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ENGADGET Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:11:00 EDT
While it may have arrived with the Nexus name, Google's latest flagship has appeared without Wallet functionality, despite the inclusion of NFC hardware. Fortunately, it hasn't taken long for a few eager Android tinkerers to get it working on the LTE model. There's still a few hiccups and bugs and the phone needs to be rooted and unlocked, so consider yourself forewarned: you're on your own if it bricks. Still, it works -- user Mike Beauchamp was able to add extra funds to his account and make his first NFC McDonalds purchase. His video demonstration awaits after the break, Nexus-toting risk-takers can find a full step-by-step guide at the Google Plus link below.
Update: We talked too soon. Those that fear the uncertain future of a rooted handset now have a workaround. An APK is now up for grabs at XDA-Developers that will furnish your new favorite smartphone with Google Wallet goodness, hack-free. Non-US residents, however, still appear to be locked out from adding funds to.....
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GUARDIAN Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT
What do steel alloys, prokaryotes and nitrogen fixation have in common?
This week's element is molybdenum, which will please the biologists who are reading because it is essential for life. Molybdenum has the symbol Mo and atomic number 42. It is a beautiful, lustrous silver-coloured metal that was often confused with lead, hence its name, which comes from the Greek, molybdos, for lead.
Molybdenum is an element of extremes. It is quite brittle but it makes strong alloys that do not expand upon heating when substituted for tungsten. Thus, molybdenum alloys are in demand for aircraft parts, electrical contacts, high-speed drill bits and other items exposed to high temperatures. Molybdenum-based lubricants are also in demand for use at high temperatures. But most important, in my opinion, is that molybdenum is essential for life -- all life, from bacteria to birds. Of course, this includes humans.
Interestingly, several studies found that a scarcity of molybdenum in the Earth's..
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GUARDIAN Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:49:00 GMT
If the Higgs boson is responsible for the mass of fundamental particles, how can we see it via massless photons? And what is it doing on stage in Hammersmith anyway?
In the build-up to the LHC results announced on Tuesday, I was in a position similar to that when I wrote this article in the summer. I knew my collaboration (ATLAS) had a suggestive but inconclusive result, and I did not know what CMS, our opposite numbers, had.
When CMS unveiled their result, it could have been a stronger hint-of-Higgs than ours, a weaker one, or it could have contradicted ours. That's uncertainty for you, and as Suzanne Moore says, we'd better deal with that.
It turned out the CMS result was a slightly weaker, but rather similar, hint; certainly not incompatible with ATLAS. And so we go on, with the odds shifted in favour of a Higgs boson existing at a mass of about 125 GeV (or 125 times the proton mass), but with bets still very much being taken.
In the summer, that was also what happened......
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GUARDIAN Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:54:14 GMT
OneNote, Xbox Live, Kinectimals, Tag… the list of Microsoft apps available on the iPhone and iPad is growing. Will Office join them - and if so, at what price?
What is Microsoft up to, exactly? In the past few days it has released a slew of apps for the iPad and iPhone: Xbox Live (released on 7 December), Windows Live Messenger (updated on 5 December), the barcode-reading Microsoft Tag (updated 5 December), the Xbox game Kinectimals (13 December).
Most remarkable of all: Skydrive, its cloud storage service (released 13 December) and OneNote, its productivity solution formerly seen only on Windows tablets, which got a release and then update on 12 December. There's also Halo Waypoint (released 10 December) and the Age of Empires Crafting Guide (released 8 December).
You can see the full list of Microsoft iPhone apps in the UK store; sorted by popularity, on the iPhone so far it's Windows Live Messenger, Xbox Live, Photosynth, Skydrive and OneNote.
On the iPad, there are just.....
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GUARDIAN Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:25:00 GMT
Cookies are a key component of web technology, but anyone using them must beware new EU rules on consent
Feeling bored and listless? Well, try this. In Firefox, open "preferences", click on the "privacy tab" and then click on the link that says "remove individual cookies". Up will pop a dialogue box labelled "cookies", which tells you that "the following cookies are stored in your computer". If you're an intensive user of the web, it will be a very long, scrolling list. On my laptop, for example, Amazon has deposited 29 cookies, YouTube nine and Google a whopping 53. (For instructions for how to inspect cookies in other browsers, see the NetLingo site.)
Cookies are small text files, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a computer when its user accesses a website. The first thing to say about them is that they do not make for bedside reading. For example, one of my Amazon cookies begins with the phrase "%20s_dl%3D1%7C131818459" and goes on like that for four and a....
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BOINGBOING Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:36:58 PST
[Video Link] TubeGnosis has a fantastic collection of esoteric videos, featuring Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Carlos Castaneda, Jacques Vallee, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Kenneth Anger, Terence McKenna, Robert Crumb, and many more psychonauts and mutants. Above, a 16-minute film that David Lynch made in 2010 for Dior, called [...]
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FASTCOMPANY Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:33:11 EST
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Stop Online Piracy Act Goes To Congress. A controversial anti-piracy bill that could hobble Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and a host of other giants is scheduled to go before Congress today. The House Judiciary Committee is beginning deliberations on the Stop Online Piracy Act, which Google strongly opposes. In a rare show of unity, large web corporations, free speech activists, and tech firms have united to oppose the bill. In related news, Google has announced the 2012 Google Policy Fellowship, which is accepting law, graduate, and undergraduate students to work as public policy fellows for the tech giant next summer. --NU
--Updated 10:30 a.m. EST
Louis CK's Web Experiment Pays Off. Comedian Louis CK's plan for promoting his latest show deviated generously from the the standard comedy selling model. Instead of partnering with a TV network like the norm, he decided to go solo and keep costs low, streaming an.....
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:21:00 EDT
A new pair of glasses from Lumus won't help you capture any precious moments, but it will help you get your discreet HBO fix. Unlike most video headgear, these marvels will let you peer past their lens-projected view screens, opening the door to an augmented reality that doesn't rely on miniature displays. The lenses create an 87-inch virtual screen viewed from 10 feet that is only experienced by the individual wearing the headgear, onlookers will only see a pair of odd spectacles. 1080p buffs won't be pleased to know that the this set of specs can only do 720p, but the Israeli company has said that a full-HD flavor is in the works. The bifocals won't be hitting retail shelves anytime soon, but we'll be sure to take them for a spin during CES next month. Hit the video after the break, which includes visuals of an earlier prototype in action.
Continue reading Lumus teases 720p video glasses, takes transparency to a new level (video)
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:34:00 EDT
Google has teamed up with the Palo Alto Library to offer its Chromebooks on loan, as part of a pilot program slated to kick off in January. As Wired explains, the Silicon Valley library has long offered laptops for visitors to use, though these devices were only available for two-hour windows, and were forbidden from leaving the premises. A few months ago, however, Google approached the library about offering Chromebooks for longer periods, in the hopes of bringing the device's cloud-based "shareability" to a wider audience. Palo Alto's librarians tried out 21 Chromebooks over the course of one month before deciding to loan them out for one-week periods, beginning next year. The notebooks have been available for on-grounds use for the past month, though according to Senior Librarian Jessica Goodman, the institution's Windows-based laptops are still more popular among patrons. "People would try it and say, 'That was pretty cool. I wish I could do word processing with that,'"........
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:11:00 EDT
Sony Ericsson has a clear stance on the Android dev community: one love. In what is, apparently, a first for the company, an alpha ROM of its in-development Ice Cream Sandwich port is available for install across a trio of unlocked Xperia devices -- the arc S, neo V and ray. But hold your horses on that download trigger finger, this early build is only for "advanced developers" and quite a few features, like Google apps, WiFi, Bluetooth, voice, FM radio and ANT+, simply aren't functional. In other words, don't depend on this as your daily driver, but do dive deep if you know what you're doing and want a peek at Google's soon-to-be ubiquitous OS upgrade. Head on over to the source below for the cautionary how-to and remember to flash at your own risk.
Continue reading Ice Cream Sandwich alpha released for Xperia trio, is Sony Ericsson's '143' to the dev community (video)
Ice Cream Sandwich alpha released for Xperia trio, is Sony Ericsson's '143' to the dev community (video).......
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:30:00 EDT
The Google Translate app for Android received a pretty significant update yesterday, bringing handwriting recognition to its bullpen of functionalities. The app, which added voice recognition back in October, can now recognize handwriting in seven different languages, including English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. It's probably most important, however, for Chinese- and Japanese-speaking contingents, who can now use their handsets to translate characters that aren't typically featured on English keypads. The update to version 2.3 is available now, at the source link below.
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:59:00 EDT
How will people remember 2011? As the year of Rebecca Black, if the results of Google's Zeitgeist list are to be believed. The momentarily famous "Friday" singer topped Google's annual year-end list of hot search terms, followed by the software giant's own Google+ social network and deceased Jackass star, Ryan Dunn. The top five is rounded out by the acquitted Casey Anthony and the ultra-hot FPS, Battlefield 3. Apple made three appearances in the top ten, courtesy of the iPad 2, the no-show iPhone 5 and its late founder, Steve Jobs. On the other side of the coin, social networks Myspace and hi5 topped the fastest falling lists. Celebrate the year that was with a video after the break.
Continue reading Google Zeitgeist goes live, reminds the world of Rebecca Black's existence
Google Zeitgeist goes live, reminds the world of Rebecca Black's existence originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | The Official..
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:04:00 EDT
Here's a question: why, as a major consumer electronics company, would you introduce just one software update in a day, when you could just as easily introduce two? Exactly. Apple has just pushed out a new duo that honestly have little in common, but if you're the owner of a second-generation Apple TV and an iPhone 4S, you've hit the jackpot. The former is reaching v4.4.4, which claims to bring an assortment of not-big-enough-to-pinpoint bug fixes; the latter, however, tweaks the iPhone 4S' 5.0.1 build ever so slightly. If you've noticed anything major from either update, do tell in comments below.
Update: The Apple TV 4.4.4 changlog notes that users can expect "general performance and stability improvements, including a fix for an issue that displayed an error when playing some video content."
Apple update twofer: Apple TV hits 4.4.4 (9A406a), minor iOS 5.0.1 bump comes to iPhone 4S originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of...
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:13:00 EDT
"We've got TouchPads!" That's the slogan, but even TigerDirect admits that it's expecting its latest batch of TouchPad slates to evaporate in a matter of minutes. Strangely enough, we've seen the zombie-like webOS tablet on sale in a variety of locations during the past few months, and if you're quick, you'll be able to buy yet another from yet another vendor at 2:30PM ET today. The company's not saying how many are in stock, but we're told to expect the entire batch to be claimed "by 2:32PM ET." The deal? $249.99 nets you a 32GB TouchPad, a 10.1-inch Belkin tablet case and Creative Labs' D80 Bluetooth speakers, while a $299.99 bundle replaces the speaker with a Photosmart printer. Oh, and don't even bother trying to order over the phone -- this one's online only, and it's one bundle per customer. We're telling you now so you've got time to memorize your credit card number. Feel free to talk about nerves, shaking limbs and tales of luck in comments below.
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ENGADGET Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:24:00 EDT
We don't know what the folks at Sling have in store for CES 2012 but they are finally checking items off of last years list, including announcing the launch of SlingPlayer for Google TV. Officially dubbed SlingPlayer for Logitech Revue (it works fine on the Sony hardware too) any Google TV owners can find a link to the web app under the "Spotlight" section of their menu, and only need to login to enjoy remote TV viewing. The connected device SlingPlayer experience here is similar to that of the one on the Boxee Box, however running as a web app has a few specific disadvantages. While it mapped some of the Google TV's remote functions (channel up/down, pause, FF, rew etc.) directly to the box being remotely viewed, doing a simple thing like hitting back takes you out of the webpage and app entirely without warning. One advantage over the standard Android app however is that this one's free to use, so if you have both kinds of boxes (Sling and Google) at your disposal, go ahead and..
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BHASKAR Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:45:17 GMT
New Delhi: The highly-awaited common man's tablet, Aakash, is finally up for sale, as the makers Datawind have opened sale on their Website.
According to reports approximately 30,000 tablets will be up for sale at a measly price of Rs 2,500 each.
Aakash comes with a 7 inch resistive touch screen display (800×480 pixel resolution).
It runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system.
It has a 366 MHz Connexant processor, 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal memory expandable up to 32GB.
It has Wi-Fi, 2 USB ports and supports optional 3G modems. It has a battery life of 3 hours an weighs 350 gms.
It's better endowed sibling UbiSlate 7 Tablet is an upgraded version of Aakash.
It has a more robust Arm 8- 700 MHz processor and longer battery life of 5 hours.
It can be used for making calls as well and is priced slightly higher at Rs 2,999.
The devices will be delivered by early January, technology Websites reported.
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FASTCOMPANY Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:36 EST
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Nokia Eyes U.S. With Lumia Windows Phone. Come January, Nokia will launch the $50 Lumia 710, Nokia's first Windows phone for the U.S., on the T-Mobile network. The entry-level smartphone is expected to attract first-time smartphone buyers, BGR explains. Nokia executives have hinted that this is the first of more U.S. interest, given its investment in advertising and marketing. --NS
--Updated 11:45 a.m. EST
Zipcar Planning European Expansion Starting In Spain. Zipcar is now the majority owner of a car-sharing operation headquartered in Barcelona. The Spanish car-sharing company Avancar will be a key part of Zipcar's move to Europe, following Zipcar's settling in the U.K. --NS
--Updated 9:30 a.m. EST
PayPal Will Launch Daily Deals. Starting in 2012, PayPal will start offering local coupons to customers, chasing a market dominated by companies like Groupon and LivingSocial.com. The coupons will be offered on..
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GUARDIAN Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:03:00 GMT
Hamleys has abandoned its toy shop 'gender apartheid', scrapping its separate floors for boys and girls and their respective blue and pink signs. Are colour and toy preference dictated by nature or nurture? Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, email your views to polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk or tweet @pollycurtis
The Times and FT report today (£) that Hamleys, is ditching its separate floors for boys and girls along with their pink and blue signs and replacing them with signs that simply state the types of toys sold. The Times story says:
Hamleys, the country's most famous toy store, has abandoned its traditional separate floors for boys and girls after a campaign on Twitter accused it of operating "gender apartheid". New signs in the store now state what type of toys are sold on each floor, rather than suggesting who should play with them.
The campaign was started by Laura Nelson, a political blogger who writes under the name "Delilah" and who....
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GUARDIAN Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:30:01 GMT
This striking Asian mystery bird was originally classified into another, distantly related family (includes video)
Hair-crested drongo, Dicrurus hottentottus Linnaeus, 1766 (synonyms, Chibia hottentottus and Dicrurus bracteatus; protonym, Corvus hottentottus), also known as the spangled drongo, photographed at Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Image: Marie-Louise Ng, 26 November 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].
Nikon D7000.
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Question: This striking southeast Asian mystery bird was originally classified into another, distantly related family. Can you tell me this bird's current taxonomic family and species as well as the identity of the taxonomic family it was originally placed into?
Response: This is an adult hair-crested drongo, Dicrurus hottentottus, a small passerine that is part of a group originally placed into.....
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GUARDIAN Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:30:01 GMT
This gorgeous little Australian mystery bird is a grass-seed specialist (includes video)
Common crimson finch, Neochmia phaeton (protonym, Fringilla phaeton), Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841, also known as the crimson finch or as the blood finch, and there are two subspecies that are known either as the white-bellied crimson finch or as the black-bellied crimson finch (I'll let you tell me which subspecies this individual is!), photographed in northern Australia.
Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical Birding, April 2006 (with permission) [velociraptorize].
Samsung digital camera
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Question: This gorgeous little bird is part of a group with an interesting phylogeography that appears to point to where they originated. Can you identify this bird's taxonomic family and species and tell me where the group may have originated?
Response: This is an adult male common crimson finch, Neochmia.....
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GUARDIAN Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:30:00 GMT
This British mystery bird illustrates the damage caused by pissy German lagers
Tufted duck, Aythya fuligula (synonym, Nyroca fuligula; protonym, Anas Fuligula), Linnaeus, 1758, also known by a suite of other names, such as the tufted pochard, tufted diver, tufted scaup, the crested duck or crested diver, the black and white diver, white-sided diver or magpie diver, the black duck or black wigeon, or as the least wigeon, and it also has a few names that are truly strange, such as the black poker, pied duker, blue-billed curre, or the lapmark duck, photographed at Redesmere, near Siddington, Cheshire, UK.
Image: Roy Hill, 5 April 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].
Camera: Canon 5D mkII
Lens: Canon 70-200mm EF f/4 L USM
Exposure: ISO 200, 1/320 second, f/6.3, focal length 200mm
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As a reminder, here's the image I gave two days ago as the mystery bird:
Question: This...
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ENGADGET Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:42:00 EDT
Google's rumored Flipboard competitor is finally here, and it's ditched the Propeller codename for something a little more appropriate: Currents. The app is available for both Android and iOS -- in tablet and phone-friendly formats -- and delivers a more magazine like reading experience for perusing your consumable content. The free app offers you a swipeable, graphics-heavy way to read material from partners like AllThingsD, PBS, Huffington Post and Fast Company, as well public Google+ feeds and RSS. You can even import your Google Reader subscriptions -- and it all gets cached for offline viewing. Of course, the whole thing is integrated with Google+ too, for quick and easy sharing. For publishers, Google is providing self-service tools for customizing how their content is displayed in the app. You can go download it now in the Android Market and in the iTunes App Store for free but, before you go, check out the video after the break to see it in action.
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GUARDIAN Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:00:04 GMT
What do rockets, iridescent coins and hypoallergenic jewelry have in common?
This week's element is another that many of you have either not heard of, or forgot that you'd heard about. It's niobium, which has the atomic symbol Nb and the atomic number 41. As you can see in the above image, niobium is grey in colour, although it takes on a bluish hue when exposed to air at room temperature for extended periods. This transition metal is soft and ductile and has relatively low density, for a transition metal. It is used in superconducting magnets and since niobium alloys are heat-resistant, they are used in space rocket nozzels. It is also used in electronics, optics, and welding.
Those uses are not too common in most people's lives, but you probably have run across niobium in jewelry. This element is popular because it is hypoallergenic and also because when anodized, its surface shimmers with an array of lovely iridescent colours, particularly blues and purples (my........
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GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:35:15 GMT
An Oregon court ruling against a blogger addressed the wrong question. It should be: what is journalism, not who is a journalist?
In 2004, the famously paranoid Apple Computer sued some "John Does" – presumably, company employees – who'd allegedly leaked information about upcoming products to several websites covering the company and its affairs. As part of the suit, Apple demanded that the site publishers turn over information about who had given them the information they'd published.
The publishers refused, citing California's journalism "shield law" that allowed confidential sources to remain so except in rare circumstances. I was one of several people who, at the request of lawyers for the websites (I was not paid to say this), told the court that the site proprietors were engaged in the practice of journalism.
The case, which threatened to turn a great deal of business journalism into a crime, made its way to the California Court of Appeals. In 2006, the court ruled........
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GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:02:00 GMT
Revamp, dubbed Fly Twitter, is based around four key areas, Home, Connect, Discover, and Me
Twitter has unveiled sweeping new changes to the social network in the biggest shake-up of the site since its launch.
The fresh design, dubbed Fly Twitter, will be introduced to the social network's 300 million users in the coming weeks, but new iPhone, Android and TweetDeck apps were released on Thursday.
The new site features redesigned profile pages, and is based around four key areas: Home; Connect; Discover; and Me. Twitter said one of the most significant introductions was its Discover page, which features trending topics and popular discussions from around the web. The Connect tab is home to users' mentions, retweets and new followers.
In a blogpost on Twitter's official website, the fledgling internet firm said the changes are "just the beginning". Twitter has faced a resurgent competition in recent weeks, with Facebook and Google+ both grappling for users' time and attention.....
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GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:30:01 GMT
This handsome North American mystery bird is the only endemic breeding bird in Canada
Harris's sparrow, Zonotrichia querula (protonym, Fringilla querula), Nuttall, 1840, photographed at Galveston Island, a barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast in the United States.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 29 November 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/400s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400
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Question: This handsome North American mystery bird is very special for several reasons. Can you identify its taxonomic family and species and tell me what makes it so special?
Response: This is an adult Harris's sparrow, Zonotrichia querula. This bird is a member of the Emberizidae, the New World sparrows and Old World buntings. These birds share striking resemblances with finches, and were often classified as such. The emberizids the........
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ENGADGET Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:21:00 EDT
Are you someone who has yet to jump on the Twitter bandwagon because it's just too darn complicated to use? Well, the time to spread your tweeting wings has come, because the service has just done a redesign of its web portal and mobile apps around four new tabs -- "Home", "Connect", "Discover" and "Me" -- that make for a less complicated and more streamlined experience (sound familiar?). Twitter's new threads will be rolling out universally over the next few weeks, though the Android and iPhone apps have already been refreshed. All you 140-character mavens can head on past the break for a video of the new look or hit the source links to learn more. For those of you in need of an even simpler Twitter interface, well, we hear there's a guy with a rotary phone who can deliver just what you're looking for.
Continue reading Twitter gets a new look: faster, simpler, cleaner
Twitter gets a new look: faster, simpler, cleaner originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:21:00..
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ENGADGET Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:08:00 EDT
To root or not to root? For savvy PlayBook owners running beta 2.0, that should no longer be a question. With the recent release of DingleBerry, users comfortable with command lines have been enjoying superuser privileges on the slate, but the fun could've been short-lived. RIM moved swiftly to issue an update that addressed the security hole, effectively crippling the exploit. But as hacker Chris Wade made known via Twitter last night, a new workaround has already been finagled. Full Android Market access has, once again, been restored to the tab, although there's still no fix for Hulu just yet. So, if you're keen to reap the unintended fruits of Waterloo's 7-incher, you'll likely want to sidestep any further OTA updates. Or, y'know, you could actually just buy a proper Honeycomb tablet.
DingleBerry breaks PlayBook free from RIM's chains (again), Android Market access makes a comeback originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use..
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FASTCOMPANY Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:29:45 EST
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Iran Blocks U.S. "Virtual" Embassy. The United States government reached out to Iran this week, creating an online embassy designed not to offer consular services as much as, as real embassies do, represent the country in a foreign nation. That Virtual Embassy Tehran site, championed by Hilary Clinton, has now been blocked by the censor-centric Iranian authority--which has claimed it was a "sly plot" by the U.S. --KE
--Updated 11:45 a.m. EST
Apple has revealed fresh details and floor plans for its new curvy, glass-paned "spaceship" campus in Cupertino. The company hopes to break ground next year, and open up the facility in 2015. [Credit: Apple]
Nintendo 3DS Updated With 3-D Video. Last night, Nintendo pushed live the update to the software running their Nintendo 3DS handheld. Besides taking 3-D photos, the 3DS can now shoot 3-D video and save it to an SD card. Afterward, users can tweak the depth of the...
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GOOGLE Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:08:00 GMT
In 2011 Cisco was slapped with two lawsuits accusing it of helping the Chinese government locate and torture dissidents.
Today, concerned shareholders asked Cisco to shape up when it comes to protecting human rights.
The shareholder-initiated proposal, championed by Domini Social Investments, was voted down, as most of these sorts of things are.
But it wasn't a total washout. Cisco did publicly agree to some of its demands, including promising to train all of its salespeople in China on how not to bow to government pressure.
Plaintiffs in two states have sued Cisco. They claim that Cisco technology was used in China's so-called Golden Shield Internet censorship scheme, which helped the government track, torture, and imprison them. That technology was used in
"Our concerns go far behind China. Governments around the world have used the Internet, telecommunications and surveillance to censor speech, stifle dissent and spy on their citizens," said Susan Vickers, vice.......
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GOOGLE Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:50:22 GMT
Famously bearish newsletter writer and investor Marc Faber was on Bloomberg TV this morning.
Mostly he thinks things are bad and are going to get worse, though he does see the euro surviving in a different form.
When asked whether he'd rather own dollars or euros he responded: "I have a very special stock tip for you. The symbol is g-o-l-d."
You can watch the whole video here.
Below is a transcript provided to us by Bloomberg TV.
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Faber on his latest report:
"It's actually quite gloomy but if you're very gloomy what do you invest in: Treasuries, Italian bonds or commodities or equities? I happen to think U.S. equities are not terribly expensive, so relatively speaking to other assets, they may for a while actually do quite well."
On the market now:
"Right now, the market is in neutral territory. It was very oversold on October 4th when the S&P dropped to 1,074. Now around 1260, the upside in my opinion will be between 1,280 and 1,350 because there's a...
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GUARDIAN Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:17:32 GMT
Digital Advent calendars are spilling from behind every digital door this year
And, lo, December begins and digital-minded folk everywhere have the same idea: to create an interactive musical Advent calendar. As ever, some miss the point: music video titan Vevo's effort at vevo.com/xmas not only has too many doors (25 not 24), but you can open all of them now. Also, as you'll need to "like" the Vevo Facebook page and give your email address to enter each competition, it does rather feel that Vevo benefits more than you do.
You'll need to give Spotify access to your Facebook page to see its six 24-track Advent playlists chosen by artists and unveiled each day via facebook.com/spotify, but it's a better offering. So far, the two most credible song-pickers – Ryan Adams and Primal Scream – are taking intruigingly contrasting approaches. Whereas Bobby Gillespie's boys are playing with a surprisingly straight bat, choosing Fairytale of New York and Merry Xmas Everybody, Adams seems to..
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Falcon swoops on cyber crims
Parliament site zapped by botched IT upgrade
London cops apologise to young photographer who was told that shooting Armed Forces Day parade was "anti-social," "gay," "stupid" and an offense under the Terrorism Act
Holiday video game deals still playing
Google's 'Let It Snow' a winter wonderland
The Panthers Just Whipped Out A Wild Trick Play For A Touchdown Against The Texans
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If You Needed Any More Proof That The Patent System Is Totally Out Of Control... (GOOG, BT)
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Rudd urged to protect Assange
Falcon swoops on cyber crims
Faceless net giants writing own rule books
Facebook Timeline Gets iPhone Treatment, Promises iPad Version “Soon”
Google releases holiday Easter Egg: Let it Snow
As Patient Records Are Digitized, Data Breaches Are on the Rise
App Makers Face Holiday Cutoff for Apple Store
