.46 million it netted in the corresponding period a year ago. The company did not reveal its profits, but investor Hans Tung, a partner at Qiming Venture Partners, has said in reports that Xiaomi makes about 10% profit on its handsets.
Lei has said that Xiaomi expects to double sales to 15 million phones in 2013, bringing the company $4.5 billion in revenue, and it looks like the startup is on its way to meeting that target.
Xiaomi was founded three years ago by Lei, an angel investor and serial entrepreneur who founded companies like Amazon-acquired Joyo.cn and YY, which had its IPO in November.
The company depends on a novel marketing model to boost sales. Xiaomi sold 72% of its phones directly through its online store last year, allowing it to bypass the costs of operating brick-and-mortar locations. Phones are made available in batches of 200,000 to 300,000 on Xiaomi’s Web site and sometimes sell out in less than an hour. (The company has been accused of deliberately underproducing in order to create hype for its phones, but Lei says that Xiaomi produces to demand in order to avoid wasting resources).
Xiaomi is also able to keep its costs down by inviting customers to help design phones. Every week, the startup releases a new version of miUI, its customized Android skin, which is then scrutinized by a few hundred thousand hardcore fans. This allows Xiaomi offer its handsets for relatively low prices: their two handsets sell for just 1999 RMB ($326) and 1499 RMB ($245).
While Xiaomi’s sales figures are living up to the company’s hype from a consumer perspective, Kim-mai Cutler noted in May that the startup has yet to deliver on high expectations. For example, Xiaomi still has to prove that it can monetize software services, an arena in which it has to compete against giants like Alibaba and Tencent.
Xiamo is expected to revamp its two models, the Mi2S and Mi2A, this summer, and there is speculation that it will launch a Smart TV at its annual conference on August 16.
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