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Microsoft reportedly to take cut on used Xbox One game sales

Lance Whitney — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:26 GMT

Microsoft's Xbox One.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

Microsoft's policy concerning used Xbox One games has proven a bit confusing, but a new report may have spilled more concrete details.

Citing information from "retail sources," gaming news MCV claims that Microsoft and gaming publishers will take a bite out of the sale of each used Xbox One game. In the process of selling used games, original owners would see the game wiped from their online accounts so they no longer can play it.

Microsoft has already confirmed that Xbox One users who install a game on the console's hard drive will no longer need the disc as the game is then tied to their online accounts.

To deal in used games, retailers will reportedly have to agree to Microsoft's terms and use Microsoft's online Azure-based pre-owned system. After the used game is registered through Microsoft as having been sold, the seller's access to that game is then removed. That final step may shed some light on a comment from Microsoft corporate VP Phil Harrison that the Xbox One wi... [Read more]

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A breath of salty air for patients with cystic fibrosis

Elizabeth Armstrong Moore — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:43:38 GMT

The innovative nebulizer turns salt water into deep-penetrating aerosol mist.

(Credit: Cambridge Consultants)

In a seemingly random but nevertheless important discovery, scientists watching surfers with cystic fibrosis in Australia several years ago found that inhaling sea water mist reduced lung problems associated with the inherited disease.

So Cambridge Consultants in the U.K. paired with pharma firm Parion to develop and design a type of aerosol delivery systemt, called trans-nasal pulmonary aerosol delivery (tPAD), that brings the benefits of salt water treatment to the comfort of patients' homes, working overnight while they sleep.

Crave giveaway: Boombotix Boombot Rex portable speaker

Leslie Katz — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

An outdoorsy Boombotix Boombot Rex relaxing on a rock. You'll have your choice of black, white, blue, or green.

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Congrats to John D. of Fruitland Park, Fla., for winning a Crucial M500 SSD and copy of Iolo System Mechanic in last week's giveaway. This week, I asked you for help deciding whether to give away a mini action cam, a waterproof iPhone 5 case, or an ultraportable speaker. The speaker won by a few tweets, so here you go, readers. Ask and ye shall receive (and don't worry; those other prizes will be coming soon).

We're giving away a pocket-size Boombotix Boombot Rex, which connects via Bluetooth to smartphones, tablets, laptops, and any other device with a 1/8-inch standard headphone jack. It's got built-in voice control so you can ask the time, dial a contact, or play a song, all while keeping your handheld device in your pocket. How you'll look talking to your speaker? Well, that's your business.

The cute little water-resistant 2.1 sound system, which sells for $119.99, measures about 3x3x2 inches and weighs less than a pound. It packs custom-tuned, 36-millimeter full-range drivers and a matching tuned bass woofer and you'll get 6 to 8 hours of battery life per charge.

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Jon Stewart accuses the Senate of all being Apple fanboys

Chris Matyszczyk — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:59:34 GMT

In our philosophy class today, we will be discussing this existential question: What is the opposite of a Genius Bar?

In Jon Stewart's view, it's a group of senators attempting to fawn all over Apple CEO Tim Cook, instead of heating him up next to their goat steak and their veal sausages.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that Stewart might have an observation or two about Cook's odd appearance in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. (I say "odd appearance" because he was wearing a tie.)

The "Daily Show" host was most taken by how utterly fanpersonish so many of the senators appeared.

Instead of giving Cook an earful these senators seemed to express: "I want to iF*** you."

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"Apparently there is nothing Apple can do to get us mad at them. They're dodging taxes. They've got suicide prevention nets outside their hell factories," mused Stewart.

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Watch the planets dance in a triple conjunction

Michelle Starr — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:40:29 GMT

A celestial conjunction viewed on December 3, 2009: the moon, Venus and Jupiter, captured at the ESO's VLT observatory at Paranal, Chile.

(Credit: European Southern Observatory)

Triple planetary conjunctions are relatively rare in the night sky, but astronomers are about to be in for a real treat.

The three brightest planets in our solar system as seen from Earth -- Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus -- will be coming together in the sky, "dancing" around each other over the course of several nights, starting Friday, May 24.

If we're lucky, we see a triple conjunction once every two years or so. The most recent was in May 2011; the next won't be until October 2015.

Because the planets in this conjunction are so bright, the dance will be visible to the naked eye, even in densely populated areas. But if you have access to a telescope or binoculars, so much the better.

Watch a brain surgery over Twitter, Instagram, and Vine

Amanda Kooser — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:33:44 GMT

The brain surgery patient undergoes testing.

(Credit: UCLA Health)

UCLA Health isn't the first hospital to live-tweet a brain surgery, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine.

The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode placement." and "Electrode is prepared for implantation. Patient is being woken up at this time."

Brain surgery patient plays guitar in OR during operation.@uclahealth #UCLAORLive vine.co/v/bVBYe5n1Y3q

— UCLA Newsroom (@UCLAnewsroom) May 23, 2013

Meet the 23-ton X-Wing, the world's largest Lego model

Christopher MacManus — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:30 GMT

There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut Thursday in New York's Times Square.

The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon Network's "The Yoda Chronicles," which premieres on May 29 at 8 p.m.

Lambda Labs readying Google Glass face-recognition API

Tim Hornyak — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:44:49 GMT

Based on its face-rec API released last year, Lambda Labs' Google Glass Face Recognition API could help you recognize people who are less famous than Tiger Woods.

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Amid questions to Google from Congress about privacy concerns related to Google Glass, a San Francisco startup is preparing an API to recognize faces with the controversial gadget.

The Google Glass Face Recognition API (application programming interface) from Lambda Labs will be available to developers within a week, TechCrunch tells us, quoting co-founder Stephen Balaban.

Lambda Labs released its open-source Face API last year, and it's apparently being used by 1,000 developers including large companies.

The Glass app would be based on that. It would let users recognize faces in a crowd as well as remember faces by storing data from personal encounters. That's great if you're terrible with names and faces -- not so great if you care about privacy.

Beyond being a mnemonic tool, the app could show you who shares your interests. By looking up people's faces at a gathe... [Read more]

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Justin Yu — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:22 GMT

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Could storm-chasing UAVs help predict tornadoes?

Tim Hornyak — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:23:45 GMT

(Credit: Oklahoma State University )

In the wake of the colossal tornado that rampaged through 17 miles of central Oklahoma, plans for storm-chasing UAVs are taking on new significance.

Students at Oklahoma State University have been working on "storm-penetrating air vehicles" that could help cope with deadly tornadoes.

The aircraft are "designed to penetrate thunderstorms, including the supercells that spawn tornadoes" to gather data used to predict storms and warn people about them, the university said in a release.

The three vehicles designed by engineering students could also be used to build better predictive models of tornado-spawning storms.

Search is on for lost first draft of first Web page

Eric Mack — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:10:00 GMT

Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 at CERN.

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The first draft of the World Wide Web has gone missing, with perhaps one of the only copies of the very first Web site floating around the world's drawers or attics on a floppy disk somewhere.

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first version of the very first Web page back in 1990 as a way for scientists to share information at CERN -- the European nuclear physics lab and particle accelerator site on the border of Switzerland and France. But it wasn't until 1992 that he actually saved a copy of that early CERN page.

"I took a copy of the entire Web site in a floppy disk on my machine so that I could demonstrate it locally just to show people what it was like. And I ended up keeping a copy of that floppy disk," Berners-Lee told NPR.

Cute 4-year-old Marvel trivia whiz shows off her skills

Amanda Kooser — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:44:36 GMT

Mia is a comic book whiz kid.

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You might think you're a Marvel super-fan, but little 4-year-old Mia Grace will crush you. She shows no mercy as she deftly handles Marvel trivia questions from her parents, all while calmly riding in a car seat on the way to the store.

Mia's dad posted a video of his daughter tossing off answers like "Loki" and "vibranium" as if they were answers to questions about her favorite color or what she likes to eat. The young comic book fan has managed to build up quite a store of superhero knowledge, no doubt thanks to some quality geek parenting.

On his blog, Mia's dad introduces the video with, "This is my daughter. She is a little me. By that I mean she has what would appear to be an encyclopedic knowledge of things she loves." One of those things she loves just happens to be comic books.

Microsoft to launch Kinect for Windows sensor in 2014

Lance Whitney — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:20:19 GMT

Microsoft's Kinect sensor in action.

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Microsoft will finally deliver a Kinect sensor for Windows sometime next year.

The company announced Thursday that the Kinect for Windows sensor will use the same set of technologies key to the new Kinect sensor for the Xbox One, both of which will allow people to issue commands using voice and gestures.

The sensor will include a high-definition color camera and a noise-isolating multi-microphone array. Also part of the system will be a technology called Time-of-Flight, which measures how long it takes for photons to bounce off a person or object. Combined, these features promise greater accuracy and precision in detecting your movements and voice commands.

3D-printed airway splint saves baby's life

Ryan Jaslow — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:07:19 GMT

A younger Kaiba Gionfriddo, with mom April. The child suffers from tracheobronchomalacia, a rare respiratory condition.

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A 3D printer saved the life of a baby boy with a rare disease that kept him from breathing properly, doctors are reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The boy, Kaiba Gionfriddo of Ohio, had been diagnosed with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a rare respiratory condition that caused his airways to collapse, blocking the flow of air to his lungs daily.

About 1 in 2,200 babies are born with the condition, but only 10 percent of them have cases as severe as Kaiba's, according to his doctors. The boy's parents, April and Brian, learned something was wrong when he was 6 weeks old and the infant turned blue while the family was out to eat.

By the age of 2 months, Kaiba had to be intubated to breathe. Despite the breathing tube and a ventilator he also required, his breathing could not be maintained sufficiently. He needed to be resuscitated on a daily basis.

"Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hospital alive," April Gionfriddo, mother of the now 20-month old Kaiba, said in a ... [Read more]

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Girl's winning Google Doodle shows her dad home from war

Lance Whitney — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:52:47 GMT

"Coming Home"

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A picture depicting a girl's reunion with her father returning from war has won the top award in a Google Doodle contest.

On display Thursday at Google's home page, "Coming Home" is a simple but powerful piece of art that portrays a young girl holding an American flag and running to reunite with her father. The returning soldier appears. They exchange a glance. And finally they fall into a deep embrace as they treasure their moment together again.

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Verizon's Galaxy S4 gets rooted almost instantly

Eric Mack — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:29:16 GMT

Devs have already gotten to the bottom of the Verizon Galaxy S4.

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Modders and ROMmers rejoice, almost as soon as it reached the hands of consumers, Verizon's Galaxy S4 has been rooted.

Instructions for rooting Big Red's S4 were posted on the xdadevelopers forum this week, allowing folks who want to take full control of all that sweet new hardware to do so and get the thrill of voiding their warranty at the same time.

Peek at the best-looking PlayStation 4 mockup yet

Christopher MacManus — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:31:18 GMT

A mockup of the PS4.

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When Sony has a secret up its sleeve, the company loves to tease. If you missed last week's video enigma, Sony revealed very brief pictures of the mysterious PlayStation 4 hardware, leaving gamers in the dark about what the highly anticipated gaming console will look like.

Siri slams iPad in new Windows 8 ad

Chris Matyszczyk — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:34:02 GMT

Oh, this hurts.

(Credit: Microsoft/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Microsoft isn't bothering to merely flex its muscles these days.

It's opening fire in all directions, because what is there to lose? Oh, perhaps money. But apart from that.

It's gone after Google in a quite chilling manner. It's gone after the Apple-Samsung phone feud.

So, in a further escalation of hostilities, a new Windows 8 ad sees Microsoft take Siri hostage, tie her up in a chair, and make her tell the truth.

The truth as Microsoft sees it, that is.

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Now for sale on Craigslist: Google Glass

Seth Rosenblatt — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:40 GMT

A Craigslist ad is perhaps not the most subtle of ways to go about doing things, and that includes selling your Google Glass.

A photo from the Craigslist ad. Those sure look like Google Glass...

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One Craigslister, based in San Francisco's East Bay according to the ad, is selling his or her pair of Google Glass Explorer Edition, something that's expressly forbidden by the Glass Terms of Sale.

Violating a product's sale terms is practically a rite of passage, from ripping the safety tag off a mattress to ripping CDs and DVDs. What makes this case unusual is that the Craigslister is clearly trying to make a buck: this pair of Glass, perhaps more valuable because of its rarity on Craigslist, is going for four times the market cost of $1,500.

A Google representative told CNET that the company wants Glass owners to use them as they see fit and that Google doesn't "plan on bricking any Explorer's device."

With photos of the box and bagged Glass, the offering appears to be real. What's not clear is whether the Glass are functional. This could also be a scam, aiming to reel in someone who just can't wait for next year's expected commercial release date for Glass.

OtterBox acquires rival LifeProof

David Carnoy — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:08 GMT

The popular LifeProof case joins the OtterBox family.

If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.

OtterBox, which struggled for months to bring a waterproof iPhone case to market, has acquired rival LifeProof, which makes one of the best -- and best-selling -- tough iPhone cases.

Colorado-based OtterBox has been a leading case manufacturer for a variety of smartphones and tablets and has quickly grown to employ 650 people worldwide. LifeProof, based in San Diego and founded in 2009 by Australian Gary Rayner, employees 250 people.

OtterBox says those 250 employees are now "members of the OtterBox family and will remain in their San Diego location for the foreseeable future." Over the next 30 days, OtterBox will begin incorporating the LifeProof brand into that OtterBox family.

LifeProof just unveiled a waterproof iPad Mini case at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas (it's expected to ship in June for $99.99), and a LifeProof case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 is expected to ship by mid summer.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but it was likely in the tens of millions of dollars and perhaps even more. In 2012, OtterBox had approximately $600 million in revenues. That was up from $10.8 million in 2008. [Read more]

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Ethernet celebrates 40 years

Dara Kerr — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:25:37 GMT

A diagram from Bob Metcalfe's original memo explaining how Ethernet works.

(Credit: Palo Alto Research Center)

Most people probably associate Ethernet with a simple cable cinched with phone-like jacks. But, Ethernet is so much more.

It is the foundation for global Internet access and undoubtedly the world's most-used connectivity technology. In the annals of "techdom," Ethernet is a very big deal.

"Ethernet ranks highly among those technologies that impact day-to-day life on a global basis," IEEE Standards Association writes on its Web site. "Data center networks, PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and now the smart grid, smart meters, personal medical devices, the Internet of Things, connected cars, and more -- Ethernet touches them all in one way or another."

It was 40 years ago today that inventor Bob Metcalfe passed around a memo explaining just how Ethernet would work -- connecting multiple computers to one another to exchange messages over increasingly busy networks.

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Forget what you know, next-gen consoles change everything

Jeff Bakalar — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:28:35 GMT

For the better part of a decade the video game landscape remained mostly unchanged, complacent in a sea of sequels, motion controls, and downloadable content.

It's a generation that has lasted longer than any other before it, albeit for generally good reasons. And perhaps most impressive is that though their PC gaming counterparts have long since passed them by, these aging consoles are still able to render great-looking games.

So while the sun begins to set on what will go down as a pivotal generation for video games, we look ahead to see what owning a console will be like for the foreseeable future.

And then there were two There's no disrespect intended here toward Nintendo, but the next great console wars will be fought by two parties, not three. Sure, Nintendo beat everyone to the punch by releasing its next-generation console an entire year early, but the Wii U just barely catches up to the prowess of what PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 had been doing all along -- at least from a graphical and technical standpoint.

By no means is this a death sentence, though. Nintendo is company that needs to find itself and reposition. However that plan might play out, it most likely will not consist of picking fights with PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. (Credit: James Martin/CNET)

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Most tasteless question Apple's CEO was asked in Washington

Chris Matyszczyk — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:43:41 GMT

Keep calm and carry on.

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It's not easy being the boss at 1 Infinite Loophole.

Instead of traveling around the world to expand your business and inspire your troops, you go to Washington in order to expand narrow minds and perspire at the absurdity.

You even have to find a polite way to answer Sen. John McCain when he demands to know why he's always having to update his iPhone apps.

Doesn't he have a Senate aide for that?

Still, Apple CEO Tim Cook emerged with nary a piece of stray fluff on his crisp white shirt, nor a dribble stain of sleepy boredom on his peculiar blue tie.

But just when he thought it was all over, he was accosted by a question for our times.

"Mr. Cook," asked the questioner, "Will we see a hologram of Steve Jobs at the next Apple convention any time?"

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Smart bike handlebars have turn signals, GPS, speedometer

Amanda Kooser — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:40:00 GMT

Helios handlebars light up your cycling nightlife.

(Credit: Kenny Gibbs)

In general, bicycles haven't adopted the same high-tech features as many cars. Turn signals are done by hand, and GPS equates to using good old-fashioned brain power or the information you have on your phone. Helios Bars, a Kickstarter project, can turn a regular bike into a smart bike.

The feature list is a fun read. There are left- and right-turn signals, a headlight, GPS tracking in case someone nabs your ride, proximity lighting that senses your presence, and a visual speedometer with color-changing lights. There is also a turn-by-turn navigation feature. Rear-facing LEDS on the handlebars indicate when a turn is coming up.

The first goal of Helios is visibility. The 500-lumen headlight is the centerpiece, but lights mounted to the ends of the bars, pointing backward, also increase visibility and act as turn signals. The visual speedometer, when turned on, communicates the bike's speed based on changing colors.

Finding faces in Google Maps terrain

Michelle Starr — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:38:08 GMT

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Something our human eyes seem to do, without any prompting, is to pick out shapes and structures that resemble other shapes and structures. Called pareidolia, it's a form of pattern recognition -- and a good example is the way we often see a human face where only a random collection of shapes or shadows exists. This, it is now known, is the reason for the infamous face on Mars.

Our own Earth, as folded and rippled as it is, is also prone to this phenomenon when viewed from above: the Badlands Guardian, discovered on Google Earth in 2006, for example. But we're sure there are many more human-esque faces lurking in strange corners of the Earth.

That is the premise behind Google Faces, a project by Berlin design studio Onformative: can pareidolia be imitated by a machine? Using OpenFrameworks, the studio has created an application that crawls Google Maps, using facial recognition algorithms to seek out areas that look like faces.

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