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Latest News - May 2013
- Facebook Protects Celebrities with Verified Pages and Profiles
- Apple Seeks Flex Display with Force Detection Patent for GarageBand
- Samsung Finally Unveils Rumored Galaxy S4 Mini Smartphone
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review With Gigabyte & MSI
- Apple Quietly Launches 16GB iPod Touch Without a Rear Camera for $229
- WD Debuts New Sentinel Rack-Mount Storage Server for SMBs
- Alcatel One Touch Offers Mid-Range Android Specs For $299 Unlocked
- August Smart Lock Allows You To Let People In From Afar
- NVIDIA Graphics Processors Power Breakthrough In HIV Research
- Updated Gmail Will Sort Your Email
- Intel Acquires Navigation Chip Business From ST-Ericsson, Sharpening Focus On Mobile
- Mageia Linux Launched, Free and Open Source For Desktops and Servers
- Supply Sources Indicate Apple To Release Two New iPhones in Q3 2013
- Google Chromebook Pixel Review
- YouTube Enables Slomo Video Feature Enhancement Tool
- Google+ iOS App Updated with Photo and Commenting Enhancements
- Rumored 13-inch Apple ‘iPad Maxi’ Coming in 2014
- Microsoft Releasing 256GB Surface Pro in Japan
- Reddit User Posts Pictures of "Exploded" Samsung Galaxy S III Device
- Amazon Greenlights Five Test Pilots For Full Production, Including Nerd-Centric 'Betas'
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All News for May 2013
Don’t you just hate it when random people spoof you on Facebook and your fans mistake the fake profile for yours? What, that doesn’t happen to you? No worries: Facebook’s latest announcement still applies to you. Sure, you won’t setting up a new “Verified” page or profile, but as a...
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Flexible, bendable display technology spend a lot of time in the headlines these days, and even Apple is getting swept by the fad, though not in the traditional sense. Rather than focus on display technologies that can fold, roll, or wrap around an object, one of Apple's newest patents is for a flex screen feature...
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Samsung has a penchant for going big, like its Note phablet line and its generously sized Galaxy S smartphones, but the South Korean handset maker is also aware that there's a market for smaller, less expensive mobile phones. Enter the Galaxy S4 mini, a slightly larger follow-up to the S3 mini. It's best if you think of it that way rather...
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It was just last week that NVIDIA launched the excellent GeForce GTX 780, which is essentially a scaled-back GeForce GTX Titan, at much more palatable—but still relatively high—price. NVIDIA is not quite done making news, however. As is typically the case when NVIDIA launches a graphics card in a new product family, derivatives...
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If you've been holding out for a price drop on Apple's fifth generation iPod touch line, perhaps today's newest addition will be of interest. It's a 16GB model that Apple quietly slipped into the lineup, and not only is it the least capacious, it's also the least expensive with a $229 price tag. Where was this SKU...
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WD has added to its SMB storage server line with the WD Sentinel RX4100, a 1U rack-mount server designed for ease of installation and setup as well as affordability. The server joins the Sentinel DX4000 in WD’s lineup. The Sentinel RX4100 is available in capacities of 16TB (4 x 4TB), 12TB (4 x 3TB), or 8TB (4 x 2TB) with 4GB of DDR3-800...
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Many would associate the Alcatel name with telecommunications, but few would guess that the company has just launched a smartphone in the United States. But sure enough, it has. The Alcatel One Touch was just released this week, boasting a 4.7" panel, support for GSM networks, and a wildly cheap price tag. It'll sell...
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What Nest did for the thermostat, August will do for the conventional door lock. The door lock is one of those things that has largely gone untouched over the years. Sure, there are very expensive editions out there that support wireless home automation and remote unlock systems, but the vast majority of people are using a typical key-lock...
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have taken a step forward in HIV research by running simulations on the Blue Waters Supercomputer, which is comprised of 32 Cray XK7 supercomputer...
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Gmail users are getting a new inbox soon, and whether you’re going to like the update depends a lot on your habits. If you own a label maker or ogle closet organizer catalogs, you’re going to love the new layout. The new Gmail can automatically sort your emails by “tabs,” like Promotions, Social, Updates, and...
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It’s no secret that Intel doesn’t exactly have the same batting average in the mobile market as it does on the PC side, but the company is working towards changing that. To that end, the company purchased the satellite navigation chip business unit of ST-Ericsson, according to AllThingsD. ST-Ericsson is a...
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Two and half years ago, Mageia was forked off of Mandriva Linux, and the group behind it put out stable releases in June 2011 and May 2012; now, Mageia 3 is available for download for desktops and servers. Mageia 3 is the work of more than 100 people worldwide, and the distro’s features include kernel 3.8, GRUB...
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The Apple rumor mill is at full bore today, and the latest rumor surrounds Apple’s upcoming iPhones. According to Digitimes, industry sources in the supply chain (from Taiwan) indicate that a pair of new Apple phones are in the offing for 2013. Apple has reportedly told its supply chain partners to prepare for...
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Earlier this year, Google did something almost ground-breaking when it introduced the Chromebook Pixel. Sure, the Chromebook line as a whole has existed for years, but the entire premise of such a range of notebooks revolved around only a couple of design goals. One of those was accessibility, and almost by default, the other was affordability....
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What’s better than a video of your cat yodeling? A slow-motion video of your cat yodeling, of course – and YouTube wants to help you do it. As of today, you can find the slomo tool in the YouTube Editor, alongside the stabilization tool and other effects. The slomo tool lets you adjust the speed by percentages, giving you some...
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If you're rocking an iPhone or iPad device and use Google+, head over to the App Store and grab the latest update. Version 4.4.0 brings about a bevy of new features, though the primary focus was placed on enhancing and managing photos, including a new feature that's quite literally Awesome. No joking, that's what...
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Remember when Steve Jobs thrashed the concept of a 7-inch tablet, calling it a tweener device that sits between a smartphone and what he viewed as a traditionally sized slate (9.7 inches)? At the time, it seemed unlikely Apple would ever launch an iPad smaller than 9.7 inches, but then came the iPad mini, which is giving its bigger brother...
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Microsoft is expanding its Surface Pro offerings by releasing a 256GB Surface Pro in Japan on June 7th. That’s a fairly impressive amount of storage capacity, and coupled with the fact that the Surface Pro runs Windows 8 Pro (and with the Type Cover as an accessory), the device sounds a lot more like a super-thin notebook than a tablet....
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A Reddit forum user is claiming that his Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone overheated and caught on fire in the wee hours of the morning, burning a hole in his mattress and filling his two-story home with the foul stench of burning plastic and electronics. It was a "loud noise and a weird squeaking sound" that...
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Three cheers for democracy! The voting public has done their duty, and now Amazon is making known which of its original series will remain on the air. After a month or so of broadcasting via Amazon Instant, five pilots were chosen as the top-rated, and only those five will see production beyond the initial pilot...
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Before smartphones became virtually ubiquitous there were feature phones, and prior to that pagers ruled the day. And before that? It's hard to remember how we ever got along without today's technological wonders, especially when you examine how dependent we've become to certain devices. To wit, a new study by Experian reveals that the average...
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Maybe sometime in the future, Google Glass will find a market among the masses and we'll be walking around with wearable computers on our heads. It's Google's vision to one day get to that place where a head mounted display (HMD) could replace many of the functions we all use our smartphones for, from snapping...
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