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Pebble Time Steel to begin shipping to backers later this month

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by on July 13, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, kickstarter, pebble, smartwatch

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If you’re one of the folks who hopped on to Pebble’s record-breaking Pebble Time Kickstarter campaign and opted to high-roll a bit, prepare your wrist: the company announced today that it will begin production of its swankier Pebble Time Steel this week, and start shipping out to backers in late July. The Pebble Time Steel — which comes in silver, gunmetal black and gold — will ship to backers with a complementary leather band as well as a matching steel band. Pebble promised that backers will receive their shipments by the end of August, just slightly later than the company’s original July…

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Google Glass may finally end its embarrassing consumer life and get a job in enterprise

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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A new report from 9to5Google suggests Google Glass is still being refreshed, but will now be positioned for enterprise consumers. It’s the concession prize for Google Glass, and proof that the wearable was just plain too weird for the world. Remember when Google’s Sergey Brin hijacked I/O to display skydivers on a big screen? They were wearing Glass, Google’s first clumsy swipe at wearables, and Brin wanted everyone to be excited. We were, too. What a neat concept! A display, right in your face, showing you small snippets of info throughout your day! It was like a contextual Twitter feed for…

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Spotify’s Music Map lets you listen to local tastes from around the world

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Spotify wants to give you a taste of the different kinds of music its users are listening to in different places, so it’s created a map to help do just that. It includes nearly 1,000 cities around the globe, which you can click on to be directed to a playlist of music distinctive to that particular region. According to Spotify, the playlists don’t necessarily list the most played music overall, but rather the tracks you’re less likely to hear elsewhere. Spotify says it analyzes approximately 20 billion plays for each playlist. The music is update bi-monthly, so be sure to…

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Spotify’s Music Map lets you listen to local tastes from around the world

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Musical map spotify
Spotify wants to give you a taste of the different kinds of music its users are listening to in different places, so it’s created a map to help do just that. It includes nearly 1,000 cities around the globe, which you can click on to be directed to a playlist of music distinctive to that particular region. According to Spotify, the playlists don’t necessarily list the most played music overall, but rather the tracks you’re less likely to hear elsewhere. Spotify says it analyzes approximately 20 billion plays for each playlist. The music is update bi-monthly, so be sure to…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, tnw-weekly

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If you spent the weekend socialising with friends, playing in the park with your family, taking care of that fence panel you’d been promising you’d fix for a month or doing any of the million other things people do to celebrate a weekend, then there’s a pretty good chance that you missed the biggest news and features in tech. Fear not though, we’ve got a handy list of the best stories from the last two days, so you won’t get caught out at the virtual water cooler. All you need to do is make yourself a coffee, clear 10 minutes in your schedule…

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