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The CW app brings full episodes streaming to Xbox 360 a day after they air

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The latest entertainment app to launch for the Xbox 360 comes from The CW (the relationship has now come full circle), bringing shows like Arrow, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries to the console. Special to this offering is that it will stream …


BitTorrent Sync Alpha now open to all, adds one-way sync and one-time sharing

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While BitTorrent threw its hat into the cloud storage ring this January with an early version of its Sync app, it was hard to be truly excited when only a small circle could use it. The company isn’t waiting for a completely polished version to re…


Samsung Galaxy S 4 for Verizon signup page goes live

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Want to be sure that you don’t miss the arrival date of the Galaxy S 4 on Verizon? Naturally, you could keep a keen eye on Engadget’s homepage, but Big Red now has a solution of its own that could be worth a whirl. The company has just posted a si…


Andy Rubin says Android was first built for cameras, we’re glad he reconsidered

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Most of us who’ve followed the history of Android tend to presume that it was a single-minded effort to open up the smartphone world. Not so, ex-Android chief Andy Rubin says. The OS co-creator just mentioned at a Tokyo summit that Android was first …


‘Interactive Fish Tank’ turns water into a capacitive touchscreen

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“Interactive Fish Tank” is an installation that explores new, wet boundaries in touch-based interfaces. Developed in 2011 by Manuela Donoso and Crys Moore, Masters candidates at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program, the piece e…


Google’s Knowledge Graph expands into movies on Android tablets thanks to facial recognition

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Not content to let Amazon hold the limelight with its new X-Ray for TV feature unveiled this morning, Google is unveiling a similar feature for movies in the Google Play store. On an Android tablet (and sadly, only on Android tablets)…


Heyzap gaming platform comes full circle with ad integration

The folks at Heyzap have just announced a new version of the Heyzap SDK that will allow developers to implement ads in their video games. The ads will be relevant to gamers as they’ll display recommendations for other similar games to download. Developers were free to implement ads from other networks, of course, but Heyzap’s [...]


Twitter to launch music app?

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After breaking out of its straight social networking shell and diving into video with Vine, it looks like Twitter has some other multimedia interests brewing. Cnet has learned that the company would be putting music company We Are Hunted to good use in order to launch Twitter Music. Twitter Music will apparently serve up music [...]


Pixar animator makes the NFL season better by drawing each game as a mascot battle

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Did you watch the October football match between the Giants and the Cowboys? Would you rather have watched a mortal battle between a literal, club-wielding giant and a half-dozen cowboys armed with lassos? Austin Madison, a Pi…


Blind moles may smell in stereo, new study suggests

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We already know that many senses work in stereo — for instance, visual information from our two eyes creates depth perception, and ear placement helps us identify the the source of sounds. A new study published in Nature…