A report emerged late Tuesday that Google is working on building its own cable TV service. The move would bring Google up from being the owner of a mere streaming video site to competing with telecom giants like Comcast. That means Google would have an entirely new—if related—industry to disrupt and, potentially, dominate. Which leaves one glaring question hanging in the air: Doesn’t Google dominate enough industries already?
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A new update of the Evernote app for Android has been released today. The update brings a host of new features, improvements and various bug fixes and overall performance upgrades. It now comes with support for OfficeSuite, which can be […]
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It appears that the rumored sequel to the Nexus 7 is close at hand, according to internal documents sent to us by an anonymous tipster. Apparently, the new device will be sold in stores alongside the current iteration (at first, at least, though we can’t be certain if this will only be until existing stock runs out). The docs indicate that stores will receive the tablet as early as the 20th, though we wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t see it until the 24th or later, given Google’s product event on that date. This particular model being discussed is the 32GB version, but we’re not certain if it will be available in 16GB as well or if it’s just not going to be offered at this specific outlet. We’ll update you as we learn more about it, but it’s pretty clear that next week’s announcement will be rather significant.
Update: According to a shot of an inventory screen sent in by our tipster, the retail price for the 32GB model is set at $269.99.
Update 2: A tipster sent in photos of the alleged device to Android Central. While we can’t know for sure that this is the exact same tablet that we expect to see next week — it could simply be a prototype, for instance — it at least looks quite feasible. There’s a pair of pictures after the break.
Intel just posted decidedly mixed results for the second quarter. While it largely matched its outlook from the first quarter with $12.8 billion in revenue and a healthy net profit of $2 billion, it also saw sharp year-over-year drops in revenue from some of its core divisions. The PC Client Group, which makes the brunt of Intel’s processors, saw its revenue decline 7.5 percent; the Other Intel Architecture Group, which primarily handles mobile chips, faced a 15 percent drop. Intel hasn’t explained the dip, although there are a pair of major factors at work. In addition to facing a very rough PC market, the company only launched its Haswell architecture late in the quarter — there hasn’t been much time for customers to buy the new chips. Intel says there’s “strong acceptance” from early Haswell customers, however, and its outlook for the current quarter is slightly rosier as a result — it expects to make the same $13.5 billion in revenue that we saw a year ago.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Intel
Source: Intel
I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe that there’s one all-powerful bottle opener that can open anything. Until now.
This Darth Vader bottle opener uses the force (applied by your hand muscles) to open your drinks. Make sure that when you open your bottle you always say “You have failed me for the last time!” and force choke that bottle cap off.
You can pre-order it now from Entertainment Earth for $15.99(USD) and it will be released in January 2014. Best bottle opener ever? At least until they release the Rancor.
[via That’s Nerdalicious]
Florida has its oranges, Georgia has its peaches, and California has its lettuce. These leafy greens are the Golden State’s biggest vegetable crop, bringing in $1.6 billion annually. Problem is, they require a lot of attention to raise properly. Historically, California has relied of its abundant, affordable work force. But with that labor pool shrinking and foreign competition increasing, lettuce farmers in America’s Salad Bowl are facing rising labor costs and worker shortages. And that’s where the fully automated Lettuce Bot comes in.
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Earlier this year BlackBerry announced that it would finally be opening up its BlackBerry Messenger service and releasing relevant apps for both iOS and Android. Back then the company said that BBM would be released on both platforms this summer, […]
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An ultrasonic interrogator is placed under the skull, while independent neural dust sensing nodes are sprinkled throughout the cortex.
(Credit: University of California, Berkeley)
A variety of imaging advancements in recent years is making it possible to study the brain in real time — techniques such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. These methods are giving us insights into the way the brain behaves, but they’re not without shortcomings, ranging from their invasive nature to less-than-stellar image resolution.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are investigating a completely novel approach to studying the brain in real time: smart dust.
That’s right. Dust.
In a paper titled Neural Dust: An Ultrasonic, Low Power Solution for Chronic Brain-Machine Interfaces, the researchers unveiled an approach that surely will have Orwell enthusiasts’ skin crawling. The Berkeley scientists report that by sprinkling tiny electronic sensors the size of dust particles — so-called neural dust — onto the … [Read more]
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It seems like a common sense Muve (sorry, we couldn’t resist), but with this latest service redesign, Cricket’s letting smartphone users store their Muve Music tracks internally. The storage swap isn’t as simple as it sounds and applies only to handsets with more than 4GB of internal storage. For less robust handsets, any SD card will do, which is a break from Cricket’s former practice of requiring a specific Muve-compatible SD card. In addition to getting a UI facelift, Muve Music 4.0 will now also let users play songs as they download, access menu options from a newly added sidebar and discover music through curated mix playlists. In case you want in on this version bump, you’ll need one of a few select Samsung devices offered by Cricket (i.e., GS III, GS4, Galaxy Discover and Admire 2), although the carrier’s planning to preload the service on all future Android devices. Or, if you already have an active Spotify premium account, then there’s nothing to see here, folks. Just keep it Muve-ing (apologies, once again).
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Software, Mobile
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When I was a kid, I played with realistic Tonka trucks that were actually made of pressed steel. Ads showed them being put under a Volkswagen Beetle and an elephant with no damage.
Today’s Tonka Classics re-create the look and feel of those old toys. But that isn’t enough for an obsessed Wisconsin man who’s showing his love for the brand by cruising around in his life-size Tonka truck.
Brad Doane has faithfully re-created a 1969 Tonka Mighty Wrecker tow truck, right down to the mini cab and hand-cranked winch. And he drives it around.
The 40-year-old had every Tonka truck as a kid, but his job at Irvington Garage Towing is the perfect spot for bringing a toy truck to life, so to speak.
When his mother brought home the Mighty … [Read more]
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