OUYA ships early backer consoles, staggers delivery over the weeks ahead

OUYA is true to its word: the company has confirmed to us that it's shipping the first units of its namesake game console to the many, many people who crowdfunded at a tier high enough to set aside a production system. If you've received a tracking notice, you should expect to have the cuboid at your door in five to ten days, depending on just which corner of the world you live in. Don't be surprised if your inbox remains empty for now, however. OUYA notes that it's spreading delivery over the "coming weeks," which by necessity will leave a few of us twiddling our (currently gamepad-free) thumbs.

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Japan's barren tsunami coast 2 years on

Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty?spaces.

In dozens of towns along the country's northeastern Pacific coast, from tiny Ryoishi in the north to Fukushima farther south, where some areas remain off-limits due to radiation fears, the tsunami zone remains a wasteland.

Photo: Junji Kurokawa

Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered...

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a woman offers a prayer in front of a make-shift alter for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan next week, will observe two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a woman offers a prayer in...

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a man inspects a fishing boat which was washed ashore during the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: AP

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a man inspects a fishing boat...

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, new fishing boats with bamboo trees erected as a Shinto ritual, are anchored at a port awaiting departure for fishing in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. The port was heavily damaged and many fishing boats were lost following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japan next week will observe two years from the disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, new fishing boats with bamboo...

This Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo shows an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

This Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo shows an area devastated by the...

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a new fishing boat is anchored at a port behind a net to keep off trespassing as the damaged pier is under reconstruction after the March 11, 2011 tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Preecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a new fishing boat is anchored...

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, portrait of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami survivors are put on the wall in Kesennuma, Muyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan next week, will observe two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, portrait of the March 11,...

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earth quake and tsunami is seen from a higher place in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, an area devastated by the...

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a deserted train station is covered by snow in an area devastated by the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a deserted train station is...

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a make-shift convenience store stands in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a make-shift convenience store...

In this Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 photo, foundations of houses are seen in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 photo, foundations of houses are...

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, loading shovels sort out concrete and steel debris left after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, at a scrapheap in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, loading shovels sort out...

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, a temple gate stands in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, a temple gate stands in an...

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, standing by a signboard reading: "Rikuzentakata City Hall," a worker holds flags to control traffic under cold weather in a street near a new road construction site in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan next week, will observe two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, standing by a signboard...

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, workers repair a main road damaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake near a newly installed domed lettuce green house in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan next week, will observe two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, workers repair a main road...

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a man walks by a disaster control center in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan next week, will observe two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a man walks by a disaster...

In this Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 photo, a March 11, 2011 tsunami survivor Hide Sato, 83, sits in a small room she is allotted for one person at a temporary shelter housing complex in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observes two years from the March 11, 2011 disasters which devastated in the northeastern Pacific coast of the country. Photo: Junji Kurokawa

In this Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 photo, a March 11, 2011 tsunami...

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Apple, Google eye streaming music services

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 1 hr.

Apple and Google are looking into the streaming music business, hoping to expand into the hot new market ? or buy their way in. Apple is reportedly in talks with the Beats headphone makers about a new streaming service, while Google may be considering a paid music channel on YouTube.

iTunes and Google Music already give users access to their music while on the go, but not the same way as the likes of Pandora, Spotify and Rdio. The bigger companies offer music "lockers," where users can upload their songs to play on different devices, or music matching, where a scan of your hard drive tells the company what songs you have the right to hear. But these upstart services provide unlimited access to millions of tracks in return for a flat monthly fee, something more desirable to many listeners.

Streaming isn't yet as popular as more traditional listening methods, like plain iTunes or even the radio, but it's gaining popularity, partly because of how easily it works with smartphones and tablets, with their limited storage space and increasingly robust wireless connections. The tech giants can't afford to be left behind in that market, or lose the chance to snap up a promising new company for a bargain price.

To that end, Apple is reported to have had talks with Beats Electronics, maker of the popular Beats line of audio gear, which is working on a new music-streaming service code-named Daisy. Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine in February, Reuters reports, to talk about Daisy and how Apple might get involved.

Google, for its part, is looking to expand the music presence on YouTube, already huge thanks to deals with artists and labels on the Vevo music platform. Vevo and YouTube serve millions of songs per day via music videos, with Google relying on banners and pre-roll ads to generate revenue. It was reported by Fortune, however, that it may be considering a subscription model.

Such a service would likely allow paying users to skip ads and stream music easily to their devices with fewer restrictions (for instance, letting tracks play in the native music player rather than on YouTube itself).

Who's to say when Apple and Google (and others, like Amazon and Samsung) will actually make their moves? The decision often comes down to economics: The music labels want more, the tech companies want to pay less, and the listeners, well, they generally don't want to pay anything at all.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Solving the 'Cocktail Party Problem': How we can focus on one speaker in noisy crowds

Mar. 6, 2013 ? In the din of a crowded room, paying attention to just one speaker's voice can be challenging. Research in the March 6 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron demonstrates how the brain homes in on one speaker to solve this "Cocktail Party Problem." Researchers discovered that brain waves are shaped so that the brain can selectively track the sound patterns from the speaker of interest and at the same time exclude competing sounds from other speakers. The findings could have important implications for helping individuals with a range of deficits such as those associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and aging.

"In hearing, there is no way to 'close your ear,' so all the sounds in the environment are represented in the brain, at least at the sensory level," explains senior author Dr. Charles Schroeder, of Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry. "While confirming this, we also provide the first clear evidence that there may be brain locations in which there is exclusive representation of an attended speech segment, with ignored conversations apparently filtered out." In this way, when concentrating hard on such an "attended" speaker, one is barely, if at all, aware of ignored speakers.

Using direct recording of brain activity in surgical epilepsy patients, who were listening to natural spoken sentences, Dr. Schroeder and Dr. Elana Zion Golumbic, also of Columbia University, and their colleagues from New York University, University of Maryland, and Hillside-Long Island Jewish found two types of effects. In and near auditory cortex, brain signals reflect both attended and ignored speech, but attended speech generates higher signal amplitudes. However, in regions of the brain involved in "higher-order processing," such as language and attention control, representation of attended speech was clear, while that of ignored speech was not detectable. Remarkably, the selective, higher-order representation is progressively refined as a sentence unfolds.

"Most studies use very simplified, unnatural stimuli to study the Cocktail Party Problem -- like brief beeps, or even brief phrases -- whereas we were able show that with appropriate techniques, we could study this problem using natural speech," says Dr. Schroeder. "This will stimulate future research to continue the study of this and related issues under rich, natural conditions. Just as importantly, the ability to directly analyze widespread brain activity patterns in surgical epilepsy patients provides an unprecedented opportunity to firmly connect the work on the Brain Activity Map at the model systems level in mice, songbirds, and nonhuman primates to the study of capacities like language and music, that may be uniquely human."

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Copyright trolls facing legal sanctions for in-court fraud file ...

Prenda Law is the notorious, scandal-haunted copyright trolling lawfirm that represents various pornography producers, sending extortionate letters to people allegedly detected illegally downloading videos, demanding money to go away ? the alternative being to have your name linked with embarrassing pornography titles in a public record forever.

Prenda made headlines lately for claiming that it was working for a man called Alan Cooper, allegedly the CEO of offshore companies that had hired Prenda to send legal threats on their behalf. Only one problem: Cooper says he has nothing to do with the companies or Prenda. When they were caught in this bit of alleged in-court identity theft, Prenda?s lawyers complained that their judge was being mean to them and tried to get him taken off their case. When this gambit failed, they tried several others ? everything, in fact, except for admitting what seems obvious on its face: they?d misrepresented the facts to the court and stolen Cooper?s identity.

In my opinion, Prenda is a shitshow from stem to stern. From absurd claims like the existence of an adolescent male in a household is proof that illegal porn downloading must be taking place to weird legal theories about BitTorrent users being in conspiracy with one another despite never having met, communicated, and not being aware of one another, every one of Prenda?s actions smacks of utter desperation.

But Prenda?s desperation has reached new depths with its latest gambit: filing three defamation lawsuits each against people who called them out for their bad behavior, including Alan Cooper (the man whose identity was allegedly stolen in Prenda?s court filings) and his lawyer; and, apparently online news sites like Fight Copyright Trolls (who?ve tirelessly chronicled Prenda?s misdeeds), and message-board commenters who expressed shock at the bad behavior on exhibit in Prenda?s deeds.

This desperate move comes mere days before a California hearing on sanctions for Prenda?s counsel. Hilariously, in para 104, the lawyers for Prenda (who have given numerous grandstanding interviews to the national and global press) claim that they are not public figures. They also characterize countless instances of obvious opinion and hyperbole as libelous. And they are clearly fuzzy on the liability for libel on message boards, and the limitations thereof, as set out in the Communications Decency Act.

This feels to me like a last attempt to punish Prenda?s victims for daring to refuse to be victimized, a final shot before the inevitable court sanctions, bankruptcy, and potential jail time. It?s the kind of wickedness that makes it hard to believe in humanity?s essential morality. My goodness, it will be delightful to roast marshmallows over Prenda?s funeral pyre when that glorious day comes.

Copyright trolls Prenda Law, Paul Duffy, and John Steele commence three lawsuits v. Paul Godfread, Alan Cooper and our community

(Thanks, That Anonymous Coward!)

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Musical of 'The Fortress of Solitude' heads to NYC

NEW YORK (AP) ? A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York.

The Public Theater said Monday that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March.

The musical has a book by Itamar Moses and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, who also wrote songs for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." The new musical is conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin.

Lethem's novel tells the story of two boys, one white, one black, both raised by single fathers in 1970s Brooklyn and both of whom become endowed with superpowers.

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