You know the drill. Once a city has spoken with Google about bringing Fiber into their hood, there’s a process for the city to go through. A lengthy one. Checklists. The whole nine yards. Two new cities are exploring Fiber with Google and they are Chicago and Los Angeles. Yes, San Francisco has been skipped again and I’m going to go cry into my slow internet from Comcast.… Read More
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According to sources speaking to Variety , Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars has been green-lighted for a 10-episode TV adaptation on Spike TV. Each episode will be an hour long, and J. Michael Straczynski, creator and writer of Babylon 5 and co-creator of Sense8 will serve as Red Mars ’ writer, co-executive producer, and showrunner. Vince Gerardis, co-executive producer of Game of Thrones , will also serve as executive producer on Red Mars with Straczynski. Robinson will reportedly be an on-the-set consultant. The Red Mars project has been on Spike TV’s plate for some time , but the network only just decided to move full-speed ahead with it, according to Variety . The show will go into production this summer and premiere in January 2017. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Hyperloop Technologies plans to build a hyperloop test track for in North Las Vegas—and it wants to start testing early next year. Read more…
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Nevada Is Getting a Hyperloop Test Track
Last month, researchers at South China Agricultural University in Guangzhouin made an alarming discovery : a gene that causes bacteria to become resistant to colistin, a so-called “last resort” antibiotic. Now, New Scientist reports that the resistance gene MCR-1 has been found half a world away in Denmark—and a global hunt for more cases is on. Read more…
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Resistance to ‘Last Resort’ Antibiotic Discovered in Denmark
Last month, it was alleged that the Internal Revenue Service had been using Stingray devices to track people by scraping their phone metadata. Now, it’s admitted as much—and gone so far as to say that it wants another of the units, too. Read more…
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IRS Admits to Using the Same Spy Tech as the FBI to Track 37 Phones
If you’re looking for a free iOS game, an interesting new option has just opened up. Puzzle-adventure game Monument Valley managed to pull off the hat trick of being fun, zen and beautiful all at the same time — which helped garner it Apple’s Game of the Year and Design awards for 2014. The title, normally $4, is now showing as “free, ” though there’s no word on how long that offer will last. After launching in May last year, it had earned $5.8 million by January 2015, mostly from sales to iOS gamers (creator Ustwo said that only 5 percent of Android sales were paid). Via: @Wario64 (Twitter) Source: iTunes
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Apple game of the year ‘Monument Valley’ is now free on iOS
A telephone regulator has warned that festive decorations can spoil your festive internet fun. Here’s the science. Read more…
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Uber is partnering with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and—as the slogan goes—they’ll pick you up! By “they” I mean the poor schmucks who sign up to pay around $1000 a month to work for Uber. Read more…
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Uber Launches Insane "Pay-to-Work" Car Rental Program
Augmented reality (AR) isn’t all headsets and funny glasses . Amazon wants to turn it into something that you can interact with in your living room, judging by a couple of the company’s recently approved patents. The ” object tracking ” patent shows how a system of projectors and cameras could beam virtual images onto real objects, and track your hand while you interact with them. The other, called ” reflector-based depth mapping , ” would use a projector to transform your room into a kind of holodeck, mapping the depth of objects and bodies in a room. Via: Bloomberg Source: USPTO (1) , (2)
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Amazon wants augmented reality to be headset-free
(credit: Steven Depolo/Flickr ) After more than a quarter of a century of rising diabetes rates, the number of new cases seems to be on a downward trend. From 1980 to 2009, the annual number of new diabetes cases more than tripled in the US, going from 493,000 to 1.7 million diagnoses a year in people aged 18 to 79. But since 2009, case numbers appear to have slumped, though the decline had not registered as statistically significant. Now, using newly released data from 2014 , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that case numbers are definitely on their first sustained decline. In 2014, the number of diagnosed cases was down to 1.4 million. “It seems pretty clear that incidence rates have now actually started to drop,” said Edward Gregg, one of the CDC’s top diabetes researchers told the New York Times . “Initially it was a little surprising because I had become so used to seeing increases everywhere we looked.” Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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New diabetes cases finally on the decline