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Vodafone UK scores 32GB Lumia 925, O2 gets dibs on white model for June 13

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Now that Nokia’s launched it’s metal-accented Lumia 925, you may want to know where to grab one. Well, in the UK, Vodafone will start carrying a 32GB version of the handset exclusively next month, while O2 said it’d be the only UK carrier with a w…


SpaceX inks lease with Spaceport America, will push reusable rocket higher

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Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic crew will soon have a new neighbor at Spaceport America, as SpaceX has just signed a three-year lease to the facility. Central to the agreement, SpaceX will move its Grasshopper reusable rocket test prog…


Amazon Cloud Player iOS update enables Ford Sync AppLink support

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Select Ford owners with Android phones have been rockin’ out with Amazon Cloud Player and their in-dash Sync systems for the better part of three months. Now, iPhone and iPod touch users are invited to join in on the fun. The latest version of Ama…


The entire nation of Syria goes offline yet again

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Entire countries can go offline. Syria’s done it before, and now it appears that the troubled nation has dropped its web connection again, according to Google’s Transparency Report and other online sources. The outage appears to have begun just be…


Rovio launches syncable accounts for Angry Birds Classic and others, stores your progress across devices

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No more repeating those first stages. Again. No more attempts to glean three stars on Level 4-14. Again. Rovio is finally offering sync functions for its new Croods game, globally, and its original hit, Angry Birds — although that’s only for Pola…


Intel Silvermont: next-gen mobile CPU’s three times as fast and more energy efficient

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ARM’s long been the dominant form of silicon in mobile devices, but Intel aims to change that with its next-generation Atom chip design codenamed Silvermont. According to Intel, the new architecture will enable CPUs that operate at up to three tim…


ASUS sells 3 million tablets in 2013 Q1, rakes in $202 million profit

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The PC market may be shrinking, but ASUS’ plan to avoid being swept away by its rivals seems to be working. The Nexus 7 maker’s latest financials reveal it made $3.5 billion in revenue, coining a quarterly profit of $202 million in the process — …


NASA’s Orion spacecraft takes another parachute test, intentionally fails (video)

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Ideally, Astronauts want to return to Earth in fully functional space capsules, but sometimes things can go awry. That’s why NASA is making a point of testing the Orion spacecraft’s parachute deployment system for failures. The team’s latest parac…


Editor’s Letter: Welcome to May

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In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.

A bit of a lull this week ahead of what is shaping up to be an insane May — and perhaps an even crazier June. We have events stacked three-deep at time…


Poetry for aliens: NASA wants to put your haikus into space, but only three of them

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NASA wants your words,

preferably a haiku.

It might go to Mars!
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Via: NPR
Source: NASA