Apple Releases iOS 5 with Notification Center, iMessage, Twitter, and More

Apple Releases iOS 5 with Notification Center, iMessage, Twitter, and More: In line with Apple's announced schedule calling for a release today, iOS 5 is now available to download for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users. Users can obtain the update by connecting their devices to iTunes and clicking the "Check for Update" button. It may take a few minutes for the update to propagate to all users, however.

BerryMover Version: 1.0 Business App | Macworld

BerryMover Version: 1.0 Business App | Macworld: Reclaim all the data stuck on your old BlackBerry and move it quickly and easily over to your iPhone with BerryMover. BerryMover moves all your data with just a few clicks.

Here's how it works...

...simply upload your most current and complete BlackBerry backup file to your iPhone. Then run BerryMover. It will grab every contact, calendar, task, note, text message and anything else you need on your iPhone.

Without BerryMover, there would be no way to pull the data from your BlackBerry and your valuable info would be stuck there forever.

Apple iOS 5 Mobile Review | Macworld

Apple iOS 5 Mobile Review | Macworld: It seems like every time a major software revision comes along, it’s described as the “biggest ever.” In the case of iOS 5, though, that might not be hyperbole—there’s hardly a part of Apple’s mobile operating system that isn’t altered in some way by the latest update.

Don’t think that this is just change for change’s sake, however. By and large, iOS 5’s changes are for the better, spackling a number of shortcomings and gaps in functionality that have existed since day one.

Opinion: iPhone 3GS is Apple's secret weapon

Opinion: iPhone 3GS is Apple's secret weapon: The iPhone 4S is pretty awesome. The iPhone 4 is nice as well. But PCWorld's Tony Bradley thinks the free iPhone 3GS is a game changer for Apple.

Apple posts iTunes 10.5 ahead of iOS 5 and iCloud

Apple posts iTunes 10.5 ahead of iOS 5 and iCloud: Apple has quietly posted iTunes 10.5 as prep for iOS 5 and iCloud. The new music jukebox app is needed for full cloud services like iTunes Match and for local syncing with the iPhone 4S. iOS 5 devices can also sync over Wi-Fi when on the same local network....

Marvel's The Avengers - Trailer

Marvel's The Avengers - Trailer:

Marvel's The Avengers - Trailer Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures "Marvel's The Avengers"--the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when "Marvel's The Avengers" assemble in summer 2012. In "Marvel's The Avengers," superheroes team up to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security. Directed by: Joss Whedon Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård , Samuel L. Jackson

Apple’s next big thing is already here; revolutionary Siri will stymie rivals Google and Microsoft

Apple’s next big thing is already here; revolutionary Siri will stymie rivals Google and Microsoft: The iPhone 4S’s virtual assistant, Siri, will soon appear on Macs, TVs, and iPads and ‘stymie’ rivals...

iOS 5: Five overlooked app enhancements

iOS 5: Five overlooked app enhancements: Apple has put a spotlight the apps receiving the biggest changes in iOS 5, like Safari, Messages, and Mail. But there are still many improvements in the iOS's other built-in apps. Here are some of goodies awaiting you in iOS 5’s versions of Maps, Weather, FaceTime, Contacts, Music, and Video.

Nuance buys Swype for over $100 million [U]

Nuance buys Swype for over $100 million [U]: (Update: confirmed) Nuance has reportedly bought Swype in a deal worth over $100 million based on new tips late Thursday. The deal would support its existing ownership of the T9 keyboard system with an advanced, full QWERTY layout. Uncrunched in getting word of the deal didn't get Nuance's intentions....

The Magician

The Magician: Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus.

Stephen Wolfram on 25 Years of Steve Jobs' Influence

Stephen Wolfram on 25 Years of Steve Jobs' Influence: To me, Steve Jobs stands out most for his clarity of thought. Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpected direction.

Five new things your device will be able to do in iOS 5 | Mobile | Macworld

Five new things your device will be able to do in iOS 5 | Mobile | Macworld: As iOS 5’s October 12 release date draws close, you’ll hear plenty about the update’s big features. For now, let’s take a look at some new features that may have escaped your attention.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011: We discussed the sad news. "Someone will come along to replace him," she offered. "No," I replied. "No, you may as well say 'someone will replace Shakespeare.'" No one ever will.

Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011

Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011: Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., has passed away. A visionary inventor and entrepreneur, it would be impossible to overstate Steve Jobs? impact on technology and how we use it. Apple?s mercurial, mysterious leader did more than reshape his entire industry: he completely changed how we interact with technology.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passes away at 56

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passes away at 56: Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple and a driving force behind the creation of the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod, died Wednesday after a long bout with cancer. He was 56.

iOS 5: What you need to know | Mobile | Macworld

iOS 5: What you need to know | Mobile | Macworld: But Forstall’s time was limited, and obviously he didn’t have a chance to run down everything that’s changed in the next major release of iOS. There are still plenty of questions to answer before iOS 5 arrives next week, and while not every detail is available just yet, we’ve gathered up what Apple has revealed to answer your burning questions about this iOS update.

Microsoft to bring cable programming to Xbox

Microsoft to bring cable programming to Xbox: The software giant announces long-rumored deals with 40 television content providers to bring cable content to Xbox Live.

The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth

The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth: Scientists and engineers met last week at Caltech to discuss the possibility of capturing an asteroid and placing it in orbit near Earth to use as a base for manned space missions further into the solar system.

Apple: Sprint getting the iPhone

Apple: Sprint getting the iPhone: Apple confirms Sprint will get the iPhone, joining AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

iPhone 4 drops to $99 while Apple makes iPhone 3GS free with contract

iPhone 4 drops to $99 while Apple makes iPhone 3GS free with contract: As was rumored, Apple has opted to keep the iPhone 3GS alive as a free phone with a new service contract, while the 2010 iPhone 4 is now $99 with a carrier subsidy.

Apple reveals Find My Friends, iOS 5 coming on October 12th

Apple reveals Find My Friends, iOS 5 coming on October 12th: Presenting at its special iPhone event, Apple has announced that iOS 5 will go public on October 12th. All of Apple's recent iOS devices will be supported, including first- and second-generation iPads, the iPhone 4 and 3GS, and third- and fourth-generation iPod touches. The firmware introduces a host of features, such as Twitter integration, the BBM-like iMessage, Newsstand, and an overhauled notification system....

Apple unveils iPhone 4S with A5 CPU and 4G-like data speeds

Apple unveils iPhone 4S with A5 CPU and 4G-like data speeds: Apple's newest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, is a world phone powered by the company's speedy A5 processor, and features a new antenna design that can allow file transfers up to twice as fast as its predecessor.

Apple updates iPod nano with improved interface, expanded fitness features

Apple updates iPod nano with improved interface, expanded fitness features: Apple's new iPod nano features an even easier to navigate user interface with larger icons, as well as an improved fitness experience that can track runs without any extra sensors.

Family and Friends allows location sharing with other iPhone users

Family and Friends allows location sharing with other iPhone users: A new iOS application was unveiled by Apple on Tuesday dubbed "Family and Friends," allowing users of iPhones to quickly and safely share their location with one another.

iOS 5 will be available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch on Oct. 12

iOS 5 will be available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch on Oct. 12: iOS 5, the next major update to Apple's mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, will publicly be available for download next Wednesday, Oct. 12.

Apple's Cards app for iOS allows users to mail custom greeting cards

Apple's Cards app for iOS allows users to mail custom greeting cards: Apple on Tuesday announced Cards, a new free application for iOS devices that will allow users to order and mail custom-printed greeting cards for any occasion.

Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: Did Lucretius’s Poem Really Bring Us Modernity? - Slate Magazine

Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: Did Lucretius’s Poem Really Bring Us Modernity? - Slate Magazine: his real subject is the intellectual revolution of Epicureanism, the Greek philosophical school to which Lucretius belonged. Epicurus, its fourth-century founder, taught that the universe was completely material, made up of nothing but atoms and space. The power that drove life to multiply and evolve was irresistible but blind, the result of purely physical forces. It followed that there was no afterlife, no divine punishment, and no purpose to human existence except the cultivation of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

New cloth self-cleans by killing bacteria

New cloth self-cleans by killing bacteria: Chemists at UC Davis are reporting on a new self-cleaning cotton fabric that breaks down toxic chemicals and bacteria when exposed to light.

Why Assistant Needs an A5 and How it Was 'Many Iterations' Ahead of its Competitors

Why Assistant Needs an A5 and How it Was 'Many Iterations' Ahead of its Competitors: Make no mistake: Apple’s ‘mainstreaming’ Artificial Intelligence in the form of a Virtual Personal Assistant is a groundbreaking event. I’d go so far as to say it is a World-Changing event. Right now a few people dabble in partial AI enabled apps like Google Voice Actions, Vlingo or Nuance Go. Siri was many iterations ahead of these technologies, or at least it was two years ago. This is REAL AI with REAL market use. If the rumors are true, Apple will enable millions upon millions of people to interact with machines with natural language. The PAL will get things done and this is only the tip of the iceberg. We’re talking another technology revolution. A new computing paradigm shift.

New pursuit of Schrödinger’s cat | Prospect Magazine

New pursuit of Schrödinger’s cat | Prospect Magazine: Quantum mechanics is more than a hundred years old, but we still don’t understand it. In recent years, however, physicists have found a fresh enthusiasm for exploring the questions about quantum theory that were swept under the rug by its founders. Advances in experimental methods make it possible to test ideas about why objects on the scale of atoms follow different rules from those that govern objects on the everyday scale. In effect, this becomes an enquiry into the sense in which things exist at all.

In 1900 the German physicist Max Planck suggested that light—a form of electromagnetic waves—consists of tiny, indivisible packets of energy. These particles, called photons, are the “quanta” of light. Five years later Albert Einstein showed how this quantum hypothesis explained the way light kicks electrons out of metals—the photoelectric effect. It was for this, not the theory of relativity, that he won his Nobel prize.

The reinvention of the night | TLS

The reinvention of the night | TLS: In 1710, Richard Steele wrote in Tatler that recently he had been to visit an old friend just come up to town from the country. But the latter had already gone to bed when Steele called at 8 pm. He returned at 11 o’clock the following morning, only to be told that his friend had just sat down to dinner. “In short”, Steele commented, “I found that my old-fashioned friend religiously adhered to the example of his forefathers, and observed the same hours that had been kept in his family ever since the Conquest”. During the previous generation or so, elites across Europe had moved their clocks forward by several hours. No longer a time reserved for sleep, the night time was now the right time for all manner of recreational and representational purposes. This is what Craig Koslofsky calls “nocturnalisation”, defined as “the ongoing expansion of the legitimate social and symbolic uses of the night”, a development to which he awards the status of “a revolution in early modern Europe”.

A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge

A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge: What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.

Galaxy Clusters Back Up Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Galaxy Clusters Back Up Einstein's Theory of Relativity: Researchers have validated general relativity on cosmic scales using data collected from 8,000 galaxy clusters.

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet: $199, 7-inch screen, ships Nov. 15 - latimes.com

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet: $199, 7-inch screen, ships Nov. 15 - latimes.com: A look at the specs of the Kindle Fire reaffirms the idea that the focus of this tablet is consuming media -- and consuming it directly from Amazon.

US cable TV may unbundle to stem tide of Internet video

US cable TV may unbundle to stem tide of Internet video: US cable and satellite providers signaled Tuesday that they wanted to unbundle their channel packages to stave off the incursion of Internet video and a tough economy. DirecTV, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and others are pushing the FCC and others to alter retransmission fee systems and let them sell access by the channel so that they can lower the actual cost of selling TV services. At costs as high as $4 per month just for ESPN and now with normally free-to-air networks charging for access, they argued to Reuters and others that they were forced to charge high prices....

Apple to hold iPhone special event on Oct. 4

Apple to hold iPhone special event on Oct. 4: Apple sent invites to the press on Tuesday, announcing an iPhone-themed special event on October 4, beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific.

The ultimate utility bike? Maybe it's an e-bike | Gaming and Culture - CNET News

The ultimate utility bike? Maybe it's an e-bike | Gaming and Culture - CNET News: A new effort from the Palo Alto, Calif., design consultancy Ideo and Santa Cruz, Calif., bike builder Rock Lobster Custom Cycles may have pushed the industry a step closer to achieving the goal. The team created a bike for the Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructor's Design Challenge, a bike building competition pitting three teams of designers and handcrafted bike builders. Their goal: create the best utility bike for urban living.

Apple's 'Assistant' Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware

Apple's 'Assistant' Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware: Assistant will also reportedly integrate a conversational aspect in which the system can ask the user questions to clarify and refine its understanding of what is being requested.
The system will actually speak back and forth with the user to gain the most information in order to provide the best results. The user essentially can hold a conversation with their iPhone like it is another human being.

Assistant is also said to integrate with WolframAlpha, allowing users to obtain answers to factual questions using the service's computational capabilities.

The report notes that the sophisticated voice features will require the new iPhone hardware from Apple, relying on the company's A5 system-on-a-chip and a bump in RAM to 1 GB to support the heavy workload.

CBR Readers Rank "Batwoman" #1 Top Title of the New 52: Wave 2

CBR Readers Rank "Batwoman" #1 Top Title of the New 52: Wave 2: CBR readers overwhelmingly chose "Batwoman" #1 as their favorite title form the second full week of DC Comics' New 52 releases, with "Demon Knights" coming in directly behind the second place "Green Lantern."

Researcher: Facebook's Timeline will be boon for hackers

Researcher: Facebook's Timeline will be boon for hackers: A Sophos security researcher warns thatFacebook's new Timeline will likely make it easier for crooks to mine the social network for personal information they can use to launch malicious attacks and steal passwords.

The American Scholar: Dubya and Me - Walt Harrington

The American Scholar: Dubya and Me - Walt Harrington: So began a long and fascinating acquaintanceship with the man who would become one of the most admired and, later, reviled presidents in U. S. history. Over the next 25 years, our paths crossed again and again, most recently in his Dallas office last April. I had just read Bush’s 2010 memoir Decision Points, and I was struck by his many references to history. In the back of my mind was an article that Karl Rove had written for The Wall Street Journal in 2008, which revealed (much to the consternation of the president’s derisive critics) that Bush had read 186 books for pleasure in the preceding three years, consisting mostly of serious historical nonfiction. Intrigued, I asked Bush whether he would talk to me about how his passion for reading history had shaped his presidency and perspective, and he agreed.

How the two-party duopoly operates

How the two-party duopoly operates:

By now, probably everyone reading this is already sick of America's quadrennial political spectacle -- the one in which politicians and media outlets ask us to believe that there remain vast differences between our two political parties. It's like cheaply staged pornography on a red and blue set, with words like "polarization," "socialist" and "extremist" comprising the breathless dialogue in a wholly unconvincing plot.

Facebook Makeover Reveals New Vision for Sharing | Epicenter | Wired.com

Facebook Makeover Reveals New Vision for Sharing | Epicenter | Wired.com: The grand plan begins visually. The new “Timeline” product is something of an overview of your past Facebook activity in an entirely different visual format. Timeline goes back into your history of status updates, the apps you’ve used and the places you’ve checked into. The information collected in your timeline is dependent on what sort of data about yourself you want collected over time. So in order to, say, begin collecting data about your music listening habits, adding an application to a user’s timeline is a simple, one-click process.

The other half of Facebook’s vision: Apps. Facebook’s new class of social applications include the media-centric — music, movies, news and books — as well as what the company calls “lifestyle apps.” Essentially, instead of just “liking” things, the new class of apps will allow you to “read, watch and listen” to the integrated media services. Lifestyle apps capture most everything else

Apps are the stuff of Timeline. Installing this new class of apps onto your timeline will curate and summarize the history of your life as seen through Facebook — a collection of your activities curated and seen on a single page.

“It’s a container big enough to hold your entire life,” said Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox.

Can Neutrinos Move Faster Than Light? | Wired Science | Wired.com

Can Neutrinos Move Faster Than Light? | Wired Science | Wired.com: Over three years, OPERA researchers timed the roughly 16,000 neutrinos that started at CERN and registered a hit in the detector. They found that, on average, the neutrinos made the 730-kilometer, 2.43-millisecond trip roughly 60 nanoseconds faster than expected if they were traveling at light speed. “It’s a straightforward time-of-flight measurement,” says Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern and spokesperson for the 160-member OPERA collaboration. “We measure the distance and we measure the time, and we take the ratio to get the velocity, just as you learned to do in high school.” Ereditato says the uncertainty in the measurement is 10 nanoseconds.


However, even Ereditato says it’s way too early to declare relativity wrong. “I would never say that,” he says. Rather, OPERA researchers are simply presenting a curious result that they cannot explain and asking the community to scrutinize it. “We are forced to say something,” he says. “We could not sweep it under the carpet because that would be dishonest.” The results will be presented at a seminar tomorrow at CERN.

Can Neutrinos Move Faster Than Light?

Can Neutrinos Move Faster Than Light?: If it's true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massive subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein's theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light.

Facebook unveils new version of Open Graph | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

Facebook unveils new version of Open Graph | Geek Gestalt - CNET News: All told, the new feature will allow "frictionless experiences," "real-time serendipity," and finding patterns and activity.

YouTube adds Magisto automatic video editing tool | Digital Media - CNET News

YouTube adds Magisto automatic video editing tool | Digital Media - CNET News: Now any video being uploaded to YouTube can be edited automatically. No manual intervention is needed whatsoever--just one click of a button--and Magisto's tool instantly "finds" the best scenes in your video and cuts out the blurry, bad and boring bits. Music and effects (wipes, transitions, titles, and fades) can also be added with two button clicks. The tool is dead simple to use as it literally walks you through the editing "process" in seconds.

Facebook's enraging status update

Facebook's enraging status update:

Like, oh, around 750 million other users of Facebook, I logged on to the world's biggest social media network this morning and was immediately annoyed. Facebook had changed its user interface, again. Gone was the "Most Recent" button, which allowed users to see what their friends have posted in a simple, straightforward, chronological order. Now Facebook was indulging, again, in outright effrontery: employing its own secret algorithmic sauce to highlight what it considered the most important "top stories," while mixing in other recent posts far below.

Move data from an old Mac to a new Mac | Operating Systems | Working Mac | Macworld

Move data from an old Mac to a new Mac | Operating Systems | Working Mac | Macworld: There are many reasons to get a new Mac—your old one is too slow, too ungainly, or it’s incompatible with the latest version of OS X. Regardless of why you’ve walked a new Mac through your front door, when you do, you face this immediate challenge: Moving the data on your current Mac to the new computer. There are multiple means for doing this. We’ll look at one built into Mac OS X—Migration Assistant.

Dvorak: The serious flaw with Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Metro – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Dvorak: The serious flaw with Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Metro – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: a better-designed UI that doesn’t continuously destroy users’ visual memory

Reel change comes to Roseburg theaters | The News-Review - NRtoday.com

Reel change comes to Roseburg theaters | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: Digital images will take over as crews tear out green metal 35 mm film projectors and replace them with black plastic digital projectors.

Two screens, one in each theater at the Garden Valley Cinema 8 and Harvard Cinema, were changed several years ago to show blockbuster 3-D films such as “Avatar.”

Now, it's time to convert nine remaining screens, said General Manager Nathan Davies.

The Roseburg movie houses will join theaters across the country in a flurry of renovation as Hollywood abandons 35 mm film to adopt the newer medium.

Scott Hicks, whose Portland company, American Cinema Equipment, is installing the digital equipment in Roseburg, said about 60 percent of the U.S. theaters have already converted to digital.

Although the images will be clearer, cleaner and more stable than the 35 mm images, Hicks and Davies agree that moviegoers likely won't notice the change.

Google opens its social network to all

Google opens its social network to all: Just three months after launching Google+, the search giant drops the requirement of receiving an invitation to use the service. It also adds new features to its video Hangouts.

Stubbornness Increases the More People Tell You You're Wrong

Stubbornness Increases the More People Tell You You're Wrong: A group of psychologists working at HP's Social Computing Research Group has found that humans are more likely to change their minds when fewer, rather than more, people disagree with them.

The unrealistic beauty of the Pacific Northwest

The unrealistic beauty of the Pacific Northwest:

The Pacific Northwest is an improbable landscape. When Jonathan Raban first encountered it through the writing of Bernard Malamud -- whose novel about his time in Oregon, "A New Life," is a little-known masterpiece -- he thought Malamud's description of the Willamette Valley must have been the product of an overactive imagination. How could it really be true that the richest farmland in the world would be nestled between two mountain ranges, the Cascades to the east, the Coastal Range to the west, with a desert and an ocean on just the other side of both? "It read like the landscape of allegory," Raban observes in "Driving Home," his new collection of essays -- not a real place, but something out of "the freehand, fantastic tradition of the Jewish folktale." Only years later, when Raban met a professor who knew the area, did he learn that Malamud's novel was actually something of a roman à clef, with real people to match its closed-minded, casually anti-Semitic characters, and a real landscape to match what had seemed too dramatic to be real. "No," he was told, Malamud's novel was not a work of "ambitious fabulism"; rather, "the landscape of the Pacific Northwest was in itself an unrealistic stretch of country -- it was just naturally fabulous."

Wired and Tired: The Long View on the New Netflix

Wired and Tired: The Long View on the New Netflix: When companies I love (as a customer) and admire/enjoy writing about (as a journalist) do something that seems downright crazy to both sides of my brain, like splitting up a well-known brand and its useful and well-loved website, I tend to wonder if I'm missing something.

Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video

Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video: In the wake of falling stock prices and customer outrage, Netflix announced it will spin off the DVD by mail service that made the company famous.

Netflix splits off DVD service as Qwikster, adds video games

Netflix splits off DVD service as Qwikster, adds video games: Netflix chief Reed Hastings in a statement late Sunday revealed that the company was forking its traditional physical disc service out under the Qwikster name. All Blu-ray and DVD rentals will now go under the new banner while Netflix is reserved solely for Internet streaming. While the service will give users two account locations, it should also provide a route for significant improvements now that disc rentals have a dedicated team, Hastings said....

What to watch instead of "Conan" - Film Salon - Salon.com

What to watch instead of "Conan" - Film Salon - Salon.com: The world of film distribution can be as cruel as a  gang of bored silver miners who throw a longhorn bull into a deep pit with a grizzly bear just to see which will survive -- and just as senseless. That explains why this year's "Conan the Barbarian" was allowed to stink up 4,500 screens, while 2009's far superior "Solomon Kane" hasn't even been afforded the scant dignity of a U.S. DVD release. At least "Solomon Kane" has now turned up as an offering on Netflix streaming, like note in a bottle tossed adrift by the ghostly hand of author Robert E. Howard, the suicidal Texan who created both Conan and Kane during the pulp fiction heyday of the 1920s and 30s.

Solomon Kane, a grim demon-slaying pilgrim in a slouch hat, is one of Howard's more inspired creations, but the character hasn't exactly launched the careers of any Republican governors, so it's easy to see why the studio bean-counters backed "Conan" over "Kane." This isn't to say that "Solomon Kane" writer/director Michael J. Bassett ("Deathwatch") has delivered a completely faithful adaptation of any of the original Kane stories, but he has crafted a solid sword and sorcery movie built mostly on James Purefoy's (Mark Antony in HBO's "Rome") ability to be totally badassed in the title role while looking like a refugee from a Thanksgiving parade float. Joining Purefoy are the late Pete Postlethwaite ("The Town," "Inception") and Max von Sydow, who would've made an awesome Solomon Kane himself if Ken Russell or Dario Argento had directed this thing in the 1970s.

Once the evildoers kidnap the surviving Puritan girl (Rachel Hurd-Wood), Kane sets off on a horse-drawn carnage spree, cleaving Malachi's followers to the bone in true Howardian fashion. En route to his final confrontation with the forces of Satan, Kane confronts a creepy witch girl, fights his way out of a tomb filled with hissing zombies, and is crucified for added oomph.

The theft of the American pension

The theft of the American pension:

America is in the midst of a retirement crisis. Over the last decade, we've witnessed the wholesale gutting of pension and retiree healthcare in this country. Hundreds of companies have slashed and burned their way through their employees' benefits, leaving former workers either on Social Security or destitute -- and taxpayers with a huge burden that, as the baby boomer generation edges towards retirement, is likely to grow. It's a problem that is already affecting over a million people -- and the most shocking part is, none of this needed to happen.

The collegiate drug hypocrisy - David Sirota - Salon.com

The collegiate drug hypocrisy - David Sirota - Salon.com: Though little noticed for its role in America's selective War on Drugs, the university system has now become a key player shotgunning the oxymoronic "alcohol is acceptable but pot is evil" mentality down the beer-bong-primed throats of America's youth. To see how it all works, consider the University of Colorado.

Both figuratively and literally immersed in alcohol, CU is the higher education gem of a state whose governor famously made his millions on beer breweries. Today, the school’s catering service sells alcohol and university officials license CU's logo for use on beer-drinking merchandise. Meanwhile, every school year, CU forces kids to sit through a convocation in a beer-themed arena -- the Coors Events Center -- to learn about the "meaning and responsibilities" of student life.

Not surprisingly, CU now has a binge-drinking problem, as evidenced by last week's news that another of its students died after a night of heavy imbibing.

Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs

Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs: MacRumors has learned that Apple is working on a process to merge multiple Apple IDs into a single login. The issue of juggling multiple Apple ID logins has been a minor inconvenience in the past, but with the early developer testing of iOS 5 and iCloud, users have found it to be a major issue.

A look at Ivy Bridge, Intel's next -gen processor | BappProducts | Macworld

A look at Ivy Bridge, Intel's next -gen processor | BappProducts | Macworld: Much of the Intel Developer Forum's first day on Tuesday was spent talking about Ivy Bridge, Intel's next generation CPU built on the upcoming 22nm tri-gate process technology. Normally, Ivy Bridge would be the "tick" in Intel's "tick-tock" model of processor product development. The "tick" refers to moving to a new, higher density process technology. When Intel does that, the first CPU product it builds on the new manufacturing process, is usually a tweaked and enhanced version of an existing CPU architecture. The "tock" is when Intel, now comfortable with a new process, designs a new architecture, then builds it on the now familiar process.

Djokovic sets ATP mark with over $10.6M (AP)

Djokovic sets ATP mark with over $10.6M (AP): Novak Djokovic's 64-2 record in 2011 has earned him a record amount of prize money. Djokovic's U.S. Open championship -- his third Grand Slam title of the year -- pushed his earnings past $10.6 million, more than anyone ever took home during a full season of men's tennis, according to the ATP World Tour.

Number of U.S. poor hit record 46 million in 2010 | Reuters

Number of U.S. poor hit record 46 million in 2010 | Reuters: The United States has long had one of the highest poverty rates in the developed world. Among 34 countries tracked by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only Chile, Israel and Mexico have higher rates of poverty.

The Other Socrates - The Barnes & Noble Review

The Other Socrates - The Barnes & Noble Review: To capture all the fugitive texts of the ancient world, some of which survived the Dark Ages in just a single moldering copy in some monastic library, and turn them into affordable, clear, sturdy, accurate books, is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern scholarship -- and one of the most democratic.

In many of these dialogues, as Plato recreates them, Socrates does not even have a lesson to teach. His goal was simply to make his interlocutors recognize that their own common-sense ideas, on subjects like virtue and piety and beauty and politics, were hopelessly confused.

Waiting for Thunderbolt--one port to rule them all

Waiting for Thunderbolt--one port to rule them all: What if there was a connectivity standard faster than the fastest version of USB, worked with even more types of devices, and was even compatible with USB itself, via an adapter?

"True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four

"True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four:

Season finale! Witch Marnie is dead, but her spirit has invaded Lafayette's body and now she's inside of him, having breakfast with Jesus before work. Jesus apologizes to Lafayette for pushing him into the blood magic before he was ready, but Marnie just twitches Lafayette a little, trying not to betray her possession. Stating the obvious here, but it must really suck to be a medium if you can be snuggled in your animal-print bedding after a long day of slaying necromancers and end up possessed by a crazy witch without so much as a hangnail for a blood offering. How does Lafayette even walk down the street in Bon Temps without being violently overtaken by every tortured sap wandering out of Sam's rental slums? Jesus offers to "lead a magic-free life" if Lafayette wants, but when he goes in for a kiss he can totally taste Marnie's cherry chapstick and he knows. Marnie tsk-tsks him and stabs his hand to the bone with a fork. Real bad things with you! 

How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized

How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized: Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida is disrupted ... and resorting to penny-ante plots. It's time to declare victory and move on.

Quick Hits: Helene Grimaud plays live

Quick Hits: Helene Grimaud plays live:

"Cerebral" and "passionate." Words often used by critics to describe pianist Hélène Grimaud and her interpretations of Mozart, Liszt and Bartók. Having met her, we would now add "enchanting." Grimaud looks like a French actress and speaks about her art with an almost childlike wonder. But there's a fierce intelligence at work, and her performances provide "a glimpse of the transcendental," as one London reviewer put it.

OS X Lion: Screen Recording in QuickTime X | TMO Quick Tip | The Mac Observer

OS X Lion: Screen Recording in QuickTime X | TMO Quick Tip | The Mac Observer: You’ll get a little black Screen Recording window from which to control your options and start recording. When you click the drop-down arrow, you’ll see even more stuff you can change, including the location where your movie will be saved.

So drag to select an area that you’d like to record, and then when you release your mouse button, you’ll be able to resize the box you’ve made by dragging the familiar handles around it. You can also click and hold on the interior of the box and drag to adjust its position on your screen.

After you’re finished making an instructional video for your technophobe uncle, click the stop button on the black Screen Recording window. QuickTime will then process your work and save the .mov file to wherever you’ve assigned it to do so. Using the “Share” menu option, you can publish your tutorial to YouTube, send it directly to an e-mail, or even put it on Facebook (if you must).

Corporate America to Microsoft: We’ll pass on Windows 8 – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Corporate America to Microsoft: We’ll pass on Windows 8 – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: Many companies have ‘migration fatigue’ and will skip Windows 8 entirely.

Apple iPads, iPhones get Flash video at last

Apple iPads, iPhones get Flash video at last: Adobe's Flash Media Server 4.5 introduces support for iOS devices, which lets broadcasters stream Flash-based video content in an Apple-derived format, HTTP Live Streaming.

Women's final now Sunday, men's Monday (AP)

Women's final now Sunday, men's Monday (AP): The U.S. Open has changed its schedule, meaning the tournament will end on a Monday for the fourth consecutive year. The new schedule calls for the men's final to be played at 4 p.m. EDT on Monday, instead of its original Sunday slot. And the women's final will be Sunday at 4 p.m., instead of Saturday night.

Sept. 8, 1966: Liftoff for the Starship <cite>Enterprise<cite>

Sept. 8, 1966: Liftoff for the Starship Enterprise: Star Trek makes its network television debut. Given the cultural impact and enormous franchise spawned by the original Star Trek series, it's hard to believe that the show lasted just three seasons and was canceled by NBC in 1969 because of low ratings.

Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in the West – An Artful, Intense and Thrilling Epic | WhatCulture!

Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in the West – An Artful, Intense and Thrilling Epic | WhatCulture!: Released two years after his iconic, Italian-made “Dollars trilogy” – which launched the career of TV actor Clint Eastwood and created the “Spaghetti Western” sub-genre – 1968′s Once Upon a Time in the West is arguably director Sergio Leone’s crowning achievement. The inspired casting of blue-eyed American great Henry Fonda as a cruel villain is matched by the spectacle of Charles Bronson as the mysterious “Harmonica” and Jason Robards as the likeable gun-slinging outlaw, whilst Ennio Morricone’s score – and an ingenious diegetic sound-scape - upstages everyone in a near three-hour epic with less than 15 pages of dialogue.

TiVo quad-tuner Premiere Elite coming soon

TiVo quad-tuner Premiere Elite coming soon: With 2TB of storage, the Elite can hold up to 300 hours of HD programming and record up to four programs simultaneously.

Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck - Wired How-To Wiki

Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck - Wired How-To Wiki: In film and TV, shots can be less than a second long, but you’ll rarely see one running longer than 30 seconds. But because cameras now record hours on a tiny chip we tend to let them run. This makes for deadly dull video. Instead, shoot just until we get the point: “Mom blows out the candles” is a 10 second shot. Once the candles are out, CUT. Shoot in shots and your video will instantly look better.

First Look: Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN | WhatCulture!

First Look: Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN | WhatCulture!: The film is based on the diary written by Monroe’s (Michelle Williams) assistant Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) during the production of the 1957 movie The Prince and the Showgirl. The new movie follows their friendship and Monroe’s turbulent relationship with director and co-star Laurence Olivier with incredibly fun supporting roles for Judi Dench (Dame Sybil Thorndike), Dougary Scott (as Arthur Miller), Julia Ormond (as Vivien Leigh) and Dominic Cooper (Arthur Miller). Emma Watson and Toby Jones also support.

5 September TV Debuts We Can’t Wait To Watch « Spinoff Online – TV, Film and Entertainment News Daily

5 September TV Debuts We Can’t Wait To Watch « Spinoff Online – TV, Film and Entertainment News Daily: Fringe
Talking of JJ Abrams, the third season of this X-Files-gone-weirder show should’ve convinced any doubters that this was a show that demanded to be taken seriously. With the fourth season starting in almost all-new territory (One of the three main characters removed from history, and the two universes now apparently bound together as a result), we have no idea where the series is going to go next… but we can’t wait to find out. (Starting Sept. 23, 9pm on Fox)

The lesson of the Chinese invasion - David Sirota - Salon.com

The lesson of the Chinese invasion - David Sirota - Salon.com: First, in February, ABC News reported that almost every Americana-themed trinket sold in the Smithsonian Institute is made in China. Then news hit that San Francisco is importing its new Bay Bridge from China. Then came the New York Times dispatch about the Big Apple awarding Chinese state-subsidized firms huge taxpayer-funded contracts to "renovate the subway system, refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River and build a new Metro-North train platform near Yankee Stadium."

Astounding as all of that is, it was quickly topped by news last week reminding us that the new Martin Luther King monument in Washington was designed by a Chinese government sculptor and assembled by low-wage Chinese workers.

Google's Blogger gets a refresh

Google's Blogger gets a refresh: A set of major user interface changes--from edit tools to management--is coming to the Web-blogging service.

Trash your smartphone - Neuroscience - Salon.com

Trash your smartphone - Neuroscience - Salon.com: There you sit, hammered by stimuli: On your computer screen, you're pounded by an overflowing RSS reader, twitching Facebook and Twitter feeds, an email box constantly chirping at you and IM bubbles doing their best pop-up video impression; off in the distance, your television frantically flits between images of explosions and a screaming, overcoiffed suit whose impossibly fat head floats disembodied above a never ending ticker-tape; and on your desk, face up, a cellphone perpetually spasming with text messages, photos from friends, yet more email and, of course, phone calls.

Yale gives iPads to med school students

Yale gives iPads to med school students: The Yale School of Medicine is distributing an iPad 2 to each one of its students this fall, joining a trend at medical schools across the country.

A Dangerous Method - Trailer

A Dangerous Method - Trailer:

A Dangerous Method - Trailer Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A DANGEROUS METHOD. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell. Directed by: David Cronenberg Starring: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbander, Vincent Cassel

A David Cronenberg film about Freud and Jung, with Keira Knightley?! I am so there!

Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half

Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half: Algorithm has passengers board in a set order, reducing the aisle traffic jam and potentially saving more than $1 billion for the industry.

CNN acquires iPad news app Zite

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The decade's biggest scam - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The decade's biggest scam - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: Last year, McClatchy characterized this threat in similar terms: "undoubtedly more American citizens died overseas from traffic accidents or intestinal illnesses than from terrorism." The March, 2011, Harper's Index expressed the point this way: "Number of American civilians who died worldwide in terrorist attacks last year: 8 -- Minimum number who died after being struck by lightning: 29." That's the threat in the name of which a vast domestic Security State is constructed, wars and other attacks are and continue to be launched, and trillions of dollars are transferred to the private security and defense contracting industry at exactly the time that Americans -- even as they face massive wealth inequality -- are told that they must sacrifice basic economic security because of budgetary constraints.

First, this wastefulness is seen as inefficient only if one falsely assumes that its real objective is to combat Terrorist threats. That is not the purpose of what the U.S. Government does. As Daniel Weeks explains today, the Congress -- contrary to popular opinion -- is not "broken"; it is working perfectly for its actual owners.

The LA Times, and most people who denounce these spending "inefficiencies," have the causation backwards: fighting Terrorism isn't the goal that security spending is supposed to fulfill; the security spending (and power vested by surveillance) is the goal itself, and Terrorism is the pretext for it.

Exaggerating, manipulating and exploiting the Terrorist threat for profit and power has been the biggest scam of the decade; only Wall Street's ability to make the Government prop it up and profit from the crisis it created at the expense of everyone else can compete for that title.

Steve Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit

Steve Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit: Steve Jobs retires as the CEO of Apple with a reputation that will place him amongst the pantheon of history’s great global business leaders...

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iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State of E-Textbooks: If you're looking for a textbook example of technology obstruction by the media industry, look no further than e-textbooks.

Comixology revamps app, requires re-download of comics

Comixology revamps app, requires re-download of comics: Comixology has issued a major update to its digital comics app, now at version 3.0, that brings many improvements and changes to the graphic-publishing management and storefront app -- so many, in fact that the upgrade will require a one-time, no-cost re-downloading of the comics on users' devices. The overhaul brings a new on-demand store, a completely new interface, background downloading and a host of user-management options for their digital collections....

Flipboard to carry movies, TV shows

Flipboard to carry movies, TV shows: Flipboard will begin carrying movies and TV shows in the near future, Reuters reports. The developer's CEO, Mike McCue, says that he will take on the project at the end of 2011. The executive is refusing to comment on which studios have been approached; it is also unclear how the content might be formatted, though by definition the change will suddenly put Flipboard into competition with other iPad video apps such as Netflix and Hulu....

NFL's Buccaneers equip every player with an Apple iPad 2

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Steve Jobs’s Movie Legacy: Pixar and the Technology That Freed Indie Filmmakers | Film School Rejects

Steve Jobs’s Movie Legacy: Pixar and the Technology That Freed Indie Filmmakers | Film School Rejects: In 1985, the Graphics Group in LucasFilm‘s Computer Division was on the chopping block. As Robert Sutton relates, George Lucas wasn’t confident that computer animated films had much of a future, and as a result, department heads Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith (two pioneers of extreme importance) were being pressured to fire some of their workers. Instead, they offered up their own names to be culled, which saved the entire division. At least for that moment. It’s unclear what fate might have fallen on the Graphics Group had the Computer Division not been purchased in 1986 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for a tidy $5m.

Of course, we know this department by another name: Pixar.

Jobs put his money down on a company he believed in, and the result stands currently as 26 Academy Awards, an absurd amount of box office money, a legion of fans worldwide and nearly complete animation dominance in the movie world. In 2006, Disney bought Pixar at an evaluated worth of $7.4b, making Jobs the largest Disney shareholder. He is stepping down as Apple’s CEO today, and even though it’s hard to say what kind of effect that might have on the film world, Jobs’s legacy already extends far beyond Pixar and beyond The Mouse.

In a sense, Apple erased the need for an Avid workstation. It had a revolutionary effect on how indie filmmakers are able to make their art. It put that art within reach.

Steve Jobs: The insanely great comeback kid - How the World Works - Salon.com

Steve Jobs: The insanely great comeback kid - How the World Works - Salon.com: It's easy enough to rhapsodize over Job's incredible track record -- his accomplishments include the first great personal computer, the transformation of both the music and the telephone business, and the creation of one of the greatest movie-making studios of our time. Just writing that sentence is breathtaking. We will not see its like again. But for me, Jobs' career signifies something more primal -- his comeback saga is a story of redemption, a fantasy epic in which a great king is toppled, but through force of will and grit and brilliance fights his way all the way back to the throne, and inaugurates an even greater empire. It's hard to think of parallels.

Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs

Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs: "That day has come." Four simple words that signaled that Steve Jobs felt compelled to step down as CEO of Apple, the company he founded, then lost, then saw ridiculed and written off, only to lead its rebirth and rise to new heights.

It's an incredible story of prevailing (read: dominating) over seemingly insurmountable odds. A story that has no peer in technology, or any other industry, for that matter.

The realization that one man sits at the junction point of cataclysmic disruptions in personal computing (Apple II/Mac), music (iPod + iTunes), mobile computing (iPhone + iOS), movies (Pixar) and post-PC computing (iPad) is breath-taking in its majesty. A legacy with no equal.

'Weak' Jobs worked full day on last day as Apple CEO

'Weak' Jobs worked full day on last day as Apple CEO: Steve Jobs was in Apple offices for a complete work day on the day of his resignation as CEO, according to a person described as "close" to the executive. Jobs is in fact said to have attended a regular board meeting, in spite of being in a "weak" condition and having been housebound for several weeks. The resignation is not a sign of a sudden plummet in Jobs' health, the anonymous source claims. A separate source alleges that Jobs had an emotional meeting with his executive staff after talking to the board, whom me told he intends to be an active chairman....

Tim Cook to Apple Employees: "Apple is Not Going to Change"

Tim Cook to Apple Employees: "Apple is Not Going to Change": Ars Technica reports that new Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent out an email to Apple employees expressing his enthusiasm for officially taking the reins of the company and reassuring employees that "Apple is not going to change." The full text of the email:

Team:





I am looking forward to the amazing opportunity of serving as CEO of the most innovative company in the world. Joining Apple was the best decision I've ever made and it's been the privilege of a lifetime to work for Apple and Steve for over 13 years. I share Steve's optimism for Apple's bright future.





Steve has been an incredible leader and mentor to me, as well as to the entire executive team and our amazing employees. We are really looking forward to Steve's ongoing guidance and inspiration as our Chairman.





I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple's unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that—it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.





I love Apple and I am looking forward to diving into my new role. All of the incredible support from the Board, the executive team and many of you has been inspiring. I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.





Tim

Cook has gained a solid reputation for his leadership abilities and work to streamline Apple's operations. He has also clearly embraced the Apple concept as revealed by the "Cook Doctrine" he laid out over two years ago as he took on the role of overseeing Apple's day-to-day operations during one of Steve Jobs' medical leaves of absence.





TUAW's Michael Grothaus, a former Apple employee, also offers a personal impression of Tim Cook, noting the thoughtfulness and careful consideration he gives when speaking as an example of his leadership abilities "sans ego".

Tim Cook is one of those rare people who stop and think before speaking. Standing in the same room with him I realized that he's comfortable with silence as long as that silence is productive and appropriate. He's not like other tech execs who ramble almost immediately and incoherently at any question lobbed at them, as if doing so will convince others they know everything about everything.





Tim Cook is a person who has confidence in his position as a leader, sans ego. Ego doesn't take pauses. It's rapid-fire. And it's that confidence and lack of ego that allows him the time to examine the issues and questions at hand, no matter how lowly or silly others may think them, and address them appropriately.

Cook has been at Apple since 1998, and while he has played a primary role in hosting Apple's earnings conference calls, he has until relatively recently remained quietly in the background when it comes to Apple's mainstream public appearances. But the company in recent months has been making a more active role for him, most notably as the on-stage representative for Apple at the introduction of the Verizon iPhone earlier this year.





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