Month: April 2013

Android Mobile SmartPhone

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: The S Stands For Super, Not Simple

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK The Galaxy S4 has an easy mode, and more importantly, the Galaxy S4 needs an easy mode. This necessity is a double-edged sword. It means that the technology built into Samsung’s latest generation smartphone does things you’ve never seen before, and maybe couldn’t even imagine. However, really using that technology isn’t as simple as you might think, and could be downright overwhelming to a novice smartphone user. This is the theme I kept…

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Apple Business

With Earnings Around The Corner, Apple’s Growth Prospects Are Gloomy

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ROMAIN DILLET Conventional wisdom has it that Apple has reached its peak and can only disappoint from now on. Yet, many financial facts don’t make sense. The market is too harsh with Apple compared to its competitors. But when it comes to products, there is an unsettling detail: there was no product release during fiscal Q2 2013. While Apple is certainly not doomed, its future looks gloomy. That’s why today’s earnings…

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Hardware Dev Photography

Panasonic’s 16-megapixel Lumix G6 unveiled with 7fps burst, NFC, WiFi

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Den Panasonic has just announced a new mid-range Micro Four Thirds camera, the Lumix G6, that brings a solid list of specs for a mid-range camera. The 16-megapixel shooter can fire at a respectable 7fps in burst mode, has a top sensitivity of ISO 25,600 and like the recently launched Lumix GF6, has WiFi and NFC for device syncing. It also sports a 1,440K-dot OLED LVF, 0.5 second startup time, 3-inch, 1,036K-dot touchscreen…

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Application

BBC iPlayer radio app finally starts broadcasting on Android and Kindle devices (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith While the iPhone didn’t even have a built-in FM radio to replace, Android hardware from all the major players has started to forgo the radio tuner in the last few years. Fortunately, Beeb listeners (at least) can finally access the iPlayer radio app, which has made the leap across from iOS. Not only will you be able to install it on your Android smartphone, but also Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet…

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Hardware Dev

AMD details $999 Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, says it handles all top games at 4K

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr We’ve seen plenty of the Radeon HD 7990 in action with Battlefield 4, but it’s taken AMD a little while to furnish us with full specs and pricing. Now that all the info is here, in the run-up to commercial availability in two week’s time, it’s finally possible to judge the pros and cons of what is arguably a very niche product. Read on past the break and we’ll do…

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Art Automotive

50 Years of Inspired Insanity From Lamborghini

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC   The first Lamborghini was not a low-slung, overpowered sports car that looked like sex on wheels. It was a tractor, and a damn fine one at that. The man who built it, Ferruccio Lamborghini, was a perpetual malcontent who was never quite happy with anything, including the fleet of Ferraris he amassed as his wealth grew. He considered them loud and unrefined, brutish racecars haphazardly adapted for the…

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Science Space

Forever alone? How NASA’s Kepler craft is finding another Earth

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen Discovery of new planets in habitable zones is most promising yet in four-year quest Late last week, NASA announced that scientists using its Kepler space observatory had discovered two new planetary systems thousands of light years away from our own. Within these, seven new planets were found, and three of them are located in the sweet spot around their stars that makes it not too hot, nor too cold, for liquid water…

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Education Science

3 Awesome And Inspiring Inventions From The White House Science Fair

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Some of the nation’s young brainiacs were honored today at the annual White House Science Fair. Every spring, the White House invites children to show off life-changing innovations that have mostly been constructed in MacGyver-like fashion from commercially available materials. Even though I cover this story every year, it’s hard not to be inspired by brilliant young kids motivated to tackle the world’s problems. “Let me just say in my official…

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Android Application Google

Google Now Could Arrive On The Web, Making The Timely Assistant Truly Cross-Platform

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Now is one of the best things to happen to Android in a while, and now new code discovered in a sample page taken from Google itself suggests it could arrive on the desktop, not just via Chrome but through the Google homepage itself. Code snippets includeprovisions for letting a user set their home and work location, “Discover Google now” and change their current location, all in support of…

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You’ve Got The Whole World In Your Hands As Leap Motion Gains Google Earth Support

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Leap Motion’s gesture-based controller launch is less than a month away, but so far we’ve heard relatively little about app support, besides the fact that the company is working hard on filling out its Airspace app store. Now, Leap Motion and Google are announcing support for Google Earth for Leap Motion tech, which will be built-in to the desktop Google Earth app for Windows, Mac and Linux as of version…

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