After a long period of developer (and enthusiast) previews, Ubuntu 13.10 for smartphones, as well as desktops, is finally available as a stable release. The gesture-heavy, Linux-based mobile OS still doesn’t have an official hardware home — if you’ll remember, Canonical’s Indiegogo bid for the …
For those of you out there who happen to own the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, otherwise known as the I9505 where its model number is concerned, here is some good news to brighten up your day. It will be on the receiving end of the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean firmware update, targeting the LTE-enabled version of its flagship smartphone.
Of course, the first country that will be on the receiving end of such an update would be Germany, although those living in other regions need not fret since they too, ought to be part of the list in due time. If you happen to be a Samsung Galaxy S4 owner in Germany, you will be able to obtain this particular update via OTA or over the Samsung Kies computer software.
Do expect this Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update to come with a slew of new features, although the majority of them would be part of Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz UI launcher and not in the operating system itself. Needless to say, this particular update rollout process would be a gradual one, so it is also a good time to exercise patience as one of your virtues. Do take note that if you download and install this update via Odin, it will void your warranty.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Gets Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Update original content from Ubergizmo. 
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So maybe its “scanning at the speed of light” claims are a bit overstated, but BlinkScan’s capabilities are still pretty impressive. The peripheral scans, crops and straightens images in the speed its name implies, pulling out individual files when you can several images at once. After the break, …
Over the past few weeks we heard rumors that a couple of new smartphones with flexible displays are going to be launched in the market soon. LG was rumored to be working on one, and so was Samsung. The latter was the first one to bring its device to the market, called Samsung Galaxy Round. As yet, Samsung hasn’t said when or if this device is going to be launched in the U.S. The folks at Sammobile claim to have heard from an insider at the company that this device is a prototype which will only be produced in limited quantities, this could mean that getting your hands on a smartphone with a flexible display just might prove to be a bit challenging.
The insider reportedly says that Samsung has developed this device to test curved OLED displays, and that it is going to limit production, so much so that the Galaxy Round might even be in short supply in Samsung’s native South Korea. Going by the insider’s claims, it is possible that the Galaxy Round might not be launched outside of South Korea at all. The device releases in the country this week for roughly $1,000. So if this is a test run of sorts, does Samsung has something under the wraps, a smartphone with a curved display that could perhaps be launched in more markets? Time will tell.
Samsung Galaxy Round Is Reportedly A Prototype Device In Limited Production original content from Ubergizmo. 
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You know something? The analyst whom we reported on earlier this week who mentioned that a Retina Display version of the iPad mini might not be announced on the October 22nd event held by Apple might just turn out to be correct. The reason behind this is simple – the next generation iPad mini could still make its way to an October 22nd announcement, but it will not carry a Retina Display that many folks would have surely clamored after.
This time around, what you see above is a new leaked image that allegedly claims it to be the next generation iPad mini. Of course, that would also mean that this is the iPad mini 2, depending on how Apple is going to name their device later on. What we see is a thickness that measures at 6.81mm, which might sound like good news at first glance considering how it would be nearly 0.4mm thinner compared to its predecessor (contrary to what was reported as well), but there is a downside to such a thickness – it might just mean there is no Retina Display, either. Well, I guess that all we need to do now would be to sit back and wait for the iPad mini 2 (or whatever it is going to be called) to be officially introduced, and we will get the full picture.
iPad Mini 2 Might Not Come With Retina Display After All original content from Ubergizmo. 
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By now we know that basically every manufacturer in the world has been trying—and
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Would he love to go back to the future?
(Credit: HD News/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
The past is a great place to live.
There, everything is tainted with a certain beauty, a soft-focused purity which the present cannot match.
There, there was more justice and more sense.
There politicians didn’t take photographs of their nether regions and mail them to unknown women. Or, if they did, people didn’t hear about it.
Because in the past, there was no Web.
Anthony Weiner, a recent candidate to be the Democratic mayor of New York, seems wistful about the past.
You might remember that, in the recent present, Weiner had a touch of bother when he admitted to having used Twitter to send rather personal pictures to women he didn’t personally know.
Having attempted a comeback by standing for mayor — and failing — Weiner hasn’t taken things well. He’s made various appearances on TV, in which he’s seemed like a petulant schoolboy who cannot believe he didn’t get an A. (I have embedded a recent example.)
Now, in an interview with GQ, he seems to have found a new explanatio… [Read more]
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Robots might be fantastic when it comes to repetitive tasks, especially those that require a whole lot of concentration. After all, robots do not get tired, and neither will they go on strike just like the government in some countries. If they decide to disobey you, just threaten to pull their plug, and upload a more compliant algorithm, and you’re good to go yet again. Well, when it comes to art, robots too, would be a wee bit more difficult in churning out work on the artistic front.
However, Limor Schweitzer, founder & director at Robosavvy, begs to differ with the introduction of a certain “Fonzie”, known as a dancing robot. Fonzie is being researched and developed even further so that it could be used as a research platform for human-robot interaction. Enjoy the video above, and who knows? We might just end up checking out a robotic competitor on America’s Got Talent one of these days. Do you think that something like that would eventually happen?
Fonzie The Dancing Robot original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Samsung has promised not to threaten rivals with injunctions over mobile standards-essential patents for the next five years, as the Korean firm attempts to evade antitrust penalties after being accused by Apple of misusing its 3G IP. According to Apple, while it offered to license the standards-essential technology for use in the iPhone, Samsung instead […]
A alleged Yeti scalp on display at the Khumjung Monastery in Nepal.
(Credit: Nuno Nogueira)
The Yeti, Bigfoot’s cold-climate cousin, is back in the limelight. There’s no mysterious giant footprint or shaky video footage, but there is a well-regarded British geneticist at the center of it all. Bryan Sykes, a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, is featured in an upcoming documentary called “Bigfoot Files” on Channel 4 in the UK.
Ahead of the show’s October 20 debut, Channel 4 released the news that Sykes conducted DNA research on hair samples purported to be from Yetis. What he claims to have found is a genetic match for an ancient polar bear.
The two hair samples came from different areas in the Himalayas, but matched up genetically with a 40,000-year-old polar bear jawbone found in Norway.
“This is an exciting and completely unexpected result that gave us all a surprise,” Sykes said.
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