By default, a lot of us just buy music from iTunes because it’s cheap and easy. However, Deal News recently took a look at the numbers, and it turns out that Amazon is cheaper than iTunes almost 80% of the time. Read more…
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Amazon MP3 is 78% Cheaper than iTunes, On Average
We just ran benchmarks on Apple’s new iPhone 5S, revealing that, yup, this is the dopest smartphone silicon ever made. This thing freaking churns, crushing every other smartphone out there on both computational power and graphics. But if you look at common specs like core-count and clock speed for the hardware, you’d never know it. Read more…
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iPhone A7 Chip Benchmarks: Forget the Specs, It Blows Everything Away
The ace team at iFixit is currently gutting the iPhone 5S , as only they can, to see what’s new inside the next iPhone. What’s the fingerprint scanner look like on the inside? What about all those fancy new chips? And how’s that goldpagne? Read more…
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The iPhone 5S Teardown: Everything New Is on the Inside
An anonymous reader writes “The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V was released at midnight yesterday, and to no surprise has managed to break the record for highest sales in 24 hours. Distributors Take-Two Interactive have announced that the game has managed to achieve a staggering $800m (£490m) worth of sales within the first day, and is certainly going to break the forecasted $1 billion within the week. The record was previous held by Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops which made $500m within 24 hours in 2009. The game also holds the title for the quickest entertainment product to achieve $1 billion in sales as they hit the mark by day 15.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours
Olivier Bonaventure writes “Besides changes in UI, multitasking and other features that the press discusses, iOS7 also includes support for Multipath TCP. Multipath TCP is a major extension to TCP that is able to use different interfaces for the same connection. Until now, Multipath TCP has been mainly used by researchers with a modified Linux kernel. iOS7 changes that, with millions of Multipath-TCP enabled devices that can switch from 3G to WiFi without losing existing TCP connections. This is not yet the case on iOS7, which currently seems to only enable it for SIRI, but other use cases will likely appear in the future.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
New Yorkers have a history of experimenting with pneumatic tubes—both for mail delivery (seen above) and public transit —but only one version ever really stuck: An automated vacuum trash collection system beneath the streets of Roosevelt Island. According to two recent studies , this 40-year-old relic might hold the key to developing new pneumatic systems—and it could help to solve NYC’s garbage problem. Read more…
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The Not-So-Crazy Plan to Solve NYC’s Trash Woes With Pneumatic Tubes
Google just announced its most recent plan in a long list of crazy moonshots. This one isn’t self-driving cars or internet in the sky, instead it’s a company called Calico that’s going to try and put an end to aging and disease . Read more…
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Calico: Google’s Ambitious New Project to Stop Illness and Aging
The first flight of the Cyngus, a new experimental spacecraft, lit off at 10:58AM today from NASA’s newly popular Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia . The Cygnus is an unmanned cargo vessel, and for this test mission it’s carrying about 1, 300 pounds of supplies to the three astronauts currently orbiting in the ISS. Read more…
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An Experimental Cargo Ship Launched For the ISS Today
With the release of any new operating system comes a slew of slight problems and annoyances. iOS 7 is no different. While certain things won’t annoy everyone, a few minor problems are bound to trouble people. With that in mind, here’s how to fix some of the more common annoyances. Read more…
Outlook.com users can now create instant disposable email address, much like Gmail , by simply adding a “+modifier” to the initial alias. For example, billgates@outlook.com could become billgates+pizzaparty@outlook.com. Read more here . Read more…
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Outlook.com users can now create instant disposable email address, much like Gmail, by simply adding