London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony live stream
It’s about time the Olympics started. It seems like we’ve been talking about it for years now.
How Playing Games Makes You Live Longer
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It’s easy to write off our gaming addiction as a waste of time. But game designer Jane McGonigal argues the exact opposite; that games can actually extend our life expectancy. And she has the data to support it.
McGonial, who in a previous TED Talk advocated that the world collectively play 21 billion hours of games per week, started her presentation at TED Global on Thursday by citing a widely-circulated study of the most common regrets of people on their death beds.
She then detailed how games address all of them, drawing on her personal experience of suffering a serious concussion that left her unable to do most of the things she loved, like playing video games, reading, writing and caffeine. That left her deeply depressed, to the point where she said “I am either going to kill myself, or I’m going to turn this into a game.”
How To Live To 102
via forbes.com
Doctors say that healthy habits will help get you to age 85, but how to live beyond that remains a medical mystery. We interviewed people in their 100s to find out how they did it.
Why Do Some Programming Languages Live and Others Die?
via gizmodo.com
Google wants to change the way the world writes software. In recent years, the search giant has unveiled two new programming languages that seek to improve on some of the most widely used languages on the planet.
With a language called Go, it seeks to give the world a replacement for the venerable languages C and C++, providing a more nimble means of building really big software platforms inside data centers. And with Dart, it hopes to replace JavaScript, improving the way we build software that’s run in our web browsers.
37 years of Saturday Night Live [infographic]
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</p> <p>There are times when we love it and decades that we hate it, but like it or not, most of us can’t hear the words “King Tut” without thinking of Steve Martin or have a “D**k in a Box” earworm that just won’t quit (ha, you’re welcome). Here’s to an incredible thirty-seven years of SNL.</p> <p>Via CableTV.com.</p> <p>Like infographics? So do we.</p> </div></blockquote>
</p> <p>There are times when we love it and decades that we hate it, but like it or not, most of us can’t hear the words “King Tut” without thinking of Steve Martin or have a “D**k in a Box” earworm that just won’t quit (ha, you’re welcome). Here’s to an incredible thirty-seven years of SNL.</p> <p>Via CableTV.com.</p> <p>Like infographics? So do we.</p> </div></blockquote> There are times when we love it and decades that we hate it, but like it or not, most of us can’t hear the words “King Tut” without thinking of Steve Martin or have a “D**k in a Box” earworm that just won’t quit (ha, you’re welcome). Here’s to an incredible thirty-seven years of SNL.
Live TV On Your iPad? How The Heck Does That Work?
Aereo is a paid service that lets you watch live network television on your iPad.
You can also set shows to record and stream them later, kind of like a DVR living in the cloud.
Pretty cool, right? Here’s what it entails.
YouTube and NBC Will Livestream the Entire Summer 2012 Olympics For Free
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For the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch every single olympic event live. NBC has teamed up with YouTube to livestream more than 3000 hours of coverage from the London 2012 Olympics for free. First the Super Bowl was streamed online and now this!
Five Best Ways to Stream Live TV
via lifehacker.com
Whether you’re looking for a way to catch the big game this weekend when you’re away from your living room, or you just like to catch live television when you’re trapped somewhere without either cable or a television, you have plenty of options to help you catch a broadcast on your mobile phone or your computer. Here’s a look at five of the best ways to tune in when you’re on the go.
The Super Bowl Will Be Streamed Live for the First Time
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America’s biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! U-S-A! Along with the Super Bowl, fans will get to peep NBC’s Wild Card playoff games and the Pro Bowl (snooze) online too.
Xbox Live update adds 40 entertainment apps, Kinect voice and motion controls, cloud storage, and more
Xbox Live will receive a major overhaul, starting tomorrow, December 6. The update includes a new Windows Phone Metro-like design, voice- and motion-control functionality and a slew of new entertainment apps.
