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Fleye: Kickstart this amazing futuristic flying robot

 Drones are cool, but they can also be pretty scary up close. Don’t believe me? Just imagine four powerful propellers flying straight at your face at full speed. That’s what inspired Laurent Eschenauer, a lifelong tinkerer and professional electrical engineer, to invent Fleye.

Co-Founder of Android, Andy Rubin may want to start a new smartphone company

Rubin at 2008 Google Developer Day in Japan.
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Andy Rubin, one of the co-founders of Android, has been away from the operating system for quite some time.  The programmer-engineer-entrepreneur left the Android division of Google back in 2013 to help out with some of Google’s new robotics tech. A year later, he left Google completely to pursue his own hardware investment incubator Playground. Now Rubin says he’s thinking about coming back to the Android world by starting his phone company.

This New Google Chrome Feature Could Be a Huge Help to Your Mobile Data Plan

This post originally appeared on Business Insider.
Google has a new feature in its Chrome browser for mobile that it thinks could save mobile data use by up to 70 percent.
How? By automatically stripping out images from Web pages.
The search and mobile giant is expanding the Data Saver mode included in Chrome for Android devices. If you're on a slow connection and the feature is enabled, it won't enable most of the images on a page unless you ask it to—saving significant amounts of data.
Here's how it looks in action:

LoFi - English - Nov 24
Google didn't invent this idea, of course. There was a similar feature on my Nokia E63, which came out way back in 2008.
But it shows the company is grappling with the issue of connectivity. While this kind of feature isn't
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