Shooting video in 4K is quickly becoming more and more accessible, and Panasonic is about to begin offering another option to get shooters started. In May, it will release the HX-A500, a wearable camera that can shoot 4K video at 25 frames per second — a feat that Panasonic claims its camera is t...
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541828/4k-wearable-camera-hx-a500-panasonic-price-release-date
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Disconnect Search, a tool that lets people use popular search engines without having their queries logged or tracked, just got easier to use. On Monday, the outfit took the wraps off a new version that’s accessible through a webpage, an Android app that should come out of beta today, and browser ...
http://gigaom.com/2014/03/24/disconnect-unveils-private-search-android-app-and-web-interface/
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Source: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-ibm-algorithm-explores-tweets-home.html
(Phys.org) —By drawing on the content of users' tweets and their tweeting behavior, a team of three IBM researchers said they have a new algorithm to infer the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region. The algorithm makes use of the person's last 200 tweets for tracking. The scientists described their approach as an "ensemble of statistical and heuristic classifiers" and with this approach they said they could predict locations and make use of a geographic gazetteer dictionary (USGS [United States Geological Survey] gazetteer) to identify place-name entities. They analyzed movement variations of Twitter users, built a classifier to predict whether a user was travelling in a certain period of time and used that to further improve their detection accuracy.---
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/quantum-research-shows-d-waves-computers-are-probably-1550992502
D-Wave's quantum computers have certainly demonstrated that they're capable
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/android-smartphones-can-finally-get-predator-vision-too-1550525260
Earlier in the year, FLIR got us all hot and bothered
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/new-light-emitting-solar-cells-could-be-used-as-smartph-1550586553
In the future, the glass that coats our skyscrapers could also serve as the power plant that keeps the lights on. This is not news
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This isn't exactly killing Android, but it's still fun to look at. Apple's latest iteration of iPhone software is on 85% of iPhones, according to Mixpanel data. The latest version of Android, on the other hand, is only on 8.24% of Android phones. Chart via Statista.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/24/google-now-officially-lands-in-chrome/
If you're the adventurous type, you've probably been enjoying Now notifications in Chrome for a little while now. But starting today, those running the stable version of Google's browser will be able to enjoy the benefits of Now's preemptive search and virtual assistant. The desktop version works more or less the same as it does on mobile, except that the cards pop up from the system tray or notification area in your OS. You'll get access to voice search, reminders for events flights etc... and you'll even get some location-based cards like commute times. Interestingly, some of those alerts are based on the location of your phone, not your laptop or desktop. All you need to do to start using Google Now on your computer is make sure you're signed into Chrome with the same account you use on your mobile phone. If you're not seeing it just yet, don't panic. As is the case with most of Mountain View's products, it'll be rolling out gradually over the next several weeks.
Source: Google Chrome (Google+), Google
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It's also drawn attention to the looming payment card security overhaul that's coming to the U.S. over the next five years, called EMV, or the "chip card" standard. For consumers, EMV will be most recognizable as a chip on credit and debit cards that works as an embedded microprocessor.
Created by Europay, Visa, and MasterCard, the payments security standard has already been implemented in most of the developed world and contributed to overall reductions in fraud.
For the U.S. to adopt the standard, banks, processors, and merchants will have to upgrade their systems to accept and process chip card transactions. It's not a small task and could end up being an enormous financial burden.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/blackmail-ddos-attack-takes-out-major-online-chat-servi-1550323656
The popular group chat system Campfire is currently being nailed with a DDoS attack. Turns out some blackmailing hackers are trying to extort money from the provider. They're refusing to negotiate.
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Photowall for Chromecast is one of those rare official Google apps that makes its debut on iOS instead of Android. In fact, we can't even say for sure it'll be coming to Mountain View's mobile OS, but there's no reason to assume it won't. The app itself is pretty simple: one or more people are able to beam photos from their iDevice to a Chromecast creating a collage of memories. If you want, you can even doodle on your images before putting them up for all to see. While you'll need the app to actually send the Photowall to your TV, not everyone needs the app to add photos to the collection. There's a simple web app for uploading pics to share. Oh, and when you're done, you have the option of exporting the montage to a YouTube clip for passing around between friends. You can download Photowall for Chromecast for free at the source link.
FireChat sounds fairly conventional from the get-go. It's a new iPhone app that lets you chat and share photos with nearby users — anonymously, if you so choose. But instead of relying on global positioning or cell tower triangulation to plot you and others on a map, FireChat relies on Bluetooth ...
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NASA is continuing to work on one of its most ambitious projects to date, and it is now offering money to companies, universities, and organizations to help find answers to the biggest technical hurdles that lie ahead. The mission itself sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a science-fiction...
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5534544/nasa-accepting-proposals-for-asteroid-capture-mission
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Could Netflix change its video streaming service to use a P2P architecture, in order to save money on content delivery and sidestep peering conflicts with ISPs like Comcast? That’s a possibility raised by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a blog post Thursday, which urged the FCC to make peering part ...
http://gigaom.com/2014/03/21/what-if-netflix-switched-to-p2p-for-video-streaming/
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Essentially the Garage Band of coding, smart iPad coding editor Codea has received a major update. Adding a new iOS 7 interface and full 64-bit support for the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display, Codea 2.0 also includes “a brand new unified asset system that supports sounds, music, images...
http://www.cultofmac.com/271336/codea-adds-revamped-code-editor-64-bit-support/
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