Month: February 2013

Story Tablet Tech

ASUS video showcases 7-inch MeMo Pad, flaunts what the $150 tablet can do

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Lately, ASUS hasn’t exactly been the best at keeping some of its secrets under wraps, but the company is trying to be as good as it can be about helping potential customers better understand its devices. More specifically, it’s the recently announced 7-inch MeMo Pad, with the Taiwan-based outfit taking to YouTube to release a simple and somewhat informative video on some of the tidbits you can expect out of the Jelly Bean-loaded, budget-friendly tablet. Naturally, ASUS is quick…

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Story Tablet Tech

Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover mini brings tactile typing to the iPad mini for $80

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman It was inevitable that Logitech would expand its Ultrathin iPad keyboard cover lineup to include an offering fit for the iPad mini, and the time has finally arrived. Priced 20 bucks less than it’s full-sized counterpart, the $79.99 Ultrathin Keyboard mini brings tactile typing and some added protection to Apple’s 7.9-inch slate. Like the bigger version, it offers full size keys to please tapping fingers, has an aluminum cover and comes in…

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Culture Games

New 3DMark arrives for Windows, gaming PCs brace for punishment (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas There’s nothing quite so crushing to the self-esteem of a gamer as a new 3DMarkbuild: even a year-old flagship PC can feel like a clunker as it struggles to get a decent frame rate in Futuremark’s visually intensive tests. It’s time to get masochistic once again, as the Windows version of the 2013 3DMark release is at last available. The software’s showcase benchmark is Fire Strike, for brag-worthy rigs with high-endDirectX 11 graphics;…

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Mobile

BlackBerry launches new Dev Alpha C handset with physical keyboard

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent BlackBerry has just launched a new Dev Alpha C program and dev handset at its BlackBerry Jam Europe event in Amsterdam to help coders build apps for BB devices with physical keyboards. It also announced the WebWorks SDK, which will support apps for the recently launched Blackberry Q10 handset. That software kit will let physical keyboards work “just as if (input) came from the virtual keyboard on a BlackBerry Z10,” according to…

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Art

Learn why art matters with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new web series

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster Museums can be overwhelming — often, there’s simply so much to see that it’s hard to properly interact with each piece you come across. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is looking to change that with 82nd and Fifth, a new web series aimed at teaching you why 100 different pieces from the museum matter. In each episode museum curators examine one work — whether it’s an…

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Entertainment

Extended ‘Iron Man 3’ Super Bowl spot shows dramatic airborne rescue

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford Marvel Studios may have locked up a product placement deal for Iron Man 3 with China’s TCL, but that doesn’t mean that the studio is ignoring traditional, all-American promotion. Take the new 30-second Super Bowl spot, for example, where Tony Stark plucks falling passengers out of the sky in the aftermath of an air disaster. The video below is an extended version which mixes the new footage with some that’s been…

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Google

Maybe Those Chromebooks Weren’t Such A Crazy Idea After All

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS When Google launched its Linux-basedChrome OS in early 2010 and its Chromebookpilot program later that year, most pundits didn’t quite agree with our own MG Siegler’s premise that Google had dropped a “nuclear bomb on Microsoft.” A few years later, it sure doesn’t look like Microsoft has much to fear from Chrome OS. But despite its slow start, it looks as if the Chrome OS momentum is slowly picking up. Google has…

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Google

Don’t Mess With The GOOG

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS A couple of years ago I wrote in this space: “A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline.” Well, credit where it’s due. These days Google has put its problems behind it and is soaring from strength to strength. Contenders keep coming and trying to claim its crown–and failing. I give you Apple Maps and Facebook’s Graph Search as an example. I…

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Mobile OS Story Tech

StormFly Wants To Childproof Your Computer With Its Ubuntu-Booting USB Bracelet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO When I was but a wee lad, I hosed my share of family computers simply because I wanted to help out — once I tried to free up space on a 6GB hard drive by deleting anything larger than 1MB. You can imagine how well that played out. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the founders of Barcelona-based Now Computing went through something similar, because they’ve just recently launched a Kickstarter…

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Apple Application Story

Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end of the ad for the new Star Trek movie, which pointed viewers to Appstore.com/StarTrekApp instead of, perhaps, Facebook.com/StarTrekMovie or the movie’s homepage, which is the kind of link that usually gets this prime spot…

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