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Friday, 13 September 2013
Engadget Podcast 360 - 09.13.13
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Google's mobile MMO Ingress gets badges for monitoring player progress
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Visualized: Canon 35mm CMOS sensor captures fireflies in HD (video)
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NYT: Nokia was testing Android on Lumia phones before Microsoft deal
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Compact cassette turns 50, puts a tear in Soundwave's eye
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Adafruit tutorial turns your Raspberry Pi into an ad-blocking WiFi access point
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Editor's Letter: The secret is out
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Turn Your Smartphone Into a Microscope With Single Lens
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Mailbox's Gentry Underwood Would Rather Move Slow And Get It Right
In an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood said that the company is actively working on an Android version of the app, and mentioned that ephemerality may be involved in forthcoming “whiz-bang” features down the line.
Mailbox doesn’t have the same “move fast” mentality as some other companies, most notably Facebook. The company was bought by Dropbox in March and only implemented Dropbox integration for attachments in July. Most recently, the company announced cloud search for Gmail which was surely one of the most clamored-for features since Mailbox’s launch in February of this year.
Underwood explained in the interview that with cloud search, there are “a lot of edges to get right.” According to the founder, having one foot in the cloud and one on the phone can be very difficult and hard to get right.
“Mailbox is always going to be biased towards building the right experience, no matter how long it takes. We think that’s a defensible position in the long run,” he said.
As for a timeline for Android, Underwood didn’t mention it. However, he did say that there are a few Alpha versions going around internally and that the team is actively working on the application for Android.
Though Underwood finds the idea of ephemeral messaging very interesting in terms of communication’s evolution as a whole, he has a lot of priorities in the pipeline before a “whiz-bang” feature like “exploding, private, or secured” email messages. However, down the road at some point, he said it could be a “possibility.”
For now, Mailbox is focused on laying down the foundation, expanding beyond Gmail and iOS devices alone to reach everyone using Mailbox. And from what I gathered in the interview, that will eventually include desktop as well.
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This is the Modem World: The warm embrace of the machine
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U.S. Government May Have Wasted $321 Million on Tech
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Hey makers, the clock is ticking -- Insert Coin submissions close in two weeks!
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This week on gdgt: Sony's RX100 II, HP's Slatebook X2 and keeping your iPhone 5
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Android Central's Phil Nickinson on the Treo 750, Gmail dependency and the worst kind of comments
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Apple iPhone Event: Did It Live Up to Expectations?
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Intel reportedly acquires Indisys, gets an edge in natural language recognition
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Help us decide who deserves free tickets to Expand NY
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Entrevista en El Correo Gallego por el décimo aniversario de Microsiervos
Álvaro Ibáñez (Alvy), Nacho Palou y el informático coruñés Javier Pedreira (Wicho), son cómo los tres tenores, viven cada uno en una ciudad, lejos pero juntos desde que en el año 2003 iniciaron una ópera infinita de información y opinión llamada Microsiervos, un blog donde ya han cantado 30.000 posts (“anotaciones”, dicen ellos) y que este verano cumple 10 años… Y acumula 300 millones de páginas servidas.
«Necesitamos que inventen la teletransportación a la voz de ya. Mientras tanto tendremos que dejar la celebración conjunta para la próxima ocasión en la que nos veamos los tres, aunque Alvy ya dio cuenta por su parte de una tarta conmemorativa», explica Wicho, responsable de informática de los Museos Científicos Coruñeses.
El EGM (Estudio General de Medios) de marzo de 2003 señalaba que España tenía ayer 8,9 millones de internautas, hoy 24,1, según la Fundación Telefónica.
«Y nosotros seguimos escribiendo de aquello que nos gusta, nos llama la atención, o despierta nuestra curiosidad. Ciencia, tecnología, cine y tele, libros…», aclara.
Entre ese mar de publicaciones, destaca una.
«La que explica cómo obtener coordenadas GPS a partir de Google Maps, que suma como un millón doscientas mil lecturas. Pero es prácticamente imposible adivinar qué es lo que va a funcionar entre los lectores, aunque las listas de Los 10 tal o Los 20 nosecuantos que… suelen funcionar. Lo que es seguro es que el éxito de una anotación tiene muy poco –o más bien nada– que
ver con el trabajo que te cueste hacerla», subraya el coautor gallego de esta web que han querido comprar varias empresas… En vano.
«Ninguna oferta fue digna de ser considerada en serio», apunta Wicho antes de revelar qué cambios le han sorprendido más en la última década de lírica digital.
«Primero probablemente, Twitter; nunca pensé que pudiera llegar a convertirse en la plataforma mediante la que hoy en día se puede acceder a lo que está pasando en el mundo de forma más rápida, aunque obviamente para obtener información en profundidad haya que recurrir a otros sitios… Y segundo, el aumento de la importancia de los dispositivos móviles en cuanto a plataformas de acceso a Internet, que a estas alturas anda ya cerca del veinte por ciento y subiendo…».
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{La foto que ilustra la entrevista es de Victoriano Izquierdo}
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Engadget Mobile Podcast 188 - 09.13.13
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ESPN Sync brings dedicated real-time sports coverage to the second screen
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Outlook.com Finally Adds IMAP Support
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With Automatic Photo Import, Days Gets One Step Closer To Having Users Share Everything
Days by Wander launched back in May with a very difficult mission: to change the way you think about photo-sharing. While some think that pictures of your feet or coffee are too mundane for photo-sharing to Instagram or Facebook, Days asked you to share as many photos as possible, mundane or otherwise.
To help usher in this type of behavior, Days didn’t allow photo imports, as they wanted users to share pictures the same way they take them, which is a lot. Today, however, the app is updating with a new feature: photo imports.
But it’s not like most other photo-sharing apps, where you simply choose the photos you want to upload from your camera roll. Instead, you turn on photo import once and Days automatically begins uploading every photo you take.
Founder Jeremy Fisher believes that you should share almost everything, and delete the bits you don’t want. This goes against the grain of most of our behavior, which is to take far too many photos in the camera roll, and select only the choice bits to share.
However, the alternative must be a deterrent to Days usage.
I’ll explain. Days is an app that doesn’t aspire to real-time, selective photo-sharing. The idea, rather, is to share lots of photos in a collection, a Day. This day isn’t shared in real-time — users can choose to publish their day the day after. Fisher explains that it’s not about bits and pieces in real-time but about sharing a comprehensive story.
Fisher also wanted the content to be real, even if we might think of it as boring. Because it’s being shared as a story of your day, context makes seemingly mundane or boring photos interesting all of the sudden.
To accomplish this, Days originally didn’t allow photo import, to ensure that the content wasn’t edited or filtered. But to accomplish this feat, of having users share everything, Days asked users to take all of their photos in Days instead of the camera app. With swipe to camera from the lockscreen, as well as habit, this likely proved difficult.
Thus, the strategy has changed to auto-import everything from the camera roll into a draft. Days still has a task on its hands considering that there is already a dominant photo-sharing tool on the market in Instagram and that it has taught users to share worthwhile photos instead of every little detail.
Still, the new photo import feature should help quite a bit.
To check out Days, head on over to the App Store and download for free.
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No, la Voyager 1 no ha salido del sistema solar, pero sí, ha alcanzado el espacio interestelar
Impresión artística de la Voyager1 saliendo de la heliosfera
Después de años diciendo que sí y luego que no uno ya no sabe si tomarse muy en serio los repetidos anuncios de la NASA de que la Voyager 1 ha abandonado el sistema solar.
De hecho acaban de publicar otra nota de prensa en la que afirman, una vez más, que tal cosa ha sucedido titulada Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System .
Claro que en realidad depende de lo que consideres que es el sistema solar y de hecho desde el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro, que es el encargado de gestionar la misión, insisten en que en realidad la Voyager 1 no ha salido del sistema solar sino de la heliosfera y que aún le queda mucho para pasar la nube de Oort, que forma parte del sistema solar.
La heliosfera es la región del espacio en que está bajo la influencia del viento solar, y analizando los efectos de las eyecciones de masa solar medidos con los instrumentos de la Voyager 1 el consenso parece estar ahora en que esta cruzó la frontera entre esta y el espacio interestelar el 25 de agosto de 2012.
Peeeero…
Aunque suene un poco raro la Nube de Oort, un montón de cometas que comienza a unas 2.000 ó 5.000 unidades astronómicas del Sol –una UA es la distancia media entre la Tierra y el Sol– y que se puede extender hasta unas 100.000 UA, es también considerada parte del sistema solar, tal y como explica Veronica McGregor, la responsable de comunicaciones del JLP, en reddit.
Y a la velocidad que va la Voyager 1 aún le quedan 200 ó 300 años para entrar en la Nube de Oort, y puede que unos 30.000 hasta salir por el otro lado.
Así que no, la Voyager 1 no ha salido del sistema solar, pero sí ha alcanzado el espacio interestelar, que curiosamente forma parte de nuestro sistema solar.
De hecho, la nota de prensa del JPL, NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space , no dice para nada que la Voyager 1 haya salido del sistema solar.
Se ve que a la NASA, como en otras ocasiones, le ha podido más un buen titular que contar la verdad.
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PayPal revamping its policies to better support crowdfunding
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Gold-colored HTC One part leaked in China, we're sensing a trend here
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Microsoft offers $200 credit for used iPads, hopes you'll become a Surface convert
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Spotify gets its own Twitter #Music app
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Google Coder lets you build Raspberry Pi web apps in your browser (video)
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GetGlue's Android app adds redesigned TV guide with streaming video listings
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Chrome 29 for iOS brings voice search with pronouns
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Outgoing Turner CEO Phil Kent Sees Big Opportunities For The Company's MediaCamp Incubator
Before the five startups taking part in this year’s San Francisco MediaCamp took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent, who predicted big things for the startup accelerator.
Apparently this was the first time Kent has attended a demo day — which isn’t as bad as it sounds, since this isn’t only the second one in San Francisco, and only the third MediaCamp demo day overall. Kent said he’s “very proud” of the accelerator — the monetary investment from Turner is relatively small, but he pointed to the “time and talent of our executives” who are made available.”
Kent added that he’d like to see MediaCamp become “a much bigger institutionalized activity within our company.” That might mean investing more money, or it might mean continuing to expand geographically. (MediaCamp has gone from being a Turner-only effort in San Francisco to a join initiative between Turner and Warner Bros. — both companies are owned by Time Warner — in both SF and Los Angeles.)
On the other hand, Kent also acknowledged that it’s “easy for me to say,” since he recently announced plans to step down next year. In his words: “I fired myself a couple weeks ago.”
The idea that the mentorship, not the money, was what Turner really brought to the table was illustrated in the presentations themselves, where each startup was introduced by one of their mentors within Turner.
We actually wrote up all of the companies back in June, but here’s a refresher, with some updates from demo day:
- ChannelMeter – A video analytics platform aimed at growing audiences and improving engagement. ChannelMeter says it’s already working with 2,000 brands and publishers.
- Cinemacraft – Allows publishers to promote their content with “videograms”, which are interactive images highlighting different moments from a video. This is supposed to a big step up from the single thumbnail image that’s usually used to promote videos, and it also offers more opportunities for monetization.
- Meograph – A tool for businesses to engage with customers and fans in content creation, in the form of a branded, embeddable unit on the company’s website. Customers include BBC and NPR.
- Plumzi – A platform for animation studios to add interactive, game-like elements to their TV shows, turning them into “Active Episodes”. Plumzi has raised a seed round led by Insikt Ventures, with participation from the Walt Disney Company and MediaCamp.
- Tomorrowish – A social media DVR. If you’re watching an episode of TV after everyone else, or if you’re just a West Coaster who’s naturally three hours behind everyone on the East Coast, you can enjoy the social media experience as if you were watching live, thanks to Tomorrowish synchronization.
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Insert Coin: Little Robot Friends teach the basics of hardware programming (video)
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Gigabyte shows off tiny BRIX gaming PC with Haswell and Iris Pro graphics (hands-on)
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Daily Roundup: HP Haswell Chromebook hands-on, Dell going private, Samsung's 64-bit CPUs, and more!
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Singulus tests 100GB, 4K-ready Blu-ray discs
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