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Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

http://www.dvice.com/2014-3-17/lego-robot-defeats-rubiks-cube-world-record-time

Love them, hate them or get flustered by them: Rubik’s cubes are a hobby, bar trick, and novelty all in one. People all around the world aim to be the fastest person to unscramble those little coloured cubes. Well, too bad people, because robots have bested us yet again

Mats Valk from the Netherlands has had the…

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Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

http://www.dvice.com/2014-3-17/lego-robot-defeats-rubiks-cube-world-record-time

Love them, hate them or get flustered by them: Rubik’s cubes are a hobby, bar trick, and novelty all in one. People all around the world aim to be the fastest person to unscramble those little coloured cubes. Well, too bad people, because robots have bested us yet again

Mats Valk from the Netherlands has had the…

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Skydiver almost hit by meteor [Video]

Skydiver almost hit by meteor WatchThis! #Meteor, #Skydiving [Video]

This is the first ever film of a meteorite hurling at terminal velocity towards earth. It was filmed by skydiver Anders Helstrup who was almost struck by the object as it hurled through the sky.

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BitCoin Soars Past $1000 Mark

BitCoin Soars Past $1000 Mark #BitCoin, #DIgitalCurrency, #Money, #ByteandChew

The value of the digital currency BitCoin has surpassed the $1000 mark on the Mt. Gox exchange.

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Simpsons opening pays Homage to letterman

Simpsons opening pays Homage to letterman

The Simpsons paid homage this week to comddy ledgend David letterman. After announcing his retirement from TV last week, the Simpsons paid him a visit

Replacing what is usually a ride home for the family in the cartoons animated opening, the Simpsons are instead in manhattans infamous traffic. After ditching the cab, getting hustled in three card monte and head butting a security guard, the…

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How to Add a Contact on an iPhone

How to Add a Contact on an iPhone

There are several ways to add contacts to your iDevice. You can add them manually, import them or even sync them. You can add as many as you like, If you have the space. If you have bumbers written down on pld fahioned paper, have no fear! This is the guide to adding a contact manually

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Add a Contact Manually

Tap the phone app to launch it

Tap ‘contacts’

Full in the name, address, phone…

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WWDC 2014: What to Expect

WWDC 2014: What to Expect

Things are about to change for Apple users.  At 10am Pacific Coast Time, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take to the stage of the Moscone Center, as he always does and kick off the annual WorldWide Developers Conference.  Developers will get their hands, and the public will get eyes on, the latest in OSX and iOS.

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What Facebook might look like, using Oculus Rift

Last week, Facebook purchased virtual reality company Oculus VR, and instantly many people began to speculate how the social media giant could integrate VR into its platform. Chaotic Moon Studios decided to go ahead and create a concept video showing what VR FB might look like. And it’s awesome.

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Google's Project Tango: An Android Phone to map the World

Google’s Project Tango: An Android Phone to map the World

Project tango is a limited number smartphone that google is handing out to 200 developers. Starting in march, the smartphone will contain a kinect-like camera to see and some experimental guts to see the world in a whole new way. It’s like a 3d scanning smartphone. Whoa

Googles Project Tango is an experimental smartphone

Project Tango comes out of the Advanced Technology and Projects group that…

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How to update your Carrier settings

How to update your Carrier settings

Every now and then a little warning lets you know its time. New carrier settings are here! This is how to update carrier settings for your iPhone or iPad.

Carrier settings are little files that can be updates from Apple and / or your cellular provider. They contain changes to everything from network, Cellular data, voicemail settings, , calling, messaging, and even personal hotspot. You can…

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How to: build your own living shower mat

How to: build your own living shower mat

It’s a harsh way to start the day: out of a fresh warm shower and your feet hit the freezing cold bathroom floor. While many people have simple shower mats made from fabrics, there is a growing trend toward living MOSS covered floor mats. Here’s how you can make your very own.

These mats can be purchased here and there but they are considerably pricey. If you don want to spend that kind of…

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Microsoft's Cortana will merge best of Siri, Google Now

Microsoft’s Cortana will merge best of Siri, Google Now

Microsoft has been late to the game: first with smartphones, then apps, and now the same could be said about digital assistance. That could change sas Sources close to a secret project which Microsoft hopes will take the best of Siri and Google now

Called Cortana, the voice assistant will come to light in an update to windows phone 8.1 and will replace the entire Bing feature set. Sources close…

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Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

Lego Rebot breaks World Record for Ruiks Cube?

http://www.dvice.com/2014-3-17/lego-robot-defeats-rubiks-cube-world-record-time

Love them, hate them or get flustered by them: Rubik’s cubes are a hobby, bar trick, and novelty all in one. People all around the world aim to be the fastest person to unscramble those little coloured cubes. Well, too bad people, because robots have bested us yet again

Mats Valk from the Netherlands has had the…

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Join our WWDC 2014 Liveblog

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WWDC 2014: What to Expect

WWDC 2014: What to Expect

Things are about to change for Apple users.  At 10am Pacific Coast Time, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take to the stage of the Moscone Center, as he always does and kick off the annual WorldWide Developers Conference.  Developers will get their hands, and the public will get eyes on, the latest in OSX and iOS.

(more…)

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How to Add a Contact on an iPhone

How to Add a Contact on an iPhone

There are several ways to add contacts to your iDevice. You can add them manually, import them or even sync them. You can add as many as you like, If you have the space. If you have bumbers written down on pld fahioned paper, have no fear! This is the guide to adding a contact manually

Ad

Add a Contact Manually

Tap the phone app to launch it

Tap ‘contacts’

Full in the name, address, phone…

View On WordPress

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How to update your Carrier settings

How to update your Carrier settings

Every now and then a little warning lets you know its time. New carrier settings are here! This is how to update carrier settings for your iPhone or iPad.

Carrier settings are little files that can be updates from Apple and / or your cellular provider. They contain changes to everything from network, Cellular data, voicemail settings, , calling, messaging, and even personal hotspot. You can…

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