It’s not just you; Gmail appears to be down. Usually when this sort of thing happens it gets resolved quickly, but for now you might be stuck chatting with a real human person in your physical presence. Read more…
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Gmail Is Down, Everybody Freak Out (Update: Okay We’re Cool)
Rumors of larger iPhones that take a page from the Android phablet handbook have been swirling around for a while now , and the WSJ is now chiming in with reports that two are coming this year. One with a screen bigger than 4.5 inches, the other with a screen bigger than 5 inches. Read more…
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WSJ: Two Different Big-Screen iPhones Are Coming This Year
The dirty little not-so-secret of smartphones is that you’ll never get the full amount of memory marked on the case. Operating systems take up space! But different phones leave you with different amounts of storage. Here, from W hich? , are the most and least generous. Read more…
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How Much Storage Does Your Smartphone Actually Give You?
Netflix is gearing up to overhaul it pricing structure. According to a shareholder letter and interviews with Gigaom , the streaming site will introduce a new three-tiered system for its customers. Read more…
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Netflix Plans to Have a Three-Tiered Pricing Structure
Very few of us will work at a single job our whole lives. Even fewer will work on a single, self-led project our whole lives. Spanish octogenarian Justo Gallego Martinez is an exception: He’s been the sole designer, engineer, and construction worker on a cathedral in Madrid since 1961. Read more…
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A Single Man Spent 53 Years Building This Massive Cathedral
Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis . Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be “a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force.” And it’s going to need robots to do it right. Read more…
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The Army Wants to Replace Up to 25 Percent of Its Soldiers with Robots
Back in May of 2012 the NHK’s science & Technology Research Lab in Japan successfully broadcasted an 8K, 7680×4320 signal over a distance of 2.7 miles using UHF frequencies. As a proof of concept it showed that 8K TV could be successfully delivered to televisions over the air, but it lacked the distance of traditional TV broadcasts. Read more…
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8K (Yes, 8K) Broadcasts Just Took a Major Step Forward
Airborne pollution is a major issue in China, with local hospitals opening up ” smog clinics ” and waves of city-dwellers migrating to more rural areas to escape . While Chinese officials are pursuing “cloud seeding” as a way to control pollution, a Zhejiang University professor thinks he has a better idea: Sprinklers. Big ones. Read more…
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China Could Wash Away Smog With Artificial Rain Storms From Skyscrapers
The next time you’re peeling a fresh, organic, “all-natural” banana just remember: it’s filled with tons of chemicals! But don’t worry, so is everything else. Read more…
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paramount Pictures is the first major Hollywood studio to ditch 35mm film and go all-digital for United States theater releases, with The Wolf of Wall Street being shipped to theaters in digital format only. Sorry film fans, it sounds like that’s a wrap. Read more…
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Report: Paramount Pictures Cuts Film, Goes All-Digital in U.S.