Everyone, say hello to WildCat, a robotic quadruped that can run 16 mph (26 kph) without tethers. It joins an already impressive cast of conceptual bots, including an updated version of ATLAS — who, as showcased in a must-see new video, may soon appear on an episode of American Ninja . Read more…
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The U.S. military’s robopocalyptic army is starting to take shape
An anonymous reader writes “After Samsung got caught out cheating on benchmarks (Note 3, Galaxy S4) AnandTech has done a detailed analysis of the state of benchmark cheating amongst Android OEMs. With the exception of Motorola, literally every single OEM they’ve looked at ships (or has shipped) at least one device that does benchmark-specific CPU optimizations. AnandTech also thinks it will get worse before it gets better. ‘The hilarious part of all of this is we’re still talking about small gains in performance. The impact on our CPU tests is 0 – 5%, and somewhere south of 10% on our GPU benchmarks as far as we can tell. I can’t stress enough that it would be far less painful for the OEMs to just stop this nonsense and instead demand better performance/power efficiency from their silicon vendors.’ The article notes that Apple doesn’t do any of the frequency gaming stuff.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them
First time accepted submitter wmr89502270 writes “Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The special The Day of The Doctor will be broadcast simultaneously in over 75 countries and hundreds of cinemas in the UK. Across the world the hotly anticipated special episode will be screened simultaneously in full 3D. According to Copyright law of the United Kingdom, the copyright in a broadcast program expires 50 years from the end of the year in which it is broadcast, which means the first episodes will fall to public domain next year.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year
Back in 2010, “Operation Payback” involved a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against anti-piracy websites as a way to protest what some members of Anonymous viewed as an overly greedy intellectual property industry. The attack was later revived in early 2011. On Thursday, 13 men were indicted (PDF) in federal court in Virginia on one count of Conspiracy to Intentionally Cause Damage to a Protected Computer. They are accused of using the well-known Low-Orbit Ion Cannon application to conduct DDoS attacks on the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, the United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress, Visa, MasterCard, and Bank of America. According to the indictment, the victims suffered “significant damage, ” noting specifically that MasterCard suffered at least $5, 000 in losses during a one-year period. (For the record, MasterCard profited $415 million in 2010.) Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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US indicts suspected Anonymous members for leading 2010 “Operation Payback”
The Simpsons announced that a major character will die this season. We think we know who it is .
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Adobe has revealed that their network was compromised and the attackers may have accessed information pertaining to 2.9 million customers, including encrypted credit card numbers and other account details. Read more here . Read more…
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Adobe has revealed that their network was compromised and the attackers may have accessed informatio
Less than a month after announcing its plans for an IPO, Twitter has today made its S-1 filing with the SEC public, offering the most detailed look yet at at the inner workings of the company. With the IPO, Twitter is looking to raise $1 billion on 472, 613, 753 shares of common stock, trading under the stock symbol TWTR. In the filing, the company also confirmed that it now has 218.3 million monthly active users (or MAUs) according to its most recent numbers, and that it pulled in $253.6 million in revenue for the six months ending June 30th, 2013, an increase of 107 percent from a year earlier. According to the company, mobile users unsurprisingly account for a particularly big chunk of its business, with 75 percent of its average MAUs accessing Twitter from a mobile device in the three months ending June 30, 2013, and mobile use accounting for 65 percent of its advertising revenue. It still isn’t making a profit, though, with the company seeing a net loss of $69.3 million for the aforementioned six month period. That’s compared to $316.9 million in revenue for all of 2012, and a net loss of $79.4 million. Of those 215 million MAUs, 49.2 million are in the United States, while 169.1 million are international, representing an increase of 35% and 47%, respectively, from the same period a year ago. Beyond those numbers, the company has also revealed the number of Timeline views for the first time; they stood at 150.9 billion for the three months ending June 30th, and 287.2 billion for six months prior (up 69% and 79% from a year earlier). On average, that translates to 691 timeline views per MAU for the same three month period, although that number jumps a fair bit looking just at US Twitter users — they rack up 825 timeline views on average. In a brief letter to shareholders included in the filing, the company says “Twitter represents a service shaped by the people, for the people, ” and that “the mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers, ” adding, “our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve-and do not detract from-a free and global conversation.” Those interested in digging into all of the numbers can find the full filing on the SEC’s website . Filed under: Internet Comments Source: SEC
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Twitter makes $1 billion IPO filing public, confirms over 215 million monthly active users
If you’ve been against trying Google’s Play Music All Access streaming service for lack of an official iOS app, it may soon be time to change your tune. Sources aware of Google’s plans have let slip to Engadget that not only is the company currently testing a native Google Music iOS app internally, …
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Depending on where you get your DVR, it may or may not have the ability to skip commercials. The best ones have a button that lets you jump forward, but if your DVR was issued by a cable or satellite company, they may have hidden or removed it. Here are some semi-secret ways to do it anyway. Read more…
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How to Enable a Hidden Commercial-Skipping Button on Any DVR
Netflix brought 1080p streaming to Android 4.3 this summer, and now iOS users can experience HD streams as well, provided they’ve updated to iOS 7. Another new feature in the latest update is support for AirPlay streaming (if you prefer that to using the Apple TV’s built-in app, we guess), along with other miscellaneous fixes. Hit the link below to grab version 5.0 right away, unless you’re still busy testing out the just-released Chromecast support from Hulu Plus. Filed under: Cellphones , Home Entertainment , Tablets , Internet , HD , Mobile , Apple Comments Source: iTunes
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Netflix app for iPad and iPhone updated with HD video and AirPlay streaming