After acquiring comics download platform Comixology last year, Amazon is again tightening its grasp on the digital comics industry. The retail giant announced a new deal last night with publisher Marvel that will allow Kindle owners to download single issues of the publisher's comics directly from Amazon's store. The deal makes more than 12,000 Marvel back issues — from Spider-Man to Star Wars — available on Kindle without requiring the use of the Comixology app.
The most common way of representing Africa on maps and globes dramatically understates the size of the continent.
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From entire rooms to pocket-sized items, anything can be hidden in plain sight. All it takes is some imagination – and the right tools.
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The thrill seeker's lush green paradise. The adrenaline junkie's pilgrimage destination. The pinnacle of bike road racing. It's hard to find the perfect, all-encompassing superlative to describe the intoxicating mix of prestige, danger, speed, and excitement that the Isle of Man represents. The Tourist Trophy week of racing that this small island plays host to every year is regarded with nothing short of reverence among motorcycling fans. This year, I came along for the ride to look at how a new breed of electric bikes is carving out a niche for itself in the nascent TT Zero class. Check out my favorite pictures from the trip below and make sure to also read the full report from my time on the island.
Knyttan, the London-based on-demand fashion startup and graduate of Techstars London, has picked up £2 million in seed funding to help it disrupt the garment production industry. London-based Connect Ventures, who are perhaps best known for being an early backer of Citymapper, led the round, with participation from Frederic Court’s new fund Felix Capital, Playfair Capital, and… Read More
The new Google Photos wants to help you sort though and share your memories — and for the most part it's pretty good. However the Stories and Movies features aren't without their frustrations.
When the new Google Photos update landed on my LG G4, I'd just stepped off an 11-hour flight to China to begin a two-week stint in Asia. I'd be covering a couple different events for Mobile Nations — first Lenovo TechWorld in Beijing, then Computex in Taipei — but I'd also have the chance to explore a part of the world I hadn't seen before. Naturally, I'd be taking a lot of photos. So this ended up being a good real-world test of Google's new photo service, which aims to deliver everything you need for photo management, cloud backup and sharing.
Head past the break for a quick primer on using Google Photos' cloud backup, stories and movies features to document your travels, as well as potential pitfalls to watch out for.
There are seven Android Wear smartwatches in the wild today — five of the them still available for purchase. But which one's the best? We'll help you narrow down your pick — and take a look at what's coming up in the future — with our updated list of the best Android Wear watches you can get.
BlackBerry has slowly but surely realized that their best bet for continued existence is to somehow bridge the app compatibility gap that Android and iOS boast in comparison to their platform. The route they have taken is adding the ability to natively run Android apps within the BlackBerry OS, which quite honestly is a good idea. The next step is getting those apps to users. For American users, that starts today, as a new OS update will bring the Amazon Appstore along with it.
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Twitter’s plan to expand its reach doesn’t require that it also grow its user base, something which it has not done at a pace investors have found satisfactory since going public in 2013. A new report from BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan details ‘Project Lightning,’ a new initiative at the company that’s designed to reach both logged in and non-member audiences,… Read More
While I applaud Pope Francis for his interest in the environment the problem that’s driving climate change isn’t unsustainable consumption – it’s unsustainable population growth. If we don’t stop world wide population growth then no amount of austerity or technology is going to save us. We need birth control.
It’s simple math. If we cut our resource usage in half and the population doubles we have gained nothing. We live on a finite sized planet with a growing population. That isn’t sustainable.
One of the leading causes of population growth is the Catholic Church’s opposition to birth control. If the Pope is truly interested in climate change he should reverse this church policy. The Pope is in a unique position to impact the climate and it is irresponsible for him not to act. If the Pope reversed on birth control and asked families to limit themselves to 2 children he would have more impact on climate change than anything the United Nations can do.
Illustrator James Chapman decided to add “-ing” to movie titles and then draw an image to represent these new and improved films. Read the rest
For three years, makers have hacked together some terrific and janky DIY Raspberry Pi cases (like these). Finally, Ebon Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have produced their own official Raspberry Pi case. Read the rest
YouTube announced today a trio of initiatives designed to expand the video-sharing site’s role in new media journalism, including eyewitness news. Most notably, the company is launching a service called YouTube Newswire in partnership with social news agency Storyful, which will introduce a curated and verified feed of the day’s most newsworthy events being published to YouTube.… Read More
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Seattle has America's fourth-largest homeless population and virtually everything homeless people do is illegal in Washington State, which has added 288 new offenses related to homelessness to its statute-books since 2000 -- amazingly, this did not convince those homeless people to stop being homeless.
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While companies like Facebook have been relatively open about their data center networking infrastructure, Google has generally kept pretty quiet about how it connects the thousands of servers inside its data centers to each other (with a few exceptions). Today, however, the company revealed a bit more about the technology that lets its servers talk to each other. Read More
NASA often has to defend its existence to people who claim we're better off spending the agency's money "down here on Earth." This happens so often that NASA even has an entire section of its website dedicated to the Earthly technologies — "spinoffs," as the agency calls them — it's developed over the years.
It might soon add another one to the list, because the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is working with NASA to use the space agency's heat shield technology to protect firefighters. The collaboration is an excellent idea; NASA has invested millions of dollars into developing heat-resistant materials to protect its spacecraft and astronauts during their fiery returns to Earth, and firefighters need as much protection as...
Dropbox today rolled out a new feature that will allow those without an account to share files with Dropbox users. Called “File Requests,” the option gives anyone you ask the ability to upload files into your Dropbox account, into a folder of your choosing. Through a simple interface on Dropbox.com/requests, you can specify what file or files you’re looking for, and… Read More
Gogoro, the Taiwanese company responsible for the most ambitious electric scooter we've seen, has announced preliminary prices for its vehicles. The Smartscooter will be available to preorder in Taipei for NTD$128,000 or around $4,140, although the company has stressed that this is an introductory offer only, and doesn't necessarily reflect how much the Smartscooter could cost in other countries.
For NTD$128,000, customers get the scooter itself, one year of theft insurance, and two years of free maintenance and roadside servicing. More importantly, they also get two years' access to "all-you-can-swap" electric batteries from Gogoro's charging stations. These batteries are the only way of charging the Superscooter though, and Gogoro is...
Amazon is updating the Kindle Paperwhite today with a new display, now at 300 pixels per inch. That's twice as sharp as the last iteration and the equal of the more expensive Kindle Voyage. Essentially, at $119, it takes away the biggest reason to opt for the $199 Voyage, whose advantages over the Paperwhite now mainly include a flush glass screen and separate page-turning "buttons" on the side. Amazon points out that the Voyage also has a higher-contrast, brighter screen — but the question is whether all of those things put together are worth the extra $80.
Gaigai Wuwu the cat is a such a boss, he can balance things in his sleep.
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Think smartphones are thin enough already? Well, they might be about to get thinner still, if Sharp has its way with a new type of screen that it has begun manufacturing. Read More
Google is now showing instant results for calorie and carbohydrate counts for a number of popular restaurant chains. All you need to do is search for the restaurant name and the meal you’re looking for.
If you type in (or say) “calories” followed by the restaurant and dish, you’ll get the basic nutrition counts. You can do the same with carbohydrates. It seems like it’s mostly U.S.-based fast food restaurants, but more will certainly be added over time.
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Android: When you’re typing on a smartphone, you can double-tap a word to correct a mistake. Google Voice search is no different: if it misunderstands a word, you can say it again without repeating your entire phrase.
Google Voice Search is actually really good at understanding me, but every once in a while it’ll get something wrong. There are two fixes:
Hopefully that’ll help you the next time Google corrects “Lifehacker” to “life jacket”.
Tip: When Using Voice in Google Search, Tap Individaul Words to ‘Respeak’ Them | Android Police
Your options for moving files on Android devices continue to get better. Earlier today Pushbullet unveiled Portal, an easy QR-based way to exchange files between your phone/tablet and PC using your local wireless network. A few hours later, BitTorrent Sync has released Shoot, a different QR-based way to move things from one mobile device to another.
Shoot is simple. You tap 'send' on your device, have the recipient scan the QR code that appears on your screen, and then watch as the transfer starts.
Read MoreBitTorrent Launches Shoot, A QR-Based Way To Quickly Send Files To Other Mobile Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Yesterday we got a look at some gameplay for the upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider, and during Square Enix's press conference at E3 today the company's Montreal studio showed off a very different take on the character. Laura Croft Go is a puzzle adventure game for smartphones and tablets, following in the footsteps of the mobile game Hitman Go.
Whereas Tomb Raider traditionally has been about action and adventure, with Go the emphasis is on beautiful, clean visuals and simple puzzles. While the footage showed off still has Croft navigating caves and jungle ruins, it's a much simpler kind of game, calling to mind not only the Hitman spin-off but the atmosphere and serene score of games like Monument Valley. There's no word yet on release...
