You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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You missed the gold-plated Galaxy S4 already, but orders are now being taken for the HTC One + bling.
(Credit: Goldgenie)
HTC and Samsung have each been hoping that their HTC One and Galaxy S4 Android flagship phones will become the gold standard for the latest generation of smartphones, but the customizers at Goldgenie are taking the notion quite literally.
The British company has been selling gold- and platinum-plated iOS devices and BlackBerrys for a while now, but it seems to have decided that the HTC One and Galaxy S4 have finally presented a pair of Android phones worth the deluxe bling treatment.
Given the pace of device development and technological obsolescen… [Read more]
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Just a few of the headphones that you can buy for less than $25 (click image to enlarge).
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
Some people just don’t want to spend a lot of money on headphones, and I don’t blame them.
But can you get a decent pair of headphones on a very tight budget?
Sure. And you can even find some models that deliver fairly impressive sound for less than $10.
Click on any image to see our picks.
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Microsoft could pull together its Windows and Windows Phone divisions into a single, unified team as part of the upcoming “major” reorganization, it’s suggested, better emphasizing the connections between the company’s PC and smartphone offerings. Chatter of a significant juggling in Microsoft’s various divisions began earlier this month, with CEO Steve Ballmer said to be
When you’re painting, drips are usually bad. But if you’re clever enough, you can put ’em to good use. That’s what artist Ben Dehaan did with his project "Uncured," by using a print loaded with some ultraviolet cured ink to create face-melting portraits worthy of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Just over a month has passed since CyanogenMod 10.1 went into a release candidate phase, and now it’s getting ready to emerge from its development cocoon as a stable release. The code isn’t available for most gadgets just yet, but it’s set to arrive on the project’s servers sometime tonight. Support for all Tegra 2-infused hardware and some Samsung devices with Exynos chips has been left out of this distro, but a “status report” for those machines is due later in the week. Now that the the Cyanogen Mod team has reached the 10.1 milestone, it’ll focus on monthly releases to bake in other features and functionality. Click the second source link to check if your device’s build has gone stable.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Source: CyanogenMod (1), (2)
A detail from the "biological" section of the Voynich Manuscript, with its mysterious script and illustrations.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
It has stumped code breakers, language experts, and mathematicians. The mysterious medieval book known as the Voynich Manuscript was written in a script that no one can understand and has drawings of plants that don’t exist.
But the latest study of the 15th-century text known as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript” concludes it may contain “a genuine message.”
Statistical analysis of the script by researchers including a University of Manchester physicist shows its overarching semantic structures reflect those that appear in real languages. That suggests it is not a hoax as some have said.
Named after book collector Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912, the manuscript dates to the early 1400s and consists of about 240 pages of vellum.
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Staring at another person’s clothing is generally considered rude—in fact, the mere concept of gaze has its own history and critical literature. But in this particular case, it’s recommended: These two dresses, by Montreal designer Ying Gao, aren’t really complete unless someone is staring at them.
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Especially with the upcoming demise of Google Reader, RSS alternatives abound. But how do you pick the one that’s right for you from all the riff raff? Well, if you’re someone who’s feed tends to stick to the more image oriented, Highly Visual 2.0 may be exactly what you’re looking for—at least in a mobile reader, that is.
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