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| The New York Times Already Has a Google Glass App | | Google Glass owners — all several of you — rejoice, as you can now peruse The New York Times on your shiny pair of augmented reality glasses. The official New York Times Google Glass app lets users get breaking news alerts and hourly news updates, with the option to have article summaries read aloud.
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| Sports News App Aggregates Tweets Related to Your Favorite Teams | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:03 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real Estate survey found that 36% of polled viewers said they would use a second screen to supplement the game-viewing experience.
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| Instapaper Bought By Betaworks — Why the Big Fuss? | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Do you use Instapaper? No, me neither. But the $3.99 app, which lets you save stuff to read later when outside a wifi or 3G zone, has a small and highly devoted following. Which is why a small segment of Twitter went nuts at the news Thursday that Instapaper was being bought by Betaworks, the burgeoning media tech company that bought the assets of Digg last year.
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| Chevy Spark EV is World's Most Efficient Electric Car, Says GM | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 6:35 PM | Charlie White |
| The upcoming Spark EV is the most efficient production electric vehicle in the world, according to GM. The company backs up that audacious claim with some hard numbers about the Spark EV's EPA mileage stats for combined city and highway driving — measured at the equivalent of 119 miles per gallon. An equally impressive stat for the Spark EV is the EPA's estimate of its range, 82 miles per charge.
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| 10 Places You Can't Use Google Glass | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Google Glass, the tech giant's augmented reality eyeglasses project, lets you capture photos, record video and surf the web all at eye level. But this kind of innovation isn't free of limitations. Currently, Explorer editions are only available for a chosen few. Even so, certain places and activities have already forbidden the use of Google Glass, whether for safety, privacy or copyright issues.
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| Leap Motion Delays Pre-Order Ship Date | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:54 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| You'll have to put aside those dreams of a Minority Report-style interface for just a bit longer. Leap Motion, the pint-sized technology that can turn an average desktop or laptop into a gesture-controlled computer, is not shipping to customers on May 13 as previously promised. Now, those who ordered Leap Motion device early can expect them on July 22.
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| Twitter for Mac Update Improves Photo Sharing, Adds Retina Support | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:06 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter issued an update on Thursday for Twitter for Mac for the first time since 2011, bringing a number of improvements to the Mac version of the app. Most notably, the update improves photo sharing. Now to add a photo to a tweet, you can simply click on the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the box where you’re composing your tweet, and add a photo from your computer.
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| FitBark Is a FitBit for Your Dog | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:29 PM | Emily Price |
| Ever wonder if your pooch is active enough? A new product called FitBark attempts to help you find out. A sort of FitBit for your canine companion, the device keeps track of how active your dog is, and then gives you a daily BarkScore for the day.
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| WWDC Sells Out in Less Than 2 Minutes | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:52 PM | Christina Warren |
| Want to go to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, often referred to as WWDC? Hopefully you got in early because the event sold out in just two minutes. Cult of Mac reports tickets were gone in just 120 seconds and that many would-be ticket buyers were unable to even reach the purchase page, instead getting stuck with error messages (probably due to the increased load on the servers).
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| MacBook Pro Is 'Best Performing' Windows Laptop, Report Claims | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:10 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| A report from PC services company Soluto claims the "best performing" Windows laptop is one that wasn't primarily made to be used with Windows: Apple's MacBook Pro. In creating this report, Soluto claims to have looked at 150,000 laptops, 224,144 crashes and 84,251 blue screens during three months.
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| Android Tablet Market Share Nearly Matches the iPad | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:28 AM | Pete Pachal |
| The worldwide market share of Android tablets is just a few percentage points below that of Apple's iPad, new research says. Meanwhile, Windows tablets have carved out a significant but "niche" market in their first fill quarter being available. Android tablets make up 43.4% of the global tablet market, while iOS-based ones (including the iPad, iPad 2 and iPad mini) represent 48.2%, according to data from Strategy Analytics.
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| The Pirate Bay Finds New Home in Iceland | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:13 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| After bouncing around several top-level domains over the past couple of months, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has finally found a home in Iceland. The Pirate Bay's search for a TLD — initiated as the site's owners' fear Swedish authorities might seize its .SE domain name — recently brought the site to the Greenland-based .GL domain. That didn't last long, however, and TPB was forced to find a new home, which it did — in Iceland.
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| 'LinkedIn Contacts' Helps You Build, Maintain Important Relationships | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:01 AM | Emily Price |
| LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Contacts Thursday, a new mobile and web solution for building and maintaining relationships that are important to you. “All of us know that professional networking is so important to all of our jobs and careers.
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