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Google Glass code reveals always-on listening mode

Chris Welch — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:04:46 +0000

A number of experimental features in Google Glass have been uncovered by the Android hacking community, including one that puts the headset in a constant listening mode awaiting an owner's command. Another lets you quickly snap a phot...
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Watch Anamanaguchi send a slice of pizza into space in ‘Endless Fantasy’

Andrew Webster — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:42:23 +0000

The latest video from chiptune rock stars Anamanaguchi doesn't have as many meows as the first, but it does have a space-bound slice of pizza. The video is for the title track off of the band's new album, Endless Fantasy, and the fund...
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Florian Morlat sculpts an engagingly strange show

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:41:43 +0000

Los Angeles Times: Collages with the material heft of sculptures and sculptures with the two-dimensional articulation of flat drawings characterize Florian Morlat's engagingly strange show at Cherry and Martin.

Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app

Tom Warren — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:35 +0000

Google is announcing today that it's working together with Microsoft on a new YouTube application for Windows Phone. Following a fight with Microsoft over its unauthorized YouTube app, the pair appear to have resolved their difference...
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Syrian Electronic Army: pro-government propaganda, or just trolling for lulz?

Adrianne Jeffries — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:53:33 +0000

On May 4th, a series of odd tweets went out to the 5 million or so followers of the E! News Twitter account. "Exclusive! Justin Bieber to E! online: I’m a gay," read the first one. Then came a tweet about Angelina Jolie commenti...
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Yahoo among bidders for Hulu, as report says employees head for exits

Greg Sandoval — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:04:28 +0000

Yahoo is among the growing number of media companies that have bid to acquire Hulu, the streaming video service owned by NBC Universal, Fox, and Disney, according to a report by All Things D. The news site reported that the other bidd...
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AT&T prepaid users can now get LTE, if they have the right phone

Nathan Olivarez-Giles — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:53 +0000

As of today, AT&T's prepaid GoPhone customers now have access to the company's burgeoning LTE network. Previously, prepaid users could only connect to the carrier's older 3G and Edge networks — not a major stumbling block fo...
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Google may fund and build wireless networks in Africa, Southeast Asia, WSJ reports

Carl Franzen — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:44:26 +0000

Google is working on building up wireless networks in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and other developing regions, reports The Wall Street Journal. Google is said to be "deep" in the process of funding and building such networks, ...
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Director of Hirshhorn Museum Resigns Over ‘Bubble’

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:29:04 +0000

The New York Times: Richard Koshalek, the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, said on Thursday that he was resigning after the board of trustees failed to reach a consensus on the future of a long-planned project to cover the museum’s interior courtyard with a temporary inflatable bubble.

Top Shelf 012: ‘Xbox On’

Ross Miller — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:12 +0000

The game console of the future will be a tiny box and a large connection to the cloud. Projections will illuminate across your living room, turning your furniture Pleasantville black-and-white to project the somber tone that the game ...
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Tech Titans Embrace Big Architecture

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:19:33 +0000

Wired: No longer satisfied with hiding in standard-issue tech-company hives, Apple, Facebook, and Google have embraced Architecture with a capital A. All three tech giants are building expensive, ambitious structures to expand their corporate headquarters.

Jeff Koons at Gagosian

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:04:47 +0000

Art Observed: This past week, Jeff Koons opened a show of recent work at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, continuing the artist’s exploration of new forms in printed works, sculpture and assemblage.

World Health Organization says it will investigate patent on deadly Saudi Arabian virus

Carl Franzen — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:54:18 +0000

Dutch scientists are facing criticism from international health officials for filing a patent on one strain of a deadly Middle Eastern virus, and now the World Health Organization has said it will investigate the matter. "No intellect...
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Navy conducts first test of Northrop’s Triton drone

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:52:45 +0000

Los Angeles Times: Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp., plagued by setbacks with its pricey high-flying spy drones, has come up with a new version for the Navy that could keep the company's unmanned aircraft assembly line in Palmdale humming.

‘Fast & Furious 6′ review: all roads lead to explosions

Nilay Patel — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:02 +0000

There are a lot of things to say about Fast & Furious 6, which opens this weekend. We could talk about cars, or explosions, or the many new and interesting ways cars can explode now, in 2013. We could discuss new characters, famil...
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Bringing Walking Into the Dashboard to Bushwick Open Studios

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:46 +0000

Hyperallergic: A compilation of works from the symposium that took place on March 9 will be presented for a one day viewing on Sunday, June 2, at 3rd Ward, one of Brooklyn’s premiere exhibition and workshop space. The screening will take place during the closing party and we hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the creativity of Tumblr.

Xbox One could allow remote play over Skype, Siri-like voice conversations with Kinect

Chris Welch — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:13:40 +0000

With the first phase of Microsoft's Xbox One reveal complete, the company now looks ahead to E3 where it plans to give gamers a more thorough look at the upcoming console. Polygon is today reporting that there are two major features o...
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Annie Leibovitz wins Prince of Asturias prize

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:10:18 +0000

BBC: One of the world's top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a "driving force" in photojournalism.

Zach Feuer and Untitled Announce ‘Jew York’ Summer Show

Artworld News — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:08:17 +0000

The New York Observer: We’ve been hearing about a lot of group shows for the coming months, as we head into the low-key summer, but yesterday we received a strong entry into this already crowded field. Might be a front-runner.

Gmail for Android redesign with new navigation bar revealed in Google I/O slide

Nathan Ingraham — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:02 +0000

It looks like Google has a redesigned version of Gmail coming up, if a slide shown off during a developer event at Google I/O last week is any indication. As spotted by Android Police, a slide during the "Structure in Android App Deve...
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Four elements, four buttons: ‘Element4l’ is a fun, atmospheric shape-shifter

Andrew Webster — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:42:05 +0000

In the first level of Element4l, I died 28 times before making it to the end. It's not because the enemies are particularly tough (there aren't any), or the action is too fast paced (it's pretty relaxed), but because the game's unique control scheme is just so different. And death, it seems, is a great teacher. Unlike most games, Element4I doesn't give you direct control over your character; instead, you can only move the little guy by changing states. Turning into an air bubble will send you floating upward, for instance, while switching to a rock will have you plummeting back down to the ground. It takes awhile to get used to — and even once you do the game is incredibly challenging. But when everything goes right, it's immensely... Continue reading…

2 apps to help make traveling faster, cheaper

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:31 +0000

TODAY’s Sara Haines shows Kathie Lee and Hoda a travel app called Hipmunk that compares flights and hotels by such criteria as price and layover times. She also demonstrates how to use Waze, an app that finds the fastest route to your destination.

Chinese farmer builds own bionic hands

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:29 +0000

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No shit: can fecal transplants save 14,000 lives a year?

Amar Toor — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:20:59 +0000

For Rhiannon Maher, the suffering began last August. Maher, then a 20-year-old college student, had recently been hospitalized for colitis after experiencing a bout of vomiting and diarrhea, but her doctors soon diagnosed her with a f...
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Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter lands in NYC

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:08:13 +0000

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A 3D-printed gun can still explode, but making an AK-47 is easier than you think

Adi Robertson — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:53:29 +0000

When Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed released the first 3D-printed gun files online, he saw it as a logical combination of the First and Second Amendments: a way to make access to firearms as widespread as access to information. Anyone, the argument goes, could buy a 3D printer and put together their own pistol. But while the novelty and promise of 3D printing is real, homemade, unlicensed guns have a long history — and 3D printing doesn't guarantee that gunmaking will be easy. Earlier today, Australia's New South Wales Police issued a warning on the Liberator pistol. After printing two guns on a $1,700 printer, Commissioner Andrew Scipione issued a warning that the tiny pistols "will kill at both ends," according to the Sydney... Continue reading…

Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaning

ScienceDaily: Fossils & Ruins News — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:48:48 +0000

Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when ...
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8 big kid beach toys for sand and surf

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:45:28 +0000

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iOS 7: redesign rumors gain steam as Jony Ive takes control

Nathan Ingraham — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:44:33 +0000

While it's no surprise that Apple is planning to introduce the next generation of iOS this summer, rumors suggest that the company's mobile OS will get a major visual facelift for the first time. With the departure of iOS head Scott F...
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Inside “The Encyclopaedic Palace”

The Art Newspaper — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:44:00 +0000

Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition, "The Encyclopaedic Palace", will present an eclectic mix of work both by established and self taught artists. For Gioni, this show is "a way of reminding us that the artists that sell at auction aren’t the only...
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