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| Robot Bartender Takes to the Skies | | Always on the lookout for ways to enhance efficiency and reduce costs, airlines now have a new toy: a robot bartender. The Skytender Trolley is not going to be a shiny and convivial robot clanking down the aisle and asking you, "What'll you have?" But it's only a step away from that. Mounted onto the same kind of trolley flight attendants use today, the Skytender works like a soft drink dispenser at a fast-food joint.
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| Behold, the Subtle Greatness of Google Maps for iPhone | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:39 PM | Charlie White |
| We're glad to see Google Maps back on iOS, and so is Sacha Greif, a Kyoto-based designer, coder and entrepreneur who points out the subtle excellence in the new app that rolled out for iOS Wednesday night. He likes its style: Google has carried over its now iconic and clean design from its other apps into this one, and he likes the white/light-gray look of it all.
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| Which Smartphone Is on Your Holiday Wish List? | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:05 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| The smartphone is a mainstay of 21st century life. No matter how old you are, you have probably enviously eyed the latest model of your favorite phone sometime over the past few months. Maybe you were holding out on upgrading your device until the holiday season, hoping that a loved one would purchase a newer, faster, sleeker phone for you.
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| WordPress.com Enterprise Offers Managed Hosting for Businesses | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:16 PM | Christina Warren |
| Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced its WordPress.com Enterprise service Thursday as an option for customers who have outgrown the capabilities of WordPress.com's services but don't need the extra features and expense of WordPress VIP. It used to be easy to tell the difference between self-hosted WordPress accounts and WordPress.com.
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| Facebook For iOS Now Supports Uploading Photos to Albums | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:46 PM | Emily Price |
| In addition to updating its Android app, Facebook pushed an update to Facebook for iOS on Thursday. Version 5.3 of the app includes a faster –- now native -- timeline, as well as a faster loading news feed. The most important feature in the update, however, has to do with photos rather than speed. Now when you upload photos to Facebook through your iOS device you can select an album for those photos to go into.
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| Jelly Bean Is Coming to Verizon's Galaxy S III | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:33 PM | Emily Price |
| If you’re a Verizon Galaxy S III user, then the carrier has the perfect holiday gift for you: the latest version of Android. Galaxy S III smartphones on Verizon will be upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Friday. Jelly Bean brings a number of new features to the Galaxy S III including Google Now, Google’s built-in digital assistant resembling Apple’s Siri.
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| Apple Names Its Best iPhone and iPad Apps of 2012 | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:03 PM | Christina Warren |
| Apple released its App Store Best of 2012 selections Thursday -- and there are a few surprises. Each year, Apple release a list of its best apps for iPhone and iPad in a variety of categories. Last year, Instagram received iPhone app of the year, while Snapseed got the best iPad app. A year later, Instagram is part of Facebook and Snapseed has been snapped up by Google.
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| Future Phones May Be Able to See Through Objects | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:27 PM | Discovery News |
| Smartphone imaging is pretty advanced these days. You can use the camera to takes videos, high-def photographs and even make panoramic images. One day you might be able to use your camera to see through walls. That capability could come from a new kind of computer chip that operates in the part of the radio spectrum, known as the terahertz range.
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| Facebook for Android Just Got a Lot Faster | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:20 PM | Emily Price |
| Good news for Android users: you can now browse Facebook at twice the speed. The social network announced Version 2.0 of its Android app Thursday, which makes Facebook for Android completely native, and a great deal faster in the process. “Facebook for Android 2.0 is twice as fast when looking at photos and opening your Timeline and noticeably quicker to launch,” Facebook’s Philip Fund said in a blog post announcing the update.
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| It's Not Me, It's You: A Breakup Letter to Apple Maps | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:10 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Dear Apple Maps, We've had a good run, you and I. So many memories. Remember that time we didn't get lost? Thank you for all those great turn-by-turn directions in your Siri voice. Good times. I've got something difficult to tell you, but we'll get through this. Inside, I think we both knew this day was coming. You see, I met another Maps app last night. No, not another one of those inferior replacements I kept trying before crawling back to you.
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| Google's Schmidt on N.Y. Offices: We're Out of Space | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:11 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Google is growing fast, especially in New York. At this year’s Google Zeitgeist party, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced that while he thought expanding into New York was a bad idea for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company, the company's now out of space in its New York headquarters, located on the West Side of Manhattan.
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| Discuss 2013's Top Tech Trends With Mashable | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:01 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| Update: Because of technical issues on our end, the Google+ Hangout closed in the middle of the live chat. We apologize for the inconvenience. What a year 2012 has been for technology: Samsung became a dominant force in the smartphone industry, the iPad Mini was released, and it also was the year of the photo filter. But as 2012 comes to a close, it's time to look forward to 2013.
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| How an Electric Guitar Actually Works | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:45 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| The electric guitar has become a staple in jazz, rock and pop music. Today, many of us couldn't even imagine our favorite tunes without the influences of Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and countless others -- and who could forget how Jimi Hendrix forever changed the American national anthem? But before that sweet sound can come through your speakers, a fascinating technological process takes place.
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