Friday, November 7, 2014

UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping

UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping


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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Alibaba invests $120 mn in Kabam in latest US deal



Kabam is set to take the "The Hobbit: Kingdoms of the Middle-earth" game to users of Alibaba's messaging app Laiwang.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has invested $120 million in San Francisco-based mobile games studio Kabam, the latest in a string of U.S. investments intended to build up the Chinese online retailer's presence in the world's biggest Internet arena.

The investment raises the valuation of Kabam from $700 million to more than $1 billion. As part of the partnership, Kabam will take games from "The Hobbit: Kingdoms of the Middle-earth" to "Fast & Furious 6: The Game" to users of Alibaba's messaging app Laiwang and e-commerce service Taobao, the companies said. First up will be Kabam's "The Lord of the Rings" game. Alibaba, which will make its highly anticipated Wall Street debut this year, has grown its pool of U.S. investments in content, e-commerce and social media over the past 18 months. It has built an M&A scouting team in this country and forged ties in Silicon Valley.

The Kabam deal follows Alibaba's investments in messaging app Tango, which also offers games and music; Amazon.com rival Shoprunner; niche e-tailer 11 Main; even a deal to stream Lionsgate movies and TV programs back to China. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Alibaba is in funding talks with ephemeral photo-messaging app Snapchat, taking that fast-growing startup's valuation to some $10 billion.

Kabam Chief Operating Officer Kent Wakeford said in an interview this week that his company initiated talks with Alibaba.

Chief Executive Officer Kevin Chou and Wakeford, who had been on the lookout for a partner to help distribute Kabam's games in China, made several trips to the Asian country over the past six months to meet Alibaba executives, he added.

"We have talked to all of the major companies in China and we found that there was a very good cultural fit between the management of Alibaba and Kabam," Wakeford said. "We also appreciated their vision of where they wanted to go from a gaming perspective, and how they wanted to leverage all of their resources within China to create a very big foothold for gaming in that market."

Alibaba will also take a seat on Kabam's board of directors, Wakeford said.

Alibaba has cemented its spot as the top online retailer in China but has struggled to grow its business on mobile devices. The company launched its own mobile game service in January, hoping to keep mobile users engaged as shopping migrates to smartphones and tablets from personal computers.

Chinese rival Tencent is currently dominant in mobile games and is muscling onto Alibaba's e-commerce turf. Shenzhen-based Tencent makes the majority of its revenue from the sale of games and in-game virtual goods via mobile apps like messaging service WeChat.


"It's hard for me to speak to (Alibaba's) strategy, direction or priorities. We do know that gaming is a very large market in China and they have one of the largest consumer reaches within China," Wakeford added. "To be able to augment that with gaming revenue and great games can be significant to Alibaba."

eBay profits rise despite 'challenging quarter'




Online retailer eBay reported profits of $676m (£395m) during the period from March to June, beating analyst expectations.
Shares in the company were up by more than 1.5% in trading after the US stock market closed.
Although revenue grew by 13% to $4.4bn, that was less than hoped.
"We had a challenging quarter with several distractions," said eBay in its earnings presentation, a reference to a data breach earlier in the quarter.
In May, eBay said as many as 145 million customer accounts may have been compromised.
That prompted an investigation by US, UK, and European authorities.
eBay also saw its search rankings slump and its payment chief depart during the quarter, which led to further tumult.
In a bright spot during the quarter, however, the company settled a long-running dispute with activist investor Carl Icahn, who had been calling for a spin-off of PayPal, eBay's payment-processing arm.
Although Mr Icahn said he still thought a sale of the business was a good idea, he was mollified by eBay's decision to act on his recommendation to appoint David Dorman, a founding partner of investment firm Centerview Capital Technology, as an independent director on its board.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Future Techs UNC and Nvidia Collaborate 2014


Tony Stark, battling his greatest foe -- repetitive stress injuries! 
UNC and Nvidia collaborate on ‘pinlight display’ augmented reality breakthrough

One of the hallmarks of science fiction movies — one way they demonstrate that they take place “in the future” is by using augmented reality (AR) interfaces. Minority Report is the classic trope illustration for this idea, but it’s scarcely alone — movies like Iron Man 3 show Tony Stark artfully rotating complex diagrams and creating armor schematics with a few twists of his hands and artful zoom motions. Real life AR setups have lagged behind substantially, despite the best efforts of Google and others. Now a team from the University of North Carolina, led by Andrew Maimone and working in collaboration with Nvidia, thinks it’s found solutions to some of the more pressing problems with current AR technologies. At present, cost, weight, and battery life have restricted AR devices to small screens with an FOV (field of vision) of perhaps 40 degrees. The problem with a technology like Google Glass, assuming you want to use it for AR, is that the tiny LCD in one corner of your vision is terrible for accurately representing objects. If you want to see something you can manipulate, you want to see it across both eyes in with a wide enough angle that it looks natural, not squashed. 

Nvidia + University of North Carolina pinlight display AR headset
 
 What Nvidia and the UNC team have created is a pair of glasses that eschew complicated optics for a simpler solution. By placing transparent point light sources capable of projecting light directly into the eye at minimal distance from the pupil, the rays of light that make up the display can be fired directly into the eye. One point light isn’t large enough to create a visible field, but a hexagonally tiled group of point lights can be effectively used to create a superimposed visual image, as is shown above. The researchers call this a pinlight display

Aperture design 

The long-term promise

In the past, I’ve been openly dubious about the prospects or desirability of AR in a product like Google Glass. That doesn’t, however, mean AR has no future. The ability to explore intricacies of a product’s design or walk through a 3D model representation of a patient’s internal organs could be enormously helpful to surgeons of the future. It’s not too much of a stretch to think that technologies like this could revolutionize certain types of medicine — the combination of better sensors and augmented reality could allow for unprecedented levels of fine motor control and the ability to repair damage that currently requires open surgery. Offering a broad field of vision might not seem like a major advance when products like the Oculus Rift have been promising something similar for years, but there’s a huge difference between a VR headset with its own integrated display and an AR device that doubles as a pair of glasses. If this approach pans out, it’ll give a much larger group of users a chance to research what AR can be used for — and hopefully lead to something more appealing than Robert Scoble naked in the shower. The researchers will be presenting their work – “Pinlight Displays: Wide-Field-of-View Augmented-Reality Eyeglasses Using Defocused Point-Light Sources” — at Siggraph 2014 next week.


Monday, January 6, 2014

Modern-style Firefox for Windows 8 pushed back to March

Mozilla is making Windows 8 users wait a couple months longer for a modern-style version of Firefox.
The touch-optimized browser had been set to launch on January 21, with the release of Firefox 27; now Mozilla is pushing back touch optimization to Firefox 28, a delay of six weeks. Add in the two-week vacation that Mozilla decided to grant employees last month, and the projected release date is now March 18.
Mozilla has been working on a modern-style version of Firefox for almost two years, and has even released experimental versions of the browser as part of its nightly builds. But development has been repeatedly delayed, and last fall Mozilla wasn’t even certain whether it would release the modern-style version.
“Whether or not the Metro Preview Release will graduate from Aurora to Beta and Release channels is still to be determined,” Mozilla said in notes from a planning meeting in September. It’s unclear whether this attitude has changed, but for now, Mozilla is aiming at a February 4 beta release before launching the stable version in mid-March.
For now, Windows 8 tablet users have no good alternatives to Internet Explorer. IE11 is a fine browser, especially with the improvements Microsoft made in Windows 8.1, but it’s nice to have a choice, and Firefox’s bookmark syncing is helpful if you’re also using Firefox on Android, Mac, or an older version of Windows.
Google already offers a modern-style version of Chrome, but it’s barely different from the desktop version and doesn’t support pinch-to-zoom. An overhauled version of Chrome that mimics the interface of a Chromebook is in beta now, and should reach the stable channel later this month.