Go flex your Flak Cannon skills in the ‘Unreal Tournament’ alpha right now
How’s this for irony? If you’re the impatient type, an alpha version of the forthcoming Unreal Tournament is available for download right this instant. It’ll almost assuredly push your grit to its limits, though. As is typically the case with prototype games, you might rip out more than a few hairs over unbalanced weapons and possible game-breaking bugs because, well, it’s a work in progress. The development team at Epic Games says that the shooter will be updated every Friday to tie up the likely multitude of loose ends ahead of the final product. If any other “worthy” changes crop up before that, IGN reports the patches could be more frequent. So, if you want in on some of the action Epic teased earlier this summer, now’s your chance.
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Via: IGN
Source: Rushbase
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Get This Look: Kreativ
We’re huge fans of changing the home screen around a bit and creating a new user experience for our Android. So much so that we present our ongoing series of Get This Look posts. In a nutshell we show you a new layout, app, widget, or icon set for your Android handset and tell you which apps you’ll need to… Read more »
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T-Mobile cracks down on customers who abuse their unlimited data
If you’re using T-Mobile’s network to torrent all seven seasons of The West Wing (remember kids, piracy is for jerks) or tethering like an absolute madman, don’t be surprised if your data speeds start dipping dramatically over the next few weeks. According to a leaked internal memo (which T-Mobile has substantiated) data draining customers with one of the carrier’s Unlimited 4G LTE plans — like the $80 Simple Choice option — will see their speeds throttled starting on August 17 if they don’t change their network hammering ways. The only real consolation here is that T-Mobile won’t spring this on you out of the blue. Before you start getting throttled, the carrier will contact you to give you a warning — if you don’t shape up, your LTE speeds will be cut down until your next billing cycle rolls around.
T-Mobile confirmed to us in an email that it indeed plans to start throttling certain unruly customers if need be, and they’ve already found a few poor souls to make its corporate displeasure known to. Take a gander at the carrier’s official statement below:
As America’s Un-carrier, we have broken the wireless industry rules to abolish numerous customer pain points and provide our customers with the fastest nationwide 4G LTE network. A very small number of our customers are misusing their Simple Choice Unlimited data service in violation of their rate plan and terms and conditions by bypassing the default tethering feature or engaging in peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing.
This type of usage can negatively impact our ability to offer affordable unlimited data. In order to protect all T-Mobile customers, we will be reaching out to these people to educate them on our terms and conditions of service, but if the misuse continues, they could have their data speeds reduced for the remainder of their billing cycle.
Via: Android Police
Source: TmoNews
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Sound off! Can a Chromebook replace your everyday laptop?
When Google first unveiled its lineup of Chromebooks at Google I/O in 2011, it promised a new era of ultraportable computers that were affordable, had a healthy battery life and almost zero load times. Three years on, Google and its partners have continued to ship updates and we’ve found recent models that have offered some pretty impressive battery life and more powerful processors. But is that enough to make you buy one? Despite being insanely popular at places like Amazon, many of us have yet to be convinced of their utility. Do you have a Chromebook? Can it replace your normal computer for daily tasks? Let us know in the Engadget forums!
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Niantic Labs ‘Field Trip’ will have cards in Google Now
Niantic Labs is a group inside Google that does some pretty wondrous things. Most notably is Ingress, which has taken the world by storm for some time. Prior to Ingress though, they released something called Field Trip. It was an app that would utilize your GPS location to present you with useful information about restaurants, historical sites and various other things of interest close to your position. The power of Field Trip is backed by reputable publications like Arcadia, the history experts. Food Network, Zagat and others for food. Atlas Obscura and Daily Secret for hidden gems along with Songkick and Flavorpill for local music. It is a pretty cool app to help you discover things around you that you might pass every day and not even notice. It is especially fun to have on road trips too. Some good news has surfaced today regarding Field Trip. Seems it has done a pretty great job and will soon be integrated into Google now.
You won’t need to do anything special, like most of the Google Now functions, it will just appear. It looks like the cards will pop up with a lable of “discoveries” and when tapped, will offer up various things around you.
I am sure you can get more out of the app then you will with Google Now, but it is certainly going to be a nice little addition to have automagically appear. Feel free to check out the main Field Trip app down below if you want to see how it works. It is also available for Google Glass, and looks really useful in my opinion.
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Field Trip cards to soon appear in Google Now
Field Trip, one of our favorite apps for discovering new and interesting places while traveling, is about to find a new way to help users learn more about nearby things and places. According to new reports, Field Trip cards should soon begin showing up in Google Now, leading to more discovery. Known as “Nearby Discoveries, you… Read more »
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T-Mobile to throttle P2P network abusers
T-Mobile, for all of its Un-carrier ways, still has to act like a traditional carrier every once in a while. Such is the case where, next week, they will begin throttling users who engage in peer-to-peer file sharing and tethering outside of normal terms and conditions. Expected to stat August 17, this should only impact… Read more »
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Uber makes it easier for riders, drivers to get to their destination
Even though Uber is in the middle of a ridesharing battle against competitor Lyft, that’s not stopping the company from focusing to make its product better. With this in mind, Uber just announced a couple of new features that will improve the experience for riders and drivers alike, both on iOS and Android. For starters, the app now allows you to enter your destination as you’re booking a ride, allowing the driver to easily see where you’re going as soon as you step in the car. Drivers (who only use iPhones, by the way), on the other hand, can now see the destination you entered and use turn-by-turn navigation to get to it — this is important to simplify the process, as it keeps every driver from having to manually input an address. More importantly, Uber says these updates bring it one step closer to its vision of “a day when there is no coordination necessary” to take a ride.
Filed under: Transportation, Internet
Source: Uber
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Michael J. Fox Foundation uses wearables for Parkinson’s research
In order to collect data from patients, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has teamed up with Intel to leverage the tech company’s tracking prowess. The effort employs Intel’s big data analytics platform to comb through stats collected by wearable devices that monitor symptoms. A “multiphase study” will gather data from patients in order to inform drug research and development. Rather than depending on written journals, wearable devices can gather info on slowness of movement, severity of tremors and sleep quality 24 hours a day. The duo also has a mobile app in the works that will add the ability for patients to input their medications and how they’re feeling as addition details for researchers.
Filed under: Wearables, Science, Intel
Via: ZDNet
Source: Intel
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Schools find ways to get more women into computer science courses
Technology giants like Apple and Google are frequently dominated by men, in part because relatively few women pursue computer science degrees; just 18 percent of American comp sci grads are female. However, at least a few schools have found ways to get more women into these programs. Carnegie Mellon University saw female enrollment jump to 40 percent after it both scrapped a programming experience requirement and created a tutoring system, giving women a support network they didn’t have as a minority. Harvey Mudd College and the University of Washington, meanwhile, saw greater uptake (40 and 30 percent) after they reworked courses to portray coding as a solution to real-world problems, rather than something to study out of personal interest. Harvey Mudd’s recruiters also made an effort to be more inclusive in advertising and campus tours.
Whether or not course changes are necessary is up for debate. Carnegie Mellon notes that it didn’t have to change the curriculum at all, and points to studies which suggest that it’s the perception of computer science that discourages women; they’re as capable as men in the same courses. Given the results at other institutions, it’s at least clear that there’s more than one solution to these classroom imbalances. The higher ratio of female students won’t necessarily lead to increased diversity in tech, but it shows that the industry’s gender ratios aren’t set in stone.
[Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]
Source: New York Times
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