Daily Archive: July 24, 2013

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Google Chromecast Simplifies Smart Television – Device Preview

Google released a new device today that promises to make streaming media to your television dramatically simpler, and that device costs $35. Google’s original venture into television (Google TV) in 2010 involved buying a new TV or an expensive device, and was criticized for limited functionality, and complicated software. Google’s next venture, the nexus Q completely flopped, once again facing limited functionality and a (really) high...

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Spotted in China: OSX Sea Lion

It started as a joke. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, long pressed as to what Apple would name its operating system when it ran out of cats (i.e Lion, Leopard), joked at a 2013 keynote that Apple’s latest Mac operating system would be named Sea Lion. In reality, the new operating system is called Mavericks (after the famous California surf spot). The joke was lost...