Posts Tagged ‘Cloud’
Crazy Volcano Erupting And Ash Cloud Lightning Shots
Author: Brian McKinnell
This is a series of shots from German photographer Martin Rietze of last month’s eruptions of the Sakurajima Volcano in Japan. He looks like he’s standing pretty close, but hopefully he was just using one of those super-zoom lenses perverts use to take shots of girls on the beach from their hotel room balconies. That reminds me, one year in college I went to Daytona Beach for spring break when it also happened to be Motorcycle Week there and this older, leathery-looking woman on the back of a chopper flashed her boobs at me in a Walgreens parking lot. I gave her a thumbs up but deep down in my heart and peen they really just made me sad. Obviously I had to get really drunk afterwards and that night I swallowed a glow-stick.
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Netflix Cloud Prize offers over $100,000 in rewards to cloud computing gurus
Author: Christen Arquette
Netflix has a vested interest in fostering cloud computing — after all, that’s increasingly the company’s core business. Accordingly, it’s not going to just sit around and wait for a breakthrough. The subscription service is kicking off its Netflix Cloud Prize competition in the hopes that developers can move technology a little faster. Programmers who build upon Netflix’s open-source code before September 15th can win from a pool of $ 100,000 spread equally among 10 categories, ranging from performance improvements to what has to be our automatic favorite: “best new monkey.” Each winner also gets $ 5,000 in Amazon Web Services credit, flights to Las Vegas and a spot at Amazon’s user conference this November. The challenge won’t completely make up for the end to Netflix’s public API, but it does show that at least some tinkerers are welcome in the streaming video giant’s world.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
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They’re Coming: Star Destroyer Cloud Spotted In Finland
Author: Angela Chin
This is the Imperial Star Destroyer shaped cloud spotted by Redditor EltaninAntenna hovering over Helsinki, Finland. Allegedly it’s real, so unless Daisy rises from the grave and argues otherwise in the comments, we’ll all have to assume it hasn’t been Photoshopped. Or nobody will assume that but me, and I’ll wind up looking like a jackass the same way I did when I tried to tell everyone at the bar that beer comes from wolves because that’s what a friend told me. Turns out he lied. Thankfully they were kind enough to set me straight. It comes from bees, that’s why it’s called beer.
Thanks to ChaosLex, who allegedly spotted an X-wing cloud once but conveniently didn’t have his camera on him. Likely story.
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Gaikai Cloud Gaming In PlayStation 4 Brings Easy Free Trials Of Games, Sharing, Spectating And Remote Play
Author: Rod Sutherland
Gaikai ’ s Dave Perry took the stage at the PS4 event today to describe exactly how Gaikai would be including cloud gaming aspects to the PS4, which will make it feasible to jump in and want games in the PlayStation shop, make sharing with your friends a snap, and additionally welcome spectators and get pals to help you by remotely taking over your game.
The PS Vita will additionally finally get a lot even more useful, thanks to Remote Play. Perry stated that the group has significantly decreased transmission times, turning the PS4 into a server and the Vita into a client enabling remote play of titles run on the PS4 direct to the Vita. It ’ s precisely like the Wii U, however with a controller you can walk away with and use as a standalone mobile console.
The capacity to easily jump right into PS4 games and experiment with titles by means of streamed gaming is a significant addition for Sony, which had more restricted demo ability in the PS3 PlayStation shop which required considerable downloads when it were readily available (which wasn ’ t for each title). Inviting players to sign up with and see your game additionally includes the ability for spectators to chim with with on-screen comments as you play, and the capability to take over your controller to help you out if you run into problem. It ’ s a much more social version of Nintendo ’ s handholding modes in recent releases.
Will gamers opt to call a pal, so to speak, instead of getting on GameFAQs? That ’ s a good concern, but clearly the company is doing every little thing it could to try and develop a genuine social network, instead of the freely affiliated group of commonly crude, sometimes racist anonymized gamers that made up the PlayStation Network of the past.
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No Comments »A Fresh New Office Finds a Place in the Cloud
Author: Dave Adams
Tablets and smartphones may have taken over people’s lives, but Microsoft has managed to maintain a stronghold on the way many people use their PCs with one product: trusty Microsoft Office.
Microsoft’s newest version of Office, available starting Tuesday, is a radical change from the past. For starters, Office 365 has a surprising new price model: It is available as a subscription that can automatically renew each year, if you choose. This new system constantly updates program features year round. Every time you open a program in Office, you will be running the latest version.
With Office 365, any PC can be activated or deactivated in one step.
It’s also more closely tied to the cloud, saving documents to Microsoft’s SkyDrive storage system by default, so your documents and personal settings are remotely accessible. With that, Microsoft aims to stave off Office challengers like Google Drive, which gives people a way to create and store documents online, as well as share documents and edit with multiple people.
What’s more, Office 365 gives people a centralized spot online where they can manage their account, showing them where they have Office installed so they can deactivate unused computers with one click or completely cancel subscriptions. And files are still accessible to download even if subscriptions expire.
Along with these broader features, there are significant changes to Office 365′s programs, which include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access. It does a nice job of bringing to the surface some features that were too far buried in menus for people to use. It also packs in many new features, some of which were made for touch screens and new devices designed to run the touch-centric Windows 8. And Microsoft has updated its Office Web Apps, stripped-down programs that offer free editing, via a Web browser, of files stored online.
I tested Office 365 Home Premium, which costs $ 99 a year and can be installed on up to five computers, including Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs as well as Macs running Apple’s OS X version 10.5.8 or later. Office 365 University, which costs $ 80 for a four-year subscription, is available for college students, faculty and staff. Office 365 for businesses will be released on Feb. 27; subscription rates will range from $ 4 to $ 20 monthly.
Traditional, non-subscription versions of Office are available for one-time fees, including Office Home and Student 2013 ($ 140), Office Home and Business 2013 ($ 220) and Office Professional 2013 ($ 400). These new suites still receive security patches, as they always have, and can only be installed on one machine and upgrades require installing whole new versions. Like Office 365, these versions of Office also now save to SkyDrive by default, tying them into the cloud.
I installed Office 365 Home Premium on two devices: a Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T, which had a touch screen and was running Windows 8 Pro, and a MacBook Pro, which was running OS X version 10.8.2. I also looked at and edited documents on computers that didn’t have Office 365 installed by using Microsoft Web Apps. And I set up Office 365 on a Windows Phone to access and edit documents on the go.
The new version of Microsoft Word lets people have integrated conversations in editing comments.
To install on the Windows 8 PC, I used a product key given to me by Microsoft for pre-release testing, otherwise you would have to go to Office.com to buy a subscription and get a product key. (A free 30-day trial is available.) The Windows 8 PC install took about 20 minutes, and a helpful introduction walked me through key points of Office 365. One screen asked me, “How would you like your Office to look?” And I scrolled through a handful of patterns and chose a background that looked like rings on a tree stump.
When I installed Office 365 on the Mac, I just went online to office.com/myaccount, selected an option to sign into an existing subscription and entered my username and password. The download on the Mac took about 30 minutes and then I saw on my Mac the familiar tree-ring background. The version was Office: Mac 2011 because the new Office for Mac typically ships after the new Office for Windows.
The My Account Web page is a big plus for people who have had computers die and take copies of Office with them. Now, in one step on My Account, any PC can be deactivated and a new PC can be activated.
The cloud-based structure of Office 365 takes some adjustment, but users can still save files to the PC. In Word, when I wasn’t connected to the Internet and opened a document, I saw a notification reminding me that the version of the document I was reading was an offline copy. This notification also told me when the document was last updated and saved online. Each Office 365 account comes with 20 gigabytes of free storage, but all SkyDrive users get seven gigabytes each, so a person using Office 365 could potentially have 27 gigabytes of storage.
I enjoyed using new touch features, like five small squares on the far right of the Inbox screen in Outlook that made it a cinch to quickly sort through my inbox. These small icons enabled replying, moving, deleting, marking as unread and flagging for follow-up. I wrote this column in the new version of Word, automatically saving it to SkyDrive and easily opening and editing it on other computers and a Windows Phone.
Excel spreadsheets are now smarter than ever thanks to auto-fill features. I tested one that felt like it was reading my mind as it filled in names of people who had appeared in an earlier column because it detected the same name pattern. PowerPoint presentations now include special CliffsNotes-like tools that only the presenter can see.
Office 365 feels grown up and ready for the fast pace of the Web. It’s custom made for people who use many devices, including desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. If potential users can wrap their brains around its new subscription system, Microsoft has a winning program on its hands.
Email Katie at katie.boehret@wsj.com.
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App.net gives users 10GB of cloud storage, its File API to set social data free
Author: Ian Simpson
We thought App.net had eyes just for Twitter when the project was moneyed and garnered its first 20,000 clients. Today, a post on the company blog reveals that its sights are set much greater than simple messaging. Instead of provide simply an ad-free alternative to Twitter, it ends up App.net prepares to become a social app platform with its brand-new File API and cloud storage space services. The API gives devs the tools should build any and all social applications they could dream up– from picture sharing apps to partnership tools.
Furthermore, App.net is providing yearly and dev accounts a 10GB cloud closet. That storage space can, in turn, be leveraged for basic file sharing by users and as a repository for social records that could be accessed by apps developed with the API. So, pictures, messages and some others details from an App.net account could be completely controlled by users and can be accessed by any social app they select. This is a stark contrast to Facebook or Google +, where access to such data is regulated by those companies. Obviously, the new platform’s just as good as its apps, so interested devs should head on down to the source, grab the API, and get begun constructing the next-gen social network.
Submitted under: InternetCommentsVia: The VergeSource: App.net
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega cloud storage launches for early adopters
Author: Jade Kim
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has actually been promising exactly what’s virtually a kind of renaissance through his Huge cloud storage service. Now that it’s open to the first wave of users, we have an inkling of exactly what that approach change involves. Huge is presently just a simple-to-use parking location for records with a reasonably big 50GB of storage in a free of cost tier. Nonetheless, it could grow rapidly: there’s pledges of Google Docs-style modifying, instantaneous messaging and mobile gain access to, among various other strategies. Ultimate paid strategies will offer substantially more storage of in between 500GB for & euro; 10 per month ($ 13) to 4TB for & euro; 30 ( $ 40), albeit with a bandwidth cap of two times the storage at any given level. As such, Huge is primarily a package of potential– but it may stand out from the pack if aspiration matches truth.
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Hewlett-Packard creates Converged Cloud unit, gets serious about the internet
Author: Angela Stephens
Almost a year after HP revealed its cloud computing plans, it has actually lastly buckled down about the net by developing a specialized company unit around it, according to AllThingsD. Dubbed the Converged Cloud device, it’ll be headed by Saar Gillai who has been advertised to senior VP. The device will manage all things cloud, from hardware and services to its advertising and networking partners. Evaluating from its current financial lamentations, possibly this restored gamble on net services will push it further into the black.
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No Comments »Microsoft’s new London studio is building games exclusively for the cloud
Author: Jenny Zhao
In November, we learned that Microsoft was planning to build original games for tablets and mobile phones, spreading the Xbox brand further than ever before, with a new UK studio called Lift London. Now, however, Microsoft VP Phil Harrison has clarified the studio’s mission: to build games for the cloud itself. “I wanted to create from scratch a 21st century studio. Not a studio that would make retail products; a studio that would make games for the cloud, putting together the most incredible talent ever seen in a start-up,” he told reporters during a London press conference. Though Harrison says the company will continue to support retail, suggesting that physical game discs might not go away soon, he suggested that the company’s future…
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Microsoft offers up free month of Xbox Live following Cloud Saved Games outage
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Microsoft says it will provide affected users with an automatic one-month extension to the company’s Xbox Live gold service following an outage related to a Cloud Saved Games feature. Everyone impacted by the outage will get the free extension after the cloud feature dropped offline for many late last week. Following a two-day outage over the weekend, Microsoft’s engineers had “been working around the clock to get the issues resolved,” according to the company.
The Cloud Saves Games feature returned for all users earlier today, with a promise from Microsoft to discover the root cause for the issues. “We can assure you we’ll also be doing a thorough post mortem to help prevent this from happening again,” says Microsoft’s Xbox Live…
