Thursday
Jul022015

The official trailer for Aaron Sorkin's 'Steve Jobs' movie is out

Noah Wylie, Ashton Kutcher and now Michael Fassbender have tried to become onscreen versions of Steve Jobs. The upcoming  Danny Boyle directed 'Steve Jobs,' which comes to theatres on October 9, was penned by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, The Newsroom) and is based off the Walter Isaacson's Jobs biography (which was commissioned by Steve Jobs but derided by some of his closest colleagues including Tim Cook and Jony Ive.
The latest, and I suspect not the last, Jobs biopic is supposedly made up of three acts leading up to three impactful product launches in Steve Jobs (and Apple's) history. It also explores Jobs' relationship with his daughter Lisa. Oh, and Seth Rogen plays Woz.
Wednesday
Jul012015

Facebook tracks your video watching preferences

You don’t just have to like certain videos for Facebook to bring similar clips to your attention. The social network is now tracking your preferences or behavior when it comes to videos. It now also takes into account if you’ve switched the video to full-screen, increased volume, and even switched to HD (when it’s available).

According to a Facebook release, "We are now taking into account more interactions with videos that we have learned indicate whether someone found that video interesting, such as choosing to turn on sound, making the video full screen, and enabling high definition. So if you turn the volume up or make the video full screen, we have updated News Feed to infer you liked the video and will show you similar videos higher up in your News Feed. We have found that this helps us show people more videos that they are interested in.”

Source: Facebook | Via: Lifehacker Australia

Wednesday
Jul012015

Zen Pinball shrinks Marvel’s Ant-Man down to size

Big things do come in small packages. Zen Studio’s Zen Pinball game will be debuting a new table this July 14th for the upcoming movie adaptation of Marvel’s Ant-Man. According to Zen Studios, we should expect some pretty exciting stuff with this new table.

“We’re doing things with Marvel’s Ant-Man table that will be completely new to both our game and the pinball genre as a whole, including shrinking pinballs and crazy new mini-games that will undoubtedly excite our biggest (and smallest) fans,” Zen Studio says.

Source: Zen Studios | Via: Android Central 

Wednesday
Jul012015

YouTube now lets you watch 60fps videos on Android, iOS

A switch has been flipped in the backend of YouTube. Users viewing videos on the Android and iOS apps of the video streaming app can now watch select clips in 60 frames per second. We say select because not everyone uploads videos at 60fps. It seems there isn’t even an app update you need to download for this to be activated.

If you’re on mobile data though, you have to be a bit wary of watching videos in 60fps and even the latest 1440p resolution that YouTube also supports. That is unless you want to max out your monthly data allocation. But if you're on Wi-Fi, you have nothing to worry about.

Source: Droid Life