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Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Wireless Charger for Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 available today on Google Play
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Twitter for iOS and Android filters out the pictures, video and people you hate from search results
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Impresionante foto de la Estación Espacial Internacional vista desde tierra
ISS 2013.10.08 - La Estación Espacial Internacional vista desde tierra
Ver la Estación Espacial Internacional desde tierra como un punto brillante que se mueve por el cielo es sencillo, sólo hay que saber hacia donde mirar gracias a sitios como Spot The Station.
Pero cazarla con un telescopio y conseguir el nivel de detalle de la foto de Alessandro es realmente complicado, aunque tengas un telescopio Celestron C14HD y una montura GM2000QCI, que salen en unos 7.000 y 10.600 euros cada uno.
Esta es la versión anotada de la foto:
(Vía @ShuttleAlmanac).
- Atlantis y la Estación Espacial Internacional frente al Sol, La Estación Espacial Internacional frente a la Luna y Dos naves espaciales chinas en tránsito frente al Sol, tres de las impresionantes fotos de Thierry Legault, otro maestro con el telescopio.
- El hombre que espiaba a los satélites espía, un minidocumental sobre Thierry.
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Google offers 'sneak peek' of Glass development kit, shows Glassware can actually be useful
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Kano: el kit para construirse un ordenador en un rato libre
Es una especie de Raspberry Pi pero en bonito. Se llama Kano y su colorido aspecto llama poderosamente la atención. En el kit básico va una Raspberry Pi modelo B, el sistema operativo en una tarjeta SD de 8 GB (una variante de Debian), altavoz, teclado, cables HDMI y mini-USB, fuente de alimentación y Wi-Fi. Tan solo hay que ponerle el monitor, que probablemente resulte más caro que los 75 euros que cuesta el propio Kano.
Con el kit básico estamos hablando de un ordenador simple pero práctico: permite navegar por Internet, jugar a Minecraft, aprender a programar y muchas cosas más – además de la gracia de que te lo montas tú mismo. Y si se rompe tampoco es que la situación sea un desastre económico.
(Vía Dezeen.)
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Nike's LunarENDOR QS Snowboard boots will make you the flashiest rider on the slopes
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Moto X on Verizon Is First to Devour Android KitKat 4.4 Update
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'Selfie' beats bitcoins, lab meat, twerking and a tiny mammal for word of the year
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Pioneer's CDJ900NXS brings new performance features to its slightly less pricey DJ deck
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Esta es la nueva librea de Iberia Express
A320 de Iberia Express con los nuevos colores
Cuando presentó su nueva imagen y librea Iberia ya anunció que tanto Iberia Express como Air Nostrum se adaptarían también a la nueva imagen, y según se puede leer en Estrenamos imagen esta es la nueva librea que se aplicará a los aviones de Iberia Express según les vaya tocando el turno.
Un A330 de Iberia con la nueva librea; el parecido entre ambas es más que evidente
Desde luego para Iberia Express es un gran cambio respecto al blanco soso que mostraban hasta ahora, aunque no sólo de colores nuevos vive una aerolínea.
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Music Streaming Startup Rdio Lays Off Staff To ‘Improve Cost Structure And Ensure A Scalable Business”
The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup from Skype co-founder Janus Friis. The company has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is laying people off.
“Rdio confirmed making across-the-board workforce reductions today to improve its cost structure and ensure a scalable business model for the long-term,” a spokesperson said today.
The company did not offer any further specifics on the layoffs. One person who first alerted us to them alleges that they affect 35 people. We have had other tips that say this works out to between one-fifth and one-third of the workforce, with significant cuts in engineering.
Indeed, at least two people affected by the layoffs are both engineers that focus on mobile and web apps, according to notes posted on Twitter. We've reached out to both of these people. Neither wanted to comment on the matter.
It's not clear how and if Vdio, the startup's video-streaming service launched earlier this year, will be impacted.
We have reached out to others at Rdio and elsewhere to see if we can get more details on what the story is behind this. But it's notable that the company has not released any user numbers in a while. As a point of comparison, earlier this month Deezer reported passing the 5 million mark for paying users - and that's without any entry into the U.S. market. Spotify last reported 6 million paying users in March 2013.
In a response to a question on how the company is doing, Rdio provided me with the following statement:
“We are not releasing any numbers at the moment, but we're thrilled with the traction we've seen so far. Since the end of last year (2012) we've tripled our number of new users. Also, 90% of our subscribers are now on the Rdio Unlimited tier ($9.99/month) giving them access to Rdio not just on the Web but also through their mobile phone. Our strategic partnerships, and integrations with Facebook, Twitter, and Shazam have all contributed to our continued growth and we're excited about what's to come for Rdio in the future.”
Take that as you will, the company has definitely had some other knocks at the senior level. Earlier this year, CEO Drew Larner said he would be leaving his role as CEO, staying on as executive chairman. But in fact he is still there while the company looks for a replacement. “Drew is presently the CEO at Rdio and he is playing an active part in finding the new CEO before he steps aside. We'll let you know as soon as we have more detail on the new CEO/the announcement,” an Rdio spokesperson told me today.
Before this, there have been others who have left the company, such as Todd Berman, Rdio's first VP of engineering, who stepped down in March of this year. He has joined Malthe Sigurdsson, another Rdio departee who had been its VP of Product, at The Factory, an incubator also backed by Friis that is apparently gearing up to release its first products very soon.
To date, Rdio has raised $17.5 million from Atomico, Mangrove, Janus Friis and Skype. It's unclear whether that makes Microsoft a shareholder in the company today.
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Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro review: a high-end Ultrabook that's actually affordable
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Facebook now lets you know if your friends are using mobile app or the web
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Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' gets awesome interactive music video 48 years later
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Snapchat Reportedly Sees More Daily Photos Than Facebook
Snapchat now shares 400 million snaps each day, according to an unnamed source who spoke with Business Insider.
We've reached out to Snapchat to confirm the number.
In September, Evan Spiegel announced on the Disrupt stage that the disappearing photo-sharing service was seeing 350 million snaps sent per day, up from 200 million in June. Clearly, growth on the hot new service is staggering.
Even more staggering, perhaps, is the fact that the 400 million/day figure surpasses the photo-sharing activity on both Instagram and Facebook.
Facebook reportedly sees 350 million photos uploaded each day from its worldwide audience of more than 1 billion users, and Instagram's 150 million users upload around 50 million photos each day.
Snapchat's growth numbers likely include photos and videos, as well as “broadcast” snaps. Broadcast snaps are when a user takes one photo and sends it to multiple recipients, turning one snap into many snaps.
Of course, it's not that surprising that more photos are flowing through the very private, self-destructing Snapchat as opposed to the very public Facebook and Instagram, where content lives forever and is seen by many.
Still, the speed with which Snapchat's user engagement grows is quite rapid, which may explain recent rumors around a $3 billion Facebook acquisition offer and a massive funding round on the horizon.
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Signpost Raises $10M To Bring Online Marketing Tools To Small Businesses
Signpost, a startup offering an online marketing platform for small businesses, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners, with additional investment from Spark Capital, Scout Ventures, and wikiHow founder Jack Herrick. OpenView managing director Dev Ittycheria is joining Signpost's board of directors.
When I asked how the company has evolved since it raised its Series A last year (it was described at the time as “AdSense for local commerce“), a spokesperson told me that the platform has expanded beyond customer conversion/acquisition to include managing the presence of businesses on sites like Yelp and remarketing campaigns that lure customers back:
Signpost has always optimized for the highest value of new customers and focused on quality conversions and now incorporates enterprise-like lifecycle marketing automation functionality that enables business owners to simply flip a switch and create targeted digital and mobile marketing campaigns that dramatically increase sales. Previously, this level of advanced marketing automation technology would only be available to larger corporations with the staff, budget, and infrastructure to support it.
The company also says it now has more than 10,000 customers, and that its tripled its team in the past year to 75. Signpost has a raised a total of $15 million in funding.
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Nubia channels Xiaomi with powerful yet affordable Z5S and Z5S mini, adds LTE variants
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Por qué la torre de Pisa tiene forma de plátano y otras cuestiones de ingeniería sobre su construcción
En el videoblog divulgativo Head Squeeze la simpática Jheni Osman hace un buen repaso a la construcción de la torre de Pisa, el peculiar monumento de casi 60 metros de altura cuya concepción fue tan desastrosa que tardaron casi 200 años en concluirla y ni siquiera nadie firmó el proyecto porque estaba claro que ahí se iba a liar parda. Pero bueno, corría el año 1172 y tampoco sería una de las mayores prioridades de las gentes de entonces.
En el vídeo se explican sobre todo las diversas soluciones que los ingenieros propusieron y se pusieron en práctica para detener su peligrosa inclinación, desde algunas que detuvieron momentaneamente el problema a otras que lo empeoraron – haciendo que de la noche a la mañana hubiera que retirar tierras, acumular contrapesos y tirar cables de sujección allá por 1995.
Durante una década los visitantes no pudieron visitarla por dentro; en 2001 se volvió a abrir al público y ahora con unos 4 grados de inclinación (llegó a 5,5) se considera bastante estable: como para que dure otros 200 o 300 años.
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Twitter pulls option that lets you receive direct messages from any follower
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Diary.com ‘Growing Like A Weed' After Switch To Privacy Controls And $1.2M Funding
Recently we've seen the rise of a new wave of startups that give far more control back to users. They have avoided the public nature of Twitter and the – sometimes toxic – vagueness of Facebook which has happily moved from a private network to one where, frankly, you're never quite sure what is public or not. Huh, Randi.
Instead, new networks like Snapchat, are attempting to give back control to the users. In the same way, UK-based Diary.com has emerged to ride that wave of user choice. The startup is now announcing it's raised $1.2 million from a network of private investors. Terms were not disclosed.
While founder Keld Van Shreven tells us: “We want to to build a major consumer company out of the UK with an eye on the Valley and the US. We're aiming to continue to grow the product, expand in the US, and hire.”
We've written about Diary.com in the past and described it as a scrapbook for the Twitter generation. Since then the company has pivoted under Van Shreven and decided to ride the wave of ‘user control'. The bet appears to have paid off. He says the site is now “growing like a weed.”
Diary.com now says its users are coming from UK, U.S., Asia and Brazil. It's highly used by young women, one of the hardest demographics to reach. Van Shreven now says the site has 2 Million active users and it's now pulling in advertisers wanting to push fashion, makeup and music to a young female audience.
Pivoting away from microblogging, Diary.com is now about text, pictures and, crucially, the ability to share both publicly and privately to a select group.
Indeed, the site now plans a Snapchat-like feature allowing the ability to share post which automatically get deleted after a short period.
This is kind of feature is increasingly important for teens and especially young women, but also something that addresses the problem of cyber-bullying, which has seen so many tragic ends recently, especially as depicted in the British press. Ask.fm, for instance, was recently cited as a contributing factor in the bullying of a teen who later committed suicide.
Diary.com allows its audience to sound off to a private network of friends, without being ridiculed in public.
With its familiar, Pinterest-like interface, user controls, simple URL and mobile products in the pipeline, Diary.com looks like it might be a break-out hit after-all, and after a good while trying.
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Cómo funciona YouTube
En este vídeo de YouTube la gente de Computerphile y empleados de YouTube explican cómo funcionan los vídeos de YouTube. Si la definición te parece «un poco circular» espera a experimentar el desconcierto cuando veas los circulitos del buffering que indican que el vídeo se está descargando… cuando en realidad se ha descargado ya y se está reproduciendo (!)
Una de las técnicas más interesantes y poco apreciadas que ilustran en el vídeo es que YouTube se adapta inteligentemente a la calidad de conexión que tengas en cada momento. Se empieza por un formato estándar (digamos 360p; p = «píxeles de alto») y si la conexión va bien y el servidor calcula que puede enviar algo mejor pasa a hacerlo, subiendo a 720p o incluso 1080p. Y a la inversa, si estás viendo el vídeo en alta calidad y la red falla, el Wi-Fi no va fino o el ordenador no da de más, la calidad se reduce automáticamente.
Esto se puede forzar con los ajustes (el icono de la rueda dentadaA), parando el vídeo o marcando un punto anterior de reproducción, pero en automático suele funcionar estupendamente.
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