AKRACING Premium Gaming Chair (AK-7002-CS) Review
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JetBlue Rolling Out Support For Apple Pay
JetBlue Airways will become the first carrier in the United States to begin accepting Apple Pay in-flight starting next week. Travelers will be able to use compatible devices to purchase snacks, drinks, and seats with more legroom on select transcontinental flights. Travel consultant with Atmosphere Research Group Henry Harteveldt described the move saying, "This is a smart move and, I believe, just the first of many we’ll see from the world’s airlines. It’s yet another way for an airline to be an effective retailer across all points of sale." Apple Pay offers the potential for quicker sales than the traditional method of using credit cards.
Source: Bloomberg
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Yelp Acquires Eat24 for $134 Million
Yelp, the company that connects consumers with great local businesses through multiple platforms, has revealed that it has officially acquired Eat24 for $134 million. Founded in 2008 in order to provide consumers with improved online food ordering and stellar customer service, Eat24 currently allows approximately 20,000 restaurants in over 1,500 cities nationwide to offer online delivery and takeout services. Eat24 currently offers online food orders through the web and mobile applications, and also provides around the clock live chat, email, and phone support. Jeremy Stoppelman, the Yelp co-founder and chief executive officer, stated that "As more food ordering transactions move online, further integrating Eat24 will enhance our user experience with an easy-to-use product and service that allows our large consumer audience to transact directly with businesses." Stoppelman went on to say that "With this acquisition, we gain more tools and expertise to help engage our users from discovery through transaction in a key vertical for Yelp."
Source: Press Release
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Corsair Announces H100i GTX and H80i GT Liquid Coolers
Corsair has announced a pair of new liquid CPU coolers, the H100i GTX and H80i GT. Both coolers have an improved cooling block to handle higher temperature output of newer CPUs. The H100i GTX has a 240mm radiator while the H80i has a 120mm "double thick" radiator. Corsair has included SP120L PWM fans to dissipate heat from the radiator. The included Corsair Link software gives users the ability to change the RGB lighting of the system as well as monitoring temperatures. Both coolers support all of the latest sockets from Intel and AMD. The H100i GTX will have an MSRP of $119.99 and the H80i GT will cost $99.99.
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2GB of Google Drive Storage Free with Account Security Check
Without charge, Google currently allows users of its Drive service to access a total of 15GB for online storage. While subscription plans do exist that allow users to store more files on Google Drive, they come at a price. The company has just announced an enticing offer that provides Google Drive users with 2GB of storage for free, which is a permanent account upgrade, so long as they complete an account security check. The security check covers a variety of different account aspects, including backup email address and phone numbers, recent account activity, account permissions, and two-step verification settings. Users should be able to go through the security check, which is something that users should be frequently doing anyhow, in roughly five minutes.
The offer to receive 2GB of free Google Drive storage is available to users until February 17, 2015. According to Google, the additional storage should show up within a few weeks after the offer expires.
Source: PCWorld
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Controlling Nanowire Growth with Catalysts
Working with nanoscale structures can be very difficult for the obvious reason that they are very small. This includes nanowires, which could eventually be used for advanced optical technologies, because their optical properties can be tuned. That tuning is very difficult to realize though, on nanostructures, but researchers at Berkeley Lab have made a discovery that could ease that problem.
The researchers were specifically working with gallium nitride nanowires, because in its bulk form the material interacts with blue and ultraviolet light but adding indium allows it to interact with red light as well. In this case the catch is that the indium atoms stress the material and degrade performance. As nanowires though, that stress is not an issue, but tunability still is. To address that issue the researchers investigated what would happen if bi-metallic catalysts were used to grow the nanowires. Normally only single metal catalysts have been used, but the gold nickel alloy used gave the researchers control over the orientation of the nanowires, depending on the amount of each metal.
It appears the reason for this control comes from how the nanowires align with the surface of the alloy substrate. The researchers also found that this affected the surface properties of the nanowires, and surface properties are very powerful for nanostructures. This is the area the researchers are focusing on next, to see how far they can go in tailoring the nanowires' optical properties.
Source: Berkeley Lab
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Bethesda Announces First-Ever E3 Conference
It may only be February, but Bethesda is already looking ahead to June, as it has announced it will be holding its first-ever E3 conference on June 14. That's a full two days before E3 officially kicks off, and the conference will take place in Hollywood, CA, with the studio inviting fans to attend live or via a Twitch stream. Typically the E3 conferences are reserved for Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo (and in that order, usually), with Bethesda in the past appearing during Microsoft's conference. However, this year Bethesda wants its own show, which means the hype and speculation can officially begin in earnest.
So, is the conference for the big one, Fallout 4? It has been five years since Fallout: New Vegas arrived, and three years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, so it should certainly be time for Fallout 4. Or will the conference reveal some news on the new DOOM, especially since beta access was included in pre-orders of Wolfenstein: The New Order? Could we get something about Dishonored 2 to confirm it as a franchise? Would Bethesda announce something on all three? Hopefully, but for now, everything is pure and utter speculation. Speculation that you can sure wil be rampant until June 14 rolls around.
Source: Bethesda Blog
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GeForce GTX 750 Ti Strix 4GB Announced by ASUS
ASUS has officially announced a 4GB version of its value oriented GeForce GTX 750 Ti Strix graphics card. The latest card is identical to the 2GB version of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti Strix, as it features clock speeds of 1124MHz core, 1202MHz GPU Boost, and 5.40GHz effective memory, but offers gamers double the memory. Since the card is basically the same as the previously released version of the ASUS GeForce GTX 750 Ti Strix, the 4GB model still offers 640 CUDA cores based on the Maxwell architecture as well as a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface.
Pricing and availability surrounding the 4GB version of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti Strix was not immediately released by ASUS.
Source: TechPowerUp
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New Allotrope of Carbon Discovered
Carbon is an amazing element in part because it can form so many materials with various properties, including graphite, diamond, fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene. Since its discovery, graphene has been of particular interest for its mechanical and electrical properties. Now a new allotrope of carbon modelled by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University may steal away some of that interest.
Graphene is an atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure, like chicken wire. What the Virginia researchers have theorized is a pentagonal structure, which is why they call the new material penta-graphene. According to their predictions, the new material would be very stable, very strong, and survive temperatures up to 1000 K. It would also have the curious property that if you stretch it in one direction, it will expand in the perpendicular direction as well, instead of contracting. Perhaps most interesting is that it will be a semiconductor and not a conductor, like graphene is.
Sadly all of the work so far is theoretical and based on computer models, so a means of fabricating it must be discovered to test any of it. Once that is achieved though, you can bet a lot of people will be exploring penta-graphene's various applications.
Source: Virginia Commonwealth University
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