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Google’s latest Chrome build has a hidden game that you can only play offline

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 5:54 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google has added an endless runner game into Chrome Canary, in which you attempt to survive as a cute T-Rex dinosaur by jumping over cacti. The game is only accessible when the browser detects you’re offline, on the ‘Unable to connect to the Internet’ error page. It’s completely hidden unless you know where to look. The new error page was first spotted by Google open-source Chromium evangelist François Beaufort. In his Google+ post, however, he doesn’t reveal anything, likely because it’s meant to be an easter egg. For the sake of comparison, here is the old error page that most…

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Apple tells users with iOS 8.0.1 to downgrade to iOS 8, wait on new update in ‘next few days’

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 5:24 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Apple pushed out a buggy update to iOS 8 which disabled cell reception and TouchID on devices, and now it is telling customers who downloaded iOS 8.0.1 it to reinstall iOS 8 using iTunes and wait on an incoming fix. The note on the company’s support pages — spotted by The Verge — explains that a bug-free iOS 8.0.2 update will arrive “in the next few days.” Apple says that its new Health app, which was disabled in iOS 8 due to issues, should be working again with the iOS 8.0.2 patch. The iTunes restore fix was noted by some users. Nonetheless Apple…

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