Dec 30
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics Kit: World’s Best Robotics Education Tool?【TOP 13 of ’13】
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Dec 30
Chinese lunar rover and lander prepare for 14 days of frigid night on the moon
Posted in: Today's ChiliChina has been successful so far in its first mission to the moon. The Chinese launched their moon mission, which landed on the moon on December 14. Both the Yutu … Continue reading
Dec 30
While there have been many fantastical proposed origins of this seemingly odd modish style amongst comic artists -my favorite of which being that most superheroes lost their parents at an early age, so they had no one to tell them underwear goes UNDER your clothes -the true origin is pretty simple. According to Julius Schwartz (famed editor of DC Comics from 1944-1986 who edited the most famous of all external-underwear superheroes, Superman), this was simply modeled after the garb of aerial circus performers and wrestlers of the era in which the first superheroes proudly donned their underpants over their tights.
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Dec 30
While there’s been no reason to doubt whispers of a follow-up to Huawei’s Ascend Mate, pictures of the super-sized device have so far been unflattering. Today, however, a Mate 2-toting source has sent some snaps to our friends at Engadget Chinese, …
Dec 30
Samsung Unveils 110-inch UHDTV Ahead Of CES 2014, Will Go On Sale On Monday
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CES is a great time and platform for companies to show off new products, but at the same time the products being launched might not necessarily be for everyone. Samsung falls right into the latter category with the announcement of their 110-inch UHDTV television set which the company plans on showing off at CES 2014 as well. The television set is also expected to go on sale this Monday although pricing has yet to be unveiled, however given that Samsung’s 85-inch UHDTV that they debuted this year at CES 2013 was priced at around $40,000, safe to say that the 110-inch version will not come cheap. Not to mention the fact that the television measures a whopping 2.6m by 1.8m, it probably will have a hard time fitting in most living rooms.
Samsung expects that they will be limiting the sale of the television set will be limited to certain markets at first, but will eventually roll out to a wider audience at a later date. In any case the full specifications of the television, including its price, remains a bit of a mystery for now, but with Samsung expected to show off the device at CES 2014 (along with their 105-inch curved UHDTV) and as we will be live at the event ourselves, be sure to check back with us during CES 2014 in the next couple of weeks for the details! In the meantime any guesses as to how much this bad boy will cost?
Samsung Unveils 110-inch UHDTV Ahead Of CES 2014, Will Go On Sale On Monday original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 30
One of the reason car services like Uber, SnapCar, and LeCab are popular and starting to gain more traction is because they offer conveniences and act as an alternative to taxi services. Unfortunately it looks like over in France, the French government has recently passed a new law in which it requires car services, like Uber, for example, to wait a good 15 minutes before picking anyone up. This law has been passed as a means to help protect local taxi drivers who are starting to feel threatened by these new services. The reason behind this is because in order to get a taxi license, at least as far as France is concerned, it takes quite a fair bit of time and expense to do so, as opposed to car services which do not seem to have the same requirements which admittedly does seem unfair.
The passing of this law actually comes as somewhat of a surprise to everyone in France, especially since even the French competition authority has deemed the law to be ill-thought-out. A spokesperson for the private car companies has called the new law “absurd, unjust and incomprehensible” and has vowed to fight it. We have to say that this new rule does not make much sense because why should someone have to wait 15 minutes even if they’re just around the corner? What if there were no taxis in the area? Is someone expected to stand in the rain or in a dodgy neighborhood just to satisfy local taxi drivers? What do you guys think of this new law?
French Government Passes Law That Makes Uber Customers Wait 15 Minutes original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 30
For much of 2013, I wore the future across my brow, a true Glasshole, peering uncertainly into the post-screen world. But I’m not out here all alone, at least not for long. The future is coming to your face too. …
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Dec 30
EA’s Battlefield 4 is currently facing a host of legal problems. Technically the first lawsuit filed against the publisher over the game was what we reported a couple of weeks ago, although before that a law firm launched their own investigations as to whether a lawsuit should be filed, but it seems that 2013 has yet to come to a close and EA has since had another lawsuit filed against them. Law firm Brower Piven has announced their plans to file a class action lawsuit against EA claiming that the publisher knew about the problems n Battlefield 4 before its release, but chose to release it anyway. The lawsuit has yet to be filed but they are currently exploring their options.
The lawsuit, if filed, is essentially the same thing we’ve been hearing in the past, which is how EA’s statements on Battlefield 4 were misleading before and after the launch of the game, which the complainants believed were made in order to raise the prices of EA’s stocks. Analyst Timothy Green of The Motley Fool now believes that the franchise has since been tarnished, and that gamers in the future are more likely to pick Activision’s Call of Duty franchise over Battlefield. For those hearing about this for the first time, EA’s Battlefield 4 has been riddled with bugs since its release to the point where the published had to put a halt to future DLCs in a bid to quash the bugs and rectify all problems before proceeding.
Some claim that EA’s rushed efforts were because they wanted to beat Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts to the punch, and while we guess they managed to do that, we’re not sure if we would consider that to be a victory.
EA Faces Another Potential Lawsuit Over Battlefield 4 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 30
One of the nifty features of the Nintendo Wii U system is its GamePad. This allows gamers to stream games from their Wii U onto the GamePad to keep playing if the main television is in use, basically transforming the living room console into something of a handheld one. However it seems that two hackers have managed to reverse engineer the Wii U’s GamePad controller and have managed to get it to stream PC games to the controller, bypassing the Wii U’s console entirely. The hackers demonstrated a Gamecube emulated version of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, as well as a drawing app, both of which were streamed directly from the PC and onto the GamePad.
The duo presented their findings during a lecture, in which the lecture’s description read, “When the Wii U was released, a few console hackers and I were talking about potential uses for the Wii U GamePad. However, before being able to use a Wii U GamePad as a remote controller for a robot or a quadricopter, the first step was to understand how it worked and how to communicate with it.” Unfortunately the video demonstration of the hacked GamePad in action has since been removed, but if you’re interested in checking out the findings of the hackers, you can check out the lecture slides which has since been posted online. Pretty cool, huh? Imagine the possibilities that this can open up!
Wii U GamePad Reverse Engineered To Stream PC Games original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 30
According to recent reports, we have heard how Samsung could be looking to launch new tablets come Q1 2014, and one of those tablets is supposedly that of the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro which is said to sport a 12.2” display, rather odd given that most manufacturers these days seem to focus their efforts on making their tablets smaller. In any case according to a post by the ever reliable @evleaks, it seems as though the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note Pro could be making its way onto AT&T’s network with the model number SM-P907A. Given that AT&T was the first carrier in the US to offer the original Galaxy Note, it wouldn’t be out of question for the carrier to offer the new Galaxy Note Pro as well.
While Samsung has yet to confirm the existence of the Galaxy Note Pro, the rumors circulating the internet seem to suggest that the device is indeed real. The tablet is said to be of the high-end variety and could sport a 12.2” 2560×1600 LCD display with 3GB of RAM and will most likely come with Android 4.4 KitKat preinstalled, witha 9,500mAh battery to boot. Will Samsung announce the Galaxy Note Pro at CES 2014, or will they save it for an announcement at MWC 2014 instead? Either way take it with a grain of salt for now, but hopefully more details will be revealed in the near future.
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro Rumored For AT&T original content from Ubergizmo. 
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