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History is made high above New York City
NEW YORK (AP) ? Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.
The final two segments of the 408-foot spire will rest on a construction platform for several weeks until the entire needle is permanently installed. With the spire as its crown, the trade center will soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet in the air ? a reference to the birth of the nation in 1776.
Sunlight glinted off the slender steel structure as it rose slowly into the blue sky. Construction workers inside the building clustered around unfinished floor ledges to get a better glimpse of it.
"It will give a tremendous indication to people around the entire region, and the world, that we're back and better than ever," said Steven Plate, who is overseeing construction of the World Trade Center.
Composed of 18 parts and weighing 758 tons, the spire floated into Manhattan several months ago on a barge.
With a beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels. An LED-powered light emanating from it will be seen from miles away.
The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"It's not just a construction site," Plate said. "It's truly a mission for all of us."
With the additional 408 feet, the building would be the tallest in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna ? a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building's height.
Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed. By contrast, a spire is something that is part of the building's architectural design.
The tower is slated to open for business in 2014.
Tenants include the magazine publisher Conde Nast, the government's General Services Administration and Vantone Holdings China Center, which will provide business space for international companies.
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Kerry Washington For Parade Magazine, Talks ?Scandal?, Presdient ...
Kerry Washington still can?t wrap the success ?Scandal? has become around her mind.
?I knew that in my lifetime I?d never seen it. But it didn?t compute to me that I?d be making history. I just fell in love with the character,? she says during a recent interview with Parade Magazine.
She sits down during an exclusive interview with the magazine to discuss movie roles in ? Django?, ?Peeples?, and the popular and very scandal ABC drama.
On whether, as a member of the President?s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, she is aware of President Obama?s view of the show:
?I haven?t wanted to ask the president his opinion of the show. But I have lots of friends in the administration who love it. We make D.C. look sexy and exciting.?
On her work on the controversial film Django Unchained:
?I feel like I barely survived Django emotionally. The violence. Hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.?
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The reason Facebook Home exists
Facebook Home has its fair share of critics. But while I personally can?t stand Facebook as a service, I am not one of them. Home takes over the user?s Android smartphone and replaces the home screen with an unending stream of full-screen Facebook photos and status updates posted by friends. The first version of Facebook?s new Android software clearly has some kinks that need to be ironed out, but Facebook has more incentive than it could ever need to get the job done.
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A quick glance at the company?s first-quarter earnings report reveals that mobile revenue now accounts for nearly one-third of Facebook?s total advertising revenue. That figure is up from 23% in the previous quarter, and it will continue to grow. Mobile is the future of computing, and it is the future of Facebook as well.
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Analysts at JPMorgan Chase were expecting Facebook?s mobile revenue to come in at an impressive $320 million in Q1 2013, and the actual figure crushed that estimate at $375 million. Facebook?s total ad revenue for the quarter climbed 38% to $1.46 billion.
Facebook Home does not serve ads to users right now. But it will. And Facebook?s smart decision to focus on immersive mobile software instead of an own-brand smartphone or its own mobile operating system means that these ads will be served to far more people as Facebook Home adoption grows than they would have on a ?Facebook Phone.?
In the first quarter, Facebook?s mobile MAU stat grew to 751 million users. That?s three-quarters of a billion people who actively use Facebook?s services on a mobile phone each month. Facebook Home puts Facebook front and center on users? phones, which means that once Home ads roll out, users will likely interact with them even more if they?re done well.
Facebook knows how important mobile is, obviously, and it?s taking steps accordingly. Home is the first of several big mobile initiatives we?ll likely see from Facebook, and the percentage of Facebook?s revenue that comes from mobile products will continue to grow as well. The more innovative and immersive Facebook?s mobile products get, the higher they will drive revenue ? and this is why Facebook Home exists.
This article was originally published on BGR.com
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New arrests hint at unseen side of Boston bombing suspect
Three men have been charged with impeding a federal investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings in allegations that would seem to blend criminality with teenage stupidity.
After realizing that their college friend was being sought by police in connection with the April 15 attack, the three sought to discard evidence to help their friend ?avoid trouble,? according to court documents filed Wednesday.
By that time, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was already in more than the usual amount of trouble for a 19-year-old.
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Now his three friends ? Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos ? could also be in big trouble.
And the new criminal complaint against them also may shed new light on Mr. Tsarnaev?s interest in bombmaking. Previous news accounts have widely portrayed his older brother as the mastermind of the attacks, but the complaint says that two of the friends heard the younger Tsarnaev say, a month before the attacks, that he knew how to make bombs.
The document also quotes one of the friends saying that Tsarnaev appeared to have cut his hair short when the two saw each other on the campus the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on April 17, two days after the bombing. The timing of that apparent effort at a changed appearance is significant; the next day the FBI made photos of the bombing suspects public.
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The criminal charges made public Wednesday do not allege that any of the three newly arrested men were involved in the bombings or knew about any plans. But these men could potentially face years in prison for obstructing justice.
Mr. Kadyrbayev and Mr. Tazhayakov, who are Kazakhstan nationals studying in the US, have been held in jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas. Now they are charged with conspiring to destroy, conceal, and cover up tangible objects belonging to the suspected bomber. That could carry a sentence of up to five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
Mr. Phillipos, a US citizen residing in Cambridge, Mass., is charged with ?willfully making materially false statements to federal law enforcement officials during a terrorism investigation.? That carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The complaint, written by FBI Special Agent Scott Cieplik, alleges that on the night of April 18, after the investigators released photos of the bombing suspects and asked the public for help finding them, the three men suspected their friend was one of the bombers. They went to Tsarnaev's dorm room, where his roommate let them in. While there they found a backpack containing fireworks, which had been opened and emptied of powder.
According to the FBI account, Kadyrbayev said he knew when he saw the empty fireworks that his friend was involved in the bombings and decided to remove the backpack from the room "in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble." He also saw a jar of Vaseline in the room, and identified it to his friends as a bombmaking material, the complaint says.
They removed the backpack, the Vaseline, and Tsarnaev's laptop, the document says, and all three friends agreed the materials should be disposed of. Phillipos said that after talking about that course of action, he took a two hour nap, ?and when he woke up, the backpack was gone,? according to the document.
Kadyrbayev allegedly placed the backpack in a black garbage bag and dropped it in a dumpster.
The backpack was later recovered at after a painstaking search of a nearby landfill. So far there?s no official word about the laptop. The contents of the backpack included a homework sheet for a University of Massachusetts class in which Tsarnaev was enrolled.
Defense attorneys for the three denied the key allegations Wednesday, arguing that the young men didn?t intend to obstruct justice. They said their clients had nothing to do with the bombing and were just as shocked by the crime as everyone else.
Phillipos's attorney, Derege Demissie, said outside court: "The only allegation is he made a misrepresentation."
At a court appearance in the afternoon, the Kazakh students did not request bail and will be held for another hearing May 14. Phillipos was held for a hearing on Monday.
The April 15 bombings killed three people and injured more than 260. Mr. Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, died after a gunfight with police days later. His younger brother was captured and is being held at a prison hospital.
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Saturn's Hurricane
There are several types of weather phenomena. A phenomenon is an observable fact or occurrence that is unusual and can be explained scientifically. The types of weather phenomena include fog, heat waves, cold waves, tornadoes, thunderstorms, winter storms, and different types of cyclones.
A cyclone is a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure. Atmospheric pressure is the amount of force exerted over a surface area or the pressure exerted by the weight of the atmosphere.
One interesting type of cyclone is a hurricane. A hurricane is a strong tropical revolving storm. It has a Beaufort scale of force 12 or higher. The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions. In the northern hemisphere, hurricanes revolve in a counterclockwise direction. In the southern hemisphere, they revolve clockwise and are known as typhoons.
The hurricane is also nature?s heat engine. It is a device that transfers heat from a place of high temperature to a place of lower temperature and does mechanical work in the process. It is also a type of machine that converts a portion of the thermal energy delivered to it (at high temperature) to work. It converts heat energy into mechanical energy. Heat energy is a form of energy that is transferred by the difference in temperature. It is the total kinetic energy or the capacity to increase the activity of something and thereby increase its temperature. Mechanical energy is the energy of motion used to perform work. Examples of heat engines in our everyday world are refrigerators, steam engines, and heat pumps.
There are four main ingredients to creating a hurricane. These are warm water, cooler air temperature, wind, and location. First, there has to be sufficient water vapor in the middle of the troposphere. Second, the sea surface temperature must be at least -26.50 C and a vertical temperature profile that cools with height. This supports thunderstorm activity. Third, the values of vertical wind shear are low from the surface to the upper troposphere. Fourth, in regards to location, there must be sufficient distance from the equator for the coriolis force to be significant.
The coriolis force is a force exerted on a parcel of air (or any moving body) due to the rotation of the earth. It causes freely moving masses such as air and water currents to be diverted from straight linear motion. An example of the coriolis effect that you can try at home is the following: Draw a straight line with a pencil from the center of a spinning record to the outside of the record. You will notice the line begin to spiral as the record spins.
In short, a hurricane is caused by low windshear, very moist humidity, the sea temperature is around 26.50 degrees celsius, and the location of the genesis of the hurricane is anywhere from 50 to 300 degrees north latitude.
This type of weather phenomena is not only experienced on Earth but is now being experienced on another planet. Recently, it has been reported that Saturn has been enduring a strong hurricane. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and is the second largest in our solar system. The length of day on Saturn is about ten and a half hours and it is about 95 times the mass of the Earth. It is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium. It has the lowest density of the planets in our solar system. Its unique characteristic are its rings.
The hurricane on Saturn was detected in 2004 while Saturn was in its northern winter. Then in 2009, as spring began on Saturn, Cassini was able to give us more insight. Now , we are getting a better view currently. The image to this article was taken on November 27th.
So what is so different about Saturn?s hurricane? On Earth, Hurricanes require warm ocean water. On Saturn, hurricanes require atmospheric water vapor. The speed of Saturn?s hurricane is 330 mph, while a level 5 hurricane on Earth is at 156 mph.
Unlike hurricanes on Earth, which tend to drift northward as our planet rotates, Saturn?s hurricane swirls inside a mysterious, six-sided vortex. This vortex has been measured to be about 1,250 miles wide and possibly could be the length of half of the United States . A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid or a vertical axis of extremely low pressure around which winds rotate.
The hurricane on Saturn can serve as a two-fold purpose. First, it can be a natural lab for us to gain a better understanding of the behavior and traits of a hurricane. Second, it can help us understand Saturn?s physical behavior better.
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To view pictures of the Hurricane on Saturn , go to: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20130429.html
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Kobe Bryant battles mom, NJ business over auction
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) ? Kobe Bryant is in a court battle to try to keep his mother from auctioning off mementoes from his high school days in Pennsylvania and his early NBA career.
A southern New Jersey auction house is suing for the right to sell the stuff after the NBA star's lawyers wrote the firm to say it could not.
Bryant contends that his mother, Pamela Bryant, doesn't have the right to sell the collectibles including his Lower Merion High School letters, a 2000 NBA championship ring and hundreds of other items.
Berlin, N.J.-based Goldin Auctions says Bryant told his mother years ago that he didn't want the items.
Legal papers say Pamela Bryant intended to use her $450,000 advance to buy a new home.
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Printable functional 'bionic' ear melds electronics and biology
May 1, 2013 ? Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.
The researchers' primary purpose was to explore an efficient and versatile means to merge electronics with tissue. The scientists used 3D printing of cells and nanoparticles followed by cell culture to combine a small coil antenna with cartilage, creating what they term a bionic ear.
"In general, there are mechanical and thermal challenges with interfacing electronic materials with biological materials," said Michael McAlpine, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton and the lead researcher. "Previously, researchers have suggested some strategies to tailor the electronics so that this merger is less awkward. That typically happens between a 2D sheet of electronics and a surface of the tissue. However, our work suggests a new approach -- to build and grow the biology up with the electronics synergistically and in a 3D interwoven format."
McAlpine's team has made several advances in recent years involving the use of small-scale medical sensors and antenna. Last year, a research effort led by McAlpine and Naveen Verma, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Fio Omenetto of Tufts University, resulted in the development of a "tattoo" made up of a biological sensor and antenna that can be affixed to the surface of a tooth.
This project, however, is the team's first effort to create a fully functional organ: one that not only replicates a human ability, but extends it using embedded electronics.
"The design and implementation of bionic organs and devices that enhance human capabilities, known as cybernetics, has been an area of increasing scientific interest," the researchers wrote in the article which appears in the scholarly journal Nano Letters. "This field has the potential to generate customized replacement parts for the human body, or even create organs containing capabilities beyond what human biology ordinarily provides."
Standard tissue engineering involves seeding types of cells, such as those that form ear cartilage, onto a scaffold of a polymer material called a hydrogel. However, the researchers said that this technique has problems replicating complicated three dimensional biological structures. Ear reconstruction "remains one of the most difficult problems in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery," they wrote.
To solve the problem, the team turned to a manufacturing approach called 3D printing. These printers use computer-assisted design to conceive of objects as arrays of thin slices. The printer then deposits layers of a variety of materials -- ranging from plastic to cells -- to build up a finished product. Proponents say additive manufacturing promises to revolutionize home industries by allowing small teams or individuals to create work that could previously only be done by factories.
Creating organs using 3D printers is a recent advance; several groups have reported using the technology for this purpose in the past few months. But this is the first time that researchers have demonstrated that 3D printing is a convenient strategy to interweave tissue with electronics.
The technique allowed the researchers to combine the antenna electronics with tissue within the highly complex topology of a human ear. The researchers used an ordinary 3D printer to combine a matrix of hydrogel and calf cells with silver nanoparticles that form an antenna. The calf cells later develop into cartilage.
Manu Mannoor, a graduate student in McAlpine's lab and the paper's lead author, said that additive manufacturing opens new ways to think about the integration of electronics with biological tissue and makes possible the creation of true bionic organs in form and function. He said that it may be possible to integrate sensors into a variety of biological tissues, for example, to monitor stress on a patient's knee meniscus.
David Gracias, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins and co-author on the publication, said that bridging the divide between biology and electronics represents a formidable challenge that needs to be overcome to enable the creation of smart prostheses and implants.
"Biological structures are soft and squishy, composed mostly of water and organic molecules, while conventional electronic devices are hard and dry, composed mainly of metals, semiconductors and inorganic dielectrics," he said. "The differences in physical and chemical properties between these two material classes could not be any more pronounced."
The finished ear consists of a coiled antenna inside a cartilage structure. Two wires lead from the base of the ear and wind around a helical "cochlea" -- the part of the ear that senses sound -- which can connect to electrodes. Although McAlpine cautions that further work and extensive testing would need to be done before the technology could be used on a patient, he said the ear in principle could be used to restore or enhance human hearing. He said electrical signals produced by the ear could be connected to a patient's nerve endings, similar to a hearing aid. The current system receives radio waves, but he said the research team plans to incorporate other materials, such as pressure-sensitive electronic sensors, to enable the ear to register acoustic sounds.
In addition to McAlpine, Verma, Mannoor and Gracias the research team includes: Winston Soboyejo, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton; Karen Malatesta, a faculty fellow in molecular biology at Princeton; Yong Lin Kong, a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton; and Teena James, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins.
The team also included Ziwen Jiang, a high school student at the Peddie School in Hightstown who participated as part of an outreach program for young researchers in McAlpine's lab.
"Ziwen Jiang is one of the most spectacular high school students I have ever seen," McAlpine said. "We would not have been able to complete this project without him, particularly in his skill at mastering CAD designs of the bionic ears."
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- Manu S Mannoor, Ziwen Jiang, Teena James, Yong Lin Kong, Karen A Malatesta, Winston Soboyejo, Naveen Verma, David H Gracias, Michael C. McAlpine. A 3D Printed Bionic Ear. Nano Letters, 2013; : 130501101451003 DOI: 10.1021/nl4007744
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Best of both worlds: Towards a quantum Internet with combined optical and electrical technique
May 1, 2013 ? An Australian team led by researchers at the University of New South Wales has achieved a breakthrough in quantum science that brings the prospect of a network of ultra-powerful quantum computers -- connected via a quantum internet -closer to reality.
The team is the first in the world to have detected the spin, or quantum state, of a single atom using a combined optical and electrical approach.
The study is a collaboration between researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology based at UNSW, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. It is published in the journal Nature.
UNSW's Professor Sven Rogge said the technical feat was achieved with a single atom of erbium -- a rare earth element commonly used in communications -- embedded in silicon.
"We have the best of both worlds with our combination of an electrical and optical system. This is a revolutionary new technique, and people had doubts it was possible. It is the first step towards a global quantum internet," Professor Rogge said.
Quantum computers promise to deliver an exponential increase in processing power over conventional computers by using a single electron or nucleus of an atom as the basic processing unit -- a quantum bit, or qubit.
By performing multiple calculations simultaneously, quantum computers are expected to have applications in economic modelling, fast database searches, modelling of quantum materials and biological molecules and drugs, and encryption and decryption of information.
In a qubit, information is stored in the spin, or magnetic orientation, of the electron or nucleus. Due to a quantum property known as superposition, spin can not only be up or down, but in both states at once. To produce a functioning qubit, scientists must be able to control, or change, the spin state and then detect, or "read" it.
Professor Rogge said researchers had previously used either an electrical or an optical method to read the spin of a single atom, but not both methods together.
Lead author of the study, UNSW's Dr Chunming Yin, said the new approach opens up the possibility of using light to couple the atoms, or qubits, together to form a quantum computer.
"Using light to transfer information in the quantum state is easier than doing it electrically. Ultimately this will lead to quantum communications over long distances," Dr Yin said.
Associate Professor Matthew Sellars, of the Australian National University, said it was a step towards connecting a solid state quantum computer to what will be the quantum internet.
"The quantum internet will allow separate quantum computers to be integrated and it will enable encrypted communications."
Quantum communication systems will become critical for providing secure communications for government, military, defence, finance business and health industries.
To make the new quantum device, Associate Professor Jeffrey McCallum at the University of Melbourne used an ion implanter to shoot erbium atoms into a standard industrial silicon transistor.
When the atom was in a particular quantum state and laser light was shone on it, an electron was knocked off the atom. This was detected electrically, by the silicon transistor switching on.
Professor Rogge said the breakthrough was made possible by combining the expertise of the three groups. The next step would be to control the spin of the erbium atom, which should be relatively straightforward, and also to replicate their results using a phosphorus atom embedded in silicon.
The researchers said it will be at least another decade before the potential of quantum computation is fully realised.
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Depression-era movie star Deanna Durbin dies
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She was a child star with a striking singing voice who retired from the business in her twenties, but Deanna Durbin, whose death at 91 was announced Tuesday, remained a beloved screen actress long after her star had faded.
The Deanna Durbin Society's newsletter announced her death, quoting her son Peter H. David, said the New York Times. He indicated that she died "a few days ago," but provided no other details. He also thanked fans for respecting her privacy.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1921, Durbin was a familiar face to the Depression-era audiences who flocked to movie houses. Signed to MGM at 13, she made her first film alongside Judy Garland in the 1936 short "Every Sunday." The oft-repeated story is that MGM head Louis B. Mayer, away on a trip, instructed his employees to "drop the fat one" from the studio's contract -- and they let Durbin go, but Mayer had meant Garland.
She was picked up at Universal and the subsequent success of her next films, including "Three Smart Girls" (and its two sequels) were credited with keeping the studio aloft. A 1936 nationwide search for the actor who would give her her first screen kiss made news, and Robert Stack was the actor chosen for "First Love."
By 1946 she was the second-highest paid woman in America, just $5,000 behind Bette Davis. At the height of her success she was so internationally-recognized that Anne Frank had her picture on the bedroom in the attic where she and her family lived; the photo still hangs today.
Durbin was often cast in musicals, and had a clear soprano that permitted her to cover a range from pop tunes to opera. Still, when she auditioned for the lead role in Disney's "Snow White," Walt Disney reportedly considered the then 15-year-old as sounding mature for the part. She recorded dozens of songs, including recreations of her movie tunes that were released commercially, and standards including "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "God Bless America."
Unfortunately, she had a harder time adjusting to the light, fluffy roles that had brought her early success; critics weren't happy to see her as a prostitute in 1944's "Christmas Holiday," for example. It also affected her personal relationships, and she divorced her husband of two years, director Vaughn Paul, in 1943. She was married twice more, to producer Felix Jackson and Charles David (director of "Lady on a Train"). Her union with David lasted from 1950 until 1999, when he died.
Durbin made her last film in 1948 ("For the Love of Mary") and retired to a French farmhouse with David, never again dipping her toes into Hollywood waters. She gave almost no interviews, but was quoted in the Times as having said "I hated being in a goldfish bowl."
A letter she sent reporters in 1958 read in part: "I was a typical 13-year-old American girl. The character I was forced into had little or nothing in common with myself -- or with other youth of my generation, for that matter. I could never believe that my contemporaries were my fans. They may have been impressed with my 'success.' But my fans were the parents, many of whom could not cope with their own youngsters. They sort of adopted me as their ?perfect? daughter.?
She added, "I was never happy making pictures. I?ve gained weight. I do my own shopping, bring up my two children and sing an hour every day."
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AOL's Video Hat Trick: A Slate Of Original Content, Be On Creative Studio, And A Deal With FreeWheel + Mediaocean For Multiscreen Ad Buys
Online video is booming, and today AOL (owner of TechCrunch) unveiled three new initiatives that spell out how it plans to tackle it: 15 original, unscripted shows; a new creative studio, Be On, to create branded videos; and a deal with FreeWheel and Mediaocean to add in AOL’s video inventory to its platform, so that media buyers looking for multiscreen investments across TV and online video can include AOL in the mix. The news was unveiled at the company’s 2013 Digital Content NewFront event, the upfront event where AOL presents its strategy for the year ahead to key advertisers and agencies. The slate of content is not AOL’s move into Netflix-style dramas (for now, at least). Instead, it plays on the network of sites that AOL already owns in the news and information space, which also includes other tech sites like Engadget as well as the Huffington Post. Up to now the AOL On network, the video network that AOL launched last year to span all of those sites and more (the videos go to YouTube and elsewhere) has been going pretty strong, with some 8 billion views in 2012. “We think we’ve reached the point at which it makes sense to produce more, to give us a more distinct voice,” Tal Simantov, GM of AOL On said. The list of shows includes “Fatherhood,” centered around Hank Azaria and his experiences as a first-time father; and “City.Ballet”, produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, covering the cut-throat world of the New York City Ballet. Simantov wouldn’t say how much AOL is investing in this but says that it will be in the “double-digits, an interesting number.” One reason that AOL is spinning out more content is because of a growing audience for the material, but it is also looking to sell significantly more ads against it. Part of that will be coming from the new Be On studio — this is the company’s branded content business, a creative studio that will partner with advertisers and agencies to produce branded content that combines its goViral acquisition with video distribution across AOL’s own network of sites plus third-party sites like YouTube, and AOL Studios production. The offering includes production, distribution, and analytics to measure how they perform. The move for content companies to move further into video ad production, leveraging their reputation with other content, is part of a wider trend — just yesterday,Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rPQk0CEaWW8/
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FDA May Approve Drugs to Counteract Nuclear Radiation
With the current state of things, it's nearly impossible to turn on the news without hearing some passing reference to chemical or nuclear warfare. And while we have at least some countermeasures ready to minimize damages from the former, it's the nuclear part that leaves us biologically defenseless.
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