If you’d like to hate yourself, you should play Daddy Long Legs
Everyone remembers Flappy Bird. It was so frustrating. It was so simple. Tap to fly, and that’s it. Yet, we all continuously played it, expecting more to come from the game. There’s a new game out that offers the same amount of frustration, but packaged in a well-illustrated, simple, and beautiful package. It’s called Daddy Long Legs.
The goal of the game is simple: walk. That’s it. Walk as far as you can. When you fall, you start back over again. You play as a spider, or, a spider with only two legs, rather. Tap the screen to move a leg, and tap it again to switch to the other leg. It takes awhile to get used to the momentum of the spider, but there is a groove to it. 
This game is frustrating. There’s nothing to it. But I can’t stop playing it. You can download it for free on Google Play from the link below, if you dare.
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Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 8″ and 10″ upgrades displays, moves to Intel processors and keeps 18 hour battery life
Lenovo has been doing a pretty good job of listening to what consumers and users want or need. The first line of Yoga tablets, both the 8 and 10, came with Mediatek processors and paltry screen resolution. They still won my heart because they were decently fast and the battery lasted 18+ hour on a single charge. That gives me and my son all day strong games and movies. Shortly after the launch of both tablets Lenovo refreshed the Yoga 10 with the Yoga 10 HD+. They swapped out the Mediatek processor for a Qualcomm chip and upped the screen resolution to 1920 x 1200. It also offered louder speakers, a larger kickstand and a number of other improvements.
This years Yoga tablet 2’s keep moving in the right direction, in my opinion at least. The screen resolution on the 8-inch tablet has moved up from the 1280 x 800 to 1920 x 1200 HD display with a 178 degree wide viewing angle. While new 10-inch remains the same from the 10 HD+ at 1920 1200. The processors have been swapped out from the Mediatek and Qualcomm offerings to the quad-core Intel Atom Z3745 (bay trail) clocked at 1.33 GHz with a clock of 1.86GHz on turbo mode. You will get 2GB of RAM, 16GB of on board storage with micro SD card slot, larger speakers and a bigger kickstand that rotates 180 degree and allow you to hang it.
The dual front-facing speakers are Dobly certified with Wolfson Master Hi-Fi. They both bring dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and an option 4G variant of the device in select countries ( not the US). They gain the updated camera at 8MP f2.2 and a 1.6MP front shooter. The camera also have glare-reducing glass and an advanced BSI-2 sensor to reduce flare and provide more lifelike color. Battery life still clocks in at the amazing 18 hours. Just like its predecessors, they support Micro USB OTG and allow you to charge your other devices from the tablets battery.
There would be a pretty good speed improvement across the boards with both tablets as compared to last year. Partly due to the processor choice this go round. The Intel chip boosts from the past 1.2 GHz mediatek 533MHz 1MB cache to 1.33GHz with turbo automatically pushing to 1.86GHz and 1066GHz 2MB cache. The RAM has been upgraded as well. While it is still 2GB of RAM, it is now DDR3 vs DDR2 and is 1066 MHz vs the previous 800MHz. These guys should cook right along. I don’t have my hands on them yet to give you a hands on idea of the improvements, but I will soon and will compare them to the previous three versions.
Along with the tablet, they also announced the new Bluetooth keyboard cover accessory. It has a curved magnetic arm that will attach to the battery cylinder to give you a keyboard and a cover for the tablet.
Lenovo keeps the price point that the original tablets launched with. That pegs the 8-inch for $249 and the 10-inch at $299. Don’t forget, if you are looking for an even bigger and badder tablet, Lenovo also just announced the 13.3-inch Yoga Tablet 2 Pro with a pico projector and an unheard of 15 hours of battery life starting at $499.
Go check them out at Lenovo.com
p.s. They also made a Windows 8.1 version as well. All the same specs, just running Windows.
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Snapchat won’t be ad-free forever
Snapchat made the news just a few days ago when it became public knowledge that Yahoo was looking to invest in the disappearing message app. At the time it made me wonder why since Snapchat was free and didn’t implement ads. The company is estimated at $10 billion, but still, investing means return. Now it makes sense. Snapchats co-founder and chief executive Even Spiegel spoke at a conference yesterday and broke the news that ads are imminent.
“They’re not fancy. You just look at it if you want to look at it, and you don’t if you don’t,” Spiegel said.
So who is going to be serving up the ads? Snapchat has been in talks for sometime with various media companies in relations to ads, but my gut says it will be the Yahoo Bing! network that drives the ads. From what I gather, at least at this current time, ads will be slipped in between your chats. They won’t be targeted on user data leaving you get random ads. Not so sure that will work out to well when it comes to potential click-through. We will have to wait and see when and how Snapchat implements ads to the app. Gotta make some coin for the investors somehow, right?
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Google+ flips the switch on polls after its recent purchase
Last month, Google nabbed a polling startup in order to boost the tools of its social network. Well, the folks in Mountain View didn’t waste any time, as polls are already set to make their debut on Google+. The new feature is rolling out now, in case you need to crowdsource info for your next excursion or are curious to see which team the masses think will win the World Series. Polls can include up to five options with photos for each, and one click displays the ongoing results. Android and web users can expect to see the option “over the next few days,” while it’s said to be “coming soon” to iOS.
Source: Dennis Troper (Google+)
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Lenovo’s new ‘Yoga’ tablets run Android and Windows, one has a built-in projector
Lenovo’s original, kickstand-toting Yoga Tablet was kind of a flop, thanks to a poor display, sluggish performance and heavily skinned version of Android. (Naming Ashton Kutcher as a “product engineer” probably didn’t help either.) Not to be deterred, the company is going all in: Lenovo just announced new versions of the Yoga Tablet, including a big-screen model with a built-in projector, and two that run Windows (it’s also still available with Android). Starting with that weird projector edition, called the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, it’s not the first gadget we’ve seen with a built-in lamp, but it’s the first we’ve seen in quite some time. In this case, what we have this time around is a 13-inch Android tablet with a 2,560 x 1,440 screen sharp enough to play movies on its own, though you could also use the in-built Pico projector to create a 50-inch image on the wall.
Speaking of the sort, the tablet is about as flexible as other Yoga tablets, which is to say it has a rotating hinge that doubles as a kickstand. Here, though, there’s also an option to hang it from a wall while you project, if that’s somehow more convenient than standing it upright. On the inside, the tablet makes use of an Intel Atom processor, helped by 2GB of RAM. There’s also an 8-megapixel rear camera, along with dual 1.5-watt speakers a 5-watt JBL subwoofer. For storage, you get 32 gigs built in, along with a microSD card capable of supporting cards as large as 64GB. The battery, meanwhile, which is built into the hinge, is rated for up to 15 hours of runtime. So is something this innovative worth a second look? Depends: How do you feel about spending $500-plus on your next tablet? We’ll give you a few weeks to think on that — this won’t actually go on sale until the end of the month.
If you’re just fine with a regular tablet, thank you very much, the refreshed Yoga Tablet 2 still comes in 8- and 10-inch sizes, just like the last version. Now, though, it’s available with either Android 4.4 or Windows 8.1. All told, this is a pretty iterative upgrade — the design is fundamentally the same — though there are nonetheless a few welcome spec bumps. For starters, Lenovo upgraded from a MediaTek processor to an Intel Atom chip, which should hopefully address those performance issues. Two, all of the tablets in the series, even the 8-inch models, now have 1,920 x 1,200 screens, a step up from the 1,280 x 800 on the last-gen models. Additionally, the kickstand is said to be sturdier on the 10-inch model, while all of the models now have that same new “Hang” mode as the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro. Finally, there’s a 4G option for all the Android models, along with the 10-inch Windows version.
If you do buy one of the Windows configurations, you’ll also get a free one-year subscription to Office 365. Unfortunately, Lenovo didn’t make many changes to the Android version, which is to say it still runs a heavily skinned version of KitKat. In particular, Lenovo’s take on Android is so heavy-handed, that it’s actually more like iOS in some ways — there isn’t even an app drawer! Just all your apps, hanging out on the various home screens. In any case, if you are interested in the Android version, that’s available today starting at $250 for the 8-inch model and $300 for the 10-incher. The two Windows models will arrive throughout the fall, with the 10-inch model going on sale later this month for $400, and the 8-inch edition landing in November for $300.
Nicole Lee contributed to this report.
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Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Ultrabook brings a thinner and lighter design
Remember how Intel recently unveiled a new family of chips designed to make 2-in-1 laptops much thinner and much lighter? Of course you do. Anyway, get ready to see lots of machines coming out this holiday season with extra-compact designs. Case in point: Lenovo’s new Yoga 3 Pro Ultrabook, which launched today with a chassis that’s 14 percent lighter and 17 percent thinner. All told, it weighs in at just 1.19kg, or 2.62 pounds. That’s impressive even for a 13-inch Ultrabook, and it’s definitely an improvement over the last-gen Yoga 2 Pro, which came in at 3.06 pounds.
Otherwise, the Yoga 3 Pro is similar to the last model: It still has a 3,200 x 1,800 display, and the industrial design and keyboard layout have barely changed either. Of course, too, this is fundamentally still a Yoga, which is to say it has a 360-degree hinge allowing you to fold the screen back into tablet mode (and also “Stand” mode, and “Tent” mode). As before, the battery life is rated for up to nine hours, not that we ever got close to that on the Yoga 2 Pro. Hopefully Lenovo actually means it this time. As for performance, this is an ultra-low-voltage Intel Core M processor, which means in exchange for slimmer designs and long battery life, you may experience a slight dip in performance versus a standard-voltage system. That said, it shouldn’t stop you from using the machine as your daily driver.
Additionally, in less important news, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad Yoga 14, the company’s first convertible Ultrabook with that particular screen size. Like the original ThinkPad Yoga, which has a 12.5-inch screen, this newer model has a self-flattening keyboard that locks up when the machine is in tablet mode. As a relatively big-screen Ultrabook, the specs are a bit more heavy-duty than you’d otherwise expect from an ultraportable, including discrete NVIDIA GeForce 840 graphics, 1TB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Despite that horsepower, though, Lenovo says you can still get up to eight hours of runtime on a charge. Both laptops arrive at the end of this month, with the Yoga 3 Pro priced from $1,349, and the ThinkPad Yoga 14 starting at $1,199.
Nicole Lee contributed to this report.
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Yahoo wants to poach YouTube’s biggest ‘stars’
Despite what some corners of the internet thought, Tumblr hasn’t changed all that much since Yahoo officially bought it over a year ago. That may not be the case for much longer, if a report from Business Insider holds true, though: it suggests that the company’s executives have been looking at Tumblr as a way to push back against YouTube’s online video dominance.
To hear BI’s Nicholas Carlson tell the tale, Yahoo’s tentative fight for video relevance involves using Tumblr (that billion dollar hub of GIFs and drama) as a video hub for internet stars the company has lured away from YouTube. The process of luring that talent away from YouTube’s clutches has been underway for at least a few months now (according to re/code, at least), and involved promises to improve ad revenue payouts — after all, what video creator on the cusp of making it big couldn’t use a few more bucks? No one’s sure that Yahoo will ever actually pull the trigger on these plans, but really — it could go either way. Best case scenario, poaching YouTubers and giving them channels on Tumblr could help the social network retain its cool cachet among its legions of younger fans (not to mention generating some cash for Yahoo in the process). And the worst case? People do what they usually do: they move on and find other people to watch on YouTube.
Source: Business Insider
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Disney is working on more natural moving robots
Disney may not have much of a stake in robots at the industrial scale, but the company sure employs plenty of animatronics at its parks and films. So it only makes sense that it would want to build the most natural moving robots it can and encourage you to suspend your disbelief. Its research labs have developed a new method for controlling mechanical puppets, without the usual motors, pumps or valves. Instead the set up you see above (and in the video after the break) relies on pneumatic tubes and air pressure. As a puppeteer moves one arm, the other mimics it exactly, with no bounce back, stuttering and an imperceptible delay. The result is accurate, natural motion with impressive precision. That could lead to more convincing movie monsters, animatronic attractions without the usual stiff jitters and perhaps even more life-like fully autonomous robots that are less awkward to interact with. The company has already pumped plenty of money in to building more convincing robots, and has even gone as far as figuring out a way to clone human faces. (Your days are numbered, you have been warned.) Make sure to check out the videos after the break, because this is something that needs to be seen to truly be appreciated.
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