
Health talks stall, more strikes expected
More strike action appears likely in the days ahead in the contract dispute involving 3,000 Saskatchewan health care workers.
BMW Powered Twin-Rotor Hoverbike
Every once in a while something comes along so crazy, so unearthly cool, we have to shout it from the rooftops. Today just happens to be that once in a while, so feast your eyes on the BMW boxer engine powered Hoverbike. Framed around an 1,170cc 4-stroke BMW boxer engine that powers the twin rotors, the Hoverbike was the brainchild of Australian inventor, Chris Malloy. Malloy claims that the Hoverbike’s thrust to weight ratio should enable it to elevate to 10,000 feet and reach a speed of 173 mph (this begs the need for a good parachute and industrial strength body armor). Yowza. The rest of the Hoverbike is a Kevlar reinforced carbon fiber and foam core frame and exotic Tasmanian oak propellers. All controls are handlebar mounted, including speed, pitch, turning, vertical and horizontal travel. Using most of his hard earned funds to build this atomic salad shooter, Mr. Malloy is looking for investors and fluid dynamics engineers to bring his dream to production. In the meantime, we’ll be holding out hope for a test drive flight. To see more photos of the prototype he’s developed so far, keep reading on the next page.




Price: $40,000 (estimated)
Asteroids factories for building blocks of life: study
A meteorite found in B.C. contains evidence that asteroids are production sites for molecules such as amino acids that form the building blocks of life, a new study reports.
Quebec City, Kitchener next postal strike targets
Quebec City and Kitchener, Ont. are the next two targets of the ongoing postal strike, the union announced on Thursday, as Canada Post said the two sides remain far apart on a number of issues.
The Paleolithic Diet InfoGraphic
Revealed here for the first time. And as I said, it’s big.
Learn more about the Paleo Diet
Access the full-size version here.
This is the work of Patrick Vlaskovits whom I’ve had the privilege of knowing for quite a while now. We regularly grab lunch together when he’s on business up here Bay Area and we talk about the Paleo movement in general.
Patrick is also the founder of the very popular PaleoHacks and now, PaleolithicDiet.com the Newsletter.
From Patrick:
- PaleolithicDiet.com has one simple mission: Responsibly steward Paleo / primal / evolutionary / ancestral eating as it goes mainstream.
- The Paleo Diet is a broad and flexible meta-rule (rule about rules): Eat in an evolutionary appropriate manner for our species. That's it. Full Stop.
- Let’s have some fun while we’re doing #1
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With iOS 5, Apple is thankfully going to add a lot of features that’ll solve a lot of problems. One of those features is something we can’t wait for: Wi-Fi Sync, which is syncing your iPhone to iTunes wirelessly. Great, right? Not for a developer who’s accusing Apple of stealing it from him. More »
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T-Mobile Creates Real-Life Angry Birds Controllable Via Android Device, Results Are Surprisingly Awesome
Love it or hate it, Angry Birds is a massively popular game. Even if it may be a bit played out and past its prime, that doesn’t make this any less entertaining: T-Mobile created a real-world, life-size Angry Birds Live game in Barcelona, controllable via an Android device. The results are cooler than you’d expect, and the short (1:40) video is worth a watch.
Certainly puts a smile on your face, doesn’t it?
Update: Thanks to Brian for a link to the behind the scenes video:
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T-Mobile Creates Real-Life Angry Birds Controllable Via Android Device, Results Are Surprisingly Awesome was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
The Self-Proclaimed "Most Epic Beer Commercial Ever" Is Probably the Most Epic Beer Commercial Ever [Video]
I don’t know if this is the most epic beer commercial ever, but it’s the nerdiest for sure. I was sold right when the Knight Rider soundtrack kicked in but, by the time Bruce Lee appeared, I was dying for a pint. More »
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First official look from Walking Dead season 2 reveals a zombie makeover! [Walking Dead]
The first official image from the second season of Walking Dead is out, showing off some new undead make up tricks. While the zombies look impressively gruesome, we’re wondering if the new yellow-eyed look is the first of many changes? More »
Official: HP TouchPad ships July 1st in US, 3G model coming to AT&T 'this summer'
Amazon may not be shipping HP’s first webOS tablet until July 17th, but why wait? The outfit itself just affirmed that the long-awaited TouchPad will go on sale to eager Americans on July 1st, with the UK, Ireland, France and Germany a few days later (and Canada in mid-July). Following that, a phased rollout will take it to Australia, Hong Kong, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain "later this year." It'll be on sale pretty much everywhere for $499.99 (16GB) / $599.99 (32GB) — or £399 / £479 across the pond — with pre-orders starting at your favorite e-tailer just ten days from today. For those looking for a highly connected version HP also made clear that it'll be partnering with AT&T for a 3G (or will it be "4G?”) edition later in the summer. Head on past the break for a look at the full retail partner list, and yeah, yesterday would be a great time to start saving up.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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DataGrab Backs Up All Users’ Profiles and Settings with One Click [Download Of The Day]
Windows: Backup utilities that save your user profiles (including documents and application data) usually only do so from one user account at a time. If you want to back up multiple user profiles without having to log into each account, check out DataGrab. More »
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Apple gives in to publishers, changes policy on in-app subscription prices
It looks like Apple has decided to make some pretty major changes to its App Store Review Guidelines — and, in particular, to its controversial in-app subscription policy. Under the new guidelines, publishers will be able to offer subscriptions to content outside of the App Store, as long as their apps don’t include a “buy” button that directs users away from Apple’s marketplace. Under the previous version of the policy, which was set to go into effect at the end of this month, app owners offering subscriptions outside of App Store were required to sell equivalent, in-app services at the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” while giving a 30 percent cut to Cupertino. Now, however, they can price these in-app subscriptions as they see fit, or circumvent the system altogether, by exclusively selling them outside of their apps. Apple will still receive 30 percent of the revenue generated from in-app subscriptions, but won’t get any money from purchases made outside of its domain. Theoretically, then, publishers would be able to offer in-app subscriptions at higher prices, in order to offset Apple’s share. This is how the new rules are worded:
11.13 Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy” button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected
11.14 Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app.
It’s important to note, though, that Apple hasn’t made any changes to its policy on sharing user information. Publishers had been lobbying to gain access to subscribers’ credit card data and other personal information, which they see as critical to applying a TV Everywhere model to online publishing. With today’s concessions, though, these demands may become less insistent.
Apple gives in to publishers, changes policy on in-app subscription prices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Use a Glass Coke Bottle to Automatically Water Your Plants for You [Video]
If you’re a chronic neglecter of your watering duties, you may have looked into finding ways to have your plants watered automatically. Enter the glass bottle, or more specifically, the cool looking glass Coke bottle that we all love (unless you’re a Pepsi fan, in which case you can go that route, too). More »
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Too Cute!
Sony Pictures breach affects 37,500 users, far less than Lulz Security claimed
Well, Lulz Sec may have overstated its level of success by declaring it had stolen 1,000,000 passwords from Sony Pictures — turns out the number is closer to 37,500. Now granted, any breach of user data is unacceptable, but when a hacker collective’s haul is less than four percent of what it claimed, everyone can breathe a little easier. The troublemakers may have made off with email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords, but Sony says no credit card or social security numbers were compromised. The company issued a statement, which you’ll find after the break, and is working with the FBI to track down those responsible. Hopefully this finally closes the door on Sony’s security woes, and we can go back to bringing you stories about Angry Birds ports and Kinect hacks.
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Live transit updates in Google Maps help you plan your romantic bus-catching sprint
Live transit updates in Google Maps help you plan your romantic bus-catching sprint originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Netflix.com’s new look is focused on streaming, cribs UI elements from connected TV apps
Do not be alarmed, your Netflix.com experience has been updated today “with a new look and feel to make it easier for you to find something to watch instantly.” While the header introduced late last year remains and sticks on screen as you scroll vertically, box art of queued movies fills the screen horizontally. The redesign takes significant cues from the HTML5 UIs recently rolled out to most streaming devices, but it’s not clear if this related to some of the queue shuffling we’ve been seeing recently. Responses on the Netflix blog have been mostly negative, although just like Facebook and Twitter revamps some complaints about any change are normal.
That said, we’re not fans either because it still requires an additional click to find out if a movie is in HD or has subtitles, a misdirected click starts playing the wrong movie too easily and selecting “your queue” still takes us to our discs first instead of Watch Instantly. If the new front page isn’t working there’s always alternatives in Netflix queue managers like InstantWatcher.com and FeedFliks, or any number of mobile apps. Let us know if you’ll be riding with the redesign or hitting the back button in the comments here.
Netflix.com’s new look is focused on streaming, cribs UI elements from connected TV apps originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Roughriders profit doubles to $6.6 M
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