TECHNOLOGY SUNDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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The week in cloud: Amazon pushes AWS Marketplace as a destination for IT buyers; Apple and IBM bury past differences to bolster iPhones/iPads in the enterprise.
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WhyCry / VideoCardz.com : Report: Nvidia Shield Tablet ships July 29 in the US; $299 for 16GB Wi-Fi-only, $399 for 32GB with LTE, $59 for separate controller — NVIDIA extends SHIELD family with SHIELD tablet and wirele...
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Here are some of the best free apps, app updates and new apps that have landed in the App Store recently. All app prices are USD and subject to change. Some deals may expire quickly, so grab them while you can. Apps Now Free VLC Streamer...
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The 2015 Toyota Sienna minivan will offer a feature called “Driver Easy Speak.” It will empower the driver with a built-in mic, which can be used to clearly speak with (or yell at) passengers in the back seats . The post New Toyota miniv...
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An anonymous reader writes One of the developers behind special effects used in the film Avatar has inked a deal with airline check-in kiosk manufacturer BCS to implement avatars for personalized and interactive customer service. Dr Mark...
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac : Even after denial, Bloomberg says Jay Carney in the running for Apple PR head — Last week, Re/code reported that former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has been “bandied about&rdquo...
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In the second quarter, schools purchased more than 1 million Chromebooks, according to Google. On top of that, a recent report from market research firm NPD Group spotlights the strength of Chromebook commercial sales ahead of back-to-sc...
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We put Supermechanical's new iOS-connected cooking thermometers to the test and were impressed. It's Ember roasting thermometer and accompanying app combine the best elements of Silicon Valley design with actual kitchen utility.
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Rick Liebling is Head of Global Marketing for Unmetric, leading marketing initiatives across the brand, product and content communication strategies. Garbage in, garbage out: a pithy phrase that captures the notion that flawed or incomp...
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In 1999, Samsung launched the YEPP series aiming to deliver some of the smallest MP3 players on the market. These devices went beyond mere MP3 playback functionality with built-in FM tuners and voice recorders. By 2005, however, Samsung ...
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Last week was a busy one with new hardware and apps making their way into TUAW's virtual office. Here's a quick roundup of our recent reviews you may have missed. App Reviews Bill Killem mashes endless running and platforming into chaoti...
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An anonymous reader writes On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong would say later he thought the crew had a 90% chance of getting home from the moon, a...
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Speaking at the Hope X conference taking place in New York this weekend, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden put out a call for developers to build systems that protect privacy and constitutional rights by design. He also revealed his...
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It is time for a Chrome OS tablet? Google's software isn't quite ready for that but it's getting closer: Handwriting recognition has appeared in an early Chrome OS software build.
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Soccer fans around the world are going through withdrawal now that the World Cup is over, and in Brazil, people are beginning to think about what should be done with the 12 stadiums that were built or renovated for the tournament. A pair...
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Google CEO Larry Page has reportedly confronted Samsung over its preference for smartwatches running Tizen software, rather than Android Wear . According to The Information website, Page and Samsung chairman Jay Y. Lee held tense talks a...
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : New search engine indexes records from data breaches, mostly from sites young hackers frequent — Even Script Kids Have a Right to Be Forgotten — Indexeus, a new searc...
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The Iron Banner multiplayer event in Bungie's ongoing Destiny beta gives players a look at two new maps: one from the beta and a second one that gives a first look at Mars. The post Destiny beta waves the Iron Banner for new, limited-tim...
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An anonymous reader writes VolksPC who developed MicroXwin as a lightweight X Window Server has come up with their own Linux distribution. Setting apart VolksPC's distribution from others is that it's based on both Debian and Android and...
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You’ve probably seen Honda’s Asimo in action before, but he’s learned a few new tricks since you saw him last. For starters, Asimo’s legs are stronger than ever and have an increased range […]
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With the release of Hadoop 2.0, MapReduce takes a back seat. But who in the front seat will take the wheel?
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The team at EA Tiburon asks incoming rookies to predict their in-game Madden NFL 15 stats, then crushes their hopes and dreams with cold, unforgiving reality. The post Madden NFL 15 dev team trolls incoming rookie class appeared first on...
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An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Department of Labor has released data that some proponents of raising minimum wage are touting as evidence that higher minimum wage promotes job growth. While the data doesn't actually establish cause...
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What flavor ice cream would you like? And what shape? Three enterprising students from MIT have been working on a technique to create 3D-printed ice cream shapes in a modified freezer. The post Ice cream could be the next 3D-printed food...
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For all its beauty, Android's openness is the reason why manufacturers and carriers are able to make their own tweaks to the OS. Some companies go as far as completely forking the platform, and we know how terrible that can be -- though ...
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Ritika Puri is a content marketer, freelance business writer, and media entrepreneur.This post originally appeared on the Evergage blog. Marketing is hard. For every ‘hit,’ you’ll likely experience 10 misses. The process of launching the...
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He designed more than 400 buildings, but his only tall office tower is in a small Oklahoma town. CNET Road Trip 2014 took the journey to Bartlesville to see the master's interpretation of the skyscraper.
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Commentary: The Windows 8 Start screen does offers certain benefits, but the good, old-fashioned Start menu is still the best way to access all your programs and settings.
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Though he designed more than 400 buildings around the world, the master architect's only tall office building is in a small town in Oklahoma. CNET Road Trip went straight to the top of Price Tower.
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Health trackers are the big thing of the moment, the only problem being... most of them are guessing. Some do little more than tell you have far you've walked in a particular day, in case you've somehow forgotten you went out or had othe...
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak : The Pirate Bay says unique visitors doubled since 2011 despite blockades in several countries — Pirate Bay Traffic Doubles Despite ISP Blockades — The Pirate Bay is without do...
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astroengine writes: Physicists aren't afraid of thinking big, but what happens when you think too big? This philosophical question overlaps with real physics when hypothesizing what lies beyond the boundary of our observable universe. Th...
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What is natural language processing? To some the Spike Jonze movie Her was excruciating, to others it was a glimpse into the future, but imagine if the film's personal assistant Samantha had suddenly uttered to Theodore: "Sorry, I di...
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High-speed photography can be daunting if you're not a seasoned pro. You may have a fast camera and flash, but you probably don't have the gear (or people) you'd need to get that frozen-in-time look in most situations. MIOPS' new camera ...
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The Direct Message functionality on your official iOS and Android Twitter apps is about to get another upgrade, as the service looks to fight back against WhatsApp and other messenger tools. The post Twitter rolling out DM improvements a...
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Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA Headquarters press conference led by George Mue...
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund (KOIF), managed by Japanese venture capital Global Brain Corporation, announced that it has invested a total of 800 million yen (roughly $8 million) in four U.S. startups. Global Brian and KDDI, the Japanese tel...
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A rumor claiming former White House Secretary Jay Carney is in the running to head up public relations at Apple -- thought to have been put to bed last week -- was resurrected on Saturday, with a new report saying he is still considering...
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storagedude writes: Resource management and allocation for complex workloads has been a need for some time in open systems, but no one has ever followed through on making open systems look and behave like an IBM mainframe, writes Henry N...
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This spring we witnessed the big three OS manufacturers — Microsoft, Apple and Google — continue to unbundle their versions of Microsoft Office apps for mobile, including versions of PowerPoint, Excel and Word for iPad....
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Kim Zetter / Wired : How Ladar Levison and a convicted hacker aim to encrypt emails, including to and from fields, with Dark Mail — A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying —...
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Frank Konkel / GovExec.com : How the CIA's $600M deal with Amazon Web Services will enable 17 federal agencies to cooperate — How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence — National Reco...
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No, the Recon Jet still isn't out yet, but its manufacturer has a few bits of news to share. For starters, the sports-minded heads up display's brain box is now angled slightly upward, which supposedly improves the display's viewing angl...
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An anonymous reader writes: The White House on Friday gave final approval to allow the use of sonic cannons in finding energy deposits underneath the ocean floor on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says t...
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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post : Kindle Unlimited: worth it if you buy 12+ books/year and find the limited catalogue appealing — Is Kindle Unlimited worth it? — Some things to think about before y...
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Starbucks' mobile apps could soon let you buy much more than your next grande latte. The coffee shop's digital lead, Adam Brotman, tells Recode that the coffee shop giant is talking to companies about using its app for payments and loyal...
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For most people, myself included, both money and technology sit in the mental category of “functional magic.” The details of how these things work are a little hazy, although we’re damn glad they do, despite the inkling that ...
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Katie Roof / Fox Business : With huge rounds for Uber and Lyft, VCs invested $13B in Q2 2014, the most since Q1 2001 — Most Venture Funding Since 2001 — The second quarter of this year saw the most U....
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Between 2008 and 2010, Wonga was doing something mind-bendingly stupid: sending letters from fake law firms to borrowers behind on their loans. It sounds like a bad office prank. They even took the firm names from apparently still ...
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Rest in peace, Tommy. Read more...
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Family pets may be cuddly friends, but their gradual transition from the wilds to the hearth offers a sobering message: tampering with mother nature can have totally unexpected consequences.
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As numbers of gray seals off New England rise, so do conflicts with fishermen and beachgoers
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If you’re rocking an international/unlocked variant of the HTC One M8, there’s a piece of good news for you. HTC’s Mo Versi said the company will release the Android 4.4.3 for the handset late next week. The update is n...
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HTC Sense 6 brings a handful of improvements for the devices, with an improved UI and Blinkfeed, as well as several other enhancements. HTC announced the Sense 6 will roll out to some of the existing devices in the coming weeks. It’...
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It's the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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It’s not just the iPhone 6, the iPad line up is due for a refresh later this year as well, and we’ve seen a few rumors hinting at what we could expect from the upcoming tablets. Apple is rumored to launch the updated i...
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Earlier this month, a research suggested that iPhone 5S is still the top smartphone in the world, followed by a few Samsung devices — the Galaxy S5 was not launched during the test period so it was taken in to account for the study...
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Blackberry Passport is turning out to be a an exciting piece of hardware, mainly because of its weird square design. Even though the company tried to explain the logic behind the design of the device, I still find it to be a little stran...
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Motorola has done a commendable job when it comes to releasing latest Android updates for its handsets. Recently, the company released the latest Android 4.4.4 KitKat for its Droid line up on Verizon. Now, it seems the company is gearing...
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HTC is one of the hardware partners for the Android Wear operating system announced by Google, but the Taiwanese OEM has not announced any smartwatch powered by the OS. There’s are currently two smart watches available in the marke...
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A tiny engine is not the obvious way to power a sports car. But BMWs dramatic new plug-in hybrid doesnt do the obvious. Martin Love test drives the i8 Continue reading...
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It has taken a little while, a surprising amount actually, but Amazon has released the first TV ad for its new phone. The Fire Phone is the retailer's great hope to compete against the likes of iPhone and Android -- though it does techni...
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An exhibition at the Jewish museum in Berlin is showcasing a robot which has been programmed to write the sacred Jewish scriptures, known as the Torah.
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Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading Continue reading...
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PS Vita, Focus Interactive, cert: 3 Continue reading...
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PS4, Xbox One, Focus Home Interactive, cert: 16 Continue reading...
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Tech pioneers in the US are advocating a new data-based approach to governance 'algorithmic regulation'. But if technology provides the answers to society's problems, what happens to governments? Continue reading...
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PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, Ubisoft, cert: 12 Continue reading...
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This new app works far better on the large screens of phone/tablet hybrids Continue reading...
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Don't dawdle when picking up your mobile-placed coffee order; it might get cold.
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It doesn't happen every time you go to download it, but Google seems to think that the uTorrent setup file is malicious.
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As for what Snapchat plans to do with its trademarks, should it receive them, that's the bigger question.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Edward Snowden, a former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use technologies to subvert gove...
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By Jim Finkle NEW YORK (Reuters) - Edward Snowden, a former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use technologies t...
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Product definition is a challenge for any startup. But it's significantly harder for a company that is in an evolving market. Ben Horowitz - in his new book 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things', makes a compelling argument for how not to d...
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Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden teamed up to make this plea to hackers: Develop better tools that allows future insiders to secretly expose wrongdoing.
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Propaganda has always been a part of war. Social media is expanding the battlefield, but sometimes it also creates a space for mutual respect.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Riley v. California held that the police must obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of someone who has been arrested. This decision applied the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitut...
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The purported Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is making rounds of appearances in the rumor mill. Not too long ago, a rumor suggested the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 will come with an Ultrasound enabled S Pen. Recently, @evleaks revealed a list of APKs ...
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We’ve seen countless number of rumors suggesting that Verizon will launch the Sony Xperia Z2 in the coming months, but it seems Sony has some other plans. For those of you who are eagerly waiting to get your hands on the Sony Xperi...
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Samsung launches several variants of its devices across the globe, some offer LTE connectivity, while others are limited to 3G connectivity only. Same is the case in India where Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with only 3G connectivity, and is p...
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Experts: NY murder case may be an example of how social media feeds into Munchausen by proxy
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In February, I foolishly spent 50-odd bucks for QPlay, the streaming TV player for iPad, which I used with the Air. The user experience was terrible from the start and never got better over the miserable months that followed. Slow. Stutt...
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"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." -- Inscription on the plaque of the Apollo 11 lunar module. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history when he landed on t...
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Archaeologists excavate Colonial American battleground in New York's Adirondack Mountains
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Time to look back on the week on ZDNet Mobile News gathered in one place in case you missed something.
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An HP executive says the company is seeing its win rate against IBM increase since Big Blue announced the deal with Lenovo in January.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: New York State proposes new rules for Bitcoin, as Google and Dell now embrace the cryptocurrency, too.
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When it comes to companies we dread dealing with, we all know who they are. Let’s put it this way, would you rather go to the Apple Genius Bar to fix something with your iPhone or to the Bank of America teller to reverse a surprise inter...
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NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has set off some fireworks on the Red Planet with the zap-zap-zap of its high-tech space laser. On Saturday (July 12), Curiosity photographed sparks flying from a baseball-size rock blasted by the 1-ton rob...
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The new device is the follow-up to the Shield handheld gaming console and is expected to feature the company's Tegra K1 graphics processor.
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Embarrassed about some of those Netflix movies you've been watching? Is there a show you're avoiding so it doesn't appear in your "Recently Watched" section? We feel you. Now Netflix is testing a privacy mode that will keep what you watc...
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BitTorrent has been branching out over the past year, introducing new products such as Sync and Chat, both being encrypted and with a promise that user data is protected. Now the organization is looking to test a new product, but informa...
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Not too long ago, @evleaks posted the press render of the alleged NVIDIA Shield Tablet we’ve heard so much about in the past few weeks. A new report reveals the specifications of the alleged NVIDIA Shield Tablet as well as its comp...
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Every manufacturer has its own custom Android launcher, some bloated with too many services and apps resulting in a poor performance on the handset. Recently, ZTE announced that its going to pre-install Google Now Launcher on some of its...
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A dark and groundbreaking new video game is slated to hit the market this winter that follows the experiences of one man following the death of the love of his life. A new take on queerness in video gaming, "Fragments of Him" has previou...
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Not too long ago, the folks at NoWhereElse posted some images of the alleged iPhone 6 battery for the 4.7-inch model, but now, they are back with some more. Recently, the same folks posted some images of the battery of the alleged 5.5-in...
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Previously, a report suggested the 12-inch Macbook Air will go into production in the third quarter of this year, but it seems it may not happen. According to a new report from Taiwanese shores, the 12-inch Macbook Air may get delayed to...
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For motion-averse passengers, enduring a rocky train ride in a seat facing backward can be a painfully nauseating experience. But for those in Japan, this particular travel woe might be a thing of the past with the most ingenious idea ev...
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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a handful of leaked images of the components of the upcoming iPhone 6, including the battery, and the 13MP Sony camera. Recently, some images showing the flex cable of the iPhone 6 was leaked, cons...
