Barista's edition for Wed 14 August 2013
Google announces Chrome Dev Summit, a two-day developer event on November 20 and 21 in Mountain View
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By Emil Protalinski, , 09:16pm Google today announced the Chrome Dev Summit, a two-day event for Web developers to discuss new APIs, multi-device workflows, performance tips, and Blink with Chrome engineers. The summit will be held on November 20 and 21 at Google's headquarters in Mountain View and streamed live on YouTube.
The Pirate Bay's censor-free browser hits 100,000 downloads in three days
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Within three days of its launch, infamous torrent website the Pirate Bay's new censor-free browser has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times, and the official torrent is currently being shared by more than 5,000 people. A modification of Mozilla's Firefox 23 bundled with a Tor client and advanced proxy settings to speed up webpages, the PirateBrowser is designed to bypass censored pages.
Twitter / qz: There's a maximum-security ...
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There's a maximum-security prison in Brazil where male inmates are expert knitters http://qz.com/114236 (Reuters) pic.twitter.com/TbuvUTSLtd
There's a maximum-security prison in Brazil where male inmates are expert knitters
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Brazil's Arisvaldo de Campos Pires is like any other maximum security penitentiary-inmates' crimes range from armed robbery to murder, and armed guards patrol almost every inch of the prison. Except there's one small quirk: many of the facility's prisoners are becoming professional knitters.
Your Facebook Friends Don't Actually Like This
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A new study from the U.K. confirms what we've long suspected: Oversharing of Facebook photos is more than just a nuisance, and uploading a hundred " selfies" per day could very well be damaging to your real-world relationships. The study found that both excessive photo sharing and sharing photos of a certain type makes almost everyone like you less.
full article at Huffingtonpost →
Obama's "reform" panel to be led by Clapper, who denied spying to Congress
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President Obama held a news conference on Friday at which he promised reform-but groups who wanted to see real reform in the surveillance area were understandably skeptical. Obama made promises that he would "work with Congress" to produce better oversight, but he treated the recent leaks about NSA spying as more of a PR problem than anything else.
Watch Ashton Kutcher Blow Kids' Minds With Steve Jobs Quotes In "Smart Is Sexy" Speech
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"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!" Ashton Kutcher passionately shouted (yes, shouted) life advice at Nickelodeon viewers as he accepted a Teen Choice Award last night.
Google Maps Easter Egg Lets You Explore The TARDIS
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Gasp! I would've had this post written 20 minutes ago, but I was too busy geeking the hell out. Tucked away in a single streetview image of what appears to be a mere police box, a newly discovered Google Maps easter egg lets you go inside the TARDIS...
Here's a secret 2012 BlackBerry takeover plan that never happened
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On Monday, BlackBerry suggested that it was open to various options in order to keep the company moving forward. Those options include, but aren't limited to, a sale, a joint venture, a strategic partnership or any other feasible plan to help the once mighty smartphone leader.
The 1.6 percent of the Internet that NSA "touches" is bigger than it seems
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NSA leaks View all... In a memo issued last Friday, the National Security Agency provided details of its ongoing network surveillance operations intended to assuage concerns about its scope, content, and oversight.
Seinfeld Saw Facebook Coming 12 Years Ahead Of Time
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"It's very important for human beings to feel popular and well-liked amongst a large group of people we don't care for." In 1992's "Bubble Boy," episode, Jerry nails the reason you and your friends are still on Facebook despite hating it. Eat your heart out, @SeinfeldToday.
full article at Huffingtonpost →
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Transplantable, Living Kidneys
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For the first time ever, scientists are successfully 3D printing actual, living human kidneys. Like the human livers printed in the past, the kidney are currently miniature in size, but with about 90% of the printed cells being alive, the potential for human use looks immensely positive.
You Can Get All 8 Harry Potter Movies For Just $10 (Total!) on iTunes
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iTunes is having a firesale on movie bundles right now, with some serious movie collections available at crazy low prices. What movie collections, you ask? How about the entire Harry Potter series, normally over $120, for just ten freakin' bucks? And that's just for starters.
This Is the Hyperloop, Elon Musk's Fantastical Vision of Mass Transit
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Elon Musk is constantly traveling between San Francisco and Los Angeles to attend to his business at Tesla and Space X. So he said to himself, "there has to be a better way." Turns out there is. Load yourself into an enormous shotgun shell and shoot yourself 400 miles across the state at 800 mph.
Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy
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Here's some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability, a brief filed by Google's attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have "no legitimate expectation of privacy"-ever.
"Way Beyond Anything We've Done Before": Building The World Of "Grand Theft Auto V"
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Aaron Garbut is the art director at Rockstar North, the Edinburgh studio that produces the games. He's held that title since the development of Grand Theft Auto 3, the 2001 game that made the series the most famous in gaming, set a new standard for virtual open worlds, and established Rockstar among the finest few companies in the industry.
Kim Dotcom's Plan To Protect Future Edward Snowdens
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Last week, U.S. government pressure shut down three encrypted email services -- including one supposedly used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden -- and created an opportunity for onetime U.S. government gadfly Kim Dotcom. In February 2013, Dotcom, creator of online storage locker Mega and its ill-fated predecessor MegaUpload, announced that his company was going to launch an encrypted email service.
full article at Huffingtonpost →
Microsoft dumps Kinect link requirement for Xbox One
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The game console was designed to shut down if it wasn't connected to the Internet at least once every 24 hours.