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BlackBerry shares fall as analyst downgrades stock ahead of earnings

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Snowden mulls Iceland asylum bid
ICELAND said it has held informal talks with an intermediary of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden who reportedly wants to seek asylum there.

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Apple scores $30 million to sell iPads to L.A. schools
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22 Wildly Homoerotic Moments In Zack Snyder's Movies

From 300 to Man of Steel , there is nobody better at bringing homoeroticism to the multiplex than Snyder. Yes, for lesbians too! (Slightly NSFW.)

When Zack Snyder's beefcake circus 300 became a worldwide hit in the spring of 2007, Snyder established himself as the cinema's leading poet of homoeroticism.

I mean...

Abs on parade!

Seriously.

Because why not work in leather briefs all day?

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We Can Now Map Rooms Down to the Millimeter with a Finger Snap
Bats do it, dolphins do it — even short-tailed shrews do it: I’m talking about echolocation, of course, or the use of sound to find and identify objects in your vicinity. When submarines do it, we call it sonar. And when Morgan Freeman’s character Lucius Fox does something like it in The Dark Knight, we call it pretty darned cool. Now imagine using a technique like that to map a room at high resolution. And I don’t mean in general terms, approximating metrics like the reverberative acoustics of a sound space or studio, as many modern audio products do — but zeroing in on a room’s spatial particulars with millimeter accuracy. How? Using just four microphones and a finger snap. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Computer and Communications Sciences, located in Switzerland, claim to have pulled it off (or nearly so) using an algorithm that lets you spec the dimensions of an area with a few microphones and the snap of your fingers. “Imagine that you are blindfolded inside an unknown room,” write the researchers in a paper published in science journal PNAS. “You snap your fingers and listen to the room’s response. Can you hear the shape of the room? Some people can do it naturally, but can we design computer algorithms that hear rooms?” Apparently we can, and not just one that can map a boring old empty room, but, say, something as sonically complex as the sound space of the Lausanne Cathedral. That’s impressive. But how? The new technique computes the shape of a room by applying an algorithm — the algorithm is what’s groundbreaking here — that calculates the geometric relationships between the arrival times of echoes produced by something as simple-seeming as a finger snap, allowing what amounts to a “blindfolded” estimation of a room’s geometry. “Our software can build a 3D map of a simple, convex room with a precision of a few millimeters,” said graduate student Ivan Dokmanić, the study’s researcher lead, speaking to EPFL Mediacom. And since the algorithm can crunch

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Online video learning portal Mobento bags £1.1m in one of Tech City’s largest seed rounds yet

Online educational video hub Mobento has secured £1.1 million (around $1.7m) in seed funding, closing off one of Tech City’s largest rounds of initial stage funding, the company said. The... Keep reading →

Online educational video hub Mobento has secured £1.1 million (around $1.7m) in seed funding, closing off one of Tech City’s largest rounds of initial stage funding, the company said.

The learning portal only first set up shop last year but plans to use the cash injection to grow the business by bringing “educational technology up to speed with the advances made elsewhere in business, social networks and mobile”.

“Video is an incredibly powerful tool in education. It slots right into the behaviour and customs of contemporary students and it is a democratising and liberating force within education because it enables the world’s best educators to reach out to students all over the world,” Sumner Murphy, founder of Mobento said.

Mobento, founded by native New Yorker Murphy who has now relocated to London, announced the million pound deal on Tuesday. He said he chose London as the home for the company as a result of the “lively technology start up environment and the City’s access to global markets”.

“Mobento’s decision to base themselves here is further proof that Tech City is the ideal location to scale and grow a successful digital business. Quick access to Europe and our heritage of creativity and innovation make London attractive for digital media and tech companies. Whilst the blend of creativity and innovation that exists in East London with easy access to the financial centre of the City is also a major advantage,” Benjamin Southworth, deputy CEO of Tech City, said.

The new backers behind the cash are made up of “classic angel investors – a small consortium of businessmen and high net worth individuals,” Mobento said without offering specifics.

Mobento’s offering consists of a curated set of videos on a wide range of topics combined with the various technical features of its platform, such as being able to search an entire archive of video content for specific words. So, searching for ‘Enzymes’ will yield results from sets of lectures from Yale, TED, Khan Academy and Bozman Science in which speakers use the word.

More than that, users can then jump directly to that point in the video, saving time and effort in watching the whole thing or scanning through it to try and find the correct part – assuming you knew when they said the word already, of course.

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