Dozens interested in being Washington's pot consultant:
As officials figure out how to regulate the state's newly legal marijuana, they're hiring an adviser to fill in the gaps of the typical bureaucrat's education: how cannabis is best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged, regulated and cooked into brownies.
BlackBerry 10 OS Review - Watch CNET's Video Review - page 2: Another of RIM's longtime strong suits, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) sends peer-to-peer messages, photos, voice notes, contact information, and files between BlackBerry users for free. In BlackBerry 10, the app blossoms, adding voice chat, video chat, and screen sharing to its beloved emoticons and group messaging.
Here Are the Patterns the Feds Found for U.S. Mass Killings: Mass killers are likely to prefer handguns; overwhelmingly likely to be male; and unlikely to have served in the military, according to a November study by a Department of Homeland Security fusion center.
Affordable Injection Molding Transforms Tinkerers Into Tycoons: While everyone is talking about the 3-D printing industrial revolution, Protomold is busy helping tinkerers become tycoons by making mass-production injection molding technology accessible for easily customized short-run batches ? and their recent expansion of advanced materials lets designers produce almost any creation they need.
The little-known Apple Lisa: Five quirks and oddities: The machine’s 30th anniversary is as good a time as any to take a look at a handful of both odd and useful features that truly made the Lisa something unique.
Researchers Find Serious Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play: Researchers have uncovered three sets of serious security flaws in the protocol for Universal Plug and Play, a component embedded in nearly 7,000 different kinds of devices -- including routers, printers, media players and smart TVs -- that would make them vulnerable to remote hacking.
Apple TV 5.2 update adds Bluetooth keyboard support, AirPlay sending, and more: Though Apple TV has long been able to receive AirPlay audio and video, it now gains the ability to send AirPlay audio as well. You can send the audio from movies, TV shows, and other content you play back on Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices including the AirPort Express and other Apple TVs. You can insert your own Apple TV singularity or Inception joke here, as desired.
Roseburg students to entertain with comedy | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR: The Roseburg High School Drama Department’s Winter production, Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” will be taking the stage Thursday through Saturday.
Officials say the show is based on minor characters from Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet,'' who are, "plopped center stage and the whole production is turned around, with periodic entrances and exits from Hamlet, Ophelia, and other characters."
Apple TV software update adds Bluetooth keyboard support: A new Apple TV software update adds a few new features, including support for Bluetooth keyboards and a way to see what's playing next. [Read more]
Apple releases iOS 6.1 with additional LTE support: The first point update of iOS 6 brings support for more LTE networks as well as a movie ticket-buying feature within Siri. [Read more]
15 Tweaks to Make When Moving to Lion or Mountain Lion | Mactuts+: In the last two iterations of OS X — Lion and Mountain Lion — Apple has been making some bold moves in respect to the way the computer operator interacts with the machine. Bold in the sense that the changes are quite a departure to the way in which people have been used to using OS X in the past.
While change can often be positive, some of us take a little time to adapt and are perhaps more resistant to change. This article examines some quick fixes to help you make Lion and/or Mountain Lion a little more familiar.
Is Apple TV waiting on H.265 HEVC ratification? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: The standard will support a resolution of 8,192 by 4,320 pixels and can deliver double the data compression ratio of the current H.264.
Architect Designs 3-D Printed, Mobius Strip-Inspired Landscape House | Wired Design | Wired.com: Architects have tossed around the idea of 3-D printing buildings, but Universe Architect’s first one could have a twist.
Inspired by the Mobius strip, Janjaap Ruijssenaars’ house design wraps around itself, twisting the interior to the exterior and back. Ruijssenaars and his collaborator, artist and mathematician Rinus Roelofs, call it the Landscape House because landscapes, too, are continuous.
J.J. Abrams: One director to rule them all?: Reports from Hollywood suggest J.J. Abrams may direct the forthcoming 'Star Wars' film. He's already got the next 'Star Trek' coming out this fall. This is like crossing the sci-fi streams. [Read more]
J.J. Abrams To Direct "Star Wars Episode VII": "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams has been confirmed to direct "Star Wars Episode VII" for Disney with a 2015 target release date.
Half a Million DVDs of Data Stored in Gram of DNA: Paleontologists routinely resurrect and sequence DNA from woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species. Future paleontologists, or librarians, may do much the same to pull up Shakespeare's sonnets, listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, or view photos. Researchers in the United Kingdom report today that they've encoded these works and others in DNA and later sequenced the genetic material to reconstruct the written, audio, and visual information.
Happy 29th Birthday, Apple Macintosh!: On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous "1984" commercial...
DIY Bioprinter Lets Wannabe Scientists Build Structures From Living Cells: A new bioprinter developed at a hackerspace can print living cells for less than the cost of an iPod touch.
How to sign digital documents: I’ve received some electronic documents that I’m supposed to sign. I could print and sign them and mail them back, but I’ve heard there’s a way to sign them right on my Mac. Do you know how it’s done?
You have a couple of options. If you’re running Mac OS X Lion or later, you can take advantage of Preview’s Signature feature. Alternatively, you can use Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. We'll start with Preview.
A Signature Capture window will appear and your Mac’s camera will light up. Scrawl out your John Hancock on a piece of paper and place that paper before the camera so that the signature aligns with the blue line in the viewer area. Signature Capture will grab your signature and display it to the right of the viewer. Click the Accept button and the signature will be added to Preview’s list of available signatures.
Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design: Simple doesn't just sell, it sticks. Simple made hits of the Nest thermostat, Fitbit, and TiVo. Simple brought Apple back from the dead. It's why you have Netflix. The Fisher Space Pen, the Swiss Army Knife, and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual are some of our most enduring products. All are marvels of simplicity.
Apps we can't live without: DragThing | Macworld: I’m so accustomed to having DragThing on my Macs that I forget that it’s not part of the OS. It’s only when I’m speaking to a group (in person or virtually), show my Mac’s screen, and someone pipes up, “What are all those docks on your desktop?” that I’m reminded how much DragThing is ingrained in my computing life.
Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease?: It's often said that violence is a sickness, that gun violence threatens public health. Some scientists say these aren't just figures of speech, but literal truths: Violence truly is contagious, spreading through society like an infection.
30 years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe: Despite those drawbacks, the Lisa made a huge splash in the industry in 1983 thanks to a bitmapped graphical operating system that utilized icons, pull-down menus, and overlapping windows to represent and manipulate information instead of the then-familiar convention of typing text-based commands. The interface launched a revolution in the way consumers interacted with personal computers.
Happy 10th birthday Safari! Thanks for changing everything – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: “Who are all these WebKit users? To start with, they’re the hundreds of millions of people using iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. Need hundreds of millions more?” Duncan writes. “WebKit is also at the heart of Android. Since the first devices went on sale in 2008, the Android browser has been based on WebKit. As of BlackBerry 6, the Playbook and BlackBerry smartphones use WebKit; so does Samsung’s bada mobile operating system, Amazon’s cloud-assisted Silk browser for Kindle Fire tablets, and even the experimental browser Amazon puts in recent Kindle ereaders. Browse the Web on a Nintendo 3DS? It uses WebKit. The upcoming Tizen mobile OS is making a bet like webOS: Tizen is Linux under the hood, but the interface is powered by WebKit.”
Facebook Messenger Now Supports Voice Calling for U.S. Accounts: To access voice calling, open the Facebook Messenger app, open a chat with someone, and click the 'i' button in the top right corner. If the feature has been activated -- and the other user also has Facebook Messenger for iOS installed -- there should be a "Free Call" button. If it's greyed out, try tapping it anyway. Facebook is rolling out the feature to all users over the next several days.
Cord-cutting's moment is now, and Apple is missing it: On this visit, however, his cable box was gone: It had been replaced by a Roku, and the cable service replaced by subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime. That works out to a savings of at least $30 a month—well worth it, my father-in-law says, even though he can’t watch CBS shows or live golf anymore. Instead, he’s been exploring the Criterion Collection on Hulu Plus.
“The quality is as good as cable and satellite and in some programming areas better,” he told me last week. He gushed: “Hulu Criterion is a treasure vault.”
In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand: Your smartphone (or tablet) will dominate your house as one remote to rule them all. It'll control three main aspects of your home: appliances, entertainment, and the living environment. Here's how.
Best of CES Emerging Tech: 3D Systems CubeX 3D printer: Among other new and not-yet-common tech, a powerful new 3D printer has the most potential to drive its field forward. [Read more]
Qualcomm Pulls Out all the Stops in 'Born Mobile' Keynote | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: The headline technology announcement was the company’s new quadcore Snapdragon 800 series of processors. They provide super speedy (up to 150Mb per second) download speeds over LTE Advanced, and 802.11AC Wi-Fi allows for improved connectivity at home or in the office. It supports CPU speeds of up to 2.3GHz per core. It’s so powerful, you can view Ultra HD (4k) video and capture it on your mobile device. And it consumes half the power of its predecessor. That’s important, as our unquenchable data thirst (Qualcomm is expecting a 1,000x increase in network data usage in the next decade) puts a huge strain on device batteries.
TWC TV app brings 300 live TV channels to Roku owners: Current Time Warner Cable customers can get 300 streaming TV channels on recent Roku models at no extra charge. [Read more]
5 Episodes to Get You Into "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine": If this week's 20th anniversary of the "Star Trek: DS9" series meant nothing because you've never seen the show, SPINOFF ONLINE presents five episodes to make you hooked.
How to Make an Indestructible Snow Fort — With Pykrete: When you're building your snow fort masterpiece, one icy material stands atop all others: Pykrete.
Deploying surveillance countermeasures on the web?: Margaret Lord: “Oh, dear. Is there no such thing as privacy any more?”
Tracy Lord: “Only in bed, mother, and not always there.”
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Quantum Gas Temperature Drops Below Absolute Zero: Physicists have created a quantum gas capable of reaching temperatures below absolute zero, paving the way for future quantum inventions.
Teen poses with gun for Facebook photo, accidentally kills brother: In a situation that appears to have involved drinking, a 19-year-old Phoenix woman may be charged with manslaughter after shooting her brother while posing for Facebook. [Read more]
Starbucks starts selling Square Readers for $10 in-store: The company will then offer a $10 rebate to new customers who sign up for Square's merchant services. [Read more]
'You don't have to like Brussels sprouts to grow Brussels sprouts': Washington's newly-passed recreational marijuana law is opening up a whole new world for local farmers.
NASA Considers Capturing an Asteroid, Setting It to Orbit the Moon: NASA is reportedly considering capturing an asteroid to put in a high orbit around the moon. Details remain sketchy but the plan could be fully realized in as little as six to ten years.
Plex Media Server 0.9.7.9 - Seamlessly connect your Plex clients with your local media.. (Free): Plex Media Server seamlessly connects your Plex clients with all of your local and online media. The combination of centralized library management, streaming of online content, and powerful transcoding functionality provides an unrivaled level of flexibility and ease of use.
Plex Media Server runs on your Mac, PC, or compatible NAS device and serves your media to all of your Plex clients including Plex-enabled mobile devices and 2011 LG Smart TVs.
All Batmans morph into one super Bruce Wayne | Crave - CNET: Redditor morphinapg is on a tear, combining multiple actors into single images. So far, the intrepid graphic artist has tackled Batman, Superman, James Bond, and Doctor Who.
All Batmans morph into one super Bruce Wayne: A Reddit user combines the faces of the most famous Batman actors into the ultimate Bruce Wayne composite. James Bond, Superman, and Doctor Who get the same treatment. [Read more]