TellSpecopedia breaks down how ingredients affect your health

Few things in life are better than food, and even ridesharing companies like Uber are beginning to take note of this. Still, sometimes it’s hard to know everything about the grub you’re consuming, making you completely unaware of the impact certain stuff could have on your health. Enter TellSpec, a startup which has created a knowledge database, named TellSpecopedia, to provide people with detailed information on food ingredients. As it stands, the website covers a total of 1,300 every-day elements, including additives, contaminants and “manufacturing by-products,” allowing you to search through them, find out what each ingredient is exactly and, ultimately, see if it’s good or bad for your health. TellSpecopedia also lets you narrow things down and focus on how a specific ingredient can affect different sections on your body — there are categories like Gastrointestinal Effects, Metabolic Effects, Cardiovascular Effects and many more. The new online database comes after TellSpec introduced a portable, $150 scanner last year, which allows users to identify food ingredients on the fly.

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[Download] Google News and Weather Gets a Random Material Design Update

Google News and Weather. It’s an app that comes standard on any Android ROM, and many of you probably don’t use it that much. It has been there since the beginning, and even though it was never popular enough for Google to have standalone updates, it remained as part of the Google core apps. Looks like today, Google thought to themselves: “Hey that app that we never update…give it Material Design.”

Google News and Weather now has that beautiful Material Design implemented in it, and it of course looks gorgeous. Seems fitting to add the card-like look to the app that has stood the test of time, so if you haven’t updated yet, feel free to either download it from our Gapps Early site, or hit the Play Store link. Let us know how much you like it.

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The Big Picture: a 3D-printed castle

Yes, people, this isn’t a dream. What you see above is, indeed, a 3D-printed castle. After working on it for a few months, an architect from Minnesota has now finished building a fancy home made out of 3D printing materials. The man behind it, Andrey Rudenko, began his construction adventure back in April, when he decided he wanted to be the one to set a new bar for 3D-printed homes — there have been some in China, but questions have been raised about the quality of them. “It has been two years since I first began toying with the idea of a 3D printer that was capable of constructing homes,” Rudenko told the site 3DPrint. “When I started out, people struggled to believe this project would progress any further.” Well, its very real now, and we can only imagine how dazzling it looks in person.

[Image credits: 3D Print]

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Uber’s anti-Lyft ‘shave the stache’ recruitment revealed

We’ve already heard reports that Uber was allegedly ordering and canceling Lyft rides in an attempt to sabotage the competition. Well, it turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg — Uber apparently has a whole secret plan in place to take down its pink mustachioed rival. The Verge has uncovered evidence that Uber has hired a full-on team of independent contractors and provided them with burner phones and credit cards to recruit existing Lyft drivers away and join the Uber clan. Known as “Operation SLOG,” these so-called brand ambassadors would call up a Lyft ride, get in the car and then go into their recruiting spiel — they even have driver kits so they’d be able to sign up the Lyft driver there and then. The SLOG team also took care to not get caught — The Verge found emails that warned the ambassadors to not request calls from the same place, and there’s even a GroupMe account where they can compare Lyft driver profiles so they don’t accidentally recruit the same person.

In response, Uber published a blog post saying that Operation SLOG, which it says stands for “Supplying Long-term Operations Growth,” is a legitimate recruiting drive and denies that anything they’ve done is underhanded. Instead, Uber states that the SLOG recruitment efforts involve driver incentive programs, brand ambassadors, rider/driver recruitment campaigns and vehicle financing. Notably, Uber states as a “Marketing 101″ point that it doesn’t deny taking rides in order to recruit new drivers. They also reiterated that they would never intentionally cancel rides. However, The Verge says that these recruiters sometimes do cancel Lyft rides, perhaps not just to keep them off the market, but also to avoid detection by Lyft. So far, Lyft has not responded to the story, and apparently the recruiters have been warned not to speak to the press. It all sounds a bit like a chapter out of a spy novel — it seems the ridesharing turf wars have become a lot more intense than we realized.

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Source: The Verge, Uber

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