Hanging with Tutu, Science in Space, and Other Stories We Didn’t post

So much news travel by before our collective eye every mean solar day that we could n’t mayhap track it all . Mostly because much of it is n’t deserving covering ! But here are a some boundary line tidbits we passed on , just in case .

Lenovo Sends High School Science Projects Into Orbit

Lenovo accept submissions from high schoolers for its Space Lab contest ; the winning science experiment will be blasted off into outer space and performed on YouTube . Which , from what I remember about every science fair I ’ve ever seen in movies or television , can only intend one affair : bake SODA VOLCANOS IN SPPPAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Hints of Xbox 720 Pop Up on LinkedIn

Microsoft employees have started interchange their employment condition on LinkedIn to the “ next - gen cabinet ” department , which mean that , yes , Microsoft is n’t go to sit on the Xbox 360 for the next five years . Related : Apple has people working on iPad 3 , Microsoft has people working on Windows 9 , and Starbucks has the great unwashed work on serving a Quaranta that wo n’t induce monumental nub nonstarter . [ Kotaku ]

https://kotaku.com/xbox-employees-hard-at-work-on-the-next-generation-upd-5848196

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Take to Google+

It ’s easiest to diffuse a subject matter of public security in a place where there ’s no one around to fight . [ The Next entanglement ]

OH GOOD CHRIST AUDIBLE APP HAS LINK TO WEB STORE WHAT WHAT OH GOD WHY

That seemed to be the reaction in certain corners of the web today , when it became apparent that Audible was flying in the fount of Apple by including a radio link to an external depicted object store in its app . Or ! They just decided to suck it up and tithe 30 % of purchases . That sounds more likely , correct ? Right . [ 9to5Mac ]

Left Behind is our daily collection of chaff we did n’t think was quite good enough to post on its own , and why .

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