NYCC | ‘The Venture Bros.’ Creators Joke With Fans, Dodge Season 6 Questions – Spinoff Online – TV, Film, and Entertainment News Daily

NYCC | ‘The Venture Bros.’ Creators Joke With Fans, Dodge Season 6 Questions – Spinoff Online – TV, Film, and Entertainment News Daily: As they’re writing the next season, they were being tight-lipped. “It’s not like sex, where you say what you’re going to do the entire time, and then do it very badly,” Hammer said.

Dante: The Most Vivid Version by Robert Pogue Harrison | The New York Review of Books

Dante: The Most Vivid Version by Robert Pogue Harrison | The New York Review of Books: The basic “plot” of The Divine Comedy has to do with the pilgrim’s efforts to complete a long, self-interrogating, and transformative journey at the end of which his inner being—which, like human history, suffers from the perversion of self-love—becomes harmonized with the love that moves the universe. Salvation means nothing more, and nothing less, than such harmonization. It is not until the very last lines of Paradiso that the Comedy’s story reaches its conclusion.

Hands-on with Square Cash, a free, dead simple way to send money via email | Macworld

Hands-on with Square Cash, a free, dead simple way to send money via email | Macworld: Square's war against PayPal continues with a new free service that lets you transfer small amounts of money between friends using nothing more than email.

Called Square Cash, the new service is available now to anyone with a U.S. bank account and is dead simple to use. Seriously: It couldn't be easier. Unlike PayPal, Square Cash doesn’t require you to sign-up for a Square account first, and all funds are transferred directly between bank accounts with no third-party holding account.

Square Cash lets anyone send money by e-mail -- for free

Square Cash lets anyone send money by e-mail -- for free: First launched as an invite-only beta, Square Cash is now available to everyone. The free service lets anyone send and receive cash simply by sending an e-mail, no account required. [Read more]

Jonathan Rée reviews ‘Newton and the Origin of Civilisation’ by Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold · LRB 10 October 2013

Jonathan Rée reviews ‘Newton and the Origin of Civilisation’ by Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold · LRB 10 October 2013: By that time he had settled into a steady habit of suspicion: he trusted nobody, and refused to believe anything that he couldn’t reduce to mathematical terms and prove for himself from first principles. In particular, he trained himself to doubt the evidence of sensory experience: sensible qualities were events in our bodies rather than features of the objective world, and sense organs, like any other mechanical instruments, were liable to bias, inconsistency and malfunction.

Report: Oregon a 'haven' for sex offenders

Report: Oregon a 'haven' for sex offenders: An Oregonian investigation published Wednesday finds that the state has one of the worst records in the country for following federal standards intended to keep registered sex offenders under supervision.

FreedomPop launches free mobile phone service, 200 free minutes

FreedomPop launches free mobile phone service, 200 free minutes: The service includes a guaranteed use of 500MB of data and 500 text messages. [Read more]

Mapping agency builds all of Great Britain in Minecraft

Mapping agency builds all of Great Britain in Minecraft: British governmental mapping company Ordnance Survey has re-created the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft using real-world data.

America’s Best Unknown Writer by Jonathan Raban | The New York Review of Books

America’s Best Unknown Writer by Jonathan Raban | The New York Review of Books: Gaddis arrived in New York with a pile of pages that by March 1952 had grown to “almost 100,000 words,” or “just barely more than half finished.” For the winter of 1952–1953 he holed up in a borrowed farmhouse outside Montgomery, New York, emerging in the spring with a completed novel of around 500,000 words. By then, he had also signed a contract with Harcourt, Brace, and collected an advance of $1,000, which enabled him to work full-time on revising his enormous manuscript, and ditch his part-time job with the US Information Service, writing propaganda pieces for the magazine America Illustrated. That winter of hectic composition shows. For all its life, inventiveness, and seriousness of intent, The Recognitions is riddled with clumsy sentences to which an author in less haste would have mailed rejection slips. As Homer may sometimes nod, Gaddis can take disquietingly long naps.

JIM STERANKO Slams AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Premiere

JIM STERANKO Slams AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Premiere: The NICK FURY: AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. writer/artist calls show disorganized and without menace.

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Dominates Tuesday Ratings

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Dominates Tuesday Ratings: With 11.9 million viewers and an impressive 4.6 rating, the debut episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is the highest-rated TV drama premiere in nearly four years.

Roku channels its efforts into updated hardware, new content options | TechHive

Roku channels its efforts into updated hardware, new content options | TechHive: M-Go customers on Roku will also get two free movie rentals to try out the service. (Note that M-Go is available only in the U.S.)

To show how serious M-Go and Roku are about the partnership, M-Go is getting a dedicated launch button on the new Roku remotes, alongside Netflix, Amazon, and Blockbuster. M-Go tries to distinguish itself from other non-subscription video services (Vudu, iTunes Store, Amazon, and so on) by focusing on features related to personal relevance: custom lists (Cards) for quick access to favorite shows, movies, actors, and directors; the capability to fine-tune recommendations; and even links to other services that offer the content you’re looking for.

Roku unveils trio of new boxes, M-Go integration: Hands-on with restyled $50 Roku LT, $60 Roku 1, and $80 Roku 2 | Digital Media Receivers - CNET Reviews

Roku unveils trio of new boxes, M-Go integration: Hands-on with restyled $50 Roku LT, $60 Roku 1, and $80 Roku 2 | Digital Media Receivers - CNET Reviews: The upside with M-Go is that Roku owners won't need to sign up for any new account, as it works with your Roku account and the credit card that's required during setup. (This fact still irks some Roku buyers.) M-Go will also allow you to link your UltraViolet account, giving you access to any content have stored in your digital locker.
The software update is coming in October to all "current-generation" Roku boxes, which includes the Roku LT, Roku HD, Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, Roku 1, Roku 2, Roku 3 and Roku Streaming Stick.

The 7 best things about iOS 7 | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

The 7 best things about iOS 7 | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews: I decided to round up my favorite parts of iOS 7 that I think are truly useful and stand out from the other changes. Tomorrow, I'll be writing what I think are the 7 worst things about iOS 7, so don't get caught up thinking this is just an iPhone fan-fest.

iOS 7 Tidbits: iMessage Timestamps, App Switching, Spotlight Search, and More

iOS 7 Tidbits: iMessage Timestamps, App Switching, Spotlight Search, and More: Apple released iOS 7 to the public earlier today and while we highlighted a number of the major features in the operating system, there are more than 200 changes in all, including hundreds of minor tweaks and improvements. We’ve gathered up a list of some of the lesser known iOS 7 features below and additional information about iOS 7 can be found in our iOS 7 forum and our post on the iOS 7 release.

CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era'

CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era': The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms. The news isn't good.

Google buys Bump for smoother file sharing

Google buys Bump for smoother file sharing: Android, Chrome, and maybe even the iPhone could get a jolt in the file sharing department with Google's acquisition of Bump, which was announced Monday.

How Apple’s unmatched A7 64-bit processor gives iOS plenty of headroom for the future and Apple a distinct competitive advantage

How Apple’s unmatched A7 64-bit processor gives iOS plenty of headroom for the future and Apple a distinct competitive advantage: Bisson writes, “With a virtualisation-ready processor in its new phone, Apple can now start to move iOS in the direction of a hypervisor-controlled sandbox environment… Here the operating system component of a VM is tailored to the application it is hosting – minimising the attack surface of each secure partition. Combined with a fingerprint sensor to identify users, Apple has the tools it needs to deliver biometric access control, allowing devices to support multiple users, with files and apps for one user hidden from another using hardware encryption.”

Google+ snaps Snapseed into Chrome browser | TechHive

Google+ snaps Snapseed into Chrome browser | TechHive: This should come as no surprise. Snapseed, a photo editor created by Nik Software, was long a favorite of mobile snap shooters, and when the company was acquired by Google last year, it was obvious that it had big plans to boost the visibility of this respected product. With the Google+ social network out there as an increasingly popular Facebook rival, it needed some high-powered photographic goodness to go with it.

Roku takes on Google with new Chromecast-like feature | Internet & Media - CNET News

Roku takes on Google with new Chromecast-like feature | Internet & Media - CNET News: The new Roku feature -- known as discovery and launch protocol (DIAL) -- will essentially turn a user's smartphone into a remote control. While Roku's iOS app and its Android app can already do this, the added feature will let users stream video from third-party apps. Chromecast currently does this with Netflix and YouTube. It's unclear what apps will be able to do this for Roku.