Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wayne Rooney Deletes Man U From Twitter Bio Amid Controversy

RooneyflickrSam-laird By Sam Laird2013-05-09 23:58:49 UTC

There was a time, not so long ago, when pro sports stars who were disenchanted with their occupational situations had just a few choices. Among those options: suffer in silence, approach management behind closed doors and hope for the best, or wage an ugly public relations campaign for a change of scenery.

Twitter, however, has added some new and deliciously passive-aggressive possibilities to the mix.

Take English soccer star Wayne Rooney, for example. The striker has played for legendary club Manchester United since 2004, but late last month reportedly told management he wants out this summer. Management, in turn, has insisted it won't get rid of him.

Rooney hasn't commented on that, but recently did make a subtle — yet potentially significant — change to his Twitter bio. What used to read, in part, "Manchester United player" now simply looks like this:

Does Rooney know for a fact that he's played his last Man U match? Is this a simple act of dissent? Or is the move just a benign symptom of his exasperation with the club?

Either way, he's not the first high-profile athlete whose Twitter bio omission has been viewed as a public statement. Back in October, Lance Armstrong removed the line "7-time Tour de France winner" from his own Twitter profile as the International Cycling Union mounted its doping case against him and nullified much of his official legacy in the sport.

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Stitcher adds car mode to iOS app, encourages responsible driving

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Stitcher just announced a new car mode for the iPhone version of its radio and podcasting app, bringing a simplified interface that works in both portrait and landscape positions. Accessible by tapping the Stitcher logo at the top of the screen, car mode offers a pared-down version of the app's standard UI, with bigger buttons and only the essential audio controls. It's nowhere near as flashy as Stitcher's BMW integration, mind you, but the point is to keep your eyes on the road and off your iPhone's screen. The app gets a few other updates this time around: a front page with top headlines, one-tap access to shows and podcasts you're searching for and improved playback when you're picking up in the middle of a show. Head to the source link below to give the app a spin, and drive safely!

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YouTube Introduces Paid Channels

YtSeth-fiegerman By Seth Fiegerman2013-05-09 19:24:03 UTC

After months of rumors, YouTube finally introduced a pilot program for paid channels on Thursday.

YouTube will now let a few dozen of popular channels charge viewers a subscription fee of 99 cents or more per month, the company announced in a blog post. Each of these channels will offer two weeks of free viewing before charges kick in and some will provide discounts for those who sign up for an annual subscription.

Some of the YouTube channels that are part of the pilot program include Big Think Mentor, Comedy.TV, PGA Digital Golf and Pets.TV.

"This is just the beginning," YouTube said in the blog post. "We’ll be rolling paid channels out more broadly in the coming weeks as a self-service feature for qualifying partners."

The move comes with relatively little risk for YouTube and the possibility of generating significant revenue by taking a cut of subscription fees and advertisements that air on the channels.

Would you pay to watch videos from your favorite YouTube channels? Share in the comments.

Image via Getty/Lionel Bonaventure

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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates

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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $11 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates

Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg, concerns the event specifically and cites a "person familiar with the matter" reporting we'll hear about new updates for Yahoo's once-mighty Flickr photo service. The second is from AllThingsD which has upgraded rumors of a Tumblr purchase from possible to possibly imminent, saying the company's board will meet Sunday to decide whether it will make a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for the site. Since new CEO Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo has made a number of acquisitions with a focus on improving its homepage, content and app offerings including Flickr. That announcement is also penciled in for the 20th, but whatever actually goes down you can be sure we'll have the details as they're unveiled around 4PM ET.

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Texas Congressman Will Arm Twitter Follower With an AR-15

Ar-15Tim Sampson for The Daily Dot 2013-05-09 12:28:50 -0700

Many members of congress use Twitter to stay in touch with their constituents. Some use it to arm them.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), used his Twitter account Wednesday to announce an AR-15 giveaway. He invited all interested U.S. citizens to submit their names in hopes of winning the same kind of assault weapon that was used in the Sandy Hook massacre and has since become a symbol for those opposing new gun regulations.

The following tweets were posted about ten minutes apart from each other Wednesday evening and, as of Thursday morning, had drawn a combined 27 favorites and 131 retweets from followers.

Stockman's office did not immediately respond with a reason for why the congressman chose to host this giveaway and why specifically the AR-15 was selected as a prize. The contest website implores contestants to "enter to win the gun Obama doesn't want you to have." The contest rules state that all applicants must be at least 18 years of age and meet all relevant federal, state and local laws. The gun would be awarded through a licensed dealer, who would perform a background check.

The contest has already drawn plenty of criticism from the regular line-up of bloggers, who are quick to point out the conservative representative’s extreme Second Amendment views. This is the same congressman who recently released a bumper sticker that said, "If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted!"

Suffice to say, the giveaway has drawn a lot of vitriol from people on both sides of the gun control debate. Supporters see the contest, which has its drawing on July 4, as a stand against proponents of gun control and the Democratic party.

But many don't "<3" Stockman's actions. Reaction from gun control advocates ranged from impassioned to bemused.

Stockman isn't the first person to give away an AR-15 online, though. Such raffles have become common in recent months. One such contest on Facebook was shut down by administrators.

The AR-15 was the same weapon used by Adam Lanza, the young man currently charged with the murder of six adults and 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last December. Despite this grim reputation, it's become a symbol around which anti-gun control advocates have rallied in recent months as lawmakers have proposed legislation that could potentially take the gun off the market. However, these and more modest restrictions have yet to pass through congress.

Image via KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images

This article originally published at The Daily Dot here

Topics: gun, guns, Politics, texas, Twitter, U.S., US & World The Daily Dot is a Mashable publishing partner that reports on the most important and relevant topics from within, applying tried-and-true principles drawn from community journalism to the growing cultures of the Internet. This article is reprinted with the publisher's permission.

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Tastiest Vines of All Time: Ryan Gosling Refusing Cereal

Ryan-goslingAnnie_s%20head By Annie Colbert2013-05-09 15:31:17 -0700

Ryan Gosling, if you don't eat your cereal, you'll get all skinny and look more Mickey Mouse Club than Notebook.

Film director Ryan McHenry is trying to get the dreamy actor to stuff his belly with wheaty nuggets of breakfast goodness, but the Gos is having no part of it.

In what is possibly the most creative use of Vine since the Harry Potter wannabe, McHenry matched scenes from Gosling movies with spoonfuls of cereal.

Eat it up, Internet.

[H/T Gosloving]

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The Last of Us will debut 'play while it downloads' feature on the PS3

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The Last of Us

Even though we don't yet know what the PlayStation 4 looks like or how much it will cost, one of the many details revealed at Sony's February event was that games will be playable even as they download. Now it turns out we won't have to wait for the new hardware to experience that feature on a console -- Steam, for example, does this on PCs with some games -- as The Last of Us leaders Bruce Straley and Neil Druckman told Game Informer the PS3 game will be available as a download the same day it arrives on discs, and is playable once the transfer is 50 percent complete. There's no word whether other developers will have access to the "magic" Naughty Dog worked out with Sony to make it happen, but as least there will be as little delay as possible before you begin exploring its post-apocalyptic landscape June 14th.

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Meet the World's Cutest Baseball Fanatic

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Amtrak boosts WiFi on select trains, more upgrades coming this summer

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There are plenty of wonderful things about train travel: the leg room, the scenery, the lack of security pat-downs. The WiFi, on the other hand, has long been the slowest thing about Amtrak. The company announced today that it's finally doing something about its frustratingly sluggish service, upgrading wireless on select trains, including the Acela express between Boston and Washington DC and a few California lines like the Capitol Corridor, Pacific Surfliner and San Joaquin. Travelers to other destinations will have to wait a bit longer for quicker load times -- Amtrak has promised that the rest of its WiFi-equipped trains will be upgraded by "late summer."

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Cracks Jokes During Commencement Speech

Bahjournalist-5e1f0b4ff8 By Brian Anthony Hernandez2013-05-05 19:55:42 UTC

"When I was your age we didn't have the Internet in our pants," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joked, flaunting his phone, at his University of Michigan commencement speech. "We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants — that's how bad it was."

That was among Costolo's lines that incited UM's 2013 graduating class to break out in laughter Saturday at Michigan Stadium. Costolo, a graduate of UM who pursued comedy after earning his bachelor's degree for computer science in 1985, started his speech by tweeting a photo of the crowd and ended it saying, "hashtag go blue!"

Apart from the jokes and anticipated words of encouragement, Costolo mentioned Twitter's impact on the world, citing several momentous occasions for the social networking service that launched in 2006.

Costolo said he and early players at Twitter — such as co-founder Jack Dorsey — never planned on Barack Obama using Twitter to declare victory during the 2012 U.S. presidential election, or that Twitter would be a "great alternative communication platform if the mobile networks in Japan were spotty" after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Nor did they foresee Twitter being a tool to organize protests in Middle East countries amid the Arab Spring.

"Here's the amazing thing about what I've observed when I've witness all those things," Costolo said. "Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it."

Costolo is the latest in a line of tech luminaries to give commencement speeches, with some of the notable examples including Apple's Steve Jobs at Stanford in 2005, Google's Larry Page at the University of Michigan in 2009 and Foursquare's Dennis Crowley at the Syracuse School of Information Studies in 2011.

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This Tiny Town Is Getting Ultra-Fast Google Fiber Before You

Google-fiberBahjournalist-5e1f0b4ff8 By Brian Anthony Hernandez2013-05-05 18:00:14 UTC

Google continues to expand its Google Fiber service to more cities, adding a small city in Kansas to the lucky places slated to get the search giant's ultrafast broadband connections.

The city council in Shawnee, Kansas — population just upward of 60,000 people — approved the Google Fiber expansion Thursday night. Shawnee joins Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, as the latest Google Fiber additions in the past month.

"We’ve also been impressed by Shawnee’s vision to keep their citizens informed and involved using the Internet," Google Fiber community manager Rachel Hack said in a blog post, touting the city's revamped website that lets citizens "easily access city info" such as audio of city council meetings, crime maps and fiscal reports.

Google didn't say when Fiber would arrive in Shawnee, but it likely won't be anytime soon because the Google folks "still have a lot of planning and engineering work to do."

Kansas City, Miss., and Kansas City, Kansas, are the only two cities with working Fiber so far. Other than Shawnee, Provo and Austin, these Kansas areas are scheduled to get Fiber: Westwood, Westwood Hills, Mission Woods and Olathe.

Google Fiber is a fiber optic cable Internet that Google says provides "an Internet connection speed 100 times faster than today's average broadband, paired with crystal-clear high definition TV." Here's how Google Fiber works:

Fiber's faster speed means that items such as videos and photos can be uploaded and downloaded noticeably quicker than typical broadband connections, making way for high-speed tools that were never possible before.

"Imagine chatting with your doctors or teachers via HD video conference, or collaborating on a work or school project with contributors across the globe in real time, without delays," Google explains. "Imagine new online billing applications that don't freeze. Imagine automatically saving all of your work to the cloud in a blink of an eye — and never having to worry about losing files to a computer crash again."

A gigabit-per-second connection is equal to 1,000 megabits per second. Compare that to the average broadband connection in the U.S., a comparatively pokey 7.4 megabits per second.

Google offers three subscription packages for neighborhoods with Fiber:

Aside from the fast Internet speeds, Google is getting into the TV space with Google Fiber TV, whose users get a Nexus 7 tablet and a TV app with a subscription.

Google Fiber TV is similar to Verizon FiOS, in that it bundles Internet and TV service in one package. Fiber pricing — and its specifications for TV fans particularly — are appealing at first glance compared to FiOS and other broadband services, but they're unlikely to compete heavily because each service isn't in every state yet. FiOS, for example, is only in a dozen or so states while Fiber is in fewer.

Google Fiber TV, which recently added HBO and Cinemax to its offerings, lets subscribers watch and record 500 hours of TV, record eight shows simultaneously, search via DVR and connect to Netflix and other services.

Image via Julie Denesha/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Google-built media player hits the FCC, reveals only a Hitchhiker's Guide reference

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Googlebuilt media streamer hits the FCC, reveals only a Hitchhiker's Guide reference

With much of its information obscured it's hard to say what Google has planned for this new device revealed by its FCC filing, but the model number at least indicates someone has a sense of humor. Called an "H840 device" and rocking the model number H2G2-42 (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 42, the ultimate answer to the question of life, the universe and everything) it has WiFi of the 802.11 b/g/n varieties, but that's all we know for sure. The natural question is whether this is a proper revamp of / follow up to the failed Nexus Q project, particularly with its appearance coming so closely after the unveiling of its Google Play Music All Access subscription. Of course, Google has no shortage of mysterious device projects in store, we're hopeful this one will reveal all of its secrets soon.

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What Kind of Watch Does an Astronaut Wear in Space?

HadfieldwatchAwmash By Amanda Wills2013-05-06 20:18:36 UTC

He lives on the International Space Station, but astronaut Chris Hadfield still has to keep Earth time. However, he can't rely on just any watch. With zero gravity and pressurized cabins, an astronaut's timepiece has to be engineered for out-of-this-world conditions.

Hadfield wears an Omega Speedmaster, which is certified for the thermal vacuum of a spacewalk. However, Hadfield isn't necessarily a trendsetter when it comes to his wristwatch. The Speedmaster has its own history in orbit: It was the first watch worn on the moon.

In 1962, NASA purchased samples of commercially sold wristwatches to test for space missions, and the agency went with Omega's model. NASA supplied each of the Apollo astronauts with a standard-issue Omega Speedmaster Professional manual-wind wristwatch, along with a Velcro strap.

The watch can be worn for both intra- and extra-vehicular activities. When inside a pressurized cabin such as the ISS, astronauts wear the watch on their wrists just like on Earth. For a moonwalk or other missions outside the cabin, astronauts attach the watch to the outside of their spacesuits using the Velcro strap (see photo above).

Chris Hadfield wears his watch on the wrist while inside the International Space Station. Image courtesy of NASA

Besides its obvious function of keeping time, the Speedmaster also has a stopwatch on the dial's large third hand. There are also three interior dials on the face: a second-hand, ancillary to the conventional time function, a minute-elapsed counter for the chronograph and an hour-elapsed counter. The outside of the dial acts as a Tachymeter, which measures miles per hour (hence the name "Speedmaster").

Astronaut Ed Mitchell's Flown Speedmaster. Image courtesy of NASA/Ulli Lotzmann

All astronauts, including Hadfield, set their watches to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) — halfway between Houston and Moscow — in order to keep in touch with mission control.

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