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What is Bitwalking and how will steps earn me money?

Bitwalking might be the ultimate healthy lifestyle assistant. The new platform awards users a new currency of money simply for walking. Bitwalking dollars (BW$) are similar to current Bitcoins in that they're starting out as a digital currency. But unlike Bitcoins anyone can earn these simply by using their smartphone and the app. Bitcoin was massively popular and is now worth huge amounts in the real world. Although initially it […]

todayNovember 23, 2015 1

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The 116 photos NASA picked to explain our world to aliens

If any intelligent life in our galaxy intercepts the Voyager spacecraft, if they evolved the sense of vision, and if they can decode the instructions provided, these 116 images are all they will know about our species and our planet, which by then could be long gone. When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following […]

todayNovember 14, 2015

Music

YouTube streams less lucrative than vinyl sales for UK labels, says BPI boss

The boss of British music industry body the BPI has claimed UK labels make less money from YouTube than from vinyl sales. Speaking at the Music Futures conference in Gateshead, Geoff Taylor said vinyl revenues were worth more than the “14bn music streams on YouTube” in 2014. Although he did not give a specific figure, last year the BPI said that in 2013, British labels’ income from sales of vinyl albums […]

todayNovember 13, 2015

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KGI predicts A10 chip with 3GB of RAM in iPhone 7

The next year’s iPhone, let’s call it an ‘iPhone 7,’ is expected to be outfitted with three gigabytes of RAM, according to the revered analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. If true, the iPhone 7 will pack in fifty percent more RAM than this year’s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus that sport 2GB of RAM. According to Kuo’ note issue to clients Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained […]

todayNovember 11, 2015

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Verizon Confirms Android-Powered BlackBerry Priv ‘Coming Soon’

It wasn't too long ago when a photo of the BlackBerry Priv - the very first BlackBerry smartphone powered by Google's Android operating system - emerged over the Internet, showing it running over the Verizon Wireless network. While Verizon is not yet ready to offer it to its customers today, it says in a tweet that the hotly anticipated phone is "coming soon." Previous speculations have suggested that the phone […]

todayNovember 9, 2015

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Chinese Robot Just Kept Walking…and Walking…and Walking

A four-legged robot with serious athletic endurance recently walked its way right into the history books. The sure-footed robot hiked 83.28 miles (134.03 km) to break the world record for the farthest distance traveled by a quadruped robot,Guinness World Records reported Monday (Nov. 2). Researchers from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China built the resilient little bot, which kind of looks like a shoebox on stilts. The aptly […]

todayNovember 7, 2015

Technology

Google’s Project Loon internet balloons to circle Earth

Search giant Google is looking to connect developing economies to the Web with the aid of giant floating balloons that function like WiFi hotspots in flight -- part of an endeavor called Project Loon. As part of this effort, the company announced that Indonesia's top three mobile network operators, Indosat, Telkomsel, and XL Axiata, have agreed to begin testing Project Loon's balloon-powered Internet capabilities over Indonesia in 2016. From Sabang […]

todayNovember 3, 2015

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Instagram Debuts New Video Feature

Instagram is taking a page out of Snapchat's book. Launched on Halloween, Instagram's new feature is a curation of videos and pictures that capture a certain event - very similar to Snapchat Stories, according to Recode. Content is chosen by Instagram employees and put into a video-only feed. This allows users to watch these videos without the normal distractions on the screen such as borders, descriptions and likes, according to […]

todayNovember 3, 2015

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Music score app finishes page-turners

At a concert in Budapest, 11-year-old pianist Misi Boros used the Musica Piano instead of a printed score. All classical piano works are available free with this app, created by the publisher Könemann Music in Budapest. Misi Boros said the app had several advantages: “My backpack weighs 5 kilos, and I have to carry it every day. I have four piano lessons a week and I’m exhausted from carrying my […]

todayOctober 31, 2015

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