Apple recently introduced App Bundles that allow you to snag a group of apps at a discounted price. That makes perfect sense, but they also have a “Complete My Bundle” option that’s a bit confusing at a glance. The developers over at Panic figured out how it works. Read more…
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How Apple’s "Complete My Bundle" Works
If you’ve tried burning incense or seeing an internet shaman but Google Fiber still won’t come to your city, you may still be able to get gigabit speeds — from AT&T. The carrier’s U-verse GigaFiber service will finally venture away from Texas and hit Chicago and Atlanta . That marks 14 cities (including Cupertino and Miami) set to receive the fiber lines so far, on top of current locations Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin. On top of that, AT&T has announced 100 candidate markets — including Mountain View — which may have tweaked, well, Mountain View’s nose a bit. Google’s Fiber is still stuck in Austin, Provo and Kansas City, with 34 other candidate cites still waiting. There’s no news of pricing or availability in the two new GigaFiber markets yet, but pricing in Texas is $99 a month, or $70 if you don’t mind targeted ads. [Image credit: Getty Images] Filed under: Internet , AT&T Comments Source: AT&T (1) , (2)
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AT&T’s GigaPower fiber set to hit Chicago and Atlanta
A smattering of the brands with products available via Google Express (née Google Shopping Express). Google Blog Google has added a subscription option to its Shopping Express service, putting it in competition with Amazon’s Prime membership program. Shopping Express customers can now pay $95 per year or $10 per month to access a number of perks, including free same-day or overnight delivery on orders of $15 or more and the ability to share the membership with another person in the household. Google has offered Shopping Express (which, going forward, the company will simplify to “Google Express”) in Northern California since the spring of 2013. It expanded the service to New York and LA a year later, just as a same-day delivery service. As of October, the company will expand Express to Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Google Express service is limited to certain brands including Staples, Walgreens, and Target. New stores and retailers were added with this most recent update, including 1-800-Flowers, Barnes and Noble, and Sports Authority, as well as regional stores like Paragon Sports in New York and Stop & Shop in Boston. When users order from the selection of stores, a livery vehicle picks the items up and delivers them to the user’s location. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Google gets an Amazon Prime competitor with Shopping Express sub
Even if you don’t have a kid in college, these $5 care packages from Target are a fantastic bargain, and feature items that anyone can use. Read more…
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These $5 Target College Care Packages Are Insane Deals for Anyone
An anonymous reader writes Dropbox has denied that they have been hacked, and that the login credentials leaked by a unknown individual on Pastebin are those of Dropbox users. “Your stuff is safe. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox, ” Anton Mityagin from the Dropbox security department noted in a post. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Dropbox Wasn’t Hacked, Says Leaked Credentials Are From Unrelated Services
Netflix’s payments to Verizon for a direct connection to its network didn’t result in immediate improvements for the companies’ joint subscribers, but they’re finally paying off with better video performance. Verizon FiOS actually topped all other major ISPs in Netflix performance in September with an average stream rate of 3.17Mbps, Netflix said today . Netflix Although Verizon FiOS led all large ISPs in Netflix performance, Google Fiber is still No. 1 among all ISPs regardless of size with a 3.54Mbps average in September. In August, Netflix streamed at an average of 2.41Mbps on Verizon FiOS, ranking tenth out of 16 major ISPs. In July, Netflix speed on Verizon FiOS was 1.61Mbps and in June it was 1.58Mbps, ranking 12th in both months. The Netflix/Verizon deal was announced in late April . When performance continued to get worse after the interconnection agreement, Verizon said it might take until the end of 2014 to get all the proper network connections in place to speed up video. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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For nearly two years, the Air Force’s X-37B autonomous space plane has been circling around the Earth doing who knows what. Now it’s finally coming back to Earth , carrying all its secrets with it. Read more…
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The Air Force’s Mysterious Spy Plane Is Landing After 2 Years in Space
The amount of meticulous detail and genius craftsmanship and microscopic precision that goes into one of these Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime 5175R is ridiculous. Just watching the little pieces fit together is like seeing the most beautiful puzzle ever get completed. It better be, since the watch costs $2.5 million. Read more…
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After an already rough morning , Dropbox is now facing something far more menacing. After first surfacing Reddit, several Pastebin files have been found to contain hundreds of Dropbox users’ usernames and passwords—and the anonymous poster claims that there are millions more to come. Read more…
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A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery that can recharge a battery to 70-percent in just two minutes. That means it would charge an entire electric car in just 15 minutes. And here’s the kicker: it lasts over 20 years. Read more…
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New Li-Ion Batteries Charge 70 Percent in 2 Minutes, Last for 20 Years