Nov 28
This is bad. And gross. And horrible. Why, why the hell would anyone smoke anything out of this alien facehugger bong? More »
Nov 28
Amazon Appstore hits Japan
Posted in: Today's ChiliAmazon’s Appstore has gone live in Japan, giving Japanese users the chance to download Android apps to their smartphones, tablets, and new Kindles. The store will include the same apps as available elsewhere in the world, as well as Japan-specific titles from regional carriers and developers.
As before, the WhisperSync service will mean that apps bought on one device can be downloaded and used on other devices logged into the same Amazon Appstore account. There’s also 1-Click payment support and a Free App of the Day.
Developers, meanwhile, will be able to use Amazon’s GameCircle system, with leaderboards and social gaming support, as well as in-app purchasing. There’s also a subscriptions option for digital magazines and newspapers.
Amazon put the Kindle Fire up for preorder in Japan for the first time back in October, as well as the Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle Paperwhite. It also added a fair sized chunk of Japanese-language content: 50,000 Japanese-language ebooks, plus over 15,000 manga titles.
Amazon Appstore hits Japan is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nov 28
Hardcore Gifts for Sex Addicts
Posted in: Today's Chili
Sex. Hot, naked, sexy sex. While most of us enjoy it, maybe you know someone who enjoys it just a liiittle too much. Maybe it’s all they talk about. It’s certainly all they think about. This year, give your freaky friends what they really want. More »
Nov 28
If you ever watched the 80s flick Harry and the Hendersons, you may wondered if Bigfoot could actually exist. I can’t say one way or another if the mythical Sasquatch is a living creature or nothing more than a figment of the imagination. A group of scientists from claim to have concluded a five-year DNA study that is under peer review and confirmed the existence of Bigfoot.
According to the scientists, they have been able to sequence 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and have used next-generation sequencing to obtain three whole nuclear genomes from samples claimed to be from a Sasquatch. The scientists say that DNA evidence suggests that Bigfoot is a human relative.
The scientists claim that the creature known as Bigfoot came to be approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid crossbreed of modern Homo sapiens and an unknown primate species. The scientists state that data indicates the Sasquatch was the result of males from an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens.
Read more about the scientists’ study in their press release here.
Nov 28
Efforts to put cheap computers in the hands of students have always hit major stumbling blocks. Most notably price. The OLPC project had noble goals, but ultimately ended up well above its target price of $100. The Classmate was more of a “me too” product than anything truly revolutionary. What started as India’s effort to launch a $10 laptop, slowly mutated into a $35 tablet that, even then, struggled in its initial incarnation. What ultimately became known as the Aakash was painfully underpowered and had carried a cost almost double its $35 target. With the second version DataWind is hoping to make good on the promise of an ultra-affordable tablet that can actually be used by students and educators. CEO of the company Suneet Tuli swung by our offices with the Ubuslate 7Ci, the commercial version of the Aakash 2, to give us a chance to put the device through its paces and talk about the transformative power of education.
Gallery: Aakash 2 hands-on
Continue reading Aakash 2 hands-on: the $40 educational slate with revolution on its mind
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Nov 28
Ben Affleck As Entertainer Of The Year: Actor Covers Entertainment Weekly’s New Issue
Posted in: Today's ChiliAnd EW’s Entertainer of the Year is… Ben Affleck!
Having captivated moviegoers both in front of and behind the camera with Argo, Ben Affleck earned the number one spot on our annual list of the most talented and original performers who entertained us in 2
Nov 28
Apple is winning big in Netherlands. According to IDG News Service, the Dutch court has ordered the sales ban of a few Samsung Galaxy devices, because they are infringing a patent owned by Apple that can scroll through a photo gallery using a touchscreen. The ban, according to the Court of The Hague, is only applicable to Samsung Galaxy devices running Android 2.2.1 and above that doesn’t use Samsung’s patented photo gallery software.
Apparently Apple has cleverly patented a scrolling feature that will roll past a zoomed-in image, thereby slightly revealing a portion of the next set of images. The scrolling feature is evident on Samsung’s current line of Galaxy devices, and now the court is ordering the South Korean giant to pay 100,000 euros or $129,000 per day to Apple if the patent infringement will continue. Apple has yet to release an official statement while a Samsung spokesperson told IDG News Service that the company is very disappointed with the ruling of the Dutch court.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apple Reportedly Dumping Samsung In Favor Of TSMC, Skype For iOS Update Brings Microsoft Account Integration,
Nov 28
Back in August, when Google announced improvements to its voice search capabilities on Android and iOS, it released a slick little commercial showing all of the answers iPhone users could now expect its Google search app to return to them with a simple touch of a button and a few vibrations of the old vocal chords:
“Watch out, Siri,” the commercial seemed to subtextually say. “Here comes a voice assistant for the iPhone that will actually understand you and deliver the answers you expect it to!” (Those two functions, of course, being the two main criticisms of Siri, which many users felt overpromised and underdelivered when it was introduced with the iPhone 4S in 2011).
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Nov 28
Fears that lawmakers might soon enact tougher gun-control laws may have triggered a run on guns on Black Friday, according to reports. The FBI says it fielded a record number of background-check requests for gun buyers.
“With the recent election, some people are making buying decisions just in case something [a new law] happens,” Don Gallardo, manager of Shooter’s World in Phoenix, Ariz., told USA Today.
The FBI said it took 154,873 calls on Nov. 23, a marked increase over the agency’s previous record number of calls: 129,166 last year. The bureau was so overwhelmed that a few outages occurred at some call centers, WMBF reports.
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