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Mobile

Samsung blurs the line between phone and camera (again) with the Galaxy K zoom

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As reported on Engadget. BY CHRIS VELAZCO Last year, Samsung tried something a little kooky: it made a mash-up of a middling smartphone and a solid point-and-shoot camera (you know, the kind smartphones have nearly driven to extinction). The resulting chimaera was called the Galaxy S4 Zoom, and it was… not great. To absolutely no one’s surprise, though, Samsung’s fixation on fusion is still going strong and the company’s trying to crack the code again with a new camera/phone combo called…

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Good luck, Microsoft: Nokia’s phone sales are down 30 percent

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER Nokia, at least in the form that we once knew it, is no more. The handset business has been cleaved off and sold to Microsoft, but that union isn’t beginning on a happy note. In Nokia’s final earnings report as an independent phone manufacturer, the outfit revealed that it isn’t just feature phone sales that are dwindling, but that people are spending less on Asha andLumia handsets too. In fact, the company’s overall…

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Apple’s MacBook Air is now $100 cheaper and has a slightly faster processor

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY Been waiting for a MacBook Air refresh? Breathe easy, friend, because one has arrived — well, sort of. Cupertino has quietly updated its online store with a familiar looking ultraportable, matching last year’s model almost spec for spec: 4GB of RAM, 128 or 256GB of flash storage, a 1,440 x 900 resolution display, Intel HD 5000 graphics and a slim wedge frame with all the trimmings — Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports…

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Art

Monty Python’s final show will be broadcast to theaters around the world

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister On July 20th, the five remaining members of famed comedy group Monty Python will reunite for one last show, and you won’t have to fly to the United Kingdom to watch. Due to popular demand, The Last Night of Monty Python will be streamed live to 1,500 theaters around the world. The performance is expected to include some of the group’s famous sketches, although we’re not yet sure which ones. …

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Photography

Reboot: these stunning still-life photos will take you back to the future

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Jim Golden takes pictures of products, sometimes all by themselves. Other times he assembles incredible collections of everyday objects and antiquated technologies into stunning spreads, like this painstakingly placed array of retro video game systems. Golden’s latest project is called Relics of Technology, and it’s a bit of both. Collecting bits and pieces of obsolete technology like floppy disks and Betamax tapes, he’s assembled some into pleasing patterns like his previous work.…

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iOS App OptimizeMe Encourages You To Make The Most Of Your Day

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Catherine Shu Every Fitness App d Wearable Should Have A Mood Tracker I have so many pastimes that I like to say that my hobby is hobbies. I knit, scrapbook, build miniature dioramas, go on long walks, and take many cat photos that I then spend hours editing in VSCO. Unfortunately, I often let my craft supplies sit idle for weeks while I spend hours surfing the web and adding to my 97 Pinterest boards.…

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Business

Five Hard Things That Great VCs Do

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Mike Driscoll The Screen That Doesn’t Scream Editor’s note: Mike Driscoll is founder and CEO of Metamarkets and partner at Data Collective. In Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things, he recalls a conversation in 1999 where one of his investors asked coldly: “When are you going to get a real CEO? Someone who has designed a large organization, someone who knows great senior executives and brings pre-built customer relationships, someone who knows what they are doing.”…

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Microsoft Security

Serious Internet Explorer flaw puts XP users especially at risk

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As reported on Engadget. BY NICOLE LEE We hope that you heeded our advice to finally ditch Windows XP in favor of a more modern operating system, because there’s a new security exploit that’ll leave stubborn XP users in the cold. In a security alert released on Saturday, Microsoft reports that there’s a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 through 11 that could allow hackers to take over your computer remotely if you happen to visit a malicious…

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Galileo Got Game: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Physics of Basketball

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As reported on Wired. BY AATISH BHATIA In a way, a game like basketball is a physics geek’s delight. It’s a playground where you can apply physics principles to try and get some added insight to the game. You’ve got the interplay of projectile motion and collisions, energy and momentum, and so on. To get you started, here’s a list of five neat pieces of physics that you may not typically think about when watching a game. 1.…

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Apple Business

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘closer than it’s ever been’ to new product category

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Apple is “closer than it’s ever been” to entering into a new product category, company CEO Tim Cook tells The Wall Street Journal. Apple has been regularly promising to enter into a new product category for some time now, with Cook perennially reiterating that it would happen this year. Now, in a conversation with the Journal, he continues to lay out familiar reasons for the time-consuming development process — “you want to…

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