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Don't lie, you're so singing 'Fly like an eagle' in your head.

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Only birds and aerial vehicles can soar around the European Alps, but a thrilling point-of-view video lets you vicariously take flight over the amazing vista from the alleged perspective of an eagle.

The point-of-view footage, uploaded by YouTube user Srachi, supposedly shows an action camera (e.g. a GoPro) attached to the back of an eagle that’s flying around at extreme heights. According to the video description, the near 1.5-minute clip took place near the Chamonix village located at the Mer de Glace glacier of Mont Blanc in the French portion of the Alps.

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After weeks and months to leaks and rumor, the BlackBerry Z30 has been finally announced and if you’re wondering where will you be able to pick the device up from, well it looks like Verizon has you covered. This is according to a tweet by Verizon on their Twitter account where they have officially announced the device themselves. Unfortunately Verizon did not mention when exactly will the device be available for purchase, or how much it can be had for, but presumably more information will be released at a later date, but for now we guess Verizon will be the carrier you’ll want to keep your eye on.

As far as the BlackBerry Z30 specs are concerned, if you missed the earlier announcement, the handset will sport a 5” Super AMOLED display, making it BlackBerry’s biggest smartphone to date. It will also pack a quad-core chipset under the hood clocked at 1.7GHz. It will come with BlackBerry Natural Sound to provide stereo audio to the user, a new generation antenna technology, and a somewhat decently sized 2,880mAh battery, and of course it will run on BlackBerry 10. We’re not sure if this will be enough to bring interest back to BlackBerry, but it will definitely sit well with BlackBerry customers who are looking for a phablet experience but with the BlackBerry operating system.

BlackBerry Z30 To Arrive On Verizon original content from Ubergizmo.

Apple typically announces how many phones they’ve managed to sell via pre-order on the first day, a number which has been typically high, but their recent silence has suggested that maybe they did not sell as many iPhone 5c units as predicted. One analyst has predicted that Apple could have sold 2.2 million units of the iPhone 5c, and Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, has chimed in with his own estimations and has revealed that he expects Apple to sell anywhere between 5-6 million iPhone units during the weekend that the iPhones go up for sale. (more…)

5-6 Million iPhone Units Expected To Be Sold Over The Weekend original content from Ubergizmo.

It looks like outspoken indie devs are finally getting their wish: OUYA is revising the rules for its “Free the Games” fund. The matching contest (which provides additional funding to Kickstarter campaigns that meet certain goals) has come under fire recently due to OUYA’s tepid response to exploitation controversy. One developer, Sophie Houlden of Rose and Time, even pulled her
game from console’s marketplace, accusing the company of being “incapable of ever correcting their mistakes.” Now, it seems, the OUYA is ready to take a stab at doing just that, modifying the contest guidelines to lower pledge requirements, reduce participant exclusivity terms and limit loopholes.

Projects applying to the fund now only need to reach a minimum pledge requirement of $10,000 (down from $50,000 previously), and to prevent exploitation of the system, every $10k a project raises must be funded by at least 100 individuals. This is a direct response to criticism of the fund’s backing of Gridiron Thunder, which raised $171,009 from only 183 backers (Gridiron Thunder has since withdrawn from the program). Exclusivity requirements are now scalable too, and last for one month for each $10k funded to a maximum of six months. According to OUYA’s Julie Uhrman, these changes are designed to protect the original intent of the fund, but suspicious projects will be still be reviewed on a case by case basis. “You need to play by the spirit of the fund as much as the rules. We can’t account for every loophole,” write Uhrman on the company blog. “So, if we, or our community, feel you are gaming the system, we will review your project (and consult with our developer friends for their advice) and determine whether to fund it or not.” OUYA continues to explain the changes in an accompanying video (at the source and after the break), promising that if these changes don’t fix the program, that they’ll continue to tweak the rules until developers are satisfied.

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