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Handset maker is expected to launch new Android phones on Wednesday at a press event in London. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20016456-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p

Twitter‘s been trending on its own social network this week over a much-hyped announcement… and now it’s been revealed. So what do we have? A relaunch of the Twitter.com, as it turns out. The format seems to follow the two-column style we saw recently in its iPad app, with the left side showing the stream and the right providing all the other content. The biggest addition here is embedded content: depending on the link, it’ll now open in-line in the right column. Sixteen media providers are on board, including YouTube, Vimeo, Ustream, and all popular picture services. The search bar and settings has been given placement at the top of the site in its own header. Rollout begins today to select members, but there’s no current announcement on when everyone will get the new experience. With any luck, it won’t be long. In the meantime, you know the drill… pics below!

Update: … and we’re in! So we’ve spent a few minutes going through the interface, and we have to say, it’s quite sleek. The in-line content makes the experience all the more enjoyable. Conversation threads are vastly improved, but it only shows one reply back at a time — you can go through an entire timeline, but it takes far too many clicks. The best thing about it? Quite snappy. It isn’t perfect, though: it seems the @mentions thread updates much more slowly — that’s particularly irksome, having to refresh for a quicker response. At the risk of sounding vain, the “My Tweets, retweeted” section could benefit from actually showing the number of retweets in the left column — we’d love to know at a glance which of our recent messages were most popular without having to click on each individually. Usual rules apply, no extension to the 140 character limit and no support for multiple accounts. No word on a new fail whale, but not to worry, we’ll let you know as soon as you see it.

We’re not quite ready to give up our dedicated Twitter clients (Tweetie, TweetDeck, and so forth), but it’s definitely up there now as one of the best-designed Twitter interfaces. Really, though: fix the @mention refresh and conversation threads, and we’re sold. Pictures below.

Twitter unveils new website with picture and video content embedded on site (update: hands-on!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After a brief hiatus, the Cravers are back on task and in full form. We couldn’t resist starting off the episode with a little love for the MP3 Insider of yesteryear; new iPods are the hot topic this time around, and Jasmine has some very strong feelings about one of them. Also this week, military backpacks are looking heavier and heavier these days, an HDR video demonstration freaks us out, and a telepresence robot is a bit too douchey for Eric’s liking. Plus, it turns out that manta rays have kleptomaniac tendencies and Mario’s pretty pissed about turning 25. And it wouldn’t be a show without some man-meat to cap it all off.

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We’ve theoretically had nearly all of these numbers confirmed piece by piece, but there’s something eerily comforting about HTC tossing it all together on a single page for our perusal. As anticipated, the HTC-built T-Mobile G2 will be powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor, and it’ll boast Android 2.2, 4GB of ROM, 512B of RAM, a 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen as well as a five megapixel camera with auto focus and flash. There’s also aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 1300mAh battery, all of which may or may not cause you to drool. Hit the source link if you need to see for yourself.

[Thanks, David]

HTC finally throws T-Mobile G2 up on its site, lays out the final specifications originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20016433-250.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Rafe’s Radar/a/p