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Bird Climb is a colourful, addictive tap-controlled game that challenges you to help an animated bird fly as high as possible without crashing into all manner of obstacles scattered along the wall. Tap to fly your bird to the top and avoid the obstacles on the walls.

The faster you tap, the quicker the bird flies. Collect precious gems on your way to unlock fantastic new characters. You can also invite and play with all your friends in online Multiplayer mode.

Game play has two modes of operation. You have the single player game where you try to best your score and a multiplayer game where you can challenge friends or a randomly selected opponent to a game. You can play the multi-player games as a guest or login using your Facebook credentials.

Regardless of your gaming choice, the mechanics of game play are the same with the key difference being the multi-player mode will have your opponent's bird flying up the screen as well. Your bird begins the game pacing at the bottom of the screen and you will need to tap the screen to begin the harrowing journey up the display.

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Whether you're in an inconvenient place or simply need to focus on something else first, in the new Inbox by Gmail you can snooze away emails and reminders to a better time or place without worrying you're going to forget.

The Clock icon next to each email lets you put off the email to a set time. Tell Inbox that you don't want to act on that email till later today, tomorrow, next week or the hilarious someday! You can even set up custom times for morning, afternoon, and evening snooze. You can even "geo-snooze" a message to remind you when you're at a place, rather than a prescribed time.

Select your email on the Gmail mobile app and then tap the three horizontal dots in the top right-hand corner. This brings up a menu where you can select Snooze. Then choose the date you would like the email to return. The email will now shoot off to the Snoozed folder, where you can find it if you need it sooner.

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NailO functions a lot like a laptop's trackpad or mouse, working as an additional input method for the gadgets in your life. It involves multilayered miniaturized hardware that wirelessly transmits data via Bluetooth to a mobile device or PC. That means you're walking around with capacitive sensors, a battery and three separate chips - a microcontroller, a Bluetooth radio chip and a capacitive-sensing chip - packed onto your fingernail. But the setup can be topped with nail art to make it less odd-looking.

The NailO prototype recognizes five gestures: swiping left, right, up and down and single press. The technology could let users control wireless devices when their hands are full. It could also augment other interfaces, e.g., allowing someone texting on a cellphone to toggle between symbol sets without interrupting typing. It could also enable subtle communication, such as sending a quick text while attending a meeting.

In the first prototype, the location of the user's fingertip on the pad was detected by capacitive sensors made from copper electrodes printed onto a flexible polymer sheet. Now, off-the-shelf electrode sheets designed for regular track pads are being used. The MIT team is also looking into a smaller half-millimeter-thick battery, along with a single chip that serves as a microcontroller, Bluetooth radio, and capacitive sensor chip.

Along with its use in hands-full activities like cooking or doing repairs, other envisioned applications include the ability to access functions while texting on a smartphone, or subtly sending simple text messages in settings where bringing out one's phone would be inappropriate.

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You only need a 'selfie' to enter this tourist destination. The town of Wuzhen in China uses face-recognition technology to identify people staying in its hotels and to act as their entry pass through the gates of the attraction. The system, which processes around 5000 visitors a day, has been created by web giant Baidu- often referred to as the "Chinese Google".

When a visitor arrives, their photo is taken and uploaded to a database. When he/she attempts to access certain parts of the town or a hotel, a tablet attached to the entry gates records video and sends a few frames to the cloud, where artificial intelligence identifies if the person seeking access is authorized. This happens in 0.6 of a second. The technology is accurate 99.77% of the time and has shortened wait times.

Baidu's face-recognition software uses neural networks - a technique inspired by neurons in the brain that helps to recognize complex patterns. The company has trained the software on huge data sets that together total more than 1 billion images of people's faces.

"You always have your face with you," says Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng. "Facial recognition has a lot of strengths that other authentication methods don't." The software also detects facial movements, so it can't be fooled by someone holding up a still image of another person‘s face.

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In the past, helicopters have been used to spot polar bears, but the aircraft are costly and disturbing to wildlife. Drones provide a low cost, less invasive alternative.

On a recent Arctic expedition, wildlife photographer and conservationist, Ole Jørgen Liodden, sent Intel's Falcon 8+ drone into the sky in order to shed light on the happenings of the polar bear population. Equipped with a thermal camera, Liodden and the team could see the bears on the white ice that would otherwise camouflage them.

Liodden is using the drone to capture data on polar bears' behaviour, breeding, feeding and migration habits. This data will help researchers understand how climate change is affecting the Arctic and global ecosystems.

The biggest threat to the Arctic polar bear population is loss of sea ice due to climate change. "If polar bears are struggling, we will be the next ones struggling because the climate change will affect all of us," says Liodden.

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Priime is a photo app developed for iPhone photo buffs. The photo editor suggests filters for your shots based on the content of the image. The app analyzes the colour and type of photo (landscape, people, etc) to offer up filter suggestions rather than overpowering you with hundreds of choices. The app also features 'style curators', i.e. professional photographers from around the world whom you can emulate by choosing their filtering style.

Photos can be fine-tuned with a range of editing tools, while the History tool offers a visual undo with a full history of all your edits. Edits made to photos can be copied and pasted to a batch of photos for high volume editing. Priime is free for the basic app with photo editing and a few filters; other filters are paid.

Better yet, Priime is incredibly fast. Despite its power and wrestling of the full range of data available from high-resolution iPhone photos (it can even work with images up to 120 megapixels), filters are applied in an instant, and even manual level tweaking will leave you with an Instagram-worthy image within seconds.

Those are the basics. But there are also a handful of other neat bits and pieces. For example, each time you edit an image, it provides a history of what you’ve changed, allowing you to quickly undo your edits. It also has smart AI-led suggestions for the edits your photo might need. Elsewhere, it supports RAW images from various leading camera makers like Sony, Canon, Nikon, LEICA, Kodak and more, meaning you can use the app to professionally edit photos from any high-end digital cameras you might also use.

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There is almost no maths involved at all in Threes. It's a tiny puzzle that grows on you. What you need to do is try to shift cards together to make threes or multiples of three; the goal to create higher numbered tiles, each worth more points. Each tile in Threes is also a unique character, with designs that get more elaborate as the point values go up. The game ends when there are no moves left on the grid and the tiles are counted for a final score. Free for iOS and Android.

The player slides numbered tiles on a four-by-four grid to combine addends and multiples of three. For example, ones and twos merge to become a single "three" tile, two threes merge into "six", and two sixes merge into "12". Swiping the screen up, down, left, or right moves all of the tiles one square (if possible) on the grid in that direction and adds a new tile to the grid in the same direction. The color of the incoming tile is shown onscreen. Players can preview moves by sliding the grid without letting go. Each kind of number tile has its own personality, and new kinds of number tiles are introduced with a screen full of confetti when first unlocked.

Games of Threes typically last several minutes and end when no moves remain on the grid (usually when gridlocked with a single high number tile and many low number tiles). When a game is finished, there is no "game over" screen, but players receive a final score based on the rarity of the tiles (rather than the tile number values). The object of the game is to earn a high score. Outside of the game, players can review their scores and set Game Center challenges.

There are a total of 12 kinds of number tiles in the game with values from 3 through 6,144. There is also a 13th character that is unlocked when two 6,144 tiles are combined; this character is marked by a triangle rather than the number 12,288. When this character is revealed, the game ends and points are totaled as usual.

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