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Watch the Gymnast Bot Land a Quadruple Backflip
We’ve seen this bot before. Just this past March, we witnessed it stick a near impossible landing. And now it’s stuck a quadruple backflip, which by all accounts appears to be it sixteenth feat of heroism. What can’t this little guy do? Nothing. Imagine crossing this with ATLAS. *shudder* Not that gymnast bot could even … Continued
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Report: Apple’s TV Service Would Pay Networks When You Skip Ads
According to a report by former WSJ reporter Jessica Lessin, Apple’s long-rumored stand-alone TV service will supposedly allow viewers to skip over commercials. While commercial skipping has been available as a feature from the likes of Dish Network, networks have gone after and often crushed services into bankruptcy or caused them to retract said feature. … Continued
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What Did You Think of Pacific Rim?
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim opened over the weekend and it did not disappoint. While the monsters versus robots flick didn’t top the box office, it was all any nerd could talk about. What more could you really ask for from a movie of this ilk? I can’t think of anything else I would have … Continued
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Apple Maps Are Getting Slightly Less Crappy in iOS 7
While the cross-platform integration of Apple’s Maps was announced at WWDC earlier this summer, the latest beta build of iOS 7 shows one key change to the mobile version that makes it suck just a little bit less than before. But only slightly. As noticed by an AppleInsider reader, the most notable change is a … Continued
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Sprint Is Now Basically Offering Unlimited Everything Forever
In the hopes of gaining a smidge more market share in the US, Sprint has just announced that it will offer what amounts to unlimited everything (text, data, voice) for the life of service on any line. The Sprint Unlimited Guarantee is described thusly: The Sprint Unlimited Guarantee guarantees customers unlimited talk (calls to any … Continued
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Why Doesn’t [BLANK] Have an App?
It’s 2013. Apple’s App Store just turned 5 and Google Play (aka Android Market) is also turning five this October. And for better or worse, we’re all chained to our mobile devices. The internet is literally at our fingertips! But not every company or service has jumped on the app bandwagon. Off the top of … Continued
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Twitter Just Fixed the Most Annoying Thing About Twitter
So what’s the most annoying thing about using Twitter across multiple devices? I don’t know, maybe it’s the fact that direct messages don’t sync. Well, Twitter is finally addressing that annoyance today by adding in DM sync. Finally! The update is being pushed out to seven different platforms: Android, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, TweetDeck and … Continued
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NASA Puts Its ‘Galaxy Hunter’ Out To Pasture
At 15:09 ET today, NASA sent a signal to decommission the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after ten years of tireless work shooting the galaxy in lower Earth orbit. NASA says GALEX will float around for another 65 years before it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially self-destructs. It appears as though funding issues are behind … Continued
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Netflix Max: A New Recommendation Engine That Talks Back
Well, this is out of left field. Today Netflix is rolling out a new recommendation system for PlayStation 3 owners called Max. He’ll help “you find something great to watch in a fun, conversational way.” So, PlayStation 3 owners will receive suggestions from Max in one of three (maybe four) ways. The first of which … Continued
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What iOS 7 Bugs Have You Noticed?
This past week, Apple released beta 2 of iOS 7. Now, it’s never fair to nitpick anything that’s still in beta, so we’re not going to do that. But we are going to have a lively discussion of any and every bug we’ve collectively found in iOS 7 thus far. I’ll start with one that … Continued
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Report: Facebook’s Testing a New Group Chat Feature
Hoping to compete against Apple’s iMessages, Google’s Hangouts and apps like WhatsApp, Facebook is reportedly testing a new chat room feature that would allow for hosted group chats on the web. According to TechCrunch, the new feature called Host Chat may be launched directly from the status bar, where you currently update your status or … Continued
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Imgur Now Has a Meme Generator
The internet’s (aka Reddit’s) favorite online image hosting service now has a built-in meme generator. This is the greatest thing to ever happen to Imgur or the worst. Either way, the workflow is fairly straightforward and even the dopiest of luddites can make their own memes now. Great. Grand. Wonderful! Not everyone is happy about … Continued
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KeyMe: Store Your Keys In the Cloud, Never Get Locked Out Again
Whether you’ve got to deal with a crotchety landlord or a dopey locksmith, we can all agree that replacing lost or stolen keys can be a drag. KeyMe, a new service launched this week in New York, seems to have found a solution by storing your keys in the cloud and making them accessible via … Continued
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Google Now is getting two new cards today: Offers and TV. Offers will notify you when you’re near a store that you’ve saved an offer for, while the latter works like Shazam but for IMDB-like content. You’d think it would tell you when shows are on, but it doesn’t. Oh well. [Google]
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Poncho: The Best Weather Service You’ve Never Heard Of
The weather. It’s all anyone talks about these days. But there’s never been one single service that gets it right, or even bothers to tell you what you actually need to know. Well, Betaworks’ Poncho, a new weather service, might have just figured it all out—with a simple text message in the morning. With constant … Continued
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Square Market: An Online Market For All Your Artisanal Needs
Having already convinced small businesses and folks to use their phone to buy and sell goods, today Square is announcing Square Market, an online marketplace to, well, buy and sell goods. Now, local artisanal purveyors who might already use Square Register can go from selling locally to slinging goods anywhere without the overhead cost of … Continued
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