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Last night, Flipboard released its long-awaited iPhone app . The app is a companion to its popular iPad reader which renders feeds and realtime streams into a magazine-like experience. The iPhone app is already so popular that it took down Flipboard’s service earlier today. In this episode of Fly or Die , John Biggs and I take the iPhone app through the paces. (You can watch our episode on the original iPad app here from last January). The iPhone app is gorgeous, as you would expect from Flipboard. Biggs thinks it’s more busy than beautiful. It’s certainly not the most efficient way to go through your information streams, but that is not the point. It strips down the iPad app and presents it on the smaller screen. You flip vertically through your stories, headlines, and Tweets instead of horizontally and there is a promising new feature called Cover Stories that attempts to pull together…
We know, we know — the gallery below isn’t quite a trailer showing off Ninja Gaiden 3 ’s new multiplayer mode, but it is the first we’ve seen of the four vs four competitive slicer. Head past the break — carefully — to take a peek. Ninja Gaiden 3 (Online Multiplayer) Ninja Gaiden 3 (12/7/11)
If you’re a Netflix-Xbox user, you’re in for a treat – the latest version of Netflix (that comes with the latest Xbox 360 dashboard update) improves the video watching service on the Microsoft gaming console. Netflix for Xbox has been given a complete overhaul: a brand new user interface that provides a better browsing experience, and up to 3 times more titles available on screen to choose from at any given time. Users also get a richer play experience that includes access to audio and subtitle settings, ratings capability, episode selection, and related title suggestions for a more integrated experience. (more…) Netflix for Xbox updated , By Ubergizmo . Top Stories : Asus Transformer Prime Review ,
Just yesterday, we caught a glimpse of what Intel has in store for Ivy Bridge, and it seems those details were but a prelude to a bevy of details that leaked out today. It seems the folks over at VR Zone got their hands on some of Chipzilla’s internal documents showing a host of changes for its post-Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs. Apparently, we can expect quite a few new full-power models, including a 2.9GHz Core i7-3920XM — clocked at 200MHz faster than the Core i7-2960XM that’s Intel’s presiding mobile chipset champion — along with two other quad-core Core i7s and a couple of Core i5 chips as well. For those who cherish battery life above all else, there’s a dual-core Core i7-3667U clocked at 2.0 GHz and a 1.8GHz Core i5-3427U coming down the pipe. All the speedy new silicon comes with upgraded Intel HD 4000 graphics , and is slated for release in April and May of next year. If you can’t wait until then for your next-gen CPU fix, head on over to the
To search these days is really an incredibly service-intensive process. Whereas before, to search something meant you had to through its drawers or folders by hand and inspect things by eye, now it means simply to produce a query and allow the vast computational engines of cloud services to exert themselves in parallel, sifting through petabytes of data and instantly presenting you with your results, ordered and arranged like snacks on a platter. We’re spoiled, to say the least. It’s not enough, however, to have computers blindly compare 1s and 0s; when humans search, they search intelligently. We’ve seen incredible leaps in the ability to do this, and in the area of visual search, we’ve seen some interesting and practical technologies in (respectively) Photosynth and Google’s search by image function. And now some researchers at CMU have taken another step in the education of our tools. Their work, being presented at SIGGRAPH Asia , cleaves even closer to human visual cognition, though there’s still a long way to go on that front. The challenge, when comparing images for similarity, is…
Battlefield 3 ’s “Back to Karkand” expansion will be available on North American PS3s as soon as the PSN update occurs at some point later today. In the meantime, check out this trailer, featuring the BF3 version of BF 1942 and 1943 favorite Wake Island.
