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Why Commercial Drones Won’t Deliver Tacos Anytime Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois Amazon scored one of the greatest tech PR coups in recent history when it got CBS to put its quadcopter-powered delivery service on air the day before Cyber Monday. Sadly, CBS pretty much ignored that this was a pretty unrealistic proposal for the time being, not in the least because commercial drone flights will remain illegal in the U.S. for the next few years. If journalists aren’t even allowed to…

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Google just made it really easy for strangers to email you

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio You no longer need someone’s email address to send them an email. At least, that will soon be the case if you want to email another Google+ user. A new Gmail “feature” will let you simply type in anyone’s name into Gmail’s “to” field and send them an email. Google announced the new Google+ integration on its Gmail blog today, but company representatives have clarified to The Verge that — by…

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Gametime Aims To Provide The Best Mobile Experience For Last-Minute Sports Ticketing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Anthony Ha Online ticketing services are moving onto mobile, but Brad Griffith, CEO of a startup calledGametime, says the experience still isn’t good enough. For example, Griffith (whose previous startup Zappedy was acquired by Groupon) recalled using the mobile app from “a current leader in the space” to purchase baseball tickets recently, but he didn’t realize until the last minute that he had to print those tickets out. As a result, he and…

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After A Troubled 2013, The PC Market Looks For Stability

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Today Gartner released a preliminary set of results for the global PC market in the fourth quarter of 2013, indicating that PC sales fell 6.9% to 82.6 million units. 2013 has certainly been a historically tough year for PCs and the industry that builds and sells them. Gartner, with its fourth quarter predictions now mostly in place, estimates that the PC market shrank 10% during the year. Total unit volume was 315.9…

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Wearable Google Helpouts streaming camera shares GoPro heritage, we go hands-on (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY ALEXIS SANTOS  Ambarella isn’t exactly a household name, but the 10-year-old company’s silicon has long found its way into GoPro cams and other hardware thanks to its video-compression chops and low-power tech prowess. Word broke last month that Google commissioned the outfit to produce a reference design for a wearable camera that would stream to its Helpouts service, which lets folks ask experts for help over video. Here at CES, the manufacturer’s brought along a…

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Why Cops and Cable Guys Will Be the Pioneers of Wearable Tech

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As reported on Wired BY MARCUS WOHLSEN ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES Delivery Drones Already Exist — And They’re Way Bigger Than Amazon’s Giant Fembots Dance With Dinosaurs in the Weirdest Show on Earth The Next Big Thing You Missed: If the Apple Store Sold Groceries Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the…

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Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt on bringing 4K into your home

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Netflix has been busy here at CES. Over the past few days multiple TV manufacturers have announced partnerships with the company around its latest initiative: 4K streaming. With Ultra HD televisions one of the dominant stories of last year’s show, the fact that Netflix will be providing 4K content in the second quarter of this year has the potential to truly change the landscape. We sat down with…

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AirDroids Wants To Democratize The Skies With Its Pint-Sized Pocket Drone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Chris Velazco The buzz around drones is undeniable these days — as it turns out, even Martha Stewart uses one to survey her farm — but there still hasn’t been a runaway drone hit that has captured that imaginations of the masses. That’s exactly what a hardware startup calledAirDroids is trying to accomplish with the Pocket Drone, a (relatively) inexpensive flying machine that’s meant to give people of all stripes a different…

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Gemini Planet Imager photographs alien worlds in just a minute

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Although it has been possible to take direct photos of exoplanets for a few years, the technology involved has been low-resolution and slow — it can take up to an hour to get a crude shot of a dimly-lit world. It’s much easier with the recently launched Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), though. Scientists have released early images from the Chile-based instrument that took a mere minute to capture, and reveal more detail than…

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Airtame wireless dongle mirrors your computer onto any HDMI display

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAI Here’s yet another option for wirelessly mirroring your computer screen to another display, but don’t worry, this one rather impressive. Airtame, the creation of a group of Danish folks, is an HDMI dongle that links your PC — be it running on Windows, OS X or Linux — to whatever display it’s plugged into over WiFi. Installation is a breeze: all you need on the PC side is just…

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