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Latest News - March 2015
- Amazon 'Dash' Wi-Fi Buttons Enable Instant Reorders For Detergent, Razors, And Diapers
- PAC-MAN Chews Up The Streets In Awesome Google Maps Arcade Fun
- This Is Madness! Spartan Web Browser Lands In Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10049
- Elon Musk Hits Reset Button After Tesla Motors Botches Chinese Invasion
- Game Over Man! Nintendo Torpedoes Browser-Based Mario 64 Remake
- McLaren Goes Hunting For 911 Turbos And Audi R8s With 562HP 570S Sports Car
- Gmail For Android Melds Your Numerous Email Accounts Into One, Unified Inbox
- IBM Makes $3 Billion Bet on ‘Internet Of Things’ Market With Cloud Services Push
- LG And Samsung End Spin Cycle, Call Off Silly Spat Over Sabotaged Washing Machines
- T-Mobile’s Coverage Map Goes High Tech With Real-Time, Crowdsourced Customer Data
- Death Knell Rings For Windows RT, Microsoft Announces Surface 3 With Windows And Atom
- LG’s Next Generation G4 Flagship Smartphone To Debut April 28
- Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA and M.2 Drives Reviewed
- When Google Fiber Isn’t Around, AT&T Goes For The Jugular With $40 Premium On Gigabit Internet
- AMD Touts Asynchronous Shader Technology In Its GCN Architecture
- Tone Deaf Audiophiles Defend Crazy-Expensive Ethernet Cables, And They're Still Wrong
- Rutgers University Faces China And Ukraine In ‘March Madness’ DDoS Attack
- Apple Watch Edition Customers To Receive Royal Treatment, 2-Year Warranty, And 24/7 Support
- IDC Sees Bright Future For Wearables, Predicts 126 Million Unit Shipments Annually By 2019
- Plumbers, Auto Mechanics, And Electricians Are ‘1-Click’ Away With Amazon Home Services
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All News for March 2015
I'll preface this by saying that while this sounds like an April Fools' joke, it's not.
Over the years, Amazon has rolled-out a number of different mechanics that have made it easier for people to place orders from the service, but with its new 'Dash Button', I think the company has proven that there's no such...
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Leave it to Google to turn something as mundane as maps into something that’s actually interesting. For a limited time, the search giant is turning some real-world locations into a prime playing grounds for a round of the 1980s game Pac-Man.
You can call up Google Maps either in your computer’s web browser or by...
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IT'S HERE! After months of waiting, Microsoft has finally rolled out a preview build with the new Spartan Web browser baked-in. Was it worth the wait? Well, that depends entirely on whether or not you were actually anticipating it. For some, it will be another browser they'll ignore, and admittedly, even after I...
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For all the excitement and fanfare Tesla Motors enjoyed when it entered the Chinese market more than a year ago, the electric car manufacturer is fighting weak sales now. CEO Elon Musk has returned to China to help the company improve its image there and get sales back on track.
At least part of the problem for...
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We had a feeling Nintendo would take notice of developer Roystan Ross's recreation of the first level of Super Mario 64, which he made playable in a browser window. Sure enough, after attracting widespread media attention, Nintendo's legal team sent a takedown notice to Cloudfare, the company that was previously...
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We know that McLaren knows how to make supercar as witnessed by the 650S. And the company is no stranger to the hypercar arena either thanks to the P1 (and the legendary F1). The P1 employs a twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V8 engine and a hybrid powertrain to pump out an astonishing 903 hp, which is good enough to rocket...
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With a full-throated "Me too!" targeted straight at Microsoft's recently-released Outlook app, Google yesterday upgraded their Gmail email app for Android to better support non-Google email accounts, including @yahoo and @outlook.
Since last year users have been able to configure their other IMAP/Pop accounts to...
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IBM is planning to invest a whopping $3 billion over the next four years on a new Internet of Things (IoT) division that will focus on the enterprise. In addition, IBM said it's building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions. The open platform will help its...
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If you don’t think that competition between washing machine manufacturers is thrilling, you haven’t been paying attention to the bitter struggle between South Korean electronics companies LG and Samsung. The drama has included accusations of sabotage, lawsuits, and even criminal charges, but the two companies are...
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T-Mobile isn't finished disrupting the wireless industry, not by a long shot. The wireless carrier's latest trick involves coverage maps. Typically when you view a wireless carrier's coverage map, you look at the ink blots denoting 4G LTE coverage and cross your fingers the company is telling the truth. Rather than go...
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The reports were true, and it looks as though Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 is about to get a new baby brother. After Microsoft quietly discontinued the Surface 2 earlier this year, we were eager to see what Microsoft had in store for its successor. Some thought that maybe Microsoft would just leave the entry-level...
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Android fans are in a good place right now. There's the continued roll out of Android 5.0 Lollipop to an increasing number of devices, the recent release of Samsung's premium design Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, the release of HTC's One M9, and talk of LG's flagship G4 handset, the latter of which is likely to debut...
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Samsung is introducing a number of new members to the SSD 850 EVO line-up of solid state drives, based on different form factors than the standard 2.5” drives we showed you here. The brand new mSATA and M.2 Samsung SSD 850 EVO drives we’ll be showing you here, however, leverage all of the same technology. The last few generations of Samsung’s...
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When the cat's away, the mouse will play, or charge more for his services, as the case may be. Or to be more specific, AT&T is launching its fiber Internet service in parts of Cupertino, California, home of Apple, but is charging more for 1Gbps speeds than it does in other areas where U-verse with GigaPower is...
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AMD has just announced a capability that’s already been baked into its GCN-based GPUs, that enables something called Asynchronous Shaders. Asynchronous Shaders are a feature of new or next-gen APIs like DirectX 12, Vulkan, and AMD’s own Mantle that allows certain tasks, which have previous been run synchronously and...
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The audio industry is filled to the brim with magical devices that are capable of reshaping the reality of those that dare tread within its realm. There is often utter bewilderment at the expressions some people use to converse with each other on the subject. What is the color of sound, 'clarity', 'warmth'...
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While so many of us were getting our college basketball on this weekend, Rutgers University was dealing with an entirely different kind of challenge in the form of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Triggered by the efforts of a malicious entity consisting of two or more people or bots, the intent of a...
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It should come as no surprise that Apple is rolling out the red carpet for customers that purchase the Apple Watch Edition. The smartphone starts at a whopping $10,000 and goes for as much as $17,000 in the top-end configuration. As a result, Apple Watch Edition customers will be given special treatment — at least...
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The world doesn't always make sense. Take for example smartphones; these wonderful little devices reduced wristwatches to a niche market. And now those same smartphone makers, the ones who beat wristwatch makers over the head, are now trying to revive the category by implementing smart features. We call...
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The selection of products on Amazon's marketplace is incredible, to the point where it feels like it "has everything". But one thing it hasn't had up to this point is home services, something the company has today taken care of with the launch of the aptly named "Amazon Home Services".
Amazon Home Services is just...
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Apple isn’t content with setting sales and profits records off the backs of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones (Apple sold over 74 million iPhones during Q4 2014, and recorded profit of $18 billion for fiscal Q1 2015). The company is now going directly after Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users by...
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Nintendo's past is filled with memorable Mario games, one of those being Super Mario 64, a classic 3D platform title that was released a year shy of two decades ago for the Nintendo 64. You've probably long retired that console, perhaps flipping it on eBay along with your collection of games so you could fund a newer...
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