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Kobo unveils $179 Aura H20 waterproof ereader coming October 1

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by on August 26, 2014 at 11:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Not enough technology is waterproof. Gadgets enhance your  life until you drop them in some water and then it’s all over. Kobo’s new ereader doesn’t let a little liquid stop you from enjoying literary delights. The new Kobo Aura H20 is a waterproof ereader ready for reading in the bath, at the beach or floating on an inflatable in a pool. It continues Kobo’s annual premium ereader launch. Last year the company introduced the Aura HD with its best-in-class display. This year’s premium ereader has the same resolution found in last year’s model (265 ppi), but it has an updated 6.8-inch Carta E Ink display. The…

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Braintree brings its PayPal-enabled SDK to merchants in the UK and 5 more markets

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by on August 26, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, UK

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eBay-owned mobile and Web payments provider Braintree has announced that its v.zero software development kit (SDK) is now available to devs and businesses in the UK and other markets following its launch in the US last month. The company said the v.zero SDK allows developers to integrate mobile payments into their apps in mere minutes and start accepting payments via PayPal, which opens their businesses up to a significant pool (152 million) of customers. While it launched in the US last month, it’s now available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. However, with a huge part of its business overseas, the company added…

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Pixlater online photo app, now in public beta, auto posts images to social networks

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by on August 26, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Busy photographers who are increasingly active on social networks know how hard it is to keep track of when to post which photos to where. Pixlater — it’s all in the name — lets you schedule image posts to your various social networks at a time of your choosing. Pixlater, an online app that has quietly launched an open beta, is targeted to photography enthusiasts and pros. Just register with an email address, and from there you can choose to link to popular photo sharing social networking services such as Twitter, Flickr and 500px, in addition to various Facebook pages and groups. The company…

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Documents show Uber used shady marketing tactics to aggressively target Lyft drivers

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by on August 26, 2014 at 9:48 pm
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Update with tweets from Uber CEO Travis Kalanik, at the bottom of this story. Recently, CNN shared data from Lyft that showed Uber had ordered and canceled over 5,500 Lyft rides over the space of ten months. After swiftly denying the rumors, Uber claimed that Lyft has been using the exact same tactics on its service, cancelling 12,900 rides. When Uber denied the claims, it said that they were “patently false” because its riders and drivers recruit users rather than the company itself and that it doesn’t cancel rides. It appears that Uber doesn’t intentionally cancel rides, but it does do…

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Machines are taking control of the world, so why stop them?

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by on August 26, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Wojtek Borowicz is a community evangelist at Estimote, freelance writer and a strong believer in the Internet of Things. That might sound like a nihilistic newspaper headline from the day before Skynet woke up and bombed us, but it’s actually pretty far from that. Leaving more control in the hands of machines is not only something we cannot stop, but something we shouldn’t stop. Soon we’ll have so many connected devices crunching such enormous amounts of data that effective and independent machine-to-machine communication will become essential to sustaining further growth and development of all things digital. Stephen Hawking, a brilliant…

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