Alt-Week 12.7.13: Wormhole short-cuts, watery planets and history as seen by Google Books
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Don’t pack your bags just yet, but Hubble has found indirect evidence of water on five different planets — a lot of it, in some cases. Bigger brains…
Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded prize pack winners Announcement
Happy Saturday everyone. Hopefully you are happy, healthy and NOT snowed in like I am. Many of you might have seen our fun little interview we had a few weeks ago with Al Lowe and Paul Trowe about Leisure Suit Larry, life, games and a little bit of other stuff in between. We had a […]
Samsung Galaxy J coming to Taiwan on December 9th, according to YouTube teaser
Samsung Taiwan thought it was being sneaky when it released a teaser video of a mystery smartphone on YouTube, describing it as “just fast,” “just elegant,” “just for you” and “just simple.” Naturally this led many to speculate that this…
Apple’s App Store Hits One Million Apps in the United States
Apple’s U.S. App Store has reached one million live apps, according to data from app discovery platform Appsfire. Our own app discovery site AppShopper lists the same one million milestone, with a total of 1,006,557 apps available for download at the time of writing.
While Apple noted…
Editor’s Picks: 15 Android apps and games worth knowing (December 7)
The Editor’s Picks, formerly known as APPTEASERS, is a collection of apps and games that are new to Android, recently updated, discounted, etc. Whatever the case, we think they’re worth exploring and are willing to bet that many of you would enjoy a few of them. We understand that we…
Recommended Reading: Cool Tools review, drone delivery and more
Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology in print and on the web. Some weeks, you’ll also find short reviews of books dealing with the subject of technology that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read.
Cool Tools: A Catalog of…
Motorola’s modular phone prototype is almost ready, final product might be sold on Moto Maker
Sure, Moto Maker makes it easy to deck out your phone with a fresh paint job, but the company’s CEO has bigger goals in mind for the customization engine. Speaking with Youtuber Marques Brownlese, Dennis Woodside envisioned a Moto Maker capable of…
T-Mobile boosts LTE network speeds in Dallas using MetroPCS spectrum
Hey, North Dallas T-Mobile customer — that speedier internet connection isn’t a figment of your imagination. Just before Thanksgiving, the carrier silently got the ball rolling on its plans to unleash a faster LTE network. To achieve this upgrade…
[LEAK] Could Samsung Be Updating Its Mid-Range Devices To Android 4.4 Too?
A few weeks ago, a Samsung document was leaked that appeared to reveal Samsung‘s planned schedule for updating its flagships from this year and last year to the newest build of Android, Android 4.4 KitKat. The update quoted in that document was of build “KRT16″, which we know…
Google Play Music All Access gets Handy in Germany
Germany’s something of a latecomer to Google’s Play Music All Access party (that name, we know!). The country that made David Hasselhoff a venerable pop star was conspicuously absent from the Google music service’s many European roll outs. Not now…
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