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Dropbox’s new Chrome extension adds your files in Gmail

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 6:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gmail, Insider

Dropbox has launched a new Chrome browser extension that makes it easy to share your files with others in Gmail. Once you’ve installed Dropbox for Gmail, you’ll spot a new icon at the bottom of the window when composing a new message. Click it to sign in and select files to include from your Dropbox account, and the extension will add links to them in your email. The free extension is currently labeled beta, but seems to work just fine and makes light work of sending files over email. ➤ Dropbox for Gmail (Beta)

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Fleet of 40 ‘driverless pods’ to hit the UK’s footpaths later this year

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 6:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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A trial run of 40 LUTZ Pathfinder driverless pods will take to the streets paths of Milton Keynes in the UK later this year, according to the ‘UK’s innovation center for Intelligent Mobility,’ better known (perhaps) as the Transport Systems Catapult. The first of the pods will be unveiled at a government launch event in London today, and when they arrive will be the first self-driving vehicles to work on public footpaths. Each pod can carry two passengers and will come equipped with routing and sensor technology from the University of Oxford’s Mobile Robotics Group. The info panel for a driverless pod showing the speed (left and…

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File hosting service RapidShare shutting down this March

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Cloud storage, File hosting, Insider, RapidShare

Swiss file hosting service RapidShare is downing its shutters on March 31 after about 12 years of operation. It appears that the company’s attempt to stay relevant as a cloud storage service in recent years was unsuccessful. Many players including Dropbox, Google and Microsoft offered online storage for personal use at significantly lower prices. For comparison, RapidShare charges roughly $680 per year for 300GB of space; Dropbox charges just $99 a year for 1TB. ➤ RapidShare [via TechCrunch]

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Going places: You too can tote an updated, tattooed passport (at your own risk)

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 3:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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So here’s an idea that’s artistic and mischievous, and probably not something you should try if you’re really intent on going someplace where a passport is required. As if all other surfaces in the world were already occupied, French illustrator Léonard Combier turned his considerable talent to inking passports with his brand of intriguingly intricate line drawings — which he calls ‘tattoos.’ Oh, don’t worry, the document stamps and all that pesky official stuff is still visible, but every other spare surface of this document is covered with otherworldly depictions of places no one is ever likely to visit — at least voluntarily.…

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