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Lyft’s carpooling-with-strangers service Lyft Line is coming to New York City

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by on December 11, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Lyft has just announced that it is bringing its carpool car-sharing feature to New York. Soon residents will be able to sit with strangers in another stranger’s car for a discounted ride in the five boroughs. Launching tomorrow, New York will be the third market to receive Lyft Line following San Francisco and Los Angeles. Like those other markets, riders will be able to select Lyft Line from the Lyft app for a cheaper ride to their destination. Of course, along the way the driver will be picking up other passengers. Lyft says that passengers could save up to 60 percent on…

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Chromecast now lets your guest cast to your TV without signing onto your Wi-Fi

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by on December 11, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, How-To's

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You got a friend over and they just discovered a really awesome video of a goat yelling on YouTube. You can crowd around their smartphone or you can ‘cast’ it to your Chromecast and watch screaming barn-yard animals in blazing HDTV glory. Of course, this usually involves signing them onto your Wi-Fi network, which if you have a rather convoluted password, can be a pain. But, if your friend has an Android phone with 4.3 or later, you can set it up where they don’t even need to log into your Wi-Fi to share items on the big screen. By…

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Google Maps is updating its Earth View mode with new high-res 3D models

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by on December 11, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Product Updates

Being able to fly around the globe in Google Maps or Google Earth and see 3D reconstructions of buildings and landmarks is admittedly a lot of fun, but most of these models have so far been pretty low-fidelity reconstructions. Google is now refreshing its 3D imagery using new high-res models, starting with New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. New (left) vs. old (right) The company says it’s using better cameras and algorithms in order to create more accurate models of these cities – you need only open Earth View in Google Maps or open up Google Earth on mobile…

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Get 55% off the Panther Air Drone with HD Camera

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by on December 11, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Offers

Tear up the skies with the Panther Air Drone. This quadrocopter features a light, yet durable foam body with built-in gyro stabilization for effortless stable flight and maneuvers, and a stunt mode for easy flips and tricks that even beginners can pull off. The Panther drone includes a bottom mounted 720p HD camera to capture your incredible flights. It also comes with a 2.4GHz transmitter for interference-free control over long distances, with a LCD display that shows battery level and signal strength. Whether you’re hunting for a great Christmas gift or your first drone, look no further. We’ve got a…

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Wakelet is another content curation platform, but it’s particularly good looking

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by on December 11, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches, UK

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From Wikipedia to Delicious, Pinterest to Flipboard, people have collaborated to share links and ideas for as long as the Web has been ‘a thing.’ With this in mind, a startup called Wakelet hopes that people take to its new, attractive, multimedia approach to online knowledge-sharing. Wakelet allows anyone to assemble collections of links, videos and images on any topic they like. The idea here is to augment traditional Google search results with topic-based, human-curated collections.. That’s hardly a new idea but the implementation here is particularly slick. If you find a collection (called a ‘Wake’) that you’re particularly interested…

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