It Looks Like You Could Climb This Celestial Tree To Space

It Looks Like You Could Climb This Celestial Tree To Space

It’s almost as if the earth is rotating right before your eyes in this picture of the North Celestial Pole. And that’s not entirely incorrect—the trail of stars captured in a series of long exposures by photographer Jerónimo Losada reflect the way the Blue Marble moves every day.

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Nintendo Wii U Deluxe Set Including New Super Mario Bros. U, Luigi U Starting Nov. 1

Nintendo Wii U Deluxe Set Including New Super Mario Bros. U, Luigi U Starting Nov. 1

Nintendo has been attempting to make its Wii U an appealing video game console to purchase this year as just a few months ago, they announced they would be cutting the price of the Wii U Deluxe set from $349.99 to a more acceptable $299.99. A $50 drop in price doesn’t seem to have improved much in terms of the Wii U’s sales, so Nintendo is now changing things around with what games are bundled in with the Wii U in order to make it a more valuable purchase. (more…)

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    Walmart’s offering up to $300 off a new tablet when you trade in an older, working tablet.

    Walmart’s offering up to $300 off a new tablet when you trade in an older, working tablet. Meanwhile, Best Buy’s giving at least $200 for working iPad 3, 4, or (old) mini models traded on a new one. [Walmart, Cnet]

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    eBay introduces celebrity-curated collections, expands same-day delivery

    Starting today, eBay is introducing a new feature designed to streamline your shopping experience: curated collections. Basically, curators handpick products from eBay’s database and arrange them into collections; as part of the initial push, the company is including a few relatively big names among …

    Samsung Galaxy S4 mini US availability detailed

    Coming off some earlier rumors and leaks of a US release, Samsung has officially announced the availability of the Galaxy S4 mini. The handset will be coming to four US carriers and it is set to arrive next month. While Samsung has confirmed the phone will be arriving in November, we do still need specific […]

    HTC One Max Passes Through FCC With Sprint LTE Bands

    HTC One Max Passes Through FCC With Sprint LTE Bands

    HTC pulled back the veil of secrecy surrounding its supersized HTC One Max last week, which we learned the device would feature a 5.9-inch Full HD 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot to expand storage and one of the more surprising additions is its fingerprint scanner located at the rear of the device. HTC certainly put a lot into its HTC One Max, although we still don’t know what U.S. carrier will be carrying the supersized smartphone. Thanks to the FCC, we now do. (more…)

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    This Board Game Playing Robot Puts a Freaky Face On a Computer Opponent

    Despite countless electronic alternatives, board games have remained incredibly popular because you can immediately interact with your opponents sitting at the same table. The same can’t be said for a computer player, so after developing software that’s able to play complex board games like Risk, André Pereira designed and built a sass-talking robot head that gives a face to the AI opponent.

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    BlackBerry’s BB 10.2 OS update brings notification previews and Priority Hub to Z10 and Q10 devices ‘this week’

    Before today, the only way to enjoy BlackBerry’s BB 10.2 OS was to buy the company’s new Z30 flagship. But, as the company previously promised, that software update’s ready to trickle down to all BB 10 users and should be hitting devices “starting this week.” BlackBerry’s said that the OS update …

    Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Headed To AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Next Month

    Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Headed To AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Next Month

    We recently saw leaked press shots of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini branded with both AT&T and Sprint logos, leading us to believe the long-awaited device was on its way to the U.S. in the very near future. It looks like the assumption was correct as Samsung is announcing today its Galaxy S4 Mini will be available in the U.S. starting next month. (more…)

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    A High School Student Built This Surprisingly Capable Flight Simulator

    Do you remember how you spent your high school years? Odds are you were more concerned with your social status than actually doing something useful with your life. Not Dominick Lee. Instead of parties and homecomings he designed, built, and programmed an impressive low-budget flight simulator that’s going to all but guarantee him entry into any college engineering programming he likes.

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