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Nexus 7 hardware refresh happening this July

The Nexus 7 is reportedly set for a major hardware refresh about one year after its initial reveal at Google I/O 2012. This time around, there’s more in store than some modest storage…

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Samsung prepping pocket-busting Galaxy Mega phones

It looks like Samsung is ready to attack yet another screen size niche. There’s a small gap between the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 2 and the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, and that’s where the new…

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Seagate ships first 4TB hard drive with 1TB per platter

Two things that aren’t new today: 4TB hard drives and disk platters that hold 1TB of data. We’ve been hearing about 4TB hard drives for over a year now, with Hitachi being the…

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Toshiba’s U925T hybrid ultrabook works as a laptop, fails as a tablet

Toshiba's newest Ultrabook is a perfect example, with a hinge design that makes touchscreen computing make a lot of sense.

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Kinect used to diagnose depression with 90 percent accuracy

Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor started out life as an Xbox 360 peripheral. But with a bit of hacking and eventually an official SDK, it branched out to power a number of homebrew projects.…

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Bill Gates and Paul Allen recreate 32 year old Microsoft photo

The image you see above is a classic. It depicts a very young Bill Gates sitting next to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, with both men surrounded by different types of computer. Both men…

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Scientists indirectly detect the existence of dark matter

We all know what dark matter is believed to be: a never-seen, barely explainable material that holds the universe together like some kind of super-powered glue. Imagine the black coloring used to create…

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Casascius: Gorgeous physical Bitcoins that have real value

Did you know that the Bitcoin, a virtual currency, is available as an actual coin? Well, it is, and it's call the Casascius.

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Google wants more speed, dumps WebKit for Blink browser engine

Google has announced that Chrome will be moving to a new rendering engine called Blink. The new engine will be a fork of WebKit, and Google plans on molding it into something that’s…

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Firing a laser into your brain could help beat a drug addiction

Lasers are fantastic things. Curiosity uses one to interrogate rocks on Mars, they can create a true 3D display, and they can get you into a lot of trouble with the police depending…

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Microsoft creative director’s response to always online console rumor: deal...

Adam Orth has a lot of experience in the games industry having worked at PopCap Games, LucasArts, and Sony Computer Entertainment America. But in his current role as Creative Director at Microsoft...

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Smart foam furniture can be squashed to 5 percent its original size

Buying new furniture for your home or office usually means choosing between pre-assembled units or flat packs. On the one hand pre-assembled units are ready to use, but typically cost more and can…

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A view from the other side of piracy

Piracy is a hot topic these days. I'd like to offer you my perspective as a creator of content that is worthy of piracy.

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5 things you need to know about Google’s Blink browser engine

Google has unexpectedly announced on the Chromium blog that it was forking WebKit and beginning work on a browser engine of its own: Blink.

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Microsoft expected to launch Google Glass competitor in 2014

Before Google Glass was even being whispered about, a leaked document detailing the future of Xbox revealed that Microsoft had designs on building something similar. Late last year, a patent filing for...

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HTC One pre-order offers prove HTC still doesn’t get it

As the next wave of epic superphones comes closer to their launch dates, the inevitable pre-order period has arrived. For the HTC One, it seems like just about ever carrier has their own…

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Dell’s $600 Alienware X51 is now available with Ubuntu

Dell, the on-again-off-again friend of desktop Linux, has announced its first Ubuntu-powered gaming PC. The X51, Alienware’s console-lookalike, will soon ship with Ubuntu Linux and full graphics driver...

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Geek deals: Price drop on Dell XPS 8500 desktop, Neato robotic vacuum, more

While the truly geeky among us might prefer to build their own desktop PC, there is a lot that goes into such a build behind the scenes. It starts with a wealth of…

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Get prints of your favorite video game maps and classic computers

Art does not have to be a confusing presentation all about the tragedy of modern consumerism in western culture. No, sometimes art can be cool and nerdy. Such is the case with these…

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Skype malware turns your computer into a Bitcoin mining zombie

A new piece of malware is floating around, but that seems like par for the course these days. What makes this malicious bit of code notable is the goal its creators have in…

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