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There Are Adorable Baby Foxes Living At Facebook’s Headquarters
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Ugh, why can’t all offices have a family of foxes living in them?
A trio of baby foxes have been seen recently, napping and snuggling around Facebook's Menlo Park campus.
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Facebook employees started to notice the foxes about a year ago.
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Living with Glass, Day Four: Canyon Carving
Author: Alexander McQueen
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Finally, the flash of newness is wearing off. It’s taken a few days, but the initial novelty of Glass, enjoying wearing it simply because I could wear it, is running thin. The haze of new gadget excitement is clearing and we can truly get down to brass tacks — but that doesn’t mean I’m not having fun. In fact I’ve had the opportunity to take Glass with me to do something very fun indeed: ride a Ducati 848 Streetfighter on some of the most amazing roads in the world.
Even as I did this, a jaunt more focused on gathering some exciting footage than truly evaluating the device, I learned some things — including the fact that a Google Glass headset doesn’t really fit underneath a full-face helmet. Not comfortably, anyway.
Gallery: Google Glass motorcycle ride
Filed under: Wearables
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Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint
Author: Matthew Wilson
You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You’d probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I’d cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through.
I’m honored to be part of the X-Prize Visioneering conference this week, a gathering of incredible minds putting their considerable brainpower behind the creation of competitions to make the world a better place. But, to take part I’d have to get out to California, and that meant yet another long flight across the country — and another trip through the full-body scanner. The question is, how would the folks at airport security react to it?
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Amazon In Your Living Room: Company Is Reportedly Launching Its Own TV Set-Top Box This Fall
Author: Antonio Pierce
According to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek, e-commerce behemoth Amazon is preparing to launch a set-top box this fall, in hopes that you’ll consume all of your content through its spin on the now-common device. The company is already working hard to push its Kindle line to consumers, and this box would be for people who don’t want to deal with the fanciness of Apple products, the gaming nature of Microsoft’s XBox, the half-baked Google TV or the little engine that could, Roku.
Yes, this is a crowded market, but Amazon has something that these other companies don’t have, which is warehouses full of things to sell to people while they watch TV. I imagine that you’ll be able to shop as you would online or on your mobile device, right on your TV set. That means that the temptation to pick up that new TV, while you’re watching your old crappy one, could overcome you during a show. One button click and a new TV could be on the way.
Think of it as Home Shopping 2.0. With some interesting programming to watch, of course.
Instead of acquiring a smaller company that already has its own product in the wild, Amazon has decided to build this in-house, under its Lab126 umbrella in Cupertino.
Amazon has been building up its content viewers by bundling it with Amazon Prime shipping for free, trying to entice anyone who is already spending regular money with them to try other things out. What shipping has to do with free movies and TV, I don’t know, but customers seem to be happy with it thus far.
Reasons for doing a set-top box are obvious, with its original content being the most popular on the platform since it launched. As Amazon finds its way to more niche shows that it can present exclusively, the reasons to grab an Amazon-branded device for your TV makes more sense. In the same way that Apple leverages each of its devices to sell new ones, Amazon is learning how it’s done. It also doesn’t help that it has millions of shoppers visiting its site daily looking for new things.
Some could say that Amazon is late to the game, but I see Jeff Bezos and company taking smart, calculated steps to capitalize on mistakes made by others, much like it did with the Kindle, staying close to a purer paperback-esque reading experience.
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Live from Expand: Better Living Through Technology (video)
Author: Ian Simpson
Emerging technologies have the prospective to impact our health and well being, and we’ll be talking with Ekso Bionics’ Co-founder & CTO Russ Angold and Intuitive Surgical’s Elderly Director of Research Catherine Mohr to discover how.
For a full list of Expand sessions, make sure to look into our event hub.
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Augmented reality comes to the living room with Visual SyncAR
Author: Buck Howard
The study arm of Japanese telecoms company NTT has actually established an increased reality modern technology to play back 2nd screen material in sync with the TV program you & rsquo; re seeing. DigInfo TV reports that the software, called Visual SyncAR, utilizes digital watermarking to send out encoded timestamps to the camera of your smartphone or tablet. The camera additionally identifies where the device is in relation to the main content on the big screen, so you can see the enhancement from different perspectives depending on where you & rsquo; re sitting and the angle at which you & rsquo; re facing the screen.
It recommends making use of the technology in digital signage
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Wow: Guy Builds 140-Square Foot Diorama Of The Battle Of Hoth In His Living Room (It Takes Up The Whole Thing)
Author: Angela Chin
Because decorating means different things to different people, Star Wars fan Barry turned his entire 140-square foot living room into a diorama of the Battle of Hoth. There isn’t any Photoshop in the pictures but the way, the explosions are actually lights Barry built. You really just have to see all the pictures to believe it. My coffee table has never looked so inadequate. “That’s a stack of pizza boxes.” IT CAN BE BOTH.
Hit the jump for bunch more pictures, a video tour of the room, and a video of how he made the explosion lights.
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NYU researchers create ‘living crystals’ to learn why birds flock together
Author: Jesus Sargent
New York University researchers have actually created exactly what they call “living crystals” in an effort to study why birds, bacteria, and various other living organisms flock together. These crystals are made from hematite colloids– little bits including iron and oxygen floating suspended in a fluid– which continuously group together, split, and return to one an additional when exposed to blue light. As you could see in the video below, the fragments slowly drift apart when the light is shut off.
Despite the fact that the research describes these particles as “living crystals,” they’re far from alive. As NYU physics professor Paul Chaikin clarifies to Wired, the crystals only have two of the three qualities of life– metabolism and mobility– but the …
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Gabe Newell Foresees A Slew Of Living Room Gaming PCs (Including One From Valve?) In 2013
Author: Angela Chin
I don’t normally expect much to come out of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, but Kotaku managed to score a gem of an interview with Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell earlier this weekend. In his brief exchange, Newell said he expected to see several PC makers crafting Steam-centric gaming PCs for the living room in 2013, and that their products would rival the next generation Xbox and PlayStation.
Newell’s remarks come just days after Valve officially rolled out Steam’s new Big Picture mode to the masses. As the name sort of implies, the new feature (which has been puttering around in beta since September) swaps the traditional Steam interface with a bigger, simpler UI meant for use on televisions and other large displays. Naturally, expect to see this feature get some major play once those living room PCs finally reach the light of day.
Curiously enough, Newell also repeatedly referred to Valve’s own hardware plans, though it may not have been what some of us were expecting. Rumblings of a Valve hardware play have been making the rounds for months now — indeed, an earlier report from The Verge speculated that the so-called Steam Box could make its official debut at GDC 2012, but the event came and went without any official word on the matter. Naturally, Newell didn’t delve into anything like hardware specifics, but did note that Valve’s potential computing package would be “a very controlled environment.”
Regardless of Valve’s current hardware ambitions, Newell’s comment raises some meaty questions — will these custom-crafted PCs actually be able to loosen the stranglehold that modern consoles have on the living room experience. Or, better yet, are they actually even intended to? It’s probably way too early to pass any sort of judgment on these things, but I’m still leaning toward “no.”
Sure, modern PC hardware configurations have made it easier than ever to slot a computer into a home entertainment system, but I still don’t know too many people who have gone to the trouble despite the lowering of multiple technical barriers. Even when I do see people around me linking PCs and TVs, it’s not for gaming — it’s for sharing photos and videos with the folks in the same room. That’s not to say that there’s no market at all for computers that cater to the living room (that’s a generalization that’s just a little too out there) but I’m very curious as to what Newell and his colleagues at Valve would consider a success here.
Apologies if I’m being a bit too cynical here (I’ve got a truly stupid number of unplayed games in my own Steam library) but in this ever-expanding war for your entertainment I don’t think there’s anything wrong with leaving some boundaries left uncrossed. That’s not to say that companies shouldn’t give it a whirl anyway though — it just makes the outcome that much more interesting to watch.
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Gabe Newell Foresees A Slew Of Living Room Gaming PCs (Including One From Valve?) In 2013
Author: Jon Mitchell
I don’t normally expect much to come out of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, but Kotaku managed to score a gem of an interview with Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell earlier this weekend. In his brief exchange, Newell said he expected to see several PC makers crafting Steam-centric gaming PCs for the living room in 2013, and that their products would rival the next generation Xbox and PlayStation.
Newell’s remarks come just days after Valve officially rolled out Steam’s new Big Picture mode to the masses. As the name sort of implies, the new feature (which has been puttering around in beta since September) swaps the traditional Steam interface with a bigger, simpler UI meant for use on televisions and other large displays. Naturally, expect to see this feature get some major play once those living room PCs finally reach the light of day.
Curiously enough, Newell also repeatedly referred to Valve’s own hardware plans, though it may not have been what some of us were expecting. Rumblings of a Valve hardware play have been making the rounds for months now — indeed, an earlier report from The Verge speculated that the so-called Steam Box could make its official debut at GDC 2012, but the event came and went without any official word on the matter. Naturally, Newell didn’t delve into anything like hardware specifics, but did note that Valve’s potential computing package would be “a very controlled environment.”
Regardless of Valve’s current hardware ambitions, Newell’s comment raises some meaty questions — will these custom-crafted PCs actually be able to loosen the stranglehold that modern consoles have on the living room experience. Or, better yet, are they actually even intended to? It’s probably way too early to pass any sort of judgment on these things, but I’m still leaning toward “no.”
Sure, modern PC hardware configurations have made it easier than ever to slot a computer into a home entertainment system, but I still don’t know too many people who have gone to the trouble despite the lowering of multiple technical barriers. Even when I do see people around me linking PCs and TVs, it’s not for gaming — it’s for sharing photos and videos with the folks in the same room. That’s not to say that there’s no market at all for computers that cater to the living room (that’s a generalization that’s just a little too out there) but I’m very curious as to what Newell and his colleagues at Valve would consider a success here.
Apologies if I’m being a bit too cynical here (I’ve got a truly stupid number of unplayed games in my own Steam library) but in this ever-expanding war for your entertainment I don’t think there’s anything wrong with leaving some boundaries left uncrossed. That’s not to say that companies shouldn’t give it a whirl anyway though — it just makes the outcome that much more interesting to watch.
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