Tinder gets a lo-fi makeover in ‘Millenial Swipe Simulator 2015’
If you’ve been using Tinder for long enough chances are that you’ve opened the app in the morning with some rather surprising matches. Brainlessly swiping right on whoever fits the bill for you in the hopes that they’ll do the same and you’ll potentially have a love connection is part of the experience. It’s this sort of activity the web-based Millenial Swipe Sim 2015 aims to replicate. In the “game” you have to keep swiping (regardless of direction) to keep your boredom meter from filling lest you die. Seriously. Funnily enough, developer Will Herring (a Buzzfeed creative director and former GamePro (R.I.P.) editor) managed sneaking some of the app’s quirks in. Like people in group photos and the same profiles that keep popping up repeatedly, for example. What’s missing though are wedding shots from the altar or church steps and profiles consisting entirely of photos of one’s children. Maybe in the next update?
Herring tells Motherboard that the concept of app-based dating is something he’s still trying to wrap his head around given the weird dichotomy of people not taking it seriously despite it becoming “the standard” for how people meet and start relationships. I mean, if a literal piece of meat can do it, that’s saying something. How many swipes can you hit before departing this mortal coil? My record is 19 and not once did I see someone holding their newborn in the delivery room or lounging at a rooftop bar in a bikini.
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Cellphones, Gaming, Mobile
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Motherboard
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Millenial Swipe Simulator 2015 (Dropbox)
Tags: 8bit, appdating, buzzfeed, gaming, hope, humanity, indiegame, love, lowfi, mobile, mobilepostcross, onlinedating, tinder, willherring
Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton’ is no longer an Apple Music exclusive
Dr. Dre released his final album, Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, two weeks ago as an exclusive for Apple Music and the iTunes Store. The 14-day window has come to an end and now the album is available through Google Play along with music streaming services such as Tidal, Rdio, and Rhapsody. Compton includes sixteen tracks that run for around sixty minutes.
Plan on seeing Straight Outta Compton in theaters? The album pairs pretty well with that film considering Dr. Dre was a member of N.W.A., the group that Straight Outta Compton chronicles.
Source: Google Play Music (Twitter)
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PSA: Apple will replace your iPhone 6 Plus’ wonky camera
Did you buy an iPhone 6 Plus sometime between last September and this January? Do you notice that your shots taken with its back camera come out all blurry? Yeah, it’s not just you. Turns out, a limited number of these phones shipped with a manufacturing defect. However, Apple is aware of the issue and has already begun issuing replacements for the iSight camera. If you think that you have one of these borked units, go to this website and type in your phone’s serial number. If your unit is part of that bad batch, Apple will replace the camera (not the entire phone) at no charge. Also, if you’re rocking one of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6’s, don’t worry; none of those units suffered from the defect.
[Image Credit: Getty Images]
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Cellphones, Cameras, Wireless, Mobile, Apple
Via:
9to5Mac
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Apple Support
Tags: apple, iphone, iphone6, iphone6plus, isight, mobilepostcross, PSA
‘Half-Life 2’ plus ‘Hotline Miami’ equals ‘Half-Line Miami’
What’s better than a pixelated, top-down gorefest set to frenetic synth music? A pixelated, top-down gorefest set to frenetic synth music with a gravity gun. Half-Line Miami is an unapologetic mix of Half-Life 2, Valve’s massively popular 2004 first-person shooter, and Hotline Miami, the ultra-violent top-down action franchise from Dennaton Games. Both games have secured their places in video game history and they’re now together at last in one free PC game, complete with a level editor.
Half-Line Miami comes from developer Thomas Kole, with music by Sung. Kole created Half-Line Miami at Belgium’s Digital Arts and Entertainment, a school for video game development and visual effects. In the release trailer’s YouTube description, Kole adds, “I made this game as a declaration of my love for these two games, and as an experiment in game design.”
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Kotaku
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Half-Line Miami
Tags: HalfLife2, halflinemiami, hdpostcross, HotlineMiami, Indie
The international version of the Lenovo-backed ZUK Z1 runs Cyanogen 12
There’s a lot to like about the ZUK Z1, a Chinese flagship smartphone backed by the folks at Lenovo — it has a USB Type-C port with support for audio output, a huge 4,100 mAh battery, a multi-function fingerprint reader and an attractive 1,799 yuan ($280) sticker price. If Cyanogen is your favorite flavor of Android, it just got a little better: today ZUK announced that the international version of the handset will come loaded with the commercial version of Cyanogen OS 12.1.
This international version of the phone will feature the same specs as its Chinese counterpart, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and a 5.5-inch 1080p display — but it’ll cost a tiny bit more. In Europe, the US, southeast Asia and the middle east, the ZUK Z1 will retail for $299 and up. Sound good? Sit tight: the Z1 is scheduled to launch internationally sometime in September.
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Misc, Mobile, Lenovo
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Fone Arena
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ZUK
Tags: android, changcheng, china, Cyanogen, lenovo, mobilepostcross, phone, smartphone, snapdragon801, type-c, usb3.0, usbtype-c, usbtypec z1, z1, zui, zuk
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Active with 4,100mAh battery could be on the cards
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It’s not an unfamiliar sight to see a Samsung Galaxy S device ruggedized into an Active device, however the treatment has been absent from the Galaxy Note family of devices over the years. That might be able to change, however, as rumours of an Active version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 have started to circulate. A device that would presumably be called the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Active would also feature a 4,100mAh battery, a huge boost over the middling 3,000mAh battery that comes in the Note 5 vanilla.
The report continues, saying that the Note 5 Active would have IP68 certification and will be released on November 8th, though no information about pricing or availability has been suggested. If we had to guess what hardware the Note 5 Active would have, we’d assume it would be the same hardware as the Note 5 – the Galaxy S6 Active was a big surprise as it was literally a beefier version of the standard Galaxy S6, something of a change from previous years, and we’d assume a Note 5 Active would get the same treatment.
What do you think about a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Active? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Phone Arena via TalkAndroid
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Foursquare is bringing back leaderboards for Swarm
Foursquare is bringing back the old leaderboards for Swarm. Swarm 3.0 will bring leaderboards which will put you against your friends by ranking you by the number of coins everyone has.
Every time you check in you will earn coins, but the amount will be different depending on each location. You may check in at a location and receive many coins or another one, but only receive a couple. You can also get bonuses for check-in streaks, mayorships, or any out-of-the-ordinary check-ins.
For now the coins are basically just a point system to score you, but Foursquare says they might be used for something in the future.
If you are not number one this week, don’t worry as the leaderboard will reset each week.
Source: Foursquare
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Ashley Madison hackers bash the site’s security practices in Q&A
Impact Team, the hackers that stole a massive amount of data from infidelity hookup site Ashley Madison earlier this week, have come forward to tell their side of the story. In an email Q&A with Motherboard, the hack’s perpetrators first and foremost shamed Ashley Madison’s parent company Avid Life Media for the lax security that made such a hack a surprisingly simple matter. “We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack [sic],” Impact Team said, “then got in and found nothing to bypass.” The hackers further called the security levels “bad,” saying that “nobody was watching” and there was “no security” to speak of. The fact that Ashley Madison isn’t the most secure site out there isn’t news, but it’s still a bit shocking to see just how cavalier a site that makes its living trading on infidelity is about protecting customer info.
Other revelations include the extent of the data Impact Team was able to make off with — the existing releases are just the tip of the iceberg, though the group says it isn’t planning on releasing everything. The group has allegedly pulled 300GB of employee emails and internal documents as well as “tens of thousands” of Ashley Madison user pics. A whopping third of those pictures are supposedly “dick pics,” but fortunately for the hacking victims, those pictures aren’t going to be released. It sounds like the group doesn’t plan to release most employee emails either, though some executives might not be so lucky.
Earlier today, Impact Team re-released yesterday’s data because the file containing Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman’s email was corrupted, though it looks like the latest release is similarly inaccessible. Whether or not we’ll see more sensitive user information released remains to be seen — the group says no further dumps are “guaranteed” at this point, but that’s some language that certainly leaves things open for the future.
[Image credit: Carl Court / Getty Images]
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Motherboard (1), (2)
Tags: AshleyMadison, ashleymadisonhack, hack, impacteam
Alphabet names its first new company to oversee
The first company formed under Alphabet’s control will focus on life sciences.
Alphabet President Sergey Brin announced on Google+ that the team behind Google’s smart contact lenses is graduating from the Google X lab. The standalone company, which has yet to be officially named, will be led by Andy Conrad. Before becoming the life sciences team’s CEO, Conrad was actually in charge of Google Life Sciences at the Google X lab. So the move for this team will not bring much change. Corporate structure seems to be the only thing experiencing noticeable change.
A Google spokesperson sent Gizmodo the following description of the new team:
The life sciences team at Google is focused on helping to move health care from reactive to proactive. Combining expertise from the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, electrical engineering, computer science, we’re developing new technology tools for physicians that can integrate easily into daily life and help transform the detection, prevention, and management of disease. Current projects in development include a smart contact lens with miniaturized glucose sensor; a nanodiagnostics platform to help with early detection of disease; and Liftware utensils for people with tremors.
The products being worked on by the life sciences team are not yet available to the public; therefore, Alphabet is presumably going to be funneling a lot of resources into their projects. With time, Alphabet hopes to see those projects become consumer-ready and generate new revenue. Brin noted that the goal for this team will be to “transform the way we detect, prevent, and manage disease.”
Source: Sergey Brin (Google+)
Via: Gizmodo
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More leaked images of the Sony Xperia Z5 emerge
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The Sony Xperia Z5 will be Sony‘s latest attempt to right the ship after its continued poor financial performance, but from the leaked photos of the upcoming device, it looks like not much as changed. The latest photos of the device from from NoWhereElse.fr who have gotta photos of a Xperia Z5 dummy, but gives us a good look at the device from all angles. Unfortunately, there’s not much difference between this device and the Xperia Z4/Z3+ before it, apart from the elongated power button which replaces the traditional circle power button. Check out the new leaked photos below:
Although it’s difficult to see from these images but the Xperia Z5 is rumoured to be a 5.5-inch device, a sizeable increase since its predecessors have been closer to 5-inches. It’s also alleged that the Xperia Z5 will introduce a fingerprint scanner, suspected to be embedded in the new power button – this seems to be standard faire given every manufacturer is adopting the feature in their latest devices. We’re suspecting that Sony will announced the device at IFA 2015, but the Japanese outfit has given no indication that it is even going to be holding a press conference yet.
What do you think about the Sony Xperia Z5? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: nowhereelse.fr via XperiaBlog
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