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Like:
The flat logo design
The spotlight animation and swooshing sounds

Don’t Like:
The accompanying typeface
The beeping sounds

11 days ago on 21st Century Fox logo unveiled ahead of News Corp split

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For any fans of the Pac-Man doodle, check out the behind-the-scenes secrets from the two Google developers (at IO 2011). These guys are freakin’ crazy and awesome.

The software guy ran the presentation on a Nintendo PowerGlove. <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc

12 days ago on Graphic design legend Saul Bass celebrated with Google Doodle honoring iconic title sequences

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Doesn’t (really) matter who gets to 10nm, though being backwards compatible to x86 legacy does have some benefits.

At 10nm, you should have i7-class power in a mobile power footprint. That’s a game-changer.

13 days ago on Silvermont: Intel's promise to power phones and tablets you'd actually want

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Now they just need to crowdsource Street-view…

13 days ago on Can new editor for crowdsourced OpenStreetMap project help it beat Google Maps?

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I like driving too, but when you think that every car would basically become a limousine/Batmobile, things begin to change.

Call your car to PICK YOU UP, when you arrive at the airport…

The end of drunk driving, drastic reduction of accidents, traffic, etc.

Drinking/watching a movie WHILE commuting.

Elon Musk + Google X is a matchup that should have happened long ago…

13 days ago on Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update) 1 reply 4 recommends

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Competition benefits all consumers. Finally Atom?

14nm … probably … 10nm certainly, will change the computer forever.

GAME ON

13 days ago on Silvermont: Intel's promise to power phones and tablets you'd actually want 1 reply

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1. Networks go “nuclear” and pull their terrestrial broadcasts.
2. FCC auctions off — or opens up — their abandoned, prime 55-200MHz spectrum.
3. Accelerated adoption and rollout of LTE and/or WiFi whitespaces dramatically increases high-speed internet availability.
4. Internet alternatives to terrestrial broadcasts spring up in their vacuum.
5. Conventional television and cable begins to disintegrate — a figment of the last millenium.

Let’s get this thing started…

13 days ago on Crazy like a Fox: how broadcast networks could rake in billions by going cable-only 2 replies 5 recommends

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Let’s call it … UMS

A Universal Messaging System.

You’re identified by some unique key, not tied to any phone number or carrier. Messages are transmitted as packets of data. It works on mobile, tablets, desktop, watches, eyeglasses, etc. It works world-wide.

If there was ever an open-standard for Google & Apple to work together and create, this would be it. Everyone else would follow — except the carriers, of course.

18 days ago on Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all? 7 replies 8 recommends

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The fact that EVERYTHING isn’t available to stream is complete crap.

19 days ago on Netflix losing almost 1,800 titles from its streaming library 1 reply 3 recommends

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5 years from now chips will be at either 14nm or 10nm. That means i7 class performance in a mobile power footprint. Cell phones will be as powerful as laptops. That will change computing as we know it.

20 days ago on BlackBerry's Thorsten Heins thinks tablets will be dead in five years 1 reply 2 recommends

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Anyone read some of the great short stories by Jorge Louis Borges? Very reminiscent…

23 days ago on Wikipedia and the dead Russian film director who never lived at all 1 reply 3 recommends

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Got bacon?

25 days ago on Wild boars will inherit the earth

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Here’s the video. It was a Frontline special. Part 3 talks about AT&T.

Spying on the Homefront:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

26 days ago on AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance

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There was a Frontline or Nova special on this last year.

The NSA went into an AT&T building in New York, basically commandeered a room, and tapped into the main trunk.

It’s not out of the realm to believe that every single phone call and email is now being scrubbed by the NSA. Which, if true, might have some interesting implications in the Marathon trial — if they decide to go there.

26 days ago on AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance 2 replies

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Of importance to note:

Since it uses the transit method, Kepler is only capable of finding those planets that orbit their star “edge on”, as viewed from our perspective.

Thus, it’s only capable of finding a sub-set of planets that are actually orbiting their stars, and is under-representing the actual abundance of planetary systems.

There are many more.

28 days ago on Forever alone? How NASA's Kepler craft is finding another Earth 1 reply 2 recommends

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The light is as old as the distance to the planet measured in light years.

So, for a planet 1,000 light years away, a picture of it today represents how it looked 1,000 years ago.

28 days ago on Forever alone? How NASA's Kepler craft is finding another Earth 4 recommends