An anonymous reader writes “Over the weekend, Hulu rolled out Facebook Connect integration. Almost immediately after launch, Hulu had to pull the feature as the company discovered a technical issue affecting a limited number of users. More specifically, some users weren’t seeing their own Hulu account information upon login, but someone else’s.”
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countertrolling writes with news that Microsoft has struck an agreement with Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in mainland China, to provide results for English-language queries. From the NY Times:
“Baidu, which dominates Chinese-language search services here with about 83 percent of the market, has been trying for years to improve its English-language search services because English searches on its site are as many as 10 million a day, the company said. Now it has a powerful partner. 'More and more people here are searching for English terms,' Kaiser Kuo, the company’s spokesman, said Monday. 'But Baidu hasn’t done a good job. So here’s a way for us to do it.' Baidu and Microsoft did not disclose terms of the agreement. But the new English-language search results will undoubtedly be censored, since Beijing maintains strict controls over Internet companies and requires those operating on the mainland to censor results the government deems dangerous or troublesome, including references to human rights issues and dissidents.”
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redwolfe7707 writes “Computers today move electrons, using lots of energy in the process. A new report out of UC Berkely shows that doing computing with nano magnetic domains could reduce the energy consumption by a factor of a million.”
As usual, the factor of a million would be in the ideal case and is close to the minimum permitted by the universe.
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BoxRec writes “Scientists in England have developed a 3D chocolate printer that prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic. ‘Now we have an opportunity to combine chocolate with digital technology, including the design, digital manufacturing and social networking. Chocolate has a lot of social purpose, so our intention is to develop a community and share the designs, ideas and experience about it,’ says lead scientist Dr Liang Hao.”
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As a long-time BlackBerry enthusiast and proud Canadian, I want to see Research In Motion turn around the negative sentiment that is now stalking them in the media and gain back the sales momentum and brand popularity they have enjoyed in the past.
But should this challenge prove too difficult in the months ahead or simply take too long to execute in the face of an eroding market cap, what will become of RIM? I’ve pondered this question a lot in recent weeks from every conceivable angle, and it was sitting on a patio sipping my fourth pitcher of Sangria on Canada Day that I concluded Google will buy Research In Motion. It won’t be Microsoft – they’ve made their bet on Windows Phone and Nokia (and the Steve Ballmer at BlackBerry World thing was little more than a PR stunt). It won’t be Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis buying back the company and going private again (though I’m sure they’d love to do that). It won’t be any other company seriously stepping in with a bid. It’ll be Google. Keep reading for my logical reasoning.
CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. 10 Reasons why Google will buy Research In Motion
Bugatti has teamed up with German porcelain manufacturers Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur to create the one-off Veyron “L’Or Blanc”. The name means “white gold”, and the special Grand Sport uses porcelain to distinguish its body and interior in high swirly style.
The Bugatti Veyron L’or Blanc is one of a kind. The asking price for this exclusive model is €1.65 million – equivalent to $2.4 million at today’s exchange rates.
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With the launch of Google Plus, there may be some confusion as to how the photos uploaded to the social network (Google+) integrate with Google’s online photo-sharing service (Picasa), especially in terms of storage limits. The answer provides some great news for Google Plus users – nearly everything you upload to Google Plus won’t count towards your storage limits on Picasa, with the only exception being videos longer than 15 minutes.
And there’s another nifty feature involving photo-tagging, too – your Google+ friends can now tag your Picasa photos.
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According to a FAQ on Picasa’s support site, the photo-sharing service provides up to 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos to its users. But since Google+ actively encourages storing and sharing photos – its Android app even offers an “instant upload” option –
A revolutionary self-service bicycle repair kiosk was installed last week in Minneapolis, and includes a vending machine stocked with cycling basics: Patch kits, tubes, lights, and snacks. This automated vendor is hardly the first to make out-of-the-ordinary goods keypad convenient. Here, nine other odd vending machines.
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Hacking is a noble pursuit — it's what tinkerers do to create cool new machines and innovate. But the media is obsessed with using the word “hacker” interchangeably with “criminal.” That's why IEEE Spectrum magazine has created this helpful chart (click to enlarge), in which they try to separate out the good hacks from the bad. See if you can guess which ones are good and which are bad . . . answers are on the interactive chart at IEEE, where you can check the boxes to show only good hacks, bad ones, or neutral. More
