100-count Velcro cable ties, $7.58
Perfect for managing that clutter of HDMI, power, headphone and other cables, these self-adhering ties are official Velcro brand and come in a pack of 100 for less than eight bucks. Scoop them up for just $7.58 and tidy your home, office and workstation. These are going to go incredibly quickly so I’d suggest grabbing an order NOW!
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HTC & Verizon offer $100 Google Play Credit
For the next 60 days, with the purchase of an HTC One M9 at Verizon, customers will receive a $100 Google Play credit to use towards music, movies, games, or apps.
The offer is available exclusively on the Verizon HTC One M9 between 7/1/15 and 8/31/15. A credit activation code will be emailed after submission of Proof of Purchase and other requested information at www.get100GooglePlay.com. The offer expires on, and must be added to a Google Wallet account by 9/30/2015. Once added, a credit must be used on or before 9/30/2016.
For further details check out the HTC site.
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Google apologizes after Photos app automatically tags black people as “gorillas”
The new automatic tagging feature in Google’s new Photos app has the capability to generate albums based on common objects and scenery such as food and objects in your photo album and classifies them in tagged albums. Google’s automatic photo recognition software has apparently incorrectly tagged pictures of two African-American people including Jack Alciné, a computer programmer, as “gorillas”.
The objects database is quite complex and includes wild animals which led to the conflicting tagging with humans. Jack Alciné took a screenshot of the Photos app error and posted in Twitter as proof of the mistake.
Shortly after the post, Alciné received an official response from Google’s Chief Social Architect Yonatan Zunger, who responded with:
“Holy fuck. G+ CA here. No, this is not how you determine someone’s target market. This is 100 percent not okay.”
To apologize, Zunger fixed the issue the same evening, and had removed the “gorilla” label from the Photos app’s database. He added that the app still has a lot of work to be done to improve its recognition software and its actions when a human face is not recognized. In addition, he mentioned that the app once tagged all people of all races as dogs due to a major bug.
Source: ArsTechnica
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Facebook rolling out a better UI for Android tablets
Facebook is set to revamp its UI for Android tablets, and thanks to Droid-Life tipster Mike, a sneak preview of what’s to come has been posted online. Currently, Facebook on Android tablets looks decent, but it’s far from having a simple and seamless design. This new overhaul aims to fix some of those problems.
This new change should give Facebook users on Android tablets a more card-like experience that you might see on Google Now. Unfortunately, most Facebook UI changes are done server-side, meaning that even if you’re running the latest build of the app, you may not necessarily see the new changes yet. It could take a few weeks to roll out to all of its users.
Read more: Messenger no longer asks for a Facebook account
Despite taking some time to roll out to everyone, some Android users may not like the new design, as it looks like a spitting replica of the UI on iOS. Either way, check out some of the preview photos below.
To check out more photos of Facebook’s UI update, hit the source link below.
source: Droid-Life
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#ICYMI: German robo-operas, pan-Pacific battle mechs and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: A German opera company’s new lead for My Square Lady is a singing, dancing robot; MegaBot, America’s first battle mech, just challenged its Japanese counterpart to a duel and a handheld pressure washer, dubbed the Loogun, scours poo (or, in this case, some exceedingly clingy Vegemite) from your toilet bowl so you don’t have to.
From the cutting room floor: NASA debuted a prototype glider called the Prandtl-m (Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars) that could be cruising the skies of Mars sometime within the next decade. Good luck pronouncing that acronym.
Let the team at Engadget know about any interesting stories or videos you stumble across by using the #ICYMI hashtag @engadget or @mskerryd.
Toyota bets on hydrogen with the FCV Mirai
Its name means “future” in Japanese. The FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) Mirai is Toyota’s $57,500 bet (not counting clean fuel incentives) on a future where hydrogen vehicles roll into fueling stations just as easily as their gasoline-powered counterparts. It wants another Prius moment, but the desire to drive an environmentally friendlier car can’t override the need to actually fill the car with fuel. The car itself hits all the important sedan marks: aggressive styling, solid acceleration (0-60 in nine seconds) and, from our time being driven on the track, solid handling thanks to the fuel cell stack residing under the passenger compartment for a low center of gravity. The 312-mile range is on par with its gas-guzzling counterparts. But even with a hybrid engine to reduce hydrogen fuel consumption to 67 miles per gallon equivalent, it still needs to be refueled.
So Toyota is launching the vehicle in California and teaming with the state to place 100 stations in the next 10 years. Of those, 17 will be completed by the end of 2015 and will join three stations that are already online. The stations will be concentrated in Los Angeles and Orange counties and the Bay Area with a single location opening along Interstate 5 at Harris Ranch for trips between those areas. As a bonus for new owners of the FCV, Toyota is throwing in three years of complimentary fuel up to $15,000.
As for other regions, the infrastructure just isn’t there to even bother trying to sell a hydrogen vehicle. In the Northeastern portion of the United States the carmaker has teamed with Air Liquide to build 12 hydrogen stations in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While Toyota is working to build up that infrastructure, it’s only selling the Mirai in California for now. But if hydrogen is truly going to be a viable transportation alternative it’s going to take more than one car and a handful of filling stations.
Filed under: Misc, Transportation
Source: Toyota
This video game is so small it fits inside a tweet
In the same way that people write words onto grains of rice, one programmer has managed to build a game with code that can fit into a single tweet. The 140-character opus is called Tiny Twitch and was created by Alex Yoder after responding to an open challenge by developer Ben Porter. Unsurprisingly, the game’s not going to rival the blockbuster hits of this world, since you’re simply asked to click an X as it bounces around your browser as many times as you can. If you’re interested in giving this a go, it’s available to play right now and let us know if you can get higher score than 17 before time runs out.
I challenge you to make a game whose source fits in a single tweet
– Ben Porter o.ᴗo. (@eigenbom) June 27, 2015
<body onload=d=Date.now,t=d(s=0)><p style=”float:left” onclick=”(e=d(++s)-t)<15e3?style.margin=e%300+’ 0 0 ‘+e*7%300:alert(s)”>X</p></body>
– Alex Yoder (@alex_yoder) June 30, 2015
[Image Credit: Getty]
Via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Source: GitHub, Tiny Twitch
Thanks, Obama: now you can take selfies in the White House
We’ve seen President Obama take a few selfies in the White House before, but until now the practice has been strictly forbidden for visitors on the public tour. Well, today that 40-year-old ban has been officially lifted. From now on, you can use a smartphone or a compact camera with a lens no longer than three inches to take photos inside the building. (Yes, this includes selfies.) While the rules have been relaxed somewhat, there are still plenty of gadgets on the “Prohibited Items” list. These include selfie sticks, tablets, GoPro-style action cameras and any snapper with detachable lenses. Texting, calls and livestreaming are also forbidden — so no Periscoping while you walk down the entrance hall.
Big news! Excited to announce we’re lifting the ban on cameras and photos on public tours at the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/b0v17puClm
– The First Lady (@FLOTUS) July 1, 2015
[Image Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images]
Filed under: Cameras
Huawei’s got another low-end smartwatch in the works
Huawei hasn’t even launched its first Android smartwatch yet and it’s already talking-up the following entry into the wearables business. As Engadget Chinese reports, the company revealed that it’s working on the Band Zero, a watch-style device for cheapie sub-brand Honor. We’ve only got rendered images to go on, but it’s believed that the device will tell the time, offer fitness tracking and some basic smartphone notifications. In addition, Leiphone is reporting that the hardware will have a battery life for four days and be both dust and water resistant to IP68 standards. That’s all that there is to say right now, but perhaps it might be wise if Huawei concentrated on getting its products out of the door instead of teasing us with what’s coming up in the future.
#Honor‘s smart wearable device that embodies a minamalistic design, that’s #HonorBandZero. #HuaweiFacts pic.twitter.com/94oStPXMnP
– Huawei Device (@HuaweiDevice) June 30, 2015
Filed under: Wearables
Via: Engadget Chinese
Source: Huawei (Twitter), Leiphone
Get ready to crowdfund a sequel to the original ‘The Wicker Man’
The director of the seminal ’70s horror film The Wicker Man is asking all of us to bankroll the final film in his Wicker trilogy. Robin Hardy has launched an Indiegogo campaign asking for film fans to chip in $210,000 to complete The Wrath of the Gods, finishing a series that began in 1973. The story involves a theme park that’s based on Norse mythology that, perhaps unsurprisingly, begins to rapidly fall apart when supernatural forces get involved. If we were asked to guess, we’d imagine a sardonic riff on Jurassic Park that — spoilers — features someone getting slaughtered in some form of pagan ceremony.
Plenty of other films from brand-name artists have raised their funding in this manner, with Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here and the Veronica Mars movie the two most notable. In addition, wealthy backers with $5,000-plus in the bank can pay to be an extra in the film, as long as they promise to lay off the Edward Woodward impressions. If your only experience of The Wicker Man involves Nicholas Cage shouting incoherently about bees, then watch the original and then decide if you’d like to pay for more of the same.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet
Source: Indiegogo
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