Google might be eavesdropping more than you had originally imagined, though not on purpose. Since June 2015, Google has been storing personal data on its users on a website, where users only have access to their own information. The feature works a bit like a digital diary, storing web searches, YouTube history, and (you guessed it!) Google Voice Search history. The issue with Voice Search is… Read More
We’re delighted to announce the startups pitching at the TechCrunch Stockholm Meetup + Pitch-Off . The winner of the pitch will get a booth in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt in London. Second and third places will respectively get two tickets and one ticket for the big show. If you want to attend the event, you can still grab a ticket. Event Info Date: June 7 Time: 6-10pm Venue:… Read More
SINGAPORE — Bookworms rejoice! BooksActually, a local independent bookstore known for its fiction and literature curations, has unveiled book vending machines at high traffic spots in Singapore.
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Currently, two of the vending machines are located at at the National Museum of Singapore and Singapore Visitor Centre on shopping street, Orchard Road. A third machine will be installed later this month at the Goodman Arts Centre, which is also the headquarters for the National Arts Council.
Each of these machines carry up to 150 books, with a focus on titles by local publishers and authors. …
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OnePlus has outed a video teaser of its upcoming OnePlus 3 smartphone. Released by OnePlus India on YouTube, it’s just a 6-second video that doesn’t reveal anything specific about the device’s design or its specs.
However, what it does reveal is that the device will be made official on June 14 (10:00 PM), which is not inline with the June 15 date confirmed by OnePlus China recently.
It might simply be the case of the Chinese launch coming a day later than the international one. Aside from this, the teaser also tells us that the phone will be an Amazon exclusive.
In case you…
OnePlus has announced that a total of 1,000 units of its upcoming OnePlus 3 smartphone will be up for grabs on June 6 (coming Monday) in China. That’s just over a week before the device is scheduled to be officially unveiled.
So, does that mean some people will be able to get their hands on the phone even before it’s officially unveiled? Well, no, as the orders will begin shipping on the announcement day itself.
As for the price, the company says these limited units will be available for RMB 2,999 each (around $455). However, interestingly, this is not the final price. The actual…
As you might have noticed, things aren’t going so well in Brazil. Its economy shrank 5.4 percent in the first quarter, according to government figures released yesterday. Its president, Dilma Rousseff, was temporarily suspended by a congressional impeachment vote. Brazil is also home to much of the outbreak of the dreaded Zika virus, which has a growing number of people wondering… Read More
Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More
Tinder is set to unveil a new experience for transgender users within the next couple of months.
Thus far, the app has never accounted for the non-gender-conforming demographic, instead exclusively serving cisgender users through filters for male and female only, both to self-identify and to search. Read More
Superheroes may be fiction, but their impact on our world is incredibly real.
The heroes we love to read and watch as children can have a lasting impact, affecting how we see the world and our place in it. And no one understands the true affect of stories like the people who tell them for a living. In the new essay collection Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life, edited by Liesa Mignogna, over 20 authors share their superhero origin stories, including beloved and bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Brad Meltzer, Jodi Picoult and Leigh Bardugo.
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Brand New fans have come to expect two things: music that speaks to their eternal suffering and cryptic messages.
Now the band’s back at it with some new merchandise, including T-shirts featuring a floral upside-down cross (for spring!) and another portraying a resurrection. They both read “Brand New: 2000-2018.”
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Image: merchdirect
Image: merchdirect
They also released this new shirt, which is interesting because Brand New’s heavy lyrical focus on a fear of God has always focused on Christianity.
The good news is that it’s 2016 now, so the end times aren’t quite here yet. Brand New has tour dates with Modest Mouse coming up this summer. They also recently released a new single, “I Am A Nightmare” that many speculate could be a single from their long awaited follow up to 2009’s Daisy.
The band released a new shirt with the single art, too, but it was only available for 24 hours, because this is Brand New we’re talking about.
But realistically, the band breaking up wouldn’t change much. In the past seven years, they’ve released two songs. And if they break up in 2018, they can stay 18 forever.
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