For those who just want a change of scenery, the Tetra Shed might be just what you're looking for. London-based design studio at Innovation Imperative has unveiled, Tetra Shed, an 86 square feet timber constructed office pod that's completely portable, enabling geeks to set up a work space right in their backyard. Continue reading for a video and more information.
When places next to an iPhone 5s on the left as a comparison, the iPhone 6 front panel boasts a 5.1-inch diagonal, and a 16-to-9 aspect ratio, which by the way, is identical current iPhone 4-inch display ratio. Apple Insider notes that "Apple is likely to keep a consistent aspect ratio in order to make the transition to a larger screen size as easy as possible for developers. When combined with a properly chosen display resolution, apps would be able to scale with little or no modification." Continue reading for one more picture and information.
The weekend is almost upon us, and you know what that means, a Facebook news feed filled with even more chatter than during the week. Unfortunately, you will come across many posts like the examples above, such as criticizing someone while being entirely wrong yourself or calling pork loin, "lion". Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video showing why you should not be taking selfies when a train is barreling towards you.
It's been a decent week for Kim Dotcom.
After throwing a lavish pool party and picnic for his newly founded political group dubbed The Internet Party, Dotcom learned that his assets, which were seized after the infamous raid on his New Zealand home in 2012, could possibly be returned
The High Court at Auckland declined a request to extend the order restraining Dotcom's assets on Wednesday, which means his property could be returned to him within the next 14 days, although the government can now appeal the decision. Read more...
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This is a quick tale of positive karma.
Former Bee Gees front man Barry Gibb, the last surviving member of the genre-blurring music group, has chosen Jared & The Mill as the opening act of his U.S. tour. The Phoenix-based band memorably — and unselfishly — gave a private hospital-room concert last month to 18-year-old Mason Endres, days after she was struck by an intoxicated driver during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Gibb's selection is a reminder that good deeds don't go unnoticed.
And now, six cities along the "Mythology the Tour Live" will get to experience the same music that comforted Endres in her hospital bed, where she recovered from a broken nose and leg as well as a fractured neck. Read more...
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Held at gunpoint after his brother abandoned him roadside in the Australian outback, Robert Pattinson's character Rey in The Rover is forced to help the gun-toting loner Eric get back the valuables that his sketchy sibling and fellow thieves stole
"Your brother left you to die," gun wielder Eric (played by Memento's Guy Pearce) tells Rey. "If you don't learn to fight, your death is going to come real soon."
The dramatic trailer for The Rover, which is set in a dangerous future where civilization and its laws have disintegrated into anarchy, came out Thursday — the same day the film was chosen as a Cannes Film Festival selection. It will now debut at the festival in May Read more...
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Photo Sphere product manager Evan Rapoport, who also manages Maps, Street View, Views, and Panoramio, had one more tidbit of Google Camera-related news to convey today. In a post to Google+, Rapoport announced that photo spheres had gotten a major boost to 50MP (about 11776x5884 pixels). This is up from around 8MP in the previous app, and the results are beautiful.
If you liked photo spheres before, you're going to love them now - Rapoport shared his own Views collection with new higher resolution spheres, and they are crisp, clear, and a pleasure to look at.
With New Camera App, Photo Spheres Get Huge Boost To 50 Megapixels was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Pro-Russian separatists may own the ground around the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, but they don't control the air
That's the message the Ukrainian Air Force had for activists that gathered there Wednesday when a Ukrainian fighter jet, rumored to be a MIG-29, made a dramatic flyover above a group of separatists blocking rail lines.
See also: My Escape From Eastern Ukraine
People look at a Ukrainian military jet fly above them in Kramatorsk. REUTERS/Maks Levin http://t.co/iNWHdgakbe pic.twitter.com/7IcbeigPeG
— Mark Kolmar -Reuters (@mpkolmar) April 16, 2014
The plane featured an insignia for the Ukrainian Falcons, the Air Force's aerobatic display team, The Aviationist reported. Read more...
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Google is simply on a roll today! As it turns out, the stock camera wasn't the only new app to hit the Play Store today - we now have the Chromoting app as well. Chromoting, for those unfamiliar with it, is a way to securely access your computer remotely by connecting to Chrome running a special Chrome Remote Desktop app. Anyone familiar with Remote Desktop, VNC, and other similar apps should feel instantly at home with Chromoting.
Google Releases Chromoting App For Accessing Computers Remotely From Android Devices [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Most of the time, we execute APK teardowns by comparing the code of older app versions to an updated version. Newly released apps can hold juicy information too, though. We've quickly taken apart Google's newly released camera app and discovered a few tidbits worth mentioning.
Our primary target for this teardown is the strings file. This file holds a wealth of strings not yet revealed in the interface that look like they'll bring missing features back and add some new ones, too.
[APK Teardown] Advanced Camera Mode, Photo Sphere Live Wallpaper, And More Hiding In Google Camera was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Check out what happens in the new Google Camera app when you attempt to take a video in portrait mode:
Thank you, Google.
Those still wondering why vertical videos are bad should watch this:
With Its New Camera, Google Declares War On Vertical Videos was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
There's an endless stream of selfies and ways to take selfies out there, but few are as impressive or grand as the one that Photojojo founder Amit Gupta took over the weekend using a drone. As spotted by Kottke, Gupta has been toying around with drone self-portraits for at least a couple months now, using a mounted camera to capture himself and the world around him. In this most recent one, Gupta captures himself and two others (Hatching Twitter writer Nick Bilton, for one) before flying the drone out away from them over a hill and road. The wide angle makes for incredible, dreamy imagery that gets across a whole lot more than the average Instagram video might.
Cinematographer Wally Pfister first teamed up with Christopher Nolan on Memento, and he’s been a vital part of the director’s team ever since. On films like The Dark Knight and Inception, Pfister’s Oscar-winning visual sensibilities allowed Nolan to crystallize his brand of thinking-person’s blockbuster. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that when it came time for Pfister to step away and direct a film himself, he opted for a big-budget thriller straight from the Nolan...
Fearless gastronomes take note: KFC's Double Down, an item the company introduced in 2010 that featured melted cheese and bacon sandwiched between two fried chicken fillets, is coming back next week, according to USA Today.
The alleged sandwich will return to KFC's menu on April 21 — one day too late for Colorado.
Once again, the item will be available for a limited time, through May 25. KFC plans to promote the reintroduction with a social media campaign themed "Double Down Dare," a company rep says.
When it first launched the Double Down in April 2010, KFC got a huge wave of press including a mention on The Colbert Report Read more...
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This happened back in March, at the 2014 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships, and there is just so much to love about it. What you are watching is a synchronized skating team called the Starlights absolutely losing its collective mind after seeing its score from the short program.
From fast and light to full-on stompers, we tested a dozen hiking boots for this spring.
The public transportation workers are not kidding around when they insist you stay behind the yellow line. One young man learned the hard way — or did he?
Jared Michael decided he needed the perfect travel selfie. Michael apparently got a little too close to the train — like really too close. In the video above, a train conductor (presumably) who happened to have his foot out kicks Michael in the head.
Video: YouTube, Jared Michael
Fortunately, Michael was unharmed and even a little too excited for what just happened.
"Wow, that guy just kicked me in the head — I think I got that on film," exclaimed Michael immediately after the incident. Read more...
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Matias Duarte helped design the T-Mobile Sidekick, the Helio Ocean, and Palm's webOS. Now, he directs the look and feel of Google's Android operating system. He's probably not the guy you'd expect to say "mobile is dead." Those were the words that left his mouth, though, at the 2014 Accel Design Conference in San Francisco. There, Verge editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky interviewed him about his thoughts on design and where Android is headed.
If you watch the full interview below, you can not only find out what Duarte meant, but also watch him torture our fearless leader with the barest glimpse at an unannounced smartwatch running Android Wear. Also, flying castles and ponies may or may not make an appearance.
Coachella's first weekend had no shortage of surprises.
Those unexpected moments incited quite the buzz on Twitter, where attendees in California and people watching live streams from afar on YouTube posted more than 1.6 million tweets about the action from April 11 to April 14.
Here are the top five most-tweeted moments based on Twitter analytics:
Beyonce and Solange perform together at Coachella at the Empire Polo Club on April 12 in Indio, Calif.
Image: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Out of nowhere, Beyonce returned to Coachella for the first time since 2010 when on Saturday she made an energetic cameo during her younger sister Solange's set. Read more...
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The much-anticipated Apple iWatch may come with a flexible display manufactured by LG, a new report suggests.
According to Korean website Naver (and a translation via G for Games, LG will be the exclusive supplier for the iWatch's flexible display. This coincides with other reports that surfaced in January, indicating LG would be a major player in developing displays for the connected smartwatch
Also in line with rumors, the sources said the iWatch will come in two sizes: 1.3 inches and 1.5 inches. We could also see the smartwatch debut with various material options, which could put some models into the thousands of dollars bracket Read more...
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Google revealed new details about its plans for Project Ara, the company's highly anticipated Android-powered modular smartphone at its Project Ara developers conference Tuesday.
The conference aims to give developers a better understanding of how they can take advantage of the platform, and elaborates on the guidelines revealed to them last week when Google released its Module Developers Kit.
Paul Eremenko, head of Project Ara, said two more developers conferences are planned for July and September of this year, and the first smartphones are expected to ship next January. Android will be updated in December, prior to the release of the phones, to support Ara's modular components. Read more...
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Four people are dead, 55 are injured and hundreds are missing after a ferry carrying more than 470 people capsized off the southern coast of South Korea.
Officials fear the death toll will rise throughout the day.
The ship, which was carrying a number of high school students on a trip to a nearby island, sent out a distress signal at 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday, NPR reports
The Republic of Korea Coast Guard work at the site of ferry sinking accident off the coast of Jindo Island on April 16, 2014 in Jindo-gun, South Korea. Four people are confirmed dead and almost 300 are reported missing.
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At the recent Accel Design Conference, Google's head of design for Android, his holo-ness Matias Duarte, sat down for an interview with The Verge Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolsky. The wide-ranging chat touched on how Duarte approaches design, some things he looks at when thinking about Android's UX, and the death of mobile. How's that for a teaser?
Duarte explains how design is a process for him, and how that figured into transitioning Android to a more user-friendly experience.
Android Design Head Matias Duarte Talks About The Essence Of Design, Google I/O, And The Death Of Mobile was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
So you think you're too cool for selfies? Well, NASA's Curiosity rover traveled millions of miles and landed on Mars with a rocket sled, and it has taken a selfie or two. Having established the huge importance of selfies, you're probably chomping at the bit to take some, so why not use the new camera app Frontback? You can probably guess what it does from the name.
This app came to iOS last year, and has been pretty well-received.
[New App] Frontback Arrives On Android To Bring Context To Your Selfies was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
The day is over halfway expired, but that should be plenty of time to decide if you want to take advantage of a one-day sale Amazon’s having on Kingston MicroSD cards.
We’ve got 8GB all the way through 32GB — sorry, folks, but there aren’t any 128GB models to be found here. The quick breakdown of goods available:
All of them come are class 10 UHS-1 standard, and come with a standard-sized SD adapter for use with any slot that’ll take them.
It’s no SanDisk sale, but Kingston isn’t a bad brand to get behind for reliable, quality microSD cards. Head to Amazon using the links above to check them out if you’re interested (but be quick about it, because it won’t last long).
