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Sky Sports for iPad adds more live camera options ahead of Champions League final

Posted by on May 21, 2013 No comments

Sky Sports for iPad adds more live camera options ahead of Champions League final

It’s not uncommon for the Sky Sports iPad application to receive features tailored for fans of the world’s beautiful game, soccer (or football, if you want to get technical). To that end, Sky today released version 5.4 of the app ahead of next week’s UEFA Champions League final. Viewers will now be able to choose from up to 20 camera angles when watching game highlights, which should go hand-in-hand with the recent inclusion of that second screen experience. The update also brings the ability to view selected clips in slow-mo — and, hey, the way Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are currently playing, we’re definitely going to need to take things down a notch.

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Planetary Defense Conference to meet (no word from Justice League)

Posted by on April 15, 2013 No comments

Who will save humanity from the biggest peril our planet has ever faced, a dark, intergalactic force from the sky that threatens life on Earth?


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The Engadget Interview: Mark Setrakian of Syfy’s Robot Combat League (video)

Posted by on April 6, 2013 No comments

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From the latest harbinger of the robopocalypse from Boston Dynamics to more friendly looking machines like Romo, Engadget has a longstanding love affair with all forms of robots. Syfy channel’s newest show, Robot Combat League (RCL), has provided us with twelve new objects of robotic affection –and the best part is, we get to watch them destroy each other in gladiatorial fashion. RCL isn’t the first show to have ‘bots do battle on TV, of course, but it is the first to have the robots be humanoid avatars that mimic the movements of the people operating them. Mark Setrakian is the man who designed and built the dozen robots on the show, and we recently got the opportunity to chat with him about how he did it.

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Major League Baseball Strikes Deal With Qualcomm To Sort Out Wireless In Ballparks

Posted by on April 4, 2013 No comments

Image (1) 3dbaseball.jpg for post 156595Major League Baseball is the stuff of Americana and nostalgia, but it’s also trying hard it keeps up with the 21st century. Today, MLBAM, its interactive/digital media subsidiary, said that it has inked a deal with Qualcomm, for the latter to provide technology and engineering support to improve mobile networks at 30 Major League Baseball ballparks. The deal follows an agreement inked between T-Mobile and MLBAM in January for the mobile carrier to help finally break the wired link between dugout and bullpen, and comes as the two parties forecast one-thousand-fold demand for mobile data in ballparks in the near future.

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Ivy League Students Get A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Dropbox, Cue, Romotive, And More

Posted by on February 18, 2013 No comments

sequoia sujay jaswaSequoia Capital and the student-run Princeton publication Business Today held their first Start @ A Startup conference this weekend, where more than 100 students (largely, but not entirely, from Ivy League schools) were recruited to the join the startup world.

At least, that’s the broad outline that Sequoia partner Bryan Schreier and Dropbox vice president Sujay Jaswa (Jaswa is the one speaking in the photo above) gave me when I interviewed them before the conference. The event itself (I was around for the first of the two days) turned out to be more varied — yes, it was partly a recruiting drive, but it was also an opportunity for startup founders to tell their stories, and for students to ask pretty much anything they wanted.
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For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business

Posted by on December 9, 2012 No comments

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Riot Games created the very successful League of Legends gaming franchise, which hosts millions of monthly users. Barry Livingston, director of engineering for the company’s Big Data group, talks about how Riot Games scaled up to deal with that enormous data load. Consider all the millions of people playing the game in real time. Picture joining three massive tables — player data, game data, and session data — and you begin to see the full scope of Riot Games’ issue. Gamer activity generates more than 500 GB of structured data and over four TB of operational logs every day. Riot Games has also posted 60 open-source Chef and Opscode recipes, among other code samples.”

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Ivy League 2.0 or Just Another Pets.com?

Posted by on November 9, 2012 No comments

The Minerva Project aims to create a high-status online university. Instead, it may be the sign of a venture-capital bubble in online education.

Harvard, by many measures the most prestigious college in the U.S., has been at it for nearly 400 years. Ben Nelson, founder of an online education startup called the Minerva Project, says he can do equally well in just three.







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DC Comics brings a veritable justice league of titles to Kindle, iBooks and Nook Stores

Posted by on November 7, 2012 No comments

Not that there’s been any lack of ways to get Batman or Supes on your chosen tablet, between Comixology and the devoted DC app, but if you happened to need on more, the publisher announced today that it will be bringing its entire line to three prominent e-bookstores. Justice League, Batman, Superman and a slew of others are hitting the Kindle Store, iBookstore and Nook Store. Never let it be said that your tablet doesn’t support Flash. check out some thoughts from co-publisher, cartoonist and all around awesome dude Jim Lee after the break.

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League of Legends the world’s ‘most played video game’

Posted by on October 14, 2012 No comments

Video games come and go, but Riot Games considers League of Legends the current king of them all — for now. [Read more]


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Internet Defense League looks to guard against bad laws

Posted by on July 20, 2012 No comments

A group of activists have banded together to protect the Internet from what they see as bad legislation, with a focus initially on copyright enforcement proposals.
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Internet Defense League forms with support of EFF and Mozilla, bills self as ‘bat signal’ of the web

Posted by on July 19, 2012 No comments

Internet Defense League forms with support of EFF and Mozilla, bills self as 'bat signal' of the web

It looks like the Dark Knight Rises hysteria is affecting more than just spoiler-averse fans. Billing itself as the “internet’s bat signal,” the newly formed Internet Defense League is a collective of companies, websites and non-profit groups– including the EFF, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress — banding together to nip future SOPAs and PIPAs in the bud. The IDL will officially launch tomorrow, and according to its website it’s enlisting web denizens to sign up and “broadcast an action” when net freedoms appear to be under threat. The League is really milking that Batman metaphor to full effect; it will broadcast its logo, a cat that looks plenty eager to tackle all foes of speech, into the sky in five cities around the world, including, interestingly, Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

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Internet Defense League: A Bat Signal For the Internet

Posted by on May 28, 2012 No comments



mikejuk writes “Following the successful defense of the Internet against SOPA, website owners are being invited to sign up to a project that will enable them to participate in future protest campaign, the Internet Defense League. The banner logo for the ‘bat-signal’ site is a cat, a reference to Ethan Zuckerman’s cute cat theory of digital activism. The idea is that sites would respond to the call to “defend the Internet” by joining a group blackout or getting users to sign petitions. From the article: ‘Website owners can sign up on the IDL website to add a bit of code to their sites (or receive code by email at the time of a campaign) that can be triggered in the case of a crisis like SOPA.

This would add an “activist call-to-action” to all participating sites – such as a banner asking users to sign petitions, or in extreme cases blackout the site, as proved effective in the SOPA/PIPA protest of January 2012.’”

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PlayStation partners with Major League Gaming

Posted by on April 29, 2012 No comments

Sony’s PlayStation division will be partnering with the leader in competitive gaming for a new round of video game battling platform known as the MLG Spring Fighting Arena. Claiming that there are “thousands of dollars on the line,” Sony said the PS3 will be the official console used in the new Major League Gaming battle

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2K Sports Major League Baseball 2K12 million-dollar contest gets facelift

Posted by on April 19, 2012 No comments

For the past two years, 2K Sports has given away a pretty impressive prize to the game that it deemed was the best virtual baseballer in the country – a cool $ 1 million. However, while it drummed up a lot of excitement among the loyal fan base, and got some attention in the gaming media,

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Virgin Media TiVo rolling out Red Button interactive TV services for Premier League and more

Posted by on March 3, 2012 No comments

While there’s no doubt that Virgin Media customers have taken well to the company’s TiVo HD DVR offering, so far switching has meant giving up certain interactive TV services supported elsewhere. they’re getting one back now, as the company announced it’s kicking off the rollout of Red Button interactivity to the TiVo on Sky Sports HD, letting footy fans catch more extended highlights of Premier League games. There’s more on the way too, with support planned for the upcoming F1 channel and BBC services in April. Check out the press release after the break ffr more details on what will be supported and when, assuming one will be watching the games on TV instead of diving into hooliganism, or whatever it is fans of football do, we’ll keep our handegg thank you very much.

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