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Apple OS

Apple video gives a close look at OS X Yosemite’s new style

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Apple unveiled a redesigned version of OS X last week, and today it’s releasing a video that gives the closest look you can get at it — at least, without being a developer. The video gives a close up view of the new icons, font, and buttons, and traces across pretty much everything big that’s changing in OS X Yosemite. The video was actually run during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to…

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Science

Scientists discover massive ocean of water 400 miles underground

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As reported on The Verge. By Kwame Opam Researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence for a massive reservoir of water deep within the Earth’s mantle. The reservoir, which is said to be three times the volume of the oceans on the surface, is contained within highly-pressurized rock known as ringwoodite. The scientists hope that their findings, recently published in the journal Science, can shed light on where Earth’s oceans came from. THREE TIMES THE VOLUME OF THE…

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Meet AirDog, An Action Sports Drone For Your GoPro Camera

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Steve O’Hear Meet AirDog, an action sports drone for when a GoPro action camera alone isn’t enough. The problem Latvian startup Helico Aerospace Industries has set out to solve is most homemade action sports videos rely on a camera, such as the GoPro, being strapped on your person or action sports equipment, providing mostly a POV shot only. But, with drone technology, it could be possible to democratise the kind of aerial videos previously…

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France is the first team to benefit from goal-line tech at the World Cup

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  Well, the above image might look pretty straightforward, but when the shot from France’s Karim Benzema bounced off the far post and deflected off the keeper into goal, in the midst of a World Cup match, there was more than a little confusion. The referee asked for clarification through the newly instituted goal-line technology, which initially (and confusingly) ruled ‘No goal’. However, that was for the initial rebound, not when it bounced…

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Culture Hardware Dev

Crowd-control drones reveal the technology’s dark side

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER  The treatment of South African miners has been a troublesome issue ever since black laborers were forced into the mines in 1894. It’s led to a series of bloody strikes andprotests, starting in 1946 and continuing through apartheid right up until today. A new type of crowd suppression drone from a local defense contractor isn’t going to help matters, especially given the fact that the country is in the grip of a 21-week…

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Apple Mobile OS

Hidden iOS 8 split-screen multitasking demoed on video

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes The iPad has only ever been able to show one app on-screen at a time, but that might change in the future. In a beta version of iOS 8, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered that the operating system supports resizing apps so that a single app might only take up three-quarters, one-half, or one-quarter of the screen. In a video, Troughton-Smith shows exactly how it works right now inside of Apple’s desktop…

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Skype 5.0 For iPhone Brings All New Look And Big Performance ImprovementsSkype 5.0 For iPhone Brings All New Look And Big Performance Improvements

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Microsoft’s Skype client for iPhone has been looking a little long in the tooth; the version that has been in the store until today is essentially still the same client they launched back in 2010, albeit replete with incremental updates along the way. Not so with the new Skype version 5.0, which is redesigned from the ground up, with major changes to the interface and navigation, and big improvements to…

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Business Legal

Intel forced to pay record $1.4 billion fine for unfair sales tactics

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT The European Union’s second-highest court has upheld a $1.4 billion fine levied against Intel for anti-competitive practices against chip foe AMD. In the original decision, way back in 2009, the European Commission found that Intel harmed its rival and consumers by giving unlawful rebates to retailers and PC makers like HP, Dell and Lenovo. Intel thenappealed, saying the commission “ignore(d) the reality of a highly competitive microprocessor marketplace.” But the Luxembourg General…

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Google Space

Google reportedly wants in on Virgin Galactic’s space business

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN Fresh from its $500 million acquisition of satellite imaging specialist Skybox, Google appears to be ready to make another space-related investment. Sky News reports that the search giant is in advanced talks to take a minority stake in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic business with a view to getting its internet satellite project off the ground. Google may invest around $30 million into the company, which is set to begin commercial flights to space later this year, forming a…

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Culture Internet

Your survival guide for an internet blackout

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom What do you do when the network goes out? How do you build a network that survives when the rest of the web goes down? It’s a strange question, but one with a surprisingly concrete answer. You can find the networks in Athens, Berlin, and Red Hook, Brooklyn — small-scale traffic webs that let computers connect peer-to-peer without going through the larger web. It’s called a mesh network,…

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