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Entertainment

‘Breaking Bad’ finale song sees 9,000 percent surge in Spotify streaming

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford This article contains very minor spoilers for Breaking Bad. As if you needed any more confirmation of the grip Breaking Bad held on pop culture right up to its finale. Spotify tells Business Insider that global streams of Badfinger’s song “Baby Blue,” which was featured in the show’s climactic episode, rose by 9000 percent after the credits rolled — as illustrated by the following chart. Apparently it’s not just streaming fans that want to hear…

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Google

Google Chrome Redesign & New Tab Page Rolls Out To All

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ If you thought you were safe from the Chrome browser redesign and updated “New Tab” page, parts of whichGoogle previously killed off this spring before it hit the Stable channel, think again. Last week, the company said that the new look was going to be rolled out to Chrome stable users (the default download for the general public), and as of today, that staged rollout is beginning to wrap up. In other…

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Application Hardware Dev Mobile

Samsung builds a social networking app around S Pen doodles

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent For those who actually unsheathe the S Pen from their Samsung device from time to time (unlike yours truly), there’s now away to flaunt your stylus-ing prowess in public. The company has just launched PEN.UP, a social networking app dedicated to digital artwork from suitably-equipped Galaxy devices. Like any good sharing app, you can set up a personal feed containing your own sketches, group them thematically and follow and like others. For those who…

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Cloud Hardware Dev

WD announces My Cloud, an external drive that connects to your home network for $150

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Sure, there are plenty of physical storage options out there, but WD’s new My Cloud does a little more than the traditional external hard drives. For starters, and as the name would suggest, My Cloud can connect wirelessly to your own home (or office) network, allowing you to easily transfer files to and from it. What’s more interesting here, however, is that WD’s making it easy to access the plug-and-play device from anywhere —…

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Microsoft

Exclusive video: Steve Ballmer’s intense, tearful goodbye to Microsoft

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As reported on The Verge. By Nilay Pate Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been a speaker and performer like no other — his absolute enthusiasm for his company is electric in person, turning ordinary corporate events into raw displays of emotion that are often criticized but never forgotten. That energy was on full display earlier this week, as Ballmer led his last Microsoft employee meeting as CEO — he’s announced his plan to step down within 12 months,…

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Government

Goodbye, government: shutdown affects science, the environment, and health

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen Hardest-hit agencies are those in charge of forward-thinking projects Congress was unable to pass the funding bill before the deadline, and as of midnight tonight the US government has begun shutting down. The US government is headed for a shutdown as of this writing, after members of Congress were unable to reach a compromise on the federal budget. They have until midnight tonight to pass a new funding bill…

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Business PC

With Weak Back-To-School Sales, The PC Market Is Now Microsoft’s To Save

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Splat. That’s the sound the PC market just made. According to Sterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh, back-to-school computer sales were “virtually absent.” Put in other words: The traditional September bump that students provided to PC OEMs as they headed back to classrooms failed to generate a meaningful sales delta. It’s like missing spring for the larger PC market. The best way to view this news is that consumers are repudiating traditional…

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Application

Dropbox update adds automatic screenshot saving, iPhoto imports

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As reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert It’s not a huge update, but today Dropbox gains the ability to automatically save your computer screenshots. Next time you immortalize that Gchat, your screen-cap will be saved to your Dropbox account and copied to your clipboard as a link for sharing. (You’ll have the ability to opt out of this new feature, should you feel so inclined.) In a nod to Mac users, the cloud storage service is also adding automatic iPhoto…

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Business Internet

AT&T brings 300Mbps fiber internet to Austin in December, gigabit by ‘mid-2014’

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala Now that AT&T is actually laying down fiber-optic line in Austin, we have yet anotherreason to be jealous of Texas’ weird city. According to Ma Bell, “tens of thousands” will be getting 300Mbps downloads (and uploads), the “fastest internet speeds available” in town to the general public, come December. Those subscribers can snag a free upgrade to gigabit service — GigaPower, as the company calls it — when it’s available in the middle…

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Engineering Space Tech

NASA’s tiny glowing plane shows the future of flight in fluorescent oil

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick NASA built a toy-sized model of a hybrid wing plane, coated it in fluorescent oil, and put it in an ultra-fast wind tunnel. Why? Because it’s a federally funded center housing some of the world’s brightest minds, and that’s the kind of thing it gets to do. This image shows a 5.8 percent scale model of one of NASA’s plane prototypes coated with a glow-in-the-dark liquid before being blasted…

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