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Thursday, 24 October 2013
Amazon touts 'millions' of new Prime members, 1,382 new robot workers as it pulls in $17 billion in revenue
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Las cinco mayores contribuciones de Carl Sagan a la ciencia
Traducido y resumido de Carl Sagan's 5 Greatest Contributions to Science :
- Cosmos; un viaje personal , una serie que si no has visto ya estás tardando, Hizo que muchos nos enamoráramos de lo asombroso que es el universo y que además entendiéramos que se pueden explicar conceptos muy complejos de forma amena y no por ello menos rigurosa.
Esperamos ansiosos el reboot de Cosmos presentado por Neil deGrasse Tyson que está al caer.
- La exploración espacial, pues Sagan trabajó en numerosas misiones como las Mariner 9, Viking 1, Viking 2, Pioneer 10 y 11, y las Voyager 1 y 2.
También fue el primero en sugerir que Venus es el infierno que es y, junto con su antiguo estudiante James Pollack, en sugerir que los cambios de color que observábamos en Marte eran debidos a tormentas de polvo.
- La creencia racional en la vida extraterrestre, siempre negando que los supuestos avistamientos de OVNIs tuvieran nada que ver con el tema.
- El compromiso político a la hora de ser uno de los primeros en creer en el calentamiento global y en expresar estas ideas; también se opuso a la Iniciativa de Defensa Estratégica, más conocida como la guerra de las galaxias, de Ronald Reagan.
- Sus libros , que extienden la tarea que hizo con Cosmos; y no hay que olvidar Contact.
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Microsoft makes $5.2 billion net profit, says Surface sales on the rise
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Microsoft Slices Another $100 Off Original Surface Pro Tablet
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Nikon teases retro full-frame DSLR in new ad campaign
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Microsoft confirms Windows Phone's Twitter feature is causing excess data use, says it'll be fixed
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Instagram reveals what its ads will look like
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Facebook Home update brings Instagram, Tumblr and more to all Android lock screens
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This is the Modem World: The connected cyclist's dilemma
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Football concussions could be reduced, if Riddell's InSite system goes into play
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Taiwan fines Samsung for astroturfing internet comments on its smartphones
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Marvel Creativity Studio Stylus lets you discover your artistic superpower on iPad
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Cover promises contextual lock screens and smarter task switching for Android
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Vine Rolls Out 'Time Travel' Editing
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Vine now lets you edit and work on multiple posts over time
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Samsung Envisions Google Glass Competitor
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Analysts: Bigger, Powerful 'iPad Pro' Is on the Horizon
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JBL's Pulse speaker lets you program an LED light show for when your disco needs you
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Vine Update Lets Users Edit Videos, Save Multiple Drafts
Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app, has just released an update to the app that brings two new big features to the video sharing platform: Sessions and Time Travel.
Time Travel essentially lets you edit videos, which has always been something Vine was very rigid about. You can never go back in time with Vine, but rather have to shoot continuously without a mistake. With Time Travel, users can remove, reorganize or replace any shot within at post at any time.
Meanwhile, Sessions let you maintain multiple drafts that are currently being edited and created at once, so you can switch from one project to the other.
The update is a big one, as users have never been able to edit Vine videos retroactively. Here's what Vine has to say about the feature, according to the official blog post:
Vine was built for one purpose: to make it easy for people to capture life in motion and share it with the world. That is the reason we built the Vine camera, and it's why we continue to improve upon and build new tools for your creations, nurturing the balance between power and simplicity that you've come to expect from us.
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Engadget's tablet buyer's guide: fall 2013 edition
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Carrot Dating App Lets You Bribe Your Way Onto Dates
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Hiku grocery scanner makes remembering to buy the milk an $80 convenience
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AMD's flagship Radeon R9 290X graphics card now available for $549
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Stipple Launches Image Attribution Service Stipple Search, Plus A Mobile App
Image tagging startup Stipple is announcing two new products today - Stipple Search, which allows anyone to identify the owner of an image, and Stipple Mobile, a smartphone photo app.
Stipple's technology identifies images and adds tags that can point to related content. For example, this image of Stipple Mobile includes tags for related photos, a link to the app itself, and a note indicating that the image originated with Stipple. Publishers can use these tags to enrich their content while advertisers can use them to deliver their message in a new, relevant context - a movie studio could advertise a new release on images of the movie's stars.
Stipple Search uses similar technology, but for the purpose of “reverse image search” - uploading an image and then getting results that show where the image came from. Basically, co-founder and CEO Rey Flemings said that if you upload an image to Stipple Search, and if one of Stipple's partners (like Getty Images) has tagged the image in the Stipple system, then you should see all of those tags tags.
Flemings noted that until now, “the only way that you've been able to see Stipple work its magic is if you are a publisher.” But anyone who finds an interesting image on the web can go to Stipple Search and find additional information, such as links that allow you to buy the products featured in a photo.
Google Images also includes a reverse image search option, but as Flemings illustrated in his demo, Google is just locating other uses of the same image - Stipple is actually retrieving useful data.
This is also an interesting “attribution play,” Flemings said, because it's now easier to track down the owner of an image and ask them for permission to use it. And it gives image owners even more reason to work with Stipple, since the company's data is now accessible outside of its publishing partnerships.
As for the new Stipple Mobile iOS app (Android is in the works), Flemings said the goal isn't necessarily to compete with existing photo-sharing apps, but rather to turn Stipple Mobile into the initial app you use for uploading photos, which are then shared elsewhere. Currently, users can add tags to their images in Stipple Mobile then share them on Facebook and Twitter - Flemings argued that this gives them more ownership over those images, because the information that they wanted to share will remain attached as the image gets shared and re-shared.
“This notion of, I create content on pick-your-content-flavor-of-day mobile photo sharing app, that content effectively belongs to the network,” he said. Flemings added that both Stipple Search and Stipple Mobile tie into the company's larger vision: “We want to be the source of information about the web's photos.”
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Fon brings its WiFi-sharing service to the US
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AMBER robot walks on human-like feet but isn't quite ready for British Knights
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Tiger Pistol Launches New Social Marketing Tools For Small Businesses, Raises Another $1M
Tiger Pistol, is launching version 2.0 of its platform aimed at making social media marketing easy for small businesses. It's also announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional funding.
The company says that when customers sign up, Tiger Pistol can use information like the type of business, its location, and its status on Facebook to create step-by-step instructions on how the business should be promoting themselves. It includes the ability to schedule posts and ads, as well as guidelines on what kind of content should be included.
“The complexity in social marketing comes from companies not knowing what to post, when to post, whether they should advertise, how to advertise, when they should try and generate sales and what they should expect in return, and we've seen how much support they need,” co-founder and CEO Steve Hibberd told me in an email. “Their requirements are no different to big businesses, but they don't have the thousands of dollars to hire experts or pay agencies.”
When I first wrote about the company last year, it was leaving its closed beta. Now Tiger Pistol says it has already worked with “thousands” of customers in more than 100 countries, and Hibberd told me the new version includes “unprecedented levels of smart automation and analytics.”
Behind the scenes, he said the company is using large amounts of data to determine what will and won't work for its customers. He also noted that from existing customers, he's learned that “small businesses want and need their unique personalities to come through”: “Templates and canned copy simply doesn't work, but at the same time they need guidance on what to write, so it's a fine balance.”
Tiger Pistol (the name comes from the tiger shrimp) previously raised $1 million in angel funding led by Australian investor David Solomon. The new funding comes from the new firm Rampersand and existing investors.
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Samsung patents design of smartphone-connected 'sports glasses'
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The Football App Scores $7M Led By Union Square Ventures As It Preps For World Cup 2014
There's big money in football (or “soccer” as some TC readers like to say). And so it follows that there's money to be made in corresponding apps that let fans engross themselves with the beautiful game.
To that end, Berlin-headquartered The Football App has raised a further round of funding: $7 million led by New York-based Union Square Ventures (previous backer of big hits such as Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga, and Kickstarter), along with a number of unnamed angels. This adds to the $10 million it previously raised back in May in a round led by Berlin's Earlybird Venture Capital. That's a lot of funding in quite a short amount of time.
But, with traction going in the right direction - 10 million downloads across all mobile platforms since it launched in 2008, with 3 million of those added in the last 6 months - and a pretty hefty and well-funded competitor in the form of FTBpro, it's clearly a sign of stepping on the gas in a bid to get way out in front.
The timing is significant, too. Next year is a World Cup year, an opportunity if there ever was one for a football app to pick up millions of new users quickly. In a statement, The Football App founder and CEO, Lucas von Cranach, makes the case: “Our goal is to double our user base after the 2014 World Cup by tapping into the 350 million people across the world who use their mobile devices to consume all things football”, he says, talking a good game in the best football tradition.
Specifically, The Football App says it will use the new funding to “continue to develop social aspects of the platform and bolster the company's already rapid international growth.”
In fact, “social” appears to be viewed as the company's path to growth - talking about football is a full time sport in itself after all - and it's here that the link with Union Square Ventures comes into full focus. The VC firm has previously backed social darlings Twitter, Foursquare, and Tumblr, so has the experience needed to help grow a social entity to the scale that the Berlin startup and its backers are clearly gunning for.
Earlier this month, the The Football App introduced a new ‘Fan Zone' that integrates live commentary from social feeds, alongside professional media content, around any match, news story, or development from the world of football.
On the surface, it resembles the functionality of something like Fanatix.
In addition, by incorporating more User-Generated Content, the company is certainly strengthening its hand against rival FTBpro, which in May raised $5.8 million from Battery Ventures and Gemini Israel Ventures to fund its own global expansion.
Bring on next Summer, World Cup 2014 just got even more interesting.
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Visualized: Giant Surface 2 invades central London
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It's Your Data — But Others Are Making Millions Off It
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Kia and Hyundai could offer Android-based in-car systems in all vehicles next year
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BBC's iPlayer apps hit 20 million downloads, still aren't coming to the US
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