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Apple Debuts Elegant iPhone 5 Music Spot
The proof that the smartphone market is currently in its Golden Age is apparent in the clever and plentiful television commercials currently being aired by smartphone makers. Yet they all seem...
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Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Step Authentication
Kim Dotcom can reportedly add “creator of two-step authentication” to his résumé along with founding file-sharing site Megaupload. Following Twitter’s recent introduction of a two-factor verification system, Dotcom announced that he...
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Enormous 5,000,000 Piece LEGO X-Wing Lands on Times Square
Surrounded by a storm trooper security detail, LEGO unveiled their largest model to date: a 5,335,200 piece Star Wars X-Wing fighter. The model is an astonishing 11 feet tall and 43...
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Google Maps Reveals Panoramic ‘Street View’ of the Galapagos
The Google Maps team has been collecting panoramic Street View imagery of the Galapagos Islands, including Underwater Street View photography, and said Thursday that this rich new visual content will be...
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD Now Available in More Than 170 Countries
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Appstore for Android are going global. Amazon announced on Thursday that it is selling its Android-based Kindle Fire HD in more than 170 countries and...
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Microsoft Takes Aim at iPad, Siri in New Advertisements
The Mac vs. PC war rages on this week, as Microsoft released not one, but two video advertisements panning Apple’s iPad and Siri. In both spots, Redmond has its Windows 8...
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Ashton Kutcher: Media Companies ‘F*cked Up’ Twitter
If Ashton Kutcher had it his way, Twitter would go back to the way it was years ago. Though his personal account boasts more than 14 million followers, Kutcher said Thursday...
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Notes from the Last CTIA
LAS VEGAS—This is the last spring CTIA. For a quarter-century, the U.S. mobile phone industry has gotten together in a big convention hall in springtime to wheel and deal. For the...
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Hisense Teams up with Nvidia on Low-Cost Tablets
Hisense, a company known for making low-cost HDTVs, teamed up with Nvidia on Thursday to unveil a pair of Android tablets. The Sero 7 LT and Sero 7 Pro will be...
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Microsoft’s Next-Gen Kinect for Windows Sensor Launching Next Year
Microsoft has already revealed the always-on Kinect for its new Xbox One console, but Redmond is adding another sensor to its lineup—the next-generation Kinect for Windows. The tech giant announced on...
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The Xbox One Makes Me Want to Buy a New Xbox 360
Our Xbox 360 finally conked out about six weeks ago after several years of faithful service and two red-ring-of-death episodes. By the end, we were using a butter knife to pry...
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Evernote Reminders Syncs To-Do List with Notes
Evernote Reminders rolls a to-do list into the note-taking application, combining Evernote’s three most-requested features into one package. Launched Thursday, Evernote Reminders moves in-app and email alarms, quick notes based on...
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New HP Laptops Focus on Portability, Power
HP today announced its newest consumer notebooks, with an  emphasis on power and portability. They feature new processors from AMD and Intel, and most feature touch-enabled screens. These laptops will debut...
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Shazam iPad App Gets Makeover, Adds Auto-Tagging
Shazam is well on its way to being more than just a music discovery application, as today’s iPad redesign demonstrates. The revamped app now includes a new discovery home screen, an...
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Samsung Sells More than 10M Galaxy S 4 Smartphones in a Month
Samsung on Thursday announced that sales of its Galaxy S 4 smartphone have topped 10 million units globally less than one month after its debut. In fact, it took the uber-popular...
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iPhone-Only Mailbox App Expands to iPad
The formerly iPhone-only Mailbox application is now available for the iPad. Owners of Apple’s tablet can download today’s iOS update, complete with bug fixes, to access the iPad-optimized app. The much-hyped...
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Google Acquires Wind Power Firm Makani Power
Google is known for putting its resources into some novel technologies like self-driving cars and wearable computing devices. Now, the Web giant is moving into yet another field—wind power. After previously...
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HP Unleashes Affordable, Powerful Desktops
HP today unveiled a new series of desktop PCs, including a budget desktop, higher-end gaming towers, and all-in-one PCs. The Bay Area-based company hits all the major price points, with the...
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Verizon, J.Lo Partner; Twitter’s Two-Factor Login; GIF Pronounced ‘JIF’
Topping tech headlines Wednesday, Verizon Wireless announced its newest venture: A retail chain targeted at Latino customers, which is partially owned by Jennifer Lopez. Viva Movil will provide a fully bilingual...
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Hands-On With a $55 Android Tablet at CTIA
LAS VEGAS—How low can Android go? Well, we’ve taken a look at a $40 Android tablet, the Ubislate 7ci, but you can’t actually get that in the United States—it’s for India...