Thursday, January 12, 2017

Nintendo's mobile Mario game sets download record but pricing proves sticking point and other top stories.

  • Nintendo's mobile Mario game sets download record but pricing proves sticking point

    Nintendo's mobile Mario game sets download record but pricing proves sticking point
    By Makiko Yamazaki | TOKYO TOKYO Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.T) first Mario smartphone title has set a download record but gamers baulked at the one-time cost of unlocking content, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers' stock to a one-month low. Super Mario Run hit 25 million downloads just four days after its Dec. 15 release in 151 countries on Apple Inc's AAPL. App Store, earning gross sales of about $21 million, showed data from app analyst Sensor Tower. But Nintendo share..
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  • Instagram Stories launches overlaid Stickers for locations, emoji, and seasons

    Instagram Stories launches overlaid Stickers for locations, emoji, and seasons
    Instagram is launching its answer to Snapchat geofilters, offering a way to spice up your photos and videos with Stickers that display basic location names, time, weather, and emoji. ThereĆ¢€™s also limited-time seasonal graphics like Christmas trees and Hanukkah menorahs, and a holiday candy cane paint brush. Instagram is also launching Story saving for downloading your last 24-hours of updates in the audience viewer, just like Snapchat. Plus thereĆ¢€™s now unlimited text boxes for Stories inst..
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  • Apple's new AirPods tough to recycle: report

    Apple's new AirPods tough to recycle: report
    Apple AirPods are displayed during a media event in San Francisco Thomson Reuters By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new wireless headphones could be a problem for recyclers, according to an electronics firm that took apart the device to review its component parts. Apple has been promoting a more environmentally conscious image for the company after having come under fire in the past for constructing its devices so tightly that their components ..
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  • UK Mass Surveillance Ruled Illegal By EU Court

    UK Mass Surveillance Ruled Illegal By EU Court
    The European Court of Justice has ruled that the UK's planned bulk collection of communications data is illegal, casting prime minister Theresa May's surveillance plans into disarray. Europe's highest court - to which the UK is still subject - says that the provision for mass surveillance contained in the recently-passed Investigatory Powers Act 'cannot be considered to be justified within a democratic society'. The IP Act, which cleared the House of Lords last month, requires internet service p..
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  • Android 7.1.1 Hits Nexus 6P And Nexus 5X Devices In The Beta Program At Last, Following 2-Week Delay

    Android 7.1.1 Hits Nexus 6P And Nexus 5X Devices In The Beta Program At Last, Following 2-Week Delay
    After a two-week delay, the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P in the Android Beta Program are finally getting the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat, as the update is rolling out now. Android 7.1.1 started reaching the Google Pixel and Pixel XL, as well as other Nexus devices, earlier this month. Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X users in the beta program, however, have been left waiting for the update up until now. Two weeks later, Android 7.1.1 is finally hitting the Nexus 5X and 6P in the beta program, easing concerns. Wh..
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  • Scientists use lasers for a better look at antimatter

    Scientists use lasers for a better look at antimatter
    December 20, 2016 —For the first time, scientists have been able to shine a light on one of physics's most mysterious substances – literally.Physicists at CERN's Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) in Switzerland beamed a laser onto particles of antihydrogen, the antimatter counterpart to normal hydrogen, to determine whether light behaved in the same way for both materials. While hydrogen, the first element on the periodic table, has been studied for two and a half centuries, it has o..
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  • Twitter is 'toast' and the stock is not even worth $10: Analyst

    Twitter is 'toast' and the stock is not even worth $10: Analyst
    Twitter was courted by a number of potential acquirers earlier this year, including Salesforce, but talks ended without a deal. While some still think Twitter should be acquired, the company has to go it alone and try to boost users. One focus has been on live video. Twitter live-streams Thursday night NFL games, and on Tuesday announced plans to live-stream the Golden Globes pre-show. Analysts see this as a potential driver of growth if it takes off. Trefis, a platform that uses data ..
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  • First Click: What the hell is going on in Apple's US-based Mac Pro factory?

    First Click: What the hell is going on in Apple's US-based Mac Pro factory?
    Remember when Apple came out with its six-guns a blazin' to announce its Mac Pro and a return to US manufacturing? It was a big deal for much of 2013 and 2014, accompanied by a lot of flag-waving bombast and back-patting bravado. But then Apple fell ...
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  • The shortest day of the year has arrived. Here's what you need to know

    The shortest day of the year has arrived. Here's what you need to know
    Wednesday marks the winter solstice for us — the shortest day of the year. But what does that mean?Astronomical winter will arrive at 5:44 Wednesday morning with temperatures in the 20s, basically seasonable for the date. Wednesday will be a typical winter day with plenty of sunshine and highs approaching 40 degrees. Advertisement The phrase “astronomical winter” is used because meteorological winter started three weeks ago. (How many people think of December 20th as fall anyway?) The signif..
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