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Win up to $1,000,000 in cash from Verizon to fund your idea

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Competition, giveaway, Offers, verizon

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This post is brought to you by The Verizon Powerful Answers Award. The program seeks ideas that leverage cutting-edge technology to create solutions that deliver social good.

Bootstrapping your idea is great. But do you know what would be even better? Bootstrapping your idea with a million dollars in the bank. Ok, so you’re no longer bootstrapping, but Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award wants to give you and your idea a helping hand. Now in its third year, the award offers winners a sizeable chunk of $6 million in cash prizes, plus the opportunity for winners to participate in an accelerator program designed to help develop their ideas and bring solutions to market faster. The 2015 program is seeking ideas in three core categories: Emergency Response, Internet of…

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Snake is returning on smartphones and it sounds terrible

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, games, Insider, nokia, Retro, Snake

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The Guardian reports that Snake, the game that spawned thousands of cases of repetitive strain injury when Nokia ruled the phone world, is making a comeback: Snake Rewind will be released for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices [on May 14], with new features including the ability – purists, look away now – to “rewind the Snake to continue the game even after crashing” as well as new power-ups and levels. Rumilus Design has not announced details of how it will charge for Snake Rewind, but the mention of a fruit store on its website – “boosters and items can…

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Snake is returning on smartphones and it sounds terrible

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, games, Insider, nokia, Retro, Snake

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The Guardian reports that Snake, the game that spawned thousands of cases of repetitive strain injury when Nokia ruled the phone world, is making a comeback: Snake Rewind will be released for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices [on May 14], with new features including the ability – purists, look away now – to “rewind the Snake to continue the game even after crashing” as well as new power-ups and levels. Rumilus Design has not announced details of how it will charge for Snake Rewind, but the mention of a fruit store on its website – “boosters and items can…

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Apple details its Web crawler, possibly indicating a future push into search

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Apple has quietly added a new page to its support site that details its first Web crawler. A crawler is a bot, used by search engines such as Google and Bing, that automatically scans the Web for pages and information to add to an index and provides information when pages change. Apple’s crawler, which existed previously but was never detailed by the company, identifies itself as “Applebot” and could indicate a future push into full Web search. Right now, Apple says its crawler is used to add data such as movie information to Siri and Spotlight. You can exclude Applebot from…

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Win a Microsoft Surface 3 or a Chromebook Pixel!

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Offers, TNWDeals

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The brand new Surface 3 from Microsoft combines a nice 10.8-inch touchscreen with the functionality of a desktop. Enter our giveaway, and it could be yours (and if you are quick, you can still enter our Chromebook Pixel giveaway, too). Half laptop, half tablet, the Surface 3 gives Windows 8.1 an intuitive touch-based interface, while maintaining the key features of a laptop — a full-size keyboard, a trackpad, a USB 3.0 port, a Mini DisplayPort and a microSD card. It runs all the standard apps (incl. Office) you would expect from a Microsoft machine, and it is the thinnest Surface…

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