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Sonos‘s entry-level Play:1 speaker surprise was spoiled by Target, and now we can see what’s going on inside the box, too. Target isn’t processing any sales until October 13th, but SlashGear reader Steve managed to pick up a Play:1 ahead of time through eBay, and has shared some photos of the $199.99 streaming speaker with […]
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on …
A still of the Eagles' DeSean Jackson and his legendary speed on Madden 12.
(Credit: Cookieboy17/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
If there is a more pleasantly excitable sports announcer than Gus Johnson, then he hasn’t excited me.
Yet one of his signature phrases has gotten a 15-year-old Ohio student into trouble.
The phrase is: “He’s got that getting-away-from-the-cops speed.” The student has not been able to get away from his teachers for saying it.
As the Sandusky Register reports, the student was announcing a 7th-grade football game.
Moved, perhaps, by an opposing player’s speed of foot, the unnamed youth offered Johnson’s famous phrase, which is heard on Electronic Arts’ Madden games, on which Johnson is an announcer.
Some have objected in the past that Johnson only uses the phrase when black players score. Johnson himself is black.
Indeed, when he first uttered the phrase in describing the Tennessee Titans’ Chris Johnson (embedded at the bottom), the announcer was strident that this wasn’t a racist comment. … [Read more]
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Remember Daft Punk? The robots that pwned the music charts a few months ago with their more-poppy-than-usual new album? Thanks to Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington—collectively known as DARKSIDE—you can discover Random Access Memories all over again.
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Using your smartphone abroad sucks, or rather, it’s just annoying. You wish you had your phone to talk to home, but it’s complicated. Maybe you’ve figured it out so that it doesn’t cost you a fortune (lucky you!) but most of us haven’t. Beginning October 31st, T-Mobile will be offering free text and data in 100 different countries to customers on its Simple Choice plans.
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Phase one was abolishing traditional two-year contracts and subsidies, phase two was the Jump “anytime upgrade” program… so what does T-Mobile have in store for its third Uncarrier announcement? As a leak — and the promised partnership with Shakira — hinted, the news is unlimited data and …
Earlier today, a Shakira fan Page on Facebook posted an image of the singer on a T-Mobile advertisement, which included a teaser that the carrier would be offering free global data in more than 100 countries. At the time, a link was included with the image that redirected to a “Coming Soon” page, but that […]
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When Dr. Teresa Myers took a call from a woman who thought she’d gotten strep throat right smack in the middle of an important business trip, the Akron, Ohio-based family medicine physician who loves telemedicine so much she actually does it in her spare time didn’t mean to scream.
But when the patient — hoping a doc could diagnose her problem via her iPhone camera so that she could get a prescription without going to an ER — pointed her phone’s flashlight toward the back of her throat, Myers couldn’t restrain herself.
“Oh my God!” she yelled. “You’ve got exudate!” To which the patient yelled back, “What does that mean?” (Dr. Myers explained that it’s the white discharge often visible on one’s tonsils when they have the highly contagious strep, and that she had yelled because she’d never expected to see it so clearly during a phone visit.)
“That was probably the most rewarding 10 minutes,” said Myers, who was able to do an exam, make a diagnosis, and write a prescription in 10 minutes.
Myers is among a growing group of physicians in the US practicing telemedicine. She currently works with the Online Care Group, which manages telemedicine physicians for American Well, which this week … [Read more]
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As a kid, my favorite Hot Wheels toy cars were the ones that changed color in cold or hot water. Tons of fun in the bathtub! But eventually, we all grow up and accept the fact that real cars don’t change colors (or jump through waterfalls). Or, you could hang on to those childhood dreams and paint your real car in thermochromic paint—like these crazy gearheads from the UK. Now to find a bathtub it’ll fit in.
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