Jul 02
Google’s about to invest a staggering amount of money in building a new UK head office, with the company applying to create an enormous, 11-storey HQ in the renovated King’s Cross area of London.
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Jul 02
Apple is working on a new, huge solar panel farm to power its Reno data center, aiming to pump out up to 20 megawatts of energy with a complex magnifying system that will boost the natural power of the sun by up to seven times. The solar farm, which Apple will build in partnership with
Jul 02
Sony camera UI leaks from ‘Honami’ system dump, gets ported to existing Xperia devices
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We’ve been hearing stacks of rumors recently about a Sony flagship called Honami, which will supposedly come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 and a 20-megapixel camera. A system dump, purportedly from a Honami phone, surfaced last week and now XDA developer “krabappel2548” has managed to dissect the camera app and get it working on some existing Xperia devices — including the Xperia Z, ZL and Tablet Z, so long as they’ve been suitably prepped for hacking. From the resulting screenshots, it looks like Sony is set to introduce features such as augmented reality, “Time shift” (which sounds a lot like HTC’s Zoe feature), live filters and an image search engine dubbed “Info-eye.” All of this sounds reasonably in tune with the “One Sony” strategy of focusing on mobile and imaging. If Honami is real, and if it comes with the right hardware to support the updated camera module, it could be a big deal.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Sony
Via: XPERIA Blog (1)
Source: XDA Developers
Jul 02
Blood, Sweat, and Gear: How One Guy Retooled His Life With Triathlon Training
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Brett Miller never set out to become a hardcore triathlete who thinks nothing of swimming two miles, then riding 112 and finishing the day with a marathon. He just wanted to lose weight.
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Jul 02
Apple has begun its “Back to School” promotion, offering education users App Store Gift Cards if they buy a new Mac or, new this year, an iPhone or iPad. As with last year’s campaign, picking up a new Mac or MacBook nets those headed off to college $100 in credit to spend on software in
Jul 02
We’ve all been there: finding yourself in a new place—or even one you’ve visited but never lived in—there’s always bound to be the occasional wrong turn. So what tech do you use to make sure you find your way?
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Jul 02
A unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket exploded moments after leaving the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, destroying its payload of three satellites intended for Russia’s Glonass GPS system. Fortunately nobody was injured, but local news service Interfax is reporting that nearly 500 tons of fuel from the craft has contaminated the crash site. There’s no word on what caused the disaster, but this model’s recent history is fraught with equipment failures — so if you’d like to see the latest disaster (spoiler: explosions), the video resides after the jump.
Via: The Verge
Jul 02
Windows Phone 8 could soon officially support 1080p displays if new support in the official Microsoft emulator for the Full HD resolution is any indication, increasing the competitiveness for high-end devices running the OS against Android. The support, spotted by developer Justin Angel buried in the Windows Phone 8 Visual Studio 8 emulator beta, is
Jul 02
Apple’s just launched its Back to School promotion, which will get people in education a $100 App Store gift card when they purchase a Mac or $50 with an iPad or iPhone.
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Jul 02
Google has denied the need to modify its privacy policy to accommodate Glass, leaving a US government privacy panel frustrated and feeling the search giant left questions “not adequately answered” in its response. The Google letter, a four page document sent to the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus on June 7, came after the committee demanded
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