D23 Expo: Build Your Own Theme Park in ‘Disney Magic Kingdoms’ for Mobile
With many magical announcements taking place from Disney’s D23 Expo 2015, there is some noteworthy news regarding mobile games. As Disney reveals their theme park plans, there will also be a new way to experience Disney Parks in an interactive mobile game....
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D23 Expo: Build Your Own Theme Park in ‘Disney Magic Kingdoms’ for MobileWith many magical announcements taking place from Disney’s D23 Expo 2015, there is some noteworthy news regarding mobile games. As Disney reveals their theme park plans, there will also be a new way to experience Disney Parks in an interactive mobile game....GamingAugust 17, 2015, 0:44:3D23 Expo: Build Your Own Theme Park in ‘Disney Magic Kingdoms’ for Mobilesource: http://gamemob.com/news/d23-expo-build-your-own-theme-park-in-magic-kingdoms-for-mobile/ | August 17, 2015, 0:44:3
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Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien Life
The project is called Breakthrough Listen and to those who are dedicated to this line of work, this money is a godsend, as funding for alien hunting has become harder and harder to find. Years of battling for funds, fighting critics about why we search for life, and hearing nothing but silence from our celestial neighbors makes this line of work trying....
Science
Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien LifeThe project is called Breakthrough Listen and to those who are dedicated to this line of work, this money is a godsend, as funding for alien hunting has become harder and harder to find. Years of battling for funds, fighting critics about why we search for life, and hearing nothing but silence from our celestial neighbors makes this line of work trying....ScienceAugust 17, 2015, 0:43:15Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien Lifesource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/building-a-phone-for-et/ | August 17, 2015, 0:43:15
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Red Hat Launches Its Docker-Centric Atomic Host Linux Distribution
Almost a year ago, Red Hat announced its plans to launch a Docker-centric version of its Enterprise Linux distribution and after a long beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host is now generally available. With Atomic Host, Red Hat is throwing its hat into the Docker ring and joining the likes of CoreOS in the enterprise container OS space....
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Red Hat Launches Its Docker-Centric Atomic Host Linux DistributionAlmost a year ago, Red Hat announced its plans to launch a Docker-centric version of its Enterprise Linux distribution and after a long beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host is now generally available. With Atomic Host, Red Hat is throwing its hat into the Docker ring and joining the likes of CoreOS in the enterprise container OS space....PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:42:10Red Hat Launches Its Docker-Centric Atomic Host Linux Distributionsource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/red-hat-launches-its-docker-centric-atomic-host-linux-distribution/ | August 17, 2015, 0:42:10
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Red Hat’s Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack Deployments
Red Hat today launched its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 into general availability. The distribution combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the latest OpenStack release (“Kilo”), and the company’s services for installing and managing OpenStack Clouds into a single product....
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Red Hat’s Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack DeploymentsRed Hat today launched its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 into general availability. The distribution combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the latest OpenStack release (“Kilo”), and the company’s services for installing and managing OpenStack Clouds into a single product....PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:39:11Red Hat’s Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack Deploymentssource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/red-hats-updated-enterprise-openstack-platform-promises-to-simplify-openstack-deployments/ | August 17, 2015, 0:39:11
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Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Ove
Two years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value pairs. This reduces the overhead that comes with traditional file systems and file servers and allows vendors to pack more drives into their racks. Seagate made drivers for this technolog...
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Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-OveTwo years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value pairs. This reduces the overhead that comes with traditional file systems and file servers and allows vendors to pack more drives into their racks. Seagate made drivers for this technolog...PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:38:30Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Ovesource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/seagate-toshiba-scality-and-others-launch-kinetic-open-storage-platform-for-smart-low-overhead-cloud-object-storage/ | August 17, 2015, 0:38:30
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IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes
You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. Today IBM and Canonical announced that the two companies were teaming up to build one running Ubuntu Linux. The new unit is called the LinuxOne....
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IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On MainframesYou might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. Today IBM and Canonical announced that the two companies were teaming up to build one running Ubuntu Linux. The new unit is called the LinuxOne....PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:37:42IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframessource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/ibm-teams-with-canonical-on-linux-mainframe/ | August 17, 2015, 0:37:42
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The Burgeoning Invisible App Market
Today’s “invisible app” market could be classified as a passing trend, but it might also be the beginning of a significant multi-year shift in how we transact when we’re away from our computers. This shift applies to mobile devices, email, home devices like the Amazon Echo and even wearables like the Apple Watch....
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The Burgeoning Invisible App MarketToday’s “invisible app” market could be classified as a passing trend, but it might also be the beginning of a significant multi-year shift in how we transact when we’re away from our computers. This shift applies to mobile devices, email, home devices like the Amazon Echo and even wearables like the Apple Watch....PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:37:5The Burgeoning Invisible App Marketsource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/the-burgeoning-invisible-app-market/ | August 17, 2015, 0:37:5
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Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
It’s 2015 and you might think of the mainframe as a vestige of an earlier computing era, but these mega machines still play a role inside large institutions running intensive workloads. And as though to prove its ongoing utility, The Linux Foundation announced it was launching the Open Mainframe Project today, an open source endeavor devoted to helping companies using mainframe c...
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Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe ProjectIt’s 2015 and you might think of the mainframe as a vestige of an earlier computing era, but these mega machines still play a role inside large institutions running intensive workloads. And as though to prove its ongoing utility, The Linux Foundation announced it was launching the Open Mainframe Project today, an open source endeavor devoted to helping companies using mainframe c...PlatformsAugust 17, 2015, 0:35:54Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Projectsource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/linux-foundation-launches-open-mainframe-project/ | August 17, 2015, 0:35:54
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Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence Is Scary
Unfortunately, much of the recent outcry against artificial-intelligence weapons has been confused, conjuring robot takeovers of mankind. This scenario is implausible in the near term, but AI weapons actually do present a danger not posed by conventional, human-controlled weapons, and there is good reason to ban them....
Robotics
Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence Is ScaryUnfortunately, much of the recent outcry against artificial-intelligence weapons has been confused, conjuring robot takeovers of mankind. This scenario is implausible in the near term, but AI weapons actually do present a danger not posed by conventional, human-controlled weapons, and there is good reason to ban them....RoboticsAugust 17, 2015, 0:33:56Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence Is Scarysource: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/humans-not-robots-are-the-real-reason-artificial-intelligence-is-scary/400994/ | August 17, 2015, 0:33:56
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This online blob game has reduced me to a shell of a man
I started playing an online game called agar.io a few weeks ago, and by now it's swallowing up almost all my leisure time. I've stopped reading, watching movies — it's weird! I probably have a few more weeks until my interest burns out, or my loved ones get worried enough to stage an intervention....
Gaming
This online blob game has reduced me to a shell of a manI started playing an online game called agar.io a few weeks ago, and by now it's swallowing up almost all my leisure time. I've stopped reading, watching movies — it's weird! I probably have a few more weeks until my interest burns out, or my loved ones get worried enough to stage an intervention....GamingAugust 17, 2015, 0:33:2This online blob game has reduced me to a shell of a mansource: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/16/9155133/agario-multiplayer-game-blob-strategy | August 17, 2015, 0:33:2
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The Verge Review of Animals: the immortal jellyfish
In medieval bestiaries, every animal is imbued with symbolic meaning that reflects God’s plan for the world, but the monks that made these compendiums didn’t know much about jellyfish — especially one as unusual as Turritopsis dohrnii, better known as the immortal jellyfish. The bestiaries tell us that the fox is cunning and deceitful: it plays dead to remind us that the Devi...
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The Verge Review of Animals: the immortal jellyfishIn medieval bestiaries, every animal is imbued with symbolic meaning that reflects God’s plan for the world, but the monks that made these compendiums didn’t know much about jellyfish — especially one as unusual as Turritopsis dohrnii, better known as the immortal jellyfish. The bestiaries tell us that the fox is cunning and deceitful: it plays dead to remind us that the Devi...ScienceAugust 17, 2015, 0:31:36The Verge Review of Animals: the immortal jellyfishsource: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/16/9154177/the-verge-review-of-animals-the-immortal-jellyfish | August 17, 2015, 0:31:36
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New Apple Music ads try to beat Spotify by finding your new favorite artist
When Apple Music launched at the end of June, it entered a crowded marketplace full of competitors who seemed to offer a fairly similar service for a fairly similar price, with little — beyond the draw of Taylor Swift — to differentiate it. Now a month-and-a-half later, Apple has put out a new trio of ads that highlight Apple Music's use as a tool to discover new artist...
Apple/iOS
New Apple Music ads try to beat Spotify by finding your new favorite artistWhen Apple Music launched at the end of June, it entered a crowded marketplace full of competitors who seemed to offer a fairly similar service for a fairly similar price, with little — beyond the draw of Taylor Swift — to differentiate it. Now a month-and-a-half later, Apple has put out a new trio of ads that highlight Apple Music's use as a tool to discover new artist...Apple/iOSAugust 17, 2015, 0:30:37New Apple Music ads try to beat Spotify by finding your new favorite artistsource: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/16/9162963/apple-music-ads-find-new-favorite-band-spotify | August 17, 2015, 0:30:37
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You won't be driving an Apple Car any time soon
The Guardian had a great scoop this week revealing that Apple is actively scouting locations for testing self-driving cars near its Cupertino headquarters. That would strongly suggest the company is moving forward with a rumored plan to make cars — possibly in search of continued growth as its traditional (and ridiculously successful) businesses level out....
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You won't be driving an Apple Car any time soonThe Guardian had a great scoop this week revealing that Apple is actively scouting locations for testing self-driving cars near its Cupertino headquarters. That would strongly suggest the company is moving forward with a rumored plan to make cars — possibly in search of continued growth as its traditional (and ridiculously successful) businesses level out....Apple/iOSAugust 17, 2015, 0:29:39You won't be driving an Apple Car any time soonsource: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/15/9156795/you-wont-be-driving-an-apple-car-any-time-soon | August 17, 2015, 0:29:39
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Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR lab
I’m on Industrial Light...
Technology
Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR labI’m on Industrial Light...TechnologyAugust 16, 2015, 3:48:51Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR labsource: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9131805/ilm-ilmxlab-interview-virtual-reality-star-wars-movies | August 16, 2015, 3:48:51
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Apple adds new, larger bands for 42mm Apple Watch
On Friday, Apple expanded -- literally and figuratively -- its line of bands for the Apple Watch. The company introduced a new, larger version of the Sport band with a new "L/XL" designation that can fit up to 245mm wrists, and unveiled a new Link Bracelet Kit that adds additional links to expand the Link Bracelet to that same size. On the other end of the scale, th...
Apple/iOS
Apple adds new, larger bands for 42mm Apple WatchOn Friday, Apple expanded -- literally and figuratively -- its line of bands for the Apple Watch. The company introduced a new, larger version of the Sport band with a new "L/XL" designation that can fit up to 245mm wrists, and unveiled a new Link Bracelet Kit that adds additional links to expand the Link Bracelet to that same size. On the other end of the scale, th...Apple/iOSAugust 16, 2015, 3:43:45Apple adds new, larger bands for 42mm Apple Watchsource: http://www.macnn.com/articles/15/08/14/link.bracelet.sports.band.expanded.modern.buckle.now.available.129976/ | August 16, 2015, 3:43:45
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Why Cellphones Make Humans Sound Like the Speak & Spell Robot
