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Monday, 22 July 2013
Fresh Paint finds its way to Windows Phone 8 devices
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gdgt's best deals for July 22: Nintendo 3DS, RCA HDTV
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Submit your hardware to Engadget's second Insert Coin: New Challengers competition
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Editorial: Apple's Dash for the Dashboard
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Google visits reportedly represent nearly 25 percent of North American web traffic
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LG VS980 emerges at FCC, could be the Optimus G Pro for Verizon
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Tubos, un libro que te lleva de visita por las tripas de Internet
Un día la conexión a Internet de la casa del autor dejó de funcionar, y cuando al día siguiente el técnico vino a ver qué pasaba y le comentó que el problema lo causaba un cable que había sido roído por una ardilla Blum comenzó a pensar en lo poco que sabía acerca de cómo funcionaba Internet y de cómo y donde existía esta en el MundoReal™.
Así que empezó a investigar y preguntar y durante los dos años siguientes recorrió varios miles de kilómetros por varios continentes viendo los componentes físicos de la red, desde las instalaciones más próximas a los hogares de los abonados de los proveedores de acceso hasta los grandes centros de datos de algunas empresas como Facebook, donde viven –más o menos– los bits que forman la información que subimos a la nube.
Por el caminó visitó también puntos neutros en los que los proveedores se conectan entre ellos para intercambiar datos, o los sitios en los que algunos cables trasoceánicos salen a la superficie para unir continentes.
Para alguien que esté un poco al tanto de cómo está montada Internet este libro no revela grandes secretos, pero para cualquiera que no se haya preocupado de mirar nada de esto o que no tenga ni idea de cómo van estas cosas es una lectura la mar de interesante, sin tecnicismos que lo hagan difícil de entender.
- Los 900.000 kilómetros de cables submarinos de los que dependemos sin saberlo, más sobre la parte física de Internet.
- El ritmo de Internet, una interpretación artística del tema.
- Mapa de los cables submarinos 2012: las conexiones del mundo, que hay cosas más allá de Internet.
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App Overload: It's Time to Clean House
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Turkish security researcher claims responsibility for Apple dev center hack
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Netflix Q2 earnings show 1.2 million new subscribers worldwide
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Belkin ships WeMo Light Switch for $50, launches matching Android app
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Google Cloud Print gets Windows compatibility outside of Chrome
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Nokia Lumia 625 leaked, suggests 4.7-inch display, 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 5-megapixel cam and LTE
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LG's 55-inch curved OLED TV hits Best Buy for $14,999
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Verizon FiOS rolls out 500/100 Mbps broadband, its highest speed tier yet
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Frontback Is A Deeply Personal Photo-Taking App To Capture Fleeting Moments
From the team behind Checkthis, Frontback is a straightforward iPhone photo-taking app to capture the moment as it happens. You launch the app, take a photo of what you have in front of you, take a photo of your face and share the digital collage on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. It’s addictive, very easy to understand, and, more importantly, deeply personal.
“People tell us that they want to see their friends, not only what their friends see,” co-founder and designer Frédéric Della Faille told me. “We want to own the selfie,” he continued.
The Frontback concept isn’t something new. When you make a post on Checkthis, you can add as many photos as you want, as well as text and headlines. Nearly four months ago, Della Faille first posted two pictures on Checkthis of New York’s beautiful landscape and his reaction. He explained the concept of a ‘#frontback’ at the same time.
Over the past few months, I started noticing that more and more users were posting #frontback pictures on Checkthis. Like in the early days of Twitter, a user invented a new use case — except that this time around, the user was Checkthis’ co-founder. There wasn’t any sort of #frontback wizard tool to ease the process of creating them. Users were only experiencing with this newfound lingo and artistic rules.
It’s all about immersing yourself and putting yourself in your friends’ shoes.
Enter Frontback, the app. It was released today in the App Store. Now, there is no whitespace around a Frontback photo, absolutely no chrome. The photo itself doesn’t have any filter. It’s just two square-ish photos on top of each other, filling up the entire screen of your iPhone. It’s all about immersing yourself and putting yourself in your friends’ shoes.
“It tells so much more than a photo on Instagram,” Instagram designer Tim Van Damme recently told Della Faille. “Two photos change everything,” Della Faille told me. “On Instagram, you share something because it’s beautiful, but you don’t share the context,” he continued.
Frontback isn’t another social network. For now, it’s built on top of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. When a friend joins Frontback, you automatically follow him or her, without having to do anything. And of course, you’ll probably start seeing their Frontback posts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as well.
Della Faille now hopes that users will launch the Frontback app to capture fleeting moments, just like they would launch the default Camera app. He calmly went through a few examples of great Frontback posts. “This guy thinks about Frontback while piloting a plane. And this guy thinks about Frontback when he’s at the new Belgian king parade. And this guy when he meets Martin Solveig. All of that happened over the weekend.”
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini review: small in size, but not worth the mega price
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El comportamiento inquietante del líquido magnético
Variando la intensidad del campo magnético situado bajo una superficie hidrófuga (repelente de líquidos) el líquido magnético o ferrofluido, una combinación de agua y nanopartículas magnéticas, cambia de forma y de posición de forma ordenada y hasta se divide por sí solo de una forma que recuerda bastante a la división celular en los organismos vivos.
- Un material inspirado en las lágrimas controla el fluir de los líquidos
- Morpho Towers, una «escultura» de ferrofluido
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Samsung To Hold First Developer Conference
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SkyDrive brings offline file access in Windows 8.1 update
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SynapDx Raises $15.4M In Quest To Create A Blood Test For Autism
Autism, the disorder that affects social skills and communication and that is seeing a rising number of diagnoses, has a myriad number of causes from genetic to environmental factors. Because it’s largely behavioral, it may not be formally diagnosed until a child is few years old, preventing much-needed early intervention and care.
But a Massachusetts-based startup SynapDx is hoping to change that by combining advanced bioinformatics, genome sequencing and blood tests in a way that may help parents diagnose their children at a much earlier age.
The company just closed a $15.4 million round led by Google Ventures to develop a blood test for the disorder, by studying the genetic make-up of children that are clinically diagnosed with the condition. The more the company can understand about different genetic mutations that are associated with autism, the more accurate a blood test they can create to signal for the disorder.
“We don’t know what the root causes of autism are, but we can correlate what we see in the blood with clinical diagnoses,” said Theresa Tribble, the vice president of commercial strategy for the company. “We hope to collaborate with researchers to give us additional insight to what those causes are.”
The end goal isn’t to create a bulletproof blood test for autism, but to create an early-stage test that can help parents refer their children for a full medical diagnosis earlier on.
“This is more of a risk assessment,” she said. “The goal is to help pediatricians identify children who should be referred for a full clinical evaluation earlier than they do today.”
She added that the average age of diagnosis is around 4 1/2 years, but parents often become worried at around 18 months.
“That’s a really long lag,” she said.
Foundation Medical Partners also joins as a new investor along with earlier investors North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners.
With the round, Google’s Andrew Conrad, who is the former chief scientific officer of LabCorp and co-founder of the National Genetics Institute, will join the board. Google Ventures’ Krishna Yeshwant, who leads many of the firm’s health and medical investments, did this deal.
While SynapDx is solely focused on autism today, one could imagine that they could apply their techniques to other disorders later on.
“There continue to be broad unmet needs in objective genomics tests for neurodevelopment disorders, so that would be a natural expansion point,” Tribble said. “But autism is our primary focus today.”
SynapDx uses the same genome sequencers from companies like Illumina that many other genomic data startups are using. But then they layer on other proprietary techniques afterward to correlate disease risks with genetic mutations.
“The secret sauce comes from our informatics capabilities,” Tribble said. The company’s test measures the amounts of RNA which are copied from each of many different genes. For every gene, the amount of RNA copied determines how much protein is made. Those proteins in turn affect how the human brain develops and how speech and behavioral patterns evolve.
The company doesn’t have a formal timeline for when it will be able to launch the test commercially. They recently launched a 660-child, 20-site clinical study earlier this year.
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IRL: Optrix XD5 waterproof iPhone case and the RokDock charging stand
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Security Researcher Takes Responsibility for Apple Hack
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How Microsoft SkyDrive Is Making Cloud Storage Less Painful
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eBay debuts desktop version of eBay Now, service coming to more cities this summer
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Witness Furby Boom shower, lay an egg, go to the bathroom (video)
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Canary's Smart Device Keeps Your Home Secure
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Aereo bringing online TV to Utah on August 19th
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Unity 4.2 adds support for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and BB10
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Aereo Will Expand Into Utah On August 19
Today Aereo, the live TV streaming/DVR service that brings content directly to any of your devices, at any time, has today announced its plans to launch service in Utah on August 19. Shortly after, the company has plans to launch service in Chicago on September 13.
Back in January, Aereo raised a $38 million Series B round and announced plans to expand beyond NYC into 22 new cities. So far, the company has successfully invaded Atlanta and Boston, and is moving westward with haste.
Here’s official word from CEO and founder Chet Kanojia from the release:
We’re excited to be launching our technology in Utah, or what is fast becoming known as the Silicon Slopes. Utahns are connected, tech-savvy and interested in innovations that can add value to their lives. When it comes to how you watch television, Aereo’s technology will bring more choice and flexibility to Utahns across the state, whether you live in Salt Lake City, St. George or Ogden. We believe consumers want and deserve a better television experience and our work is focused on delivering the best customer experience with the highest quality technology.
Utahns who pre-register for Aereo will receive priority access to the service starting August 19.
For those of you who don’t know how Aereo works, here’s a quick recap:
Aereo has built a special technology that shrinks down a TV antenna to the size of your fingertip. Because of this, Aereo can “rent out” antennas to users which they can use remotely to access live TV from 30 major broadcast channels. Users can also record shows and watch them later, on any device.
Obviously, this is not so pleasing to many of the major broadcast networks, as Aereo pays no fees whatsoever to these companies. After all, it’s the same process as buying a set of rabbit ears and hooking them up to your TV. The OTA signals are free, the hardware isn’t. So Aereo has provided the hardware, albeit remotely.
That said, Aereo is in a tussle with a handful of broadcast networks, including Fox, ABC, and NBC, who are looking to have the service banned in New York. But fortunately for Aereo, the court seems to be ruling in favor of the startup, based on a Cablevision precedent set a few years ago.
But that likely won’t stop the networks from attempting to battle the startup in other jurisdictions, like Boston.
Only time will tell if Aereo can stave off the attacks and continue to grow, though these rapid expansions point toward a worry-free startup with the world at its feet.
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Samsung to debut global developers conference in San Francisco on October 27-29
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SanDisk Connect is a new series of wireless storage and streaming devices starting at $50
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Leap Motion Launches With Limited Appeal, But It Could Be A Ticking Time Bomb Of Innovation
The much-anticipated Leap Motion Controller began shipping to pre-order customers today, as reviews of the input device hit the web. The startup behind the controller has done an impressive job raising interest in the novel gadget, and sold an incredible amount of pre-orders to early adopters. But reviews so far have been mostly lukewarm, citing experiences that don’t necessarily live up to the hype.
The Leap Motion controller went back to the drawing board and put off its wide launch to spend more time in a wider beta in order to get the consumer experience right. It sounds like they were focusing on the right area with that effort, as most reviews say the Leap Motion experience is a little underwhelming, or at least something that’s an admirable distraction but not useful for truly productive usage.
Leap Motion has done a good job of getting a decent selection and range of apps in the Airspace dedicated software store for its device at launch, so it has that going for it. But the problem here appears to be that all of the apps leave reviewers feeling more like they’ve just experienced a gimmick, than the next generation of computer interaction.
What Leap Motion can do now (scrolling and paging through apps and virtual environments, completing next and back functions) is a far cry from what it will likely eventually be able to do, however. The Leap Motion and devices like it are a long bet, and I think the companies behind them understand this; we’ll see a bit of what they’re capable of shown off in tech demos and current generation software, but what they’re offering is an entirely new paradigm for thinking about digital interaction. That means it’ll take time before developers wrap their head around what kind of software experience fits this mould.
Adapting Fruit Ninja or Google Earth to something like 3D gesture control is a simple enough process, one that’s opportunistic without being truly innovative. Some might say Leap Motion should’ve stayed in beta until it could begin to bring about the change needed to show its controller off to its full potential, but someone had to get the tech to market. It’ll grow accordingly, though I’m curious to see if consumer interest will be enough to sustain it through its awkward adolescence based on these initial, hopeful but ultimately reserved consumer-oriented reviews.
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BMW i3 to cost $41,350 in the US, 34,950 euros in Germany
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Leap Motion's App Store Will Captivate You
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