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Fitness app Runno offers an interesting mix of workout and location-based gameplay
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Making its public debut today is Runno, another service that aims to make staying in shape “fun”. Thing is, they might actually pull it off from what we’ve seen. From the get-go: there are many mobile apps and gadgets designed to help make exercise more fun, social and ‘analyzable’ if...
Why has one of tech’s most innovative industries stopped innovating?
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If you look back over the past 10 years or so of Internet and technology life, there’s one thing that’s incredibly difficult to dispute — we owe a lot of credit to the porn industry for innovation. You’ve probably heard the argument before, but it bears repeating. Technologies like video...
Say what? Google is going to do hardware? LOL!
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Google is making an Android-powered entertainment system and will design and sell it under its own brand, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is somewhat like the hit Wifi-enabled music system made by Sonos, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-company. When I read the news, the word that came to mind: Amazing!...
Anodizing aluminum and titanium explained and demonstrated in less than five minutes (video)
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Many of us use gadgets that sport gleamingly refined, anodized aluminum or titanium cases -- but have you ever wondered exactly how the process works? Bill Hammack, at it again after explaining to us how the CCD, LCDs, and hard drives work, breaks it down (pun intended) for us...
Ample's cute 'Eo' EV is the world's first e-quadrimotorcycle, we hope not the last
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While EVs come in all shapes and sizes, one thing seems to remain constant -- a witty electricity pun. This time up its Ample, and its "Eo" e-quadrimotorcycle. A quadri-ma-whatcycle? Basically, a light, low-powered four-wheeled electric vehicle. The Eo's 40 miles per hour top speed might not be teeth-rattlingly...
Look at that DuckDuckGo! Daily search traffic is ballooning, up 227% in 3 months
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True story: just yesterday I had a meeting with an entrepreneur, looked up something on his computer and noticed that he was using alternative search engine DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing. And, as pointed out on Hacker News yesterday, he’s apparently far from the only one using it. As...
Hulu’s summer plans: 3 original and 7 exclusive TV shows to premiere starting June 4
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Hulu this morning announced a slate of original and exclusively licensed TV shows that will begin premiering on June 4 on the online video streaming site and premium subscription service Hulu Plus. Filmmaker, actor and funny dude Kevin Smith (a personal hero of mine) will kick off Hulu’s Summer season...
Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame
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More Info Toshiba announces Excite 10, 7.7 and 13 tablets, Thrive slates on their way out Toshiba Excite 10 ICS tablet goes on sale, prices start at $450 for 16GB model Toshiba AT200 review In the tablet market, big as it is, one notion generally holds true: thinner equals...
Apple’s press conference showed a brand unraveling
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Apple has long been known for its intense focus on consistent branding and beautiful simplicity. While today’s Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches. This wasn’t anything major, just...
Draw Something developer OMGPOP bought by Zynga for rumoured $210m
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Social games giant bids high and early to prevent viral hit falling into rivals' handsZynga has bought games developer OMGPOP for a rumoured $210m, just seven weeks after the latter's Draw Something game was released for iOS and Android.The New York-based developer will continue to develop the Pictionary-esque game, while...
Zynga Loses Ad Chief Manny Anekal To Mobile Monetization Startup Kiip
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Zynga’s Global Director of Brand Advertising Manny Anekal who led the company to a 233% increase in ad revenue this year is leaving to become COO of Kiip, which lets brands reward gamers with real world prizes. Anekal is a monetization rockstar who pioneered social game brand integrations, helping companies like...
Wall Street Is Having A Giant Pun-Off This Morning
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More cash for online food ordering startups: Lieferando raises $18.8 million
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Berlin-based online food ordering firm yd.yourdelivery GmbH has raised 15 million euros (approximately $18.8 million) in funding to boost its meal delivery platforms Lieferando.de (also live in Austria and Switzerland), taxiresto.fr and pyszne.pl. The financing round was led by Macquarie Capital Group and brings the startup’s total capital raised to...
Sky offers free WiFi to broadband customers via 'The Cloud', makes pun writers' jobs too easy
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Sky broadband customers will be pleased to hear that the operator is to release a new "Sky Cloud WiFi" app that will let them hop onto 10,000 hotspots around the UK. The new venture comes after it snatched up service provider The Cloud earlier this year, and also includes...
FoodBeats: Lurpak taps Last.fm to bring you playlists based on what you’re cooking
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If you have a penchant for blasting out some tunes from your laptop whilst whipping up a tasty treat in the kitchen, you might like this neat little Web app. FoodBeats is the handiwork of Outside Line, Lurpak’s social agency, which has teamed up with Last.fm to develop an online...
VIDEO: Hands on with Windows Phone 7.8’s amazing new Start Screen
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Yesterday I snuck over to the engineering building and “borrowed” a Nokia Lumia 900 running a VERY early build of Windows Phone 7.8, so I could shoot a video of the amazing new Start Screen. It’s pretty awesome; being able to resize tiles to S/M/L gives a whole new dimension...
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol F1 review
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What is a DJ? Everyone who considers him or herself one can probably give you a unique answer. Is everyone with a music collection and a sense for good timing a DJ, or does their music collection have to exceed a certain number of gigabytes or slabs of vinyl...
Another Reason The Music Industry Won't Be Coming Back -- The History Of Music Is More About Participation Than Compensation
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As the debate over file sharing rages on, a number of voices have stepped up to offer their opinions on all sides of the issue. In a post titled "Paying for Music: My Two Cents (Pun Intended)," Danny Bowman (a software engineer at Funzio and developer for Brute Labs) presents...
Another Reason The Music Industry Won't Be Coming Back -- The History Of Music Is More About Participation Than Compensation
Mosquitos survive collisions with objects 50 times their weight: raindrops
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Enlarge / Anopheles mosquito, the species used in this study. Found in humid climates and likely to face regular barrages of raindrops. CDC/Wikimedia Commons If you had a collision with something 50 times your weight, it would probably (pun intended) have a major impact. But mosquitos do this all...
A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs
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We all know about those authentication blocks of text called CAPTCHAs, perhaps too well. (Today's fun trivia: The acronym stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.). A new idea from PlayThru is to embed a small Flash or HTML5-based game that a human...
Kickstarter: Turn Your iPad Into An Etch-A-Sketch
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Looking to relive your childhood or turn your iPad into a hackneyed political pun? You’d best get over to Ari Krupnik’s Kickstarter. For $60 you get a red or blue case that simulates the actual Etch-A-Sketch knobs, allowing you to perform all of the deft maneuvers to which you’re accustomed....
7 Months In, Here’s The Big Data Download From Massive Health’s ‘Eatery’ App
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Massive Health, the San Francisco startup that aims to tackle major health care problems with tools such as mobile apps and big data technology, launched its first iPhone app “Eatery” back in November 2011. For users, the Eatery app is almost deceptively simple: You use it take a photo of...
Microsoft announces Surface x86 and ARM tablets, with kickstand and fold-out keyboard
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At its much-discussed “big unveil” this evening, Microsoft did indeed launch a tablet — but rumors that the device would showcase a Barnes & Noble partnership were misplaced. Instead, Microsoft showed a vision for a next-gen PC that combines the portability of a tablet with a minimalistic fold-out keyboard and...
T-Mobile HTC One S shows up in FCC with AWS bands?
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It doesn't come right out and say it, but we have a strong suspicion that the HTC PJ40110 -- approved by the FCC today -- refers to T-Mobile's version of the HTC One S. This model offers an AWS 3G radio, in addition to AT&T-friendly 850 /1900 3G bands,...
The blood in your eyes may soon replace your passwords
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So you need to identify yourself. You could have your fingerprint professionally authenticated. You could also have your iris scanned. How about using your smartphone to read blood patterns in your eye? EyeVerify is bringing that technology to your iPhone in 2013. “We’ve been using passwords and tokens for...
Should Louise Mensch be setting up a Twitter rival on the side? | Belinda Webb
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The Corby MP is behind a 'focused' discussion site that's already up and running in the US. Just don't Menshn the day jobLouise Mensch, the Conservative MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, has been very busy lately. She's set up a new social networking and discussion site, Menshn.com, which she...
Urbanspoon updates iPhone app; adds filters, partners
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Urbanspoon is, if you’ll forgive the pun, shaking up its signature iPhone app with a completely new interface and by adding recommendations, filters and maps. The new app available today still preserves the traditional slot-machine “shake” method of finding restaurants for which Urbanspoon is known. But the free app now...
SparkFun launches ProtoSnap MiniBot for the budding roboticist
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SparkFun struck a chord with many when it released the ProtoSnap series last year. The perforated perfboard housed not only a tiny Arduino compatible chip, but a small host of sensors and components that made assembling simple projects a snap (pun not only intended, but relished). Tomorrow, the company...
Facebook Messenger matures into rich chat app with bigger photos and in-app notifications
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Facebook’s 11-month-old Messenger mobile app for sending texts, and exchanging photos and locations with friends, is putting on its big boy pants today, maturing into a full-featured chat and messaging service with bigger photos, better notifications, and all-around improved performance. Messenger, updated for iPhone and Android Monday, comes with...
Movies are way more interesting when they’re rewritten with code
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Me? Watch movies? Psh. Why pay good money watching a movie when I could just find out what happens by reading code? It’s time to give in to your inner geek, my friends. Created by Ben Howdle, Movies as Code is exactly what you think it is: Popular movies rewritten in a programming...
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