With a few weeks to go until Christmas, Google has put up its online Santa Tracker tool, offering users various tools to keep them entertained while they’re waiting for Santa Claus this Christmas.
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KitKat continues to chip away at Jelly Bean as Android distribution shifts yet again
On Monday, Google released the latest data detailing Android platform distribution for the 7-day period ending on December 1st. For the first time in 2014, the three versions of Jelly Bean have fallen below 50% distribution as KitKat continues its steady ascent — 30.2% in November to 33.9% in December.
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One of the world’s best smartphone keyboards just made Stephen Hawking’s life much easier
Stephen Hawking’s ability to communicate quickly using the EZ Keys program on his Intel computer interface has always been impressive but now his communication powers have gotten twice as fast with the help of SwiftKey, one of the world’s best third-party smartphone keyboards.
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Video: Watch Amazon’s little helpers get your orders ready for Christmas
Amazon, which already offered users a wide variety of deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, on Sunday announced more details about its eighth-generation fulfillment centers, revealing that it’s putting to good use a large number of robots to help out with order fulfillment and hopefully improve ship times during the busy Christmas shopping season.
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HP’s new fanless laptop is even thinner than the MacBook Air
HP has a brand new laptop model to take on the MacBook Air, the EliteBook Folio 1020 that’s even thinner than Apple’s ultra portable notebook. The new HP laptop weighs just 2.2 pounds and is 15.7mm thick, but Engadget reports that a slightly heavier 2.6-pound version will also be available in stores next year when the EliteBook Folio 1020 launches.
Comparatively, the 13.3-inch MacBook Air measures 17mm at its thickest point, and weighs 2.96 pounds.
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Hot iPhone puzzle game creator wants to reinvent real-time strategy games on PS4
Asher Vollmer, the developer of popular iPhone puzzle game Threes, has a new challenge in mind for gamers, and this time around he’s going after a different kind of gaming experience on a different platform. Vollmer’s Close Castles is a new real-time strategy game that’s going to be available on PlayStation 4, according to a post written on the PlayStation blog by the developer.
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Here are all the PS4, PS3 and Vita games you’ll get for free in December
With 2014 coming to a close, Sony has one last chance to make a splash with its monthly Instant Game Collection. After loading up on indie games in November, the collection has shifted into triple-A territory for December, bringing a few huge games to the home consoles. Read on to find out which games you’ll be picking up for free starting today.
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‘Destructive’ malware may have hit Sony Pictures, other companies warned
Sony Pictures was hit by unknown hackers last week who managed to steal various sensitive information, including high-quality digital versions of several unreleased Sony movies, prompting the FBI to issue a five-page warning to certain U.S. businesses regarding a new type of “destructive” malware. A copy of the memo has been obtained by Reuters.
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This is the closest you’ll get to using the Apple Watch this year
As much as big consumer electronics companies would like you to think smart watches are already the next big thing, consumers haven’t really shown much interest in the devices. Even Samsung and its massive multi-billion dollar marketing budget hasn’t been able to move the needle, selling just a few hundred thousand units here and there.
Just about every Apple analyst on the planet things that the upcoming Apple Watch will finally break the mold, and Apple will sell double-digit millions within the device’s first year of availability. Only time will tell if consumers will actually bite — remember, all these predictions are being made before we really know anything at all about how the Apple Watch will work.
While we wait for more official word from Apple, though, a new concept might give us our best idea yet of what it will be like to use the Apple Watch.
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The coolest thing you’ll see today: Animated GIFs explain how speakers make sound
Where would the web be without GIFs? People would need to distract themselves from school, work and life in general with annoying things like useful information that might better us as people. Of course, GIFs can be more than just distractions, and graphic designer Jacob O’Neil recently created a series of GIFs that ditch cats and people falling off of things, replacing them instead with awesome animations that are as informative as they are sleek.
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