Miranda Lambert leads the way at the CMA Awards; Bruce Willis celebrates Veterans Day on the USS Intrepid; Latin Grammy concert honors Placido Domingo. (Nov. 11)
Continue reading …Boxee Box gets the requisite teardown; would you look at that heat sink!
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Lest you forget, the Boxee Box is a capital C computer, just like Google TV . In fact, both products share nearly identical processors, with the Intel CE4110 in Boxee and the CE4150 in Google TV, each clocked at 1.2GHz. Turns out, much of the mass of the Boxee Box is used for the heat sink and fan that are cooling that sucker, as revealed in iFixit’s timely teardown of the media powerhouse. Other things they found inside include 1GB of RAM, 1GB of flash memory, and a digital-to-analog audio converter to allow for 1080p video out of HDMI while still using legacy audio hardware. Sounds like some good stuff — so, after years of hacking the Apple TV for Boxee use, who will be the first to repay Boxee the favor and get something else running on here? Boxee Box gets the requisite teardown; would you look at that heat sink! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image credit: Glastonbury Festivals From wind- and solar-powered phone charging stations , to providing a platform for Greenpeace and Joss Stone to call out climate criminals , Glastonbury Festival in the UK has always had a dark green tint to it. Now festival founder Michael Eavis has taken his ecological commitments a step further—launching the UK’s largest private solar po… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: AP/Department of Justice Smuggling endangered animals across the globe inspires criminals to take drastic — and almost laughable — measures, from hiding monkeys under their hats to securing lizards in their underwear. But there’s nothing funny about animal trafficking: It’s a worldwide problem that threatens endangered species and puts a price, literally, on biodiversity.
Continue reading …Hulu Plus now available to all PS3 owners in the US, Europe lets out a wistful sigh
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Yes indeed, the expected wide availability of Hulu Plus on the PlayStation 3 has just been enacted, allowing any US PlayStation Network member to get streaming with Hulu’s premium offering. Until now, you needed to be a paying member of Sony’s PlayStation Plus club to qualify, but that requirement has now finally been dropped. Check out our experience with Hulu Plus on the PS3 if you still need help deciding whether the $9.99 TV streaming service is worth your hard-earned greenbacks. Those of us unlucky enough to be living on another continent will just go drown our sorrows with another round of Black Ops mayhem. [Thanks, Robert] Hulu Plus now available to all PS3 owners in the US, Europe lets out a wistful sigh originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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They’re counting more than 90000 write-in ballots in the Alaska senate race. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who waged a write-in campaign to keep her job, is in a tight race with tea party favorite and GOP nominee Joe Miller. (Nov. 11)
Continue reading …Wall Street Journal releases Android Tablet Edition app, phones need not apply
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Given that the first truly respectable Android tablet just came out , the Wall Street Journal is timing its Tablet Edition app release pretty much perfectly. It aims to offer a faithful reproduction of the printed version of the paper while augmenting it with full-screen video, market data, customization options, and the ability to save articles for offline reading. $3.99 will net you a week’s worth of access on both Android and iPad Tablet Editions along with subscriber privileges on WSJ.com. The app itself is free, so if you have a Galaxy Tab just hanging around (it doesn’t work on phones, we’ve already tried on a Desire Z) you can give it a test-drive — it’s certainly what we intend to do, check back later for our impressions! Continue reading Wall Street Journal releases Android Tablet Edition app, phones need not apply Wall Street Journal releases Android Tablet Edition app, phones need not apply originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Speculative Kinect sales figures announced, looks to have handily trumped PlayStation Move
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We’ll get this out of the way right up front: VGChartz won’t say where it gets its sales figures and, because of that, they’re not to be taken as gospel or treated with much validity on their own. But, comparing one set of the site’s numbers to another can be useful in showing trends, and with that caveat firmly in mind let’s take a look at Microsoft’s Kinect vs. Sony’s PlayStation Move . According to the site, Kinect Adventures (bundled in with the camera itself) sold just under 480,000 units in one week after launching on November 4th, while the PlayStation Move sold 200,000 “units” in its first week, which according to VGChartz is not individual pieces of hardware but bundles of hardware tied to a single console. (This contrasts to Sony’s figure , which counts each piece of hardware — nunchuck, wand, and camera — separately.) So, by these rather early and decidedly unofficial numbers it looks like Microsoft’s Kinect investment might just be paying off, though of course it’s the long-run that counts in these things. Speculative Kinect sales figures announced, looks to have handily trumped PlayStation Move originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Radical Transparency – InterfaceFLOR Commit to Environmental Product Declarations on all Products by 2012
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This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest , founder of InterfaceFLOR Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company’s journey up “Mount Sustainability”. They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero environmental impact by 2020. Anderson says they are already 60% there with 10 years to go. InterfaceFLOR has been the absolute pioneer of corporate and industrial sustainability over the past 16 years, with consistently radical
Continue reading …Lexus and the CFDA Award Eco Fashion Challenge Winners $75,000 (Photos)
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Lexus/CFDA Eco Fashion Challenge Winner Monique Pean. Photo: Emma Grady The eco-fashionable–and just plain fashionable–flocked to Skylight West in New York City on Wednesday night to hear the winners of the Lexus Hybrid Living and the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s ( CFDA ) Eco Fashion Challenge–and the chance to see DJ sets by Fabrizio Moretti , the drummer of
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