Unboxing: Apple TV 3 (2012)

In this video I do an unboxing of the Apple TV 3 3rd Generation 3G 2012 1080p model. This newest Apple TV features the Apple A5 processor which allows it to output 1080p video and is very similar vs Apple TV 2 with the same overall design, HDMI, Optical Audio, a MicroUSB port, Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid

http://www.ted.com Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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Windows & Mac Browser Test: Chrome 17 vs Firefox 11 vs Opera 11.61 vs Safari 5.1

Download Google Chrome 17.0.963.79: http://www.google.com/chrome/

Download Mozilla Firefox 11: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Download Opera 11.61: http://www.opera.com/browser/

Download Apple Safari 5.1.4: http://www.apple.com/safari/

In this video I compare the best Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion web browsers, Chrome 17 vs Firefox 11 vs Opera 11.61 vs Safari 5.1.4 to see which is fastest at Javascript, general web browsing, HTML5 compliance, memory usage and GPU hardware acceleration. Each browser has pros and cons as well as special features however here I just look at the raw benchmarks to determine the winner.

The benchmarks I use are the V8 Benchmark, Peacekeeper, Particle Acceleration, the HTML5 Test and memory usage with 5 tabs open. Each is run multiple times on both a Windows 7 desktop and MacBook Air OS X laptop to ensure a fair fight.

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

http://www.ted.com Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

Mass Effect Infiltrator for iPhone Review

In this video I review Mass Effect Infiltrator for iOS on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Mass Effect Infiltrator is a tie-in with Mass Effect 3 however it follows a different story and is made by a different developer. The graphics are absolutely fantastic as is the sound, gameplay is overall good but the story is lacking and the controls go between being fantastic and horrible.