Catch ‘CODEGIRL’ for free on YouTube until November 5th

As part of Google’s Made With Code initiative, a new documentary called CODEGIRL by Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman) will be streaming on YouTube for free until November 5^th. According to Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, the film “follows the story of 5,000 girls from 60 countries as they compete in a global entrepreneurship and coding competition by Technovation. The girls have three months to develop an app that attempts to solve a problem in their local community. In the film, they size up their competition, interact with teachers and local mentors, learn to code, and pitch their ideas all in hopes of winning $10,000 in funding and support.”

Initiatives like this are meant to encourage young girls and women to get into tech field. If you want to support the film, you can do so by sharing it with the hashtag #Rallyforcodegirl. You can watch it from the video embedded above.

Source: Google Via: TechCrunch

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Want a tiny remote-controlled quadcopter that can do tricks? The AERIUS Mini Drone is for you. At just 3cm x 3cm x 2cm, this small quadcopter can land right on your fingertip and even fit into its own controller. It can fly up to seven minutes off of a single 15-minute charge. It comes with preprogrammed flips and rolls that you activate with the press of a button. Flying at night is possible, too, with its built-in LED lights. It’s 18 percent off on Laughing Squid’s store and costs US$53 at the moment.

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Apple outs second app for Android, the Beats Pill+ app

We might be seeing a trend here. Or at least Apple is slowly opening up to Google’s mobile operating system. This time around, Apple introduced its second app on Android for the new Beats Pill+ speaker. The app is pretty straightforward as it lets you control what’s on your playlist, check on the battery life, link two devices for that stereo sound effect, and name your speaker. It does make sense they offer this on Android as the speaker isn’t really iOS exclusive.

Source: Gizmodo | Download: Google Play Store (Free)