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You can now upload your own ebooks—up to 1,000 EPUB or PDF files—for free to Google Play Books.
You can now upload your own ebooks-up to 1,000 EPUB or PDF files-for free to Google Play Books. Useful.
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The Android Hangouts Video Chat App Doesn't Work on AT&T Cellular
If you try and use Google's new Hangouts app for Android on AT&T's cellular network, don't expect to video chat-because you can't. Slashgear reports that the video chat capability in the new Hangouts app doesn't work on AT&T's cellular networks, throwing up a message that reads "you must be on a Wi-Fi...
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Here Are What the Google Glass Prototypes Looked Like
Wearing Google Glass might make you look weird but it's certainly a lot better than any of the prototypes that Google first tried out. Google Project Glass Staff Hardware Engineer Jean Wang showed off a slide revealing the earliest prototypes of Glass and they're a lot bulkier with open ribbons, chips, gigantic...
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: kaleidoscopes #008
It's like home movie night at my grandparents' house without the confusing tirades about why everything was better before the pictures moved.
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Seeing Google Glass from a Toddler's Perspective Is So Adorable
The best thing about Google Glass might be its ability to give anyone a perspective they never see anymore. Whether it's the intensity of playing hockey or uh, the weirdness of being someone else in the shower, it's like a less obtrusive GoPro camera seeing what people's eyes see. This might be the best perspective...
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Deadspin You're Fucked, But You're Free: A Message To The Class Of 2013 | Jalopnik Meet The 'Inflata
Deadspin You're Fucked, But You're Free: A Message To The Class Of 2013 | Jalopnik Meet The 'Inflatable Car' Inventor Suing The U.S. For $675 Million | Lifehacker Google Maps Gets a Completely New Look and Better Location Discovery| Gizmodo Did Google Just Try to Totally Change How Search Works?
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All the Fake Websites from Doctor Who Make Me Wish They Were Real
TV show websites are notoriously bad and comically unreal yet I can't help but be charmed by their hilarious simplicity (and god awful horribleness). Can you imagine if there were giant flashing RED ALERT messages popping up at you? Or if hacking was as simple as just slapping the keys on the keyboard a few times? I...
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A Mom Tried to Sell Her Three-Year-Old Son on Craigslist
A bicycle. An old jailbroken iPhone. Maybe used furniture. Some free dirt. Those are the type of things you expect to buy off Craigslist. You definitely don't expect a Mom to offer up her three-year-old son on the seedy but useful classifieds website. But that's just what Stephanie Redus did. She used Craiglist to...
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Watch Liquid Water Instantly Turn into Ice
Turning water into ice usually takes a lot of time. Not for this guy though, he magically turns liquid water into frozen ice. It's instantaneous! Seriously, just watch water get poured from the bottle and then freeze immediately. What kind of sorcery is this? The trick is getting the water to just about freezing in...
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What Your Body Will Do in the Next 30 Seconds
You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn't though. In order to keep everything running, there's a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you'll make 72 million red blood cells! And shed 174,000 skin cells! And have 25 thoughts. The human body, what a wonderful thing. [BuzzFeed Video]
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New Google Maps Hands-On: Maps Have Never Been This Cool
Amongst the the deluge of new stuff Google announced today, there was a rather large update to Maps. We took a good look at it earlier, but we just spend some time putting our hands all over it. The verdict? You're in for a treat. When you first open the new version of Maps, it's obvious that something is different....
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Google wants Microsoft to remove the YouTube app in Windows Phone 8 because it doesn't show any ads.
Google wants Microsoft to remove the YouTube app in Windows Phone 8 because it doesn't show any ads. Understandable! But Microsoft says it would be happy to include advertising in the YouTube app... if Google gave Microsoft the proper APIs. Round and around we go. [Verge]
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Google Hangouts is live now in the iOS App Store, which means you can now Gchat from your iPhone.
Google Hangouts is live now in the iOS App Store, which means you can now Gchat from your iPhone. Go and get it right here.
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Buy Popular Mechanics' 1955 House of the Future For Only $1.8 Million
"I'm just completing a new house that is a mechanical masterpiece,” writes Popular Mechanics editor Thomas Stimson in a 1955 article proudly titled I Chose a Steel-Frame House. “The house has a steel frame like an office building. To a large extent it was put together with a welding torch instead of hammer and...
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Larry Page Reminded Us Why We Love Google Today
Larry Page, Google's CEO and co-founder, closed out the Google I/O keynote today with a sentimental, almost subdued speech. He didn't sound like a CEO. He sounded like a guy in charge of a company he genuinely thought could change the world. And it was a wonderful reminder that Google used to be, can be, and in many...
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Festival Ready: A Swiss Army App Tailored to Summertime Fun
Summer approacheth, and with summer comes festivals-all sorts of festivals! Whether you're a music buff, renaissance enthusiast, or food and wine connoisseur there's a festival out there somewhere waiting for you. Now an actual Swiss Army knife is handy to have, but probably won't do you too much good at any of the...
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Google Play Music All Access Hands-On: All You Want (Minus Friends)
Today at its I/O developer's conference, Google launched Google Play All Access, its long-anticipated subscription music service. I just spent some time exploring the on-demand catalog as well as its radio and music discovery features. The service's UI is impressively fast and fluid. Indeed, it's minimal in all the...
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The Ultimate Video of People Being Idiots in Shopping Carts (Ouch)
Look at all the stupid people. I mean, there's probably more to say here, about responsibility or exhibition of reckless behavior brought on by the wired age, but really, like... look at all these stupid people. Idiots, using shopping carts stupidly. Enjoy. [YouTube]
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Arcade Alarm Clock: The Konami Code Won't Buy You More Shuteye
It might have given you invincibility or unlimited ammo on the countless games that acknowledged it, but sadly the Konami code won't buy you a single second of extra sleep on this custom Xronos alarm clock. But the large scoreboard-like LED display and use of authentic console buttons will have you wondering if you...
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Federal Judge: Only Powered-Off Cell Phones Deserve Privacy Protections
A federal magistrate judge in New York recently ruled that cell phone location data deserves no protection under the Fourth Amendment and that accordingly, the government can engage in real-time location surveillance without a search warrant. In an opinion straight from the Twilight Zone, magistrate judge Gary Brown...
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A Human Stem Cell Has Been Cloned For the First Time
Almost two decades ago, scientists succeeded in cloning Dolly the sheep. Now, the same process has been allowed scientists to clone embryonic stem cells from fetal human skin cells for the very first time. There are no more barriers between us and creating human clones. Cloning in and of itself has been within our...
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The BUM Seat: Style, Portability, and Charity for Your Butt
It's almost camping season. Is your tukus prepared? If not, here's the BUM stool, a stylish chair created by BAGGU and UM Project especially for Reclaim x2, a Hurricane Sandy relief fund created by local designers. Quick disclaimer: at $300, these stools are ridiculously expensive. But we love them for their...
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Google Hangouts: Unified Chat, Unlimited Reach
After taking some major steps forward earlier this week with the announcement that Google Talk support would finally be hitting Outlook, the long-anticipated Babel all-in-one chat service has finally been revealed as... Hangouts. Which yes, we already have sort of-but not like this. Google Talk, Hangouts, Voice,...
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Feds Seize Assets of World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange
The problems keep coming for Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange. Just days after Gawker revealed a key business partnership had devolved into a $75 million lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security seized a payment processing account belonging to the company, alleging it lied on financial documents....
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Meet The 'Inflatable Car' Inventor Suing The U.S. For $675 Million
The U.S government's green car program has been under scrutiny with the recent failure of two of the companies that received the loan, including coverage of a $675 million lawsuit by an inventor claiming he was denied funding for his inflatable electric car company because of politics. What hasn't gotten much...
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This Is How the Web Was Built, According To Google
It might seem impossible to comprehend the web existing before Google but it did! And the company built on search has had a significant impact on how the web looks and works today. During today's I/O keynote, this little video was shown and it's so disgustingly cute for such a nerdy topic that I just had to share it...
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Watch a Caterpillar Transform Into a Butterfly From Inside the Cocoon
If you ever stared at a chrysalis as a kid, patiently waiting for a beautiful new butterfly to emerge, you were probably left wondering just what was going on inside there. Was the caterpillar reconfiguring itself like a Transformer? Was it morphing like a Terminator? Nobody knows-except now everyone does thanks to...
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Everything Google Tried to Kill Today at Google I/O
Google just dropped a metric ton of Google on us. Sorting through it all, it's clear that the company's not just trying to put new goodness into the world; it's trying to blow plenty of existing products and services out of the water. Here are all the things Google's looking to unseat and uppercut into the spike...
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Google+ Does Some Amazing Things with Your Pictures Now
Google+ is making a big push to be where you store your photos, and it's got some pretty nice new features to make its case. Storage, editing, and even automatic curation, this actually sounds pretty great. First, there's storage. It's upped your max to 15GB storage (from 5GB) for your full size photos on Google+....
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This Low-Tech Office Furniture Doubles as a Gym
We lead such sedentary lives, parked all day at a desk. But what if your desk furniture could double as workout equipment? Meet No Sweat, an awesome three-piece set designed by Darryl Agawin, you instantly offset the negative affects of eight hours' worth of sitting on your butt. No Sweat is an ingeniously simple...
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