Here's what Instagram's upcoming ads will look like

We've known about Instagram's plans to incorporate ads into their (free) social network for quite sometime now. It wasn't too long ago that the company received backlash from users after changes to Instagram's terms of service left many with a bad taste in their mouths. Today, Instagram took to their official blog to give us a preview of what ads will look like once they go live in the coming weeks. The first ad, meant as a preview, will come from Instagram, showing a “Sponsored” link in the top right corner to easily identify it as such.


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HTC execs talk tablets and wearables

In a recent joint-interview HTC's top two executives, Cher Wang (Chairwoman) and Peter Chou (CEO) discuss their changing roles with the company and draws us a picture of what mobile looks like to HTC as they continue to climb the uphill battle in the mobile-space. Mr. Chou is handing over a sizable part of his duties to the Chairwoman so he can focus his energy on the innovation part of the company.

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Samsung Apparently Wants To Block Inauthentic Accessories

Its not that hard to find accessories for your favorite device, particularly if your device is a popular one made by a big behemoth, such as Samsung. An online search for Galaxy S4 accessories would turn up thousands of results, but if a new report from Korean publication ETNews is to be believed, Samsung may be looking to block all inauthentic accessories. It is said that Samsung might be considering adding a chip on its devices and approved accessories to ensure that only authentic accessories work with its devices.

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2014 BMW i3

We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new brand (the 'i' line) and a new vehicle type (it's a city car). Despite everything that's different, BMW is still trying to talk about the i3 as if it fits in with the rest of the company's vehicles. But it doesn't. Not really. And that's going to make the marketing and salespeoples' jobs quite difficult.

Which is a shame, really, since the i3 is amazing.










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Nissan rowed the Note ashore (video)

Normally we wouldn't suggest trying to float your car on water, but Nissan has made some modifications to turn its new Versa Note hatchback into a makeshift rowing shell. Nissan replaced the car's rear seats with a sliding rear rowing seat, modified the doors to open wider at 90 degrees and fitted a pair of oars. Most importantly, they put the whole thing on a floating platform to keep it from sinking into Eton Dorney Lake, the site of the 2012 Olympic rowing competitions in England (where the car is simply known as the Nissan Note).


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1080p Micromax Canvas Turbo goes official

Today Micromax announced the Canvas Turbo. The smartphone comes with a 5.0-inch 1080p IPS CGS (Continuous Grain Silicon) display made by Sharp and is powered by a quad-core processor. The actual chipset inside the Canvas Turbo is MT6589T with four 1.5GHz Cortex-A7 cores, PowerVR SGX544 graphics and 2GB of RAM. The smartphone offers 16GB of internal storage, but sadly no microSD expansion slot.

Naturally, the Micromax Canvas Turbo comes with dual-SIM support.


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Xbox One Achievements Use Color-Coding Notifications

We're just under one month from the release of Microsoft's next-generation video game console, the Xbox One, and with every day that passes, we're learning some new details regarding the console. We recently learned the Xbox One will record your best FIFA 14 play automatically and we even spotted what achievements will look like on the console, but there's some new information coming out regarding those achievements. The new achievement system that will be used on the Xbox One will have color-coding options available, which will be the most helpful during local multiplayer games.

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