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• Sam Miles

  

  This designer made his own BB-8 Star Wars droid

  The Verge - Russell Brandom

  The BB-8 droid was one of the best parts of the first Force Awakens trailer: a tiny, scrappy mechanized ball that could move across rough ground surprisingly quickly. Even better, it wasn't CGI. That was a real robot, based on Sphero's iOS-controlled RC bot, customized with a new paint job and a …

• http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/20/cortana-hack-for-android/

  Sam Miles

  Apr 20, 2015

• http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-17-modders-working-turning-3ds-into-a-pc-remote-desktop

  Sam Miles

  Apr 17, 2015
• Sam Miles

  

  You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome

  The Verge - Tom Warren

  Google’s convergence of Chrome and Android is taking a big step forward this week. After launching a limited App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) back in September, Google is expanding its beta project to allow Android apps to run on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It’s an early experiment designed primarily for …

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  Google quietly launches Data Saver extension for Chrome

  VentureBeat - Emil Protalinski

  Google has quietly released a Data Saver extension for Chrome, bringing the company’s data compression feature to the desktop for the first time. You can download the extension, currently in beta, from the Chrome Web Store. We say “quietly” because there doesn’t seem to be an announcement from …

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  Microsoft's new Surface 3 tablet runs full Windows, not RT

  Engadget - Dana Wollman

  How many times have we said that the Surface would be great, if not for its OS? The truth is, the Surface RT and Surface 2 were lovely, well-crafted things, with great screens, solid build quality and long battery life. We just wished they could run the full gamut of desktop programs, in part to …