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Ford's 2015 Focus brings touchscreen Sync technology to Europe
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Panasonic's newest Toughpad isn't a smartphone, except when it is
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Facebook Is Finally Moving Into AOL’s Building In New York
Happy moving day, Facebook!
After almost a year of construction and renovation, Facebook NY has announced that it will be moving its NYC location from Madison Ave in midtown to a building in downtown Manhattan, at 770 Broadway.
Coincidentally enough, this also happens to be the same building where AOL (and TechCrunch NY) are headquartered, as well as other media and advertising companies such as Billboard, Adweek, and Backstage.
Right now, Facebook has more than 100 engineers in the New York offices working on Pages, Location, Newsfeed, mobile, AI, and infrastructure, but 2014 represents a growth year in terms of NYC hires. More than 320 people work in FBNY overall. With more space in the office, and plans to hire more engineers, that number should rapidly grow throughout the next year.
The move will also put Facebook much closer to the center of NYC’s burgeoning tech scene. Most startups, and tech-related businesses, line the streets of Broadway from Madison Square Park to deep in Soho. Though I personally hate any moniker that piggy backs off of Silicon Valley, many have lovingly nicknamed the stretch of road “Silicon Alley.”
Facebook’s new office is squarely in the middle of that stretch of Broadway, rather than in stuffy Midtown where Grand Central pours out thousands of commuters each day.
“New York has always attracted some of the best creative minds in arts and culture, fashion, finance, academics, and Tech,” said Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Marketing Solutions. “So, it’s only fitting that we continue to invest in our presence here. There’s no better place for a company with the tireless mission of connecting the world than the city that never sleeps.”
Today will be the first day of business in the new office, but construction is still underway.
Here’s what Serkan Piantino (NY Site Director and head of engineering) had to say in a blog post:
Being a part of the tech community in NYC and its expansion over the past 2 years has been a humbling experience. I’ve seen the energy in our office compound as we grow in size, take on bigger challenges and prototype the next Facebook products. The city has done the same, emerging as a center where new ideas are realized and people build great teams and fulfilling careers.
Today, Facebook New York begins our first day of business at our new offices at 770 Broadway. We’re excited to join the Astor Place neighborhood and continue to invest in the great tech community here. Finding this space took months of searching and design, and even now it’s still being built around us. We have plenty of work ahead as we continue to grow.
Today is our first day at new desks and with a new view of the city. There’s a lot of history around us: John Jacob Astor sailed here from England after the American Revolution and built an empire selling beaver pelts and other fur. You can see the ceramic beaver plaques in the subway station that commemorate his trade. Astor bought huge parcels of land in Manhattan because he was convinced it would become a key port and metropolis. Not long after, Peter Cooper believed in education for everyone and made his college available free of charge to anyone with a willingness to learn. My father studied architecture there.
We are really looking forward to being part of the neighborhood. We plan to host tech meetups and share what we’re working on here in NYC. We’ll even throw a party now and then. We’ll bring talent to the city and partner with the other industries that live here.
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Fujitsu's working on another senior-friendly smartphone for Europe
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Qualcomm updates its top-end chip, reveals future 64-bit Snapdragons
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The first available Tegra 4i smartphone will cost around €200 (hands-on)
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Garmin's new app turns Sony's Smartwatch 2 into a tiny sat-nav
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The Grand Memo II LTE is ZTE's phablet sequel (hands-on)
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ZTE's 6-inch Grand Memo II LTE arrives with bigger display, slimmer body
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Cómo están organizados los directorios de Linux, una referencia rápida
Buena referencia de un nivel muy, muy sencilla para todos los que estén aprendiendo Linux o los olvidadizos que nunca recuerdan dónde-estaba-qué: es un sencillo documento de la revista Linux Format titulado The Linux Filesystem Tour sobre la organización de directorios en el sistema.
Allà se explica cómo está estructurado el sistema de archivos de Linux y todos los directorios, cuáles son sus orÃgenes históricos, la forma en que arranca el sistema y demás. (Por ejemplo, ¿sabÃas que los dispositivos tty se llaman asà por ser una abreviatura de teletipos, aparatos de comunicaciones populares en los 70?).
El estilo es un poco raro pero divertido, en primera persona, con el señor Manuel Page como guÃa y el Coronel Linux haciendo alguna aparición estelar.
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Intel promotes its latest smartphone chips with some carefully chosen benchmarks
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El último Túpolev Tu-144 en fotos
El Túpolev Tu-144 fue, por decirlo asÃ, la versión soviética del Concorde; no en vano se le conoce también como «Concordski».
De hecho el Tu-144 voló antes que el Concorde, pero la poca fiabilidad del avión, incluyendo dos accidentes, y lo incómodo que era en cuanto al nivel de ruido en la cabina de pasaje, hizo que los 16 ejemplares construidos en total apenas realizaran 50 vuelos con pasajeros, siendo dedicados a vuelos de carga durante la mayor parte de su corta carrera.
En The Last of Tu 144 Planes hay una completa galerÃa del último de los Tu-144 construidos, con un montón de fotos de detalle, especialmente del exterior, para poder ver cómo se hacÃan las cosas en la Rusia soviética.
(VÃa RT de @Alvarito).
- Concorde y Tu-144, más rápidos que el sonido, un poco más de información sobre los dos únicos aviones supersónicos de pasajeros de la historia.
- La historia del Concorde en un documental de una hora.
- Despegue y aterrizaje de un Concorde desde la cabina, incluido el detalle de la activación de los posquemadores. En un avión civil.
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Asà se inventó el Ctrl-Alt-Del
El inventor del combo de teclas más famoso de todos los tiempos (Control-Alt-Delete en los PC) habla de cómo programarlo fue cosa de 5 minutos porque los desarrolladores estaban un poco hartos y necesitaban un hackeo rápido para reiniciar el PC que fuera más cómodo que apagar y encender el ordenador – algo que con los primeros PCs habÃa que hacer con frecuencia debido a que se pasaban el dÃa probando nuevo hardware y software.
Lo que yo no imaginé nunca es que habÃamos inventado algo que se convertirÃa en un icono popular, aunque realmente ese mérito haya que atribuÃrselo a Bill [Gates].
Bill Gates, que andaba por allÃ, puso careto de pocos amigos.
… Me referÃa a que se popularizó con la pantalla de login de Windows NT, ¿eh?
En la mesa redonda –que data de 2006 y celebraba el 20º aniversario del PC– estaban también Bill Gates, Dan Bricklin (Visicalc) y otros pioneros de la industria de la era PC.
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Alcatel's 'smartbook' concept: a laptop powered by a smartphone over the air
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Nokia introduces a third Android device, the 5-inch Nokia XL
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