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| Google Hangouts App: One Giant Leap for Chat Kind | | Hands up if you've ever been in this situation: You start a conversation with a friend or family member at your desk on Instant Messenger. Away from your desk, you send them a text. Later on, you decide it makes more sense to speak face-to-face on Skype. All of a sudden, you've got a balkanized conversation. And it's far, far worse if you're trying to involve multiple people.
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| Headband Measures and Improves Your Focus During Any Activity | | It's a problem everyone's encountered before: Just when we need to hunker down and focus the most — studying for an exam or completing a project, for example — our minds begin to float away, and our brains become mush. A high-tech headband and mobile app aim to combat this problem by tracking and, in the process, helping users improve their focus by determining how it's affected by their environment.
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| Google Glass Gets a Competitor for Extreme Sports Fanatics | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:58 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Like Google Glass, but concerned that your activities might be too extreme for it to handle? Take a look at the Recon Jet, a Glass-like device aimed at the sports crowd. Not only is it made to be more durable, but the information shown in the head-mounted display is sports-related.
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| Hands-On With the New Google Maps | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:44 PM | Emily Price |
| Google unveiled a brand new look for Google Maps on Wednesday. Redesigned from the ground up, the new Maps can take you from space all the way inside a building, and everywhere in between. The new Google Maps will be available for the general public starting Thursday morning (you can sign up to request an invite to try it out, here).
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| The Most Famous Model for Google Glass Is Actually a Developer | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:56 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you've been keeping up with Google Glass, you've probably seen Steven Yau. He's the man in one of the most widely circulated press photos of Glass. Before the headset became a real object that people could touch, Yau's photo — which has him wearing both Glass and a big grin — was the lead image for many articles about Google Glass, including on Mashable.
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| Google I/O Keynote Reveals Google’s Master Plan | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:28 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| I’m still digesting Google’s 3.5 hour Google I/O 2013 keynote, but I can’t shake the notion that Google is now the world’s most powerful and important company. I’m not saying that it has the world-beating products in every category.
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| DIY iPhone Microscope Costs $8 to Make | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:52 PM | PSFK |
| Internal medicine and infectious disease specialist Isaac Bogoch and his colleagues turned an iPhone 4S into a fairly accurate microscope by attaching an eight dollar, three-millimeter ball lens to the smartphone's camera lens using double sided tape. The DIY microscope was tested with 200 slides of stool samples from school children with different types of parasitic worms in Pemba Island, Tanzania.
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| New Google Maps Looks Spectacular | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:00 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Following weeks of rumors that a new Google Maps design was imminent, the search engine giant announced a new look and it looks spectacular.
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| Bang & Olufsen Makes Surround Sound Pretty | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:01 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Surround sound systems were all the rage a decade or so ago, but they've been overshadowed by simpler speakers like soundbars and iPod docks. So it's nice to see Bang & Olufsen inject some flash into the category with the BeoLab 14. The BeoLab 14 doesn't look like your typical surround system. Instead of rectangular dark boxes, the speakers are round silver rings.
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| Google Chrome Now Has 750 Million Active Users | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:36 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Google Chrome is well on its way to having a billion active users. Google announced at its I/O developers conference on Wednesday that the browser now has 750 million active users, an increase of about 300 million users from the same time last year. Chrome first launched in beta in 2008. Chrome passed Internet Explorer last year to become the most popular browser in the world.
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| Google Announces Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:23 PM | Charlie White |
| At Google I/O in San Francisco on Wednesday, Hugo Barra, Android's VP product management announced an unlocked "Google Edition" of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. "What you're seeing here is real," Barra said. He showed the user interface of the smartphone (pictured below), which he says is the same as the interface Google sells on its Nexus devices.
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| Google Cloud Messaging Gets Faster | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:43 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Google Cloud Messaging just got a big revamp during the big Google I/O conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it's now a whole lot faster.
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