Netflix’s latest wave of new shows is its weirdest and riskiest batch yet
The strategy of launching wave upon wave of new, original content has worked like a charm for Netflix. As the second season of Orange is the New Black has received an avalanche of media coverage, Netflix’s share price has zoomed up by 20% over the past month. The company is now prepping launches in France and Germany after it clobbered HBO in Sweden by a roughly 10-to-1 ratio in new subscriber additions. And now Netflix is preparing to unleash a new wave of content that includes some of its most surprising shows yet.
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One of the best new games of 2014 is free for 48 hours beginning this weekend
Gamers who somehow haven’t yet played Titanfall, which is easily one of the best new video games that has debuted thus far in 2014, should do everything they can to rectify the situation immediately. And as it turns out, this weekend marks the perfect time to do just that. Electronic Arts on Friday announced that beginning this weekend, users can download Titanfall for free and play as much as they want for two full days at no charge.
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New video gives us an early look at third-party iOS 8 keyboards
One of the best features that Apple added with iOS 8 is something that Android users have enjoyed for a long time: The ability to download and install third-party keyboard apps that make typing on your phone vastly easier than with Apple’s default keyboard. One third-party keyboard app called TouchPal released an alpha version of its upcoming app for iOS 8 on Friday and AppleInsider has posted a short demonstration video that shows us the app’s basic features.
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Microsoft accidentally confirmed the Surface Mini
Many reports detailed the imminent launch of the Surface Mini in the weeks preceding the Surface Pro 3 debut, until just before the event, when news broke that the Surface Mini wouldn’t be making an appearance at the company’s tablet event. The product still appears to be in the cards for a future launch though, and Microsoft has mistakenly confirmed its existence in the most surprising way.
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New Google search trick will make listening to new music easier than ever
Have you ever done a search for an artist and just wanted Google to fetch you links that would just let you listen to their top songs? Well, now you can. Google said this week that when you search for an artist, you’ll get links to their songs at several top streaming websites including Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Google Play, YouTube and Rdio. Just clicking on the search result will open the song on your phone depending on the apps you have installed on your device.
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WHAT A BEAST: New leak suggests the Galaxy Note 4 might be even better than we thought
Earlier on Friday, we learned about some killer leaked specs for the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 that confirmed it will be an absolute beast of a device. SamMobile has now followed up this Galaxy Note 4 leak with a new report suggesting that Samsung is not only working on two versions of the Galaxy Note 4, but that one of them might have an even better processor than the one that showed up in the most recent AnTuTu benchmark.
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Racing in the Formula Ford footsteps of Senna, Webber
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It may be true that you need superhero levels of talent (not to mention some serious financial backing) to make it into Formula One, but that doesn’t mean that F1 drivers are just born that way. They need to work their way up. And for many, that road starts with Formula Ford.
One of the lowest rungs on the formula racing ladder (between karting and Formula Renault), Formula Ford is among the most pure and simple forms of single-seater racing. There are literally dozens of championships taking place simultaneously around the world, but it’s in British Formula Ford where drivers like Ayrton Senna, Jenson Button, Mark Webber and Anthony Davidson cut their proverbial teeth.
It’s a point that’s not lost on the team at XCar, which trained for and took part in a Formula Ford race at Brands Hatch… just like their heroes did. See how they fared in the video below.
Racing in the Formula Ford footsteps of Senna, Webber
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The Fire Phone’s best feature may also be a crazy invasion of privacy
The newly unveiled Fire Phone has at least one interesting feature – the smart, cloud-based Firefly assistant that can recognize objects, text, languages, TV shows and music tracks – that also happens to be a potentially major invasion of privacy, VentureBeat says.
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Apple employees now ‘happy in a way they haven’t been’ in a while
Although no one would say that working at Apple is a miserable, soul-sucking experience, the company doesn’t have the same reputation for being as fun to work at as Google. That said, Business Insider points us to some recent remarks from Apple observer John Gruber, who brings us word that Apple employees seem to be having more of a good time at their jobs than they’ve had in a while.
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Two important missing PS4 features are still ‘not ready yet’
Console launches, much like elected officials, never quite live up to their promises. When Sony and Microsoft spoke of all the revolutionary features that would be present on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, we knew we should remain cautiously optimistic until they were actually sitting in our living rooms. As expected, a few of those features weren’t finished in time for launch, but at least for the PS4, Sony says they aren’t dead yet.
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