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Nestlé in Japan releases unique flavored KitKats seasonally, a tradition that they have been doing for a long time. You can probably find Maccha Kitkat (green tea flavor) outside of Japan. But the variety of the flavors you see here in Japan is a whole different world.

A few months ago, we talked about the fact that Nestlé in Japan makes regional and seasonal KitKats and we heard that news was pretty interesting for those who don’t live in Japan. Today we introduce the 2013 summer flavors – all sold for a limited time only:

– Nestlé KitKat Mini Passion Fruit

– Nestlé KitKat Mini World Assort: an assortment of 2 popular flavors from the past: Orange and Hazelnut

– Also, Nestlé has released 3 products that taste better after putting them in the freezer:

1) Nestlé KitKat Mini Cookies & Cream
2) Nestlé Aero Mini Chocolate Mint
3) Nestlé Crunch Mini Caramel & Vanilla

If you have a chance to visit Japan, get some unique flavored Kitkats. They could be a great and inexpensive Japan “omiyage” (souvenir).

It’ll be a while before MediaTek’s true octa-core SoC makes its glorious arrival, but for the time being, the company’s unveiling something just as interesting — and perhaps more practical. The new MT8135 announced today is a “quad-core” SoC aimed at “the middle- to high-end tier of the tablet OEM market.” We quote “quad-core,” because it actually consists of two clusters: dual Cortex-A15 cores and dual Cortex-A7 cores. But the good news is that unlike the original big.LITTLE configuration where only one cluster can operate at any given time (depending on how heavy the workload is), MediaTek’s confirmed that it has implemented big.LITTLE MP (“MP” as in heterogeneous multi-processing) in the MT8135, meaning both the A15 and the A7 clusters can operate simultaneously.

Another highlight of this MT8135 is that it’ll be one of the first SoCs — alongside LG’s H13 (which we’ve seen first-hand), Renesas’ APE6 and Renesas’ R-Car H2 — to come with Imagination Technologies’ almighty PowerVR Series6 GPU. Specifically, this is the PowerVR G6200 which, as part of the MT8135, can apparently deliver “up to four times more ALU (arithmetic logic unit) horsepower” than the Series5XT GPU on the cheaper, quad-A7 MT8125. And unsurprisingly, the MT8135 gets the same Miracast wireless video goodie given to the MT8125; though it’s also worth noting that the latter only supports LPDDR2 RAM instead of the more powerful LPDDR3.

Sadly, there’s no further information regarding availability, but you can kill some time by checking out more technical details in the video (with benchmarks) and press releases after the break.

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Source: Imagination Technologies

Bing prides itself in being the first of the major search engines to show off a popup warning to folks who happen to live in the UK, and this popup warning will happen only when one searches intentionally for sites that hold images of child abuse. Known as the Bing Notification Platform, it will provide a warning before following that up with details concerning a counselling service. This particular popup would trigger each time ‘blacklisted’ terms that have been compiled from a list by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is entered into the search engine.

It seems that the Bing Notification Platform’s purpose is to “stop those who may be drifting towards trying to find illegal child abuse content on the web via search engines”, or at least that is what Microsoft shared. In fact, someone from Bing spoke up, saying, “If someone in the UK tries to use search terms on Bing which can only indicate they are looking for illegal child abuse content, they will activate the Bing Notification Platform which will produce an on-screen notification telling them that child abuse content is illegal.”

Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It | Bing Notification Platform Alerts Users Of Illegal Images original content from Ubergizmo.

Aerial drones seem to be the way that modern warfare is headed – as pilots start to “fly” from the comfort of a control room, without having to risk their lives on the battlefield while the drone takes all the fire from behind enemy lines. Well, here is a drone that does not seem suited for the battlefield, as it is small in size, but comes with a feature that no other drone has so far – being able to move about at ground level on its wings. Researchers from Switzerland’s Lausanne Polytech are the ones behind this particular drone, where it remains as a prototype as at press time, sporting a straightforward and familiar configuration alongside a rear-facing propeller. Whenever this prototype hits the ground, however, the wings would have a secondary function – to help it move around.

Known as the DALER (Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot for short), it sports wings that have been mounted on shafts which can be locked or rotated, depending on your choice. While it is on the ground, the drone is capable of shuffling around at 20cm per second, allowing it to handle high obstacles and rough terrain without missing a beat.

Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It | Prototype Aerial Drone “Walks” On Its Wings, Too original content from Ubergizmo.

Earlier this month, we did take a look at the MoDaCo Switch for the HTC One, where it enables one to run not only HTC’s very own Sense user interface which runs on top of Google’s Android operating system, but also paves the way for HTC One owners to enjoy a true blue Google experience. Well, there are whispers of the Samsung Galaxy S4 picking up the MoDaCo Switch as well, and since there is quite a number of Galaxy S4 variants around, the particular unit which we are referring to would be the GT-i9505.

A funding campaign for the Galaxy S4 MoDaCo Switch has already kicked off over at Indiegogo, with hopes to ultimately raise £1,000. This is not a far fetched goal, as to date, £770 has already been pledged. Once it is complete, Samsung Galaxy S4 owners too, will be able to sit smugly next to their friends who have a HTC One, where one is able to make the jump from the TouchWiz interface to stock Android in a jiffy. It is said that a £3 pledge will provide you with early access to the MoDaCo Switch on your Galaxy S4, and should you be feeling a wee bit more generous, you can even drop £3,000 which has been described as “the full monty option”. One of the perks of dropping such a serious amount of coin would allow you to have dinner with the whole team in London, where you will also be on the receiving end of a Samsung Galaxy S4 that has MoDaCo Switch installed already. [Indiegogo Page]

Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It | HTC One’s MoDaCo Switch Could Arrive On Galaxy S4 original content from Ubergizmo.