Wheelys Café just raised a large chunk of equity funding on Swedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe to expand to more countries and pour gas on its already explosive growth around the world. The young company has had an illustrious history already, with a stint in Y Combinator, a successful Indiegogo campaign and now a vastly overfunded equity crowdfunding campaign. Read More
Google’s appeal against an antitrust ruling over its Android operating system in Russia was tossed out by Moscow’s ninth arbitration court on Wednesday.
The ad giant was fined 438 million rubles (£5.25 million, $6.85 million) by the country’s competition watchdog, the Federation Antimonopoly Service (FAS) last week. FAS found that Google had imposed restrictive contracts on mobile phone manufacturers who want to use its Android operating system, forcing them to pre-install other Google services, while blocking those of rivals.
As well as the fine, FAS ordered Google to mend its ways and floated the possibility of an out of court settlement. However, the two sides failed to strike such a deal, FAS said on Tuesday. Today, the court rejected Google’s appeal against binding obligations to resolve the case.
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COLOGNE, Germany—While common wisdom suggests that your average gamer would prefer a smaller PC over a larger one—see Nvidia shrinking down its desktop graphics cards to fit inside laptops—HP is bucking the trend with its imposing Omen X PC.
While it only houses a micro-ATX motherboard, the Omen X’s tilted cube design with separate compartments for motherboard, power supply, and storage, makes it far larger than your average micro-ATX PC. Inside the motherboard compartment there’s space for up to two full-length graphics cards, and three 120mm fans that can be used together to fit in a 360mm radiator or all-in-one watercooler. There’s room in the PSU compartment for monster 1500W units, while the storage compartment houses four neat hot swap hard drive bays that’ll take 3.5- or 2.5-inch drives.
Unusually for a PC from an OEM, the Omen X is designed to be taken apart by users. On the back of the case is an eject button that pops off the side cover with little effort, revealing the internals. On the front, behind one of the four squares outlined by customisable RGB LED lighting (because everything has to have RGB lighting these days) is a tool kit containing a screwdriver and extra screws. That’s particularly handy given that the Omen X will be sold both as a complete PC, with prices starting at €2299 (~£2000), and as a standalone chassis for an extremely pricey €599 (~£500).
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Popular amongst the quad racing community, this drone, called the Tiny Whoop, has a small camera that lets you fly in first-person view (FPV).
Mashable’s Creative Producer Sam Sheffer tried it out in the office to practice his FPV flying skills as the Liberty Cup drone race approaches.
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Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has left many people terrified, others thrilled – maybe a bit too thrilled.
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Take the case of the Brexit campaigners on Twitter who are ascribing the incredible successes of Team GB at the Olympics to the referendum’s results:
The official Leave.EU campaign group even made a video to show how proud they were for the British athletes’ endeavours:
The video proved to be too much for an Olympic cyclist, Callum Skinner, who won gold and silver in the men’s team sprint and individual sprint respectively: …
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Early Tuesday evening at the Academy of Sciences in the sprawling Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Honor, a distinct brand of Huawei, officially unveiled the Honor 8 smartphone.
The Honor 8 is the company’s first “flagship” for the US market, and it has a spec sheet to fit that bill nicely. “Honor 8 perfectly represents the evolution of our overall product view,” according to President of Honor, George Zhao, “It goes against established industry norms and market conventions with a higher aesthetic standard.”
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Remember when the Oxford English Dictionary declared “😂 ” Word of the Year 2015? It seemed novel at the time but it’s only grown in legitimacy since and with it, real-time trackers that log emoji use universally.
But enough universality. A creative agency in Sydney wants to get specific, tracking the use of emojis across the island continent that is Australia, as it happens.
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There hasn’t been a lot of good news from the floods that have pounded southern parts of the U.S. It’s been absolutely terrible, with Louisiana hit the hardest.
But there’s one little boy who remains smiling, and he’s determined to get his dance moves on the news.
The mystery kid was right behind TV reporter Justin Jaggers in Baton Rouge on Sunday. Just as Jaggers was warning people of travelling during the floods, and this guy was dabbing his heart out.
And just like that, another magical TV moment was born.
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Watching a bowling ball drop from a tower onto an axe is pretty wild
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Before today, only Google devices, the Sony Xperia Z3, and the Sony Xperia X Performance had Android 7.0 previews built for them. Now, another Android has joined the Nougat ranks—the LG G5. Whether you like the G5 or not (David sure didn’t), it’s getting a Nougat preview right now, albeit with more than a few catches.
First off, you’ll need to be in South Korea. That makes some sense, given that LG is a South Korean company and that this is only a beta.
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With less than three months until the election, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has still yet to spend a dime on TV commercials.
The sum — or lack thereof — was confirmed in a recent update from NBC News and tracking firm Advertising Analytics, which have been jointly charting spending throughout the election cycle.
SEE ALSO: CNN and Donald Trump are on the brink of all-out war
The few pro-Trump TV spots that have aired came from assorted PACs and outside groups, which have spent a combined total of $12.4 million on the Republican nominee’s behalf.
By contrast, Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign had racked up bills totaling nearly 20 times as much by this stage in the election — about $233 million. And that doesn’t even account for the $90 million kicked in by his biggest surrogate PAC. …
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Remember: you’re not the only one who can shred.
A rebellious BMX rider in Estonia decided to break the rules and ride in an off-limits area. But the security guard was having none of that nonsense and — understandably — confiscated the rider’s bike.
That’s when the guard unveiled his BMX skills. And what a rad set of skills they are.
Think carefully before you enter the restricted zone, dudes.
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Gyms in Pokémon Go can be intimidating if you don’t know what you’re doing. These tips will turn you into a pokémon trainer so good other players will have to start giving you badges.
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Destiny’s upcoming expansion Rise of Iron introduces a plethora of standard new features along with a complete game-changer: Private PvP matches. Previously, Destiny only supported matches assembled through the game’s matchmaking system, and now players can set up their own games against other teams.
By giving players the ability to choose who they play against in PvP, Destiny is setting itself up to enter the world of esports. If the new feature isn’t enough evidence that the game is dipping its toes into competitive gaming, the game’s developer Bungie also released …
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Runners Abbey D’Agostino and Nikki Hamblin may not have won their 5,000 meter heat today in the Rio Olympics, but their attitudes are gold-medal caliber.
Hamblin, who is representing New Zealand in this summer’s games, tripped on the packed track partly through the race, taking American D’Agostino down with her.
After the fall, a a clearly discouraged Hamblin lay motionless on the ground for several seconds. Get ready to cry, though: D’Agostino instantly helped Hamblin get to her feet.
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