Facebook Hunting Kiddie Porn Pervs with Microsoft Algorithm [Facebook]

The internet can literally only agree on one thing: child pornography is awful and the worst. And if there's one place I don't want that bile winding up, it's on my precious Facebook. Microsoft to the illegal-photo-tracking rescue. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zVrB8u50NpM/facebook-hunting-kiddie-porn-pervs-with-microsoft-algorithm

Alexander Berner Oliver Büdenbender Christa Eymann Ingrid Schur

Apparently Porcelain and Wooden Doweling are the Perfect Materials For Speaker Quality [Video]

Who knows; the perfect speaker could be created from a roll of loo-paper and a few components—but if it doesn't look good, it'll hardly do well. Apparently porcelain and wooden dowel has been discovered as the perfect mix. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zngoPiOU6es/apparently-porcelain-and-wooden-doweling-are-the-perfect-materials-for-speaker-quality

Hans-Joachim Kammann Antonio Fellberg Emma Knebel Jason Randow

The Final Hours of Portal 2 for iPad [App Of The Day]

Valve's Portal 2, the much anticipated and loved video game, obviously took a huge undertaking to create. In the Final Hours of Portal 2, journalist Geoff Keighley observed Valve for three years to tell you how it all happened. It may be an app, but it's long form journalism brilliantly told on the iPad More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Ki7AkQhaY2Y/the-final-hours-of-portal-2-for-ipad

Robin Jones Ingeburg Otte Moritz Beller Gabriela Prell

Delivery.com's New iPhone App Will Keep You Happy and Full [Apps]

Because a few of us promote ordering takeout from our phones without having to talk to a human, here's a good one: Delivery.com's finally released an iPhone app. You already know if you need this. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Be46Y_Bk9-I/deliverycoms-new-iphone-app-will-keep-you-happy-and-full

Arne Koller Fiona Brandenburg Franziska Spanier Erna Van den Hout

The End Of Blippy As We Know It

So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn?t enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are sometimes learned the hard way. Thus is the story of the failure of Blippy, a product that launched in private beta in December of 2009 and that we breathlessly fawned over again, and again, and again and again (and again and again ...).

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Msia8VhrgFU/

Michel Rohr Hilde Baaden Hartmut Theobald Nicholas Graul

Grace One electric bicycle is ready for purchase, our bank accounts are still preparing (video)

Your average electric bicycle has a basket on the front and a lot of shame in the rear. Not the Grace One. When we first saw it almost two years ago, in the fall of 2009, it looked... well it looked like a pretty kickass bike. Since then the design has been thoroughly refined, the frame redesigned, but still the stacked projector headlamps remain in their aluminum housing in front of the bars. They're a hint at the high-tech nature of this bike, which features integrated Li-ion batteries that charge in about an hour and spin a hub-mounted motor in the rear wheel, giving you a top speed of 30MPH and a range of up to 31 miles -- all for a mere €4,199 ($6,000). If your finances can manage it the bike is available now, but if they can't you'll have to make do with a celebratory video of the thing in action after the break. Word of advice: get those glow sticks cracked and shaken up before you hit play.

Continue reading Grace One electric bicycle is ready for purchase, our bank accounts are still preparing (video)

Grace One electric bicycle is ready for purchase, our bank accounts are still preparing (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 May 2011 13:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  sourceGrace  | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/grace-one-electric-bicycle-is-ready-for-purchase-our-bank-accou/

Edgar Betz Antonia Koppe Gertrud Hölzl Ulrike Kellner

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster

auslogics defrag
Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it's now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system's hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of multiple disks, a simplified scheduling screen, and more informative tool tips. Auslogics has also fine-tuned the program's defragmentation and file consolidation algorithms.

For laptop users, there's a new option to lock the program if your system is running on battery power -- so scheduled operations don't kick in and drain your power source at an inopportune moment. If you happen to have an SSD installed in your PC, you can head to the Disk Defrag options and exclude it from scanning (many think that defragmenting an SSD is a very bad idea).

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a free download and works with most versions of Windows.

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/11/auslogics-disk-defrag-3-2-gets-smarter-faster/

Birte Höß Kerstin Klos Dieter Schreiter Monika Kley

Tenacious robot ashamed of creator's performance, shows mankind how it's done (video)


Looks like researchers have made another step towards taking Skynet live: giving robots the groundwork for gloating. A Swiss team of misguided geniuses have developed learning algorithms that allow robot-kind to learn from human mistakes. Earthlings guide the robot through a flawed attempt at completing a task, such as catapulting a ball into a paper basket; the machine then extrapolates its goal, what went wrong in the human-guided example, and how to succeed, via trial and error. Rather than presuming human demonstrations represent a job well done, this new algorithm assumes all human examples are failures, ultimately using their bad examples to help the 'bot one-up its creators. Thankfully, the new algorithm is only being used with a single hyper-learning appendage; heaven forbid it should ever learn how to use the robot-internet.

Tenacious robot ashamed of creator's performance, shows mankind how it's done (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 May 2011 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink IEEE Spectrum  |  sourceEPFL (PDF)  | Email this | Comments


Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/BW5sNFtz5vo/

Michel Rohr Hilde Baaden Hartmut Theobald Nicholas Graul

Watching 51 Airplanes Taking Off In Just Two Minutes Is Mesmerizing [Video]

BostonAirborne's Chris Eagle went to Boston Logan International Airport and recorded one hour and ten minutes of frantic activity from a fixed Panasonic HDC-TM5 camera. This is the result: 51 planes taking off in just 2:30 minutes. Hypnotizing. [Gracias Estudiante!] More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/mcBYlQToQFI/watching-51-airplanes-taking-off-in-just-two-minutes-is-mesmerizing

Joshua Heinlein Markus Wigger Alexander Berner Oliver Büdenbender