Modify your Smartphone Bit by Bit with Phoneblocks

What is more important to you in a mobile phone, looks or upgradability? If you picked the latter, then you’ll probably get excited about a new phone concept called Phonebloks. It’s a modular smartphone made up of separate, interchangeable blocks that are easily upgraded or replaced if they break.

You can design your phone with the components you care about or need, leave off those you don’t, and you only have to upgrade bits one at a time. An awesome idea, right? Yeah, but you’re going to need to put up with one ugly phone to get it.

Look-aside, the basics behind Phonebloks are solid. The whole venture is very Maker-inspired and will appeal to Do-It-Yourselfers and hardcore phone geeks. Consumers will be able to buy pre-made phones or assemble their own, blok by blok, using components found in the Blokstore. Here, both large and small hardware makers will get the chance to sell you components ranging from processors and internalstorage to cameras and speakers. It’s akin to an app store, not just because of consumer choice but because anyone will be able to make hardware bloks. The entire platform is open source. see more..

Source: digitaltrends

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Sydney Leathers crashes sexing partner Anthony Weiner's

Anthony Weiner's ill-fated mayoral campaign ended with a a final embarrassment when his sexting partner Sydney Leathers tried to crash his primary night rally.

Outside a "victory" party where supporters mourned a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Democratic primary, cameras crowded around Leathers, the 23-year-old whose sexting with the former congressman brought his once-high-flying campaign to a screeching halt.

"Why not be here?" Leathers asked reporters. "I'm kind of thereason he's losing. So, might as well show up."

Leathers, who has launched a porn career since the scandal broke, said Weiner needed "to stop being an embarrassment to the city of New York. He's going to continue this behavior. If it's not going to be me, it's going to be some other girl."see more..

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AAPL Tank on Iphone 5C Pricing

Apple stock (NASDAQ: AAPL) went on one of its biggest slides of the year after analysts downgraded the shares, saying the new iPhone 5C is not cheap enough for emerging markets and the company is failing to innovate.

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch downgraded Apple (AAPL) to "neutral" from "buy." Similar actions were taken by analysts for Credit Suisse, Piper Jaffray and UBS.

Apple'sstock fell 5.7 percent, or $28, mid-day on Wednesday to $466.64.

During Tuesday's highly-covered media event, Apple introduced two new phones with features such as a fingerprint sensor and new operating system, iOS 7. The new iPhone 5S comes in various metallic shades while the cheaper iPhone 5C comes in five plastic colors. see more...

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Remembering the Twin Towers as a fixture of the skyline

At first, our go-to documentarian of 1990s New York didn't realize that he'd amassed such an extensive collection of photos of the World Trade Center. Yet, when Gregoire Alessandrini looked back over the hundreds of slides and negatives taken during his seven-year stint as a film student in New York City, he noticed that the towers dominated the backdrop of an unexpected number of street scenes, from so many different angles.

There they were, peeping through the Washington Square Park arch. Or standing tall and proud across the East River, mimicking a couple dancing on the waterfront in the foreground. Or, as so many recall, popping up like an anchor at the southernmost end of an avenue. "I always feel that something is missing in the landscape,"Alessandrini says, "when I'm in the Village and I point mycamera in the direction of downtown Manhattan."

On this day, 12 years after the towers fell, take a look back at how the TwinTowers graced so many urban vistas. see more...

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Bill de Blasio Cruises to Victory in New York City

According to early exit polls, de Blasio won across the board, equaling or besting his opponents among black voters, female voters, gay voters, voters who wanted a change, and even voters who approved of the way Bloomberg governed Gotham over the last 12 years.

“There are those who have said that our vision for this city is too big, that we are asking of wealthy New Yorkers too much,” de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, told a raucous crowd of supporters at the Bell House, a music venue in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. “That we have set our sights for our children too high, that we are guilty—guilty, my friends—of thinking too big. But let me say this: We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn’t new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.”

Just after midnight, de Blasio was hovering near the 40 percent threshold necessary to avoid a runoff in three weeks. Bill Thompson, his closest rival, garnered just 26 percent of the vote but vowed to fight on. The winner of a runoff will face Joe Lhota, the former chief of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency and a former aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who easily won the Republican nomination.

The de Blasio election night celebration illustrated just how different his candidacy was. Instead of gathering at a major Midtown hotel to watch the returns, as New York City mayoral campaigns traditionally do, hundreds of supporters turned Gowanus, an industrial neighborhood not far from the candidate’s home in Park Slope, into a political street party with outdoor grilling, music-making, free-flowing beer, and supporters glued to television screens. Inside the Bell House, where the indie pop duo Ted Leo and Aimee Mann were slated to play the next night, de Blasio supporters cheered as returns showed a victory looking ever more likely. see more...




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AT&T pulls smartphone themed 9/11 tweet after mass outrage

One of America’s corporate giants has discovered the hard way that company messages related to the anniversary of the September 11 attacks are probably better left alone — especially when that message goes out on social media.

U.S.communications company AT&T posted a short message and image on its Twitter feed at 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, the twelfth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The tweet read “Never Forget;” attached was a picture of New York with the “towers of light” where the destroyed World Trade Center used to stand. Inserted over top of the image was a picture of an arm holding a smartphone with the towers of light highlighted on the view screen.

The response to the tweet was immediate and visceral, with many on Twitter calling the move tacky and tasteless, and many more simply coming up with variations of the f-word to throw at the company.see more..

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Montreal forecast : Hot and steamy, with thundershowers on the way

Hotand steamy: that’s the forecast for Wednesday, but before the day is done there could be violent thunderstorms.

Environment Canada issued a severe weather watch at 9:41 a.m. for Montreal and Laval. “Weather conditions for these regions are favourable to the development of severe thunderstorms. Some of these thunderstorms could produce large hail, high winds, heavy rain and intense lightning.” The watch is in effect until 10 p.m.

Shortly thereafter a severe heat and humidy warning was sent out with particular emphasis on the dangers for people with respiratory ailments, heart disease and children under four and advice to stay in the cool indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

In a week that has seen a roller coaster of weather — car heaters necessary on Monday morning, air conditioning a boon on Wednesday — the warm front that brought fog and curly hair mid-week will also usher in the possibility of up to 40 millimetres of rain later in the evening.

The seasonal high for this time of year is 20 Celsius, but the Environment Canada forecast calls for a Wednesday high of 29C and a UV index of 6. see more...

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