The modern definition of "troll" is someone who dedicates themself to stirring up anger online. A pitiful existence, to be certain, but the immoral bravado that internet anonymity seems to give people has nonetheless fostered such a breed of human.
Everyone has seen the bizarre behaviours of trolls online—but what are they like in person? What does a man who spends his days insulting others online look and act like in real life? The British Broadcasting Corporation wanted to find out.
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Just when the world thought that it couldn’t get any better than HDTV, there is a new technology that is about to change the way humanity experiences home entertainment. Introducing 4k -- the current digital cinema format that offers four times the image quality of HDTV. Soon you, your family and friends will experience the power of the latest digital cinema quality entertainment in the comfort of your own home.
A Short History of 4K
In 1999, digital cinema was thrust into the market with the help of George Lucas. His goal was to make the movie going experience more fascinating and enjoyable. Lucas worked with Sony and Panavision on Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace in an effort to release the world’s first moving utilizing a 1080p/24-frame- per-second digital camera. While the technology was far from perfect at the time, moviegoers gave the film rave reviews.
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Earlier this month, Research In Motion offered a free PlayBook tablet to any developer who brought their Android app over to the Waterloo company's desolate BlackBerry App World. As RIM noted in a new blog post, today is the end of the offer. But wait!
Due to "overwhelming interest," RIM is extending the offer "one more time." The company says that 1,500 apps have been submitted since the promotion began and nearly 7,000 new developers registered. The "high demand" to get into App World has even caused approvals to take longer than normal, according to RIM.
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Entrepeneur’s Night was hosted by BizInc. at Western University this past week. Students from different academic backgrounds and interest gathered to have a look at what kind of ideas and businesses their fellow scholars were up to.
The mini-keynote was presented by Carmen Cigante of TechAlliance, a technology business accelerator based in London. He shared essential pieces of insight with the audience of students, many of which hadn’t heard from an angel investor before.
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When Whitney Houston tragically died last week, millions mourned. Triggering an earthquake of buzz across social media, Whitney's passing dominated Twitter's trending topic globally for days. But Sony didn't have time to shed tears—there was money to be made.
Within just an half an hour of Whitney's death going public, Sony Music upped the price of her 2007 album Ultimate Collection in the U.K. from £4.99 to £7.99 (about $8 Canadian to nearly $13) on Apple's iTunes store, according to Digital Spy. While the prices didn't seem to spike in North America—that album is $9.99 in Canada and U.S. digital stores—consumers were outraged, but not surprised, that a music label would exploit the death of an artist to maximize profits.
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On January 24th, Google hosted their first ever Ship Wars Programming Competition at Google Waterloo, allowing many Kitchener-Waterloo software engineers to participate. The competition is the brainchild of Google’s Aaron Kemp and Garret Kelley.
Nearly 40 participants took place in the competition, and were given only three hours to code a space ship in any language they choose. The ships were then uploaded to a Google server, and pitted against each other in a virtual environment.
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In late 2010, in a small suburb outside of Vancouver, a 16-year-old girl was drugged and repeatedly sexually assaulted during a rural rave. Instead of helping the girl, some teenage boys decided to take photographs of the scene, which they then passed along to their friends and posted on Facebook for the world to see.
For the first person convicted—charged with making and distributing child pornography, the youth pleaded guilty to distributing obscene material—no jail time has been issued, raising concerns over B.C.'s increasingly soft justice system. The criminal has been sentenced to 12 months of probation, must write an apology to the victim, and, in an elementary-school-esque punishment, must compose an essay about the pros and cons of social media.
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Those who dared to buy Apple stock back when it was mired in the double-digit range are likely very happy people now.
The technology giant's shares have cracked the $500 mark, making it definitively the world's most valuable company, ousting oil behemoth Exxon Mobil. Getting to this point has been incredibly smooth: AAPL has consistently and convincingly outpaced the market for the past several years—and, in fact, has done so with stunning stability, even in an atypically volatile market.
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Not too long ago I wrote an article about how the mobile consumer is using web pages for the majority of their online shopping. Attending the mPower Business event I learned the complete picture on how the mobile consumers interact. Jonathon Carrigon, Product Development Manager at CBC, presented the changing needs of the mobile customer. In his presentation he explained how large the mobile space is and will become, the way mobile consumers use mobile websites, and some repercussions of having a bad mobile experience.
The Mobile Era has Arrived
By 2013 more people will connect to the internet through mobile devices than laptop and desktop PC’s combined. Mobile searches have increased 4 times as much than in 2010. The number of mobile buyers will nearly triple by 2015. E-marketer has reported US mobile commerce sales at $6.7 billion for 2011 which is expected to grow to $31 billion in 2015.
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Researchers at École Polytechnique de Montreal have been working on what they call “smart textiles” or “E-textiles”, capable of energy storage and sensing applications.
The idea is to blend useful technology with modern textile methods, creating next generation materials. Imagine answering your phone just by touching a spot on your jacket, which also contains the audio and a microphone in the hood?
Bikers could have signals built right into their jackets, invisible until turned on. Your clothing could monitor your fitness and health, charge your devices, even have a computer built right in. There are any number of interesting and futuristic applications that could come of this research.
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