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Latest News - June 2016
- Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn Professional Social Network In Blockbuster $26.2 Billion All-Cash Deal
- Svelte Microsoft Xbox One S Slim Console Codenamed Edmonton Leaked And Exposed
- Rep Nancy Pelosi Says Thank Your Government For Creating Smartphone Technology
- Cyanogen 13.1 For OnePlus One Gains New Microsoft Hooks Including Cortana Selfies
- Doh! Microsoft Sells Fallout 4 For Free On Xbox Store, Licenses Being Revoked
- First Generation Moto 360 And LG G Watch Owners Won't Receive Android Wear 2.0
- Google’s $35 Chromecast Nearly Doubles Apple TV Sales In Red Hot Streaming Category
- Rocket League’s Cyberpunk-Fueled Neo Tokyo Update Arrives June 20th
- Samsung Redesigning TouchWiz Android UI And Eliminating Dreaded App Drawer
- Facebook Forces Users To Install Moments Photo App Or Face Having All Synched Pics Deleted
- Leaked Radeon RX 480 Benchmark Shows VR Prowess At $199
- Oklahoma Cops Use Scanners To Siphon Funds Without A Warrant From Prepaid Cards
- Hulk Smash As Gawker Media Files Bankruptcy, Ziff Davis Eyeing Pummeled Remains
- Apple Reportedly Taps Intel To Supply LTE Modems For GSM Versions Of iPhone 7
- Valve Launches Free 'Destinations' VR Creation Tool Powered By Source 2 Engine
- BLOCKS Modular Smartwatch Available For Preorder, Four Band Link Modules Included For $330
- Apple iMessage Rumored To Arrive For Android Devices Next Week At WWDC
- Time Warner Broadband Speeds Deemed Misleading And Abysmal By NY Attorney General
- Google's Schmidt Claims Fears Of Killer Skynet AI Wiping Out Humans Is Sheer Movie Fantasy
- Thief Dressed As Apple Genius Outsmarts Employees, Walks Out NY Store With 19 iPhones
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All News for June 2016
Microsoft has just announced its intentions to purchase the “professional” social networking site LinkedIn for a staggering $26.2 billion in an all-cash transaction. That values LinkedIn at around $196 a share, compared to Friday’s close of $131.08 a share.
This marks Satya Nadella’s largest acquisition to date...
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We’ve been hearing rumors about the Xbox Slim for weeks, and just ahead of E3, the console has leaked to the internet. The official name of the console is Xbox One S, and it’s quite the looker.
The scant details that are provided with the leaked images confirm what we’ve heard in our previous reporting on the...
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U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed at a Democratic National Convention Platform Hearing that the vast majority of smartphone technology was “invented” by the federal government. Her argument was for more more research and development spending in the federal budget.
Pelosi explained...
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Cyanogen 13.1 is rolling out to the OnePlus One. The OnePlus One will feature MOD, an integrated mobile platform that was first announced in February and is now officially available. MOD enables mods on phones or “ intelligent, contextually aware, and lightweight experiences built natively into the mobile operating...
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Scheduled fixes for the Xbox Store didn't go quite as planned for Microsoft heading into the weekend. For a short period, the Fallout 4 Digital Deluxe Bundle was being given away for free as a digital download to Xbox One owners, and as you might imagine, many gamers pounced on the deal. It was inevitable that...
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There’s a substantial update to the Android Wear platform arriving this fall from Google, and those with existing smartwatches are eagerly awaiting its release. Android Wear 2.0 was announced last month at Google I/O (it's currently available in beta form on the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE and the Huawei Watch)...
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Streaming devices for HDTVs are a hot item these days, and the price of entry for many of the top-selling devices is extremely attractive for folks that want an easy to way to stream Netflix, Hulu or even Amazon Video content. Stepping into the streaming market can come as cheaply as $35 for the Google Chromecast...
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Rocket League is getting a futuristic update. On June 20th the developers are releasing the game's largest update yet, “Neo Tokyo”. The new feature comes alongside several other new updates that Rocket League has been testing in the last month.
Neo Tokyo was originally part of “Rocket Labs” Playlist as “Underpass”...
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Samsung is testing a very big TouchWiz redesign in China and Korea right now. A “New Note UX” redesign on the Galaxy Note 5 is part of the new Samsung Galaxy Beta Program.
The test makes several changes to the original design. First, it eliminates the app drawer. Supposedly users in Eastern Asia prefer smartphones...
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When you're the largest social networking site on the planet, you get to call the shots, good or bad. To that end, Facebook is wielding its power to strong-arm users into installing its standalone photo sharing app called Moments -- a free download available on Google Play and iTunes -- or you can kiss your previously...
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It's a great time to be a gamer on the PC platform. First NVIDIA flipped the enthusiast market upside down with its first Pascal cards, the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070, both of which beat Titan X for less money. And not to be overshadowed, AMD responded with its first Polaris part, the Radeon RX 480, a powerful card that belies its
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The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety has purchased several devices capable of seizing funds loaded on prepaid debit cards. These devices will be in law enforcement vehicles, and enable troopers to freeze, seize, and return stolen cards.
Troopers hope that these scanners will be useful in roadside seizures of...
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So it has come to this — after coming up on the losing end of a lawsuit filed against it by Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan), Gawker Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A judged ruled against Gawker Media back in March, asking the company to pay $140 million in damages after it published a sex tape...
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After years of speculation, it appears that Intel has finally won a spot inside Apple’s iPhone 7 according to a new report from Bloomberg. Qualcomm has been the primary supplier of wireless modems inside iPhones for years, but its role will be diminished thanks to Apple’s new agreement with Intel.
It’s not all...
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Valve just released a free Destinations VR creation tool and it was built with Valve's Source 2 engine. It is important to note that this is early access software and it will continue to develop as time goes on.
The Destinations workshop page on Steam notes, “Early Access is a great way to get our community...
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If today’s Android Wear, watchOS and Tizen-based smartwatches are a little bit too limiting or not customizable enough for you, there’s a new player in the game called BLOCKS. BLOCKS is being billed as the world’s first modular smartwatch; one that comes with a fully circular display (we’re looking at you, Moto 360)...
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Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, is just a few days away (it runs from June 13-17) and as such rumors and speculation are swirling in regards to what the Cupertino outfit might announce or reveal. One of the more interesting rumors out there is that Apple is bringing iMessage support to Android.
That...
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New York customers are not satisfied with their internet service. Thousands of Time Warner Cable's customers have written to the New York Attorney General insisting that they are not receiving the download speeds they paid for. As a response, New York AG Eric Schneiderman is working on an investigation regarding the...
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As time goes on and advances in technology lead to increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence systems, the prevailing thought is we'll one day bow to our robot overlords. It's the oft-cited Skynet scenario, which gets its roots in the Terminator series, and there are some brilliant minds such as Tesla founder...
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Police in New York said two men were able to steal 19 iPhone devices from Apple's SoHo store last week. Nobody was held up at gunpoint and there was no ruckus of any kind—the ingenious thieves thwarted the swarm of Apple geniuses by dressing "similarly" to one of them so as not to draw undue attention to...
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On Thursday, Lenovo summoned the tech press to San Francisco where it took the wraps off two new mobile phone platforms that could both be game changers. It unveiled the world’s first Project Tango-enabled phone in the Phab2 Pro, and introduced an all-new type of modular smart phone with the Moto Z. The Moto Z has the...
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Brace yourself folks, a new version of Bluetooth is coming and it brings some significant changes to the wireless standard. Chief among them are faster data speeds that are twice what they are in the current version while extending the wireless range fourfold, Bluetooth Special Interest Group executive director Mark...
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