Haddie Cooke and Dan Benjamin talk about @N being returned to it's rightful owner, Square Pickup, TiVo's Qplay TV, Bro App, selfiecity, 3D models of Dungeons and Dragons monsters, The Eye of The Tiger being played on a dot matrix printer, and an amazing, life-changing, mind-blowing almond butter that we found called Barney Butter thanks to PaleoOMG and more!
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Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner - The Next Web
Many of you have been following with interest Naoki Hiroshima’s tale of how he was extorted into giving up his valuable @N username on Twitter. The good news is that Hiroshima is back in control of the account:
Square is Testing a New App for Ordering Food: Square Pickup
Square, the mobile payments startup, is testing a new app called “Square Pickup.” It’s a simple app that lets you order food from a Square merchant ahead of time. The app is currently in testing with several San Francisco restaurants. Appropriately, we noticed the app when we were "picking up" lunch today.Instead of calling a restaurant to place a pickup order, users can just make the purchase with the Square Pickup App. The app is loaded with the restaurant’s menu. Just choose what you want, pay with Square, and then pick up your food when it’s ready. The app is currently in beta testing for both iOS and Android.
It’s official: TiVo’s co-founders start selling $49 Qplay TV streamer — Tech News and Analysis
TiVo co-founders Michael Ramsay and Jim Barton are back with a new venture dubbed Qplay that hopes to do for online video what TiVo did for television. The duo unveiled their new Qplay device and service Tuesday, and launched an early adopter program during which the Qplay device is available for $49.
Otter: The iOS App User Feedback Visualizer
this neat little Web app could still give reporters, marketers and developers some interesting insights into reviews on the App Store.
Otter - User Feedback Visualizer by Mutual Mobile
Bro App
Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ | World news | theguardian.com
GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service | Re/code
People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify-like music subscription service, most likely bundled with its Prime delivery option, for some time. But industry sources say Amazon is now engaged in more serious talks with big music labels about making that happen.
Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is | TechCrunch
selfiecity on Vimeo
Investigating the style of self-portraits (selfies) in five cities across the world.
3D ZBrush Models of Creatures From the Original ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Monster Manual
Comic artist Patrick Sean Farley of Electric Sheep Comix has created an incredible series of 3D models in ZBrush based on creatures from the original Dungeons
A Rescued Pelican With A GoPro Camera Strapped to His Beak Documents First Successful Flight
Big Bird is a pelican who was separated from his flock during a storm and washed ashore on the banks of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The staff of Greystoke Mahale, a nearby resort, took in the wayward pelican and taught him how to fly again.
Watch 80s classic Eye Of The Tiger being played on a dot matrix printer | Metro News
Have you ever listened to that rousing 1980s anthem Eye Of The Tiger and thought to yourself the only way it could possibly be improved would be by playing it on a dot matrix printer?
UNICEF Tap Project
Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie | TechCrunch
It uses the data from a Fitbit to determine when you’ve fallen asleep while watching a streaming movie, and pauses your flick at that spot
Dragdis Takes Its Simple Drag-And-Drop Bookmarking Service Out Of Beta | TechCrunch
Dragdis, a slick Chrome extension that lets you quickly save anything, including text, photos, videos, links and more just by dragging and dropping, is now taking its service out of beta, and introducing support for a number of social networks and cloud services.
Moov Fitness Tracker Passes Its $40K Crowdfunding Goal In 90 Minutes | TechCrunch
According to the team, Moov reached its $40k crowdfunding goal in 90 minutes.
Apple Made Over $1B On The Sale Of Around 10M Apple TV Units In 2013 | TechCrunch
Apple made over $1 billion in revenue from sales of its Apple TV devices and content in 2013, Cook explained during the meeting with investors, which translates to sales at or around 10 million units, as noted by Asymco’s Horace Dediu.
Best Buy deal makes iPhone 5s a bargain
Craving an iPhone 5s? Best Buy has a deal for you today and Saturday.
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