Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending April 4, 2014)
How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years AgoThis one is a fun read about the history of Gmail.—Rachel Metz, IT editor, Web & social media Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk’s...
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How to Get Rid of Snails
Snails can be a real garden pest, as they munch through your plants, flowers and vegetables. Luckily, there are many options at your disposal – natural and otherwise – for getting rid of snails....
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Sprint Spark: Data network fizzles during calls | Consumer Reports
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Sailboat racers get a heads-up display to call their own
It’s not easy to track the progress of a racing sailboat — you don’t always have the free time (or free hands) to check a compass or run across the deck. Keeping tabs on a watercraft should be much...
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Nest stops selling Protect smoke alarms, says they can be accidentally silenced
If you’re one of the connected home buffs that owns a Nest Protect smoke detector, do yourself a favor and turn off its wave-to-dismiss feature just in case. According to an open letter from Nest CEO...
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Digital Storm’s revamped gaming laptops boast extra-speedy NVIDIA graphics
If you’ve been waiting for a gaming laptop that wrings the most performance out of NVIDIA’s new GeForce 800M graphics chips, you may want to check out Digital Storm’s freshly revamped laptop line. The...
View ArticleA Way to Make Stretchable Medical Electronics Practical
Stretchable electronics have been in development for years. For example, prototype skin patches with coiled wiring and flexible sensors are fast advancing to do things like sense heartbeats, muscle...
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Quiz: Which celebrity designer gets you?
I’ve posted a million design-related quizzes over the years. Here’s a new one: Which celebrity designer gets you? Take the quiz at PopSugar to determine who’s the best match for your preferences based...
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Where is the Custom Dictionary for Microsoft Word Located?
Building up a solid custom dictionary in Microsoft Word takes a while as you add a handful of words at a time, but once you get it built up, it makes working on your documents a much more pleasant...
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Daily Roundup: interview with Felix Baumgartner, Apple announces WWDC 2014...
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the...
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12 million people are already using Office for iPad
Microsoft’s version of Office for iPad has apparently been a rousing success. So much so, that the company’s taken to Twitter to boast that the productivity suite has topped 12 million downloads. In a...
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Here’s another peek at Google’s build-your-own-smartphone project
Project Ara has only exploded in prominence since Google unloaded Motorola earlier this year, and now we’re getting yet another peek at the work in progress. The Phonebloks team just released a video...
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Sprint will pay you to switch from a rival carrier to its Framily plan
T-Mobile may have stolen the spotlight earlier this year by paying customers to switch, but it looks like Sprint is cooking up a similar deal in response. An S4GRU leak has revealed a Sprint promo...
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Samsung promises truly flexible electronics sooner with graphene breakthrough
Graphene. It was going to reinvigorate the electronics industry. Better than silicon, flexible yet more durable than steel and with high heat conduction, it all sounded like The Dream for thinner...
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The former lead for Uncharted is heading up a new Star Wars game
One of the talents that helped define the last generation of console games has a new home. Amy Hennig, the creative director and lead writer of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and its PS3 sequels recently...
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T-Mobile offers BlackBerry subscribers $100 credit toward any other phone
T-Mobile head honcho John Legere’s assuring its BlackBerry-toting subscribers they’ve got nothing to worry about despite the companies’ falling out. But, just in case they are worried (or just want to...
View ArticleMessaging App Adds an Assistant to the Conversation
Making plans via text message can be a pain. A new messaging app called Emu aims to alleviate some of that pain by bringing a contextually aware assistant into the process. Created by Gummi...
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Cheaper Joints and Digits Bring the Robot Revolution Closer
Helping hand: A new kind of electrostatic clutch makes this design around 10 times cheaper than previous robotic hands, which could cost $35,000 or more. The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year...
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Google’s Project Loon balloon goes around the world in just 22 days
One of Project Loon’s hot air balloons just completed a journey ’round the world, but unlike Vernes’ Phileas Fogg who took 80 days to do so, Google’s creation took but a mere 22 days. That far exceeds...
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Apple buys tech that could take Siri offline
Apple has sort-of-confirmed that it recently snapped up another small company, called Novauris. The firm specializes in speech recognition and has historical ties to the core technology and patents...
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