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Monday, 29 July 2013
Researchers turn standard microscope into billion-pixel imaging beast
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Convocados los Prismas 2013 de los Museos Científicos Coruñeses
La gran novedad de este año es que la FECYT se incorpora este año como colaboradora y copatrocinadora de los Prismas, que se convocan en estas ocho categorías:
- Vídeo.
- Web / Redes sociales.
- Textos inéditos.
- Libros editados.
- Artículos periodísticos.
- Radio.
- Artes escénicas.
- Prisma Especial del Jurado, a personas o instituciones que se hayan significado por su contribución a la divulgación científica.
Todas las modalidades están dotadas con un premio de 4.000 euros, salvo la del Prisma Especial, que tiene una dotación de 5.000 euros.
Pero aparte del dinerito, que nunca viene mal, y aunque esté mal que yo lo diga, los Prismas tienen ya desde hace unos años un prestigio ganado a pulso que hace que molen mucho.
Así que si te animas a participar, aquí tienes las bases [PDF 700 KB].
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Nuforce Icon DAC and headphone amp arrives for Android, Mac and PC for $325
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Nexus 7 Is Still the Best Damn Android Tablet, Period
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ASUS eying 2014 for US smartphone launch
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Finland's Next Gaming Phenom? Grand Cru Raises $11M From Idinvest, Qualcomm, Nokia Growth
Almost at a steady pace, Helsinki has produced a hit gaming company every couple years: Rovio’s Angry Birds blew up in 2009 and then Supercell took the crown as one of the highest grossing iOS game developers in the world last year through Clash of Clans and Hay Day.
Is the next one Grand Cru?
Named after the French wine classification, the 25-person startup has been quietly working on a game called the Supernauts, which has been called a more mainstream and accessible take on Minecraft.
Early on, they picked up funding from Supercell-backer Lifeline Ventures and now they’ve racked up an additional $11 million from strategic investors like Qualcomm Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and lead investor Idinvest Partners.
Their funding comes at a time when the Helsinki gaming community is abuzz with the success of companies like Supercell and Rovio and as dozens of other tiny startups splinter off with talent from both these companies and then longer-standing studios like Remedy and Digital Chocolate’s local office. To an outside observer, it may seem pretty random that Helsinki keeps churning out world-class gaming companies, but the community has deep roots because of these older gaming companies, the existence (and then decline) of Nokia and longstanding events like Assembly, which has been an annual mecca for developers and enthusiasts for more than 20 years.
Grand Cru’s executive team is pretty experienced in the field: CEO Markus Pasula ran RealNetworks’ studio Mr. Goodliving, while chief technology officer Mikko Wilkman came from Habbo Hotel-maker Sulake and chief marketing officer Thorbjorn Warin ran marketing at German social game maker Wooga.
The company has yet to launch its first game but they’ve been quietly at work on its flagship title for about two years. It’s like a more cartoonish and social version of Mojang’s 8-bit megahit game Minecraft. Players solve puzzles and create shareable worlds while traveling to a flooded Earth to rescue humans.
They don’t have a timeline for when it will be released.
“We will launch it when it’s ready,” Warin said. “We’ve put two years into the game. We will not fumble on the finish line and we have taken a very extensive process in developing the game.”
Supernauts is done in third-person and the artistic style is quite different in feel and form.
“We’ve spent six months perfecting the camera controls and user interface,” Warin said. “There aren’t very many 3D games for a casual audience.”
He said the game’s social features are much deeper than what you’d see in a typical casual game.
“We don’t want to have the standard stuff, where you visit your friends and they give you stuff,” he said. “We have proper multiplayer competitions.”
They plan to use the funding to launch Supernauts, and Warin said the company is taking after the Supercell model of building a gaming company gradually instead of staffing up really aggressively.
“We’re not going to grow too quickly and go on a crazy hiring spree. We’re not going to be cranking out new products every six to nine months,” he said. “We want to make sure the people we hire have a good, strong cultural fit with people who want to make games with the same level of ambition that we have.”
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MakerPlane's open source aircraft funding campaign gets off to a slow start (video)
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Engadget's smartphone buyer's guide: summer 2013 edition
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Los anillos de Saturno, Titán y Encélado a contraluz
PIA08235: Candle in the Dark - Contraluz en Saturno
La Imagen Astronómica del Día de la NASA de hoy viene del baúl de los recuerdos digital de la sonda Cassini, pues es una imagen tomada por su cámara de campo estrecho el 10 de junio de 2006.
En ella se ven parte de los anillos de Saturno, y sus lunas Titán y Encélado prácticamente a contraluz, ya que el ángulo que formaba el Sol con Cassini respecto a las dos lunas era de 160 grados.
Titán es la más grande de las dos, tanto en la foto como en el MundoReal™, con 5.150 kilómetros de diámetro, mientras que Encélado sólo mide 505 kilómetros, aunque como la Cassini estaba a 5,3 millones de kilómetros de Titán y a «tan sólo» 2,4 millones de Encélado el primero tiene una resolución de 32 kilómetros por pixel en esta imagen, mientras que el segundo está a 23 kilómetros por pixel.
La luz que se ve alrededor de Titán es la luz del Sol dispersada en su atmósfera, mientras que la tenue atmósfera de Encélado no se ve, aunque sí se pueden apreciar los chorros de vapor de agua que escapan de su interior.
Es precisamente la posibilidad de que haya agua líquida en Encélado la que ha llevado a algunos científicos el lanzamiento de una misión con el objetivo de intentar encontrar vida allí, aunque dado el estado actual de las cosas, es una misión que tardaremos muchos años en ver…
Si es que alguna vez la vemos.
- Encélado iluminado por el Sol y Saturno, Encélado de cerca, y Sobrevolando Encélado, más sobre esta intrigante luna.
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iTunes 11.1 beta seeded to developers with radio feature
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BMW unveils i3 electric car in the carbon fiber flesh (video)
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gdgt's best deals for July 29: Samsung Galaxy S 4, Canon PowerShot A2500
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PlayStation 4 friends list will accomodate up to 2,000 of your best buds
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Strategy Analytics: Android beats iOS in Q2 tablet shipments, Windows gains ground
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Nexus 7 review (2013)
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Origin PC's EON 13-S offers another spin on Clevo's latest gaming laptop, promises Haswell and Kepler for $1,474
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Nokia said to be prepping Bluetooth 4.0 'Treasure Tag' accessory for Lumias
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Corning introduces Gorilla Glass NBT for touch-enabled laptops, coming this fall
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Explicación visual: el parecido entre el logo de la Wikipedia y la Estrella de la Muerte y otros casos parecidos
En Wiki logo meets Death Star .
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Insert Coin: TouchKeys overlay brings whole new meaning to 'tickling the ivories'
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Citizen plans crowdfunded takeover of Canadian carrier, raises a couple hundred
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36 High-Quality Flat Design Resources
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Amazon promises 7,000 new jobs ahead of Obama visit
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Autographer wearable camera launches tomorrow priced at £400, we go hands-off
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Diez hackeos cotidianos útiles en verano
Cómo comer una hamburguesa, colocar una pajita a un lata de refresco, pelar un mango, deshacerse de hormigas y moscas, servir aperitivos, evitar que un helado manche, mantener el agua fresca y cómo camuflar el móvil, las llaves y el dinero en la playa para evitar robos.
Video de Grant Thompson de The King of Random , vía Laughing Squid.
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Phil Fish cancels Fez II, tells haters 'you win'
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