Feb 26
This is why I love data and data visualization: The larger the pizza, the cheapest the price per square inch is. Get the largest size, eat the rest at room temperature the next day.
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Feb 26
As hotly-anticipated smartphones go, the Samsung Galaxy S5 ranked up there alongside the new iPhone, with all eyes on the dominant force in Android handsets at Mobile World Congress this … Continue reading
Feb 26
(Credit: BioWare)
Instead of just playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, how about being in it?
BioWare has taken to its blog to announce a competition with a difference: a chance to voice one of the characters in the highly anticipated fantasy role-playing game.
Entry is simple. Chose from one of two sample scripts and then show off your skills on YouTube. All BioWare wants “is for you to perform your preferred script in your lovely, natural speaking voice.”
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Judging will be based on “the quality of the voice performance and how well it matches the style of Dragon Age.” Winners will be flown to the closest BioWare recording studio (Los Angeles, London, or Edmonton, Canada) to have their dulcet tones recorded for prosperity.
Entries opened Tuesday and run until 12:01 a.m. on March 24, with winners announced on April 14. The game is due out in the third quarter of this year.
For fans, this is a fun competition and great chance to peek behinds the scenes at video game production, so get in there and have fun. … [Read more]
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Feb 26
Laptop deals of the week: 2.26.14
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If that aging laptop is giving you problems, you might just want to take a peek at the collection of discounted machines that we’ve compiled after the break. There are Windows, Mac and Chromebook options at a range of prices, so there’s surely…
Feb 26
There has been much debate over whether or not mobile phone owners should be allowed to unlock their devices so that they can use them on any rival network. Major U.S. carriers lock subscribers’ phones bought through them to their own networks to stop them from using those phones on a rival network. Things might change soon though as the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a new bill that would allow mobile phone users to unlock their phones and use them on any other carrier.
U.S. House Passes Bill To Legalize Phone Unlocking original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 26
Wacom’s New WILL Project Aims To Make A New Universal Computing Language Out Of Digital Ink
Posted in: Today's ChiliLeading digital graphics and input company Wacom has launched an ambitious new project that aims to universalize digital ink across platforms and devices. Project WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language) wants to codify digital inking around a single digital standard that will ignore any boundaries set by things like OS, hardware and cloud platforms upon current digital inking methods. Read More
Feb 26
California needs rain, and they need it bad. How bad? Just have a look at the GIF above. The first image shows Folsom Lake near Sacramento on July 20, 2011. The second image shows Folsom Lake on January 16, 2014. Notice a difference?
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Feb 26
Even though OS X Mavericks comes with a plethora of new features, one of the core features has been plagued with bugs since launch. The native Mail application has been the cause of many headaches and much criticism for Apple. Soon after Mavericks was released, Apple rolled out an incremental update in November last year to address the issues but that didn’t quite do that rick. While the company has been recommending temporary fixes, some thought that yesterday’s OS X update might finally fix Mail, but isn’t the case.
Mail Issues Persist On Mavericks Even After 10.9.2 Update original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 26
China’s Oppo has been teasing its upcoming flagship smartphone for quite some time now, and it too has taken some time out to take a swing at the Samsung Galaxy S5. Soon after the flagship was unveiled, HTC mocked the lack of radical changes and conveyed to the world in a not so subtle manner to look out for its new smartphone, which will be unveiled on March 25th. Oppo has done something along the same line, releasing yet another Oppo Find 7 teaser, but one that takes an obvious swing at the Galaxy S5.
Oppo Teases Find 7, Says Its Better Than Galaxy S5 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 26
NASA’s Kepler mission has made an exciting discovery and subsequent announcement: the discovery of 715 new planets orbiting 305 stars. Says the space agency, about 95-percent of the newly discovered … Continue reading
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