May 18th, 2012
So, let’s say you’re doing a Google search for “Kings.” Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs.
Google on Wednesday announced Knowledge Graph, a significant change to how search results are delivered that the company believes will make their search engine think more like a human.
“The web pages we [currently] return for the search ‘kings,’ they’re all good,” Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, told CNN in an interview. “You, as a human, associate those words with their real-world meaning but, for a computer, they’re just a random string of characters.” More
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May 17th, 2012
The Weather Channel just overhauled its TWC app for the iPhone, describing it as “the first major redesign since [the TWC weather app's] initial launch in 2008.”
It basically wraps the same underlying information in a cleaned up interface.
Launch it and you’re greeted by a picturesque shot of a cloud-filled blue sky that yields to an interface tutorial.
The new default layout — the weather tab’s “now” view — positions the locales and temperatures center-screen in large font with a drop-down option to view details like wind speed, UV index, visibility, etc.
You can now swipe instead of tapping between locations, and the new background wallpaper images shift to reflect the weather outside in realtime: The “mostly cloudy” image I’m looking at for Orlando, Florida this morning is a snapshot of what looks like stratus and cumulus clouds hovering in a deep blue sky. It’s a dramatic improvement over the previous version’s dismal solid black background. More
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May 14th, 2012
In 1999, an enormous white cross being constructed at a Lake Worth church will also double as a cell phone tower.
Construction crews are turning a cross at Epiphany Lutheran Church into a cell phone tower.
Church executive director John Sasson said T-Mobile will hide equipment inside the 100-foot-high cross, which spans 30 feet. The installation of the structure began this week.
Sasson said the cross provides “advertising we would not have been able to afford,” as well as some additional income. He said the cell phone company is leasing part of the church’s property. Full Story
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May 11th, 2012
Dish Network, the satellite-TV operator began offering its customers a DVR feature that allows viewers to completely avoid commercials – rather than just fast-forward through ads, as the old model digital-video recorders do. The new “Auto Hop” feature comes on a DVR dubbed the “Hopper,” a device that has been available to subscribers since March. With Auto Hop, viewers see a black screen momentarily where the ads were broadcast, or a glimpse of the first frame of the first commercial. Then the show resumes. Consumers merely have to click an on-screen Auto Hop button before a show to enable the feature. More
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May 10th, 2012
The world’s first practical videotape recorder was released in 1956. It was as large as a dining room table and cost a cool $50G. The Ampex VRX-1000 featured an incredibly modern-sounding model number, too.
Ampex discovered that the secret to recording video on tape was to use a rotating head. This enabled them to fit 90 minutes onto a single reel, making the VTR practical for TV broadcast use. Full Story
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May 7th, 2012
At the height of the Cold War, the US Central Intelligence Agency was willing to try just about anything to gain an advantage over the dreaded Communists. The agency considered using exploding cigars or seashells to remove Cuban leader Fidel Castro; they employed psychics to attempt “remote viewing” of Russian military secrets; and the CIA even put the Soviets on the business ends of clairvoyant minds to attempt mind-control.
One of the CIA’s most bizarre Cold War efforts was Operation Acoustic Kitty. In declassified documents from the CIA’s super-secret Science and Technology Directorate, it was revealed that some Cold-War-era cats were surgically altered to become sophisticated bugging devices. Full Story
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May 4th, 2012
We’ve already heard that the price-slashed $399 iPad 2 features a new 32nm A5 processor, and that it could theoretically lead to better battery life. Well, the test results are in from Anandtech, and it turns out that iPad 2 buyers will indeed be getting extended endurance from their new tablets… if they’re lucky. Apple has begun shipping out models designated “iPad 2,4″ with the new processors, but apparently they’re rather thin on the ground right now, and there’s no way to tell if you have one without turning the device on. More
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