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Thursday, 7 November 2013
Apple fixes Gmail bug in latest Mail update for Mavericks
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Upstagram flies an adorable little house over Paris, streams the view to Instagram
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MOSS, unos curiosos cubos para fabricar robots modulares
MOSS tiene toda la pinta de ser uno de esos proyectos en Kickstarter que arrasan, porque lo han abierto hoy mismo y ya va por encima de los 90.000 dólares de los 100.000 que buscaban.
Se trata de una colección de cubos con distintas funciones: unos hacen de fuente de energía, otros son motores y actuadores de distintos tipos, otros incluyen sensores, etc.
Se unen unos a otros mediante imanes de neodimio que se acoplan a unas hendiduras en sus equinas de tal forma que se pueden hacer juntas que giran, bisagras, o uniones más firmes; la electricidad y las señales de datos pasan por unos conectores que están en el centro de las caras, y los mismos imanes que unen bloques hacen de tierra para el circuito eléctrico.
Además de esto los robots construidos con estos módulos se pueden controlar por bluetooth desde un teléfono inteligente o un tablet.
Tienen toda la pinta de ser enormemente divertidos, y sí, me pregunto si eso de MOSS va por este Moss.
(Vía @elakdawalla).
- littleBits, para aprender electrónica sin tocar un soldador, un concepto similar pero para electrónica.
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New SD card format is speedy enough for 4K video
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De visita por el interior de un submarino con Google Street View
Interior del HMS Ocelot
No es lo mismo que meterse dentro de un submarino real, lo que resulta bastante claustrofóbico, y eso que los dos que visité estaban convertidos en museos; no quiero pensar lo que puede ser estar bajo la superficie del mar en uno.
Pero desde hace unos días se puede visitar el interior del HMS Ocelot en Google Street View , de proa a popa, pasando por todos sus compartimentos, para hacerse una mínima idea de lo que puede ser eso.
El HMS Ocelot pertenece a la clase Oberon de submarinos diesel-eléctricos, y aunque fue botado el 5 de mayo de 1962 y retirado del servicio en agosto de 1991 aún hay un montón de datos acerca de sus características y prestaciones que siguen siendo secretos.
(The Register vía Engadget).
- El submarino más grande del mundo, un pedazo de pepino.
- En el interior de un submarino soviético, en fotos.
- Así era una base de submarinos nucleares soviéticos por dentro, también en fotos.
- Los restos del submarino Kursk, unas imágenes impactantes.
- The silent war, una historia de los submarinos durante la guerra fría, aunque desde el punto de vista de un estadounidense.
- Submarinos portaaviones (clase Sen Toku I-400), un concepto la mar de curioso de la armada japonesa durante la segunda guerra mundial.
- El submarino de madera a vapor de Narcís Monturiol: el Ictíneo. ¡Cómo han cambiado las cosas!
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Star Wars: Episode VII launch date confirmed for December 2015
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Google updates Glass with calendar search and customized directions
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Chrome users on Windows will soon have to get extensions through Google's store
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Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth
Everyone loves a “where are they now” story - whether it's about teen idols or once-hot tech apps. Bebo, the social networking startup that famously sold to AOL for a staggering $850 million in 2008 only to be offloaded for $10 million two years later (and ultimately bought back by its original founders Michael and Xochi Birch for just $1 million earlier this year), is no exception.
Michael Birch said in July that his plan is to “reinvent” Bebo at the Monkey Inferno personal incubator the Birches founded and self-funded in San Francisco, and have “a lot of fun” in the process - but we haven't heard many updates about the plans since then. And people are clearly curious: A Reddit “Ask Me Anything” about Bebo held a couple of weeks back by Monkey Inferno's CEO Shaan Puri garnered hundreds of questions and made it to the website's front page.
So TechCrunch TV headed over to Monkey Inferno to see first-hand how Bebo is coming along. We also got alook at some other projects that the team at the Inferno are working on. Check it all out in the video above.
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Facebook's latest test run puts star ratings on businesses' pages
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The Engadget Podcast is live at 3:30PM ET!
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Google Drive for iOS now supports multiple accounts, AirPrint and CloudPrint capability
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Google brings KitKat keyboard, Hangouts with SMS to Play Store
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Sony confirms five devices will get Android 4.4 KitKat upgrade, 4.3 to roll out to ten next month
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Boombotix Develops Sync Tech For Concurrent Playback Over Bluetooth, Seeks Funding On Kickstarter
Boombotix, a startup based out of SF building rugged speakers for active lifestyle use, today launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new technology it's building to complement it hardware products. The Boombotix Sync tech manages to synchronize audio from multiple mobile devices over 4G and Wi-Fi, allowing those to output to Bluetooth speakers and have the playback match for surround sound results.
The tech was developed in response to user input – many asked the Mission-bases startup for a way to sync up a number of units for output to multiple endpoints at once. That's not something that's possible over Bluetooth, and I've seen other Kickstarter projects attempt and fail to make it happen with a custom-coded solution. But Boombotix saw another possible way: Building a protocol that allows multiple apps on multiple devices to playback audio simultaneously, so that more than one speaker can join in on the action. It works a bit like FM radio, Boombotix VP of Product Management Chris McKelroy says, so that more than one user can tune in at once and here the same feed played back at the same time.
It's not a perfect solution (they're building in TrueWireless for two speaker, single device connections), but it's one that will help users reach “critical mass” according to McKleroy, which means a whole team going out for a mountain bike race, or a group of kayakers, for instance, can all bring their speakers and listen along to the same stuff at the same time, as you can see briefly in the video. McKelroy says it's amazing witnessing huge groups of people riding by, with “Boombots in perfect sync pumping 90+ db.” Also, you can flashmob with this pretty perfectly, if that's what you're into.
McKelroy says that this tech is going to be kept proprietary to Boombotix products in the short term, rather than being made an open protocol, for instance.
“we're planning on keeping this proprietary, focused on creating the best experience for our users as we continue to improve the speed and scale of our syncing technology,” he said. “The next hurdle we face is aligning with key content providers in the music space, to increase the availability of content and enhance the user experience further.”
And this is just the first step in terms of networking hardware. Boombotix is keenly aware that users want to use one device to broadcast to many speakers at once. “A fully networked device ecosystem is paramount to our goals,” he says, and suggests watching for more hardware developments from the startup to help make this a reality in the coming months. For now, the Kickstarter project for the music sync app is seeking $15,000 to help finish development, with Boombot speakers available to backers starting at the $55 pledge level.
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TiVo Stream update brings TV to mobile devices, even away from home
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Sony's A4-sized digital paper slab gets a business-oriented price tag of 100,000 yen
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Submit Your Product for Mashable's 'Best of CES 2014'
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Google no longer deactivates Glass if you sell it, but it's still against the TOS
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Gimball, un robot volador al que no le importa chocar con las cosas
Los chicos del Laboratorio de Sistemas Inteligentes de la politécnica de Lausanne siguen empeñados en hacer robots cada vez más avanzados, aunque en este caso el avance en capacidades ha venido de simplificar el robot.
La idea de Gimball es que si puedes hacer un robot al que no le suponga un problema chocar con las cosas puedes ahorrarte sensores y capacidad de proceso que puedes dedicar a otro tipo de sensores o a montar baterías más pesadas para darle más autonomía.
Así, a Gimball basta con indicarle una dirección a seguir para que su controladora la siga fielmente, sin preocuparse de andar esquivando cosas.
En este caso lo logran suspendiendo el «corazón» del robot dentro de una esfera que absorbe los choques, manteniéndolo erguido mediante una suspensión Cardán.
El objetivo es desarrollar robots que puedas enviar a un entorno caótico como pueden ser los restos de un edificio tras un terremoto sin tener que preocuparte mucho –o nada– de pilotarlo.
Gimball es una evolución de AirBurr V8, del que ya habíamos escrito hace unos meses.
(Vía Communications of the ACM).
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Twitter stock value nearly doubles post-IPO, puts a lot of worth into little tweets
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Internet Explorer 11 comes to Windows 7 in its final form, brings speed improvements
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Dell's Venue 11 Pro tablet now available in the US, starts at $500 with Bay Trail inside
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iPhone 'Car Mode' Concept Helps You Stop Driving and Texting
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'ART' experiment in Android KitKat improves battery life and speeds up apps
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Google Glass developers will get their first crack at its SDK later this month
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With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify
On the heels of Wix's debut on the NASDAQ this morning, another veteran website builder is responding with some big news of its own. Since launching in 2006 (the same year as Wix), Weebly has taken a slightly different approach to website creation than its competitors: By catering to entrepreneurs. Today, Weebly users have created over 20 million websites using the company's DIY platform and, of those users, more than 60 percent self-identify as entrepreneurs, co-founder David Rusenko tells us.
Thanks to these small business owners, Weebly now hosts over 30,000 active online stores, which collectively bring in $13 million in sales every month. In response, Weebly has spent the last two years building an eCommerce platform to help these mom-and-pop entrepreneurs boost online sales and let anyone get their own store up and running in a few minutes.
Launching today, Weebly's new eCommerce platform aims to bring simple online store creation to the masses, Rusenko says, and will provide businesses access to a mobile store and checkout, filtered product search advanced merchandising and an integrated shopping cart. The company's new eCommerce tools will be available for free, which includes support for businesses selling up to five products. From there, Weebly offers a handful of plans and pricing options that range from $4/month to $29/month, depending on the number of items one is looking to sell.
Up to this point, Weebly's eCommerce tools have been pretty limited, offering basic support for PayPal and Google Checkout and 150 templates as part of its website creation tools, but that's about it. With its new eCommerce platform, however, Weebly is taking dead aim at both Amazon, Etsy and Shopify, providing a simple, easy-to-use alternative for anyone looking to sell their wares online.
As a part of this upgrade, Weebly now offers the ability for businesses to quickly create merchant accounts with either Stripe and Authorize.net (and Rusenko says more are on their way), along with a handful of tools that let them calculate VAT and shipping costs, track orders and offer simple product search functionality. Plus, in a move designed to help it cater to a larger market, Weebly's new eCommerce tools will also include support for international payments.
The other potentially big draw is the addition of flexible shipping and tax options, which may seem like a minor feature but could has big appeal for resource-strapped small businesses, allowing them to offer free shipping on select orders, define carriers and speed while adjusting rates based on location.
Rusenko tells us that online stores can now be edited on the Web or through Weebly's mobile app, and in an effort to prove to an incredulous reporter, showed that the process can be completed on both platforms in less than five minutes, which is pretty cool. To convert its new eCommerce offering into business, Weebly will take 3 percent of sales that take place on its sites, which, for mom-and-pops should compare favorably with Amazon's 6 to 15 percent sale price and Etsy's 3.5 percent.
The idea, the co-founder says, is to lower the barriers to eCommerce and get as many people signed on as possible by allowing anyone to be up and running with their own mini Amazon store in five minutes or less. To show the size of the opportunity he thinks is available to Weebly by taking this tap, Rusenko tells us that the team found that, while the top 500 merchants on Amazon are doing just fine, the second group of 500 is growing exponentially faster.
By making a set of simple eCommerce tools available for free, Rusenko hopes that the company can start to lure these Amazon “Next 500″ types, along with the scores of small businesses without much presence online, over to Weebly's side.
Based on its continuing growth and the expected revenue boost from its new eCommerce option, Weebly recently signed a lease on 36,000-square feet of a historic warehouse in SOMA in downtown San Francisco, which will become its new headquarters. As part of this move, the company also plans to begin a major expansion which will see it add up to 500 new employees across the globe. Apparently, life is good in Website Creation Land.
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OLED-Enhanced Super Glasses Could Help Blind People See
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Google app rewards Android users for giving their two cents
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Grand Theft Auto Online players start getting virtual payouts for their troubles
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United, American Airlines allow electronics use during takeoff and landing too
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How Autocorrect Knows When to Add a New Term to Its Arsenal
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Sailor Moon? Nah, that's Internet Explorer-tan
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