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Chrome for Android just turned 28! Version 28, which today moved out of beta to the stable channel, includes a pair of notable additions, along with the typical variety of bug fixes and performance improvements. The first new feature is Google Translate integration. When you come across a website in a foreign language, the browser will offer to translate the text into your language. Additionally, tablet users are now able to take advantage of the fullscreen mode already available on smartphones. After updating to 28, you should be able to scroll down the page and see the toolbar disappear. Finally, there’s a new interface option for right-to-left languages, which include Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. Snag the update at the source link below.

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In the world’s oceans, human divers are as mobile as a fish out of water. So, what, you think you’re going to fend off an inquisitive shark or lascivious dolphin while holding a GoPro? Not likely, but that’s where the Octomask comes in. Now anybody can be a modern Jacques Cousteau and keep their hands free for defending themselves under the sea.

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From the Onion: "Facebook: ‘We Will Make Our Product Worse, You Will Be Upset, And Then You Will Live With It’" Is it even satire if everyone’s pretty sure that someone at Menlo Park actually said that at some point?

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We all could use a little nip of booze now and then. Life is stressful. But you want to drink stealthily. That means hiding your flask so it doesn’t look like you are drinking. This awesome Nerdtendo Gamebooze should do the trick.

No one will think it the slightest bit odd that you are tipping that Game Boy to your mouth and drinking from it.

The Gamebooze flask is made by Etsy user Athenaswink who says “This is a high quality stainless steel flask wrapped in high quality vinyl with super-strong adhesive that attaches all the way around the flask.” In other words, it’s a flask with a sticker on it.

Booze and the Nintendo Game Boy is a winning combination that leaves you uncoordinated enough to never beat a game.

[via 8bitfuture via Obvious Winner]

An illustration of data being recorded to the five-dimensional optical storage medium.

(Credit: University of Southampton)

In the future, we might be able to save our history to a glass storage medium that could potentially outlive humankind. The new type of memory also touts mind-blowing specifications, such as 360TB per disc data capacity and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures up to 1,832 Fahrenheit.

By harnessing the power of a speedy femtosecond laser, researchers successfully wrote and read 300KB of data to an everlasting medium that consists of self-assembled nanostructures within fused quartz. Think of it as a real-life version of the memory crystals seen in the old “Superman” movies.

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