Day: March 5, 2014

Automotive

Ural Gear-Up Sidecar

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As reported on Wired. by WES SILEREMAIL Unstoppable Soviet Motorcycle Now Comes With Bourgeois Luxuries ADVERTISEMENT 1 / 7  VLADIMIR PAVLENCO     WIRED Old-school, unstoppable off-road capability now paired with modern ease-of-use. Improved stability makes the handling almost safe. Will carry your dog anywhere on the planet you’d like to take him. TIRED Performance is incredibly limited by modern standards. At $16,000, the Gear-Up is solidly in the realm of luxury goods. New, folding shovel…

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Culture

Doc Brown and Tony Hawk show off a real-life hoverboard (or not)

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch Seemingly out of nowhere, a major promotional campaign for a “real” hoverboard known as HUVr has launched online today. It all began with a pair of bizarre video clips featuring testimonials from celebrities including Tony Hawk, Moby, and Back to the Future‘s own Christopher Lloyd. One clip shows Lloyd delivering the HUVr to Hawk, followed by demonstrations that are “completely real” — at least if you believe whoever is…

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Business PC

The PC Market And The 300 Million Mark

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Today IDC predicted that the PC market will contract by 6% in 2014, and will continue to decline at least into 2018. Unit volume according to IDC would slip from 315.1 million units in 2013, to 291.7 in 2018. The figures include traditional PCs — laptops, desktops, and so forth — but exclude Surface devices, Android tablets, and iPads. In short, IDC’s predictions now expect PC sales to fall under the 300…

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Application

Chrome beta for Android lets you send web videos to your Chromecast

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Want to stream any web video from your smartphone to your Chromecast? Grab thebeta release of Chrome 34 for Android. The browser includes experimental supportfor sending embedded clips to Google’s media stick, saving you from launching a native app just to watch something on a TV. As you’d expect, there are some compatibility hiccups at this early stage. YouTube works well (surprise!), but other sites are hit and miss — you’re best…

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Tell Gmail what to do with the latest Dragon Dictate for Mac

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Let’s face it: not everyone uses Nuance’s Dragon Dictate software to power aridiculously automated dorm room, the less creative among us have had to get by using it to take notes or write term papers. No matter what you do with it, however, you might appreciate that the latest Mac version of the app lets you use your mouth instead of your fingers to write emails and navigate your inbox…

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