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Google recently announced that it would pull its “Google+ Local for iOS” app from the iOS App Store by 7th August. With Google’s new Maps application for iOS arriving preloaded with features from Google+ Local, the search giant has decided to retire the app. Google+ Local Pulled From iOS App Store In a leaked…
A 21 year old man has been arrested for issuing tweets on Twitter threatening to rape Caroline Criado-Perez, the woman who campaigned for a female face on British banknotes until recently. It all started when the Bank of England decided to replace Elizabeth Fry’s face with Winston Churchill’s on the £5 note. Apart from the…
Recently, the BBC announced that it was putting it’s 3D project “on hold indefinitely”. The project, which had been in development for about two years now, has already seen such eminently British affairs as this and last years Wimbledon Tennis Finals and the 2012 Queen’s Christmas speech broadcast in the format. Yes, true to the…
Pretty soon we might wake up one morning to find that we have memories we never made. If course that is irrelevant, because we obviously wouldn’t even be aware that it happened. It sure is a spooky thought, and thanks to the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics scientists we’re a little bit closer that…
Inventor and Entrepreneur Elon Musk has a thing for introducing revolutionary technologies. Having launched spacecrafts into space, Musk has been aiming to reduce the cost of human spaceflight by a factor of 10. He even eventually plans to send humans to mars in the next 10-20 years. And then of course, he wants to revolutionize…
The most leaked version of Android yet – 4.3 Jellybean, was finally officially unveiled by Google yesterday. It’s a minor upgrade – one with small, incremental, but important features. Owing to this reason, it still remains ‘Jellybean’ – like its predecessor. Let’s take a closer look at what Google has brought to the table with…
Rumor has it that Apple may discontinue its bestselling iPhone 5 in favor of its upcoming successor – the iPhone 5S, and its budget version, which is being called the iPhone lite. iPhone 5 To Be Discontinued? Apple has maintained the same pricing strategy for its different iPhone models for years. Upon launch of a…
New Nexus 7 Officially Revealed After dozens of rumors regarding the Next-Gen Nexus 7 tablet, Google has finally made the device official at a Breakfast event. We’ve been calling it the Nexus 7 2 or Nexus 2 7 for a while but Google stated that the tablet will be called, Nexus 7 replacing its predecessor….
The Ubuntu Edge smartphone may end up being built by the internet. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has taken to crowdfunding site Indiegogo to help fund the Ubuntu Edge. Ubuntu Edge Gets Crowdfunding Initialized with a target to collect $32 million, the campaign has received more than $5 million so far. Funding options begin at…
If you ever wanted to own the first ever Full-Touch smartphone from BlackBerry, then now is the best time to do it because Amazon has cut down the price for BlackBerry Z10 down to $0.01 – We have no idea why didn’t they just make it a complete zero. However, there’s a catch, this is…
Three weeks after it officially cancelled the Android 4.2 update for the HTC One S, HTC has reversed its decision and brought it back on the release schedule. Only one of the two variants of the device – the Snapdragon S4 powered model, will receive the update. But well, it’s better than writing off the…
I will admit, I lost my ID twice as a college student (and I’m only counting the times I lost it fully and had to buy a new one, losing it for an hour, day, week… yea that happened plenty more times then I’d like to admit). I can’t imagine being in elementary school and…
In June 2000, the Ministry of Culture forbid “any company or individual to produce and sell electronic game equipment and accessories to China.” The video game ban was originally put in place in an attempt to shield the Chinese children from being corrupted by video games, however it is now going to be lifted in…
Motorola has finally taken the official step toward releasing the highly anticipated Moto X phone. The company has come out with an event invite for the phone scheduled on 1st August. No, there wasn’t much detail or information regarding the Moto X in the invite but it feels so good to actually see that an…
Dire news everyone, soon you’ll be receiving ads directly in your Gmail inbox. What do you mean you already get that and just call it spam? Then why does this seem to be such a big deal? Google Deposits Ads Directly Into In-Boxes That’s right everyone, Google has begun depositing ads directly into peoples Gmail…