الثلاثاء، 14 مايو 2013

Type 'Atari Breakout' Into Google Image Search for a Cool Surprise

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Type 'Atari Breakout' Into Google Image Search for a Cool Surprise
2:32:40 AMStan Schroeder
Google is commemorating the 37th birthday of classic Atari game Breakout in the best possible way: It turned Google Image Search into a version of the game. To launch the Easter egg, you simply need to type "atari breakout" into Google Image Search, and hit enter. The search results will show up, but they'll be organized into a game that's very similar to Breakout, which requires the player to demolish brick walls with a ball.

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LinkedIn Bans Users From Promoting Prostitution, Escort Services
Monday, May 13, 2013 9:00 PMSeth Fiegerman
LinkedIn is used by professionals of all types, but it looks like prostitutes and escorts will have to find another social network to promote themselves.

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Sniff Your Phone: This Device Puffs Out a Scent
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:59 PMDiscovery News
The sense of smell is a tough one to work into media — attempts at getting it into movies date back to the 1930s, and Disneyland and Walt Disney World include scents in some of their attractions. Technology companies have tried adding it to video games and television, so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to add it to a smartphone.

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10 Best Users to Follow on Vine
Monday, May 13, 2013 3:15 PMJessica Fee
Vine has quickly become one of the top iPhone apps of 2013, and is arguably the most popular social media network since Instagram, which launched in 2010. Most commonly, people use Vine to create six-second snapshots of everyday life, but the more innovative accounts have taken the tool one step further to produce high-quality mini-movies.

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Google Offers 15GB Unified Storage Across Gmail, Drive, Google+
Monday, May 13, 2013 3:02 PMEmily Price
Google is consolidating storage between Drive, Gmail and Google+, now offering users 15GB of free storage shared across all three platforms. “Life gets a bit easier when your Google products work well together—whether that’s inserting a Drive file into an email or sharing a photo from Drive on Google+.

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Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Available to Stream on iTunes
Monday, May 13, 2013 2:27 PMBrian Anthony Hernandez
Electronic music duo Daft Punk are teasing their upcoming fourth studio album in a new video set in what looks like a futuristic spaceship filled with buttons and switches for who knows what. Despite the digital bells and whistles onboard, however, the spaceship's occupants pull out a vinyl version of the new album Random Access Memories.

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Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass
Monday, May 13, 2013 12:46 PMSamantha Murphy
For those who wish they could better remember names and faces, a new demo app for Google Glass now gives you notes on how you know each person.

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20 Animals So Ugly They're Cute
Monday, May 13, 2013 12:33 PMVignesh Ramachandran
Pugs scrunching up their little flat faces. A wombat taking a stroll. A blob fish ... blobbing. Sometimes animals are just so ugly that they're actually quite cute. You know what we're talking about. Don't deny that you find your neighbor's hairless cat adorable when it stares out the living room window at you.

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Samsung's 5G Is 'Several Hundred Times Faster' Than 4G
Monday, May 13, 2013 10:12 AMStan Schroeder
Samsung has developed a new mobile data transfer technology that's potentially up to "several hundred times" faster than current 4G networks.

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Nike Who? Runtastic Boasts 25 Million Mobile Users
Monday, May 13, 2013 8:04 AMPete Pachal
Nike+ is often the go-to app for active people. You can't beat its name recognition, after all, and it was the first athletic company to really dive into wearable and connected technology — the first Nike+iPod system predates even the iPhone. But some athletes end up turning away from Nike, since the app is relatively basic, and is aimed mainly at runners.

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Bill Gates: I Wish I Had Steve Jobs' Sense of Design
Monday, May 13, 2013 6:56 AMStan Schroeder
In an interview with CBS' 60 minutes, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates answered several questions about his long time rival Steve Jobs. Reminiscing their last meeting — in May 2011, when Jobs was already very seriously ill — Gates remembers Apple's co-founder fondly, highlighting his design ideas and the fact that he was still very enthusiastic about the future despite his illness.

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