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Amazon scores two Golden Globes, Netflix debuts House of Cards trailer
Tonight’s Golden Globe Awards were a triumph for internet TV services, as Amazon and Netflix scored wins for their original series — all on a night when the big four broadcast networks didn’t win any. Amazon had two awards to Netflix’s one, and won their head to head battle as its hit Transparent triumphed in the “Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy” category that included Orange is the New Black, Silicon Valley, Jane the Virgin and Girls. Series star Jeffrey Tambor collected the other award for Best Actor in a TV Comedy. Netflix won a single award (Kevin Spacey, Best Actor in a TV Drama, House of Cards) but might have given us the best moment of the evening by releasing the trailer for House of Cards season three. It’s embedded after the break if you need a taste of the Underwoods before the series debuts worldwide on February 27th.
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sU9QTLXYCCc?rel=0
That time @KevinSpacey swore at the #GoldenGlobes, featuring @UzoAduba: pic.twitter.com/IKfrI54uMx
– Netflix US (@netflix) January 12, 2015
.@transparent_tv wins #GoldenGlobes Best TV, Musical or Comedy! Great job @Amazon_Studios @jillsoloway @jeffreytambor pic.twitter.com/bkmqNULhQa
– Amazon Instant Video (@AmazonVideo) January 12, 2015
.@transparent_tv wins Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy at the #GoldenGlobes! Congrats @jeffreytambor pic.twitter.com/SIM65U7H3X
– Amazon Instant Video (@AmazonVideo) January 12, 2015
Kevin, you make everything better. Congratulations! @KevinSpacey #HouseofCards #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/Rrf14WaVzM
– Netflix US (@netflix) January 12, 2015
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Source: Golden Globes
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Why human interface matters
I remember visiting my father at IBM and watching the massive doors open so they could wheel out the tray of punchcards. I remember going shopping for an Apple II Plus and staring at the glowing green letters across its monochrome display. I remember visiting my father at LGS, and grabbing the mouse on the LISA sitting on the desk next to his, and dragging everything I could into the pictorial representation of a trash can. I remember picking up the iPhone, tapping the Photos icon, and swiping and pinching my through images as though they were real objects beneath my fingers. I remember holding down the Home button and telling Siri to play my music, and smiling a moment later when it did just that. The history of computing is the history of human’s interfacing with them, and in his latest video, Dave WIskus shows how we got from there to here, and more importantly — why.
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Patent Reveals the Past (and Future?) of Google Glass
A patent recently published on the USPTO’s website filed by Google in 2011 shows the idea that Google may have had for Google Glass. One of the diagrams, shown below, shows Google’s idea for the shape of the glasses, the positioning of the camera, and the location of the processor and projector of the glasses.
The glasses are less of the minimalist style we’ve seen recently and more along the lines of protective goggles, which could be a useful feature: if you’ve discovered something awesome enough to video from your head, there’s a good chance you could get hurt doing it. The camera is positioned in the center of the glasses, which makes them look ungainly in the sketches (which, according to most consumers’ thoughts about the current design, doesn’t differ much from the current design.
Something else very interesting about the diagrams is the projection capabilities. The processor is found on one of the glasses’ temples, but both lenses are able to relay information due to there being a projector for each one. This design is an improvement over the current one-eye system, and could give you a chance to diversify the information being relayed to you in each eye.
Based on some of the design quirks, and design improvements, it’s reasonable to believe that this prototype illustrated throughout the patent is a hodge-podge of past and future ideas, and we may be able to expect some of these features, like dual-eyed displays, to be included in future models.
What do you think? What’s Google’s next Glass move? Check out the original patent document below and then give us your opinion!
Source: USPTO
Via: Phandroid
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Fox reportedly orders a ‘Minority Report’ TV pilot
It looks like that fabled TV adaptation of Minority Report is poised to become a reality. According to Deadline, Fox has ordered a pilot episode for Steven Spielberg’s attempt to continue the storyline of his ambitious and occasionally prophetic sci-fi movie. Not that you’ll likely see Tom Cruise or other familiar figures, mind you. The hoped-for series reportedly takes place 10 years after the film and focuses on one of the Precogs’ (crime predictors’) attempts to adjust to normal life with the help of a detective who finds ways to use those mental talents. There’s no word on when the pilot could be ready, but the show at least appears to be more than just a twinkle in Amblin Television’s eye.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Deadline
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CES 2015, the year cars got truly smart
CES 2015, like last year’s event had a very large auto presence, perhaps even a banner year for CES. Expect it to grow again next year; in fact we wouldn’t be surprised to see it start to run over into other halls. Not only did the likes of Ford, GM, Audi, BMW, Audi and Hyundai have a presence, but we saw a new prototype lunch and the very first glimpse of the new Chevy Volt. Imagine that, a week or so before the Detroit Auto show, the North American International Auto Show, and yet still we got very significant car teaser. Of course, It’s no surprise that CES is getting so much attention from automakers, cars have become synonymous with tech and CES is still the pre-eminent tech show. Jump in to the post and let us walk you through the highlight reel.
So what tech companies are driving the trends at the show? More than most other maker in the space, QNX and its QNX Car platform is proving to be the most disruptive. Consider the little Ottawa, Canada Company has it fingers and code in the likes of Audi, Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche and Land Rover to name just a few. In fact, in early December QNX announced with Ford that Microsoft was out as the software provider for Sync and QNX was in. Little known companies like QNX and Elektrobit are contributing so much to the space and most of us have never even heard of them.
Of course autonomous and semi-autonomous cars were everywhere. Notable was BMW’s 360-degree collision avoidance and parking assist. Imagine pulling up to a grocery store or shopping mall and hopping out of your car only to see it park itself. Sound farfetched? Well it isn’t, that technology exists now and works very well. We sat in the back of an i3 that could park itself a hundred times a day without incident in an unlit garage with the very smallest spaces imaginable. Audi has already demonstrated that it can self-drive as fast as its cars can go and so has BMW. Those things are simply extreme examples, beacons if you will, to make us feel OK about the technology. With these things as guidance, baby steps, we slowly approach the inevitable point where we can choose to hand the task of driving over to our cars.
CES 2016 will be a bigger deal for sure and we’ve no doubt it’ll be packed full of wonderful auto tech. Our CES, the wonderful tech show we worried about in the last couple years has a found a new direction. Will automotive be its salvation? It’s too early to tell for certain, but judging by the car’s uptake, we have lots of hope.
From the Editor’s Desk: Phil’s best of CES
A few (more) thoughts on the boss’ favorites
We survived another one. Another week in Las Vegas. Another week at CES and forced narratives and crazy awesome tech that many of us won’t ever be able to afford, right alongside crazy (crazy) tech that will never see the light of day once it’s shipped back from the Las Vegas Convention Center.
That, friends, is CES, at least from the tech side.
For those of us on my end of the business, it’s also one of the few times a year we see our work friends, folks spread out all over the world. We compete, sure, but that just makes us all better. And on occasion we sit and we eat and we drink and we talk about how lucky we are to get to do this in the first place, one-upping each other as we go.
And we get to put faces to readers. It’s cliche, and it’s absolutely an ego stroke, but I still love it when strangers come up just to say hi. It’s important to remember that we do this for people and not just for readers. And seeing faces flips that switch. You remember that people care not just what you say, but that it’s you saying it. When we forget that is when we tend to get in trouble and lose our way. So please don’t ever be too shy to introduce yourself.
A few other thoughts on the CES that was …
LG G Watch R international giveaway
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