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Startphones May Be Able to Predict When the next Earthquake Will Be
The common smartphone can do more than track movement, personal health or geographical position. The gadgets nowadays can also warn users of potential earthquakes thanks to advancements in GPS technology. A team of researchers from the United States reveal how a crowdsourced early warning system can look like. They say…
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Adobe Revealed Some of its Features Coming in the Next Premiere Pro Update
Adobe has announced a few of its upcoming product updates ahead of NAB video conference, which include an animation tool, a new mobile app and some updates to Premiere Pro. There seems to be a new colour correction panel in Premiere, called Lumetri Color, that looks and works exactly like…
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Facebook Messenger is Now Available on Web Browsers
It looks like Facebook has brought its Messenger counterpart to web browsers. Though users can chat with their Facebook friends inside Facebook.com as they did up until now, the Messenger.com looks to work and look like a mobile version of Facebook’s Messenger, but for the Web. A Facebook representative told…
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The Code Used for Google’s Santa Claus Tracking App has been Made Open-Source
Though the spirit of Christmas has passed, Google brings it back with an open-source announcement of its Santa Tracker app code. For those unaware, the Santa Tracker is an online fictional progress of Santa’s journey throughout the world in real-time during the Christmas festivities. The code is now available on…
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“Retweet With Comment” Feature is Officially Launched on Twitter
Twitter just officially launched the “retweet with comment” feature on the site and the iPhone app. The feature has been in testing since last summer. The feature will allow users to embed a tweet in their tweet, helping to get around the 140 character limit. Now you will have more…
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Leaked Windows 10 Build Reveals Mail and Calendar Apps
Leakers seem to always be one step ahead, even if Microsoft provides regular updates to its Windows 10 Technical Preview. The latest Windows 10 leaked build (10051) seems to include some new updates, but the most important one is that the build comes with the latest Calendar and Mail apps.…
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Amazon Prime Instant Video Finally Supports Android Tablets
In a move that has seemingly taken forever we now have the ability to watch Amazon Prime instant video on non-Fire and iOS tablets. Now Prime members can easily watch favorite shows on a mobile screen that you don’t have to squint to see. To get started watching Prime instant…
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Indiegogo Toy Aims to Help Teach Children How to Code
A lot of companies have been struggling to release something that will help children how to code. The use of apps and toys have been the most obvious choice for them in order to make coding a lot more fun. The latest initiative comes from an Indiegogo startup and its…
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Microsoft “Office Lens” Document Scanner App for Android Beta Released
Microsoft just released the Android beta app for “Office Lens”, an app that allows you to capture notes, business cards, receipts, and other printed material to be saved as a digital file. The app can also capture things like whiteboards and save them as a digital file, a useful tool…
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Philips Unveils The Hue Go Wireless Light
Hot on the tails of the Hue programmable RGB LED lights by Philips the company has now pulled the veils off of the Hue Go. The Hue Go is a semi-translucent half of a sphere that can be used as an accent light or something that one can carry with…
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Microsoft Launches MS-DOS App for Mobile Devices
Microsoft is going old-school this April Fools’ Day has launched an MS-DOS app for mobile. The app appears to be just like the real thing, having to navigate around by typing DIR in order to list available apps and using CD to enter directories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irJQDGw8Ptk If you navigate to the…
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3D Robotics Launch DroneKit Open Source API for App Development
It looks like 3D Robotics have launched the DroneKit API for drone app development as a free open source software. The API can be used to develop apps for drones or onboard drone software, having it be completely flexible and multi-platform oriented. “Unlike other APIs for drones, there are no…
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Google Now API Will Soon Be Available to Developers to Put in Their Apps
Director of Product Management for Google Now, Aparna Chennapragada, has announced at SXSW that an open API will soon be available to all developers to include in their apps. This means that Google Now will have the ability to search for information in more apps that just the ones allowed…
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Google Working on New VPN Service for Open WiFi Networks
Android 5.1 appears to come with a new network security feature, as reported by Pocketables. They have found a new VPN feature on Google’s latest Android build called Google Connectivity Services, which can be found in Settings > Apps > All and by scrolling down, users can see it under…
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Redecorate Your Home Using Augmented Reality
Israeli startup Cimagine Media, has developed a markerless augmented reality (AR) which, in partnership with Shop Direct, owners of online retailers Littlewoods.com and Very.co.uk, will be implemented to show potential customers how thousands of products – from sofas, to lamps, to televisions – would look in their home. http://youtu.be/j0_IoPNAHLo Cimagine’s…
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