Microsoft OneDrive for Android now lets you mix business with pleasure
OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service formerly known as SkyDrive, just got updated across several platforms. Most significant, perhaps, is its Android app refresh that adds OneDrive for Business integration, so you can easily access both personal and work files without having to switch accounts. You can now also set up a PIN code on the Android app and access OpenDrive files from within other apps. The iOS app, on the other hand, has a new native search box and an AllPhotos view, where you can see all your images arranged chronologically in one window. Finally, the app for Windows Phone 8.1 now has access to the recycle bin, which is extremely useful for people with jittery, delete-happy fingers. If you’re on iOS and Windows Phone but would rather get those sweet, new Android features, though, don’t worry — Microsoft’s bringing them to your platforms in the coming months.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Microsoft
Source: Google Play, iTunes, Windows Phone Market
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Dangerous prank brings SWAT team down on gamer
A Littleton, Colorado man named Jordan Mahewson was raided by a heavily armed SWAT team thanks to a false shooting and hostage report, and all the chaos was captured on a Twitch game stream (see below). During a Counter-Strike session, Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson — a founder of The Creatures — suddenly noticed things around him were amiss. “Uh oh. This isn’t good. They’re clearing rooms. What in the world, I think we’re getting swatted,” he says in the video. Luckily, Mathewson stayed calm throughout the ordeal and was released a short time later.
On top of invading his offices, police locked down several schools and businesses in the Littleton, Colorado area. Suffice to say, the situation was extremely dangerous, and the police chief said “we have real guns and real bullets, and there’s potential there for some tragedy.”
Sadly, Mathewson’s ordeal isn’t an isolated one: “swatting” is the act of calling in false reports to draw real SWAT teams to a target’s house, and is often inflicted on rival gamers. As Vice News pointed out recently, the phenomenon is fairly new and can easily result in deaths, especially when malicious calls involve shots fired. There’s no word yet on who perpetrated the hoax (despite one claim) but police said they’ll prosecute whoever it was “to the fullest extent of the law.”
A similar event occurred recently to Sony Online Entertainment head John Smedley. A flight he was on was diverted after a group known as “Lizard Squad” sent a Twitter message to American Airlines warning of (false) explosives on board. Like the “swatting” action above, real people were put in real danger because of these malicious pranks.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: Sky TV
Source: The Creatures (YouTube)
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Inside Goodwill’s game-filled tech thrift shop, The Grid
Thrift stores: better known for dusty shirts, potential Halloween costumes and used Jenga sets. Well, Goodwill wants to change that a bit with its recent launch of The Grid, a dedicated electronics and video game specialty shop located in North Carolina. The outfit tells IGN that not only will it sell video game hardware itself, but it’s arranged a deal with vendors to supply each console (even retro units) with new power and A/V cables — stuff that can often be a bear to source. Oh, and there’s Raspberry Pi and a selection of flat-screens on offer too. But what if console gaming isn’t your bag? The Grid also sells laptops and gaming PCs, and, as the video below shows, even has an Oculus Rift demo station set up.
As local outlet Lake Norman News notes, the store serves a few different purposes. For one, it helps reduce e-waste by offering a viable alternative to dumping old tech in a landfill. And given that GameStop isn’t really interested in selling anything that’s particularly “old,” having an option that’s better organized than some local thrift stores is good news for everyone involved. It’ll probably also give Mackelmore a new place to check out on his next tour, too.
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: IGN
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Is Dyson going to release a robotic vacuum cleaner?
When companies tease a product, there’s sometimes a subtle clue or two hidden within the video or images. Sometimes, however, a company can reveal too much, and Dyson’s “Project N223″ certainly seems to hint, pretty strongly, that we’re going to see a Roomba-style vacuum cleaner. After all, there’s plenty of clues in the video, some obvious, some less so. Given that we had a fair chunk of free time, we decided to go deep, so if you’d like to see some Zapruder-level analysis, click through to the gallery.
Filed under: Misc
Source: Dyson
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Mystery of Death Valley’s sailing stones solved with GPS and time-lapse
After decades pf theories and attempts to solve the mystery of Death Valley’s sailing stones, a trio of scientists have finally caught the process on tape. Their study started years ago, when two of them (a biologist and an engineer) hauled 15 GPS-equipped rocks onto Racetrack Playa, the dry lake where the famous stones are found. It wasn’t until 2013, when a planetary scientist made their two-man band a trio, that they hit the jackpot, though. Apparently, it takes a precise combination of water, ice and wind for the rocks to move. First, the water that floods the lake (which happens rarely) should be around 3 inches deep, so when it freezes, it forms thin, windowpane-like ice sheets beneath the rocks. Then, it should be sunny the day after that in order for the ice to crack, be blown by 10mph winds and propel the rocks forward.
The stones the group caught on cam moved only a few inches per second, but some remained in motion for as long as 16 minutes and most sailed on the wet ground several times, so they traveled as far as 200 feet. Death Valley’s sailing stones almost always make it to various lists of nature’s mysteries, and we wouldn’t even be surprised if there are people who truly believe they’re moved by ghosts or aliens. If you need to see it happen to believe those findings, make sure to the watch time-lapse video below and read the team’s paper published in PLOS One.
[Image credit: Wikimedia, Mike Hartmann]
Filed under: Science
Via: Livescience
Source: Plos One
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Android Lemon Meringue Pie gets spotted in Chromium issue tracker as build LRW50D
The Chromium issue tracker is often a good place to spot a new Nexus device or build of Android, and today appears to be our lucky day. Sported by a device known as the “New Nexus7″ – make of that what you will – a certain build of Android has been spotted with build number LRW50D. We know it is Google convention to always start the build number with the letter of its code name, at this point suspected to be Android Lemon Meringue Pie. What follows is usually a series of unique identifiers that let us know exactly when the build was created. In this case, it appears the build is from the 19th of August, 2014 and is the fourth version of the build that day. Naturally, the date isn’t an exact science due to some code inheriting dates, but it’s definitely in the right ballpark.
The “New Nexus7″ part of this story is probably of no consequence – this is most likely just the 2013 Nexus 7 – however it’s clear that it was running some form of Android L when this issue was made. Myce.com, who found this issue, also notes that numerous references to “lmp-dev” were made in the code; we know that “lmp” is also referenced within the Android SDK itself, which originally gave birth to the Lemon Meringue Pie rumours.
Source: myce.com
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Samer Zayer’s Arus Icon Pack will have you reaching for your Google Wallet again
Samer Zayer is a designer who has done some incredible work: Neon Glow icon pack, Paper icon pack, Flatee icon pack, the list goes on. It’s time for his latest creation to grace the eyes of the world, however, this time with the Arus icon pack, which offers a set of rounded square icons which just jump off the screen like little bumps.
The best thing about Samer’s icon packs is that they always come with a huge number of customized icons right out of the box, and Arus is no different – the Arus icon pack is shipping with 1300+ icons, and has an icon request option in the dashboard app to add even more apps to Samer’s to-do list. There are also cloud based wallpapers that can be found in the dashboard app, and both icons and wallpapers are constantly updated by the man himself. If you’re interested to keep track of updates and his new projects, you can circle Samer here on Google+.
If you like what you see, you can pick up the Arus icon pack from the Play Store now for $1.49 USD (see link below).
Icons: Arus icon pack
Price: $1.49
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A sheep dog’s herding instinct may teach robots a lesson in crowd control
Here’s a noodle-scratcher to occupy yourself with for a few moments: what makes a sheep dog so darned good at rounding up the woolly ruminants they’re named after? A possible answer – according to The Telegraph, researchers at Swansea University believe those dogs are constantly searching for and minimizing the gaps between the sheep before it herds them all forward. What’s the big deal? Well, those very same researchers think that behavior can be boiled down into an algorithm that could be used to (among other things) program robots to replace those savvy canines. Sure, some old-school shepherds may scoff, but using awkward-looking machines to round up livestock isn’t exactly new territory. And if a robot can “understand” how to steer some relatively dumb animals around a field, it stands to reason that logic could be used to guide other organisms around… like humans trying to escape a burning building, for instance. No, really! Swansea University’s Dr. Andrew King says there’s a whole host of ways to adapt that animal knowledge into robotic know-how, like “crowd control, cleaning up the environment, herding of livestock, [and] keeping animals away from sensitive areas”.
Source: The Telegraph
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Amazon will stream in 4K starting this October
Earlier this year, Amazon said that its 2014 original series lineup would be shot and eventually streamed in 4K to Samsung UltraHD TVs, and now we know when — sometime this October. It was Samsung that actually revealed the date, revealing it would support Amazon’s Prime Instant Video UHD streaming on most Samsung 4K TVs. There’s no word if Amazon’s 4K service will hit other manufacturer’s UltraHD models, but Samsung noted it has also expanded 4K content in Europe to Netflix, Wuaki.tv, Chili and Maxdome. Like Sony, Samsung has other plans to make sure you’re not wasting all those pixels, as well. It recently did a live 4K stream of a Placido Domingo opera in Europe and released a 500GB drive with 40 recent 4K movies and documentaries.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Samsung, Amazon
Source: Samsung
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New Photos of Claimed iPhone 6 Parts Show Closer Look at Rear Logo, Revamped Speaker
New photos of various components said to be from the iPhone 6 have been shared by Nowhereelse.fr (Google Translate), giving us a glimpse at both internal and external parts to be used in the device.
The first set of images show SIM card trays and home buttons in a range of three different colors, which may indicate that the iPhone 6 will keep the same space grey, gold, and silver options from the iPhone 5s. This is in line with a previous leaks, including one from last month which also showed SIM trays in three different colors. The SIM trays shown in the photos also appear to be slightly curved, and was likely designed with the iPhone 6′s thinner, rounded chassis in mind.
Another set of photos shows the embedded Apple logo, which has also surfaced in other leaks. However, Nowhereelse indicates that the logo scratches under regular pressure with a knife, and contrasts prior speculation that the logo was made of scratch-resistant metal. Apple has not used an embedded Apple logo on its mobile devices since the original iPhone back in 2007.
Finally, the last set of photos show the internal speaker and vibrator motor of the iPhone 6. Both components appear to be different than their predecessors found in the iPhone 5s, as the internal speaker appears to be larger while the vibrator motor now sports a rectangular design.
According to Re/code, Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 6 on Tuesday, September 9. It is likely that the 4.7-inch version of the device will go on sale about a week later, while the 5.5-inch version may be released at a later time due to production delays. A report yesterday from Re/code also stated that Apple will unveil a wearable device at the event.
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