Zac Efron ‘to play lead in Akira remake’ - Or, How Hollywood plans to rape a classic masterpiece of Japanese Manga.
Posted 1 year ago
Android is like the little Finnish boy who pees on himself to stay warm. Sure it’s warm now, but it’s going to get icy later.
Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki
(Source: visionmobile.com)
Posted 1 year ago
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
Is Google’s imminent lockdown of Gingerbread’s UI going to backfire?
Posted 1 year ago
If an Apple designer pitched this craplution to Steve Jobs, he’d rip their still-beating heart clear out of their chest.
Posted 1 year ago
Opinon: Andy Rubin’s tweet to Steve Jobs
Take this tweet by Google’s own Andy Rubin in response to Steve Jobs’ recent comments on the ‘open’ vs. ‘closed’ debate surrounding Android and iOS.
If you understand what the tweet means, you’re in a privileged minority of tech-savvy users of open source software repositories, and can recognise its contents as a set of simple commands to download and build your very own copy of the Android OS.
For the rest of us mere mortals, Andy Ruben’s response does little but highlight Google’s entire attitude towards their approach to the smartphone: a complete disregard for the average end-user’s understanding (or lack thereof) of the underlying technology of what should be a ‘pick up and use’ device.
Posted 1 year ago
Eleven Amazing Savants Show the Power of the Human Brain
And a glimpse into the technology that may, one day, make savants of the rest of us.
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Posted 1 year ago
Computer reads and learns from the internet
CMU’s NELL computer is scouring the ‘nets, continually learning in a human-like fashion as it processes more information.
Let’s just hope it doesn’t come across 4Chan any time soon, or the inevitable enslavement of humanity may well occur to the tune of Rick Astley.
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