Nov 27
Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant—but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it’s going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade certainly has their work cut out of them.
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Nov 27
Nov 27
The first-person shooter game currently ripping up the charts, Call of Duty: Ghosts, has just received a variety of patches to improve gameplay for PS3 as well as PS4. Although the game is already getting top-spot reviews by the gamer community, there were a few remaining issues relating to spam, stability, screen views, and the […]
Nov 27
The World Expo Milano 2015 is still a few years years off, but details about the pavilions are starting to emerge. Today, we learn that a building sponsored by agricultural machinery company New Holland will feature a sloping rooftop field farmed by two "zero-emission, robotized, self-driving tractors."
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Nov 27
HTC outs Desire 701 and 500 handsets in Taiwan, sets sights on the mid-range market
Posted in: Today's Chili
As if that recently announced trio of Desire smartphones wasn’t enough, HTC today introduced a couple more, this time in Taiwan. Meet the Desire 700 and Desire 501, both aimed at the mid-range market in said Asian territory. For its part, the 700 (pictured above) features a 5-inch, qHD display alongside BoomSound speakers, an as-of-yet undisclosed quad-core Snapdragon chip, 1GB RAM, 8GB of internal storage and a 2,100mAh battery. The 501, on the other hand, packs those same traits but with a smaller 4.3-inch, WVGA screen and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor — oh, and it comes in a few different colors. HTC is pricing its dual-SIM-packing Desire 700 at NTD 13,900 (about $470), while the Desire 501 will be available with a cheaper NTD 9,900 price tag.
Update: Engadget Chinese had some hands-on time with the new Desires, so be sure to check that out right here!
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, HTC
Source: HTC (Desire 700), (Desire 501)
Nov 27
Google Play for Education — the program that leverages certain tablets and educational apps for K-12 classrooms — now has a setup app that should make it relatively easy to initiate the program. School administrators who want to enable their bulk-purchased tablets to receive content from the Education Store can configure the tablets using the […]
Nov 27
Pro tip: Always be nice to the neighbors. You never know when one of them will turn out to be a multimillionaire.
That’s the lesson of the story of the Magowans, a pair of elderly twins from Connecticut who lived in a modest house, working middle class jobs — and died with an estate worth close to $10 million.
It has taken attorneys nearly two years to parse through the accounts of Kathleen Magowan, who died in 2011, and her twin brother, Robert, who died in 2010, the Hartford Courant reports. But besides the twins’ secret wealth, it was the Magowans’ generosity in death that has been the real shocker for residents of the pair’s hometown of Simsbury, Conn.
Nov 27
Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop, skip, and jump away. But what was it actually like to fly halfway around the world in the 1930s, when the very concept was still novel? Pretty incredible, as it turns out—provided you could afford it.
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Nov 27
Change the laws of physics with the cool iBalance magic trick. It's not an app.
(Credit: Mark Elsdon)
There are lots of magic tricks you can perform with your smartphone, usually using some combination of real-world objects (like, say, cards) and an app.
For example, with Card2Phone, physical items like coins and cards seem to disappear into an iPhone, then reappear again in the real world.
But with iBalance, the phone itself becomes the illusion. This new trick, designed for amateur and professional magicians alike, makes any smartphone appear to balance in an impossible way. Take a look:
As you can see, it’s a pretty good piece of prestidigitation. I’ve dabbled in magic since I was a kid, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this.
iBalance promises to work with just about any smartphone and even most regular cell phones. It’s available directly from Penguin Magic for $29.95, a price that includes a DVD tutorial.
Whether you’re into magic or just looking for a cool way to impress people at parties, this is worth a look.
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Nov 27
How the F_Email Project is Helping Serbian Women Gain Confidence — and New Careers
Posted in: Today's ChiliAn innovative, all-female technology program at the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, in Serbia is giving women the confidence and skills to pursue their dreams. As the information and communications technology (ICT) sector expands, opportunities for women will increase and their talent will play a key role in the continuing development of the post-war economy in Serbia.
The F_Email Project brings together a diverse group of women who have not been able to find work to become a sought-after network of ICT professionals. See the slideshow below to learn more about the program and its talented participants.
Read more about the women who have participated in the F_Email Project at csr.cisco.com
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