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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- August 1, 2015

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Gadgets: Useful Smartwatches, Orbital Cameras, and an Un-Procrastinator
Angry Birds 2: Freemium Clips Its Wings
Mozilla Gripes at Microsoft for Giving Edge an Edge

Today's Story Highlights

Gadgets: Useful Smartwatches, Orbital Cameras, and an Un-Procrastinator
Dot is a smartwatch that may have life-changing implications. Rather
than trying to convey information through tiny text on a small screen,
Dot intends to provide visually impaired wearers with notifications
through Braille. Four sets of the six dots that signify characters in
the Braille system raise and lower as quickly as 100 times per second to
denote four characters simultaneously.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82329.html

Angry Birds 2: Freemium Clips Its Wings
Angry Birds 2 -- the 13th installment of Angry Birds and the original
game's first proper sequel -- on Thursday became available for iOS and
Android. The free-to-play model is a call to players beyond its base.
However, those new players may slip through developer Rovio's fingers if
the game's features fail to motivate them to play with real money
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82332.html

Mozilla Gripes at Microsoft for Giving Edge an Edge
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has published an open letter to Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella, calling on him to offer Windows 10 users an easier way to
set their browser preferences. Beard characterized the lack of choice in
the Windows 10 experience as "very disturbing." It appears to have been
designed to force users into an experience Microsoft wants them to have
instead of one they want, he charged.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82331.html

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