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Google have aquired Word Lens and made it free, possibly only for a limited time. When traveling in a foreign country, Word Lens users would simply hold the phone up to a sign and the camera would immediately translate it. Currently, users can translate between English and Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Russian, and Spanish. I've been playing with it on my S5 and frankly it's borderline witchcraft. :) Very handy if you travel or need to translate basic text.
Matt sent in this SSD speed breakthrough which might even be good news for current SSD owners. There is definitely a possibility that existing devices still in support by their manufacturers may get firmware updates in the near future so that they store data in the new manner and benefit from the increased speed, decreased power consumption and increased expected life of drives equipped with the new NAND controller firmware.
Anandtech have a guide to averting disaster with backups. We are at a point where a single hard drive can contain multiple terabytes of information, and with a single mishap, lose it all forever. Everyone knows someone who has had the misfortune of having a computer stop working and wanting their information back.
Some space geeks are contacting an old spacecraft using crowdsourced funds. A team of space enthusiasts has picked up the first new contact with International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) probe and is preparing to fire its boosters for the first time since 1987, after a team of privateers crowdsourced over $125,000 for the project. Meanwhile, there's some new detailed photos of the Apollo 11 landing site.
Still on space news, NASA have taken the world's biggest selfie. This image was built using 36,422 individual photos that were posted on social media and tagged #globalselfie on or around April 22, 2014. People on every continent – 113 countries and regions in all – posted selfies.
Video card prices might be dropping soon, now that crypto miners have moved on. [A]s chips designed for Bitcoin mining started appearing in early 2014, demand for graphics cards has been dropping. Since mining chips have advantages in size, power consumption, reliability and costs, most Bitcoin operators have turned to dedicated chips instead, the sources said.
Speaking of which, you might be mining coins for someone else if you downloaded a pirate copy of Watch Dogs recently. It's not unusual for a "leaked" video game torrent to also include a virus or two. Gamers who are into such things tend to consider them almost par for the course, but this one is a new variation on a theme.
Here's an article on why one guy is sending Google Glass back, thanks mpot. It's called glassing out. Your eyes roll over to the right to look at the screen, and the rest of the world goes out of focus. People can't make eye contact with you, and if they're versed in popular psychology, they read things into your lack of eye contact.
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