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diyphotography.net
The golden ratio isn’t really something I think about much, or at all, when composing a photograph. But if it’s something you’ve wanted to start …
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Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists Taken Down By Buzz Aldrin And Professor Brian Cox
HuffPost UK - Chris York
Monday saw the 46th anniversary of the first lunar landings so inevitably the conspiracy loons were out in force. Thankfully we have the ever-so …
30 best Android apps of 2014
Android Authority - Joe Hindy
The year 2014 was full of fun and amazing apps. There were old apps redefining themselves and new apps that stormed into the Play Store with something to say. In this roundup, we’ll take a look at the
Stone Age Axe Discovered Stuck Into The Ground With Handle Still Attached
HuffPost - Macrina Cooper-White
Archaeologists have unearthed an incredibly rare flint axe from the Stone Age that just may have been used in an ancient ritual. The 5,500-year-old discovery -- found jammed into the Earth with its wooden
Thanks to Apple Pay, Google Wallet NFC use is growing fast. That’s a good thing
gigaom.com - by Kevin C. Tofel
A rising tide lifts all boats, as they say, and that’s exactly what appears to be happening in the U.S. contact-less payments space. Now that iPhone …
Noke is a Bluetooth padlock you unlock with your phone
VentureBeat - Simon Cohen
Oh, the ol’ padlock. At this time of year it is on the back to school shopping lists of millions of students. It’s also the inspiration behind the Noke by Fuz Designs, the latest runaway success project
Using a Raspberry Pi, RFID tags, man builds audiobook player for his nearly blind grandfather
gigaom.com - by Kevin C. Tofel
Putting different connected technologies together for individual purposes isn’t just for the geeks any more: we’re now in an age where the ability …
Best Android Launchers in 2018
androidcentral.com - Ara Wagoner
The way we arrange, organize, and interact with our apps on Android is called the launcher. Launchers usually consist of a series of home screens, …
HP Taps Fashion's Elite to Create a Luxury Smartwatch With Gilt
Mashable - Pete Pachal
If you've browsed the current crop of smartwatches, you've probably found the array of rectangular slabs available to be a little lacking in the …
Android Weekly: top 8 Android stories this week
Android Authority - Bogdan Petrovan
This week in your world of Android: Google I/O brought us Android Wear, Android Auto, Android TV, and a preview of Android L release, Android One was announced as a way to bring more smartphones to developing
Mota $99 3D Printer: Too Good To Be True
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
An affordable yet high quality consumer 3D printer has turned out too good to be true, surprising no one. The 3D printer market is generally sitting in a quasi-limbo state that’s progressed beyond proving
Unlocking Your Cellphone Is About to Be Legal Again
TIME - By Alex Fitzpatrick
President Barack Obama is set to sign into law a bill that will make it easier for you to switch mobile carriers without buying a new phone. The bill, …
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Costa Concordia wreck enters Genoa port for scrapping
bbc.co.uk
http://vod-pro-ww-live.akamaized.net/mps_h264_hi/public/news/world/1096000/1096344_h264_1500k.mp4?__gda__=1547355461_38a0705fb2c968748d9aad553ab46131 The wrecked Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia,
Congress restores consumers' right to unlock phones
USA TODAY - Michael Winter
Consumers will soon be able to free their cellphones from the grip of wireless carriers thanks to final legislation that Congress passed Friday allowing mobile devices to be unlocked. President Obama he
Controversial Torrent Site The Pirate Bay Just Made It Easier To Download Movies On Your Phone
Business Insider - Dave Smith
But starting this week, users can now search through that endless trove of pirated content directly on their smartphones and tablets now that Pirate Bay has launched a mobile-friendly version of its website.
Report: Samsung and Google Butt Heads Over Smartwatches
Mashable - Christina Warren
Are Google and Samsung fighting over Tizen's role in wearables? According to a new report, the answer is yes. According to The Information, Google CEO …
'Jihadi Vogue' magazine lampoons Iraq's Islamic State warriors
The Telegraph - By Our Foreign Staff
Spoof publication is part of growing satire campaign of Islamic State online propaganda In a world where lapses in dress sense can be punishable by death, it could well prove to be essential reading. Vogue",
10 Free Android Apps Everyone Should Download
TIME - By Techlicious
Every time I get a new Android smartphone or tablet, I install certain apps right away, before I even really start to play with the device — apps I …
10 of the Best Android Browser Apps
TNW - Paul Sawers
Love ’em or hate ’em, browsers are your window to the Web – be it on your laptop, tablet or pocket rocket. While you may well be one of those unfussy types who would get by just as well on Chrome or Firefox
Here's How to Stop Facebook From Snooping in Your Web History
thewire.com - Polly Mosendz
This article is from the archive of our partner . This week, Facebook announced it was expanding its evil empire adding targeted advertising based on …
'Factory wipe' on Android phones left naked selfies and worse, study finds
The Guardian - Charles Arthur
Hundreds of naked selfies and intimate pictures of both men and women were found on a batch Android smartphones that their owners thought they had wiped, a research study has found. After studying 20 security
Samsung's Galaxy S5 mini keeps the sensors but not the specs
Engadget - Matt Brian
Samsung has revealed the smaller-sized update to its latest flagship smartphone: the Galaxy S5 mini. While it's often expected that the company will scrimp on sensors to save on price, the S5 mini includes
Android Wear review: the everything inbox
The Verge - Dieter Bohn
Pretty much everybody I know hates their inbox. It's not just email either, though it tends to take the brunt of everybody's anger. There are dozens of apps sending us hundreds of notifications; managing
Make your Android Device Smarter with these Handy Apps
TNW - Aayush Arya
The leap from feature phones to smartphones didn’t happen overnight. Slowly but steadily, our phones grew smarter and smarter until they’d become capable enough that we could fulfil most of our computing
Google upgrades Glass with double the memory, battery boost
CNET - by Nick Statt
On the eve of I/O, Google unveils new Glass innards with 2GB of RAM and 15 percent longer battery life.
Pew Research Center
Iraq crisis: The Sunni-Shia divide explained
bbc.co.uk
One of the factors behind the most recent violence in Iraq is the sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims in that country. The majority of Iraq's Muslims are Shia, and the Isis militants gaining

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Take the golden ratio with you everywhere you go using this wallet sized view finder

Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists Taken Down By Buzz Aldrin And Professor Brian Cox

30 best Android apps of 2014

Stone Age Axe Discovered Stuck Into The Ground With Handle Still Attached

Thanks to Apple Pay, Google Wallet NFC use is growing fast. That’s a good thing

Noke is a Bluetooth padlock you unlock with your phone

Using a Raspberry Pi, RFID tags, man builds audiobook player for his nearly blind grandfather

Best Android Launchers in 2018

HP Taps Fashion's Elite to Create a Luxury Smartwatch With Gilt

Android Weekly: top 8 Android stories this week

Mota $99 3D Printer: Too Good To Be True

Unlocking Your Cellphone Is About to Be Legal Again

Costa Concordia wreck enters Genoa port for scrapping

Congress restores consumers' right to unlock phones

Controversial Torrent Site The Pirate Bay Just Made It Easier To Download Movies On Your Phone

Report: Samsung and Google Butt Heads Over Smartwatches

'Jihadi Vogue' magazine lampoons Iraq's Islamic State warriors

10 Free Android Apps Everyone Should Download

10 of the Best Android Browser Apps

Here's How to Stop Facebook From Snooping in Your Web History

'Factory wipe' on Android phones left naked selfies and worse, study finds

Samsung's Galaxy S5 mini keeps the sensors but not the specs

Android Wear review: the everything inbox

Make your Android Device Smarter with these Handy Apps

Google upgrades Glass with double the memory, battery boost

Iraq crisis: The Sunni-Shia divide explained