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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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Three Simple Tricks to Make Your Chromebook More Like a Real Laptop

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As reported on Wired. BY PRANAV DIXIT Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED I’ve been on the fence about Chromebooks for a long time. Their speed, simplicity, and ease of use makes them extremely tempting. And yet, it’s hard to shake off the nagging feeling that you’re using a browser attached to a keyboard. You never know when you’re going to run up against a wall and have to pull out a “real” laptop to get something done. And…

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These grotesque 19th-century animations will hypnotize you

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris 19th-century animation is trippy. For years enthusiasts have been transforming the artworks created for early animation devices like the zoetrope and phenakistascope into grotesque yet wonderful GIFs, and it was only a matter of time before these revived animations were repurposed elsewhere. Film-making duo The Brothers Lynch dug up a number of animations from Victorian-era phenakistoscope discs, blending them together to create a music video for the Carly Paradis…

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Tesla Pays Telefonica Millions To Power In-Car Wireless In UK, Germany, Spain, Holland

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden Those with a sharp eye who visited the Geneva motor show or who own a Model S in Europe may have already noticed a connection between Telefonica and Tesla by way of the “car connected by Telefonica” signs on the sides of cars, or through the in-car navigation system that played Spanish ads. Now the two are making it official: Telefonica says that it will be providing the wireless connectivity for Tesla…

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Xbox One SmartGlass beta apps bring TV controls to Android, Windows and Windows Phone

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER Microsoft only just revealed it would test new TV remote features on the Xbox One and its associated SmartGlass apps, and Windows Phone Central points out that right now anyone can give them a try. All you need is one of the game systems and a device running Android, Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8. We tried out the apps and they install right alongside the standard Xbox One Smartglass apps, although there…

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NASA’s game collaboration lets you steer asteroids without leaving home

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Kerbal Space Program is the closest you’ll get to running a space agency. The game lets you build and launch everything from orbital stations to interplanetary explorers, all in the name of collecting scientific data. It’s only fitting, then, that the studio behind the title has teamed up with NASA to release its Asteroid Redirect Mission add-on. The patch gives you both equipment based on the Space Launch System as well as enough giant…

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Microsoft Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier

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As reported TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois After Google’s drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the company todayannounced its own round of massive price cuts. Prices for compute on Microsoft Azure (previously known as Windows Azure) dropped by up to 35 percent and Microsoft cut storage prices by up to 65 percent. With these changes, Microsoft matches all of Amazon’s prices and…

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One Company Betting On Oculus Rift As The Platform For VR HR Training

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington The Oculus Rift and its creator Oculus VR have been purchased by Facebook, and that’s causing some, including Minecraft developer Mojang, to reconsider their projects for the platform. But others are doubling down on their Oculus investment, including Technology Transfer Services (TTS), a company that designs training software for workforce education. This is another story today where I had to check to make sure it wasn’t an early April Fools’ joke,…

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