Netflix streaming is great and all, but one has to admit, the selection of movies leaves a lot to be desired. Mubi will soon be filling this void when they bring their online service to the Sony PS3, offering a ton of awesome movies created by top directors from around the world. The Announcement:
Hello, We are MUBI. Who? What? Ok, lets make this simple… Do you know who Kubrick is? What about Antonioni? David Lynch? Ring any bells? It’s ok, don’t bother if you don’t… But if you are still reading you are going to like this a lot. Well, we are MUBI and we are basically transforming your PS3 console into your own online cinema. (You can still play games and all that, don’t worry!) We couldn’t resist the idea of everyone having their own exquisite film library—And that’s it in a nutshell.
But lets get this straight, we are not just an online cinema and we are not just some tech and film geeks in California—well, some of us are, yes—but we are 300,000 friends talking, discovering, and sharing films with one another every day. In fact, every 2 minutes there’s someone joining us. Yes. 2 minutes. Sorry to get a bit geeky (we warned you!), but that’s 700 people joining each day. Not bad… but joining what?
I’m going to venture a guess and say no, but others apparently disagree. The Voyager 2 space probe was launched 33 years ago and is now, quite literally, out in the middle of nowhere. Despite its age and distance from Earth, Voyager continues to communicate with our home planet. However, recent communications have been unreadable and this has led to some pretty wild speculation.
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:”It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth”
Alien expert? I like that title. He’s an expert on something he has zero reference of, something he has never seen, never met, never studied.
Engineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.
The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.
Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.
Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.
Apple can’t keep up with the demand for the iPad in the United States and is currently rolling out its European debut of the product, so the last thing Apple needs is a new retail partner to sell more product, especially Wal-Mart. Senior vice-president of entertainment at Wal-Mart told Bloomberg, “We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year.” An announcement is expected later today that will explain Wal-Mart’s intentions to expand their electronics division, though a specific iPad announcement will probably be a few weeks, if not months, away.
In 1909 an article appeared in Popular Mechanics by Nikola Tesla, inventor of the AC current, that predicted the availability of wireless SMS texting.
Tesla wrote in the magazine that one day it’d be possible to transmit “wireless messages” all over the world and imagined that such a hand-held device would be simple to use and one day everyone in the world would communicate to friends using it, Porges said.
This would usher in a new era of technology, Telsa wrote in the publication.
“Nikola Tesla was able to predict technology which is still in its nascent forms a hundred years later. He talked a lot about his other great passion, which was wireless power.
“It has taken a little longer to get off the ground, but work on fascinating wireless conductive transmission is going on right now in research centres at MIT and Intel and other places,” ‘The Daily Telegraph’ quoted Porges as saying.
Ever what would happen if classic Mario games were designed in the year 2010? The image below is the likely result, though it seems to be missing DRM and the need for an always-on net connection:
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