15-inch Samsung Series 7 laptops follow big brother across Intel's Ivy Bridge

Intel's bridge is a popular one and, while we don't know just what the toll to cross is, today the gatekeeper has a little extra change jingling in his pocket. Samsung is announcing that its 15-inch Series 7 Chronos laptops now offer Ivy Bridge processors, joining the 17-inch models that have already have made their way across. Thanks to a Samsung Canada leak last week, we knew the slightly more portable flavor wouldn't be far behind. NVIDIA graphics are onboard, joining the Core i7 processors and 1TB hard drives plus other pleasantries like backlit keyboards. No word on when these machines and their "uncompromised performance" will arrive at retail, but we hear getting over that bridge is the tricky part, so it shouldn't be long now.

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Wrapp Brings Social, Mobile Gifting Service To The U.S.; Partners With The Gap, H&M And Others

Wrapp, a social gifting service backed by Greylock Partners and Atomico, is crossing the pond with the U.S. launch of its mobile gift card and retail app. Wrapp, which was available previously only in the UK, Norway, Sweden and Japan, Wrapp is actually launching today with a number of U.S. retailers including Fab, Gap, H&M, Sephora, The Wall Street Journal, Wayfair, and others. As we've reported in the past, Wrapp was co-founded by Rebtel and SendIt founder Hjalmar Winbladh, Spotify founding CTO Andreas Ehn, and lets friends give, receive and redeem digital gift cards using mobile devices, and allows friends to contribute to gifts given by mutual friends. With Wrapp, which offers iPhone, Android and web apps, you sign in via your Facebook account, and you can then tap the Celebration tab on the app, browse your friends or major events, and select the person you want to send a gift card to. All available gift card offers for that friend are automatically listed.

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Lenovo's Eedoo CT510 motion gaming console to finally hit China, wants your $600

Product delays that push back release dates a full year are never good. What's worse? When that product finally does launch and even someone inside the company votes against it. That's exactly what's going down with the CT510 GameBox, the Eedoo Kinect competitor for the Chinese market. Though it's gone through a fair share of reincarnations before arriving at its current config (it was formerly known as the eBox), the final package has a dual-core CPU, a minimum of 250GB in HDD storage and a 3D GPU, and comes pre-installed with eight games and ten apps. All told, it will cost a cool 3,799 yuan ($600) when it ships on April 29th -- some very ambitious pricing, considering that the imported Xbox with Kinect (the console isn't officially available in China) already sells for about $459 in China, according to M.I.C. Gadget. A director from the Lenovo-backed company seems to agree: in a Sina Weibo poll asking users whether they'd buy the product (pictured after the break), he selected the answer, "No way! Price-to-performance ratio too low." Though to be fair, the gentleman later clarified that it was an honest mistake, and that his company is targeting the high-end family users instead of the core gamers. Well, we shall let the sales figures do the talking.

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The Definitive Video On Why the Airplane Cellphone Ban Is Stupid [Video]

Air companies and crews insist that using cellphones can interfere with commercial airplane instrumentation. This is complete bullshit. We have talked about this in the past and we even gave you advice about how to avoid their stupidity. This video is the definitive roundup on why this is dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. More »

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Earning Your Wings; Voice From the Past (WSJ)

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Friday News Dump (talking-points-memo)

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Now Out Of Beta, Tykoon Teaches Kids (And Parents) About Managing Finances

NYC-based financial services startup for families, Tykoon, is exiting its private beta and is launching its first mobile app for iPhone. The company, which aims to change the ways kids think about and use money, is more that your typical allowance tracker application - it's a platform for earning, saving, giving and spending, the latter which includes kid-friendly access to a curated and controlled Amazon store.

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Science Explains Why So Few People Are Left-Handed [Science]

Left-handers aren't very common. In fact , they only represent about 10 per cent of the human population. But a new study suggests that the reason lefties are in the minority isn't anything suspect—rather, it boils down to the fact that the human race cooperate more than they compete. More »

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Android Central 94: The Galaxy S III cometh, even more on HTC One, Google Drive lives!

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Thing 1: The 'Next Galaxy' is nigh!

• Samsung announces the Exynos 4 Quad, coming to the 'next Galaxy'
• Dual-core Galaxy S3 to be offered in some territories with Snapdragon S4 and LTE
• Purported Samsung Galaxy S3 service manual and device render leak online
• Galaxy S3 spotted in Samsung Kies software
• Late-night poll: What will Samsung call its new flagship phone?
• Another 'Next Galaxy' dummy unit appears, throws Android style guide to the wind
• O2 confirms it'll stock 'next Galaxy', references to 'Galaxy S3' in official app keep us guessing
• Samsung Unpacked 2012 app now available from Google Play, offers usual slim pickings ahead of event

Thing 2: T-Mobile HTC One S now available, One X up next on AT&T

• AC forum member goes hands-on with the AT&T HTC One X
• AT&T HTC One X will have free Dropbox space, company spokeswoman affirms
• HTC One S review (T-Mobile US)
• HTC One S available today on T-Mobile
• Ask AC: The T-Mobile HTC One S uses Carrier IQ?

Thing 3: Google Drive is here

• Google Drive cloud storage service launches, 5GB free space for all
• Gmail free storage upped to 10GB, 25GB for paying Google Drive customers
• Google Docs is now Google Drive - we take it for a spin
• Late-night poll: Did you set up your Google Drive?

Thing 4: Best of the rest

• ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review
• Galaxy Nexus, Viper and Optimus Elite now available on Sprint
• Don't forget: You could win this brand-new Samsung Galaxy Nexus!
• Facebook for Android updated with new icons for Camera and Messenger

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Jelly Sea Creatures Disable Entire Nuclear Power Plant [Nuclear Power]

When we last heard from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, it was under siega by swarms of salp, a gelatinous plankton organism. Last night, the salp won—Diablo Canyon is offline, defeated by the ocean. More »

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