Facebook Android App Ditches HTML 5, App Twice As Fast
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This summer Facebook released an update to their iOS ditching HTML 5 to run on native code. This move was awesome because it sped up the app so much. I was saddened to see that the Android version was still on HTML 5 and I was back to the same issues there was on the iPhone and missing some awesome features. Well that all changed today with the app update. Read the rest of this article…
For Only $99, 23andMe Can Reveal The Exciting Wonder (Or Absolute Horror) Of Your Own Genetics
Bring it on, genetic sequencing!
Nowadays, you can’t use your smartphone without partaking in some sort of cloud storage that’s undeniably you, everywhere. Whether it’s your Google or Mac ID, your pictures, your music, so forth, we rely on the idea that somewhere out there, our information is being stored securely and we can retrieve it at any time. But there’s another form of secure storage out there that’s extremely close to us and still relatively untapped. It’s our DNA. Common to any living organism, geneticists have only begun to understand what those 3 billion base pairs mean and what functionality (or lack thereof) they provide us as human beings. For $99, genomics company 23andMe will examine your permanent source code and provide you some pretty interesting information on who you are as a person, whether you may like it or not.
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FBI Director Missing? What Does This Mean?!
FBI Director Missing? That can’t be good!
I’m really not sure what the hell is going on here but we got a press release from the Boston Oracle, today, talking about the disappearance of the FBI Director from Boston, Mass., Madison Davies.
The release has a number of links which all point to various Facebook pages, seemingly to those of people and places which are covered in the release…Clues, perhaps?
All in all, the whole thing is quite mysterious so we’ve gone ahead and included the entire release so all of you can dig in and maybe help us figure out what is happening.
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Why Does Windows 8 Keeps Freezing On Me?
Where is the stop freezing option?
Windows 8 has been running very smooth for me since I installed it. Yesterday, however, my computer locked up on me twice. No blue screen of death or anything, just completely frozen. Read the rest of this article…
New SimCity Trailer Reveals Cities Working Together, How To Enlist Your Friends
SimCasino, a wretched hive of scum and villainy…
The sooner I get my hands on this new SimCity, the better. Maxis has just revealed a more nuanced look at how they plan to approach play between multiple cities. SimCity 4 featured a primitive version of this, but how next year’s SimCity handles is unique because of how the game handles individual simulations. Let’s dive in, I’ve got the video below!
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Holy Patch Notes! Planetside 2 Gets “Game Update 1”
Big, BIG patch incoming.
Planetside 2 got a massive update today, in the form of a big patch which went live at 0600 PST.
I’m not going to lead this off with a whole lot of hoo-ha or make a big deal about leading in to the patch notes. I’m just going to say “read on, you’ll be a while”.
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$550 Gets You A Samsung Galaxy Camera On Verizon LTE, Perhaps Made Of Gold
It’s a camera running full-blown Android. What else do you want?
Earlier this year, I surveyed Samsung’s new Galaxy Camera, which is an Android-powered device married to a larger-than-your-average-smartphone’s light sensor and a mechanical zoom. I though it was a beautiful idea and now the camera that can do it all is appearing in its various forms here in the States. Samsung has now officially announced that you can get the device with a Verizon LTE radio for high-speed cellular transmission (most) anywhere. But, there are some downsides.
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I’m Your Dead Friend And I Like This Facebook Page
Too lazy to find a good image.
I’m not trying to sound unsympathetic, but after reading an article from ReadWrite about dead friends liking things they would not possibly liked and that it must be Facebook, kind of irked me. I’m not defending Facebook because I think sponsored posts are ridiculous myself but c’mon. Read the rest of this article…
THQ Gives You Metro 2033 For Only Liking Their Facebook Page
Can’t beat free!
The title pretty much says it all. At the end of November there was a THQ Humble Bundle (still until 12/13) that included Metro 2033 and if you missed it or you don’t care for paying for games or for charity (you’re mean!) you can get Metro 2033 from THQ for free. All you have to do is like them on Facebook by going to FreeMetroGame.com. This is only good until the 16th so you better not delay. Also, while supplies last, whatever that means since it a digital download…
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Will Smith Plays Jaden Smith’s Dad In Post-Apocalyptic Film ‘After Earth’
Welcome to Earth! Now that’s what I call a close encounter!
Everyone, quick. Bring out your film/short film/cinematic adventures regarding a life after some terrible calamity, right now. At this very second. I was cheery about the Tom Cruise/Joseph Kasinski/M83 kickpunch-threat Oblivion from the moment I heard the three were working together. Now we have the debut trailer from Will Smith/M. Night Shyamalan/scribe Gary Whitta and despite some excellent bread in that trio, that lunch meat in the middle has gone rotten over the past few films. It’s seriously like mold in your pantry. Well, how does After Earth hold up in an initial preview? I’ve got an embed on the trailer below.
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