Los Angeles planning to bring free, fiber-based internet to its 3.5 million residents | The Verge

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5070520/los-angeles-planning-to-bring-free-fiber-based-internet-to-its-residents

Wired's Article About Google's Killer iOS Apps

Why Google Just Made iPhone King:
This article from wired.com points out a recent business decision and its side-effects, both for the players - Google and Apple - and for the rest of us.
    There is a lot to be said for having as many platforms to share your ad content with as possible. In fact, if revenue from ads is your main business model, then you can't not be on as many devices as possible.
    The thing is, when you make your most killer apps on your competitors hardware you up the ante for your developers and users alike.
    As a user and consumer I am glad to have choice, and happy that the pressure and heat of competition sometimes produces gems.

Larry Page. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems

Check out this article on Wired.com.

Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/

Susan Bennett - The Voice of Siri

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Fo̱s Wearable LED Display Targets Athletes As Target Market | Ubergizmo

Fo̱s Wearable LED Display Targets Athletes As Target Market | Ubergizmo:

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Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us? | Mother Jones

Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us? | Mother Jones:

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Anki Drive is alive, check it out

Engineered to think. Designed to win. Discover for yourself at http://appstore.com/ankidrive

An AWD Lamborghini

Lamborghini_Murciélago_Roadster_2005

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Battery-free short-range wireless communication between devices | KurzweilAI

Researchers demonstrate how one payment card can transfer funds to another card by reflecting energy from ambient RF signals acting as both power source and communication medium.

Ambient backscatter: communication between two battery-free devices. One such device, Alice, can backscatter ambient signals that can be decoded by Bob and other ambient backscatter devices. To legacy receivers, this signal is simply an additional source of multipath, and they can still decode the original transmission.

Out Of The Comics, Into Reality: Jet Pack Moves Closer To Market : All Tech Considered : NPR

Standing on the center console of the Martin Jetpack, a pilot straps in and uses the joysticks to control flight.

Lee Howell/Martin Aircraft Co.

Node.js on a chip. Plus wi-fi.

Technical Machine:

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Article: UPS to offer 3D printing service in select San Diego stores (video)

UPS to offer 3D printing service in select San Diego stores (video)
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/31/ups-to-offer-3d-printing-service-in-select-san-diego-stores-vid/

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Toyota Concept Car

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/App_Data/MediaFiles/5/E/8/%7B5E8E8C53-B396-419D-A9C6-E1B96DA97408%7D08222012_cars_toyotafun_vii_slideshow.jpg

Signing Up for Some Pain

D-Bus: Main Page: "D-Bus Documentation
This manual documents the low-level D-Bus C API. If you use this low-level API directly, you're signing up for some pain."

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Google Latitude RIP. Welcome Google+ for Android: 42

"Coming soon to iOS" ...

Google+ for Android: 42:

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EMDR

Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.  The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.  Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed. As a natural outcome of the EMDR therapeutic process, the clients’ thoughts, feelings and behavior are all robust indicators of emotional health and resolution—all without speaking in detail or doing homework used in other therapies.

Scathing Review

ExtremeTech » Windows 8 may drive me to Linux

Google Nose beta ha ha

Google Nose BETA

Two Programs for Writing and Executing Code on an iPad

I have recently come across two iPad programs that enable writing and running programs. One is called Codea. It uses Lua as its programing language. The other is Pythonista, which uses Python. Both offer graphics capabilities.

Codea is great for its editor, which enables menu and pop-up widget tools for selecting colors, images and sprites, and sliders and wheel widgets for changing numerical values.

Pythonista is useful for logical programing in Python, math, graphics manipulation, and utility applications that require access to the various services offered by the iOS, such as the file system, the camera, the GEO locator, the accelerometer, etc.

List of Google's easter eggs

Just in case I write too much, the list of easter eggs and hoaxes is below. In case you are in a hurry, here is a link to Google's site.

Ok, this is fun, right? Easter eggs!

What are these so-called easter eggs? They are elements added to staid and productive software for fun. Nuf' said, here they are:

1 Easter Eggs

• 1.1 Calculator
• 1.2 Search
• 1.3 Google Maps/Earth
• 1.4 Google.com homepage
• 1.5 Google Mail
• 1.6 Google Translate
• 1.7 Android
• 1.8 YouTube
• 1.9 Other

Stephen Fry

One thing I greatly appreciate after reading Stephen Fry's blog is the desirability off essays - well thought out, several 1000 word writings - which Stephen calls "blessays" with a capital b.

Not sure if Stephen coined the phrase, but I've never heard it before (and I did a Google search and his article came up near the very top, so in my mind he gets the credit) in any case he has a number these blessays, that is well thought out and rather long-winded dissertations, and I very much appreciate them.

Microsoft's Misteps (BIG TIME)

Microsoft loses yet another fanboy | TechRepublic

"Companies and consumers have handed over a great deal of money to Microsoft. How are they repaid for their loyalty? A slap in the face and a tug on the wallet. This mess will not end well for Microsoft. It will, on the other hand, end well for the likes of Ubuntu and LibreOffice."

New Google Glass features

New Google Glass features unveiled:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21519859

Includes camera, and sleek new looks.

The Poison We Never Talk About in School

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