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Latest News - August 2013
- Intel Media Opens Up Shop in LA and NYC to Start Up Internet TV Service
- Pavlov Poke Keyboard Device Shocks You If You're Facebooking Too Much
- Best Keyboard Shortcut Ever Ctrl-Shift-T Recovers Last Closed Tab in Chrome (And Other Browsers)
- Samsung Revs Up Its Own Developers Conference
- Sony Says Sorry for PlayStation Store Grand Theft Auto V Leak, Game Reported Gone Gold
- Reports Say Apple’s iPhone 5S A7 Processor is 64-Bit with Faster Graphics
- Moto X Developer Edition Shipping Soon With Unlockable Bootloader
- Instagram Acquires Luma To Improve How Your 15-Second Videos Look
- Google Play Developer Program Policy Updated To Require Use of In-App Billing Service
- Windows 8.1 Set For Launch October 18th, What You Need to Know
- GameStop Expects ‘Largest Console Launch in History’ This Holiday Shopping Season
- Facebook Dumps Physical Gifts, Will Focus on Digital Gift Codes Instead
- Yahoo Acquires IQ Engines, Plans To Make Flickr Galleries More Intelligent
- Barnes and Noble Says Have No Fear, New Nook Products On The Way
- Elon Musk Tweets of Sci-Fi Like Rocket Designed by 'Hand Manipulated Hologram' Technology
- Google Considering ‘Robo Taxi’ Service with Autonomous Car Technology
- Nokia Exec Says Instagram to Officially Come to Windows Phone Soon
- Moto X Teardown Shows a Very Repairable, Well Made (in the USA) Device
- AMD Rocks Gamescom 2013: Partners with Publishers to Showcase Latest PC Gaming Evolved Titles
- Rabbit Ears Are Back: TWC Resorts To Handing Out Antennas During CBS Blackout
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All News for August 2013
Internet TV is fast becoming a crowded field, but Intel’s not letting a little competition slow it down. The chip maker is opening offices in Los Angeles and New York so it is better placed to make deals with TV networks. Internet TV players like Roku have a multi-year jump on Intel, but that doesn't seem to be...
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Some people are just gluttons for punishment. A pair of self-professed online distraction addicts, Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff, have created a tool called “Pavlov Poke” that will zap them if they spend too much time on Facebook and not enough time working on their dissertations. The Pavlov Poke works...
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Life is a lot easier when you have second chances. Golfers can take mulligans if they shank the ball and land it in the drink, and if you fault a serve in tennis, you're given a second attempt to get it right before it counts against you. Unfortunately, everyday life doesn't have a "do-over" button, but using a little...
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Samsung has a strong presence in the mobile and home entertainment markets, and to that effect the company has decided that it needs its own developers conference to make sure that devs have the full spate of tools and detailed knowledge of how to create, adapt, and innovate for Samsung devices and platforms. “As convergence of user...
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Sometimes when you screw up, all you can do is apologize and hope for the best. So it is with Sony, which issued an open apology to Rockstar Games and gamers around the world for a leak of Grand Theft Auto V assets, including details about the highly anticipated game's theme, soundtrack, and other spoilers. To be...
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There's always a media frenzy of rumors and speculation preceding every major Apple product launch, and we're in the midst of that right now. Come September 10, Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone model, though there's been plenty of chatter of multiple models, including a lower-cost version made of...
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Well, here's one way to get the hardcore techies interested in a mid-range device. The Moto X wasn't quite the do-all flagship that many had hoped for, and while it may rival the iPhone in some ways, it's certainly not a hero device in terms of internal specifications. That being said, there's one more reason that may...
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Facebook said that it would enable Instagram to remain independent, and that it wouldn't ever cross any lines that would impact the user experience. Keeping true to that promise, Instagram itself (and not parent company Facebook) has just made a big acquisition: Luma. It's a video sharing app that almost no one has...
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Google has this weekend shot off an email to developers that publish their apps through the company's Play Store, detailing a number of changes to the service's program policies. Listed changes take effect immediately, and must be adhered to if an app is released or updated after this point (older, no-longer-updated...
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With the release of Windows 8.1 (coming as a free update) just around the corner (October 18th, to be exact), you may be wondering A) whether it's worth upgrading to and B) why that's the case. Well, as someone who's been rocking the 8.1 Preview release for a couple of months, I can say with assurance that it's...
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It's been seven long years since Sony launched its PlayStation 3 game console and eight years since Microsoft introduced the Xbox 360 to retail. To put that into perspective, some PC gamers were still using AGP graphics cards back then, like the GeForce 7600 GS and Radeon X1650 Pro. You can imagine the anticipation...
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It's been less than a year since Facebook implemented its online gift giving system, which allows Facebook users to purchase and send physical gifts to their friends and family on the social networking site. However brief it might have been, Facebook has already decided it makes more sense to push digital gift codes...
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At this rate, Yahoo is apt to acquire a company a week -- or so it seems. Since Marissa Mayer came to town as CEO, she has been on an acquisition rampage. Company after company has been swooped up by Yahoo, reportedly due to Mayer's desire to procure talented developer and engineering resources at an accelerated rate...
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"Wait just a moment, will you?" That's a question being posed by Barnes & Noble, which has come out swinging to address prior rumors that the Nook hardware business was being phased out completely. The bookseller has been mired in difficulties over the past few years, as the digital age weighs heavy on its...
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In the technology arena there are leaders and visionaries. Many people have described men like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as visionaries and market-changing leaders. Then there's another class of people in technology - the inventors. These folks are visionaries, leaders and in most cases, genetically...
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From smartphones to tablets to notebooks to a TV stick, Google has been working with manufacturers to make some great products for some time. What's next? According to a new rumor: a car. Yes, a car. It's no secret that Google has been working hard on its self-driving car technology, but apparently the company has...
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If there's one thing Microsoft's Windows Phone platform desperately needs (other than a larger user base), it's more apps. We're not talking about fart apps and other filler type material, but at this point, it's even missing some of the more popular apps available on other platforms. One you can soon cross off the...
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Score a victory for the boys and girls in the good ol' U.S. of A. The tech Dexters at iFixIt hijacked Motorola's American made Moto X smartphone and were prepared to pry it open no matter how messy things might get, but as it turns out, the device is really not all that difficult to service and repair, scoring a...
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You may have heard that AMD is in some way, shape, or form powering each of the three next generation game consoles (Nintendo Wii U, Microsoft Xbox One, and Sony PlayStation 4), but don't you worry, PC gamers, the Sunnyvale chip designer hasn't forgotten about your platform of choice. Far from it, AMD made at splash...
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For many Time Warner Cable subscribers, we're going into yet another weekend where CBS is unavailable. Due to stalled negotiations over subscription rates, TWC and CBS have yet to come to terms on what it'll take to get the network back on-air. So, in order to prevent TWC customers from fleeing elsewhere (particularly...
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Quite some time ago, rumors flared that Apple may have been testing the waters of providing its own wireless network for iPhone use. Obviously, it managed to cut deals with a number of existing mobile operators instead, but it appears that Amazon may be thinking differently. A new Bloomberg report suggests that Amazon...
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Logging into apps using Facebook instead of with yet another unique username and password combination is a boon to users everywhere. It’s simple and fast, and seriously--we don’t have room in our brains for remembering anymore login credentials. However, up to now the downside has been that Facebook knows...
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