Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Samsung ‘Galaxy Round’ curved display phone (pics & video)

The rumors were spot on. On Tuesday, Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy Round, which it's proclaiming as the world’s first (deeply) curved display smartphone.

What the heck does that mean? I'll tell you. It means that instead of the slight vertical bend seen in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Samsung Nexus S, this smartphone features a horizontalcurve much like a half smile. It's different and will arrive in Korea first, in brown, with flashier colors (and in perhaps more markets) coming later down the line...

Apple is ready to talk iPad and the company will soon send out press invitations to let the world know that it will unveil its next-generation tablet on October 22nd at a special event. Unnamed sources tell AllThingsD that “the focal point of the gathering will the latest updates to the company’s iPad line, but new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks will likely get some stage time as well.” ...

CHECK OUT THE REDESIGNED $100 BILL THAT BEGINS CIRCULATING TOMORROW (video + pic)

The government shutdown has meant the panda cam going dark, the closure of National Parks, and no advanced notice in the event of an asteroid crashing into Earth, but the Federal Reserve will begin circulating a new $100 bill Tuesday as scheduled--that is, after a two-and-a-half-year delay...

Είκοσι χρόνια φυλάκιση στον Άκη Τσοχατζόπουλο

Ποινές κάθειρξης από έξι έως και είκοσι ετών επέβαλε το τριμελές εφετείο κακουργημάτων για την υπόθεση των παράνομων αμοιβών του πρώην υπουργού Άμυνας Άκη Τσοχατζόπουλου.

Σύμφωνα με την απόφαση του δικαστηρίου, που διαφοροποιήθηκε σε σχέση με την πρόταση των εισαγγελέων μόνο για την κόρη του πρώην υπουργού Αρετή Τσιοχατζοπούλου επιβάλλοντάς της μεγαλύτερη ποινή, οι ποινές έχουν ως εξής:...

Google hasn’t yet unveiled its next-generation Nexus 5 smartphone, but at this point it probably doesn’t even have to anymore. The Nexus 5′s specs have been rumored a dozen times, we’ve seen several leaked pictures of the phone, and it even popped up in a pair of videos when a Google employee testing the Nexus 5 left the handset in a bar...

The tech season is as heated as it gets and with our Apple iPhone 5s review now served, it’s time to turn our heads to the battery life of Apple’s latest smartphone. On the outside, not much has changed compared to the iPhone 5, but on the inside there’s an all new A7 64-bit processor as well as a slightly larger battery – 1,560 mAh compared to the iPhone 5 1,440mAh.

We are yet to see how those affect real live...

Those looking to read faster will find an endless supply of tips and methods around the web.Beeline Reader is a service taking a unique approach—using color to guide your eye.

The way Beeline promises to speed you through a long piece of text is by altering the color of each bit of text you encounter. What this does is help your eye anticipate the next...

Seven years after being named Esquire magazine’s sexiest woman alive, Scarlett Johansson has earned the title for a second time.

Johansson, who also won in 2006, is the first woman to get the honor twice. Last year’s winner was Mila Kunis.

Johansson jokingly tells the magazine she’s “gotta hustle” and “pretty soon the roles you’re offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop.”

The 28-year-old actress is also off-the-market. She recently went public with her engagement to former French journalist Romain Dauriac. It will be her second marriage. She split from Ryan...

Κατά τις διαπραγματεύσεις με την τρόικα, ο τομέας της ναυτιλίας κατάφερε να διατηρήσει ανέπαφο το εγκεκριμένο σύστημα φορολογίας συνεχίζοντας ακόμη την προσέλκυση περισσότερων πλοίων και ναυτιλιακών εταιρειών στην Κύπρο.

Αυτό ανέφερε σήμερα ο πρόεδρος της δημοκρατίας Νίκος Αναστασιάδης σε χαιρετισμό του στο συνέδριο «Maritime Cyprus 2013».

Σημείωσε ότι παρά το γεγονός ότι αριθμός ναυτιλιακών εταιρειών στην Κύπρο επηρεάστηκαν από τις αποφάσεις του Eurogroup, ο εγχώριος τομέας παρέμεινε στην Κύπρο αποδεικνύοντας την...

Μετά από σχεδόν εξάμηνη δικαστική διαδικασία και 60 συνεδριάσεις, ο πρώην Υπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας της Ελλάδας Άκης Τσοχατζόπουλος κρίθηκε ένοχος για την υπόθεση χρηματισμού από τα εξοπλιστικά προγράμματα του υπουργείου Άμυνας, κατά τη θητεία του εκεί, από το Τριμελές Εφετείο Κακουργημάτων.

Ο πρώην Υπουργός κρίθηκε ένοχος για όλες τις κατηγορίες που του είχαν αποδοθεί με βασικότερο το αδίκημα της νομιμοποίησης εσόδων από παράνομη δραστηριότητα, κατ’ επάγγελμα και κατ’ εξακολούθηση...

Apple iPhone: Six Years Of A Stunningly Successful Advertising Campaign [VIDEO]

In six years, Apple has gone from telling consumers how much they needed an iPhone to showing how much they love having one and how intrinsic it is to their lives.

It began with a novel idea: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had created the next generation of the telephone...

United Nations vehicles are seen leaving the hotel in Damascus on October 3, 2013. (AFP Photo / Louai Beshara)

A team of international experts are leaving to begin the "verification and destruction" of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, agencies report. By the end of Sunday a combination of weapons and production equipment will have been put out of order.

The source stated the team from the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “have left for a site where they are beginning verification and destruction.”...

If you’re getting that paranoid itch to keep an eye on someone (or someplace), but only have a limited budget, fear not. We’re in the second decade of the 21st century. You don’t need to buy a bunch of expensive equipment to spy anymore. These days, all you need is an old smartphone. With a few bucks, an old Android device or iPhone, a charger, and some tape or a tripod for mounting, you can monitor whatever you want. Here’s how to do it...

Leonardo da Vinci painting lost for centuries found in Swiss bank vault

It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed

But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was discovered in a Swiss bank vault...

Τέλος και επίσημα ο Σέρτζιο

Έγινε το αναμενόμενο με την διοίκηση του ΑΠΟΕΛ να ανακοινώνει το διαζύγιο με τον Πάουλο Σέρτζιο. Αναλυτικά η ανακοίνωση:

«Το Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο της εταιρείας ΑΠΟΕΛ Ποδόσφαιρο (Δημόσια) ΛΤΔ ανακοινώνει τη λύση της συνεργασίας με τον προπονητή κύριο Paulo Sergio. Ευχαριστούμε τον...

In a time where our phones can order pizza, hail a cabs, and detect our heartbeats, you’d think it’d be easy to record a phone call. Unfortunately, it’s not. Despite what you may think, recording calls isn’t as easy as pressing a button on your iPhone, so in order to get it done you’ll need to install an app.

There are tons of these littered across the App Store and the Web, and while many of them promise crystal clear recordings and nonexistent pricetags, very few live up to these claims. To help you pinpoint the right app for your needs, we’ve scoured the Internet in search of the best call recorders and offered up a quick overview of our favorites in the paragraphs below...

Πτώση έξι μονάδων για τη "Χρυσή Αυγή" στην πρόθεση ψήφου, δείχνει δημοσκόπηση της VPRC για λογαριασμό της ιστοσελίδας «rizopoulos post.com», που πραγματοποιήθηκε το διάστημα 25 Σεπτεμβρίου και 30 Σεπτεμβρίου - 3 Οκτωβρίου 2013.

Ειδικότερα, η Χρυσή Αυγή συγκεντρώνει το 8,5% στην πρόθεση ψήφου, ενώ σε δημοσκόπηση που είχε πραγματοποιήσει η ίδια εταιρεία τον περασμένο Ιούλιο, βρισκόταν στο 14,5%...

Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) -- For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips, been mocked as useless and answered absurd questions about what she's wearing...

Σημαντικά χρηματικά πρόστιμα σε Τράπεζα Κύπρου, Αντρέα Ηλιάδη, Γιαννή Κυπρή και σε άλλα μέλη της ηγετικής πυραμίδας της Τράπεζας Κύπρου επέβαλε η Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς σε σχέση με την επένδυση στα ελληνικά ομόλογα.

Πρόστιμο 160χιλ. επιβλήθηκε στην Τράπεζα Κύπρου, 140χιλ. στον Αντρέα Ηλιάδη, 120χιλ. στον Γιάννη Κυπρή και από 10χιλ. στους Γεώργιος Μ. Γεωργιάδης, Ανδρέας Αρτέμης, Κώστας Ζ. Σεβέρης, Κώστας Χατζήπαπας...

Facebook (FB) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) might seem like strange bedfellows, but on Wednesday they revealed a partnership that could turn the world’s biggest social network into the gateway for Wi-Fi access at businesses across the country...

Adobe has made the cloud an essential part of its business strategy, but today it's been dealt a major blow thanks to cyber attackers. The company has revealed that an intrusion led to an untold number of Adobe IDs and passwords falling into the hands of hackers. But it gets far worse. Adobe says "certain information" on 2.9 million customers may have also been compromised. Among that data set are customer names, encrypted credit / debit card numbers, and expiration dates. Source code for...

Twitter made its S-1 filing available to the public on Thursday, finally shedding some light on its initial public offering plans.

The company has seen rapid growth recently. In 2012 the company saw an increase in revenue of 198 percent to about $317 million and a net loss decrease of 38 percent to about $79 million.

According to the filing, Twitter, which plans to trade under the ticker TWTR, has 250 million monthly active users, 100 million of those are daily active users.

The company said in the filing that mobile is the...

Καταπέλτης για την οικονομική πολιτική του Δημήτρη Χριστόφια είναι το πόρισμα της τριμελούς επιτροπής, που δημοσιεύει σήμερα αυτούσιο η StockWatch.

Το πόρισμα, αποσπάσματα του οποίου δημοσιεύθηκαν την Τετάρτη, κατακεραυνώνει τον πρώην πρόεδρο για τη διαχείριση της οικονομίας, ονομάζοντας τον «πρώτο και κύριο υπαίτιο για την κατάσταση στην οποία περιήλθε η οικονομία της χώρας στα...

Gunshots fired at U.S. Capitol after car rammed barrier near White House (video + pics)

A car chase that began with a vehicle crashing into a security barrier near the White House ended with gunshots fired near the U.S. Capitol earlier this afternoon.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine told reporters that there is no information to indicate the incident was an act of terrorism or anything other than an isolated incident. He said that Capitol Police believed there was a child in a car but could not confirm, and he could not provide details on the condition of either the driver of the car or the officer believed to be injured...

Cheating on benchmarks – everyone is doing it as it turns out, not just Samsung. AnandTech has done some extensive digging and it turns out that virtually all Android vendors cheat on at..

A 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO racer has become the world’s most expensive car, selling for $52 million.

The red competition car, formerly owned by the Greenwich, Connecticut-based collector Paul Pappalardo, was acquired by an unidentified buyer in a private transaction, said three specialist traders who independently confirmed the purchase and price to Bloomberg News...

Scientists analysing images of Mars have discovered a network of supervolcanoes that could have buried the red plant in ash when they were active billions of years ago, Sky News reported on Wednesday.

The discovery by researchers at London's Natural History Museum and NASA suggests that early Mars was more active than previously thought with massive volcanoes that may have rivalled supervolcanoes on Earth...

H Nοble ανακοίνωσε σήμερα ότι με βάση την πρώτη επιβεβαιωτική γεώτρηση στο οικόπεδο 12 της κυπριακής ΑΟΖ εκτιμάται ότι οι ακαθάριστοι πόροι του τομέα κυμαίνονται από 3,6 τρισεκατομμύρια κυβικά πόδια (TCF), του φυσικού αερίου σε 6 τρισεκατομμύρια κυβικά πόδια με μέσο όρο περίπου 5 τρισεκατομμύρια κυβικά πόδια.

Η Noble Energy στην ανακοίνωση της προσθέτει επίσης ότι έχει εντοπίσει 120 πόδια καθαρού φυσικού αερίου.

Η γεώτρηση ήταν διάτρητη σε συνολικό βάθος 18.865 ποδιών σε 5.575 πόδια του νερού...

It’s taken a while but Apple has now added a feature to its Apple Store website that lets users check for iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c availability in their local Apple stores and reserve devices for pickup. Interested buyers can now check for availability in their areas after they select a finish, model and...

With 9 million people around the world already having bought new iPhones by the end of their debut weekend, one might think supply would now be catching up to demand. That’s not the case, however, and people are still lining up around the country to buy Apple’snew iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. The plastic 5c is very easy to get all over the U.S. but where the flagship 5s is concerned, Apple still can’t build and ship them fast enough. Now that Apple has made in-store pickups available to...

Το ΡΙΚ ανακοινώνει την απόφαση του Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου για αποχή του Ιδρύματος από το Διαγωνισμό Τραγουδιού της Γιουροβίζιον 2014.

Το Συμβούλιο κατέληξε στην απόφαση αυτή, αφού...

Προφυλακιστέος ο Μιχαλολιάκος - Τον «έκαψε» η απολογία Πατέλη

Προφυλακιστέος κρίθηκε τα ξημερώματα της Πέμπτης ο επικεφαλής της Χρυσής Αυγής Νίκος Μιχαλολιάκος, κατηγορούμενος για ένταξη και διεύθυνση εγκληματικής οργάνωσης.

Οι ανακριτές της υπόθεσης με τη σύμφωνη γνώμη και των δύο εισαγγελέων επεφύλαξαν την ίδια ποινική...

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It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed

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Cheating on benchmarks – everyone is doing it as it turns out, not just Samsung. AnandTech has done some extensive digging and it turns out that virtually all Android vendors cheat on at..

Scientists analysing images of Mars have discovered a network of supervolcanoes that could have buried the red plant in ash when they were active billions of years ago, Sky News reported on Wednesday.