The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, April 29, 2016. Apple dips and Twitter flutters, but the Gang won’t bet against them as new media picks new winners. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor.
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The international, unlocked variants of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge can be currently had at great prices from eBay.
Starting off with the standard version of the Samsung Galaxy S7, the international variant of the phone, in its unlocked variety, can be had for just $559.
Seeing that the unlocked Galaxy S7 is priced at around the $700 by carriers and retailers, this is a very good deal for what many consider as the best non-phablet currently available on the market. On the downside, only the gold variant of the phone is available at this price. For … – Source
Words like “gent” instead of “man” and “authentic” for products in place of “genuine” can fetch up to 50% more money on eBay, revealed a research conducted by a British university. – Source
Microsoft has dropped hints that the ‘double tap to wake’ feature – which, gives you an alternative for using the unlock key to wake up your phone – could be added to the Lumia 950/950 XL smartphones.
Replying to a user query on Twitter about bringing the feature to the Windows-10 powered flagship device, Microsoft’s Gabriel Aul said that it’s a common request, and asked the user to upvote it in Feedback Hub.
@RayVanEe Double tap on 950 is a common request, upvote it in Feedback Hub!— Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) April 29, 2016
While that’s certainly not a confirmation per se that the…
A tweet from HTC’s VP of product management, Mo Versi, reveales some bad news for AT&T subscribers with the HTC One (M8) and HTC One M9. Versi said in his tweet that the Android Marshmallow update for the AT&T branded version of HTC’s 2014 and 2015 flagship models, has been delayed. The HTC executive did add that the manufacturer is still in the lab, and hopes to have approval for the update in the next couple of weeks.
Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint customers sporting the two handsets have already received the update, which includes a number of new features like Doze. This feature … – Source
As if anti-LGBTQ laws aren’t restrictive enough, some people are now taking bathroom-policing into their own hands.
This was the experience of Jessica Rush, a Texas woman who attempted to use a woman’s restroom at the Baylor Medical Center in Frisco this week, only to be followed into the bathroom by a man.
Rush said the man, who she estimated was 6’4″ compared to her 5’3″, followed her all the way inside the bathroom, and she said it never occurred to her that he wanted to make sure she was a woman until he said so.
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LOS ANGELES — Move over, Chris Pine: There’s a new Jack Ryan in Hollywood.
John Krasinski has been tapped to play the CIA hero for a new Amazon drama series based on the Tom Clancy books.
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The series, made with Paramount TV, is co-created by Lost alumni Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland.
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This marks Krasinkski’s first TV gig since The Office, where he played the beloved Jim. He most recently starred in Bay’s 13 Hours.
The role has previously been played by Pine, Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck in the movie franchises. The five movies — the first of which debuted in 1990 — have made …
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A digital camera with no LCD screen? Who the heck would buy such a camera in 2016?
That’s the question, Leica surely asked itself when it decided to create the M-D (Typ 262), its newest rangefinder-style digital camera, which doesn’t come with any kind of display on the back.
SEE ALSO: Sony A6300 blows every mirrorless camera away with insane speed and 4K
If you believe Leica’s spiel, a camera without a screen distills “photography in its purest form.” A screen, apparently distracts the photographer during the photographing process.
In other words, the M-D gives you a slower, more old school way of shooting more akin to shooting with a film camera. The photographer is forced to think about composition while looking through the viewfinder, adjust settings with the shutter speed dial on top and the ISO wheel on the back. …
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When people think they’re being watched, they’re more inclined to behave themselves. This behavior pops up again and again: in blood donation, energy saving, and charitable giving. There are many explanations for why this happens—maybe we think people are more likely to treat us well if they see us behaving in a prosocial way; in some cases, we might behave ourselves in front of others in order to avoid awkward conversations or having to lie.
Harvard researchers Todd Rogers, John Ternovski, and Erez Yoeli wanted to find out if they could leverage this tendency in order to increase voter turnout. A “get-out-the-vote” (GOTV) letter is a simple, impersonal reminder that has a small but noticeable effect on voter turnout. A meta-analysis of 79 experiments on the effects of GOTV letters found that, on average, they boosted turnout by 0.194 percentage points—for example, from 39 percent to 39.194 percent.
It’s a tiny figure, but if applied across the US, it would result in around 450,000 extra voters (out of an estimated 235,248,000 eligible voters). Not nothing, but still not a lot. Rogers, Ternovski, and Yoeli suspected that adding a hint of oversight to the letters could make a bigger difference.
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Home Chef, one of several startups delivering recipes and ingredients to take some of the hassle out of home cooking, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic told me that Home Chef stands out from similar-sounding companies in a couple of ways. The big one is flexibility — customers get to choose their meals from 10 overall choices… Read More
