Apple Adds Dedicated Beats By Dr. Dre Accessory Section to Online Store
Now that Apple’s purchase of Beats Electronics is complete, the company has begun expanding its promotion of Beats products, giving the Beats by Dr. Dre line of accessories its own dedicated section in the Accessory portion of the Apple Online Store.
Added yesterday, the Beats by Dr. Dre section joins “All Accessories,” “Apple Accessories,” “Exclusives,” “Now Trending,” and Gift Cards” on the top menu bar of the “Shop Accessories” section of the online store.
Though Apple has long sold Beats products, the dedicated menu bar position gives the accessories far more prominence online. The section, first noticed by 9to5Mac, promotes Beats headphones, Beats in-ear headphones, Beats speakers, and Beats accessories like the Pill Dudes and Sleeves designed to hold Beats speakers.
Apple is also continuing to show off the Beats line of headphones in its retail stores, with the Beats by Dr. Dre Solo2 and Studio over-ear headphones accompanying iPod touches in many retail locations.
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music became official last week, following U.S. regulatory approval of the deal. As of August 1, Beats Electronics shut down its own online store and began directing customers to the Apple Online Store.
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Lenovo Unveils the Vibe Z2 Pro Smartphone
Lenovo took the wraps off of their latest flagship device yesterday. The Vibe Z2 Pro looks to be a powerhouse of a smartphone packing a wonderful camera. Lets take a look at some of the specs of this beast… 6-inch 2560×1440 display Snapdragon 801 processor (2.5GHZ) 3GB of RAM 32GB internal storage 4G LTE 16MP rear… Read more »
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Google+ updates to v4.5 with a number of visual changes you might Like [APK Download]
Another Google app has started to be pushed out. Our wonderful Google+ app has received and update that brings it to version 4.5. I noticed a few visual changes pretty immediately, but I am sure there is a ton more stuff buried inside. One of the first things I noticed was the profile view. Your image and all the text has been shifted to the left now.
The image above on the left is the previous G+ version and the image on the right is the new 4.5 version. You will also notice that they shrunk up the “About | Posts | Photos| YouTube sections and cleared out the separator lines. At least, compared to the 4.4.3 version that I still have on another older device. Scrolling through posts you will also notice that the +1, share and comments icons are darker
Some pretty nice little changes that just make it seem a little cleaner easier to use. I do like the left justified profile pages a bit more. Android Police also picked up that the post filter search box has also moved under the “Everything” tab under the red bar. There is probably a lot more in there, including some bug fixes and changes as well. Feel free to sound off in the comments if you notice anything else.
You can always wait for the Play Store to prompt you for the update, or you can hit the link below and go grab the apk now.
Download – Google+ v4.5
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You can’t smoke on planes, but Boeing’s burning tobacco to fly
Lighting up a cigarette whilst in flight has been banned for quite a long time, but that doesn’t mean Boeing won’t be burning tobacco on its planes in the future. The company has teamed up with South African Airways and aviation innovation outfit SkyNRG to create biofuel from tobacco plants. Solaris, a hybrid variety of the agriculture product, will be used to make sustainable jet fuel and give farmers another crop option. The plants contain almost no nicotine, and at the start, oil from its seeds will be transformed into a renewable way to power plane engines. Eventually, Boeing sees more of the plant being used in the process once “emerging technologies” allow. Of course, this gives farmers in South Africa’s rural areas an economic opportunity in addition to cleaning up the environment a bit.
[Photo credit: Brendon O’Hagan/Bloomberg via Getty Images]
Filed under: Transportation, Science
Via: Gizmag
Source: Boeing
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Xbox One TV Tuner lets Europeans get their television fix
When Microsoft launched the Xbox One, prospective buyers outside of the US wondered how its TV features would work in countries, like most of Europe, that still predominantly used over-the-air transmissions. The long, slightly awkward silence that followed has now been broken, with the company producing the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner. The gear is reasonably simple, converting coaxial signals at one end to a USB port that connects to the console on the other. The gear will enable people who don’t have HDMI-enabled cable boxes to watch HDTV, pause broadcasts and even use voice commands — assuming, that is, that you have a Kinect. It’ll launch towards the end of October, priced at £25 in the UK and €30 in France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Source: Microsoft
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Microsoft may ditch the Charms bar in its next big Windows update
Some would already argue that Windows 8 is anything but charming, but a slew of new reports indicate that Microsoft might give one of Windows 8′s most iconic interface elements – the Charms bar – the axe in its next big OS release. Not much for names? The Charms bar is that love-it-or-hate-it disappearing menu that offers up access to device settings, sharing and the Windows search function (among other things). The tricky bit about it is that it’s just peachy to use on touchscreen devices, but flicking your mouse cursor into a corner of your desktop’s screen to invoke it gets tiresome after a while.
For a while there, it was unclear just how sweeping this change would be: Winbeta.org originally reported that the Charms bar might only disappear from your desktop and not from tablets. ZDNet’s (awfully well-connected) Mary Jo Foley later chimed in, citing sources who claimed that the Charm bar will be completely gone once Windows Threshold starts rolling around. To hear her tell the tale, some pertinent Charm bits will find their way into the title bars of Windows 8 apps, but developers will have to implement new sharing functions if they want their users to get social. Either way, it shouldn’t be long before we start experiencing the Charm-less life for ourselves: a preview of Windows Threshold is expected to go live some time in the fall.
Via: The Verge
Source: ZDNet
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Facebook Messenger adds support for Android Wear
Facebook Messenger has become the latest high profile application to integrate support for Android Wear. An update to the app now lets users view and respond to messages in addition to being able to “Like” them. Once a message arrives you can swipe to enable a voice reply or a tap to “Like” it. Good luck hiding…… Read more »
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36 new University Campuses get the Google Street View Treatment
Google Street View is a great way to take a virtual tour or locations your are planning to visit, or even places you wish you could visit but just can’t. It also comes in handy when you are looking for something and like having visual landmarks in your head before you go. Today Google announced that they have released Street View access to 36 new college universities across Canada and the U.S.
A few new school highlights are of Georgetown University, as seen above, University of Miami and the University of Regina in Canada. Street View campus tours already take you on virtual tours of hundreds of other school campuses across the globe.
To see if a Street View tour of your dream school is available, search for a particular university on Google Maps and click on Pegman to enter the Street View imagery. Visit our Street View gallery for global highlights and other popular universities around the world.
I know I have spent countless hours searching around Google Maps and hitting up Street View to take a look at what is around. It can be fun and you can often times find things you didn’t even know where there.
Source: Google LatLong
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Google now considers website security for search rankings
There really isn’t such a thing as being too secure online, and Google is trying something new to get more website owners thinking about keeping their users’ information safe. After a few months of experimentation, the search giant now considers how secure a site is when it decides how prominently it gets placed in search results.
It’ll be neat to see just how Google’s push for security ultimately influences what our search results look like, but don’t expect a seismic shift just yet. According to a post on Google’s Online Security blog, the security factor won’t be the biggest decider of how well a site ranks in your search results — it only comes into play for 1% of all search queries right now. Still, the team readily admits that could change down the line — they just might up its importance to “encourage” webmasters to adopt HTTPS security for their sites. Google’s been pushing this security angle for a while now, and it’s been eager to spearhead the push at home by encrypting the data that flows between its services. This newest move doesn’t come completely out of the blue, either. Matt Cutts, Google’s webspam chief, said earlier this year that he’d like to see the company reward responsible sites in this very way — frankly, it’s about time.
Source: Google Online Security
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Sproutling’s new wearable tracks your infant’s sleep patterns
Baby wearables. With the boom in fitness trackers, you must’ve seen them coming, right? Now, a pair of ex-Apple and Google employees has launched the Sproutling baby monitor, a device the company likens to Nest in terms of design and simplicity. Unlike the Withings Baby Monitor camera, however, it’s meant to be worn around your baby’s ankle. That way, it can monitor parameters like heart rate, skin temperature and body movement, while also tracking the room’s temperature, humidity and light levels. All that data is sent to a smartphone app, which crunches it to create simple notifications. For instance, it can tell you whether her heart rate is higher than normal, if she’s sleeping on her back, if it’s warmer than ideal in the room or whether she’s now awake and not in a good mood.
On top of that, the system can learn a baby’s habits over time and predict things like when he’s ready to wake up or if the room’s too warm to sleep. Sproutling said it worked with parents, engineers and pediatric specialists to develop those features while keeping the app user-friendly. It’s also built from hypoallergenic silicone, and can be tossed in a washing machine thanks to the removable sensor. Though we’ve seen other baby wearables like the Mimo Baby, the Sproutling’s setup looks simpler and possibly more comfortable.
The Sproutling uses a wireless charger that also assumes most parents are kinda busy: To power it up, you just place it on a charging “bowl” which doubles as the environmental sensor. The company said it tried to make notifications simple for busy parents so as not to overwhelm them with information. (To avoiding any “What does this mean? Call the doctor!” reactions from paranoid new parents.) The Sproutling is now up for pre-order at an early-bird price of $249 (it’ll run a hefty $299 at retail), and will ship early next year.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables
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