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When it rains it pours. White-hot social photo service?Instagram just released its much-awaited?Android app at long last, and now the company has just dropped an even bigger bomb. Instagram will be acquired by none other than social behemoth Facebook to the tune of $1 billion.
The news hit in?tandem blog posts from?Facebook and?Instagram. Both posts suggest that the former company seeks to keep the Instagram we know and love rather than re-branding it altogether, thought we can expect to see sepia-toned photos woven even deeper into the fabric of our?Facebook lives.?According to Instagram, "It's important to be clear that Instagram is not going away. We'll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network. We'll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile photos experience."
Instagram is a wildly popular social network for phone photographers, but it's a uniquely mobile social media experience. While most web services of the sort launch of the web first and add an app after the fact, Instagram's network is solely accessible through the apps for Android and iOS. Though an?unofficial web portal will let you peek at photos, and you can view individual images that are directly linked, you can only comment, like, and share through the app ? for the moment, that is.
While today's whopping $1 billion acquisition comes as a bit of a surprise, in many ways, it makes perfect sense. Facebook went well out of its way to deeply integrate Instagram photos in its Timeline resdesign, letting users embed them?full-width and tag them just like photos uploaded straight to Facebook. The company even had plans to add?its own photo filters after reportedly failing to acquire Instagram in 2011. With news of the acquisition, it looks like Facebook will serve as the social app's long-lost web platform, while Instagram will pepper our Facebook feeds with even more of our friends' faux-vintage masterpieces.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The wife of film producer Bob Weinstein has filed for divorce in New York and is seeking an order of protection.
Court papers say Anne Weinstein is seeking the protection order because she fears "bodily harm."
A spokesman for Bob Weinstein says his wife was reacting to a family intervention to get her to deal with a drinking problem. He says there is no abuse.
The two married in 2000. Anne Weinstein is a former book editor. They have two children.
Bob Weinstein and his brother Harvey are New York natives and Hollywood mainstays who run their own film company after breaking off from Disney and Miramax, which they helped found. They have been involved highly successful films such as "Pulp Fiction," ''The English Patient," and "Shakespeare in Love."
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But though tablets are a commercial success, the same question people were asking two years ago still looms: Can tablets become work machines? The current wave has been built to resemble smartphones more than PC. They?re content consumption devices rather than content creation devices. Tablets are perfect for reading books but lousy for writing them. And the same point could be made for spreadsheets, presentations, photography, video, and music. In most of these cases, "there?s an app for that." But beyond the beautiful drawings that artists are making in Colors, the tablet has no part in content creation for most of us.
Yet consider that not so long ago society didn?t understand how PCs could revolutionize every part of our lives. Even businesses didn?t understand how a computer could increase productivity. So let?s stop viewing tablets as a failure in respect to work functions, and instead, objectively analyze them as what they are: a new class of machines just getting their legs under them.
So what needs to change for our iPads to become not toys, but workhorses?
Right now, tablets have multitouch, and usually one of your hands is occupied just holding the thing. Simply put, content creation requires input devices. Multitouch enables a lot of incredible gesture-based functions, such as pinching-and-zooming photos, but no one wants to write their novel on a virtual glass keyboard.
Text input, the biggest and most obvious problem for working on a tablet. As archaic as written language might seem now that we have FaceTime, it is the basis of emails, spreadsheets, structured notes, and IMs. It?s not hard to send one email on a tablet, but try sending them all day.
Bluetooth-linked keyboards haven?t fixed the problem, either. Yes, it?s easier than typing a full message into the onscreen keyboard. But when you pick up a separate, physical keyboard, the tablet metaphor dies?you?re really just working at a mini laptop. Tablets will need to figure out other technologies?perhaps it?s voice recognition; perhaps it?s eyetracking; perhaps it?s reading our brain waves?to solve the basic problem of mass text input.
But beyond text, tablets will need to employ other solutions, solutions beyond multitouch, to compensate for humans? lack of a third hand.
As I write this on my laptop, I can copy text from Google Docs and paste it in Gmail, juggle 20 tabs while sharing links from five in 10 different AIM windows, and then, since that?s not enough, I can tweet on an entirely different topic with my spare mental cycles. This is the level of multitasking that most of us are at all day, every day, and it happens instantly in an environment generally capable of reacting faster than we can think.
Tablets don?t have multitasking?not the real, 2012 stuff. Tablets either pull our attention to one app at a time (which is great for watching a movie or playing a game, but lousy for keeping tabs with your boss) or they give us a few superficial widgets and notifications (who needs to check the weather again?) in lieu of several full apps each firing on all cylinders at once.
As tablet continue to receive RAM upgrades, there?s no fundamental reason they that multitasking on them couldn?t get better. Except the big one: sheer size. Even puny 12.1-inch laptops have much larger screens capable of fitting more content than any tablet on the market (for now, let?s ignore arguments about resolution for sake of simplicity). Unless we want bigger tablets, we either need technology that makes a small screen seem bigger, such as 3D, or a multitasking system that makes large screens feel a bit less important. Or both.
With a modern tablet, we?re holding sheer software translated through a dynamic screen. Why limit it by drawing the same way we would with a dried piece of pulp? We don?t need to press down the keys of a piano to make notes because tablets have no strings defining their limitations.
The rules of the analog world need not apply in a handheld window to the digital one. But as long as we try to force those metaphors upon ourselves, tablets won?t advance beyond their current station: accessible to a layperson, but unable to tap their deeper potential.
We?re using old ideas because we haven?t thought of new ones yet. How long did it take before our computers networked to create the Internet or our text messages evolved into Twitter? Right now, we?re all viewing tablets as these legal-pad-size computers that, for some strange reason, can?t do everything that our old computers can do. Tablets are a whole new platform, and platforms need time to develop. Maybe they were never meant to be our old computers in legal pad form, but rather, pliable information in absolutely no required form at all.
But until that day comes, let?s figure out the whole text input problem, okay?
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Tiny armor-covered creatures that float along with the ocean's currents may adapt and survive, if badly, as their watery world warms and becomes more acidic, a new study finds.
Even so, the plankton may become flimsier and could turn into more of a "french fry" than a nutritious snack for its consumers.
As more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, gets pumped into the atmosphere, and ultimately dissolves in the oceans, the seas are becoming more acidic. How this will impact life in the oceans is not known, though various studies have undertaken the challenge to find out.
In the new study, a trio of scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Oceanographic Research in Kiel, Germany, bred a variety of phytoplankton, called Emiliania huxleyi, to tolerate higher levels of carbon dioxide dissolved in the water.
They focused on these creatures for two reasons: Like other phytoplankton, E. huxleyi forms the bases of many of the ocean's food chains. In addition, this creature is a coccolithophore, which builds its shell of calcium carbonate. That shell-building can be affected by the acidity of the oceans, with more acidic oceans holding less of their shell material.
Ocean acid test
The pH of the oceans, a measure of acidity whereby lower numbers are more acidic, has changed from about 8.25 in the mid-18th century to 8.14 in 2004.
To find out how this change and future changes might impact the armored plankton, researchers Kai Lohbeck, Ulf Riebesell and Thorsten Reusch took the plankton they had bred in the lab and exposed it to concentrations of carbon dioxide up to four times that in the atmosphere. They found that it can adapt, and even maintain its shell-building, though it doesn't exactly thrive. "They do less badly," Reusch said.
Their ability to adapt and survive in the "harsh" environment took less than a year (though for plankton, the time frame spans about 500 generations). Reusch said it's the first time anyone has studied the evolution of plankton over so many generations. [The Harshest Environments on Earth]
Reusch noted that the team used plankton with the same genetic makeup, so whatever changes occurred were at the level of gene expression. The particular genes that are involved will be the subject of future experiments, he said.
The team found that under higher carbon-dioxide levels, the plankton grew faster (and got bigger overall), but they didn't build shells as quickly. Compared with earlier generations, the adapted plankton did increase their rate of shell growth, but that never reached levels found under normal-CO2 conditions. Essentially, the amount of shell substance per dry weight of plankton decreased.
Ocean junk food?
Just because the plankton evolve to tolerate acidic oceans doesn't mean that the food chains won't be affected. Reusch noted that altering the water chemistry can also affect how nutritious the plankton are for the other creatures that eat them, because it affects their metabolism. "They become like french fries," he said. "The carbon-nitrogen balance becomes worse," which affects nutrients needed by those that feast on them, such as zooplankton ? tiny jellyfish, copepods and shrimp.
The finding also has implications for Earth's storage of carbon. To make their shells, plankton take two bicarbonate ions from the water and make it into calcium carbonate and water, releasing an extra molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2). That means the faster they grow, the more CO2 gets pumped into the air. But the situation is more complicated, because the plankton sequester some carbon when they die, taking it with them to the bottom of the ocean. Plankton also photosynthesize, like other plants, so they release oxygen as well as removing CO2 from the air.
An expert on plankton, Larry Brand, a professor of marine biology and fisheries at the University of Miami in Florida, noted that one of the big effects of acidifying the oceans is altering the mix of creatures that live in it. If the Emiliania plankton doesn't do as well, other plants and animals will take its place. That could alter fisheries, for example. "Usually when there's a radical change in the mix of organisms, it doesn't work out too well for humans," he said.
They published their results in the journal Nature Geoscience today (April 8).
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