Did you say free? Get the Fleksy keyboard for free this week, now with GIF keyboard
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There are a long list of keyboards out there on the Play Store, and each of them offer their own quirks and neat features. Fleksy, one of the more popular keyboards around, has just added a new feature to its line-up and it says it’s the first of its kind. That feature is a GIF keyboard, which will allow you to find and send GIFs all from within the keyboard. I know quite a few people who will love this new feature, and to make it even sweeter, you can get the Fleksy keyboard for free this week. If you redeem it this week, looks like you’ll be able to keep use of the paid version, which normally costs $2.48, from now on.
All you need to do is download the Free version (link is below), and from there you’ll be able to activate the full version. Fleksy has had a pretty impressive run this past year, now boasting support for 42 languages, multiple layouts and themes as well to customize it for your personal use. Sound like a pretty good deal? Only one way to find out.
What do you think about Fleksy? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: OzBargain
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Microsoft bought ‘Minecraft’ because it’s perfect for HoloLens
Microsoft surprised many when it announced it had acquired Mojang, maker of the hit game Minecraft for $2.5 billion. What could a company specializing in operating systems and business software possibly want with a sandbox game primarily enjoyed by children? The game’s creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, certainly had something to do with it, but Microsoft had something else in its arsenal that was also perfectly suited: HoloLens.
“Let’s have a game that, in fact, will fundamentally help us change new categories,” Nadella told the New York Times in an interview. “HoloLens was very much in the works then, and we knew it.” Already, we’ve had a taste of what Microsoft might be planning with the game. In our brief time with HoloLens, we played Holobuilder, a game inspired by Minecraft that let us build a virtual world in the demonstration room and blow a (virtual) hole in the wall. During HoloLens’ surprise January unveiling, Microsoft included Minecraft in its demonstration video, hinting that the game would be the perfect showcase for the capabilities of its upcoming headset.
Obviously, Microsoft isn’t new to gaming, but with rivals moving into different categories like virtual reality, the company has taken a different approach with HoloLens. Headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR work by tricking your eyes, but Microsoft’s hoping that holograms, or more specifically augmented reality, will wow consumers by overlaying digital objects on a real world canvas. It’s already received a lot of publicity, but Nadella knows that he has his work cut out: “I don’t want to overhype it like Google Glass and say this is the next,” he said. “I want us to be deliberate about what it is.”
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Source: New York Times
Google Nexus 10 is receiving Android 5.1.1 via OTA update
We only just announced that Google has made available the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop factory images for you to flash to your 2012 or 2013 Nexus 7 tablet and for your Nexus 10 Android tablet, but some Nexus 10 users are already receiving the OTA update on their devices.
The OTA, or Over The Air, update is a small one, with users reporting just 13.9 MB to download.
The update, which should bring your device to build# LMY47V, is slowly rolling out for all users, but our Nexus 10 has not seen it yet, at least at the time of writing. We are still awaiting the full changelog of updates in Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, for now we are expecting little more than performance and stability improvements, and a smattering of bug squashes, which is exactly what the update page captured below states.
Google’s Nexus 10 was a welcome tablet in its time, and still holds its own for day to day tasks. It is almost scary to think that it is a nearly three year old Android tablet, we hope yours has served you well, and with this update, we hope it continues to have a place in your life.
This OTA marks the Nexus 10 as one of the first Nexus devices to receive Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. With the other factory images available, we expect to see the update hit other Nexus devices soon. However, with some still awaiting the Android 5.1 release, like all the Nexus 9 owners out there, I wouldn’t advise mashing on the Check for Update button just yet.
Any Nexus 10 owners out there seeing the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update already?
Russia launches its third ‘world’s quietest’ submarine
Russian defense contractor Admiralty Shipyards launched the latest of its ultra-modern Varshavyanka-class diesel-electric submarines earlier this week. Dubbed the Krasnodar, this sub is the third of six its class. These vessels are primarily designed to hunt surface ships and other subs in littoral waters. They can’t dive as deep or stay submerged as long as either modern nuclear subs or the Kilo-class submarines they’re meant to replace. However, the Varshavyankas are armed to the gills with 18 torpedoes and eight surface-to-air Club missiles, according to reports from Russia Today. What’s more, when running silent, the Krasnodar and its ilk are nearly impossible to detect acoustically, hence their NATO callsign “Black Hole.” The first two Varshavyanka-class submarines, the Novorossiysk and the Rostov-on-Don, are currently undergoing deep-water testing and are expected to begin service to the Black Sea Fleet by the end of the year. There are currently no public estimates as to when the Krasnodar will join them.
[Image credit: Admiralty Shipyards]
Filed under: Transportation
Via: Business Insider, The National Interest
Source: Admiralty Shipyards
Grooveshark’s illegal music streaming service is extinct
Death’s icy grip hit more than just Secret this week; Grooveshark is shutting down too. Last year, judges found the music streaming service guilty of mass copyright infringement for hosting illegal uploads of songs from Jay-Z, Madonna and others. As Recode notes, however, something a little more recent was the reason behind the actual closure. Escape Media (Grooveshark’s owner) had a few options in court with Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group last week: either pay a possible maximum of $736 million in fines or accept a settlement with record labels to hand over its website, apps and patents.
Should Grooveshark violate this settlement, it’ll owe the labels $75 million. As a mea culpa Grooveshark took to its website and suggested using Deezer, Google Play or Spotify among others in its stead. Curiously absent? Tidal. Regardless, it offers the following:
If you love music and respect the artists, songwriters and everyone else ho makes great music possible, use a licensed service that compensates artists and other rights holders.
In case you were wondering, yes, this means Broadcasts isn’t going to happen.
[Image credit: Getty Images]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Via: Recode
Source: Grooveshark
Tesla wants its Powerwall to save the grid and your bank account
Our lust for electricity is insatiable. At night we connect a hydra of wires to our phones, computers, smartwatches and tablets. They sip at the electrons being pumped into our homes, filling their batteries to be ready for another day without being tethered to a wall. Tesla wants your house to be ready. Ready for power outages and heat waves. The company says its Powerwall home battery system can untether your home from the power grid for a few hours, which might not sound like much, but could have huge implications for the way we power our lives.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced the Powerwall at his company’s design studio in Southern California. He said it’s a “whole integrated system that just works and is connected to the internet.” The battery packs are lithium-ion cells with a liquid thermal-control system. Powerwall — which Tesla has been testing with select customers for a year — connects to the internet so it can track power usage and share that information with utilities.
You can reserve a Powerwall right now on Tesla’s site. The device will also be available via distributors, with the 10kWh version offered to installers for $3,500 and the 7kWh model will cost $3,000. This doesn’t include the cost of a DC-to-AC inverter to work with your home. (Solar cell customers will already have that inverter.) Distributors can lease the Powerwall to customers and the device will come with a 10-year guaranteed life with warranty, and will start to ship in late summer.
Tesla says the 10kWh version is more for those on the grid with the ability to run a home once the power goes out. The 7kWh version is geared toward solar cell users wanting to tap into the sun’s power during the evening.
Musk says that Tesla won’t do this alone. It needs partners. To that end, the patents to the Powerwall will be open.
The Powerwall is, at its core, a giant battery like the one found in your smartphone. Like your phone, when it’s not connected to the grid, it still supplies energy. Currently any extra power that’s produced by the utility companies is wasted; power stations ramp up supply as needed. For alternative energy sources, if the wind or sun is providing more power than what the grid requires, all that energy is similarly wasted. The state of California wants public utilities to start storing energy by 2024 to reduce that waste. Tesla’s solution distributes that energy storage to individuals, giving them the opportunity to save some cash and be prepared in case of a power outage.
Tesla made the electric car more than a vehicle for environmentalists because it made it cool. It’s going to be a bit tougher to make the idea of a home battery cool. But if the system manages to save you money and it means power outages can be shrugged off, then Tesla might have another hit.
Filed under: Misc, Household, Software
Source: Tesla
Mozilla: All new web features should require secure HTTP
A number of internet organizations and even the government want websites to use encryption by default in the future, and from the sound of it, Mozilla shares their view. The non-profit has announced that it plans to limit the capabilities of “the non-secure web” (aka websites that don’t use HTTPS), in order to encourage a more widespread use of encryption. Mozilla has a two-element approach in place, one of which is making all new features of the Firefox browser and its other products available only to secure websites when we reach a certain date. The org will consult its users — just like it did before it ultimately decided it wants to stop supporting unencrypted sites in the long run — not only to pinpoint that date, but also to decide what features are considered “new” by that time.
The other one is to gradually phase out “access to browser features for non-secure websites, especially features that pose risks to users’ security and privacy.” Mozilla knows that will cause many websites to break on its browser, though, so it promises to monitor the situation and attempt to strike a balance. We’ll likely hear more about the plan after the org submits its proposals to the W3C WebAppSec Working Group and when implementation begins. For now, you can read more about Mozilla’s plan on its Security Blog.
Filed under: Misc
Source: Mozilla
HTC posts $11 million profit in Q1 of 2015, expects higher revenue in Q2
HTC has posted their quarterly earnings for Q1 2015, and things look decent for the company. Revenue sat around $1.36 billion, up from $1.08 billion last year, and HTC actually managed to turn a profit instead of a loss like they did in the first quarter of 2014.
They only pulled in $11 million in profit, which isn’t massively successful, but anything is better than their $66 million loss from their previous first quarter.
HTC expects to bring in around $1.5 billion next quarter, so hopefully the HTC One M9 helps the company maintain profitability.
source: HTC
via: Android Central
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T-Mobile’s Galaxy S6 Edge receiving Android 5.1.1 OTA update
Samsung usually isn’t the quickest when it comes to Android update, but it looks like they’ve worked some magic with T-Mobile, as the Galaxy S6 Edge is now receiving the Android 5.1.1 update over the air. Only the Edge variant on T-Mobile specifically is seeing the update, but that might just mean that the normal S6 (and other carrier models) will join the party soon.
Android 5.1.1 doesn’t do much in terms of features, but it does bring some bug fixes and the like. This update also locks the bootloader on the device, however, so it might be something to keep an eye out for if you like to tinker with your devices.
Anybody else seeing the update?
source: SamMobile
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Daily Roundup: Apple Watch review, Windows 10 and more!
Ready to get caught up on some of today’s top stories? Find out what we thought about the Apple Watch in our review, learn about what’s changed in Windows 10 from Microsoft’s design lead and read why Secret is shutting down. Get all the details about these stories and more in the Daily Roundup.
Apple Watch review: a status symbol for iOS devotees
Mankind’s fascination with watches capable of more than simply telling the time is nothing new. But recently, our collective interest in intelligent timepieces has spiked, and we have more and more powerful wrist-worn computers to choose from than ever – whether made by startups with record-setting Kickstarter campaigns or the biggest names in consumer electronics. Of course, the biggest name of all, Apple, had yet to release one of its own. Well, the Watch has arrived, and its maker has loftier aspirations for it than the smartwatches preceding it.
Windows 10 design lead explains what’s changed (and what hasn’t)
Albert Shum, the design team lead for Microsoft’s OS team, has outlined through some of the decisions made in its new OS. He reiterates that – especially now Windows 10 is out in the open – the work here isn’t yet done, with the blog post focusing on where the team’s received the most.. “feedback”, including the new menu options found on mobile iterations.
Secret’s out: The rise and fall of the anonymous social app
Secret, the app that was practically synonymous with the anonymous-app movement, is shutting down. David Byttow, Secret’s co-founder and CEO, explained in a Medium post yesterday that the reason for the shuttering is that the app no longer represents the vision he had when he started it in January last year. And if the lackluster activity in my Secret feed of late is any indication, I’m guessing the severe decline in users is a reason too.
Jeff Bezos’ first proper test rocket has successfully launched
Elon Musk may be the most famous tech billionaire with an interest in spaceflight, but he’s certainly not the only one. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also has a company, Blue Origin, which is doing similar research into reusable craft to get us to-and-from the heavens. The normally secretive outfit has just revealed that its first test vehicle, New Shepard, made arguably its most important, partially successful test flight yesterday.
Living with Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge in an S6 world
I was torn this past winter. I knew the Galaxy S6 was imminent and that there’d likely be a model with a curved screen, but I was dying to see what it was like to live with its bigger precursor, the Galaxy Note Edge. Would I feel a twinge of regret when the shiny new Samsung handset arrived, even if the older phone still had some advantages? There was only one way to find out. I spent a few weeks with the Note Edge to see not just whether I would enjoy that uniquely shaped screen on its own terms, but whether it would still hold its own against the faster, curvier Galaxy S6 Edge.
Watch Tesla’s souped-up Model S beat the world’s fastest sedan
Tesla’s Model S P85D is quick. Or is it fast? Can it be both? Ever since Elon Musk unveiled the company’s speediest car ever, it’s become the fashionable thing to take the P85D to a drag strip and pit it against some old-school gas-powered muscle. Motor Trend did the same, choosing the all-American Dodge Charger Hellcat (the world’s fastest sedan) as the Model S’ opponent. Now, it’s not the first time that these cars have gone head-to-head over a quarter mile, but when they first met, the 707-horsepower Hellcat had such a dismal run that it needed an official rematch with a better driver behind the wheel.
Play classic MS-DOS games without even leaving Twitter
Although they went live at the very start of the year, it was like all of our Christmases had come at once when Archive.org added 2,400 playable MS-DOS games to its website. Retro titles like Maniac Mansion, Oregon Trail and Doom are all available, with the only downside being that you have to visit each specific game’s page to play them. However, the eagle-eyed folk at Wired noticed these have recently started working on Twitter, meaning you can get all of your social networking done while simultaneously saving Sandy Pantz from the evil Dr Fred.
Filed under: Misc
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