Ever wonder if your iPhone 4 really was weirdly slow? Or if iOS 7, despite its bells and whistles, just has a longer boot time than your old 3G? Well wonder no longer. You’re about to find out for sure. Read more…
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Watch Every Model of iPhone Get Speed Tested at the Same Time
We’ve seen real laser guns before, pulling off tricks like starting small fires, or popping black balloons . That’s cool, sure, but it’s got nothing—and I mean nothing —on this crazy handheld laser rifle that eats metal for breakfast. Read more…
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Holy Crap, This Real-Life Laser Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like Nothing
While your iPhone’s new operating system comes with plenty of advantages, iOS 7’s not without its drawbacks. Battery life just ain’t quite what you’d want it to be , but we’ve got some tips to squeeze the most out of that sucker and stay juiced all day long. Read more…
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11 Tips to Keep iOS 7 From Destroying Your Battery Life
NOVA’s Tim De Chant posted this awesome photo of the Kilby Solid Circuit, the first working example of a miniaturized electric circuit that combined all the necessary structures onto a single chip.
We’ve already seen a possible ‘Space Gray’ version of the upcoming iPad Mini 2 floating around and now it’s time for the big brother version to get covered in gray steel too. Read more…
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Here’s a Leaked ‘Space Gray’ Version of the Next Full-Sized iPad
Over the last 24 hours, you’ve probably noticed that your Gmail has been acting a little funky. It wasn’t just you. In a blog post , the Gmail team explains the issue, saying that a rare, double-SNAFU was to blame for a widespread issue that caused significant delays in the delivery of some email. Read more…
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Your Gmail Was Down Because of a "Dual Network Failure"
Some images of what’s alleged to be Android 4.4 appeared over the weekend, with screen captures of a phone supposedly running the new KitKat release giving us a look at what may be Google’s ever-so-slightly redesigned new mobile OS. Read more…
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Alleged Android 4.4 KitKat Images Suggest a Flattened, 2D Design
Virtucon writes “Ride Sharing Services such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar received a big boost today when the California Public Utilities Commission approved rules that would allow them to continue to operate as long as the followed a few rules. This makes California the first state to adopt such rules and is expected to preempt local governments who are trying to clamp down on these services and try to regulate them like local taxi companies.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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California Becomes First State In Nation To Regulate Ride-Sharing
Imagine a smartphone you can roll up and slip into your shirt pocket. Or a tablet that can be folded like a newspaper and slipped in your back pocket. It’s an idea that’s been tossed around in science fiction for a years, but now it’s a small step closer to reality because researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China have developed the world’s first flexible silicon . Read more…
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The First Flexible Silicon Paper Could Revolutionize Mobile Gadgets
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.