Thursday, 9 April 2015

Indian Streaming Service Saavn Adds Social Features To Get You Talking About Music


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Saavn, the India-focused music streaming service, has launched a big update for its mobile apps today which adds a raft of new social and sharing features. Read More

Google’s Online Art Museum Adds 3D Scans


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The Google Cultural Institute offers an impressive online library of art from museums from all over the world. While the project’s website has long featured the ability to use Street View to browse museums, all of the actual art, including statues, was only represented through high-resolution photographs. Starting today, however, Google will also feature almost 300 3D scans of objects… Read More

The UN Is Going to Debate Banning Killer Robots, Good Luck With That




Whether or not to preemptively ban killer robots will be a debate point at a United Nations meeting next week. And yes, “killer robots” sounds like a scifi cliche, but this is the reality of the future of warfare, and this debate is unlikely to do much other than highlight how sinister military tech may become.
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List of Apple Stores That Will Carry the Apple Watch Edition at Launch


Following reports that Apple Watch Edition stock will be limited to select Apple Stores in the United States and other launch countries, MacRumors has discovered that Apple's Find Locationstool enables prospective buyers to search their local area to check for Apple Watch Edition availability. Below, we have identified some of the major cities and metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong and Japan that will carry the Edition.

Apple Find Locations Watch Edition

To check Apple Watch Edition availability in your local area, navigate to Apple's Find Locations website, click on Sales, use your current GPS-based location or enter another one, select Watch Edition from the list of all products, and click on the Go button. A map will then display nearby Apple Store locations that will be carrying the Edition. If you live outside the United States, you will need to change the country flag in the top right first.

United States
— New York City: Fifth Avenue, SoHo, Upper West Side
— Boston: Boylston Street
— Chicago: North Michigan Avenue, Lincoln Park
— Philadelphia: Walnut Street
— Washington DC: Georgetown
— Atlanta: Lenox Square
— Miami: Lincoln Road
— Virginia: Tyson's Corner Center
— Newark, Delaware: Christiana Mall
— Bay Area: San Francisco, Stanford
— Los Angeles: The Grove, Third St. (Santa Monica), South Coast (Costa Mesa)
— Houston: Highland Village
— Dallas: Northpark Center
— Seattle: Bellevue Square

Canada
— Toronto: Eaton Centre
— Montreal: Sainte-Catherine

United Kingdom
— London: Covent Garden, Regent Street, Selfridges

Australia
— Sydney: George Street
— Brisbane: MacArthur Chambers
— Melbourne: Southland (Cheltenham)

France
— Paris: Carrousel du Louvre, Opera, Galeries Lafayette

Germany
— Berlin: Kurfurstendamm
— Munich: Rosenstrasse

Hong Kong
— Festival Walk
— International Finance Centre (IFC)
— Causeway Bay

Japan
— Tokyo: Isetan, Ginza, Omotesando
— Osaka: Shinsaibashi

Apple Watch pre-orders begin April 10, and the device goes on sale April 24.

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Uber Co-Founder’s Startup ‘Operator’ Will Get You What You Want


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Send an instant message asking for something, and they’ll do the grunt work of placing your order and getting it delivered to you ASAP. That’s the idea for Uber co-founder Garret Camp‘s new startup Operator that’s still in stealth, according to sources with direct knowledge of the app. You might have heard of a similar startup called Magic that recently blew up. But… Read More

Monkeys discover drones in Space Odyssey-style teaser for 3D Robotics' newest quadcopter




It's a good time to be a drone fan. Last week DJI released a YouTube video teasing a worldwide event. That's set to take place tomorrow in New York, London, and Munich. Today the company's main competitor, 3D Robotics, teased its own major announcement for Monday of next week. We also got the first glimpse of a new drone from 3D Robotics, along with some monkeys, jawbones, and a floating astronaut, in a video nodding to the famous scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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