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- Google Harnesses Your Inner Artist With NFC-Equipped Live Cases For Nexus 5X, 6 And 6P
- Price Drops On Dell U2414H UltraSharp Monitor Now $260, 20% Off Sony PlayStation Plus 1-Year Membership And More
- Minecraft Education Edition Achieves Teacher’s Pet Status, Hits Classrooms In May
- HTC 10 Performance Review: A Snapdragon 820 Powered Flagship
- ESPN Adding Live Drone Racing Coverage To Complement NASCAR And F1 In August
- Sharp RoboHon Robot Smartphone Sparks Cuteness Overload, Debuts Next Month For $1,800
- Oculus Rift Gaming Exclusives Lucky’s Tale And Dreamdeck Hacked To Run On HTC Vive
- Facebook Snatches Google And DARPA Alum Regina Duncan To Head Hardware Lab
- Facebook Showcases Synergies With Oculus In Social VR Demos And Selfie Stick Killer App
- Google Android N Developer Preview 2 Brings Vulkan 3D API And Emoji Unicode 9 Support
- Google.org Gifts $20 Million To Empower Disabled People With Technology
- GM Exec Slams Tesla Model 3 Reservation Fee, Touts 2016 Availability Of 200-Mile Bolt EV
- Save Big On Amazon’s #1 Selling Laptop, $799 Dell Inspiron 15 SKYLAKE 4K Convertible Laptop And More
- MU-MIMO Router Head-to-Head: Linksys EA7500 vs. Netgear Nighthawk X4S
- Toyota uBox Concept Taps Clemson Ingenuity For All-Electric Gen-Z Runabout
- USB-C Authentication Program Stops Shoddy Cables From Frying Your Smartphones And Laptops
- Quantum Break Dev Addresses Windows 10 Issues, Rules Out Multi-GPU Support
- Verizon To Light-Up Boston In Beantown FiOS Service Deal Orchestrated By The Krafty One Himself
- Report Claims FBI Paid Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone With Zero-Day Exploit
- Amazon’s $290 Kindle Oasis Is A Pricey And Light E-Reader With Unreal Battery Life
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If you’re looking for a way to spruce up your Nexus smartphone’s exterior, Google has a new offering that might be right up your alley. The search giant has introduced what it calls Live Cases, which are essentially plastic cases that snap onto the back of your smartphone.
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Sony PlayStation Plus 1-Year Membership, Dell U2414H UltraSharp 24" display, a Jackery Bolt Ultra-Compact 6,000mAh Portable Power Bank, and more. Full details for all of today’s...
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Back in January, Microsoft announced that it had acquired MinecraftEdu in an effort to create a new platform aimed at school teachers: Minecraft Education Edition. Microsoft initially said that Minecraft Education Edition would be available this summer, and the software giant is sticking to that promise with May/June...
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HTC launched its latest flagship smartphone on Tuesday, the aptly named HTC 10. The HTC 10 is the follow-up to devices the HTC M9 and M10 (sans the letter designation), and as such, it has similar design language and high-end feature set. The HTC 10, however, packs some of the latest mobile hardware currently...
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Did you know that racing drones is a thing? Well it is, and it's captured the attention of ESPN. The sports media outlet inked a multi-year media distribution deal with the International Drone Racing Association (yes, that exists too) to bring the new sport of drone racing to a global audience with ambitious...
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A few months back, we brought you news of Sharp’s RoboHon, which played up Japan’s fascination with robots on a much smaller scale. The RoboHon is capable of walking, standing up, sitting down and dancing among its other many talents (like understanding voice commands).
Robohon also doubles as a smartphone complete...
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Exclusive content is supposed to be one of the benefits of buying an Oculus Rift over an HTC Vive headset, but redditer "CrossVR" may have just erased that advantage. How so? CrossVR posted a proof-of-concept program on GitHub that makes it possible to run a pair of demos exclusive to the Rift—Lucky's Tale and Oculus...
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There's quite a bit of poaching that goes on in the highly competitive tech industry, and this time it was Facebook that scored a prize, prying Regina Dugan from Google. Dugan lead the Advanced Technologies and Projects Group at her former employer, and prior to that, she was the director of the Defense Advanced...
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Let's face it folks, the practice of taking selfies is here to stay. So are selfie sticks, for that matter. Rather than fight it, Facebook and its Oculus division are embracing it, taking a real-world trend and injecting into the virtual world. It sounds a little silly on the surface, but it's a logical extension that...
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Google surprised us all in early March when it made available a developer preview of Android N well in advanced of its annual Google I/O conference. Today, Google announced that it has released Android N Developer Preview 2, which brings a few new features to the mix for those that are willing to take a chance testing...
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Google is keen on making the lives of those living with disabilities less arduous, and it's willing to put its money where its mouth is. The company's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has just announced that it has provided over $20 million to 30 different nonprofits dedicated to improving the lives of those living with...
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There is no love lost between General Motors and Tesla Motors. If the companies aren’t battling it out over the merits of the dealership model, the two are throwing barbs at one another over the emergence of electric vehicles. When GM CEO Mary Barra revealed the production version of the Chevrolet Bolt EV earlier this...
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Save Big On Amazon’s #1 Selling Laptop, $799 Dell Inspiron 15 SKYLAKE 4K Convertible Laptop And More
Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Intel Core i7-6500U based notebook, a Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti discrete GPU, an ASUS F555LA 15.6" notebook, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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The second wave of 802.11ac routers are now shipping, and they offer a tantalizing performance benefit over the previous routers we’ve reviewed (at least with their older firmware) — the ability to broadcast multiple data streams to several clients at once. This technology, named MU-MIMO, which stands for Multiple...
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Wondering what happens when you task a group of college students with designing an automobile for the modern era? You end up with the uBox, a concept car that was designed, engineered, and hand-built by graduate students at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).
The uBox is the...
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If you’ve been bitten by crappy USB-C cables over the past year (and there are plenty of them out there circulating in the wild), help is on the way. Amazon made a credible first step by banning USB-C cables that aren’t compliant with specifications issued by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). Now, the USB-IF is...
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Developer Remedy Entertainment posted a message thanking fans for the early success of Quantum Break, a third-person shooter released to Xbox One consoles and Windows PCs earlier this month, while also acknowledging that there are several issues needing ironed out that mostly affect Windows 10.
"We are aware that...
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In what's being described as a "game changer for the city of Boston," Verizon has agreed to lay some 800 miles of fiber optic cables for its high-speed FiOS service in Beantown. Once complete, the great people of Boston can expect faster downloads and lower prices due to the increased competition in the...
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The situation that played out between the FBI and Apple over a locked iPhone 5c model has been like a Soap Opera with plenty of drama and unexpected twists and turns. In case you thought it was coming to an end, think again—the latest plot twist is that Israeli security outfit Cellebrite supposedly wasn't the one that...
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Amazon bills the Kindle Oasis as its “thinnest and lightest Kindle ever,” but those proclamations come at a huge cost — $289.99 to be exact. The Kindle Oasis takes over as the flagship of Amazon’s Kindle family and does so at a price point that is far higher than even the $199 Kindle Voyage (which was already...
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HTC unveiled its latest flagship smartphone to world early this morning, the HTC 10. If you missed our original coverage of the announcement, we’ve got it posted up for you right here. Earlier this evening, however, we were able to spend some time with HTC at an event in New York City and got some hands on time with the new phone. HTC has
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The enterprise market for solid state drives (SSDs) is really starting to take off, and we’ve seen new entries in the field from both Intel and Samsung in the past month. Now, Micron is stepping into the fray with new 9100 Series and 7100 Series NVMe SSD products that promise to be a game changer for data center...
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