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Latest News - January 2014
- Windows 8.1 Update 1 Rumored To Be Arriving On Mid-March Patch Tuesday
- Google May Drop Nexus Brand in Favor of Play Edition in 2015
- Samsung ‘Galaxy Glass’ Google Glass Competitor Reported to Arrive in September
- No Golden Spike, But Tesla Completes Coast-To-Coast Free Supercharger Stations For Model S
- Stratasys Launches Objet500 Connex3, World's First Multi-Material Color 3D Printer
- Microsoft Rebrands 'SkyDrive' As 'OneDrive' After Opting Out Of Trademark Court Battle
- HTC One Max 6-inch Android Smartphone Review
- Google And Samsung Global Patent Licensing Deal To Foster Closer Research Collaboration
- Android Surpasses iOS in U.S. Market Share, Surges Further Ahead in Europe, China and Latin America
- South Korea Is on to Something, Rules Pre-Installed Smartphone Bloatware Must Be Removable
- Microsoft Reportedly Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power A Boost
- Foxconn Considers Opening a Display Factory on U.S. Soil
- Google Granted Patent For Car Service That Takes You To An Advertised Location
- Selective Amnesia Strikes Apple's Schiller, Forgets HP in Recounting the History of the PC
- T-Mobile CEO John Legere Says T-Mo Sprint Deal Will Challenge Verizon and AT&T 'Duopoly'
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Claims NSA Has "No Back Door" To Apple Servers
- Waste Your Day Hunting For Easter Eggs In Microsoft’s Gigapixel ArtZoom Panorama Of Seattle
- Google to Offer Up $2.7 Million Bounty in Pwnium Hacking Competition
- Bill Gates Gets Schooled In Chess, Beaten By 23 Year Old Grandmaster In 71 Seconds
- Google Fiber Launching In Provo Utah Next Month, 100 Times Faster
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All News for January 2014
When Microsoft released Windows 8.1, it took care of a number of complaints users had with the launch version, and at the same time added some great improvements we were not anticipating (many of which we tackled in advance of its launch)...
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Google has accumulated a fair amount of street cred with its Nexus line of mobile devices, some of which are best-in-class gadgets. Take for example the Nexus 7, still one of our favorite 7-inch Android tablets and arguably the best choice...
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Samsung has never been shy about following marketing trends, whether it's building smartphones, serving up smart watches (Galaxy Gear), or in this case, filing a patent for eye-wear to compete with Google Glass. The version Samsung has in...
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Although it’s not exactly on par with the completion of, say, the first transcontinental railroad, Tesla has completed a coast-to-coast network of Supercharger stations to allow drivers of the Model S electric sedan to road trip...
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Stratasys’ Connex technology has previously allowed users to 3D print using two different base resins, but with the new Objet500 Connex3, you can use as many as three--PolyJet photopolymer, Digital ABS, and “another material of...
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Microsoft announced that is has renamed its long-running SkyDrive cloud storage and sharing service. From henceforth, it shall be known as “OneDrive”. In the short video Microsoft posting on its OneDrive blog announcing the...
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We all want more from our smartphones. Whether it’s more screen real estate, more battery life, a better camera, or more storage for pictures, videos, and games, it seems there’s always something we could use more of from our phones. Manufacturers are constantly striving to deliver...
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Finally! That's an oft overused term in the technology space, but this time, we mean it. With patent wars thwarting innovation left and right over the past few years, it's a huge relief to see two major companies shaking hands and agreeing...
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Apple may have once dominated the mobile landscape with its iOS platform, but that was before Android came in like a wrecking ball (apologizes for putting that song in your head). This is true in the U.S. and abroad, and particularly in...
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Smartphone makers have taken a page from bulk OEMs in the PC industry by pre-loading their handsets with tons of software. The difference is you can spend a few minutes (or more) uninstalling bloatware on your computer, whereas it's not...
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News from gaming insider Pete Doss is that Microsoft is mulling significant changes to the restrictions it places on developers regarding the Xbox One's GPU. Reportedly, some 10% of total GPU horsepower is reserved for the Kinect -- 8% for...
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It's no secret that companies like to outsource production to overseas markets where labor is cheap and labor laws are often lax, to put it nicely. That isn't about to change, though it's nice to see companies move at least some of their manufacturing operations to U.S. soil, such as Motorola...
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Google has received a patent that essentially takes the incentive for a consumer to visit a business up a notch--or several notches. Traditionally, the tactics brick-and-mortar businesses have had to use to get people through the door have...
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Once you hit your thirties, you begin to realize that the older you get, the better you used to be. You start to embellish your stories of past accomplishments and eventually that game tying layup in the third quarter of your high school...
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Like him or hate him, T-Mobile CEO John Legere is good for the mobile industry. He seems a little crazy, but crazy like a fox. The things he says in public are usually rather spot on, although his latest comments are more interesting if...
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Much has been made of the NSA’s domestic spying program and how the agency has culled data from major Internet companies, and rightly so, but Apple CEO Tim Cook says that his company is having none of it. In an interview with ABC...
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Our apologies in advance for telling you about something that you can waste your entire day on, but this is, frankly, just really cool. Microsoft created a huge 20-gigapixel image of Seattle around which you can scroll and zoom around, but...
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Google is putting up a ton of cash for the taking as part of this year's Pwnium hacking competition at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver in March. More than $2.7 million is up for grabs, which will be doled out in chunks to...
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There's no disputing that Bill Gates is blessed with a brilliant mind. Sure, he dropped out of Harvard College, but he got accepted into the elite institution of higher learning in the first place. Leading into his college career, Gates...
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Google missed its mark of the end of 2013, but the company got close: Residents of the second city to get access to Google Fiber--Provo, Utah--can now sign up for the service. Google says the gigabit Internet service will come online in...
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You've probably noticed, Gmail is down. It's not just down for you - it's down across the US and the world, with reports coming in from Europe, Canada, and India that one of the planet's largest email networks has suddenly failed. The only thing missing is any information from Google...
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Just yesterday, a report emerged that TiVo was laying off much of its hardware design team, leaving only a skeleton crew to support existing devices, and getting out of the hardware business altogether to focus on the cloud. According to comments made by TiVo VP of corporate communications...
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