In the near future, the only difference between a smartphone, tablet, and a laptop will be the size of the screen. Hardcore gamers could play 3D intensive games in a smartphone, and Michael Bay could render “Transformers 4″ from his iPad. Otoy, an LA-based software company, has discovered a way to stream any application to any device, completely through a web browser. It’s difficult to overestimate the potential disruptiveness of Otoy, as a breakthrough streaming service could, in the near future, end the need for app stores and computer upgrades (see a demo below). Otoy has a habit of impressing the tech press with its surprising ability to stream 3D intensive graphics to devices that shouldn’t be able to run them. Since Otoy’s 2009 demo, there’s been a rush of companies in the ever more crowded “cloud” services industry, such as Onlive’s streaming video gaming. Up until now, video games were shackled to certain consoles, mobile apps to particular app stores, and software to particular operating systems. If we didn’t own an iPhone, Windows, and or an Xbox, we couldn’t use a lot of cool applications. But, every device runs Internet browsers, and specifically, the JavaScript which Otoy utilizes to render the software. Soon, the monopoly that iOS, Windows, and Xbox wields over users will end, and the freedom to use any piece of software on any device will become the norm. Even cooler, we may no longer need to shell out $ 3,000 on a high-end laptop to run games or graphics software. At Otoy’s media event with Mozilla and Autodesk at San Francisco headquarters, we saw the graphics-hungry first person shooter, Unreal, run seamlessly on an iPhone. In essence, Otoy brings a supercomputer to your phone or tablet. “That’s going to have huge implications in my business” said celebrity talent agent and Otoy investor, Ari Emanuel, who sees the ability of more filmmakers to make movies in less time and for less money. Currently, it takes an entire day to render movie-quality scenes. With Otoy, globally distributed teams could work in real time (some at the beach) without having to stagger their work for an entire day between revisions. So, how much will it cost if Otoy completely replaces my computer needs? About $ 300, estimates Urbach, based on 8 hours of use per day for consumer applications (Otoy charges by computing power and is currently targeting artists). There is
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Russian space junk almost destroys NASA telescope
A high-tech NASA telescope in orbit escaped a potentially disastrous collision with a Soviet-era Russian spy satellite this month in a close call that highlights the growing threat of orbital debris around Earth. NASA’s $ 690 million Fermi
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Stephen Wolfram says he almost had a deal with Google, but it ‘blew up’
As you may recall, Wolfram Research signed a deal with Microsoft a few years back that saw some Wolfram Alpha functionality integrated into Bing. As it turns out, it very nearly found its way into a certain other search engine as well. In an interview at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam today, Stephen Wolfram revealed that his company had tried to work with Google and “almost had a deal,” but it “blew up.” Unfortunately, he didn’t provide any further details about when those talks took place or exactly what the potential deal entailed, and it doesn’t sound like we can expect that deal to revived anytime soon — especially considering Google’s own efforts that are increasingly overlapping with Wolfram Alpha. As Wolfram himself notes, though, the two companies do have something of a longstanding connection: Google co-founder Sergey Brin was actually an intern at Wolfram way back in 1993.
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo almost ready to rock
A new private spaceship is one step closer to flying its first passengers after acing a spectacular test flight over the California desert last week.
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Facebook Home now available for almost any Android device
Despite an early leak on Monday, once again the internet lit-up with chatter about the release of Facebook Home in the Google Play store. All good and well if you find yourself in the right place with the right phone, but what about everyone else? Unsurprisingly, the digital door staff (read, Facebook’s hardware restrictions) have already been dispatched, meaning almost any Android device can download and install the social software. We can thank Paul O’Brien at MoDaCo for doing the honors, and for those interested, the process is pretty simple. If your issue is location (rather than device) you’ll need the latest version of Facebook’s regular and Messenger apps first. Once you do, just download the APK, activate it, and you’re good. If hardware is the barrier, then you’ll need to get the patched versions of Facebook, Messenger and Home (via the source). Early reports suggest that most features operate just fine, but that sending SMS from Messenger can sometimes stop working. If that’s a deal-breaker, you’ll have to keep an eye out for updates. If it’s not, then tap the source up for the full lowdown. If you do, head back here and let us know how you got on.
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Order a living ‘Game of Thrones’ dire wolf (almost)
The Dire Wolf project aims to create a breed of domesticated large companion dogs that have the feral look of the extinct dire wolf. [Read more]
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 spotted at MWC, almost hides your entire hand (updated with video)
At last, here’s what we’ve been promised: an 8-inch flavor of Samsung’s Galaxy Note lineup. Spotted by an anonymous tipster on the MWC show floor earlier today, the booth shows off said tablet designed with portrait usage in mind, meaning it’ll pretty much cover up most of whichever hand you’ll be holding it with. And obviously, the Note 8.0 comes with a stylus as well. There’s not much more to share at this point, but we’ll be seeing this new device in its full glory very soon, so stay tuned. One more shot after the break.
Update: The folks over at Beste Product caught a few models posing with the Galaxy Note 8.0 for Samsung’s photographer. The Dutch website even has a video — embedded after the break — of the whole action, and there you can see some design similarities of the tablet’s backside, especially how the camera protrudes a little.
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Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0
New submitter karijes writes “Evil is a new Emacs major mode intended to implement full Vim emulation for Emacs editor, and it’s reached its first stable release. Evil implements many Vim features and has support for plugins, so there is port for rails.vim, NERDCommenter and mapleader among others. You can find details about this release on the mailing list.”
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Facebook Connect bug takes down entire internet (almost)
It’s official: Facebook has a hold on the internet, and when the social network has a problem, the entire internet will suffer. Case in point: Facebook’s Connect feature experienced issues yesterday that affected thousands of other website who use Facebook’s integrated “Like” button system on their websites. The error would occur when users tried to
“Superomniphobic” Nanoscale Coating Repels Almost Any Liquid
cylonlover writes “A team of engineering researchers at the University of Michigan has developed a nanoscale coating that causes almost all liquids to bounce off surfaces treated with it. Creating a surface structure that is least 95 percent air, the new ‘superomniphobic’ coating is claimed to repel the broadest range of liquids of any material in its class, opening up the possibility of super stain-resistant clothing, drag-reducing waterproof paints for ship hulls, breathable garments that provide protection from harmful chemicals, and touchscreens resistant to fingerprint smudges.”
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AOC’s 23-inch IPS monitor almost skips the bezel, ships soon for $199
Close on the heels of its “virtually borderless” (when it’s turned off) 27-inch IPS monitor, display maker AOC has come up with a smaller sibling to add to the family. The 23-incher, tagged the i2367fh, totes similar styling and specs — IPS technology, a claimed 2mm bezel, 1920 x 1080 resolution with 50,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 5ms response time and two HDMI ports. The off timer function its predecessor sported also remains. However the new model, which is part of a different series, can’t boast of the same height-adjustable stand and 4-watt speakers, integrating a 2-watt pair instead. The monitor carries a $ 199 sticker, but you can snag it for 10 bucks lower on backorder from B&H Photo and Amazon — stock is expected later this month.
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Google Invests $75M In Iowa Wind Farm, Bringing Its Total Green Energy Investments To Almost $1B
Google just announced that it has invested $ 75 million in a 50 MW wind farm in Rippey, Iowa, a small town an hour outside of Des Moines. This is Google’s second wind energy investment in the state. In 2010, Google entered a long-term contract to buy green energy for its Iowa data center, but this is the company’s first direct investment into an Iowa wind project.
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IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview
Billly Gates writes “IE 10 just hit the final preview yesterday for Windows 7. Windows XP and Windows Vista support has been dropped. Most slashdotters have a complex relationship with Internet Explorer. Many of us hate it but have to use it in the office. Microsoft had tried last year to make IE good again with the release of IE 9 which had some fanfare on slashdot, such as hardware acceleration and better standards compliance. MS even launched a full campaign to get us to switch. IE 10 is supposed to continue the new process and promises to be much faster and support more HTML 5, CSS 3, W3C HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 with a score of 320 on HTML5test. As a comparison, last years IE 9 only scored 138. “
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Entanglement Makes Quantum Batteries Almost Perfect, Say Physicists
Star Citizen has already raised almost $500,000
Chris Roberts, the iconic game designer whose work you may have seen in Wing Commander and Privateer, is making a comeback after spending almost a decade out of the game industry to design a new space-themed MMO called Star Citizen. However, he needs $ 2 million in crowd funds in order to continue development of the
With A Budget Almost Cut In Half And 40 Percent Staff Cuts Can The RIAA Survive?
RIAA’s budget comes from music labels and distributors because it represents the interests of the music industry. Therefore, it depends on their willingness. TorrentFreak obtained its latest tax filing and the RIAA is facing the same difficulties as the major music labels. Its budget has been cut to $ 29.1 million dollars for 2010-2011 from $ 51.35 million dollars two years earlier. Yet, the most important shift comes from the anti-piracy strategy adopted by the RIAA.
Instead of spending tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the RIAA is supporting the copyright alert system and its six strikes, a policy inspired by the unpopular and ineffective French anti-piracy law called Hadopi.
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Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU
An anonymous reader writes “Today the source code to the Rootbeer GPU Compiler was released as open source on github. This work allows for a developer to use almost any Java code on the GPU. It is free, open source and highly tested. Rootbeer is the most full featured translator to convert Java Bytecode to CUDA. It allows arbitrary graphs of objects to be serialized to the GPU and the GPU kernel to be written in Java.” Rootbeer is the work of Syracuse University instructor Phil Pratt-Szeliga.
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Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15%
glitch0 writes “Internet Explorer used to be the most prevalent browser with a market share that peaked at 88% in March of 2003. Now they’re down to almost 15% due to stiff competition from Google, Mozilla, and even Apple. What implications does this have for the future of Microsoft?”
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LocalResponse: Our Ad Network Has 7 Billion Impressions Per Month And Is Almost Profitable
LocalResponse, a network that targets ads based on social network data (such as check ins), is sharing some news about its growth. The big number: It says it’s serving more than 7 billion impressions per month.
To be clear, it isn’t actually filling all of that inventory, or even close to 100 percent, as CEO and co-founder Nihal Mehta admits. However, he says that if LocalResponse could fill even half of it, say at a $ 6 CPM (the rate for each thousand impressions), it would still be a big business.
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WWDC 2012 almost here: We’ll be liveblogging the keynote!
Apple’s annual developer event, WWDC 2012, is almost upon us, with the company’s big keynote set to begin at 10AM PST tomorrow, Monday June 11. SlashGear will be liveblogging the whole presentation, where we’re expecting to see iOS 6 previewed, a new range of desktop and mobile Macs including the much-anticipated 2012 MacBook Pro refresh, and
Instapaper Finally Makes Its Android Debut, And It’s Almost Amazing
Given Instapaper creator Marco Arment’s less-than-enthusiastic stance on Android, it didn’t seem like an Android version of his popular story-saving app would ever see the light of day. A handful of people have tried to bring the immensely useful service to Android with varying degrees of success, but Arment and mobile developer Mobelux have surprised us all by offering up their own official solution.
Yes, that’s right. Instapaper for Android has finally been released into the Google Play Store, where it can be yours for $ 2.99. Now the question changes from “when will it be released?” to “how well does this thing actually work?”
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On Hand for the SpaceX Launch That Almost Was (Video)
This morning’s nixed launch of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to the ISS with the company’s Falcon booster was an exciting thing to be on hand for, despite the (literally) last-second halt. Shuttle launches used to cause miles of traffic backups extending well outside the gates of NASA’s Cape Canaveral launch facilities; for all the buzz around the first private launch to the ISS, today’s launch attempt was much more sparsely attended. In a small set of bleachers set up near the massive countdown clock, there were a few dozen enthusiasts and reporters aiming their cameras and binoculars at the launch site on the horizon. They counted down in time with the clock, and — just like NASA’s own announcer — reached all the way to “liftoff.” There was a brief flash as the engines ignited, but it died as fast as it appeared. It took only a few seconds for the crowd to realize that it was all over for today’s shot. While the company’s representatives remain upbeat, pointing out that the software worked as intended to stop a launch before anomalies turn into catastrophes, most of those on hand to see what they’d hoped to be a historic launch were a bit glum as they walked back to the parking lot and the press area — especially the ones who can’t stay until the next try. I’m sticking around the area until the next scheduled launch window; hopefully next time the fates (and engines) will align.
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Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations
Microsoft revenue grew across most of its businesses in the third quarter, with the exception of its entertainment division, but profit fell slightly, the company said on Thursday.
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UX Expert, 23, Almost Refused Entry To Ireland To Hire People. Name’s Flanagan.
As tech becomes the world’s hottest subject and one of its few growth sectors, the international borders are straining as talent moves around the globe in search of the best startups and projects. European countries are increasingly alive to this, and we’ve seen huge efforts made by tech celebrities to lobby the White House over the Startup Visa concept. But it seems the news that the tech industry is now a big deal had not reached a certain immigration official at Dublin Airport today.
An unnamed officer today turned away one of the world’s top UX guys from entering Ireland because they didn’t believe his “story”. The “story” turned out to be told by one Brian Flanagan – a name normally recognised as being Irish in extraction, but more to the point, Flanagan is currently working with one Joi Ito on a project.
The problem was that the official simply did not buy the idea that UX is a “real job” and promptly sent him off to a waiting room where he was due to be deported back to the U.S. from where he’d traveled.
Despite telling officials he was in Ireland to HIRE people, he was told bluntly: “You couldn’t be hiring people, you’re – like – 23!”
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Samsung Optical SmartHub review: Almost genius
CNET editor Dong Ngo reviews the Samsung Optical SmartHub, an external optical drive with a built-in wireless network and media streaming capability.
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Almost Three: A Brief History Of Foursquare Time (And A Look At Its Future)
Six years ago I first set foot in Silicon Valley to attend one of the early “Hack Day” events that are now perpetual. It was an event where fellow nerds were creating web-apps using whatever technology they could get their hands on. VC’s and Valley luminaries were judging and dishing out fat prizes. Mike Arrington was moderating. We were being treated like rockstars, and I was hooked.
I quickly found myself obsessed with creating products; trying to follow the work of Steve Jobs and other product leaders that did it best. With so many approaches to product management, I found but a single common philosophy that bound all successful products together
Almost a Million UK Homes Will Suffer 4G TV interference
First time accepted submitter Nick Fel writes “As the UK nears the end of a lengthy digital TV switch-over, the sale of the analogue TV spectrum for 4G mobile phones will disrupt digital TV in almost a million homes. Affected homes will be issued with a filter or required to upgrade to satellite or cable, and in extreme cases may be granted funding to find their own solution.”
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Evernote Bought Four Companies Last Year And (Almost) Nobody Knew About It
It may seem strange to think of productivity app Evernote as a platform, but with 20 million users and 9,000 apps built on the client, the three and a half-year old startup is a veritable apps ecosystem. Beyond this developer ecosystem, the company released five of its own simple and unique Evernote-based apps in the past year: Hello, an app that helps you remember people, Food, and app that helps you remember important meals, Skitch, an app that lets you communicate visually, Peek, an app that utilizes the iPad cover for a novel take on tutoring, and Clearly, an app that makes content easier to read within Evernote.
Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music
Back in 1982, John Flansburgh, John Linnell, and a drum machine formed They Might Be Giants. Over the last 29 years TMBG have released 15 studio albums, won 2 Grammy Awards, and have become one of the most nerd-loved bands ever. In addition to projects like Dial-A-Song, TMBG were one of the first bands to create their own online music store, and have been making podcasts on a semi-monthly basis since 2005. The band has agreed to answer all your questions about the naming conventions of Turkish cities, building spiritual bird houses, and the music business. As usual, ask as many questions as you’d like, but please keep it to one question per post.
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Magnetic Cello almost makes it cool to play the cello (video)
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Sony Reader WiFi almost ready to let you (multi)touch it, up for pre-order now
Well, it’s been almost a month since we first pinched our greasy fingers across the Pearl E-Ink screen gracing the front of Sony’s latest e-reader, and your opportunity to do the same is quickly approaching. The 7-inch, Android-powered Reader is now available for pre-order (at the source link) for $ 150, just as expected. The current shipping date is listed as “on or about” October 16th, so if you put in your order now, you’ll still have a couple of weeks to wait. Still, if you could hold out six years for A Dance with Dragons, what’s three weeks to you?
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Mobile Mix study shows Android almost double iOS market share
Millennial Media released a new Mobile Mix report today for the month of August and unsurprisingly Android and iOS are both still in the lead and growing, while the rest of the competitors continue to fall further behind. Android has quite the lead with a 54 percent market share that’s almost double that of iOS, which has 28 percent.
While Android and iOS continue to grow, RIM continues to decline and is now in third place at 13 percent market share. Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Nokia’s Symbian each make up only 1 percent of the market, while the remaining mix of platforms make up 3 percent.
This Mobile Mix report also tracked the top 20 handsets with the iPhone making up 13.06 percent. The second place handset was the LG Optimus at 6.71 percent, probably largely due to it being cheap and in some cases free with a new two-year contract. However, the study did combine the count for current and older generations of the same device series. For instance, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS were counted together, while the Motorola Droid and Droid 2 were lumped together as well.
Although the iPhone takes the lead in the top 20 handsets, 15 of those run Android, making up 33 percent. Rounding out the top 20 are the BlackBerry Curve, Bold, Torch, and Pearl.
Additionally, the study also produced a Device OS Mix chart that now includes tablets and handheld gaming devices, MP3 players, and other connected devices. Tracking the impressions, smartphones now make up 72 percent of the market, while feature phones and connected device each make up 14 percent.
[via IntoMobile]
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