Periodico101: Apr 4, 2016

Apr 4, 2016

Google Announces New Google Play App Icons

Google is kicking off the week by revamping the look of its “Play” family of app icons. That includes the Play Store, Play Music, and anything else that starts with “Play.” The look is much more consistent, but I imagine the redesign will be rather divisive. I mean, isn’t everything?

You’ll probably see the Play Store icon most, and it’s changed the least. It’s brighter, and the little folded handle is flat now.

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Google Announces New Google Play App Icons

Early-bird ticket sales to Disrupt NY end soon

Planning on making the trip to the Big Apple for Disrupt NY? You might as well save $1,000 in the process, but to do that you’re going to need to act quickly. Early-bird tickets to the hottest startup show in tech end on Friday, April 8. You can get your early-bird tickets here for the discounted price of just $1,995 apiece. After the 8th, tickets will increase to their final retail… Read More

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Early-bird ticket sales to Disrupt NY end soon

The stoned soldiers of Santa Cruz

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The stoned soldiers of Santa Cruz

Some North Korean defectors wish they hadn't left in the first place

SEOUL, South Korea — A middle-aged man is walking through a quiet Seoul neighborhood when he suddenly stops. He lights a cigarette, cupping his hands to shield the flame from the winter wind, and takes a deep draw, remembering how things used to be. He’s a former policeman, a broad-shouldered man with a growling voice and a crushing handshake.

Back where he came from, he says, he was someone who mattered.

SEE ALSO: North Korea officially blocks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

“In North Korea, people were afraid of me,” he says. He says it wistfully, almost sadly, like a boy talking about a dog he once had. “They knew I could just drag them away.” …

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Some North Korean defectors wish they hadn't left in the first place

Tulip blooms turn Chinese landscape into a pointillist painting

Spring has sprung at China’s Chaya Mountain as 10 different types of tulips bloom across a farm creating abstract formations reminiscent of a pointillist painting.

The majority of floral farms in China, according to Daxue Consulting, are small and consist of family members unlike larger farms like Holland — known as one of the biggest flower producers in the world. A recent report from the Economist valued China’s stake in the global flower market at around 4%. Exporting flowers to Europe or America is costly so over two-thirds are sold in Asia

[Bonus Round] Hammer Bomb, Flail Rider, The Slimeking's Tower, Prison Run And Gun, Slide The Shakes, And The Greedy Cave

Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn’t get to during our regular news rounds. Consider this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can’t wait for our bi-weekly roundups, and don’t want to wade through a whole day’s worth of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we have a first-person casual dungeon crawler, a driving game where you destroy everything with a giant mace, another dungeon crawler with top-down shooter controls, a platform-shooter, a casual shake-sliding game, and one more bonus dungeon crawler.

[Bonus Round] Hammer Bomb, Flail Rider, The Slimeking’s Tower, Prison Run And Gun, Slide The Shakes, And The Greedy Cave was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Bonus Round] Hammer Bomb, Flail Rider, The Slimeking's Tower, Prison Run And Gun, Slide The Shakes, And The Greedy Cave

Documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm reveal a global web of corruption

All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the “Panama Papers” — roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of offshore companies, leaked from a small, relatively unknown Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca. Read More

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Documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm reveal a global web of corruption

The FBI is Providing 'Technical Assistance' to Local Law Enforcement With iPhone Problems

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is widening their help to local law enforcement officials across the country by offering “technical assistance”.

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The FBI is Providing 'Technical Assistance' to Local Law Enforcement With iPhone Problems