Jul 30
Japanese Robots: Jiro Aizawa, the Father of Toy Robots
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Jul 21
Google Now reminders are great, but if you don’t feel like pulling out your phone and whispering part of your to-do list at it, there is now another way: Just hammer it into your search bar.
Jul 21
Toyota realizes that few customers shopping for a minivan care about horsepower or zero to sixty times—they’re basically looking for the easiest way to haul kids. So on its 2015 Sienna, the automaker is introducing a rather clever new feature called Driver Easy Speak which amplifies the driver’s voice with a dedicated mic so that they don’t have to turn around while talking (yelling) to passengers (kids).
Jul 21
Before Google Fiber, Verizon FiOS was the speedy internet service everyone wanted in their neighborhood. The arrival of 1Gbps connections, a slowed rollout, and an ongoing battle with Netflix that’s slowing streams to a crawl has slightly dulled the…
Jul 21
Framed gesture-controlled digital canvas debuts on Kickstarter, starting at $399
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It’s shaping up to be a big month for digital art displays. Electric Objects popped up on Kickstarter with its successfully funded 23-inch LCD for $299, and now a familiar face has turned to the funding site with its own rebooted version. Framed 2.0,…
Jul 21
The Oculus Rift isn’t even a consumer product yet, but it already has a shadow hanging over its head: how, exactly, are its users going to interact with its intangible, virtual worlds? It’s starting to look like the answer will be multifaceted,…
Jul 21
Sainsbury's becomes first supermarket to power a store with food waste alone
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Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has found a new way to put its food waste to good use: by using it to power one of its stores. A branch in Cannock, West Midlands will be exclusively powered by energy generated from bio-methane gas expelled by broken…
Jul 21
HP isn’t exactly the go-to-guy when it comes to Android tablets, but that hasn’t fazed it from putting out innumerable mobile devices, some of which have somewhat similar and therefore confusing names. The PC maker is now believed to actually have three, yes three, tablets in the making, bearing a mixed array of hardware specs and, of course, names that … Continue reading
Jul 21
September is going to be a great month full of music for folks in London. Apple today announced the 2014 iTunes Music Festival lineup. There will be a total of 60 acts throughout the month of September at the Roundhouse in London. Tickets are available for free through a lottery system. However those who can’t make it to London to watch the performances live and tune in to the action through iTunes, iOS devices or Apple TV.
iTunes Festival returns to the UK for its eighth year in 2014 with artists such as Maroon 5 and Pharrell Williams headlining. Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Kylie, Blondie, Sam Smith, Beck, 5 Seconds of Summer, Chrissie Hydne and many more will perform at the festival.
Ever since the inaugural festival took place at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts in 2007 more than 430 artists have performed in front of over 430,000 fans, with millions tuning in using the company’s devices. In the past the festival has played host to performers like Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and more.
As previously mentioned the tickets will be given out through ballots on iTunes. Local media partners across the globe will run competitions for the tickets. In the UK competitions will be run by Global Radio and the London Evening Standard.
2014 iTunes Festival Lineup Revealed
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Jul 21
Folks across the pond might have crossed their fingers when they heard rumors that Google would probably expand Fiber to the UK. Fiber, Google’s gigabit internet service, is available in a handful of cities in the U.S. as it is so it didn’t really make sense to hear that the company is already planning an international expansion. Turns out my doubts were right. Google has confirmed that it has no “serious plans” to expanding Google Fiber to the UK.
The rumors claimed that Google had been discussing the possibility with CityFiber, a company that builds and operates fiber networks. It recently secured a lot of funding to bring gigabit internet to cities in the UK and Google was believed to push Fiber through CityFiber’s network.
It was then rumored that the talks between these companies had ended without any deal being reached since CityFiber, Sky and TalkTalk are already committed to bringing gigabit internet to many cities in the country.
In a statement provided to Engadget a spokesperson for the company confirmed that while Google does have “information conversations” with other telecom companies all the time it has never had any serious planning discussions with regards to Google Fiber.
Whenever Google does decide to go for international expansion it would make sense if it started with the UK. Outside of the U.S. this may be potentially the biggest international market, but for now UK-based companies have to take the gigabit cause forward on their own.
Google: No ‘Serious Plans’ For Fiber Expansion To UK
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