Start your week off right with these excellent stories from the urban world. This week: baseball economics, a ghastly smelling tour, Canadian sewers, radical policing tactics, and more.
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Amazon announced its new Matchbook program that would allow those who purchase a physical copy of a book to receive a discount for the e-book version of that same piece of literature just last month. Bookworms can now raise both their physical books and e-books and cheer as Amazon’s Matchbook service is now available. (more…)
Amazon Kindle Matchook Service Now Live; Supports 70,000 Books original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Putting aside the small matter of launching a new Nexus smartphone and Android OS, Google also plans to unveil new Google+ features and improvements. Sources aware of Google’s plans tell us that today’s media-focused event will include the introduction of Auto Awesome for videos, an expansion of its …
What happens if you let a genome hacker—a kind of computer scientist-turned-biologist—loose on the world’s online genealogy sites? The world’s biggest family tree is what, which shows how over 13 million people are related.
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In this modern age of tablets and e-readers, it’s always a little bit tough to decide whether to buy the hardcopy of a book or just go for the e-book. Now, you don’t have to choose with the newly launched Kindle MatchBook service that offers cheap e-book versions of hardcopy books you’ve purchased on Amazon.
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ConnecTV, the second-screen app that syncs to whatever you’re watching on TV for an information-rich, social sharing experience, is today rolling out a new feature that lets you select 6-second clips and share them via Twitter, Facebook, and email. The Vine- and Instagram-like clipping feature automatically loads the previous two minutes of the program and […]
It may have taken a while, but Amazon has finally delivered on its promise to bring a Cloud Player app for the Mac faithful. Ever since the offline music management suite debuted for the PC in May, the small cross section of Amazon MP3 hoarders and OS X users have been impatiently waiting for Bezos …
Those who are anxiously awaiting the release of the PlayStation 4 were certainly in for a surprise last week after Sony announced the console would require a launch day patch in order for a number of the console’s key features to function properly. The patch would allow Remote Play, the PlayStation App, multiple log-ins and recording and sharing your gameplay screenshots or video to function among other things and is expected to weigh in at a not-so-hefty 300MB. Thankfully, it’s being reported that 300MB patch won’t require you to sit staring at a progress bar as the patch can be downloaded in the background. (more…)
PS4 Launch Day Patch Can Be Downloaded In The Background original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The smallest rock can topple even the most skilled skateboarder. And if your town is devoid of smooth, safe skateparks and half-pipes, maybe it’s time to upgrade your gear? With a set of spiked treads and a four-stroke engine, Dan Baldwin’s Ungoverned will happily plow through gravel, dirt, snow—pretty much any terrain you can think of.
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In what’s some fantastic news for both HTC and anyone who keeps their cellphone in their shirt pocket
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