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supercopteron 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016

3 out of 10 for Elon Musk!

supercopteron Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple

Apple's employees are forced to spend lots of valuable time "sitting there looking at things that may or may not be d*cks all day long."

supercopteron Google Now

Interestingly there's not a single word in the description about Android or Jelly Bean or Nexus or smartphones or tablets...

Could this mean that Google Now is intended to be available across multiple platforms (including desktop environments)?

supercopteron ArduSat - Your Arduino Experiment in Space

ArduSat is a Kickstarter project that will put an Arduino-based satellite up for rent to run your own experiments (or even your own code) in Space.

Crowdfunding + OpenSource hardware + Shared usage via rental = Democratization of Space!

supercopteron Co-Meeting Is Google Wave-Inspired Group Collaboration Tool

IMHO co-meeting is the best GWave alternative available today. Basically it's an user-friendly version of Apache WiaB. For now it only lacks OpenSocial gadgets but according to a co-meeting developer, they could be added in the near future.

supercopteron Space Nazis, From the Dark Side of the Moon

The (Finnish) humor/sci-fi/diesel-punk movie also has an interesting business-model, selling "war-bonds" to fan. See: http://www.ironsky.net/site/

supercopteron Toy Robot building blocks, without any programming

http://www.modrobotics.com/

supercopteron [dead]

from the same developers "Taskos To Do List", their previous Android app, is IMHO much better: same functions, a more useful widget and the app is much lighter.

supercopteron Walkaround: Wave on App Engine & New Apache Wave based Collaboration Layer

The announcement: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/...

supercopteron Google Fails 36% Of The Time

That 36% number may be a little high since TNW is considering the Nexus One and Google TV as failures.

The Nexus One has greatly raised the level of high ends Android phones. It was a first attempt for Google to define Hardware in collaboration with manufacturers, and since they now keep doing that on regular basis I would say it was a success.

Google TV initial launch was possibly a failure, but the Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich update will certainly be a re-born and, possibly, a worldwide "second" launch. I think it's too early to judge it.

supercopteron Google+ Photos Replaces Picasa Web in the Navigation Bar

And Reader as been replaced by Sites in the Nav bar.

supercopteron Apple shares drop nearly 3% after introduction of new iPhone 4S

-5% now...

supercopteron Google / Samsung October 11th event: Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus?

Thanks for sharing. The video seems legit to me.

supercopteron Google / Samsung October 11th event: Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus?

I hope so much we’ll see a Nexus tablet as well! What better way to prove that ICS is unifying form factors?

supercopteron Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time.

I guess they'll certainly make a Google Apps version of it for business. For me the main question is how many GB for free?

supercopteron Open Government Partnership launched

I want to believe