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Refresh Roundup: week of June 4th, 2012 Jun 11th 2012, 01:00 Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don't escape without notice, we've gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy! Continue reading Refresh Roundup: week of June 4th, 2012 Refresh Roundup: week of June 4th, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Inhabitat's Week In Green: cities in the sky, a cloned Chinese village and a few green DIY Father's Day projects Jun 11th 2012, 00:00 Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. As the race to develop new, more efficient modes of transportation heats up, it could soon become even easier (and greener) to jet around the globe. This week saw the Solar Impulse -- that broad, funny-looking airplane -- complete the world's first solar-powered intercontinental flight. Meanwhile, Boeing's hydrogen-powered 'Phantom Eye' drone aircraft successfully completed its first flight, releasing only water as a byproduct. Both developments signal growing confidence in employing new green technologies in air travel. Now that green airplanes are taking flight, what will we do with all of those old fuel-guzzling planes that are currently in use? One Oregon man may have found an answer -- Bruce Campbell transformed an entire Boeing 727-200 into his home, converting one bathroom into a shower and installing a computer monitor in the middle of the control panel. Continue reading Inhabitat's Week In Green: cities in the sky, a cloned Chinese village and a few green DIY Father's Day projects Inhabitat's Week In Green: cities in the sky, a cloned Chinese village and a few green DIY Father's Day projects originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

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