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| Forecast the Weather With This Fancy Mechanical Watch | | Friday, March 22, 2013 11:40 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Weather apps, shmeather apps: leave the smartphone in your pocket. You're going to have watch envy when you see what's being claimed as the world's first mechanical wristwatch that can measure pressure and altitude. Though high-tech smart watches are all the rage these days, the Breva Génie 01 features a mechanical barometer and altimeter, as explained in the video above.
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| Struggling B&N Giving Away Free E-Reader With Tablet Purchase | | Friday, March 22, 2013 4:16 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Barnes & Noble is now offering a free Nook Simple Touch e-reader with the purchase of its Nook HD+ color tablet, a sign that sales of one or both devices aren't so hot right now. The Nook HD+ is B&N's larger-format (9-inch) Android tablet, which costs $259 for 16GB of storage and $299 for 32GB of storage.
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| New Apple Security Exploit Lets Someone Reset Your Password | | Friday, March 22, 2013 4:15 PM | Emily Price |
| UPDATE: Apple's password-reset system currently appears to be down. An Apple account exploit allows anyone with your email address and date of birth to reset your Apple ID and iCloud account password. First reported by The Verge, the exploit uses Apple’s own tools to break into accounts, using a modified URL and entering someone’s date of birth of Apple’s iForgot page.
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| Have $39,999 to Spare? You Could Buy This Samsung 4K Ultra HD TV | | Friday, March 22, 2013 4:00 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you're watching March Madness and wish you were actually at the games, you could fork over some serious cash for a more lifelike television experience in the future — 40 grand that is. Samsung's 85-inch Ultra HD TV (UN85S9), which was showcased at CES this year, will retail for $39,999 in the US, as explained in the video above. That's similar to the $35,700+ equivalent price tag for this model in Korea.
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| The 5 Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make | | Friday, March 22, 2013 3:50 PM | UX Magazine |
| The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but there are still sites out there that may leave you asking, “What were they thinking?!”
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| Smartphone Screens May Soon Be Made Of Sapphire | | Friday, March 22, 2013 3:28 PM | Emily Price |
| Your next smartphone screen may be made out of sapphire. Sapphire, which is currently used as armor on some military vehicles, would make phone displays that would be both scratch and crack-resistant, even when thrown on concrete. The mineral is harder than any other on the planet, with the exception of diamond.
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| Quadrocopter Drone Can Snatch Up Objects Like an Eagle | | Friday, March 22, 2013 2:26 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| We've already learned that drones aren't just good at spying and shooting missiles in Afghanistan or Yemen. Their civilian counterparts know how to dance the Harlem Shake, play catch, and autonomously avoid obstacles. Now, they also can snatch objects like eagles hunting for prey.
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| Are Google Alerts Dying? | | Friday, March 22, 2013 12:26 PM | Christina Warren |
| In the wake of Google's killing of Google Reader, power users now have a new fear: Are Google Alerts next? Google Alerts is a service that allows users to receive email notifications of updated Google results for a search query or keyword. This lets users easily monitor an ongoing news story or be alerted of new stories mentioning a brand or individual.
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| LG Joins Everyone Else in the Smart-Watch Race | | Friday, March 22, 2013 10:38 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| After Apple, Samsung and Google, another company is now rumored to be building a smart watch: South Korea's electronics giant LG. According to Korea Times, citing a source familiar with the matter, LG is building both a smart watch and a product similar to Google Glass.
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| Google May Be Building a Smartwatch And Two Other Stories You Need to Know | | Friday, March 22, 2013 9:25 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google could now be among the companies rumored to be working on a smart watch. Apple's software and hardware teams are said to be working more closely together.
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