The Moga Pro game controller for Android devices aims to take mobile gaming to the next level. The Pro brings a more traditional-controller feel with its dual analog sticks and rubber like grip when compared to its predecessor.
Mike Vick’s New Game (iOS Game)
So I’m not a big iOS game player, but when I saw Michael Vick was coming out with a football game I decided to check it out. Surprisingly, “Mike Vick’s Game Time” has been really fun, reminiscent of the game features from NFL Blitz. The 4-on-4 offense only game focuses on throwing the perfect pass by leading your receiver, anticipating cuts and bullet passing. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Mike Vick-inspired video game without the quarterback being able to tuck the ball down and juke and spin his way down the field. A must-download game for any football lover even those Madden enthusiasts.- Kent Foster
Attorney General of California Kamala Harris is trending on Twitter today, thanks to some “flattering words” from President Obama at a fundraiser in Atherton, Ca. After saying Harris is “brilliant” and “tough,” he didn’t hesitate to also remark on her looks, calling her “by far the best looking Attorney General.” He followed by saying “It’s true, c’mon” to an amused crowd.
It makes me wonder if you would ever hear the President comment on Attorney General Eric Holder’s looks, or John Boehner’s — probably not.
In fact, around the same time, a similar point was being made by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, appearing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss her manual for modern women in the workplace, “Lean In.”
Sandberg pointed out that gender biases are ingrained early, telling of a national retailer “that printed up onesies for babies…for the boys: ‘Smart like Daddy,’ and the girls: ‘Pretty like Mommy.’ — at 4:28
Kate Stone has advanced some futuristic technology, turning simple construction paper into turntables that actually play music.
Youth Radio and Turnstyle had the honor of hosting this inventor who wants to change the way we think about electronics. It’s awe-inspiring to watch Stone’s as-yet-unnamed creation in action: you touch your simulated turntables on a piece of paper, and you’re controlling the DJ app on the iPad sitting five feet away from you. Every function that’s available on an analog turntable, including blending songs and scratching records, is also possible with Stone’s technology.
Besides just music, this technology has promise for other fields like education, where it could help meet literacy gaps.
Say a child is learning how to read, and he doesn’t understand a particular word. He could run his fingers over a sentence printed on Stone’s paper, hooked up to speakers, and it could offer pronunciation help. Of course, there are some apps for the iPad and other tablets that can do this already. But when you think globally about needs in developing countries, this technology is much cheaper than buying iPads.
Digital DJing Looks Good On Paper – And It Works from Turnstyle Video on Vimeo.
Rapper Lupe Fisaco is in the news again for something other than his music, but this time he’s not stepping on any toes. (more…)
If you haven’t heard of Pheed yet, it’s probably because you’re not around my age (21) or younger.
After creating an account I realized Pheed was “thee” social network of social networks, possessing the qualities I love about Twitter, Tumblr, Soundcloud, and Instagram all in one. It even allows users to create a pay-per-view-type show that they can charge audiences to watch. While scanning Twitter yesterday, I saw that The Game tweeted a link to his Pheed channel. My jaw hit the ground when I found out that Pheed was at the top of the Apple charts for social networking apps, even beating out Facebook and Twitter.
Although it’s been out for half a year, Pheed just spiked about a week ago thanks to help from popular teens like Acacia Brinley (who?!?!) whose tweet “@Pheed sickest app,” sent thousands of teens to create their own channels. I have been ranting for quite some time now about how Facebook is becoming the preferred social media platform of my parents’ generation. With Pheed’s emergence, we finally have another one to claim as our own.
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Apparently Apple made more money from iTunes and accessories sales alone than all other companies made from phone sales during the most recent quarter.
In a new analysis of Apple revenue by the always reliable Asymco website, author Horace Dediu also notes that iTunes may be worth more to Apple than its Mac business within the current year. “iTunes+Accessories combined is a bigger business in terms of revenues than any of the other phone vendors except Samsung. iTunes is now Apple’s fourth largest business, having overtaken the iPod in revenues two years ago. iTunes growth relative to the Mac means that it could become the third largest business during this year,” Dediu said. (more…)
It’s already been shown in a 2003 study published by the National Bearu of Economic Research that having a “black” name will affect whether or not you get a call back when applying for a job. But now it appears that bias may also appear when a person’s name is searched on Google.
I can recall the countless number of times where I’ve heard a new song with a sound that I know I heard before; then dropping everything I was doing and going on a journey for hours just to find the origins of the song.
Discovering the original caused feelings of joy and success that were too much to keep to myself. After letting everyone know of my discovery through social media, I had all my friends asking me to find the sample of a certain song that was bothering them. What a great, but time consuming, dilemma to be in.
When I discovered Whosampled.com, I was in awe. (more…)
The 1986 Stored Communications Act needs a serious update, is the upshot of this troubling ARS Technica piece.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court last week decided that accessing someone’s email without their permission doesn’t violate the act. Why? Because the email is stored in the cloud, which counts as “electronic storage” not protected by the act. Here’s how this professor explained it to ARS Technica.
“This [South Carolina] decision is more evidence of how intractable and inconsistent our statutory electronic surveillance regime has become,” Woodrow Hertzog, a professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, told Ars.
“All of the discussions regarding backups, temporary copies, and the read/unread distinction seem to have very little to do with the way that most people perceive their use of e-mail. Ultimately, this problem is likely best resolved by the legislature, but the specifics of a politically palatable update to the SCA have yet to be fully agreed upon.”
