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Microsoft pilots 3D audio technology to help blind people navigate

Nov06
by on November 6, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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With Oculus Rift closing in on the consumer market, and Google Glass making steady strides, reality augmentation is becoming increasingly embedded in our lives. But typically, augmented reality (AR) has been centered around visual senses. Microsoft’s one company that has been working on 3D audio technology for a while, enabling headphones to create an illusion of sound that’s emitted from a very specific location. As MIT Technology Review previously reported: “I put on a pair of wireless headphones that made nearby objects suddenly burst into life. A voice appeared to emanate from a cardboard model of a portable radio. Higher…

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OnePlus sold over 500,000 smartphones with an advertising budget of just $300

Nov06
by on November 6, 2014 at 1:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

The rise of Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has been impressive, and today it has revealed that is has sold more than 500,000 OnePlus One handsets since it was first announced in April this year. The figure was revealed in an interview with Forbes, and the company’s co-founder Carl Pei said there’s now a stretch goal of one million units before the end of the year. Perhaps more impressive than the sales numbers of the fledgling device maker is the fact that all of this has been achieved on a marketing budget of just $300 – all of which was spent…

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Yummly’s recipe discovery app arrives for Android-owning foodies

Nov06
by on November 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

Yummly has today announced the launch of its recipe search and discovery app for Android devices. Available on iOS since September 2013, it’s only now that Android-owning foodies can get in on the action and browse recipe recommendations, search for specific dishes and curate their own collection of favorites. With more than one million recipes on the platform, there search filter will probably come in handy to help you cut through the chaff and get straight to dishes relevant to your needs. As well as searching by parameters like cuisine, diet, nutrition, cooking time (and other criteria), you can also filter by categories…

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Yummly’s recipe discovery app arrives for Android-owning foodies

Nov06
by on November 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

Yummly has today announced the launch of its recipe search and discovery app for Android devices. Available on iOS since September 2013, it’s only now that Android-owning foodies can get in on the action and browse recipe recommendations, search for specific dishes and curate their own collection of favorites. With more than one million recipes on the platform, there search filter will probably come in handy to help you cut through the chaff and get straight to dishes relevant to your needs. As well as searching by parameters like cuisine, diet, nutrition, cooking time (and other criteria), you can also filter by categories…

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Facebook encourages users to donate to fight Ebola

Nov06
by on November 6, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Ebola, Mark Zuckerberg

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After donating $25 million to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is inviting all 1.3 billion users of the social network to join the battle, by making it easy to donate to organizations involved in tackling the deadly disease. Facebook’s first move, rolling out later today, is a new Donate button displayed above the News Feed, that lets users send monetary contributions to three non-profit organizations who are actively managing the crisis in West Africa: International Medical Corps, the Red Cross and Save the Children. In addition, Facebook is working with UNICEF to display Ebola…

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