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Ocarina of Time Dress Is The Dress of Legendary Good Looks
Facebook under investigation for “mood experiment”
How to Install Android L Right Now

Ocarina of Time Dress Is The Dress of Legendary Good Looks

Posted: 03 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

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Check out this awesome looking Ocarina of Time dress from Koala Art & Design.

Fashion when it comes video games is usually limited to just goofy t-shirts. Cool, goofy-looking shirts I may add (and wear myself!), but far away from being something you might see being walked down the middle of a high-fashion runway in Paris.

Unless, that is, it's this The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time-inspired dress from Koala Art & Design. Oh, yeah, this dress is certainly screams high-fashion – well, in my humble “tees-and-shorts everyday wear” opinion.

Sharp red and black gradients set the foundation for a stylish, silhouetted display of all the familiar trappings of the popular Nintendo 64 adventurer from 1998, and it all comes beautifully together in a dress that will deservedly turn heads, or in this case, time.

It's such an amazing design, especially for something that's game-inspired, and if I were someone who prefered to wear dresses, I'd certainly 'work it' as they say. There's also a t-shirt version of the dress from Koala Art & Design if that suits your tastes, too.

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Facebook under investigation for “mood experiment”

Posted: 03 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

A recent mood experiment conducted by the Facebook team recently made the news, posing the question of whether it was ethical or not. Well, it’s won’t be up for debate for long, now the government themselves are taking cards.

A data watchdog from the UK is conducting an investigation that will attempt to determine whether Facebook Inc has violated data-protection laws while allowing a group of researchers to conduct a “mood experiment” on their users. The experiment was conducted on about 700,000 users in 2012, who were shown specifically more positive or negative posts in their respective newsfeeds in order to analyze their reactions. The idea? To determine whether Facebook could alter the emotional state of their userbase by prompting them to specific content.

Greg Jones, the watchdog responsible for the investigation, said it was “too early” to determine what part or parts of the law Facebook could have infringed, but the whole issue could lead to a fine of up to 500,000 pounds ($839,500 USD). Facebook answered by saying it would work with the regulators, and change anything that needs to be changed.

Matt Steinfeld, a Facebook spokesman, explained that “It’s clear that people were upset by this study and we take responsibility for it. The study was done with appropriate protections for people’s information and we are happy to answer any questions regulators may have.”

Source: Huffington Post

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How to Install Android L Right Now

Posted: 03 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Andoid L won’t be officially available for a few months, but that doesn’t mean the more saavy Android users haven’t found a way to get their hands on it

It has officially been a week since Android L was unveiled at Google I/O. The new version of Google’s mobile operating system brings many visual changes, added features, and performance increases, but so far Google has only made the developer preview officially available to registered developers, meaning there is not an official release available to the general public.

The official release will come sometime this fall, but no exact date has been give yet. IT will initially be available on some Nexus devices, and per usual trends, the Moto X, Moto G, and Moto E will likely follow suit very shortly, along with all the Google Play editions of current flagship phones. Other manufacturers (such as HTC) have made a commitment to making sure the official Android L release (if that remains the name into production) is available for its primary flagship devices within 90 days of the official release.

If you don’t like waiting, though, there’s no need to fret. Android’s open source platform attracts hackers and developers of all kinds and an aspiring user over at XDA forums has created a usable version of the Android L Developer Preview that can be installed on a rooted Nexus 5 or Nexus 7.

Before you go running off and trying to do this at home, take note that this is a fairly technical process that–if done incorrectly–could wreak havok on your Nexi. If you’re up to the challenge (or already comfortable with rooting Android devices), Phone Arena has developed a useful step by step guide to install the Android L Developer Preview.

It’s also important to take note of the “Developer Preview” tag. This is not a final software version and I would highly recommend not installing it on your primary device. Even if you are successful, it will not be a fully functioning phone, so you will have a lot of trouble using it for many day-to-day tasks, and many apps may not even work at all.

If you’re interested in the benefits of Android L, but aren’t so adventurous that you want to go rooting and installing custom software on your phone, many of the new Android performance benefits are available in phones running Android 4.4 Kitkat.

Android’s runtime (a system that determines basic software operations) has traditionally be Dalvik, but in Android KitKat, the option to switch to the ART runtime was made available. ART initially didn’t offer much, but now with Android L, it will bring a massive performance boost to most apps. You can switch to the ART runtime in Android KitKat by following our instructions here.

Although the only way to get the full benefits of the final public version of Android L will be to wait until this fall, but maybe this will provide the more impatient Android enthusiasts among us a way to kill some time while they wait.

Source: BGR

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