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Tech NewsGoogle Has Its Own Fleet of Airplanes to Map the World in 3D
Talking about what goes into its improved 3D maps, Google casually mentioned today that it uses a fleet of airplanes to repeatedly fly over cities, shooting photos at 45-degrees and from directly overhead. That’s cool tech, and all, but, like, Google has its own damn fleet of airplanes. The data from the planes is combined … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Has Adorably Goofy 360-Degree StreetView Backpack Cameras Now (Updated)
So on top of its fleet of world-roaming StreetView cars, Google’s now got 360-degree backpack cameras to take in the world. And now you want one, too. The packs aren’t the most inconspicuous of cameras—sorta like a Ghostbuster fighting a giant green ladybug—so they’ll probably get pranked and mugged-for pretty hard. But who cares! Giant … Continued
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Dell Says iPad Is Too “Shiny” for Businesses
Did know that it can take four days to fix a software hiccup on an iPad? And that you probably shouldn’t use one for work, because it’s shiny and your IT department can’t handle all the iPads it has to fix? No? Then you haven’t been talking to Dell Australia managing director Joe Kremer. While … Continued
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Tech NewsIntel’s Going to Make Your Laptop Charge Your Phone Wirelessly
Charging your phone sucks. But if all you had to do was set it down next to your laptop, which you probably do anyway, well, that wouldn’t be so bad. That’s Intel’s idea for inductive charging, which it’s showing off at Computex. The setup would stick a charging attachment to your phone—though eventually it would … Continued
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HTC One X Available Online Now and in Stores June 10 for $200
It’s been a long strange trip, with a delay at the docks over a patent scuffle with Apple, but the HTC One X is finally up for sale. It’s $200 on contract from AT&T, and available online now, and will be in stores on Sunday June 10, well before the June 21 date set for … Continued
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Windows Phone Has 100,000 Apps Now. Is That Impressive or Embarrassing?
Windows Phone just passed the 100,000 app milestone. Which sounds like a lot, until you think about it and then it sounds like a very small amount indeed. So which is it? Well, iOS has almost 600,000, while the Google Play store has 500,000. Windows Phone took 20 months to get to 100,000, while iOS … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Reflection 1
So it was raining heavily for the last few days and I went out in search of puddles on the street to reflect something of from. The reflections always came out blurry because rain was falling on the water all the time. The solution of this problem – shoot under a bridge, which is what … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Reflection 2
Funny story behind this picture… I was at Technical Crew (essentially the stage technicians for my school), and the Tech. Director runs in asking for someone with a camera to go outside. We all assumed there had been a car accident or something hilarious had happened, so we run outside to see what he was … Continued
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Nintendo’s Wii U Will Have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and YouTube
Nintendo just announced at E3 that the Wii U would have Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube as content partners. It has a long way to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 as a content hub, but that’s a pretty nice start. [Kotaku]
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 Battle Is Everyone’s War
This week at Computex, PC manufacturers are outing hybrid devices of every stripe. They’re fun, goofy, slightly-to-moderately confusing little gadgets, but they’re also a reminder that Microsoft isn’t going it alone in its massive gamble on Windows 8. Everyone’s along for the ride. No one denies that Windows 8 has a wonderful touch interface. We’ve … Continued
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Tech NewsIf We Ever Become Superhuman Cyborgs, This Is How It’ll Happen
Neural implants and biologically altered humans are the stuff of science fiction, but we’re teetering on the precipice of the promise of what lies just beyond our current scientific prowess. What’s going to happen when we make the first inroads to improving human function and intelligence through technological implants? When we’re all bionic men? Daniel … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Guy Drive a F*CKING TANK Through a White Castle Drive-Thru
We love FPSRussia, faux-Russian arms aficionado. We’ve seen him taze his fans, blow up trees with .50 caliber guns, and drive an APC through a McDonald’s drive-thru. But this time he’s got a real damn WWII tank, and he’s itching for White Castle. Beyond that, there’s the usual bombardment of fruits—watermelons this time—and the total … Continued
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Toshiba Satellite U845W Hands On: Super-Wide Mutant Ultrabook for Movie-Lovers and Multitaskers
If nothing else, Toshiba seems determined to not be lumped in with the MacBook clones and iPad ripoffs. Its new Satellite U845W falls in line with its other recent holy crap why does it look like that gear. Which is a good thing! To a point. The first thing you notice about the U845W, aside … Continued
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Tech NewsRIP Mr. Trolololol
Eduard Khil, better known to the internet as Mr. Trolololol, died. It’s tragic, to be sure, and you’ll surely see a ton of explanations of the man behind the meme around the web today. But not here. It would be disingenuous. We know of and care about him because of this wonderful soundtrack to screwing … Continued
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The First Issue Ever of Wired Is Available on the iPad Now
Seminal tech nerd magazine Wired was one of the first to jump onto the iPad magazine train. You probably subscribed anyway, but the iPad version is pretty great. Now the very first issue, from back in January 1993, is available for free on the iPad. The highlight is probably a 12,000-word oral history of the … Continued
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Google Is Buying Meebo (Updated)
Meebo, onetime mobile chat king and current internet uglifier, has agreed to be acquired by Google. Details are sparse right now, but the purchase would make sense if Google’s after Meebo as an ad platform. Another possibility? Meebo’s bottom bar would be a logical social and traffic information gatherer to pair with Google+. As for … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Happens When You Set Off Every Car Alarm in a Parking Lot at Once?
What would you do if you were in some random parking lot—Lowe’s, let’s say—and all of a sudden dozens of car alarms started going off at once? Would you shrug it off like the dead-to-everything city dweller you are? Maybe duck and run and wet yourself because Galactus is obviously coming to devour our planet? … Continued
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Tech NewsThrowing Knife-Shooting Slingshot Massacre
Joerg Sprave’s latest slingshot takes a very simple concept and makes it wonderfully fun and dangerous: What do you throw that you’d rather fire out of a high-powered homemade slingshot? Throwing knives! But there’s so much potential for more. What else? Baseballs, bowling balls, molotov cocktails, lawn darts, horseshoes, boomerangs, acid, dem ‘bows, anvils, Wolverine, … Continued
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Samsung Galaxy S III Will Be Out This Month for $200 (Updated)
The Samsung Galaxy S III, third of its name and new king of Android phones, will be out in the US this month on all four major carriers (plus US Cellular). It’ll start at $200 for the 16GB version, and scale up from there. The 4.8-inch Galaxy S III arrives a bit after the HTC … Continued
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Instapaper Is Finally on Android
Android’s getting all the pretty toys lately. A few weeks after finally getting in on Instagram, Android finally has its own official Instapaper client. It’s available for $3 in the Google Play store, and looks a whole lot like the iOS version, though your purchase doesnt seem to carry over if you own the app … Continued
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