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Xbox One SmartGlass hands-on

Xbox One SmartGlass hands-on

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Xbox One SmartGlass hands-on SmartGlass is nothing new -- it's the second screen solution Microsoft introduced for its Xbox legions. But for the release of the Xbox One console, the company decided to update the experience and extend the functionality. Culling feedback from the many developers and gamers that have downloaded the app since its initial release, Microsoft...

Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4D headphones

Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4D headphones

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Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4D headphones ears-on In keeping with its propensity toward acronymed products, Mad Catz today showed off its F.R.E.Q. 4D headphones. The peripherals are notable for a couple of reasons: first is that the company dumped the line's mic arm for an internal version -- without, the company promises, sacrificing sound quality. Even more notable are...

Computex 2013: the best of Haswell

Computex 2013: the best of Haswell

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Computex 2013: the best of Haswell Intel used this year's Computex to officially debut Haswell-based Core processors, and it had no shortage of willing launch partners: seemingly everyone had at least one updated PC to reveal. The refinements to battery life and graphics also led to quite a few companies pushing the boundaries, whether it was in cutting-edge...

NVIDIA Shield now has open source software support

NVIDIA Shield now has open source software support

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We loved NVIDIA Shield's bone stock Jelly Bean OS in our review, but if you're not a huge fan, NVIDIA's now offering a way to dig in and customize your Shield's OS even more. NVIDIA's made the Shield's software open source as of today, making the OS all the easier to customize. You'll of course have to root...

T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion

T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion

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It looks like T-Mobile was onto something with its UnCarrier remake, as the US carrier picked up 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013 and saw a major boost in revenue. It also managed to keep postpaid churn (turnover of customers on contract) to its lowest level ever at 1.58 percent. The carrier said the numbers were helped by...

Pure Jongo multi-room speaker system

Pure Jongo multi-room speaker system

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Pure Jongo multi-room speaker system now available in North America If you've been thinking of adding speakers around the house but are loathe to run wires, Pure's Jongo system is now available in North America, joining the like of Sonos' Play:3 in the wireless multi-room sound game. For now, it consists of the $129 Jongo A2, a WiFi...

HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook

HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook

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HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook review: a first attempt at Chrome OS that cuts too many corners Things have been pretty quiet on the Chromebook front since the launch of Google's gorgeous, but pricey flagship, the Pixel. It's arguably a hard product to beat, but then again, the Chromebook battle is really taking place at the low end of...

[Adobe] Ten Serials For Photoshop CS5 Extended

[Adobe] Ten Serials For Photoshop CS5 Extended

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Panasonic | Will you pay $1,200 for a home stereo with neon subwoofers

Panasonic | Will you pay $1,200 for a home stereo with neon subwoofers

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Panasonic thinks you'll pay $1,200 for a home stereo with neon subwoofers Panasonic today announced the launch of the SC-MAX650 Extra-Large Audio System, a 2300 Watt audio system that produces powerful amplification paired with crystal clear sound quality for the ultimate party system. "The SC-MAX650 is our most powerful audio system yet," said David Fisher, Product Manager, Panasonic...

China’s Tianhe-2 is fastest supercomputer

China’s Tianhe-2 is fastest supercomputer

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China’s Tianhe-2 ‘is fastest supercomputer’ In this Oct. 2009 file photograph, operators check China's fastest super computer "Tianhe", meaning Milky Way, in Changsha, in China's Hunan Province. Now the country's defence scientists have developed, "Tianhe-2", which is capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second. The machine is set to break U.S.’ monopoly in strategic technology Development of...

US government blocks Apple sale and import ban in Samsung feud

US government blocks Apple sale and import ban in Samsung feud

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The Obama administration has ordered that a proposed ban on the sale and import of certain Apple products be scrapped. The order represents government intervention in a bitter patent row between the iPhone maker and rival Samsung. In a letter to the US International Trade Commission (ITC), US trade representative Michael Froman said he had decided to disapprove...

MoDaCo.Switch enters public beta, gives indecisive HTC One owners both worlds

MoDaCo.Switch enters public beta, gives indecisive HTC One owners both worlds

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Can't decide between HTC One's native spin on Android and the Google Edition's vanilla build? Now you don't have to: MoDaCo.Switch is now officially available for public beta testing. True to its name, this custom firmware allows users to reboot the phone and switch into a different version of Android, making it easy to enjoy both Sense 5...

Microsoft’s Transparent Concept PC

Microsoft’s Transparent Concept PC

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Upcoming Microsoft’s Transparent Concept PC Lets You Poke Apps In 3D Space Microsoft Applied Sciences researchers have created a concept 3D PC that has been created to enable uses to manipulate applications within a 3D environment . ...

Foursquare hits Nokia's GPS-less Asha 501, gets bearings with connection data

Foursquare hits Nokia's GPS-less Asha 501, gets bearings with connection data

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Nokia Lumia WP8 owners have it pretty good on Foursquare thanks to AR and other exclusive features -- but that doesn't mean lower-end device owners are being shirked. The app is now available on the Asha 501, something Nokia and Foursquare promised when it hit the S40 feature phone and its huge user base. Despite the Asha's lack...

Create a mosaic out of any image

Create a mosaic out of any image

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Create a mosaic image out of any of your pictures from your own collection of images using AndreaMosaic. In the below picture, is an example of The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh that is created using dozens of other images and is an example of what this program is cable of doing. This is a free program...

Quickly find all your missing MP3 album covers

Quickly find all your missing MP3 album covers

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As you move your MP3 files around you may encounter lost or deleted album art covers. Thankfully there is a fantastic free utility to quickly find and download album art for pretty much every CD ever created. The program works by looking at millions of album art covers from dozens of different locations and gives you the option...

Algoriddim launches Djay 2 with sample player, HD waveforms and a party starting pedi

Algoriddim launches Djay 2 with sample player, HD waveforms and a party starting pedi

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If you own an iDevice, and don't know Djay by Algoriddim, then frankly you should. Even Apple loved it enough to feature it in its own marketing materials and give it a design award. Now, it's back with a remix, or more precisely, version two. Djay 2 brings with it a bevy of new features, including: a built-in...

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app for Android now works for videos, too

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app for Android now works for videos, too

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Amazon won't be winning any awards for its clumsily-named Cloud Drive Photos app, but with this latest update, it could win over the affection of its user base. Whereas last time we left Cloud Drive Photos, Amazon's focus was, well, all about photos, this time the app spotlight falls on video for the first time. Now, users will...

BlackBerry A10 for AT&T flaunts 5-inch screen in latest leak

BlackBerry A10 for AT&T flaunts 5-inch screen in latest leak

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Looks like Verizon isn't the only carrier that's in line to receive the anticipated BlackBerry A10. In the latest leak from Tinhte.vn, the smartphone is shown off in a hands-on video wearing AT&T branding on the rear. A quick removal of the A10's back cover reinforces the claim of a beefy 2,800mAh battery and 5-inch HD AMOLED display...

Google makes Android 4.3 factory images available through AOSP

Google makes Android 4.3 factory images available through AOSP

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Google officially announced its latest version of Android today and, like clockwork, it's now made it available for download through the Android Open Source Project. That covers those with a Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 or Galaxy Nexus (GSM version-only), all of whom can find what they need to start the update process to Android 4.3 (still...