Google opened up applications today for the Little Box Challenge, announced in May, with plans to give away $1, 000, 000 to the group that can create a smaller and cheaper power inverter. Inverters take direct current from power sources such as solar panels and turn it into alternate current so that it can be used in homes, cars and businesses. Making the inverter smaller allows for more cost… Read More
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Google Opens $1M Contest To Shrink A Power Inverter
Apple’s iOS 8 beta 4 just hit the interwebs today, and among the new features found therein, there’s a cool new visualization of the iOS dictation feature (seen in the MacRumors video above) that shows your words being transcribed almost in real-time as you say them. It’s a feature that previously appeared in Siri, but it’s new to the dictate option found in Messages… Read More
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Watch iOS 8′s Latest Beta Transcribe Voice To Text In Near-Real Time
The leaked component that’s being touted as the front screen of the upcoming iPhone 6 got a good workout in a video test by Youtube regular MKBHD (Marques Brownlee) when it first broke cover, and now Brownlee is back with a new video that takes the durability tests even further. This second round involves exposing the supposedly super-strong sapphire-based material to a true test of… Read More
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Supposed iPhone 6 Display Cover Faces The Sandpaper Test
You scream, I scream, we all transform an off-the-shelf Cuisinart soft-serve maker to extrude super-cooled and 3D-printed shells of ice cream! Three students at MIT, Kyle Hounsell, Kristine Bunker, and David Donghyun Kim, have created a homemade ice cream printer that extrudes soft serve and immediately freezes it so that it can be layered on a cooled plate. The system is a proof-of-concept… Read More
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MIT Students Create An Ice Cream Printer
Berlin-based Airfy, maker of the Airfy WiFi router that our very own John Biggs called one of the sexiest Wi-Fi routers he’d ever seen (and the man has doubtless seen a lot of WiFi routers), is launching a crowdfunding campaign for a new product today. Rather than tackling the ugliness and (often) stupidity of WiFi routers, the Airfy Beacon is an attempt at making the smart home, well… Read More
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Airfy’s Beacon Wants To Make The Smart Home Smarter
Google Voice is a service we’ve loved for a long time , but any Voice user that’s honest with themselves knows the service has been a second-class citizen for a while now. If you’re feeling like it’s time to move on, here’s how to ease the transition (and even keep most of your favorite features in the process). Read more…
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How to Ditch Google Voice (and Keep All the Best Features)
Sometime in the past few days, YouTube started showing a new error bar on slow-loading videos. “Experiencing interruptions? Find out why, ” it implores. Clicking through takes you to Google’s Video Quality Report page , comparing streaming quality of your local ISPs. If your provider’s slow, Google wants you to know. Read more…
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Now YouTube Is Shaming ISPs For Slow Streaming Video
YouTube is about to get smoother: Google has announced that its video site is getting support for videos running at 48-and-60 frames-per-second . Slick. Read more…
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YouTube Is Finally Serving Video at 60 Frames Per Second
Sometimes a device comes so close to being perfect that you’d be forgiven for not realizing that with just a single tweak, it can become, in actual fact, perfect. The Kindle Paperwhite is such a device, as an e-reader that Amazon has crafted so well that you pretty much never need look beyond for anything better. But while a regular book ends up with wrinkly pages after being caught in… Read More
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This Waterproof Kindle Paperwhite Is Humanity’s Greatest Achievement
Tomorrow is launch day in Canada and the U.S. for the Surface Pro 3, and to make sure the device has as smooth a launch as possible, Microsoft has released a set of updates for the tablet-hybrid. The updates include a slurry of performance boosts, as well as a fix for a power button issue that was annoying some. If you have a review device, the code should be live for you now. Otherwise, you… Read More
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Microsoft Updates The Surface Pro 3 Ahead Of Its Release Tomorrow