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Hands-on: Family Guy’s first mobile game captures its irreverent hilarity as you rebuild Quahog

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 1:44 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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At a pre-launch event last night, we got a brief demo of the upcoming Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff mobile game from TinyCo and Fox Digital Entertainment. The game’s scheduled for release on iOS and Android on April 10. At its core, The Quest for Stuff resembles The Simpsons: Tapped Out, another free-to-play city-builder game from Fox. Both titles have you rebuilding their respective towns after the main character accidentally destroys it. In Family Guy’s case, a drawn-out brawl between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken levels the city of Quahog, sticking Peter with the task of recruiting his friends to clean…

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Leap Motion’s new Muse app lets you create music with in-air hand gestures

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 12:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Leap Motion is diving deep into the world of electronic music with the release of Muse, a new Mac desktop app that lets you create and perform original ambient music via hand gestures as you sit at your computer. Muse was created jointly by musician BT and Dr. Richard Boulanger of the Berklee College of Music. It lets you create and perform your own ambient music in the air with your hands—with the help of a Leap Motion Controller. The Controller is a USB device that reads your hand gestures and interacts with the companion apps in the company’s Airpsace app store. You…

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Google Search for Android now surfaces results from inside third-party apps for English content globally

Apr03
by on April 3, 2014 at 10:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile

Google today announced app indexing now works for all English content worldwide. The company says it is continuing to onboard more publishers in “all languages” but isn’t sharing when it will expand support beyond English. Google has also added support for 24 more apps: 500px, AOL, BigOven, Bleacher Report, Booking.com, Eventbrite, Glassdoor, Goodreads, Huffington Post, Merriam-Webster, Pinterest, Realtor.com, Seeking Alpha, TalkAndroid, TheFreeDictionary, The Journal, TripAdvisor, Tumblr, Urbanspoon, Wattpad, Yellow Pages, Zagat, Zappos, and Zillow. The original 13 apps are as follows: AllTrails, Allthecooks, Beautylish, Etsy, Expedia, Flixster, Healthtap, IMDb, Moviefone, Newegg, OpenTable, Trulia, and Wikipedia. While 37 apps is not…

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The White House objects to Samsung promotion of Obama selfie with baseball player David Ortiz

Apr03
by on April 3, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

It may seem like Samsung is on a roll with its celebrity-endorsed selfies, but the company just met its match. According to The Wall Street Journal, the White House has objected to the way the smartphone maker has publicized a selfie photo of President Obama and Major League Baseball player David Ortiz. White House press secretary Jay Carney told the Journal: As a rule the White House objects to attempts to use the president’s likeness for commercial purposes…And we certainly object in this case. In case you missed it, here’s the original tweet with the photo: What an honor! Thanks for…

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Nest halts sales of the Nest Protect alarm to fix accidental disabling issue

Apr03
by on April 3, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Nest CEO Tony Fadell has published a letter to customers informing them of a potential issue the company discovered with its Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. The problem centers around the accidental activation of the Nest Wave feature, which disables the alarm when users wave their hands. As the issue is being addressed, Nest is halting sales of new Nest Protect alarms and turning off the feature for existing devices. Fadell expects it will take two to three months before Nest gets approval to reactivate the wave functionality. He added that he’s not aware of any customers experiencing…

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