Amazon brings grocery deliveries to the UK with ‘Pantry’
Clearly, Amazon isn’t content with its small AmazonFresh trials. The company is expanding its UK operations today with Amazon Pantry, a new service for ordering “everyday essentials.” It’s exclusive to Prime members and offers next-day delivery for more than 4,000 products, including basic food, drink, beauty products and cleaning supplies. The service isn’t meant for fresh produce — you can’t order a pack of bacon or some bananas — but rather cupboard regulars like cereal, biscuits and tinned soup. As you pick items from Amazon’s store, you’ll see a “Pantry box” beginning to fill. The exact dimensions aren’t clear (they’re probably flexible) but Amazon says each one can hold 20kg. The first box in your order costs £2.99 to deliver, followed by 99 pence for each additional box. These prices are on top of your Prime membership and what you’ll pay for each individual item.
Via: Amazon
Source: Amazon Pantry
This ‘Fallout 4’ flaming sword can set the world on fire
It’s Fallout 4 week. That means it’s safe to say that when gamers aren’t busy logging more than 4.5 million hours in Bethesda’s latest instalment, they’re probably watching all of the impressive game-related videos on YouTube. The team over at Linus Tech Tips has already managed to fit a high-end gaming PC inside a Mini Nuke, but what about building a real-life Fallout 4 weapon? If you’ve played Fallout 3 or made it far enough into the latest game (hint: it’s located in the Saugus Ironworks), then you may have come across the Shishkebab: a flaming sword made from motorcycle parts and a katana. Make built one, and it’s awesome.
Source: Make
Microsoft brings its time-lapse video stabilizer app to Mac
When Microsoft first released its Hyperlapse video editing app, it wasn’t clear whether it would ever become available for Apple’s devices. The mystery has finally been solved: Redmond has just launched Hyperlapse Pro for Mac, which can process footage captured using phones, GoPros and other cameras. It has the capability to stabilize time-lapses, even shaky ones taken from first person POV, and users can choose their speed, resolution and frame rate. The desktop app will cost you $50, but Microsoft principal program manager Josh Weisberg is confident that the product can compete with similar software. “The Mac has some great video editing tools a lot of enthusiasts and professionals use, and there are other time lapse applications out there,” he said, “But nothing as smooth and sophisticated as Hyperlapse Pro.” That said, you can try it out for free, so long as you’re cool with seeing watermarks on your videos.
Source: Next at Microsoft, Microsoft Store
Razer is using acquisition of Ouya to improve Razer Forge TV
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Many media outlets noticed yesterday that the Android TV-powered Razer Forge TV had disappeared from the Google Store. With no official word on whether it would be restocked or replaced, it was assumed that Razer‘s Android TV experiment had come to a close. As it turns out, it hasn’t, as engadget has received that not only is the Forge TV not dead, but Razer is “doubling-down on Android gaming”.
“Following our acquisition of OUYA, we’ve been focused on integrating the content we inherited and building a spiritual successor to OUYA with the Forge TV. We’re doubling-down on Android gaming in the living room and looking forward to producing the world’s largest library of Android TV games, from AAA to indie. Concurrently, we are working to ramp-up production to address present demand and should have more news to share soon.”
You’ll notice that Razer mentions Ouya, who they purchased earlier this year – note, however, that Razer only kept the software half of Ouya’s personnel so presumably most of the differences in any Forge TV follow-ups will be in the user interface, not the actual hardware. Let’s see what comes of this.
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Source: engadget
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DeNA CEO confirms that first Nintendo mobile games will be free-to-play
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Last month, Nintendo and DeNA revealed that their first mobile game developed together would be called Miitomo. While it won’t be coming out till March 2016, the announcement left many questions unanswered, and apart from wondering exactly what the gameplay in Miitomo would be like, we were also left wondering how much the game would cost. Well, that particular question has been addressed by DeNA CEO Isao Moriyasu who confirmed that Miitomo and future Nintendo mobile games will be free-to-play.
That news isn’t particularly surprising given DeNA’s background in working on free-to-play titles, however it does beg the question of whether Nintendo would ever release a mobile game that featured one of its iconic franchises in a free-to-play mobile game. We know that Nintendo will be using some of its more “recognizable” IP in future mobile games, but we’re going to go out on a limb and assume that the use of the IP itself will be the only resemblance we’ll get to the games that we love – think match-3 Mario Bros. Still, we could be completely wrong – let’s see what Nintendo and DeNA have up their sleeves.
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Source: Wall Street Journal via gamesindustry
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Leak says deca-core Mediatek Helio X30 will feature Cortex A35 cores
Having been known to manufacture processors for budget and mid-range devices, MediaTek is finally gearing up to make its presence felt among high-end segment too. Rumor has it that the company is already set to announce the successor to the world’s first deca-core chipset, the X20, which is yet to hit the market.
If latest reports are to be believed, the Helio X20 would feature the same cluster design as previously seen on the Helio X20. The deca-core chipset is said to include four 2.5 GHz Cortex A72 cores, two 2.0 GHz Cortex A72 cores, two 1.5 GHz Cortex A53 cores and two Cortex A35 cores clocked at 1.0 GHz.
It will be interesting to see the real life performance of a deca-core processor, especially at a time when reducing the number of cores is an ongoing trend. If you remember Apple’s A9X is a dual-core chipset against the previous generation A8X’s tri-core. Even Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 comprises of quad cores in comparison to quad-cores of the Snapdragon 810.
Now the question is, whether sticking with the tri-cluster design will help MediaTek compete against seasoned players such as Qualcomm and Samsung’s Exynos or not.
Source: Mydrivers.com
Via: Gizmo China
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‘BioPhone’ can do pulse-tracking even when it’s in your pocket
Don’t like wearing fitness trackers? You might find this new study dubbed “BioPhone” by a group of scientists from MIT’s Media Lab interesting, then: they’re exploring the possibility of using commercially available phones to monitor your heart and breathing rates, even if the devices are in your pockets or bags. The idea is to rely on a phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope to pick up even small vibrations and body movements that come from your heart beating and from the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe. In order to capture pertinent data, the group developed an Android app and installed it on phones you can readily buy, including the Samsung Galaxy S4.
Source: MIT’s Technology Review
Single Chrome exploit can compromise any Android smartphone
A researcher at Quihoo 360 recently discovered an exploit in Chrome that can probably demolish even the newest, most up-to-date Android devices if the user visits an infected site.
The vulnerability was exposed at PacSec’s MobilePwn2Own event. What makes the exploit particularly unsettling is that it’s just one exploit, not an elaborate chain of exploits that interlink to reach an eventual compromise. Although the showcase did not go into the precise details regarding how the exploit works, it was revealed that it takes advantage of a vulnerability in JavaScript v8.
See also: New Android adware reportedly “nearly impossible” to remove
The researcher who discovered the exploit is Guang Gong, and PacSec will be rewarding Guang for uncovering and releasing the exploit by flying him to the CanSecWest security conference for a ski trip in March of 2016. In addition to this, Google will also likely pay a bounty for the bug’s discovery, as a Google security representative at the event took Guang’s work back for consideration.
The vulnerability took the researcher three months of development to fully flesh out, but when he demonstrated it, the method proved scarily smooth and efficient. A Nexus 6, after visiting an unremarkable web address laced with the malicious script, was able to be taken over entirely by Guang, who used this access to download a BMX bike game on the device.
PacSec’s organizer, Dragos Ruiu, reported that this vulnerability should work on any Android device since it hits the JavaScript engine. Soon after the exploit’s reveal, a German team claims to have been able to replicate it on a Samsung device.
Pretty spooky stuff, all in all.
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Cyberpunk PC classic ‘System Shock’ is getting a proper remake
While System Shock might have only just received a facelift when it launched on GOG.com earlier this year, an entire remake of the legendary PC game is now in the works — and perhaps even System Shock 3. And if you’ve never heard of System Shock? You should have: both the creators of BioShock and Deus Ex were involved in the game, which is a 1994 classic in its own right. Night Dive, the same company that was tasked with this year’s digital renovation, will handle the remake. It’s picked up full rights to the franchise.
Via: PC World
Source: Fast.Co
Texture by Next Issue: All you can read magazine subscription [App Review]
You may have heard of Netflix and all you can eat buffets before. If you haven’t, come out from under that rock and live a little. Netflix and all you can eat buffets offer unlimited video content and food for a fixed price. You can digest all you want for a flat fee until you want no more.
Like both of those services, Texture aims to bring you well known magazines for a fixed price of $9.99 or $14.99 per month with back issues included. That subscription includes unlimited access to over 100 titles which include some of the most read magazines like Time, Cosmopolitan, Motor Trend, CNET, Wired, Men’s Health, Self, Real Simple, Popular Science and many more.
Texture offers a free 30-day trial and all that is required is a credit card or PayPal account. No strings are attached, as you are free to cancel at anytime within the trial period, and if you happen to enjoy your subscription you just let Texture bill your account. I opted in for the $14.99 per month subscription which differs from the cheaper plan by offering unlimited access to the entire catalog of content. The $9.99 subscription plan is limited to monthly titles, so magazines like Time and Businessweek which are weekly publications are off limits.
At $14.99 per month, that works out to about $180 per year which isn’t a bad deal if you read lots of magazines. For various reasons, I am still subscribed to print media as well as magazines on the competitor app Zinio. Zinio is a digital magazine app as well which offers a la carte subscriptions or single issue purchases. After totaling my subscription fees for Men’s Health, Wired, Saveur, National Geographic and Maxim I easily fall under $100 dollars for my subscription fees. But if I consider sharing my account with my mom, you can access Texture on up to five devices, who pays for Better Homes and Gardens, bon appetit, Martha Stewart, O The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Sunset and Consumer Reports the subscription to Texture makes a little more financial sense.
Free 30-day trial
I went ahead and downloaded the app from the Google Play store. The app is free to install and set-up required me to input my PayPal information. A credit card would have worked too, but the PayPal option was much quicker. As soon as Texture verified my information, I was off to explore the digital library.
Beyond making financial sense, having access to more magazines naturally piqued my interest. I have always enjoyed reading magazines since I was a child and if they’re in front of me I will read them. After a solid week of having access to Texture, I found myself reading every night before bed and ignoring Netflix. Netflix is usually my go to entertainment app before bed and quite frankly I get tired of watching movies and TV. Magazines are a great alternative as I find myself reading about backpacking trips from Backpacker, or reading about Northern Canada in National Geographic Traveler and considering my next vacation destination. I’m not limited to current issues and I found myself looking up back issues from publications soaking up tons of useful information.
I’ll be hosting my lovely sister and brother-in-law for Thanksgiving this year and I learned why the most important thing on the plate is Thanksgiving gravy and how it is so easy to screw up. I kind of already knew this because I always let my older sister make the gravy. I’ve extracted a few recipes for Thanksgiving, from Texture’s Thanksgiving Central category, which include Cornmeal Butter Cake with Pomegranate sauce, Buttermilk Cardamom Pumpkin Pie, Cheesy Brussels Sprouts and Chorizo Bake and the one I am looking forward to most – Roast Turkey with Polenta stuffing.
I don’t use tablets anymore now that phones are easy enough to read with 5.7″ displays. I have been using the Google Nexus 6P and actually have enjoyed reading magazines on my device. Texture intelligently breaks each magazine up into a table of contents and you can read each category or title without having to turn through each page. This feature makes it incredibly quick to browse through magazines and see what is worth reading. The layout of the articles are just like actual magazines so you will have to zoom in to magnify the text. The articles aren’t like web pages where they automatically resize to adjust to your screen. I found this to be a little cumbersome initially, but got used to it pretty quickly and can see Texture providing a much better experience on a tablet. Maybe a Nexus 9 would be worth picking up if there’s a good price for Black Friday.
I have a few business trips planned over the next three months, and one thing I always do when I am waiting for my flight at the airport, is go and browse the newsstand and buy a magazine or two for the flight. I usually end up spending $5-15, read the magazines and leave them on the plane for the next passengers. Now I can go ahead and download a bunch of magazines for offline use, and not spend an extra penny at the airport. I’ll probably even download a couple for the time I spend at the dog park while my pup plays with other dogs.
Conclusion
Texture brings back the nostalgic feeling of being in a book store like Barnes and Noble, where there are rows of magazines broken up into categories. I’m in my 30’s and grew up frequenting book stores and my favorite area was always the magazine section. I would read the magazine title, look what was on the cover, and if it grabbed my attention I would flip through it and purchase the magazine to read at home.If the magazine was a complete joy to read, I would most likely sign up for a subscription. The downside to yearly subscriptions is that there are times when you no longer read the magazine and they continue to auto charge your credit card. This can also be quite painful if you happen to switch addresses.
With Texture, for $14.99 per month I not only to browse the aisles of every magazine, but I get to read them all at my leisure. I get to read them at the airport or in bed, and if I decide I no longer want to read magazines for a bit, I can cancel at any moment. My mailbox no longer needs to get stuffed with magazines and I can help save trees too.
When my free 30-day trial expires I will most likely be switching to the $9.99 plan as I rarely read weekly publications. I do believe I will easily get my money’s worth in entertainment and will definitely be sharing my account with my mom.
If you like reading magazines, you should at least give Texture a try for 30 days.
If you want to download Texture head on over to the Google Play store and install the app or go to Texture.com to learn more.
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