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Weird Wide Web: A miracle phone battery, updating your relationship status and the kitchen of the future

All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.

WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.

Coveted phone battery of the week

This new mobile phone has a battery life that lasts a month. A whole MONTH.

Microsoft Microsoft

Amazing car of the week

This electric car will set you back $529,000 but inside it has an insane computer system system powered by the word’s first ‘Superchip’, Business Insider reports.

Business Insider Business Insider

Dying Facebook craze of the week

Remember back in the day, when everyone was dying to put it out there on Facebook that they were very much ‘In a Relationship’? Those days are over, according to Buzzfeed poll which found 40% of twenty-somethings refuse to put that information on Facebook anymore. Are we single? Are we in a relationship? Is it complicated? Mind your own business.

Connected kitchen of the week

Kitchens of the future will tell you when the food in your kitchen is going off, what to make for dinner and how to make it. It will even give you a wine recommendation and helps you plan dinner parties, Mashable reports. It’s the epitome of Cooking for Dummies.

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Impressive but tiny gadget of the week

Samsung’s new flash drive can transfer movies in just a few seconds. It weighs about 30 grams and is smaller than a business card.

Samsung Samsung

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    Mute Dean Mac Glennáin
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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Battery for a month :O how is that possible !

    Oh wait it’s a nokia . .

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    Mute Charles Mcdonald
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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:00 PM

    2 gb in 6 seconds very nice :)

    Also the electric car thing…. hmmmmm that superchip is killing the battery. If u was to buy an EC today I want to be sure it can go as far as possible on a charge.

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    Mute Simon Tuohy
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    Jan 11th 2015, 2:41 PM

    I built a system with a raspberry pi, a screen and a microphone. Where by you could say lets say “baked alaska” and the screen would then display a recipe for baked alaska (off the bbc website). The issue with it 1.) it was that the voice control that I used, used the google speech recognition. Which didn’t like either my accent or microphone leading to a lot of errors. and 2. Wasn’t very tidy with wires hanging about so I took it apart. Was handy for a while though

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    Mute Stephen Devlin
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    Jan 11th 2015, 8:04 PM

    Any other craic?

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    Mute Daithí Ó'Céileachair
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    Jan 12th 2015, 5:47 PM

    Philips have been making long battery life phones like that for years, google the Xenium range. They are great

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