Live: Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC

Facebook is holding a special event this afternoon at its office in New York City. The event is a little strange, in that Facebook only sent invites out this morning ? which may be because it will feature U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The event will also include Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer. Facebook hasn't given any indication as to what to expect, but I'm guessing it has something to do with expanding its presence in New York, particularly around engineering given Schroepfer's attendance. Its current NYC office has a handful of engineers, but is dominated by employees on the sales side. I'll be updating this post as the event unfolds. You can also watch the event right here Update: Yep, Facebook is indeed opening an engineering-focused office early next year, to be headed by long-time Facebook engineering manager Serkan Piantino. The company isn't saying how many engineers it will be hiring, but that it will take all the top talent it can get. This is major news for both the company and the NYC tech scene. See my live notes from the event below. 2:20 PM EST ? Sandberg has stepped up to the podium to discuss the importance of opening up an office in NYC, and why engineering how been so important to the company.

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Man with jetpack races actual jets (video)

Swiss inventor and pilot Yves Rossy strapped on his strap-on wing suit to fly alongside two L-39C Albatros jets from the Breitling Jet Team.

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New Acer Monitor Converts 2D Content To 3D

Acer introduced a new 27-inch 3D monitor that is capable of converting any 2D content to 3D. The new Acer HR274H features a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and uses Acer's chip-based solution for converting 2D content to 3D. The monitor connects to your 3D-enabled PC, Blu-ray player, game console, cable set top box, or camera via a single HDMI cable...

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East Coast Amtrak Riders: You're Getting Free Wi-Fi [Amtrak]

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No longer confined to the ivory and platinum Acela cars, whisking the aristocracy between debutante balls and peacock hunts, Amtrak's free Wi-Fi is trickling down to the people. Twelve east coast routes—60% of Amtrak traffic—are going wireless. More »

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Eric Fossum lectures Yale students on next-gen range sensors, 3D content shortages

Ready for Kinect-like depth sensing magic in your pocket? It might be on the way, according to Eric Fossum, the man behind the CMOS sensor. During an Engineering lecture at Yale, Fossum let it slip that he was working on a new time-of-flight range sensor with Samsung, and said "we're trying to catch up to a lot of people." Pulling up a slide, Fossom described a 2-megapixel color sensor with a time-of-flight sensor inserted inside. "This doesn't even get announced until February," he said. Mentioning Sammy's place in the 3D TV game, Fossum said that there wasn't enough 3D content available to make 3D sets viable, "We have to enable people to be able to make 3D content before we can sell a lot of 3D TVs." Between his lecture slides and befuddling words, Fossum suggested that cell phones equipped with 3D color image sensors could fill this content gap, calling it a "vision." Hold tight to that word, though -- Fossum wasn't exactly crystal clear on what Sammy's going to do with this technology, or what it's going to announce in February. What do we know for sure? We need more 3D programming. Well, that and Samsung is going to announce something next year. Hit the break to hear the man in his own words. You can even pretend you're a Yale student, we won't judge.

Update: Fossum dropped by to give us a statement. "The RGBZ sensor represents the state of the art in research and development," he says, "Technical information about this R&D advancement will be reported in February."

[Thanks, Salem]

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