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First spectral analysis of a super-Earth’s atmosphere shows it’s not super for life

Posted on February 17, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

For the first time, astronomers have conducted a spectral analysis of a distant super-Earth’s atmosphere – and the results show it would be a hellish place to visit. We already knew that about 55 Cancri e, which...

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Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest

Posted on February 9, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves, a century after they were predicted by Albert Einstein. After months of rumors, simultaneous events...

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Broncos use Microsoft Surface to celebrate Super Bowl with ‘World Champs’ artwork

Posted on February 8, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

NFL players and coaches have come up with another way to utilize the Microsoft Surface tablet on the football field. After Denver beat Carolina, 24-10, on Sunday to win Super Bowl 50, CBS showed Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib holding up a Surface tablet with the phrase “World...

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How to stream the Super Bowl for free without a cable subscription

Posted on February 4, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

If you don’t have access to cable, there are a number of ways to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday. CBS, which is broadcasting Super Bowl 50 at 3:30 p.m. PT, will live stream the game on its website and through a bevy of platforms that have the...

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Super Bowl concept video shows a bright HoloLens augmented reality future

Posted on February 3, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Microsoft: Imagining the future for NFL fans

I won't be watching Super Bowl 50 this coming weekend. But if I were, I'd want to be watching it in augmented reality.

Microsoft's concept video, above, shows what that might look like. The first generation HoloLens developer units shown in the video, though, are perhaps a little bulkier and heavier than...

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Missy Elliott joins Alec Baldwin and Alexa for Amazon Super Bowl spots

Posted on January 29, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Amazon is investing in Alexa and Amazon Echo this Super Bowl season — bringing in some big names to promote the virtual assistant and the smart speaker she calls home. Earlier this week the Seattle tech giant released an ad teaser featuring Alec Baldwin...

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Uber gets exclusive deal to pick up and drop off passengers at Super Bowl 50

Posted on January 20, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

There’s good news for Super Bowl ticket holders that were planning on using Uber for their transportation needs to and from Levi’s Stadium. For the first time ever, a ride-hailing company will be able to pick up and drop off riders at a Super Bowl stadium after Uber inked an...

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FBI mulls connection between Super Bowl, CA fiber optic cable cuttings

Posted on January 19, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA., home to Super Bowl 50 and the San Francsico 49ers. (credit: Travis Wise)

Federal authorities, who have been baffled by more than a dozen attacks on San Francisco Bay Area data lines, are probing whether there is any connection between that vandalism and the Super Bowl. The NFL's big game...

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Updated NFL playoff picks: Microsoft Bing predicts Super Bowl champion

Posted on January 13, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Bing Predicts updated its NFL playoff picks after Wild Card weekend, but still thinks the Patriots will win Super Bowl 50. Using models which involve “traditional statistical models coupled with social listening and search analysis,” Microsoft’s search engine laid out its NFL playoff picks...

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How a game-playing robot coded “Super Mario Maker” onto an SNES—live on stage

Posted on January 11, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

The star of the show, and some of the men behind the 'bot.

DULLES, Va.—Regular watchers of the annual Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) video game speedrun marathon are probably intimately familiar with the power of TASBot (short for tool-assisted speedrun robot). Two years ago, the emulator-fueled bot used its controller-port interface to write a simple version of...

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