​NVIDIA's LTE Shield tablet is finally available for pre-order

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/16/nvidia-lte-shield/

If we were to cherry-pick one major fault from our NVIDIA Shield tablet review, it would definitely be the slate's storage space -- 16GB just isn't enough for a device built for gaming and media consumption. If you were holding off until the company put out a larger capacity version, your day has come: NVIDIA just announced that the 32GB LTE variant of the Shield is now available for pre-order. $399 buys the unlocked LTE tablet in its own right, but NVIDIA tells us that AT&T will be offering it for $299 on contract.

We dropped by NVIDIA's Santa Clara offices for a quick demo earlier this week and found exactly what we expected: last month's gaming tablet with lighting fast wireless connectivity. Naturally, like most LTE devices under ideal conditions, it performed admirably -- successfully streaming games from NVIDIA's GRID and a remote PC over the cellular network. The company is also announcing the availability of three new Tegra K1 optimized games: Beach Buggy Racing, BombSquad and Broadsword: Age of Chivalry. Sounds good, but you'll have to wait until next month to play if you're ordering today -- new tablets don't start shipping out until the September 30th.

Filed under: Gaming, Tablets

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Fix Vertical Videos on YouTube With This Bookmarklet

Source: http://lifehacker.com/fix-vertical-videos-on-youtube-with-this-bookmarklet-1634904901

You probably know that you shouldn't shoot vertical videos on your smartphone—but everyone else does it anyway. This simple bookmarklet rotates the video window for you so you don't get a tiny letterboxed version.

Once you add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, you'll be able to just click it whenever you come across a vertical video on YouTube. It will instantly take away the black space as well as enlarge the video to make it easier to view.

It's pretty cool, and a quick fix for the ever-annoying vertical issue. Hit the link below to grab the bookmarklet—bust drag and drop the button to your bookmarks toolbar..

Vertical Video YouTube Bookmarklet

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Chrome for Android starts answering your questions in search suggestions

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/chrome-for-android-autocomplete-answers/

Google's as-you-type search suggestions have only offered the tiniest bit of help so far. They can handle basic math, but they won't answer questions that require more than a few numbers. However, that might soon change. Chrome for Android now has an experimental feature that answers some of your queries before you've even finished asking. Switch it on and you can get the weather, historic dates and other valuable info without ever seeing Google's usual results page. While the feature isn't all that vital when you have access to Google Now, it may save you the trouble of switching apps (or leaving the page you're on) when you just want to get a small factoid. There's also no hint as to when Google might make the feature standard on Android or bring it to the desktop, but let's hope that an upgrade comes soon -- it could save a lot of unnecessary keystrokes.

Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Google

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Kindle security flaw can be exploited by hidden codes in e-books

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/16/kindle-security-flaw-e-books/

Next time you come across a Kindle e-book link somewhere other than Amazon itself, you may want to make sure it's not some dubious website before you hit download or "Send to Kindle." A security researcher by the name of Benjamin Daniel Musser has discovered that the "Manage Your Kindle" page contains a security hole -- one that hackers can take advantage of with the help of e-books hiding malicious lines of code. Once you load the Kindle Library with a corrupted e-book (typically with a subject that includes <script src="https://www.example.org/script.js"></script>), a hacker gets access to your cookies, and, hence, your Amazon account credentials.

Based on the updates Musser wrote at the bottom of the report's web page, he first discovered the flaw in October last year. Amazon patched it up shortly after he reported it, but it made its way back after a "Manage Your Kindle" overhaul. Still, he believes the issue should be easy to avoid, so long as you don't download e-books (pirated or otherwise) from websites you don't know. Aside from Kindle, another Amazon-owned service was also thrust into the spotlight earlier for exhibiting a security flaw. Audible, the company's audiobooks service, apparently allowed users to use fake emails and credit card numbers in order to download as many files as they want. An Audible spokesperson stressed, however, that transactions made using fake credit cards were "closed quickly" and that the service takes credit card fraud seriously.

Filed under: Tablets, Amazon

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MIT Made a Smartphone Control a Computer With a Simple Touch

Source: http://gizmodo.com/controlling-your-computer-with-a-smartphone-looks-aweso-1635000970

Have you ever held your smartphone up to your laptop screen and thought about how cool it would be if the two devices could work together, physically? Well now, thanks to a team from the MIT Media Lab, they can. New software lets you use your smartphone as an extra interface for a computer, and it looks awesome.

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