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Latest News - May 2014
- NPD Group Says PlayStation 4 Took Xbox One Out Behind The Wood Shed Again In April
- Tesla’s Planned Gigafactory To Reduce Battery Costs By 30%
- FCC Votes To Advance New Net Neutrality Rules Including “Fast Lane”
- Microsoft Reiterates Support For Windows XP Is Dead, Proves It By Neglecting OS On Patch Tuesday
- Nintendo Facing Lawsuit To Ban WIi U Sales In The U.S.
- Review: OCZ's RevoDrive 350 PCI Express SSD Tears Up Benchmarks With Reckless Abandon
- Low-Cost Windows Phones Coming As Blu And China’s K-Touch Team With Microsoft
- Sony Slashes $200 Off Pre-Order Price of 4K Ultra HD Media Player, Ships In July
- Comcast Envisions Switching Broadband Model To Usage Based Billing In Five Years
- Flappy Bird Will Return To Mobile In August With Multiplayer Element
- HTC Shrinks The One (M8) To Produce The One mini 2 Smartphone
- Zuckerberg Turns The Big 3-0 And Is Now Basically Unemployable
- Google Glass Now For Sale To Anyone In The US, Still $1500 Or Roughly 10X The Cost
- Charity Lunch Auction With Apple's Tim Cook Brings In $300,000
- AOC Builds In Stereo 7W Onkyo Speakers To 24-Inch Full HD IPS Monitor
- Netflix Now Comprises A Full 1/3rd Of The Internet Traffic In North America
- Microsoft Refreshes The Windows Store For Easier Navigation And App Discovery
- Intel-Based Surface Pro 3 A Possible Companion To Surface Mini Unveiling Next Week
- Thermaltake’s Titanium Limited Edition “Level 10” Chassis On Sale In July
- Ubisoft Reveals Watch Dogs Will Run At 900p on PS4, 729p On Xbox One
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All News for May 2014
More console gamers are choosing Sony's PlayStation 4 than Microsoft's Xbox One system. This was confirmed by market research firm NPD Group, which pegged the PS4 as the best selling game system in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive...
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No one can accuse Tesla’s founder Elon Musk of thinking too small, and his latest vision is for a monstrous “gigafactory” to make batteries (at a reduction in cost of about 30%) that will not only power electric Tesla cars but would also serve any number of other applications...
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More or less as expected, the FCC voted to advance the new net neutrality rules that would allow ISPs to charge certain web companies more for “fast lanes” for content. It’s a decision that net neutrality advocates are...
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One could make an argument that Microsoft is the king of mixed messages. Just look at how the Redmond software giant has handled Windows XP over the years -- it was given several reprieves before finally being shunned for support, though...
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To paraphrase David Letterman, we wouldn’t give Nintendo’s troubles to a monkey on a rock. Amid a terrible sales performance that only got worse over the first quarter of this year (Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took a 50% pay cut over the the Wii U’s awful sales back in...
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OCZ's RevoDrive series has been a popular enthusiast and workstation-class storage product family for years now. The last time we looked at an OCZ RevoDrive, the RevoDrive 3 X2 offered smoking-fast performance and bandwidth of up to...
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Microsoft successfully acquired Nokia’s mobile unit and thus brought the vast majority of Windows Phone handsets under one roof, but that doesn’t mean Redmond isn’t branching out to other manufacturers. Both U.S.-based...
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The 4K Ultra HD revolution is in its infancy, but if you want to be an early adopter of the technology, there are several resources available. One of those is Sony's 4K Ultra HD Media Player (FMP-X10), which is now available to pre-order...
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If you thought Comcast wouldn't try to defend its "Worst Company in America" designation as voted by Consumerists' readers last month, think again. The broadband company holding the Golden Poo award has gone on record saying it wants to...
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One of the more bizarre stories in the history of gaming has yet to write an ending. We're talking about the rapid rise and intentional decline of Flappy Bird, a stupidly simple game that at its peak was raking in more than $50,000 per day...
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HTC's One (M8) has done quite well for the company. It has received rave reviews (including our own), plenty of commercial time, and it seems that the company's focus on premium design and elegance is starting to pay off in a world...
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Today is a momentous occasion in the life of one the tech world’s greatest wunderkinds: Mark Zuckerberg turns 30. It’s an even more notable birthday for the Facebook founder than the average joe because of an off-the-cuff...
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If you know anything about Google's history, you'll know that the company loves beta products. Gmail was in beta for years, and even after it left that phase of its life, Google allowed users to retain the "beta" graphic -- yes, that many...
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It might seem hard to fathom, but $300,000 is hardly the most expensive lunch date ever. In fact, it's not even the most expensive lunch date with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. In a charity auction last year, the winning bid to spend some time...
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AOC’s new 24-inch monitor looks nice enough at first blush, with a relatively thin silver bezel and what is no doubt a crisp, bright image, but underneath is where the good stuff is located. The company built a pair of 7W Onkyo...
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If there was any doubt about Netflix’s huge popularity in North America, consider that according to a new report from Sandvine, the streaming video service accounts for more than one-third of all Internet traffic. Netflix was...
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Microsoft keeps pushing out updates by and by to improve the overall Windows 8.1 experience, and the latest update concerns the Windows Store. Microsoft announced that it has gussied up the look of the store and has made it easier to...
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This is a big month for mobile. In a couple of weeks, LG will unveil its G3 superphone at a press event in New York City, and before that, Microsoft will hold a press event of its own (also in NYC) to announce a new Surface device...
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There are killer chassis and then there are killer chassis, and Thermaltake’s special edition Level 10 Gaming Station is a thing to behold. The unique construction coupled with the fact that it’s made from titanium makes this...
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This may come as a shock to the system if you were expecting Ubisoft's upcoming Watch Dogs title to run at Full HD 1080 (1920x1080) on your PlayStation 4 console, especially after Sony straight up said "the game will run at 1080p and 60...
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Sometimes we wake up to little surprises in our inbox, such as this morning when we discovered an email from LG inviting us to a press event in New York City in a couple of weeks. Rather than play it coy and keep the unveiling cryptic, LG...
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Given the extraordinary acceleration of mobile growth we've witnessed over the past decade, this landmark comes as little surprise: We've just hit 7.1 billion unique mobile subscriptions worldwide. As the title of this post suggests...
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