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Intel Says Haswell Will Extend Laptop Battery Life by 50 Percent
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 percent. Read more… … Read entire article »
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It Sure Looks Beautiful Inside the Ring Nebula
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. Read more… … Read entire article »
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Speaking last night, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin explained that Digg’s Reader won’t be a standalone a
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
Speaking last night, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin explained that Digg’s Reader won’t be a standalone app, and will allow you to sort and rank content, unlike a normal RSS reader. Read more… … Read entire article »
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Google is apparently facing a fresh antitrust probe from the Federal Trade Commission to find out if
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
Google is apparently facing a fresh antitrust probe from the Federal Trade Commission to find out if it’s been abusing its dominance in display-advertising to illegally curb competition. Naughty. Read more… … Read entire article »
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What Life on Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i’s, we yell. And it’s warranted! Seeing things that don’t belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is fun. So could you imagine if one day Earth developed rings like Saturn? It would be insane. Read more… … Read entire article »
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Planet Online
May 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment
Between ads for action figures, micromachines, and sugar-laden cereals, there used to be a time when Saturday morning commercials were just as riveting as the cartoons they interrupted—especially for gullible 8-year-olds. And though the ads themselves no longer deliver that overwhelming sense of excitement and grandeur, Neosignal‘s newest track adopts the same flashy, hyperactive style but with a modern twist. Read more… … Read entire article »
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Is HTC Coming Out with a HTC One that Runs Stock Android?
May 23rd, 2013 | Add a Comment
Please be true, please be true, please be true. After Google announced that it would be selling a pure Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Google Play, the entire world screamed joys of Hallelujah Halle Berry. An awesome phone running completely stock Android has always been the dream. Now, HTC might be making real life better than any dream by making the HTC One pure Android too. Read more… … Read entire article »
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This Is What Each Season Looks Like in a Million Pixels
May 23rd, 2013 | Add a Comment
If you think you’re looking at color palettes of different shades of brownish gray, you’re not exactly wrong. I’m sure people would love to paint their bathroom Roman Rotunda Slate or some made up name like that. But it’s not that simple. You’re actually looking at the seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter—and you just don’t know it. Read more… … Read entire article »
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Pandora’s 40-hour listening cap translates to a record 700K new paid subscribers
May 23rd, 2013 | Add a Comment
Pandora took some heat after placing a 40-hour listening cap on its power users back in February, but the move seems to have created some positive results. During Pandora’s fiscal year 2014 Q1 earnings report, the company revealed that it added over 700,000 new subscribers to its paid Pandora One service. The company now has 2.5 million paid subscribers total, and the increase for the quarter is more than it added during the entire previous year. Pandora attributes the subscriber growth largely both the listening hour cap and Android enabling in-app purchasing of Pandora One on mobile devices. The subscription growth is interesting because it seemed like the listening cap, which was put in place to help Pandora control its content licensing costs, would sent some of its users into the arms of … Read entire article »
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Apparently, Google wants to start a bidding war with Facebook over who gets to buy Waze.
May 23rd, 2013 | Add a Comment
Apparently, Google wants to start a bidding war with Facebook over who gets to buy Waze. That sounds like a lot of fun, actually. Who’s got more billions? [Bloomberg] Read more… … Read entire article »
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