Tag Heuer has scrambled to make a smartwatch of its own in response to the obvious elephant in the room, announcing plans to release a device that’ll compete against the Apple Watch. However, the company didn’t really reveal any details about those plans, and we have no idea how it might look like.
Now, however, Bloomberg has seemingly learned new information about the upcoming smartwatch from Tag.
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The beauty of YouTube is it lets you watch people do very stupid and dangerous things from the comfort of your own home without any personal risk to yourself. We found one such video on Wednesday that was posted this week by TheBackyardScientist, who decided it would be interesting to see what happened if your poured a can of molten aluminum into a watermelon. The results of this experiment were thankfully non-lethal but that still doesn’t mean you should try it at home and you especially shouldn’t try it in the way TheBackyardScientist did.
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Hey, everyone remember CurrentC? No, you probably don’t. Well, it’s a mobile payments platform that was designed by the Merchants Customer Exchange for use at MCX member stores, including Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, 7-11, Rite Aid, The Gap, Old Navy and Dunkin’ Donuts. CurrentC gained a brief couple of weeks of notoriety last fall when its members started turning off NFC payment sensors in their stores, which in turn blocked iPhone users from using Apple Pay to buy things. Six months later, however, the CurrentC coalition is in complete disarray.
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Americans like to think we have the best of everything but in reality the Japanese and Koreans are light years ahead of us when it comes to toilet technology. A British YouTube user who goes by the name of Jonny Conquest recently posted a video that his uncle recorded of his first encounter with a magical Korean toilet… but don’t worry, the video only shows the toilet’s control panel and nothing else.
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“When will I be able to watch Seinfeld on one of my favorite streaming services?”
It’s a question that many of us have asked over the past several years, but this week, it appears we finally have an answer. During a Hulu press conference on Wednesday, Jerry Seinfeld himself took the stage to reveal that all nine seasons of the celebrated sitcom will debut on the streaming service in June.
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Fancy yourself an amateur photographer looking to further hone your skills? If so, Kickstarter has an accessory you absolutely have to check out, because it might solve one of your biggest problems: access to the right kind of light for specific shots. Dubbed Adaptalux, the device is actually “a portable macro photography and videography adaptable lighting studio,” and you have three days left to make sure it launches later this year.
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Google designer Matías Duarte has admitted what many of us have known for a while now: We really don’t need to own smartwatches, particularly of the first-generation variety. Bloomberg reports that Duarte said this week that smartwatches are good for people who are enthusiasts “for fitness or notifications,” but that most people will see them as electric can openers. Or put another way, they’re nice to have but they won’t be a staple of every household in America.
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Popcorn Time, also informally known as “Netflix for pirates,” is a very popular video-streaming application for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS that offers users quick access to free movies and TV shows using a very sleek interface. However, the service isn’t legal, as it offers users access to pirated content that’s played on their computer almost instantly, as it downloads via torrents. And copyright holders don’t like that.
According to Variety, a U.K. chancery court already approved an order requiring Internet service providers in the country to block Popcorn Time.
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If you’ve ever traveled abroad, you’ve probably searched the Internet for what certain items that you’ll want to pick up on your trip. Doing this likely involves a Google search for “How much does [Product X] cost in [Country X]?” or something similar. Per Business Insider, it seems that cost-comparison website Fixr.com used Google autocomplete to determine the product that people most often search for in different countries and it turned the results into a map that is by turns hilarious and sad.
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PlayStation Plus subscribers rejoice: the latest batch of free games for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita were just announced. May’s collection consists of some of the best indie games from the past few years, which means you won’t need to clear a bunch of gigabytes on your PS4’s hard drive in order to download them all.
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