Ditch your phone, Twitter Spaces is now on your desktop

Twitter announced today that it’s bringingSpaces— its live audio product — to the web. This could mean that I can finally put my phone aside to listen to some interesting conversations or live music. Real-time audio apps have birthed a plethora of new content formats to consume. One of those is “listening to this while working.” This could be a room where someone is playing music, your friends are talking, or people are just silent to enjoy each others’ “company....

3 min · 456 words · Bonnie Edwards

Dixons to offer the £89 HP TouchPad in UK online today. Currys and PC World tomorrow.

Hot on the heels of theannouncementthat HP was launching a 64GB version of its TouchPad tablet in Europe, news has emerged that the price of the 16GB version will be slashed in the UK to £89, with the 32GB version available for £115. As TechRadarreports, Mark Webb – Head of Media Relations at Dixons, a UK online retailers,tweetedthis earlier: “Dixons.co.uk: HP Touchpad SALE, Limited Stock online from later today. £89 for the 16gb and £115 for the 32gb....

2 min · 277 words · Suzanne Christensen

DNA arranged into tiny Lite-Brite style pegboards could help us store tons of data for centuries

We and our colleagues have developed a way to store data using pegs and pegboards made out of DNA and retrieving the data with a microscope – a molecular version of theLite-Britetoy. Our prototype stores information in patterns using DNA strands spaced about 10 nanometers apart. Ten nanometers is more than a thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and about 100 times smaller than the diameter of a bacterium....

4 min · 691 words · Laura Carlson

DNA My Dog gives you the full 411 on your canine’s genetic makeup

TLDR:The DNA My Dog Breed Identification Test can give you all the inside scoop on your dog’s insides, the genetics and health tips that can keep them happy and healthy for years. You may be married. You may have a significant other. You may have a child. You may have several children. Your life may be packed to the rafters with family, friends, co-workers, and others to help fill your days....

3 min · 446 words · Mary Hudson

Do It (Tomorrow): A to-do list for the procrastinator

Do It (Tomorrow)is a free Android productivity app that could change the way you approach your task list. IfGTDis too elaborate a system for you, and if thePomodorotechnique doesn’t suit your pace at work, this little app gives you a much more simplified way of doing things. Do It (Tomorrow) is one of the many slick apps that have been developed byAdalytica, an international team with members in Beijing and Seattle....

2 min · 413 words · Stacy Robinson
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