Pushbullet recently updated with IFTTT support, following Tasker integration last month . That’s a lot of our favorite words together in a single sentence. Naturally, it’s a good time to take a look at some of the best uses for Pushbullet. Read more…
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How to Use Pushbullet to Get Notified of Anything on Any Device
If you’re a hardcore gamer, you probably know Snowdrop, the new game engine used in the new Tom Clancy’s The Division. I’m not, so I learned about Snowdrop through this new video just released for the Game Developers Conference 2014. It’s unbelievable. Read more…
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I can’t believe this is not a real forest but a game engine
Bitcoin is big money. When Mt. Gox went belly up , hundreds of millions in bitcoin up and disappeared. Now, the troubled exchange just happens to have stumbled into 200, 000 ‘coin it thought was lost , or roughly 116 million dollars. Read more…
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Mt. Gox Found Over $100 Million In Bitcoin In a Random Wallet
Good news, security lovers! Google just announced that Gmail will be all encrypted all the time. More specifically, every single email you send or receive will use an encrypted HTTPS connection, regardless of which device you’re using and which network. Even public Wi-Fi is okay. Read more…
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Every Single Gmail Message You Send Will Now Be Encrypted
This serpent-like hotel, coiled around the glacial outcroppings of Norway’s gorgeous Lofoten Islands north of the Arctic Circle, has been proposed by the architecture firm Snøhetta . The building’s central loop will enclose a courtyard, offering a “spectacular view and the feeling of being ‘in the middle’ of the elements, ” according to the architects. [ Dezeen ] Read more…
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This serpent-like hotel, coiled around the glacial outcroppings of Norway’s gorgeous Lofoten Islands
Two-factor authentication is critical for protecting your online accounts, but sadly, not every site supports it (even, shockingly, many banks ). TwoFactorAuth.org is a new site that all the sites that do or do not support two-factor authentication. Read more…
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TwoFactorAuth Lists All the Sites with Two-Factor Authentication
It was only a matter of time. The Oculus Rift has caught so much attention—deservedly so—that of course one of the big dogs was going to start honing in on its virtual reality territory. Tonight, that’s Sony. And its Project Morpheus VR headset sounds fantastic. Read more…
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Project Morpheus: Sony’s Oculus Rift Competitor Looks Incredible
darthcamaro writes “Oracle today officially released Java 8, nearly two years after Java 7, and after much delay. The new release includes a number of critical new features, including Lambda expressions and the new Nashorn JavaScript engine. Java 8, however, is still missing at least one critical piece that Java developers have been asking for, for years. ‘It’s a pity that some of the features like Jigsaw were dropped as modularity, runtime dependencies and interoperability are still a huge problem in Java, ‘ James Donelan, vice president of engineering at MuleSoft said. ‘In fact this is the one area where I still think Java has a long way to go.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Java 8 Officially Released
Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. “Bad breath” just took on a whole new meaning. Read more…
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Toshiba’s New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks
Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘ closely approaching human-level performance .’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better. Read more…
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition ‘Approaching Human-Level Performance’