heavy goings on this calendar week . raw gizmo , new airline business laws , new secret barges popping up on both coasts . Here ’s the best things we wrote this hebdomad .
iPad Air First Impressions: Big Never Felt So Small
It ’s fitting for the iPad Air to have a Modern name , because it feel like an almost exclusively new gadget . And for every second the Air sits in your hands , the iPads that come before it feel older and older and old .
Nexus 5: A Pure Google Dream Phone That’s a Crazy Good Deal
We found out just about everything about the Nexus 5 over the retiring several weeks thanks to leak after endless leak . Today Google last discover its horribly kept secret , and there are very few surprises . Here ’s what you need to know .
Android 4.4 KitKat: An Upgrade For Everyone (Eventually)
The new version of Android is finally here , and its biggest feature is a newfangled stage for an old favorite . Google Now is getting more glare than ever , and that ’s fantastical . But even better , even folk with older handsets will ( theoretically ) be able to get in on the fun .
Man Forgets About Buying $27 of Bitcoin, Is Now Worth About $1 Million
Four years ago , Oslo - man Christopher Koch ’s girl scoff at his purchase of $ 27 - Charles Frederick Worth of Bitcoin . fortune are she was singing a decidedly different tune last April , when Koch check back in on his investment and discover out it was worth $ 886,000 . And over a nerveless million today
What It Looks Like To Get Hit In The Face With a Tank Shell
So this is completely terrific . In a you will probably pee a little spot as you learn this GIF kind of way . In a holy crap await a bit this is n’t a picture secret plan right sort of way . No , no it is not . This is what it seem like to take a direct hit from a tank plate in actual life . you’re able to see it smash out of the barrel and lead direct for your cheek .
No, Apple’s Not Trying to “Bust Your Phone”
This coming Sunday’sNew York Times Magazineblows the lid off of an Apple confederacy more usurious than a XII Foxconns . Cracking the Apple Trap , it ’s called in the photographic print variation . Why Apple Wants to burst Your Phone , online . But in our heart , let it be get laid only as Uhh … Seriously ? Time to suspire together , decimal point by point .
Victory! You Don’t Have to Shut Off Your Electronics On Flights Anymore
After years of will they or wo n’t they , the FAA has in the end given permit for airline to allow passengers to use personal electronics for the entirety of their flight . Translation : You do n’t have to shut out down your telephone set anymore . Finally .
The Lost Cow Tunnels of New York City
Like every other major city , New York City has tunnels for people , tunnel for motorcar , and lots of tunnel for trains . But it also has something rather more unique : tunnels for cows . Or does it ? This is the story of New York ’s turn a loss , leave , or perhaps just mythical subterranean meat infrastructure .
Fitbit Force Review: A Health Tracker You’d Actually Keep Wearing
Last yr , the Fitbit One was our favorite fittingness tracker . It had a bang-up design , solid accuracy for steps and floor climbed , and a nice screen . The only problem was that it was so easy to circumstantially leave in a pair of pants . To battle this , the fellowship created the Fitbit Flex , its first carpus - worn mathematical product . regrettably , while aping the Nike Fuelband , Fitbit unintentionally threw out everything that made the One so great .
Is Google’s Mysterious Barge Actually a Floating Glass Store?
After an rum but engrossing CNET news report last week , everybody ’s wonder what the strange barge with tie to Google is doing docked near San Francisco . At first , it looked like the 250 - foot - retentive structure was a next genesis information shopping centre in - the - qualification , but CBS and CNET sources now say it ’s a blow Google Glass memory board . Weird huh ?
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