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Using large containers of cooking liquids usually means imprecise pours or the dirtying of additional containers like measuring cups or Pyrex. The Vremi Olive Oil Dispenser lets you store, measure, and precisely pour from a single container with no mess, and even looks good in the process.

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 Just Eat’s new range of branded illuminated scooters feature backlit boxes carrying the new Just Eat logo and will soon be lighting up the streets of London. Read More

On Monday, I found myself behind the wheel of a Ford Fusion driving down a Pittsburgh street lined with gorgeous Romanesque brick factories. The sky was a cloudless blue, the Allegheny River sparkled seductively through the trees, and I was able to drink in all the splendor of the day without distraction because I wasn’t actually driving the car. This was one of Uber’s new self-driving cars, and I was behind the wheel, admiring the view. That is, until the Ford SUV in front of me stopped without warning.

Time slowed down. My brain issued the signal to brake, but before my foot could respond, the car braked on its own. It was abrupt but gentle, the kind of stop that would have caused my wife to raise a disapproving eyebrow, but only...

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“Shila the Pomeranian dog plays Piano.”

This is actually what I look like when I play the piano, too: “i have no idea what I am doing.”

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 Confirming earlier reports that YouTube was planning to introduce more social networking features to its service, the company announced this morning the launch of YouTube Community, which allows video creators to better engage viewers using text, GIFs, images and more. The goal with the new features is to help keep creators from departing to competing platforms by offering more tools… Read More

When it acquired calendar app Sunrise, Microsoft promised that its features would eventually come to Outlook. That moment arrives today with a big update to Outlook on Android and iOS that delivers several of Sunrise's best features to the Outlook calendar. That likely won't satisfy hardcore Sunrise users still upset the app is going away — and after a last-minute stay of execution on August 31st, Sunrise is finally dying today. But the new features in Outlook are robust enough that most users will want to give the calendar another look.

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When Google announced the arrival of Android Pay on Chase in the US to the relieved sighs of many a customer and Android user, it also let us know that some new banks would be joining the ranks in the UK. At the time, the news was limited to Santander and TSB, although some avid British users had unearthed signs of support for others like Natwest, but it wasn't official nor was it functional yet.

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Android Pay comes today to Natwest, Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Ulster Bank in the UK was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Carrie Tolstedt is the Wells Fargo executive who presided over a titanic, multi-year fraud through which at least 5,300 of the employees who reported to her opened up fake accounts in Wells' customers' names, racking up fees and fines, trashing the customers' credit ratings, and, incidentally, pulling in record revenues for Tolstedt's department, which Wells' management recognized by giving her a $125M parting gift when she left the company at the end of July, just weeks before the scandal broke. (more…)

 Amazon this morning rolled out another perk for subscribers to its Amazon Prime membership program: free access to Audible’s short-form digital programming called Audible Channels, as well as a selection of free audiobooks. Amazon says members will have access to a rotating selection of over 50 audiobooks from Audible’s catalog. That’s similar to how the Kindle Lending… Read More

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.

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Hotlap Heroes

Android Police coverage: Hotlap Heroes brings top-down local racing with up to 8 players to Android TV

It's not often that we see a game that's exclusive to Android TV, except for the ones that NVIDIA snags for its SHIELD.

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31 new and notable Android games from the last 2 weeks (8/31/16 - 9/12/16) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Many millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth and sea dragons were not just Hollywood creations, but fearsome predators that stalked the oceans. It’s a world that vanished long ago, but one that continues to fascinate those seeking to understand the origins of life on our planet.

Starting today, anyone, anywhere can explore this world on Google Arts & Culture. We’ve partnered with 50+ of the world’s leading natural history institutions to bring this lost world to life again online. More than 150 interactive stories from experts, 300,000 new photos and videos, and more than 30 virtual tours await you...



With just a few clicks, you can come face to face with a 180 million year old giant, as virtual reality raises the colossal sea dragon from extinction. Discovered in Dorset in the U.K. and residing at London’s Natural History Museum. The Rhomaleosaurus — to give it its formal name — can now be explored in 360 degrees.



We also used VR to bring the Giraffatitan back to life in Berlin’s natural history museum. Standing at 13 meters (42 feet), it’s one of the tallest dinosaurs that ever lived. It was twice as tall as today’s giraffes, and could easily put its head through a fourth floor window.


We wanted to give you a glimpse of how these colossal creatures actually looked. So we worked with ecologists, paleontologists and biologists to put virtual skin and flesh on the preserved skeletons. From the size of the eye to the position of the snout and the bend of the neck, the texture and creases of the skin were all painstakingly recreated, and verified by a team of scientists. For the best experience, use a viewer like Google Cardboard to look the beast in the eye.

In addition to the VR experiences, this global exhibition of natural history has plenty more for experts and armchair explorers alike:

• Turn back time by 4.6 billion years with the help of the Natural History Museum by scrolling through the history of life from the origins of the solar system, through the rise and the fall of prehistoric worlds.
• See the giant sloth jaw that led Darwin to his groundbreaking theory of natural selection.
• Explore the diversity of nature from the Lion fish to the Paradise Birdwing and learn from birds about the art of flirting.
• View 3,000 species on display in one giant cabinet or find out how our own predecessors may have looked.
• With Street View, walk around dinosaurs in New York, explore 30+ natural history museums from to Australia to Russia and even go underwater with turtles in Brazil.
• Join YouTube’s Vsauce2 to discover the story of Martha, the last passenger pigeon.

The free collection opens today at g.co/naturalhistory and through the Google Arts & Culture mobile app on iOS and Android. And if you’re a teacher, there are more than 20 new Google Expeditions waiting for you and your classroom to discover. We hope you enjoy this journey through the history of nature as much as we do.


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She's a rescue kitty, and her human just showed her a red dot on the wall for the very first time.

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 EBay today is launching a new program that aims to capitalize on the large number of older iPhones and other mobile devices poised to hit the resale market, thanks to the launch of the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models, announced last week. Called “Quick Sale,” the new program is powered by eBay Valet – the service where eBay pairs consumers with power sellers who… Read More

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Read it later apps are massively popular, with examples such as Instapaper or Pocket being among the most downloaded apps on Google Play. Google is also getting into the game now, albeit in a different way, with the Chrome team adding a read it later feature to the development versions of the browser.

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Chrome Dev and Beta add a Read it later/Keep tab feature to Custom Tabs was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Following solid rumors that the next Google flagship smartphones will be designated Pixel and Pixel XL, we now have even more substantial evidence that the beloved Nexus nameplate will be retired. ROM developer LlabTooFeR has posted several screenshots of the rebadged launcher on Twitter.

   

It looks exactly like the Nexus Launcher.

Visually, the launcher looks identical to the previously leaked Nexus Launcher; there are no changes to be found anywhere.

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The Nexus Launcher is being renamed Pixel Launcher, and it's not hard to figure out why was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Sean Sullivan was fired from his police job in Oregon in 2004 for sexual contact with a 10 year old girl; in 2005, Cedar Vale, KS hired him to be their police chief, where he was accused of having sexual contact with another young girl, and eventually convicted of burglary and criminal conspiracy -- he's currently doing time in a Washington state prison for meth possession and identity theft. (more…)

We tend to value items more when we pay with cash because we feel more connected to the purchase. A recent study financed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that consumers also spend less when they pay with cash, especially when they’re exposed to frequent reminders.

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The study looked at 14,000 credit union consumers who had a revolving balance on their credit cards. They wanted to see if financial “rules of thumb” could actually help these consumers lower their revolving credit card debt. They tested two rules: one was paying cash for purchases under $20, and the second was reminding customers that paying with a card can add 20% to a purchase when you revolve that credit card balance. They sent out these reminders via email and banner ads and even sent customers magnets that included one of two reminders:

• “Don’t swipe the small stuff. Use cash when it’s under $20.”
• “Credit keeps charging. It adds approximately 20 percent to the total.”

The study found that when consumers were reminded to pay with cash, they had less revolving debt six months later. Researchers concluded:

Consumers who received the first rule of thumb had, on average, $104 less in revolving debt six months later; their balances were 2 percent lower than their baseline average.

It might not seem like a huge amount for a six month period, but when you’re paying interest on a credit card balance that you keep revolving, that’s significant. The research supports a 2012 study that found people were willing to spend twice as much for an item with a credit card as opposed to cash.

It goes to show that tiny actions can add up, and a few reminders can help. For more on the study, head to the links below.

An Evaluation of the Impacts of Two “Rules of Thumb” for Credit Card Revolvers | Urban Institute via New York Times

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French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi SA and Alphabet-owned Verily Life Sciences LLC are investing $500 million in a joint venture that will address the global diabetes epidemic. The new company, called Onduo, will be led by Joshua Riff, previously an executive at UnitedHealth.

Onduo will initially focus on Type II diabetes, which affects 90 percent of those with the disease. This form of the disease develops when the body cannot properly use the insulin produced by the pancreas. It is usually treated with a combination of dietary change, careful monitoring of blood sugar levels, and insulin injections to correct the blood sugar levels.

Diabetes is one of the most lucrative avenues of health research because there’s a fortune to be made...

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The U.K. organization Clinic Compare has created a set of GIFs that replicate the experience of being colorblind. Far from just seeing the world in black and white, it turns out there are a whole bunch of different types of colorblindness. Here’s some of the ways the condition can manifest:

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Professional domino artist Hevesh5 does a lot of great domino builds, but this colorful triple spiral is both beautiful and relaxing to watch. (more…)

Optical illusions have a way of breaking the internet, and the latest visual trick looks like it’s well on its way. On Sunday afternoon, game developer Will Kerslake tweeted a picture of intersecting gray lines on a white background. Twelve black dots blink in and out of existence where the gray lines meet. In the six hours since he posted the photo to Twitter, it’s been shared more than 6,000 times, with commenters demanding to know why they can’t see all twelve dots at the same time.

The optical illusion was first posted to Facebook about a day ago by Japanese psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka, and it has been shared more than 4,600 times so far. But the origin of this bit of visual trickery is a scientific paper published in the...

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 No one person can take sole credit for Star Trek’s success, not even creator Gene Roddenberry. But Leonard Nimoy could take a pretty good claim to being the franchise’s heart, or at least its face to the outside world, having portrayed Trek’s most iconic character on the original show, plus the animated series and six feature films — and that’s before his… Read More

 Do you own a dog or a cat and also hold down a job that takes you out of your house? Chances are that if you do, you’ve bemoaned a common challenge: how do you make sure your pet doesn’t get too lonely while you are away? A project called Doge Ball, presented today at the Disrupt SF 2016 Hackathon, has developed a new piece of hardware that could be the answer. Part influenced… Read More

A philanthropist asked a racecar designer to make an all-terrain vehicle suitable for humanitarian missions in Africa. The result was the Ox, “the world’s first flatpack truck” — meaning it can be packed up into a flat box and shipped like Ikea furniture.

The truck is absurdly simple to assemble: its designers claim that three people can break it down into 60 parts in just 12 hours. (Apparently no one involved with the truck's creation has ever tried to put together the Liatorp.) This allows the Ox to be shipped cheaply to developing nations in Africa, where aid workers can use it to transport water, grain, fertilizer, and building materials, the company says. The boxy truck can seat 13 people and carry up to 4,100 pounds of cargo.

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Amazon’s retail plans are growing from a single brick-and-mortar bookstore to a large network of pop-up shops in US malls, according to a report from Business Insider. These retail locations are said to be distinct from Amazon’s existing Seattle storefront, focusing not on books but on its growing number of consumer electronic devices. Those gadgets include the Kindle and Amazon Fire product lines, the Fire TV set-top box, the Dash button, and the Echo and Amazon Tap speakers.

The company has already begun the rollout, with 21 stores located in 12 states across the country. A new Amazon website details each of these locations, describing the pop-up shops as a way to ask experts about products, demo those products, and shop for...

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Apple’s secretive car initiative, code-named Titan, has progressed to real-world testing on a closed track, according to a report from The New York Times today. The testing of autonomous vehicle software is indicative of a recent "reboot" in strategy for Apple, which is said to be moving away from building its own electric car to focus on developing self-driving software.

The shift toward software is part of a new plan from longtime Apple executive Bob Mansfield. He came out of retirement to lead the Titan division after former project head Steven Zadesky left the company earlier this year. Mansfield’s refined focus has led to a number of job cuts, The New York Times reports, and it illustrates the difficulties of initially trying to...

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 It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal basic income (UBI), in a way that successfully leaves some progressively minded people afraid. Read More

Samsung has made great efforts to make the Galaxy Note 7 global recall as painless and quick as possible. Earlier today they released information about the replacement Note 7 stock in Australia, revealing that (at least in the land down under) replacement stock will be available September 21. But the second part of the announcement is noteworthy - Samsung has a plan to identify safe Note 7 devices from the original batch.

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Samsung will identify fixed battery Note 7s with marking, will establish an IMEI check tool was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Even the smallest of paper cuts can leave you with a lingering, uncomfortable pain that feels like something much worse. Here’s why paper cuts are more irritating than most other cuts and scrapes.

Jason G. Goldman at BBC Future spoke with Dr. Hayley Goldbach, a resident physician at UCLA, to find out why paper cuts hurt more than most other cuts. Goldbach said it came down to these three key reasons:

1. Most paper cuts happen on your fingers, where there are more pain receptors embedded in your skin than almost anywhere else in your body. But this is a good thing overall. Goldbach explains that fingertips are how we explore the world and perform delicate tasks, so they need a built-in safety mechanism.
   
2. Paper edges look straight and smooth like a razor, but they’re actually more like a serrated saw blade. When you get cut, the paper is actually ripping, tearing, and shredding its way through your skin. Ouch.
   
3. Paper cuts are deep enough to get past the top layers of the skin and reach the pain receptors, but shallow enough that they usually don’t result in much bleeding. That means blood doesn’t immediately rush in to clot, protect, and begin healing the wound. Your nerves remain exposed so they keep sending pain signals to the brain.
   

That’s why it’s important to quickly bandage a paper cut and protect it from the elements. Otherwise you’ll have a sore finger for much longer. If you seem to get paper cuts all the time, a little hand cream might help protect your poor fingers.

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Why paper cuts hurt so much | BBC Future

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