The long awakened sleeping dragon that we all know as China (when China sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold) is certainly on a warpath to be number 1, and it won’t be long before the world’s most populous nation would also end up as the world’s largest economy. Having said that, here we are with another potential first from China, where the Sky City, being a pre-fab skyscraper, is tipped to also pick up the gong of being the world’s tallest structure. Not only that, it is also said to be completed in record time, too.
We are talking about a total scheduled build time of just seven months for the Sky City, and if you were to break it down, it would approximately be 13 feet per day, which is an incredibly ambitious goal by any means. Of course, this is a whole lot safer and more sane compared to the initial plan of completing the structure in 90 days. Just how safe do you think you would be if you were to be in Sky City? Very safe actually, as it boasts of the ability to resist a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which we do hope that the $928 million building will never have to be put to the test.
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Now here we are with word that there is a new version of the Opera mobile web browser for the Android mobile operating system, where it is tipped to be the first version to do away with Opera’s Presto rendering engine while making full use of Google’s Chromium foundation. If you were to put it differently, then it would be this way – you should not run into any issues when it comes to opening up web pages as well as web apps which were specially designed for use in Chrome or majority of the other Webkit browsers.
Opera’s Webkit-based browser for Android has been made available as a public beta for a few months already, where it is now graduated from beta status and is more than ready to be used among the masses. Bear in mind that Opera will not be a Chrome clone, as this particular mobile browser also comes with its very own user interface, an article discovery service, alongside optional data compression so that users are able to save bandwidth. The Opera browser is available for those who are running devices which have Android 2.3 Gingerbread and later. [Press Release]
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It seems that Samsung is definitely not going to rest on its laurels, which is why someone with an eagle eye has spotted the trappings of a spanking new Galaxy Note device. Of course, nothing is official just yet, but we have already seen its footprints, so to speak, in AnTuTu benchmarks. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (unless the South Korean conglomerate is going to call it totally something else, of course), has been listed as the N7200 (considering how the Galaxy Note 2 used to be listed as the N7100, this pretty much keeps in touch with reality and history) and has appeared in several different results, too.
The explosion of Internet connectivity across a range of mobile devices have definitely led to more and more user input in online sites as well as apps. Take TripAdvisor for example – most of us these days, before going for a holiday would check out wherever we are going to stay using TripAdvisor as word of mouth works wonders. Hence, traffic updates on your mobile device might come from the navigational company itself, but is it really that accurate? For those of you who have given crowd-sourced traffic and navigation app Waze a go before, you will be pleased to hear that Waze has finally arrived at the Windows Phone Store.
There is something about rugged smartphones, where you know for sure that it is capable of taking in the different knocks that a smartphone tends to go through in its lifetime. Of course, there are some of us who so happen to be more of a butterfingers than others, and we have successfully (to my dismay) drowned some of these handsets in the past either due to negligence or carelessness. The 



