This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water. Read more…
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Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya
There are plenty of gaming PCs designed to replace consoles , but if you’re short on space that normally means accepting something underpowered like the Ouya . But this little guy, called the Gigabyte Brix II, is both powerful and petite. Read more…
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This Gaming PC Is Smaller Than a Controller But Still Packs a Punch
Although iOS 7 won’t see an official release until September 18th, you can install the final version right now even if you’re not a developer thanks to some anonymous public postings of the software update files. Read more…
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How to Upgrade to iOS 7 Right Now
There have been rumors for about a month that the iPhone 5S home button is going to be ringed in silver. Clayton Morris even told This Week In Tech that he was “unequivocally” sure about the change , and that the home button would otherwise have the same concave design. Other leaked photos have supported the rumor, though as usual their authenticity is somewhat questionable. Read more…
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Will There Be One Ring To Rule the 5S Home Button?
Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album. Now, up to 50 different “contributors” can each upload up to 200 photos into one, collaborative album—contributors can only edit their own photos while moderators get absolute power. In other words, let the public shaming commence. Read more…
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Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album.
hypnosec writes “If you are a BlackBerry owner, navigate to BlackBerry World (or just visit the website) and you will find that developer S4BB has developed over 47k apps for the BB platform. Unsurprisingly, most of them are just spammy apps that don’t add any value. Apps like ‘Restart Me Free, ‘ ‘Daily Quote, ‘ ‘Lock for SMS, ‘ ‘Search for Amazon, ‘ ‘Silent Foto Free’ are just a few among the thousands of apps on BlackBerry World that actually have no utility whatsoever. BlackBerry announced back in May that developers were increasingly interested in making apps for the platform, and that BlackBerry World had more than 120, 000 apps. This raises questions about the authenticity of the claims, and about the approval process that’s been accepting these apps. S4BB may have a few useful apps for the platform, but that doesn’t mean all of their apps are of ‘A’ quality. A statement from BlackBerry said, ‘Developers in all app stores employ a number of different monetization tactics. BlackBerry World is an open market for developers and we let market forces dictate the success or failure of these tactics.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World
With Apple’s next big iPhone event right around the corner , the rumor mill is churning at full speed. On September 10th, we’ll know if Cupertino’s nextcbig thing really is the long-fabled “budget iPhone.” For the moment, it’s still anyone’s guess, but here’s everything we think we know about the elusive iPhone 5c. Read more…
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An anonymous reader writes “In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone — a sound otherwise known as ‘Tri-tone.’ The history of the the pleasant text alert sound that we’ve all come to know and love stretches all the way back to 1998, nearly 10 years before the iPhone ever hit store shelves.” Here’s Jacklin’s post. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mark Gibbs writes “AT&T’s implementation of the FCC’s Emergency Alerts System provides minimally useful information in an untimely fashion with little geolocational relevance. … Yesterday California got its first AMBER alert and my notification arrived at 10:54pm. It came up as panel over my lock screen and here’s what it looked like on my notifications screen: ‘Boulevard, CA AMBER Alert UPDATE: LIC/6WCU986 (CA) Blue Nissan Versa 4 door.’ The problem with this it that’s all there is! You can stab away at the message as much as you like but that’s all you get, there’s no link to any detail and considering the event it related to occurred over 240 miles away from me near to the Mexican border, the WEA service seems to be poorly implemented. Indeed, many Californians were annoyed and confused by the alert and according to the LA Times ‘Some cellphones received only a text message, others buzzed and beeped. Some people got more than one alert.’ I got a second copy of the alert at 2:22am and other subscribers reported not receiving any alert until late this morning.” It seems to have gone down about as well as New York’s. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T’s Emergency Alerts Are a Mess
First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto writes “Want to become more efficient? Try lopping off 250 workers. That’s what BlackBerry did this week — saying it was a move to become more efficient. From the article: ‘“This is part of the next stage of our turnaround plan to increase efficiencies and scale our company correctly for new opportunities in mobile computing. We will be as transparent as possible as those plans evolve, ” says Lisette Kwong, a company spokeswoman.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.