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Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing. Microsoft had pulled…

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Microsoft’s Upcoming Sculpt Keyboard Is The Coolest Piece Of Hardware From Redmond So Far This Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM I suspect that you spend quite a large percentage of your life typing. Before work over email, on your smartphone during your commute, on your main computer at work, after work trying to find something on Netflix, and so on. It’s part of our daily flow, week in and month out. Given that the thing we touch more than anything else is a set of keys that we must…

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Samsung Hennessy is official: a dual-screen flip-phone with a quad-core CPU

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos While we’d like to feign surprise at Samsung’s official reveal of another dual-screen Android flip phone, yesterday’s leak gave us ample warning. Samsung’s Chinese website has officially outed the Hennessy (W789), and it boasts a pair of 3.3-inch 320×480 touch displays and runs Android 4.1 on a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU. The outer screen is bordered by a trio of capacitive keys, allowing folks to zip through Google’s OS, as per usual. When it…

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Honda intros Project Drive-In to save outdoor movies through digital projectors (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Drive-in theaters outlasted VHS tapes, but they may not survive the transition to digital-only movies — many drive-ins can’t afford the professional digital projectorsthey need to stay in business. Honda wants to give those outdoor venues a second chance through its new Project Drive-In rescue effort. At a minimum, the endeavor will donate digital projectors to five theaters based on web voting; further donations will depend on the results of an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. While…

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Larry Ellison says ‘we already know’ Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister An Apple without Steve Jobs? Larry Ellison dismissed the idea with a wave of his hand. On tomorrow’s episode of CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose asks the Oracle CEO how he thought the computer company would fare without his friend Steve Jobs, and his answer was that history will repeat itself again. “Well, we already know,” Ellison told Rose. “We conducted the experiment. It’s been done,” he continued. “We saw Apple…

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Watch Ashton Kutcher Blow Kids’ Minds With Steve Jobs Quotes In “Smart Is Sexy” Speech

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE “The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!” Ashton Kutcher passionately shouted (yes, shouted) life advice at Nickelodeon viewers as he accepted a Teen Choice Award last night. Most spend award speeches thanking people yet Kutcher seemed hell-bent on enlightening kids with Steve Jobs’ philosophy “Build a life. Don’t live one!” Whether he’s trying or not, and whether…

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Hackermeter Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK If you’re looking to hire a bad-ass programmer, fielding résumés can start to feel like an exercise in futility. They’re good for quickly filtering out folks who are clearly applying to everything — but when everyone in the industry has some crazy made-up senior ninja/rockstar/space cadet title, wheneveryone considers themselves a coder, and when “Proficient with C” can mean two entirely different things based on a person’s ego, that’s about all they’re good for.…

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Apple’s official charger trade-in scheme will cover UK, Canada and Australia

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr When we originally reported on Apple’s replacement program for third-party USB chargers, we only knew for sure that it covered the US and China. As 9to5Mac has spotted, however, the official webpage for the scheme now lists a number of other countries in which Apple will start accepting trade-ins on Friday, August 16th. These include the UK, where an official first-party charger will be reduced to £8 (from £15) when you hand over…

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Elon Musk details Hyperloop: public transit via aluminum pods and electric motors

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman Elon Musk is into transportation, whether it’s an electric car or a spaceship. Today, he detailed a plan to revolutionize a portion of public transit. It’s called the Hyperloop, and it’s meant to get folks from SF to LA (or any two cities less than 900 miles apart) in 30 minutes seated in aluminum pods that are hurtled to and fro at 800 miles an hour in a pair of steel tubes.…

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Matter over mind: scientists begin to observe and manipulate memories

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen New techniques could help with neurological disease, but how far should they go? If we had the technology to rewire our brains to help remember certain things and forget others, it could help millions of people struggling with neurological conditions, from Alzheimer’s to post-traumatic stress disorder. But it also raises the frightening possibility — depicted over and over again in sci-fi — that someone would be able to…

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