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If you've ever put gas in a car, you'll know that the pump magically knows when to stop spewing fuel into the tank. That's super useful, and safe too. But how does it know when to stop?

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When the first phase of the Second Avenue subway makes its debut in 2016, metal sidewalk grates, the bane of women in pumps, will be noticeably absent.

The Halal Guys food cart, which has been garnering fans in Midtown since 1983, will open its first brick-and-mortar restaurant in the East Village in November. The owners just opened their fourth food cart out front of the shop a couple of weeks ago, and tell DNAinfo that they're working on some new vegetarian options and maybe even a juice bar for the storefront operation. [DNAinfo]
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Ron Amadeo, writing for Ars Technica:

We noticed an odd thing while testing the Samsung Galaxy Note 3: it scores really, really well in benchmark tests — puzzlingly well, in fact. A quick comparison of its scores to the similarly specced LG G2 makes it clear that something fishy is going on, because Samsung’s 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 blows the doors off LG’s 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800. What makes one Snapdragon so different from the other?

After a good bit of sleuthing, we can confidently say that Samsung appears to be artificially boosting the US Note 3’s benchmark scores with a special, high-power CPU mode that kicks in when the device runs a large number of popular benchmarking apps. Samsung did something similar with the international Galaxy S 4’s GPU, but this is the first time we’ve seen the boost on a US device. We also found a way to disable this special CPU mode, so for the first time we can see just how much Samsung’s benchmark optimizations affect benchmark scores.

What a bizarre coincidence that a company as honest and reputable as Samsung would get caught doing this again.

In an effort to bolster its standing amongst the fast food giants, KFC is introducing what is the easily one of the greatest innovations in take-out containers since the pizza box. The fried chicken chain's new snack-size Go Cups are specifically designed—after two years of development—to easily sit in your vehicle's cup holders, letting you dine without having to pull over and stop.

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Two months ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos surprised the newspaper by announcing he planned to purchase The Washington Post for about $250 million. Now, as of today, the transition is complete — Bezos formally took over as owner today, ending the 80-year reign of the Graham family at one of the nation's most prominent newspapers. Bezos now has his work cut out for him — like much of the newspaper industry, the Post has been losing readers and money for several years. At the time of Bezos' announcement, the Washington Post Company reported an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to a $33.2 million loss for the same period a year earlier.

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Not gluten-free.

It's baked like a pizza, cut into eight slices like a pizza, comes in a cardboard box like a pizza, but it's not a pizza: It's Papa John's new "Mega Chocolate Chip Cookie" — built big and brawny and probably made with nebulously billed "better ingredients" like everything else the chain puts out. The "family-style" dessert costs just $5 with purchase of a real pizza and joins the somewhat suspect, doughy ranks of Papa John's Applepie and Cinnapie. [Brand Eating]

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Filed Under: cookies, carbs, marketing gimmicks, papa johns

Iced coffee is trendy, we hear.

In addition to that full-service restaurant bound for its first Williamsburg retail store, Urban Outfitters is also opening a café selling Kickapoo Coffee drinks inside its Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan on October 7. Sprudge reports that the as-yet-unnamed in-store coffee shop will operate from a modular counter area in what looks like the store's lower level, so now you'll be able to get cortados and lattes while you stock up on troll earrings, cheeky welcome mats, unicorn iPhone covers, and the blood-red True Blood Soundtrack Volume 4. The opening marks the Wisconsin roaster's first foray into NYC. [Sprudge, Earlier]

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Filed Under: coming soon, coffee, kickapoo coffee, urban outfitters

It may have taken two years but Shake Shack's long-planned Grand Central Terminal outpost finally starts slinging Shackburgers this Saturday. The new burger mecca takes over the former Zocalo space in the lower level dining concourse, joining eateries like Magnolia Bakery, Junior's Restaurant and Zaro's Bakery that cater to the commuting set. [ more › ]

Vitamins is a design studio in London that made a wall calendar out of Lego. They also built a mechanism to sync an online calendar to the Lego one: you just take a photo of the Lego calendar and send it to a special email address and voilà!

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Tags: design   Legos   video

New residents of Palo Alto, California looking to have a home built for themselves will soon have an interesting new requirement: their house must be wired up to support an electric vehicle charger. According to Palo Alto Online, the city's council adopted a change to its building code last Tuesday that, once fully drafted and adopted in the coming months, will require all new homes to be wired in a way that will easily accommodate a charger. The chargers will reportedly add on about $200 to the cost of a new home — far less expensive than the $1,000 or $2,000 that retrofitting a home would cost.

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Not long after the release of the Galaxy S4 earlier this year, Samsung found itself accused of artificially (and secretly) boosting benchmark scores on its flagship phone to ensure it would outperform the competition. Samsung outright denied that it had intentionally done so, but now the scenario is repeating itself with the release of the Galaxy Note 3. Ars Technica noticed the odd behavior while reviewing the device, and the details closely mirror those of the original controversy.

When running popular benchmark apps, Samsung's latest phone quietly enables a special high-speed mode, leading to scores that blow away similarly specced devices. The LG G2 features an identical 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor to that inside the Note 3,...

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Number two on the list of promised future technologies that have yet to be delivered, right behind the flying car, is the personal jetpack. Hollywood's delivered them in spades thanks to special effects, but in real-life New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft is as close as we're going to get. And now it's even closer with the company's latest re-design of its Jetpack—the P12.

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After five grueling days of combat, it had all come down to this. With the score tied at two games apiece, Sweden’s team Alliance and the Ukraine’s team Na’Vi would battle one final time. It's the championship match of Valve Software’s annual tournament for the game DOTA 2. At stake was first place and the lion’s share of a $2.8 million prize pool, the largest in the history of competitive video gaming.

The players massaged aching fingers and strategized with their teammates. Each team selected a group of five mythical heroes they used to try and destroy the enemy’s home base. For the first 40 minutes it was a close match, but then things took a dramatic turn.

Both teams abandoned their defensive positions and threw...

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Jay Porter recently wrote a series of posts about his experience running a restaurant that abolished tipping. Here's part one:

This is a summary of the experiences I had in our no-tipping lab, and in my next few posts I'll dig a little deeper into each of them. Then I'll finish this series by talking about what I've learned this year from a couple new friends who are researchers from the University of Guelph, and who have brought me in contact with some deeper thoughts about the tipping issue, from the social justice side. After seeing what they and their colleagues have uncovered, I've become convinced that thoughtful cultures who value civil rights will make tipping not just optional but illegal; and that this could actually happen sooner rather than later, when courts assess the reality of the situation.

If you want the Cliff Notes version, Porter wrote a shorter piece for Slate.

When we switched from tipping to a service charge, our food improved, probably because our cooks were being paid more and didn't feel taken for granted. In turn, business improved, and within a couple of months, our server team was making more money than it had under the tipped system. The quality of our service also improved. In my observation, however, that wasn't mainly because the servers were making more money (although that helped, too). Instead, our service improved principally because eliminating tips makes it easier to provide good service.

Tags: business   economics   food   Jay Porter   restaurants   tipping

New York City’s economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media. But tech may be taking hold as a staple of the private sector, according to a new report, "Building a Digital City: the Growth and Impact of New York City’s Tech / Information Sector," commissioned by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private foundation. The study gives some clues as to how New York pulled off what many other cities are desperately attempting to do: invent a tech startup scene.

Rapid job growth has made the city’s tech and information industry the second-largest contributor to the private sector economy by wages, according to the study. The tech sector is also booming in the outer boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, while the...

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The days of an ad-free Gmail experience on Android may be coming to an end. According to Android Police, the latest version of Google's email app contains references to built-in advertisements. The uncovered code hints that users will be able to save ads that catch their interest as messages, but little else is known about the company's approach to mobile ads — or how intrusive they'll be. As part of Google's broad overhaul of Gmail back in May, it introduced a new Promotions tab that displays ads closely resembling regular inbox messages. At the time, Google insisted that most users would expect to find ads in a specialized Promotions section. Many users weren't happy with the change, even though it often results in fewer ads for...

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Carne asada fries from Lolita's. [Photographs: Erin Jackson]

While in San Diego, eating at least one plate of carne asada fries should be mandatory for all visitors, like an airport improvement tax, but tastier. That's not just because carne asada fries are a local invention, but also because they're awesome.

On top of a bed of french fries (typically shoestring), you get a pile of seasoned steak, a glob of guacamole, shredded cheese or Cotija crumbles, a drizzle of crema, and some pico de gallo. It's a Mexican-American mash-up—a multinational dish that takes inspiration from both sides of the border.

I've heard more than one local refer to carne asada fries as "San Diego's version of poutine," but that's only true in terms of the caloric payload and the fact that it's often consumed late at night, after several beers. It's really more like a carne asada burrito exploded on a plate of french fries, and the impact caused the flour tortilla to dematerialize.

Properly enjoying plate of carne asada fries requires full acceptance of the caloric implications, but even if you enter into the experience with some hesitation, it will dissipate after the first few bites. Because unlike many indulgent dishes, whose appeal quickly turns to regret, carne asada fries are so delicious, they're never a mistake.

For the most part, you won't find carne asada fries on most sit-down Mexican restaurant menus. They're taco shop fare: cheap, filling, and a bit messy. Here are three great places to get carne asada fries in San Diego:

Lolita's

The downtown Lolita's is a great option for carne asada fries before or after a Padres game. It's right beside Petco Park and within easy walking distance of the Convention Center and many downtown hotels. Overall, I think this shop does the best job executing all of the elements of the dish. You get a generous portion of seasoned steak cut into thin ribbons and sprinkled with Cotija cheese, a nice glob of guacamole, and just enough crema. Where Lolita's really excels is the details. The steak is crisp on the edges but still moist and tender, and the fries are perfectly golden brown—a lot like what you get McDonald's—and remain crisp, even with the melted cheese, crema, and guac on top.

Unlike most carne asada fries, this one comes without salsa. You can fill up containers with red and green salsas at the counter if you're taking your fries to go, but I like to eat in so I can use the squeeze bottles. That way, you get more control over the application, squirting a bit here and there, adjusting the amount based on personal preference.

Carne asada fries come in two sizes (small, $6 and large, $9). I'd stick with the small, even if you're sharing.

La Puerta

La Puerta has been my favorite place for happy hour in the Gaslamp Quarter for years. From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily (plus additional late-night specials), you can score appetizers and drinks for half price, which brings the carne asada fries from $10.99 to $5.49. La Puerta's version features thicker-cut fries than most, which taste a bit more starchy. Hit them with the salsa verde early and hard and you'll add some brightness.

The key difference with La Puerta's carne asada fries is the steak. It's cut in larger chunks and strips, which makes it a bit chewier, but the flavor is excellent. By default, the fries are served with grilled onions, but I'd get them on the side since they tend to overwhelm the other flavors and if you decide you'd rather not eat them, it's a lot easier than picking them off.

While you're there, you might as well go all-out. The Flautitas (potato taquitos) and chips and guac are both awesome, and at least one frozen cocktail is a must. My go-to is "Mr. MoJo Risin'," a frozen mojito served in a chilled mug (it's even tastier with a squirt of strawberry purée).

El Paisa

Just outside of downtown, El Paisa is where to go if you want a more authentic taco shop experience. Less attention is paid to getting the fries just right, and they could use a bit more cheese and guacamole on top, but you do get a ton of meat. A small serving of carne asada fries is $5.99. The steak is a good way to go, but they'll top your fries with any of the taco fillings, from carnitas to lengua. For $2.50 extra, it's worth adding a second type of meat. I like the al pastor (tangy pork marinated with chile and orange or pineapple juice) best.

You'll also get a complimentary platter of garnishes (radish, lime segments, onion, and cilantro) along with some chips and three varieties of salsa. Hint: what looks like the hot is actual the medium—it's the lighter red salsa that really has the most heat. To drink, there's Mexican Coke and an assortment of frescas.

For bonus points, head over to the taqueria next door after your meal and grab a stack of fresh corn or flour tortillas, or a paleta ($1) from the freezer.

About the author: Erin Jackson is a food writer and photographer who is obsessed with discovering the best eats in San Diego. You can find all of her discoveries on her San Diego food blog EJeats.com. On Twitter, she's @ErinJax

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Wine professionals acknowledge that at least 1 out of 20 bottles of wine—perhaps more like 1 out of every 10—is corked. That means flawed. Gone bad. Worthy of a refund.

Have you opened 10 bottles of wine in the last year? How many have you sent back? Or, better put, how many have you not sent back because you had no idea... or because you didn't want to be awkward, because you didn't want to look dumb.

Cork taint is just one wine flaw you can learn to identify; below we list seven of the most common. Knowing what to look out for and how to ask for an alternative bottle will help you drink much better.

Corked

Don't look at the cork; don't smell the cork; don't look for bits of cork in your glass—none of these will tell you if a wine is corked. The only way to identify cork taint is to smell and taste your wine. TCA—that's 2, 4, 6-trichloranisole for all you chem-nerds—is a compound that gets into cork and imparts a musty odor in the wine. Stick your nose in your glass and sniff around for notes of moldy cardboard, musty basement, or mangy sponge, all common indicators of TCA. Low levels of TCA can also "mute" a wine's other delicious aromas, so if your wine seems particularly DOA, ask for a second opinion or another bottle to compare.

Cooked

"Cooked" means that the wine has been overheated for a significant period of time. Warm temperatures (even those just over 75 degrees) dull or flatten a wine's flavor; in extreme situations the wine becomes stewed, prune-like or raisin-y in flavor. This is when it pays to know where your wine is coming from. Wine storage is super-important and all too often overlooked. A shelf in the window of a shop with the sun beating down on it? That wine, sadly, is screwed. A rack right next to the kitchen stove? Ditto.

Warning signs of cooked wine include a cork protruding from the top lip of the bottle or wine seepage around the cork, which indicates that the wine was heated and expanded, pushing the cork or wine out of the bottle.

Oxidized

Think of a crisp, green, Granny Smith apple. Now leave it cut up and lying out on the counter for a day. It turns brown and the flavors taste, well, brown, too: dried up, worn-out and cider-like. Oxidized wines are the same way, and they often have a nutty flavor. Older wines bottled with cork closures will naturally have some pleasant, subtle oxidative flavors as the cork has let in a tiny bit of oxygen over the years. However, young wines should be fresh and crisp.

Brett

Sniff for Band-Aids and barnyards. If a wine smells like either of these, it's affected with a yeast called brettanomyces (aka brett), which, like any yeast, can live all around us. In particular, brett likes hanging out in barrels in wineries, and once it's in your winery, it's notoriously difficult to evict. In fact, for this reason, some wines have become well-known for their distinctly bretty character. Some people (this author included) enjoy brett in small doses, as it can also convey meaty and spicy notes of bacon, leather or cloves. If, however, your wine smells like straight-up manure, feel free to request something different. Chances are good other bottles of the same wine will be likewise affected.

VA

VA stands for Volatile Acidity; it is naturally present in all wines in small quantities and usually causes no problems. But sometimes, when bad bacteria like acetobacter (which turns wine to vinegar) are in the winery, a sort of wine infection occurs between the bacteria, alcohol, and oxygen. In these cases, VA goes off the deep end and the wine's fresh, fruity flavors are destroyed with a sour, vinegary character left in its place. VA can also smell like nail polish. That's not a good thing.

Refermenting

Sometimes, a wine literally starts fermenting again in the bottle, leaving the wine spritzy and off-flavored. This happens when there are yeast and sugar still in the bottle. The yeast get hungry! And they eat the sugar, just doing their job. But the byproducts of fermentation are alcohol and carbon dioxide, so your wine will be a tiny bit bubbly. Bacteria left in the wine can also happily eat away at other normal components of a wine and spit out carbon dioxide and other off-putting aromatics. This is why wineries must practice great sanitation and typically use a little bit of sulfur and/or filtration to curb the yucky bacteria.

Sulfur

An emphatic note: Sulfur is not inherently a flaw. Sulfur is not inherently bad! Reasonable doses of sulfur in the winemaking process are important: sulfur helps prevent other flaws (see above) because it acts as a natural preservative and keeps bacteria at bay. Asking for a wine to be made without sulfur is a little like asking for your dinner to be made without the cook washing her hands. Risky.

However, like all things, too much of a good thing can turn bad. Excessive sulfur use will give wine nasty aromas of burnt matches or rubber. Two other sulfur-related flaws have to do with tricky chemical reactions that'll result in a wine that smells like rotten eggs or garlic and onions. Woof.

So you think you've spotted a flaw. Now what?

Ask for a second opinion! [Photograph: Shutterstock]

Any of the above warrants asking for a new bottle. Note: It's always polite to do so before you've polished off most of it!

In all cases, start your conversation at the time of purchase with a clear, open statement about your tastes and preferences. Don't be afraid to ask questions or seek advice. This original dialogue with the salesperson, server or sommelier will help ensure you head down the right path in the first place. When you first taste the wine (whether at home or in a restaurant), take your time. Don't be afraid to sniff, swirl, and swish the wine around in your mouth—a lot! If you're at all unsure about what you're smelling or tasting, mention your concerns right away and ask for the professional's opinion. A cool, vague, casual approach works best: "Hmm. I'm not sure about this wine. Would you mind tasting it and letting me know what you think?"

A good salesperson will know the character of the bottle well enough to ascertain whether the wine is showing "correctly" or is flawed. A flawed bottle will receive a swift replacement. Don't feel bad about this—the restaurant or shop can usually return flawed bottles to the distributor.

If the wine is sound, but just not to your personal taste, that can present a trickier situation. In many cases, the sommelier or salesperson will happily suggest something new and take the original bottle back. However, if the wine is particularly expensive, this may be harder for her to justify. In some states, returning alcohol to a retail shop is prohibited, so only exchanges for flawed bottles may be possible.

The bottom line is that there's no harm asking. Even if you're wrong, and the wine is perfectly good, who cares?! You'll likely learn a little about why the wine is tasting or smelling the way it is, and you'll be better able to enjoy it for what it is. And hey, in roughly 1 out of 20 cases you'll be right! The new bottle—and your subsequently better night—will make any anxiety in asking absolutely worth it.

About the Author: Stevie Stacionis is a wine writer and Certified Sommelier based in San Francisco. She's currently drinking her way through the 1,368 varieties included in Wine Grapes. Follow her on Twitter @StevieStacionis and check out her snobbery-free wine videos at A Drinks With Friends TV.

Valve has revealed a new controller optimized for Steam and Steam Machines devices, concluding this week's string of announcements aimed at bridging the gap between PC gaming and the living room. The peripheral will support the full catalog of Steam games released to date, and will include legacy support for older titles that lack controller support.

Contrasting "traditional gamepads," Valve's peripheral uses two trackpads, rather than the dual-analog setup common to consoles. Balancing the lack of physical sticks, Valve's controller uses haptic feedback, "allowing precise control over frequency, amplitude, and direction of movement."

The controller additionally features a touch-enabled surface with a high-resolution screen. The screen can also be clicked as a button. When a player taps the touch screen, its display overlays on top of the game itself, eliminating the need to look down at the controller during gameplay. According to Valve, "The screen allows an infinite number of discrete actions to be made available to the player, without requiring an infinite number of physical buttons."

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BIG NEWS! Want you to meet the newest addition to our Phil’s Phleet, Big Jawn!! Coming to midtown soon! pic.twitter.com/gfegfHM7Fp — Phil’s Steaks (@PhilsSteaks) September 24, 2013 Big things are coming for cheese steak favorite Phil’s Steaks. Earlier in the year they expanded to a second truck called Lil Jawn. Now, just months later, we [...]

Reports in August gave the world a new word in the intelligence lexicon: LOVEINT, the act of illicitly looking up a significant other with the NSA's surveillance tech. The offenses weren't supposed to be common, but a steady trickle of them were said to have been revealed over the years. And now, a letter sent to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveals details not only of people who violated the rules for LOVEINT, but of everyone that the NSA Office of the Inspector General has found to have willfully abused the NSA's capabilities since 2003.

The full list includes a dozen incidents, and the NSA says it has two open investigations and one case that could be investigated in the future — roughly consistent with the numbers we've been...

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Few bonds are stronger than that of a trainer and his Pokemon. Pokemon Origins, a four-episode anime series, retells the story bound in Pokemon Red and follows the titular boy Red that preceded Pikachu and his trainer, Ash Ketchum. The first episode premieres on November 15 on Pokemon TV.

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In the 1980s, Charles Ehret developed an antidote to jet lag called The Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet.

After experimenting on protozoa, rats, and his eight children, Ehret recommended that the international traveler, in the several days before his flight, alternate days of feasting with days of very light eating. Come the flight, the traveler would nibble sparsely until eating a big breakfast at about 7:30 a.m. in his new time zone -- no matter that it was still 1:30 a.m. in the old time zone or that the airline wasn't serving breakfast until 10:00 a.m. His reward would be little or no jet lag.

The diet was adopted by US government agencies and other groups as well as Ronald Reagan, but it difficult to stick to. Recently, researchers in Boston have devised a simpler anti-jet lag remedy:

The international traveler, they counsel, can avoid jet lag by simply not eating for twelve to sixteen hours before breakfast time in the new time zone-at which point, as in Ehret's diet, he should break his fast. Since most of us go twelve to sixteen hours between dinner and breakfast anyway, the abstention is a small hardship.

According to the Harvard team, the fast works because our bodies have, in addition to our circadian clock, a second clock that might be thought of as a food clock or, perhaps better, a master clock. When food is scarce, this master clock suspends the circadian clock and commands the body to sleep much less than normally. Only after the body starts eating again does the master clock switch the circadian clock back on.

Totally trying this the next time I have to travel, although the Advil PM/melatonin combination my doctor suggested worked really well for me on my trip to New Zealand. (via @genmon)

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Starbucks has evidently decided soda is the way of the future. But they need a name. So, what vaguely Italian-sounding word will they use to indicate that Starbucks soda is fancier than regular old pop? "Fizzio," apparently. [NBC, Earlier]

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has finally admitted that forcing users to press the Control-Alt-Delete key combination to log into a PC was a mistake. In an interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Gates discusses his early days building Microsoft and the all-important Control-Alt-Delete decision. If you've used an old version of the software or use Windows at work then you will have experienced the odd requirement. Gates expains the key combination is designed to prevent other apps from faking the login prompt and stealing a password.

"It was a mistake," Gates admits to an audience left laughing at his honesty. "We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single...

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The topic of CEO compensation is a thorny one around the world, but it's of most pressing interest in Finland right now, where an entire nation is reeling from the loss of its most iconic business. Many in the country, including its prime minister, find it unconscionable that Stephen Elop — the Canadian boss who led Nokia right up until the sale of its phone division to Microsoft earlier this month — is receiving a final payout of $25 million for his efforts. The sale in itself, rightly or wrongly, is perceived as a betrayal by Elop, so the lump sum payment he's now entitled to feels like adding insult to injury.

Cognizant of that precarious situation, Nokia has apparently urged its outgoing CEO to accept a reduced compensation...

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Two weeks after Apple's September 10th reveal of a champagne-colored iPhone, Samsung is launching its own golden phone in the shape of a new Gold Edition Galaxy S4. There are two options, Gold Pink or Gold Brown, which Samsung is proudly showing off on its United Arab Emirates social media outlets. It's doubtful that these handsets will make it to a global distribution — they look to be targeted at the same well-off demographic that might consider buying a handset like the Nokia Oro — but the important thing is that Samsung can now claim to also have a golden flagship product.

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Google's same-day delivery shopping service is making its first big expansion. All residents of San Francisco, San Jose, and the Peninsula within Google's delivery zone will now be able to start using the online store, opening it up from just the collection of testers who have been using it since its announcement in March. The service allows shoppers to order from both local and chain retailers that have signed up with Google Shopping Express, all of which offer their products at the same prices in stores and online. Though Google's offering six months of free delivery, it says that it'll begin charging for deliveries after that period.

Though Google Shopping Express is still limited in scope, same-day delivery is quickly becoming a...

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Spearhead Games' action puzzler Tiny Brains will be a PS4 launch title, 505 Games has announced. The game will simultaneously launch November 15 on PS4, PS3 and PC, though the publisher didn't mention a release date for Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions.

Tiny Brains has players controlling one of four super-charged rodents: a mouse, gerbil, rabbit and not-quite-naked mole rat, solving puzzles with friends to escape a mad scientist's experiments. The co-op campaign features drop-in, drop-out multiplayer and the game includes competitive and challenge modes. In our time with Tiny Brains at E3, we likened it to Pinky and the Brain in Quantum Conundrum's world.

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