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Saturday 28 June 2014

Samsung Gear Live vs. Pebble Steel

Gizmag compares the features and specs of the Android Wear-running Samsung Gear Live with ...


Android Wear is on its way, with watches running Google's new wearable-focused OS landing in a couple of weeks. But how does Wear compare to a smartwatch that keeps a simpler focus, but looks really good while doing it? Let's compare the features and specs of the Android Wear-running Samsung Gear Live to the Pebble Steel... Continue Reading Samsung Gear Live vs. Pebble Steel



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The 7 best, most satisfying monster sounds of all time

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You're supposed to be terrified of impending doom, but sometimes the accompanying audio cue sounds buttery smooth.



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Facebook ran secret psychological experiments on users





A report from a team at Facebook that was first published in a scientific journal earlier this month reveals that the social network ran secret psychological experiments on 600,000 users without their awareness.


The report, published in the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, stated that back in January 2012, Facebook changed those users' news feeds to highlight either positive or negative posts from their friends. The paper stated:



When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks.



Facebook's Data Use Policy does give the company broad access to conduct these kinds of experiments, stating that users agree to "data analysis, testing, research and service improvement" when they sign up to use the social network. The paper does state that a machine was used to handle this experiment and no personal data from those 600,000 users was accessed.


If you are a Facebook user, how do you feel about the fact that it's possible your news feed could be manipulated in this way by the company for research?


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Pinball, Swords, Bad Air: What's Not Ruining Our Cities This Week

Pinball, Swords, Bad Air: What's Not Ruining Our Cities This Week


Long-suffering pinball fans can finally play free in Oakland. Swords are being returned to their rightful owners in New York City. And America is breathing better air than we have in a decade. Sometimes we like to look at the brighter side of urban life. It's our peek at What's Not Ruining Our Cities Anymore.


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Facebook altered 689,000 users' News Feeds for a psychology experiment


According to new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Facebook altered the News Feeds for hundreds of thousands of users as part of a psychology experiment devised by the company's on-staff data scientist. By scientifically altering News Feeds, the experiment sought to learn about the way positive and negative effect travels through social networks, ultimately concluding that "in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotional contagion."


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A new Trapper Keeper is coming this September, and it's built for tablets



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Flipping through The Manual: Tree tents, Sriracha BBQ sauce, and more

Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture.


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How to watch the Brazil vs. Chile 2014 World Cup match online

Just stick with this guide, and you won't miss a second of Brazil vs. Chile World Cup action.


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Pebble, Ouya, and Veronica Mars join the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter


The Reading Rainbow fandom is a force to be reckoned with. With $4.4 million and counting, the Reading Rainbow reboot is now one of the five largest Kickstarters of all time. To celebrate, the project is adding rewards donated by the other four top projects, including the Pebble smartwatch, the Ouya game console, and the Veronica Mars movie. And of course, Seth MacFarlane will still be matching every donation up to $1 million.


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How to Break Your Smartphone Addiction

How to Break Your Smartphone Addiction


A couple of reports published during the course of last year suggested we unlock our phones anywhere between 110 and 150 times every single day. That's a lot of checking, often done habitually without any deliberate thought or goal.


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Watch a Harrier Jump Jet land on a stool

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Even though the Harrier Jump Jet has been around for more than 40 years, the pilots flying them are still finding ways to impress with its vertical take off and landing abilities. Pilots […]



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Trapper Keeper returns from the 70s and 80s as a tablet case





Kensington has bought the rights from Mead to sell a series of universal tablet cases that have the distinctive Trapper Keeper design that was popular for school folders in the 1970s and 80s.


The cases are designed to hold most 8-inch and 10-inch tablets, and while in terms of construction and features they are pretty basic the main attraction are the colorful Trapper Keeper designs that are available. Yes, now you can make your tablet look like it came from the era that also bought us MTV, big heavy metal hair and "Square Pegs."


Kensington is selling the 8-inch Trapper Kepper tablet case in a red design for $24.99 while the larger 10-inch version is available in blue for $29.99. However, the bad news is that both cases won't actually start shipping to customers until sometime in September, which means that you may have to wait until after school starts to encase your iPad inside a Trapper Keeper.


How do you feel about this effort by Kensington to go after folks who lived in the 70s and 80s with these Trapper Keeper tablet cases?


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600-horsepower Audi RS 6 Avant Plus will be very, very fast forbidden fruit

A leak has revealed Audi is preparing to introduce a super-wagon powered by a 600-horsepower 4.0-liter turbocharged engine. Called RS 6 Avant Plus, Audi's latest Autobahn cruiser will exclusively be sold in Europe.


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Best apps of June 2014





We've gathered up the bestest, freshest iPhone apps and iPad apps to hit the App Store in June for you guys. We've got five games, five apps, and a handful of honorable mentions, not to mention the great suggestions that are bound to come in in the comment section. As usual, we have a full range of puzzles, action games, utilities, photography apps, and just about everything else you could be using your iOS device for. There's also a healthy mix of both free and paid apps to check out here.


Are you ready to get downloading? Dig in!


Ready Steady Play



Ready Steady Play is a highly stylized minimalist cowboy game. Players dive into a variety of smart mini-games, mostly depending on challenging target practice with your six-shooter, though there's also a runner that is hilariously similar to Canabalt. Game Center is implemented for online leaderboard bragging rights. If you're looking for some really great local multiplayer fun, the precursor, Ready Steady Bang, is also a great game and free for a limited time. If you've always had the inkling that you're a rootin', tootin' cowboy beneath it all, grab Ready Steady Play.



Jellies!



Jellies is an adorable finger-friendly puzzle game. Players have to drag lines between same-colored jellies to eliminate them, and draw a whole loop to capture others, if at all possible as they dart around. You only have 60 seconds to wipe out as many of these deceptively bloodthirsty little buggers, but there are a wide range of power ups and unique jellies to capture which offer a few additional tactics. Missions provide extra rewards if you can pull them off, online leaderboards ensure you're always pushed to beat your buddies, and progressively more challenging levels will be unlocked as you play. Still, the youthful and cute art style mixed with morbid themes and left-field humor will be what keeps you hooked to the fast-paced gameplay in Jellies.



Broken Age



Broken Age is a beautiful hand-crafted point-and-tap adventure game made by the folks at Double Fine. You may recall they set records with their crowdfunding project awhile back. Players hop between a girl with a hugely important (but dire) destiny, and a bored boy in space. Working through dialog trees with the characters in either of their worlds creates a rich and surprising storyline. You'll recognize at least a few of the voices, like Elijah Wood, Wil Wheaton, Pendleton Ward, and Jack Black. This is only episode one, with more incoming. Broken Age is a polished experience that brings back a kind of game we haven't seen in a long time.



Godfire



Though Godfire: Rise of Prometheus is mostly a conventional action game with dodge, block, light attack, and strong attack buttons, it's an extremely good-looking title. Highly cinematic finishing moves, combos, and truly ugly bosses make a feast for the eyes. Players are in the greaves of Prometheus, who has been cast from the heavens, separated from an object of untold power, and is on a quest to get it back before its original protectors can get to it. Your rage meter grows as you lay low all manner of beasts, and, once full, lets you unleash awesome supernatural attacks. Though it's mostly blood and guts, the action is interspersed with simple (but polished) puzzle mini-games. It can't be an adrenaline trip all the time, you know. Players progress by upgrading armor in light, medium, or heavy varieties, changing up their weapons, and bumping up stats. If you're looking for some eye candy, snag Godfire.



Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake!



Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is a throwback to classic action RPGs like Zelda framed as a series of puzzles. Players switch between several adorably crude monsters with their own abilities to move and avoid obstacles and rescue delicious pieces of birthday cake. There's a village full of characters to talk to with their own unique personalities and stories. The art style is altogether whimsical (though potentially very borrowed), and simple tracing controls are well-suited for mobile. Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is colorful take on puzzle games with enough retro charm to keep older folks playing, and enough humor for the younger crowd too.



Photoshop Mix



Photoshop Mix is a fresh new editing app that excels in selecting parts of an image. It ties in with Creative Cloud, so you can seamlessly shunt your creations into Photoshop on your Mac, or enjoy server-side image processing for the particularly fancy stuff. Users can easily pick out areas of their images, selectively apply adjustments, and save those adjustments without destroying the original picture. Adobe also unloaded a whole bunch of other apps this week, many to coincide with the announcement of their new Bluetooth pen and ruler products. Adobe Line and Sketch are both worth checking out, even without the accessory, plus Lightroom for iPhone just made its first appearance this month as well. For anyone into photography (mobile or otherwise) this has been a good month.



Path Talk



Path Talk is a new instant message from the makers of the familiar alternative social network. Path always made a name for itself by offering a wide variety of check-in types, it carries those over to Path Talk. It's easy to share location, images, short audio messages, and more to your personal circle of friends. One of the particularly neat features of Path Talk is called Ambient Status. It will automatically update your status based on what you're up to: what music you're listening to, if you're out and on the move, and if your battery is running low. You can also go off the record to have messages deleted after 24 hours. Though Path Talk is free, you can shell out $24.99 for a year of ad-free service with all of the sticker packs, camera filters, and early access to new ones. Give Path Talk a shot if you're looking for something a little more full-bodied and social than iMessage, but steers clear of Facebook.



BeamIt



BeamIt is another messaging app, except its exclusive focus is on sharing pictures. Whole groups of photos can be shared with friends using the app or via e-mail. Albums can be shared to multiple groups separately, though you can always claw back photos you regret sharing later on. Messages can be queued up for sending later if you're stuck offline for a spell. Pictures are shared at full resolution with a full commenting and liking system, and there's a custom-formatted iPad version which takes advantage of the additional screen real estate. The guys who make BeamIt also did Cooliris, so as you can imagine, they're super-slick 3D photo gallery also shows up here, though you'll need Cooliris if you want to see all of your various photo sources in one spot. If you're looking for a way to share lots of pictures with lots of friends that doesn't hinge on the usual social networks, try out BeamIt.



Moment



Moment is a hugely helpful lifestyle app that tracks your usage and gently reminds you if you're using it too much. With the $1.99 premium upgrade, you can set daily usage limits for yourself, and will get audio warnings as you approach those limits. Users set times during the day in which to track activity. Beyond nagging you to get off your phone and enjoy the world around you, Moment can also use GPS to track where you go throughout the day and place your track on a map, though that will likely take a bite out of your battery life if you leave it on all the time. If you're having trouble keeping your phone in your pants, Moment may be able to help you out.



Shutter



Shutter is a promising new camera app that focuses on cloud backup. As many or as few of your photos can stay stored on your phone locally before getting backed up to the cloud. Big videos and large batches of photos can be shared easily over e-mail, social networks, or to friends using Shutter. Photos have their own commenting and liking structure too, if you don't feel like shunting them out elsewhere. The bundled camera app has a few basic filters, but once backup is enabled, you can see all of the pictures stored on your device from whatever camera app you prefer. As a nice little bonus, you can flip on daily or weekly reminders of pictures shot in years past. Though the app bills itself as the "infinite camera", you get 20 GB of storage for free, or $4/month for 100 GB, and $19/month for unlimited. If you find yourself unsatisfied by the photo backup solutions provided by iCloud or Dropbox, Shutter is most definitely worth a gander.



Honorable mentions



Your favorite iPhone and iPad game and app launches of June?


Those are all of the best iPhone and iPad releases over the last 30 days that we've been able to find, but what about you? Have you already downloaded some of these? Have you spotted any great releases that we've missed? Let us know in the comments!












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