Snapchat iOS update discreetly adds replay, filters and overlays for weather, time or speed

And suddenly, moments shared over Snapchat were a little less fleeting.
The service is known for only allowing you to watch a shared image or
video once, and only for a second, but the app's latest iOS update
changes everything: now you can replay ...
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Japanese bridge inspection robot has magnetic wheels, shuffles up walls

Most wall-climbing robots rely on advanced forms of suction to keep
them adhered to a flat surface, but Japan's latest wall crawler employs a
different method: magnets. Hailing from the Osaka City University
Graduate School of Engineering, BIREM ...
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Alt-week 12.21.13: Rainbow sun, edible batteries and the world's toughest encryption cracked by a microphone

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
When
constructing a feature whose very reason for being is to explore the
most far out aspects of our universe, it's fair to say that we're
leaning ...
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Swiss researchers created a cube that can sit, jump and walk (video)

Swiss researchers have created a metallic cube that can "walk" across a
surface. Staff at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich crammed a
series of inertia sensors and constantly-spinning rotors (called
reaction wheels) into a 15-centimeter ...
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Google Shopping Express starts selling gadgets, continues same-day delivery until December 24th

Hey, Bay Area residents: Mountain View's hoping you'll bring its online
shop your business instead of braving the crowds for some last-minute
holiday shopping. Google's Shopping Express will continue doing same-day
deliveries until 5PM Pacific on ...
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Recommended Reading: Google starts over, sculpture on the moon and more

Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology
in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short reviews of
books dealing with the subject of technology that we think are worth
your time. We hope you enjoy the ...
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NYC lumps electronic cigarettes with tobacco-filled brethren, bans vaping in public places

New York City's war on smoking continues unabated. Today, the city
council voted to equate electronic cigarettes with real ones by
extending NYC's public smoking ban to cover both types of smokes. That's
bad news for folks who liked to do their ...
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Feedback Loop: computer names, Google Hangout alternatives, cord-cutting and more

Welcome to Feedback Loop, a weekly roundup of the most interesting
discussions happening within the Engadget community. There's so much
technology to talk about and so little time to enjoy it, but you have a
lot of great ideas and opinions that need ...
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Google Play Music gets a new look for iOS 7 and 'I'm feeling lucky' radio

If you're an iOS user that stuck with Google Play Music past the free
All Access promo, a new update brings this refreshed UI for iOS 7 and a
few new features. As promised at launch, it now supports "I'm feeling
lucky" radio which randomly assembles ...
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Got Windows Phone? You have 20GB of bonus SkyDrive space for the next year

If you're a Windows Phone user, check your email -- you're about to get
a big holiday treat. Microsoft has followed up its earlier Surface
promo by giving Windows Phone owners a free 20GB of extra SkyDrive
storage for the next year. The bonus ...
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Nintendo's high-capacity Wii U GamePad battery comes to the US, $32 for 8 hours of playtime

Tired of tethering your Wii U GamePad to a wall socket? You no longer
have to: Nintendo has finally made the screen-toting controller's
high-capacity battery pack available to US gamers. The 2,550mAh battery
first debuted in Japan this summer, ...
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