NOTE: The following is the text of the technology news summary from the Sunday June 29th It's Komplicated webcast.
Apps and code, hard drives and speedy processors, Technophilia gives you all the details on the world of technology and the future.
SPINNING CLASS: Amateur DJs of all stripes will likely enjoy Turntable.fm, a new site that's in limited beta but still jam packed with music fans. If you have a Facebook friend who's in, you're in, even though there are some limited invitations being bandied about. The site lets people queue up a playlist of songs and sit in on a virtual "stage" of five "DJs" taking turns playing. Whoever sits farthest to the left can boot wack or problem DJs, unless the room creator is in the room. If you're alone in a room, you can only hear the first 20 seconds or so of a song. A great musical experience that crowdsources its opinions.
[Source: Komplicated]
GOOGLE MINUS: Google's new social networking concept has already hit some snags. By letting you reshare, people's info goes beyond the "circles" intended, and that opens people up to audiences that people weren't interested in having involved. Invites are frozen for now while Google again tries to figure out how to fix the half-baked product they released into the wild.
[Source: The Los Angeles Times]
TURN IT UP, CHARGE IT UP: A shirt that recharges your smartphone based on the soundwaves you hear? Futuristic poppycock, you say? Well, using compressed crystals, this technological marvel isn't on the market yet, and it works better with more sound — a library won't get you much power, whereas you could probably charge up a field full of iPads if you were at Rock The Bells.
[Source: Komplicated]
BEHOLD THE BOLD SOLDIER, CONTROL THE WORLD SLOWLY: The latest version of the classic game Shinobi has nods to the arcade classic while incorporating modern touches. Now you can do combos and parry attacks, and you can still shuriken attacks in addition to double jumps, clinging to walls and hanging from platforms. Here some video of how that looks …
[Source: Joystiq]
RUN UP THE SCORE: These two words should get nostalgia fans going: Tecmo Bowl. The classic is coming to iOS, with the same rules and fast-paced gameplay as the original while adding brand new high definition 3D graphics. Even with no multiplayer, at eight bucks, that ain't bad.
[Source: Joystiq]
THROTTLED: Remember that awesome high speed unlimited data from Verizon? Forget about it. Thursday tiered data is coming to Verizon, all indicators seem to suggest. What will that look like?
- 2GB of data for $30/month
- 5GB is $50/month, $10 GB is $80/month
- Any tethering adds 2GB of data for $20 more
- $10 per GB over your limit
Where do they get these numbers? Who knows? Verizon blames the influx of iPhones on this new requirement.
[Source: Consumerist]
SIXTH SENSE: Scientists at the University of Massachusets Medical School have discovered proof of extrasensory perception in the cryptochrome gene, which allows some butterflies to see magnetic fields and is shared by humans. It also makes more sense than midi-chlorians.
[Source: Komplicated]
HORMEL: Spam emails account for 90 percent of the emails in the world, even though it takes 12.5 million spam emails to sell just $100 worth of Viagra. That money is funneled, however, through just three banks, according to research. One on the West Indian island of Nevis, another based in Azerbaijan and last, a Dutch bank — those are the locations where spam is funded and encouraged. The data was handed to law enforcement and big transaction companies like Visa.
[Source: Geekosystem]