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Sunday, 9 March 2014
Weekly Roundup: Bitcoin founder unveiled, Apple CarPlay hands-on and more!
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Compound in fruits and vegetables prevents symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice
Alzheimer's disease represents the most common form of dementia, with the early stages of the disease generally characterized with short term memory loss and learning difficulties that increase in severity as the patient progresses in age. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, have discovered that with regular treatments of the antioxidant fisetin, they were able to prevent memory loss in mice with genetic mutations linked to Alzheimer's... Continue Reading Compound in fruits and vegetables prevents symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice
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Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Disease, Fruit, Memory, Mice, Salk Institute
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Asking for automotive smartphone integration as an optional extra
The coming together of car dashboards and smartphone apps is nearing, but it is not going to be as intimate as many hope.
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Google eyes Android for wearables: A look at the challenges
Google will have an Android software developer kit for Android within two weeks. Can the mobile OS really simplify enough for the wearable market?
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The IT staffing crunch: a man-made crisis
IT professionals are frustrated, IT employers are frustrated. Recognizing the true value of essential skills will increase corporate focus and professional satisfaction..
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Telecom NZ launches into big data with Qrious
Qrious aims to blend private and public data with new cloud offering and on-demand expertise.
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Android heading to wearable devices
Google has plenty to share at SXSW — Android is coming to wearable devices, Chromecast is coming to more countries, and a YouTube music service might still be coming to everyone... eventually.
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Neil Young's music player for audiophiles reaches Kickstarter on March 15th
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Nuestras madres, nuestros padres AKA Hijos del Tercer Reich
Los hermanos Friedhelm y Wilhelm Winter se reúnen con sus amigos Charlotte, Greta y Viktor justo antes de partir hacia el este para incorporarse a la ofensiva alemana para conquistar la Unión Soviética, ofensiva en la que también participará Charlotte como enfermera de un hospital de campaña.
Wilhelm, que ya ha participado en la invasión de Francia, es optimista y promete a sus amigos que volverán a reunirse de nuevo antes de diciembre.
Tras la partida de estos Greta, por su parte, se mete en una complicada y peligrosa relación con un alto mando nazi para intentar promover su carrera como cantante a la vez que intenta poner a salvo a Viktor, que es judío.
Pero la Operación Barbarroja se convierte en un gran desastre, mientras que los planes de Greta tampoco salen exactamente como pensaba, así que no se reunirán en diciembre de 1941; de hecho nunca más volverán a reunirse los cinco.
La serie, que consta de tres episodios de noventa minutos, está muy bien hecha, y resulta entretenida de ver, a pesar de que la evolución de los hermanos Winter es bastante previsible.
La principal pega que le veo es que pasa como muy por encima todo el asunto del holocausto, aunque sin embargo el guión no tiene problemas para mostrar como ante la brutalidad de la guerra no sólo las SS eran las que cometían verdaderas salvajadas.
En fin, una serie recomendable sobre un periodo de la historia que ha tenido mucho que ver en como es el mundo en el que vivimos y que la cuenta desde un punto de vista poco habitual.
Por cierto que aunque el trailer de arriba está en alemán, porque no lo he encontrado en español, la serie se encuentra sin problemas en español
- Hermanos de Sangre y The Pacific, otras dos series muy recomendables sobre la segunda guerra mundial.
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Mt. Gox CEO's blog hacked, database leak claims there should be a 951k Bitcoin balance
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Apple MacBook Pro 13 vs Dell XPS 13
The MacBook Pro 13 with Retina is one of the best notebooks we've ever reviewed, but it's now up against stiff competition in the form of Dell's new XPS 13. Can this 1080p carbon-fiber wonder beat Apple's finest?
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23andMe's Anne Wojcicki envisions the future of preventative medicine
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Vodafone takes fight to Telstra over regional mobile funding
The battle over the Federal Government's AU$100 million funding for regional mobile coverage blackspots heats up.
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OpenPool: el billar del futuro
OpenPool es un sistema de proyección sobre una mesa de billar que crea curiosos efectos visuales. Lo llaman «billar aumentado», en el sentido de que proporciona algo más al juego que normalmente no vemos – aunque muchas veces sean puramente efectos cosméticos.
El proyecto completo es de hardware y software abierto; actualmente están buscando financiación colectiva para poder montarlos de forma masiva y distribuirlos por ahí, aunque dependiendo del importe de las donaciones se consigue un kit al que hay que añadirle algunas cosillas (como el proyector, los detectores de las bolas embocadas en la mesa, etcétera).
El sistema también sirve para aprender sobre tecnología: además del proyector emplea un Kinect2, un PC, una placa de montaje, los detectores… Material muy interesante con el que pasar horas entretenidas montando el invento. ¡Ah, y la mesa de billar se supone que ya la tiene uno, claro!
(Vía Technabob.)
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Fujitsu's latest all-in-ones don't need to be turned off
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Forget convertibles: Where are the attractive, low-cost, all-day laptops?
Though $1,000 convertibles probably make for larger profit margins, we think the PC industry would be better served by making low-cost notebooks running existing, battery-efficient gear. Oh, and customers would win too.
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Chromebooks, Lumia Icon, and Nokia X (MobileTechRoundup show #316)
Many products were announced the last couple of months and are starting to ship to us for review. Kevin and I talked about a few of these as well as whether or not the Nokia Android move is the right one.
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Lyft assembles massive funding round to take on Uber
Documents filed last week reveal that ridesharing service Lyft has started work on a $150 million round of funding, amassing $80 million of it so far from big names including Andreesen Horowitz. Though Uber has unquestionably grabbed the top slot in the burgeoning car dispatch industry, Lyft's pink mustaches — attached to the front of drivers' cars — have grabbed enough attention in many big cities to become well-known. Uber competes directly with Lyft through its UberX service, which employs private drivers with their own cars to effectively serve as cabs at a lower rate.
The round puts Lyft's valuation around $700 million. That pales to Uber's recent $3.5 billion price tag, but the new funding should give Lyft some runway to...
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Android lead says wearable developer tools coming in two weeks
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How deeply should big data applications be service oriented?
The REST versus full-blown SOA argument comes up again, this time pertaining to big data
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Cosmos debuts tonight with a special message from Barack Obama
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How Secret May Uncover A New Secret To Mobile Growth
Greetings from a rainy (but always fun) Austin, TX. As is the case leading up to every SXSW, many wonder what will be the breakout app. As someone who works in, invests in, and writes about mobile, the app that’s come up the most in conversation, offline and online, is no “secret.” It’s not too surprising given Secret launched publicly at the right time (a little over a month ago),… Read More
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Liam Neeson issues 'Taken'-style threat to Vladimir Putin on 'SNL'
Last night's Saturday Night Live had Lena Dunham taking the hosting duties — but the cold open belonged to Liam Neeson. The Taken star reprised his well-known role standing next to Jay Pharoah as President Obama, discussing the developing situation in Ukraine and warning Russian president Vladimir Putin that Neeson has "a very particular set of skills."
The skit ends with a video ribbing Putin's reputation for doing outlandishly "manly" things, with Pharoah posing shirtless on a horse, wrestling a bear, and handily defeating an arm wrestling opponent. See the full clip below.
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Large Hadron Collider scientists ban PowerPoint, embrace whiteboards
A biweekly forum at Fermilab dedicated to discussing the Large Hadron Collider has decided that the humble whiteboard and marker will drive its discussions from now on.
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This is how supercomputers cook: IBM’s Watson dreams up creative dishes
A master chef can think about a combination of two, maybe three ingredients at a time. Watson, the same IBM supercomputer that won Jeopardy in 2011, can crunch through a quintillion. That's a one and 18 zeroes, as the IBM researchers like to say. But does that make their computer a good cook?
For about two years, IBM's cognitive computing group has been working to apply Watson's vast processing ability to food. The system analyzed about 35,000 existing recipes and about 1,000 chemical flavor compounds, which allows it to make educated guesses about which ingredient combinations will delight and, just as importantly, surprise. From there, it tries to encourage unconventional combinations — like chocolate, coffee, and garlic — in...
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Project Spark screenshots stretch the limits of player creativity
With the Project Spark beta releasing earlier this week for Xbox, we take a closer look at the game in the most literal sense of the word: via a slew of screenshots.
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BMW tuner Alpina’s 2015 B6 xDrive Gran Coupe 4-door sports car is headed Stateside
Alpina, BMW’s most famous outside (but intertwined) tuner, released images and specs of its latest model, the B6 xDrive Gran Coupe. Powered by a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 mated to an eight-speed auto, the B6 will do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds.
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Medium to launch reading app for iPhone this week
The New York Times' Bits Blog reports that blogging platform Medium will unveil an iPhone app this week, its first mobile app since launching in 2012. The app is said to be strictly for reading Medium posts — "not yet" for writing — which would jibe with Medium's focus on longer-form, high-quality content not well suited for composition on a phone. Medium's site already works very well on a mobile browser, so the open question is how the app will differentiate itself and what additional features it might offer over a simple bookmark.
Medium's first app comes weeks after founder (and Twitter board member) Ev Williams raised a $25 million round for the company that was earmarked for a new San Francisco office, hires, and...
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DARPA’s prototype Excalibur laser successfully zaps target 7 kilometers away
DARPA has all the coolest toys, but of course it makes most of them in-house. Such is the case with the newly tested Excalibur laser prototype. This laser, based on a 21-element optical […]
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New shrinking gel could help repair damaged teeth or bones
Scientists from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new gel-based material that could allow stem cells to fill in the gaps in teeth and bones. This advance […]
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Tales from the Borderlands is like Rashomon with giant sci-fi guns
Telltale Games and Gearbox Software reveal the first details of Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands episodic series in a South By Southwest panel.
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'Cosmos' review: making science cool again
Whether he’s discussing NASA’s impact on our cultural psyche or emailing James Cameron about the night sky, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a remarkably consistent message: our future depends on a passionate embrace of science, and for that to happen, science needs to be cool. It should come as no surprise then that Tyson serves as host of the new show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which debuts tonight as part of a major global event that will see the show simulcast across 10 domestic networks...
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Secret sets up anonymous Web feed for SXSW
Will Secret be the big break-out app of South By Southwest 2014? Decide for yourself by installing the app or checking out the live feed of 'secrets' being posted live from Austin, Texas.
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The best writing of the week, March 9
We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't cutting it. Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future? Sure, it's one more thing you can feel guilty about sitting in your Instapaper queue, but it's better than pulling in vain on your Twitter list again.
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On Veronica Mars
Jason Cohen tells the story of Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and the resurrection of a cult TV show.
Texas Monthly: Jason Cohen - Mission to Mars
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MSI gaming laptop packs next-gen NVIDIA graphics and '3K' display into Ultrabook thickness
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Fujitsu's palm-scanning laptops won't be fooled by severed limbs
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Inhabitat's Week in Green: human diamonds, floating farm and a 13-year-old nuclear fusioneer
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Shh. Secret Raises $10M At A $50M Valuation
The buzzy new app Secret -- which lets people post messages to their circles of contacts without attribution -- has closed a $10 million round of funding at a $50 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned from two sources close to the situation. The funding was led by Google Ventures, with participation also from KPCB. Read More
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EA and Oculus talk virtual reality at SXSW
What does our VR-powered video gaming future look like? Executives from Electronic Arts and Oculus VR have been answering questions on the latest capabilities of the technology at the SXSW festival.
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Survey your kingdom (without a monthly bill) using Piper’s home-security system
Considering the wide range of sensor tech it's got under the hood, we think Piper is a pretty solid, low-cost alternative to some of the more traditional home security solutions out there
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Samsung announces security-minded Cloud Print apps for Android and iOS
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