Day: April 3, 2014

Environmental

Greenpeace praises Apple for its use of renewable energy

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Two years after Greenpeace slammed Apple for using “dirty energy” to power its cloud data, the environmental group has praised the company for its usage of renewable energy in maintaining its datacenters, calling it “the most innovative and most aggressive” firm in Silicon Valley in terms of using clean power. Apple’s datacenters scored 100 percent in Greenpeace’s clean energy index, with none of their energy coming from coal, nuclear, or natural gas…

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Entertainment Film

Scarlett Johansson is a telekinetic superhuman in the trailer for ‘Lucy’

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As reported on The Verge. By Valentina Palladino Even with Captain America: The Winter Soldier hitting theaters, Scarlett Johansson isn’t taking a break. In the movie Lucy, written and directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Luc Besson, Johansson plays a woman working as a drug mule for the mob. But when some of the drugs she’s carrying start to leak into her system, she turns into a “metahuman” with telekinetic powers and the ability to absorb intelligence instantly. The first trailer promises…

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Google Is Reportedly Testing A Snooze Button (And More!) For Gmail

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak   An email comes in. It’s important. Not like, oh-god-drop-everything-or-we’ll-all-die important, but it’s something you should probably answer. But you’ve got stuff to do right now, so you don’t. “I’ll answer this tomorrow,” you tell yourself. By tomorrow, the email has dropped down to the bottom of your inbox, replaced by 100 way less important things. You’d still answer it… if you hadn’t totally forgotten about it. It happens…

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Ridley Scott is working on a Halo project for Microsoft

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY Remember that Halo film that wasn’t happening? Microsoft representatives have confirmedthat the old rumors are true: a Halo feature is in the works, and it’s being produced byRidley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Prometheus, Call of Duty Elite: Friday Night Fights). Unfortunately, the confirmation is intentionally vague, offering no other information save for the project’s director (Battlestar Galactica’s Sergio Mimica-Gezzan) and a promise that it won’t overlap with Spielberg’s TV series. It’s described as a “digital feature…

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Evernote’s Penultimate for iPad now behaves more like a real notebook

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Penultimate is supposed to mimic a notebook on your iPad, so it only makes sense that the app’s interface should mirror the pen-and-paper experience as much as possible. Right? Evernote thinks so, as it has released a Penultimate update that gets closer to the real thing. You can swipe from off-screen to turn pages, and you can set a color for every pen width; effectively, you now have a collection of favorite…

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