Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK (26)
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I'm pretty happy today, for two reasons. First, I'm happy because I get to let everyone know that we're releasing a beta SDK. You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android Developers' Site, or if you want to get straight to the bits, you can visit the download page. Once you've got it, be sure to visit our Developer Forum if you have any questions. Back in November, we made ...
First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC (27)
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Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device. This morning Engadget Mobile broke the news of the ...
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Brian said:
interesting... a reason to stick with t-mobile? time will tell
Amazing Video Technology Makes Lousy Home Videos Look Awesome (2)
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Researchers at the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington have created amazing new software technology for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using photographs of the same scene. According to the researchers: Our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the ...
Movable Type Wants To Help You Build The Next Digg (3)
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Six Apart today announced an update to Movable Type and the launch of Movable Type Pro, a new version that’s designed to let you build your own social networking sites. Or as Six Apart puts it, “think Digg in a box”. What’s New in Movable Type 4.2 Movable Type Pro lets you turn any site into a full social publishing platform, combining all of Movable Type’s abilities as a blogging and CMS with social networking ...
Streaming video comes to iPhone… (13)
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I just got a note that Qik just shipped into beta on the iPhone. I’ll be testing this out and will let you know what I think. One thing, the quality isn’t expected to be as good as what I get on my Nokia phones for two reasons: 1. The compression is being done in software on the iPhone, where on Nokia phones there’s hardware support for that. 2. The camera isn’t close to as ...
Google Reader Now Lets You Share Selectively (26)
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The Google Reader team just announced that it has implemented more granular controls for who you share items with, including the ability to manage a list of friends within Google Reader that is kept separate from your Google Talk contacts. When Google first announced that Shared Items would now automatically appear in the Google Reader of all your Google Chat contacts, a lot of people were quite upset about the lack of control over who ...
6 Crazy Things I just learned about the (10)
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(author unknown) via mental_floss Blog shared by 5 people Shared by Gangles <3 the metric system The Digg charts have been going haywire over this map of countries that don’t use the Metric System. While grams and kilometers aren’t exactly embraced here, the US has definitely been flirting with the measurement scheme for a very long time (Jefferson was an advocate!). Here’s a look at 6 quirky things I just learned about the Metric System. ...
Review of the New 'M&M's Premiums': Fancy-Pants, Expensive, and Kinda Gross (2)
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From Serious Eats Do you find M&M's annoyingly lowbrow? You're in luck! Mars has launched a posh line of M&M's called M&M's Premiums that they hope will "attract a young, fashion-conscious consumer to the product," the New York Times reports. The candies will even make an appearance at New York Fashion Week in September. These novel M&M's bear scant resemblance to the originals. They are made from an entirely different chocolate recipe and sport a ...
Pogue does Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 [jkOnTheRun] (10)
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I have long been a fan of speech recognition technology and Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) is easily one of the best providers of that capability. DNS 10 is a full-featured speech recognition solution that makes dictation into the computer easier than ever before. The New York Times' David Pogue agrees with me and he's done a very nice video review of DNS 10, with his hands tied behind his back. The entire video is done ...
The Significance of trueSpace 7.6 and 700,000 Polygons (10)
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This needs little explanation, but I wanted to share this with the Virtual Earth crowd to show the raw power of the trueSpace 7.6 rendering engine. The following video shows a rendering of 1500 frames which took only 15 minutes to complete all in real time display mode! The scene is a fantasy city with some animation. Now, remove the animation and perhaps you've got the city of the future. Strap in. This is sick. ...
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Jim said:
Very impressive free 3D modeling package.
Front-row seat to John Edwards sex scandal (15)
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I had no idea that when former Senator John Edwards invited me to come along on his plane back in December of 2006 that I would have had a front-row seat to a sex scandal. John Edwards today admitted he had an affair with Rielle Hunter back in 2006. I, along with a few other journalists I had a front-row seat and have some of the only photos of Hunter. See, stuff like this always ...
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Jeff Schmidt said:
Wow Robert Scoble - this is great. It really sheds light on . . . . wait. What does this shed light on exactly? Oh yeah - that YOU were there. That YOU were a member of the "blogo-press-osphere" covering the JE campaign while he was having an affair. Thanks for the reminder that YOU were there. pfft.
Defcon: Excuse me while I turn off your pacemaker (14)
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The Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the unwashed masses of hackers. It always has its share of unusual hacks. The oddest so far is a collaborative academic effort where medical device security researchers have figured out how to turn off someone’s pacemaker via remote control. They previously disclosed the paper at a conference in May. But the larger point of the vulnerability of all wirelessly controlled medical devices ...
California Supreme Court says noncompete agreements are illegal (9)
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California’s highest court has ruled unanimously that a common feature of employment contracts called a noncompete clause is illegal under state law and has been since 1872. Basically, a noncompete says a company’s employees can’t work for or start a competing company, usually for a certain period of time. The rationale is that employees shouldn’t be able to take a company’s secrets and put them to use for someone else. Apparently, the court’s decision, made ...
Jehovah's Witness Discussion - Obituary (1)
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I remember the day I realized I was an atheist. I was sitting in my apartment on my computer, looking at videos on Youtube. I came across a Richard Dawkins video. I had seen him before on TV, on the BookTV channel when he was at Randolph-Macon Woman's College speaking. Professor Dawkins had a gradual effect on me. I kept trying to dismiss his arguments to myself but eventually I realized that the only reason ...
Unseen Film: The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) (1)
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UPDATE: The AMC channel is planning on re-making this classic as a cable television series.Read more here: Coppola's The Conversation to become AMC series Francis Ford Coppola In The Conversation, written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman stars as a surveillance expert based in San Francisco.What's not to like? Gene Hackman, San Francisco, Coppola, a lovely soundtrack, and subject matter that is extremely relevant today. If you haven't screened this flick, you ...
Unseen TV: Cinematic Titanic (MST3K, DvdOnly) (1)
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Most of the brilliant minds responsible for Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back with a new project entitled Cinematic Titanic: Cinematic Titanic Episode One Promo - The Oozing Skull Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), ...
