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Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Importance Of Social Media In Elections: Mostly Hot Air
If social media mattered in elections, Ron Paul would have a realistic shot at being the Republican nominee and Barack Obama would be on track to crush Mitt Romney in the biggest landslide in American history. Despite the hype over follower counts, a new study shows that there's no credible evidence that Twitter can be used to predict how elections will turn out. "It can be concluded that the predictive power of Twitter regarding elections has been greatly exaggerated," writes computer science professor, Daniel Gayo-Avello, in an unusually strident rant (for an academic). Gayo's conclusions are intuitive: social media users are an unrepresentative slice of voters, and tweets may not accurately reflect how voters behave.mary louise parker mary louise parker cher morgellons nhl all star draft touch nitrous oxide
Apple rumored to be in talks to acquire high end HDTV manufacturer Loewe
Apple is rumored to be in talks to acquire high end German HDTV manufacturer Loewe. The news comes from an anonymous source who claims that Apple has offered 87.3 million euros (around $112 million dollars).
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III: Pentile Super AMOLED used 'because it lasts longer'
Nice processor, shame about the Pentile. It's something that several people have been saying about Samsung's new chest-beating flagship. So why didn't it plump for the warmer Super AMOLED Plus found on both its predecessor and the bigger-boned Galaxy Note? According to Samsung's spokesperson, it's because those blue sub-pixels that are absent on Super AMOLED displays degrade faster than their red and green allies. With the aim of keeping its phones healthily glowing for at least 18 months, it made the decision to go with the Pentile formation. Compared to the Galaxy Nexus, which matches the resolution of the Galaxy S III, Samsung has also shrunk the gaps between pixels on its newest phone in an effort to reduce complaints leveled at its Super AMOLED technology -- although we didn't notice it all that much under our microscope.
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Slaughterhouse Prep 'Real Sexy' Video With Cee Lo Green
'My Life' video is only for the 'most wildest and most vividest of imaginations,' Joe Budden tells MTV News.
By Rob Markman, with reporting by James Lacsina
Joe Budden on the set of Slaugherhouse's video for "My Life"
Photo: MTV News
Why shouldn't Slaughterhouse enjoy all of their recent success? For years, Royce da 5'9", Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I have been putting in some serious work in hip-hop's underground, not always receiving their just due. Now that they are a premiere act on Eminem's Shady Records, rap's most lyrical bunch will take time reflect on the ups and downs with Cee Lo Green in their video for "My Life."
"It's just more of a rags-to-riches type of story that chronicles struggle, hardship, all of the hurdles that we've all jumped and some of the things that all of us have extreme gratitude for, if you listen to the lyrics of the songs," an expertly groomed Joe Budden told MTV News of the video's concept on Wednesday while shooting in L.A.
On the energetic second single from the group's upcoming Welcome to: Our House LP, the lyricists ponder their current wins in the face of all their previous losses. Cee Lo belts out a familiar hook over a Streetrunner and Sarom-produced track which lifts Italian band Corona's 1993 dance hit "The Rhythm of the Night." Though the newly released track has yet to make a dent in any of the Billboard song charts, it has all the makings of a hit record and has the potential to become a radio mainstay for the summer.
It may be hard to picture the B-roll, with all of its green screen, but for the Syndrome-directed video for "My Life," the planned visual effects will be key in telling the quartet's story. "Unless you have the most wildest and most vividest of imaginations you probably won't be able to get it, but he's doin' a lot of editing in post, he's doin' a lot of camera tricks," Budden said of Syndrome's aim. "He's gonna make it all come together, he's gonna make it all real sexy and we're excited to work with him."
What do you think of Slaughterhouse and Cee Lo's new single "My Life"? Let us know in the comments
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The Engadget interview: OnStar's Nick Pudar talks smart grids at CTIA 2012 (video)
While visiting the Innovation Showcase at CTIA 2012, we ran into Nick Pudar -- OnStar's VP of Business Development -- who was kind enough to give us a few minutes of his time. We sat in the LTE Skype-enabled Chevy Volt on display and discussed such topics as OnStar FMV, RelayRides and smart grids -- wherein power utilities can (with the customer's consent) send a signal to a vehicle to control when it charges. The idea is to allows utilities to maximize grid efficiency and minimize power spikes while giving customers options for when to charge the vehicle -- like when the rates are the lowest or when the power generated is coming from renewable energy, for example. Pretty neat stuff, eh? Watch our video interview for all the (pardon the pun) juicy details.
The Engadget interview: OnStar's Nick Pudar talks smart grids at CTIA 2012 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 10:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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'American Idol': Who Made the Top Three?
Find out who was eliminated this week and who still has a shot at winning it all!
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Nokia Reading opens its pages to select European nations, more to follow
Nokia's not shy when it comes to decorating the Lumia halls with proprietary and partnership apps. The latest addition? That Nokia Reading app we first saw announced at MWC. Owners of Lumia 900, 800, 710 and 610 phones in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK will be able to get their thumbs amidst those digital pages over the next few weeks, while unspecified "other" countries can look forward to it some time later in the year. Espoo is keen to point out that there'll be an emphasis on "own language" titles, but also a large collection of English language best sellers for which translations aren't available. It's just the written word for now, but audio books and news feeds will be introduced later. Let's just hope you finish reading The Color Purple by then.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Toshiba Excite 10 LE
Toshiba's Excite 10 LE ($529 direct, 16GB) is the slimmest, lightest 10.1-inch tablet we've seen yet. At only 7.7mm (0.3 inches) thick and 1.2 pounds, it's even comfortable held in one hand, as long as that's a pretty strong hand. You'll pay a premium for the slimmest tablet on the block, though, both in money and in power, and even better slim tablets are coming from Toshiba soon.
Physical Features and Networking
Once known as the Excite X10, The Excite 10 LE looks and feels like a premium product. At 10.1 by 6.9 by .3 inches (HWD) it's super-slim, with a brushed-metal back and a groove around the smooth plastic edge. The Power and Volume buttons, and the lock switch, are in natural positions for your fingers to find. For such a slim tablet, there are a suprising number of ports around the edge: a microSD card slot, USB, HDMI, and headphone jacks, as well as a separate, large power port.
The 1280-by-800, TFT LCD screen is just okay. The Gorilla Glass covering the display is highly reflective, and you can sometimes see the pattern of the touch-screen actuators under the glass, which makes solid black areas look oddly textured.?
The Excite connects to Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n networks, albeit only on the 2.4GHz band. I had some trouble connecting the tablet to our office networks, but was able to get through after a few tries. The tablet's slender body doesn't fit much of a battery, and as such, we got only 4 hours, 44 minutes of continuous video playback with the screen set to full brightness. That's shorter than all of our competing highly rated tablets.
Android and Apps
The Excite 10 LE runs Android 4.0.3 on a TI OMAP4430 dual-core, 1.2GHz processor. It's the same processor you'll get on the Editors' Choice Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx ($199, 4.5 stars) smartphone, for instance, and it's faster than the Nvidia Tegra 2s you see in some other tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1). But it doesn't measure up, speed-wise, to the new Nvidia Tegra 3 or Qualcomm S4 8960.
You won't notice that in average use. I found the Excite 10 LE's screen to be very responsive, unlike, say, the supposedly faster Acer Iconia Tab A510 ($449, 3 stars).? While the Excite 10 LE's Antutu system benchmarks came in at half the speed of Tegra 3 tablets like the Asus Transformer TF300 ($379, 4 stars), Web benchmarks like Browsermark were almost up to par. The two places you'll notice the difference are in high-end games like Riptide GP, which are jerkier and lack some visual effects you see on Tegra 3 tablets; and on Flash-based Web sites, which operate slowly.
The fine performance here may be in part because Toshiba uses a completely stock version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The company did add some apps to try to get around Android tablets' app failures, though. Toshiba App Place is a quasi-app-store which lists several hundred tablet-ready apps in the Google Play market. Book Place is a bookstore; News Place is a good looking, Flipboard-like news app; and Crackle delivers free streaming movies. You also get Kaspersky antivirus, a media player app that supports shared servers on your local network, and a bunch of Solitaire games.
Multimedia and Conclusions
The Excite 10 LE comes with 16GB of on-board memory, and our 64GB SanDisk memory card worked in the microSD card slot. The tablet played all of our music and video formats, including H.264, MPEG4, WMV, DivX, and XviD up to 1080p resolution, and music in WMA, OGG, WAV, MP3, and AAC formats. There are various SRS-related sound options you can use to boost treble or stereo separation.
Sound through wired headphones and the twin stereo speakers on the bottom was unremarkable, but fine. Through a Bluetooth headset, I saw a slight lip sync delay in some video files. And 720p HD output from the micro HDMI port has an annoying bug which sent a slightly-too-large image to our Sony TV, clipping off the edges of the screen.?
The 5-megapixel rear camera has issues in low light, but brightens up considerably outdoors. In my tests, low-light and indoor images generally showed a lot of color noise and looked oversharpened. The 1-megapixel front camera was extremely noisy in low light. Outdoors, shots weren't bad at all, with decent color and light balance and much less noise.
Videos recorded outdoors clocked in at a smooth 30 frames per second in 1080p HD with the main camera, and VGA quality with the front camera. But indoor videos taken with the main camera were very jerky, ranging from 9-18 frames per second, even when taken down to 720p resolution.
The filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson once wrote, "Everyone's born with?one special thing." The Excite 10 LE has that one special thing. Its light and slim build stand out from the crowd of similar $450 tablets. But that isn't enough to overcome the competition. The Asus Transformer TF300 costs only $379, is just a wee bit thicker, and is much better for gaming thanks to its quad-core processor. The new Apple iPad (4.5 stars), at $499, has a far superior screen and a much broader library of tablet-centric applications. And Toshiba itself has the Excite 10 coming soon, with a quad-core processor in the same body for $500. That gives the Excite 10 LE a pretty slim niche in a crowded Android tablet market.
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