Author Archives: Niall Murphy
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Microsoft executives demonstrated the next version of their operating system yesterday at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Walt Mossberg, the famous Wall Street Journal tech reviewer who interviewed them, had the most dramatic reaction to the product, suggesting that it’s the biggest change to the Windows interface ever.
That’s probably a good thing.
Walt Mossberg: Windows 8 is the biggest change to Windows ever (Venture Beat)
Joy Of Tech
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The EDWARD electric diwheel: a new commuter concept created by engineering students at the University Of Adelaide.
EDWARD is susceptible to the gerbiling effect where the rider tends to rock back and forth during hard braking or fast acceleration. But the team has worked hard to minimize that with built-in dynamic lateral stability and slosh control, which can be switched on or off as needed. Those systems even allow the driver to control EDWARD while rotated upside down, though that seems more like a way to show how far the technology they’ve developed can be pushed, rather than a practical feature.
We’re calling ours ‘The Vomitron’.
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Following Ty Cullen’s original voxpop at New York’s Times Square, Youtuber SuperUncleBulgaria heads out onto the streets of London to ask the same question.
How much longer must we wait for a homegrown version?
What song are you listening to?
F**k off.
Fair enough.
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Sumptuous underwater footage captured at various marine and freshwater locations around Ireland by Victor Kutischev – originally featured in the Photography and Film Exhibition on Shallow Aquatic Life at Trinity last summer.
Fullscreen HD recommended.
More at UnderwaterIreland’s YouTube channel
(Thanks, @cairotango)
Dammit Jimmy
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The Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA), has banned the use of the words ‘Twitter’ and ‘Facebook’ from the French airwaves.
Facebook and Twitter are, of course, American social networks. In France, they are regarded — at least implicitly — as symbols of Anglo-Saxon global dominance — along with Apple, MTV, McDonald’s, Hollywood, Disneyland, and other cultural juggernauts. That there is a deeply-rooted animosity in the French psyche towards Anglo-Saxon cultural domination cannot be disputed; indeed, it has been documented and analysed for decades. Sometimes this cultural resentment finds expression in French regulations and laws, frequently described, and often denounced, by foreigners as protectionism.
CSA spokesperson Christine Kelly offered the following explanation of the regulator’s decree:
“Why give preference to Facebook, which is worth billions of dollars, when there are many other social networks that are struggling for recognition,” she said. “This would be a distortion of competition. If we allow Facebook and Twitter to be cited on air, it’s opening a Pandora’s Box — other social networks will complain to us saying, ‘why not us?’”
French blogger, Benoit Raphael has suggested a phrase that might be used to skirt the ban:
“Retrouvez la couverture en temps réel du procès via notre fil sur la plateforme qui permet de diffuser des messages de 140 signes”.
“Find the live coverage of the trial on our thread on the platform that allows the broadcast of 140-character messages.”
You Now Can’t Say “Facebook” Or “Twitter” On French TV (Business Insider)
