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Apple & Beats prepare streaming service
3D printed Super Bowl #leftshark: behold its beauty
Eero wants to fix your Wi-Fi issues forever
OUYA Signs Deal with Alibaba, Moves into China

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 10:45 AM PST

After acquiring Beats a while ago, Apple seem ready to clarify what they want to do with it: create a streaming service to compete with Spotify.

The Apple specialists 9to5 Mac report that Apple is moving forward with a project to release a new, paid streaming service to compete with Spotify, all based around the contents and technology acquired when they bought Beats. The idea is not to just release an app, but to “deeply integrate Beats” into the iOS instead, making it a part of it as much as iTunes or Apple TV are. The price of this service will be $7.99 per month, cheaper than Spotify but more expensive than Pandora. It might be introduced next June, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, although if Apple really decides to go all-out it might end up having its own event.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the end of iTunes as we know it, and users will still be able to do everything they’ve been able to do with it so far. This just means Apple will have its own streaming service, something Steve Jobs had long criticized, but the company is now willing to explore with him out of the way.

So far, Apple had had iTunes Radio bundled along with the iTunes app, but this service didn’t really manage to compete with Pandora and Spotify, yet releasing their own service and make it an integral part of iOS might be the real thing, and Apple finally deciding to make a stand.

Via CNET

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3D printed Super Bowl #leftshark: behold its beauty

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 08:51 AM PST

The world will remember the XLIX Super Bowl as the Super Bowl of the memes, especially thanks to the fantastic dancing shark which now has become a 3d statue.

The now infamous “Left Shark” (also known on some circles as "Drunk Shark") delighted everyone with its cute outfit, enthusiasm and lack of dancing skills: a match made in heaven, when it comes to memes. Left shark skyrocketed to Internet stardom and before the whole thing ended even Katy Perry herself declared him, the MVP of the Super Bowl. Sorry, Tom Brady, you just did some things with a football.

Like every decent meme out there, of course Left Shark would eventually become a 3D sculpture, and thanks to the work of Fernando Sosa (AKA Political Sculptor) we can now enjoy having a Left Shark replica on our shelves or living room. And, in case you lack the equipment to print it yourself, a 3D printed Left Shark meme can just be bought for $24.95. Now, if only Nintendo would release an Amiibo version…

Via 3d Print

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Eero wants to fix your Wi-Fi issues forever

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 05:00 AM PST

A new start-up by the name of Eero have a new plan: to make Wi-Fi network issues like dead spots, range, or long and complicated issues things of the past.

You can’t say that Eero lack ambition: fixing all of the Wi-Fi problems in any house hold is quite an undertaking on its own, imagine when you want to make that solution universal. The Eero routers will attempt to simplify all of the processes related to them, for example, setting them up will be done via an app on smartphones that communicates with the router via Bluetooth, which can at the same time be used to send login information to your guests visiting the house. This easy set up can also be used to set up more relays for greater range in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

Eero can be all a repeater, router and extender all at once depending on what users require, being added to extended networks or being the sole source of a home’s WiFi. It will make suggestions on how to expand range, and where else to set relays or even more Eero units in case a home is too big, avoiding the issue of multiple networks. It will also reset itself if there’s a problem with the connection, or run any kind of tests on its own assuring users don’t have to get up or do actions on their own.

Each Eero unit sells for $199 per box, but they offer a three-pack at $500: while quite expensive, you might end up saving that later on the phone bill not having to call technicians or friends for help.

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OUYA Signs Deal with Alibaba, Moves into China

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:30 PM PST

Rumor has it that the Chinese conglomerate has just invested $10 million so that its games library moves to the Alibaba’s set-top box.

While the investments hasn’t been confirmed (nor denied) by OUYA, the California-based console maker admitted that its game library will be available on Alibaba’s YunOS platform. In case you’re not familiar with the name, you should know that it is a modified version of Android that is (paradoxically, if I may say so) meant to compete against Google’s mobile OS in China. While at a later point OUYA’s patents will prove useful in Chinese smartphones, for the time being, it will be available on the Tmall set-top box.

OUYA’s streaming service is what must have caught Alibaba’s attention, since the game console is cited as capable to handle such titles as soccer game Winning Eleven 2014 and fighting game Street Fighter 4. Other than that, it seems like Alibaba is not interested in OUYA’s controller, and will provide its own for the set-top box.

“Markets, like China, without the baggage of the US console market, could be the game console leaders in ten years. That’s where OUYA wants to be,” mentioned OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman, thus emphasizing that the US market has its own importance. OUYA will continue to exist in the US, despite its ups and downs. The 2012 crowdfunding campaign proved a major success, having raised more than 9 times the funding goal, but things took a turn for the worse when the company failed to deliver the consoles to its backers on time. The next year wasn’t that bad for OUYA, as it was sold out on Amazon. In 2014, the company released the second version of the console with slightly better specs and a higher (and some think unjustified) price. Now it seems that OUYA is sailing to new shores, and that can only be good for the company.

This new move won’t really affect people outside of China, or not just yet. Knowing the huge number of potential customers in this country, the other console manufacturers should be scared. I’m not sure if YunOS has a great future ahead, though, but Android consoles will certainly become a thing in the not so distant future. OUYA was only the beginning of it all.

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