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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.

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

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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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Visteon's HABIT is a concept infotainment system that puts road trip copilots out of a job (video)

Visteon Cockpit Concept Learns the Driver's HABIT

System understands driver's personal preferences to deliver a more meaningful experience behind the wheel

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Would you like your vehicle to suggest a different route to or from work when there are unexpected delays on your regular course? What if your vehicle's cabin temperature adjusted automatically based on your preferences and the outside temperature?

Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) has developed a unique cockpit concept that offers these solutions and others by incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver an enhanced driving experience. Visteon's Human Bayesian Intelligence Technology (HABIT) system employs machine learning algorithms that are cognizant of the specific driver and the surrounding environment.

The HABIT system continually learns as it processes a driver's selections of climate temperatures, radio stations, phone call tendencies and other unique behaviors depending on the outside temperature and time of day. It factors in the individual's historical inputs to present a human-machine interaction (HMI) that is customized for the driver. The system also learns the driver's tastes -- even when he or she is not in the vehicle. For example, HABIT registers activity like music that the driver has listened to using his or her on-line music library or Internet radio.

"The goal of HABIT is to become an experience that improves each time the driver uses the ever-aware system," said Shadi Mere, innovation manager at Visteon. "With vehicle manufacturers striving to deliver a more personalized driving experience, the HABIT cockpit concept demonstrates how your car can learn and grow with you over its lifetime."

During a recent research clinic, more than 70 percent of survey respondents had a positive initial reaction to the HABIT concept. Respondents liked the anticipatory learning of the system and the natural voice interaction, combined with voice shortcuts, which aligned with their expectations of voice commands similar to the ones on their smartphones and other devices. Visteon's cockpit concept incorporates high-end graphics and animation designed to improve interaction with mobile devices.


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'New York Times' Runs GIF-Like Video on Its Home Page

Nytimes-gif1Lauren-indvik By Lauren Indvik2013-05-06 19:48:29 UTC

Visitors to the NYTimes.com Monday afternoon were treated to something slightly unusual: Instead of a large photograph or even a video, the Times embedded side-by-side looping, animated images at the top of its homepage. Both images are embedded in an .mp4 video file, but look like animated GIFs.

The left animation features a jellyfish known as Phacellophora camtschatica, filmed near the Washington coastline. To the right appears a rotating glass model of another jellyfish species, Cotylorhiza borbonica, frequently found in the Mediterranean. They appear above the headline of a story, "In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie," about one filmmaker's quest to document rare, underwater invertebrates.

So far as we're aware, this is the first time the Times has run an animated GIF (or, technically, a looping video) on its homepage. Animated GIFs have, however, been used to illustrate NYTimes.com stories before, including this profile of brewer and restauranteer Sam Calagione. Others newsrooms have been using them for a variety of purposes. Last month, SB Nation used animated GIFs in lieu of video for its coverage of The Masters golf tournament in Atlanta.

Update: A Times spokesperson says GIFs and cinemagraphs have previously appeared on the NYTimes.com homepage.

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University of Glasgow makes 3D models with single-pixel sensors, skips the cameras (video)

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University of Glasgow creates 3D with singlepixel sensors, skips the cameras video

Most approaches to capturing 3D models of real-world objects involve multiple cameras that are rarely cheap, and are sometimes tricky to calibrate. The University of Glasgow has developed a method that ditches those cameras altogether. Its system has four single-pixel sensors stitching together a 3D image based on the reflected intensity of light patterns cast by a projector. Reducing the pixel count lowers the cost per sensor to just a few dollars, and extends the sensitivity as far as terahertz wavelengths. Real-world products are still a long way off, but the university sees its invention as useful for cancer detection and other noble pursuits. Us? We'd probably just waste it on creating uncanny facsimiles of ourselves.

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