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One guy accidentally caused the Chinese military to ban smartwatches

You know what would suck? Being the guy responsible for preventing 1.6 million soldiers from being able to get a smartwatch. That's exactly what happened to an unfortunate fellow in the People’s Liberation...

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Would you pay $3,500 for a portable music player?

Why listen to music on the affordable iPod that you've had for years which provides an excellent listening experience when you can drop $3,500 on the AK380?! As a rich audiophile's...

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There’s a city in Spain that’s powered entirely by Twitter

Twitter. When it's good it's great, but when it's bad it's... well... you've heard the stories. What you may not have heard, however, is that there's a town in Spain...

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings discusses the future of television

Traditional television will be dead in a decade or two, but what's going to replace it? That's a question that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings answered in-depth at the Media Convention in Berlin...

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Rumor: There will be no more new Windows versions after Windows 10

While it's obvious that Microsoft is hedging all of its bets on Windows 10, you may be surprised to hear that Windows 10 may very well be the last version...

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Spotify is working on its own YouTube competitor

The launch of Apple's new music streaming service is gonna hit Spotify hard, but the company isn't just going to sit around and wait for the blow. In fact, Spotify...

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Google may have accidentally revealed the next version of Android

Google has traditionally progressed through the alphabet when giving codenames to versions of Android and tends to showcase its big releases at its annual I/O conference, so it's natural to...

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Microsoft is making file encryption a whole lot easier with Windows 10

The kind of people who want to encrypt their files are the kind of people who are willing to research the best ways to go about doing it. At least,...

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Who said virtual reality had to be lonely?

In its current state, virtual reality is in the same vein as video games, where it helps users escape our reality and go to a fake one, albeit in a much...

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I hope you’re ready for a few more Jump Street movies

Few people expected 21 Jump Street to be good, and even fewer expected its sequel to be good, but both of them turned out to be excellent films. Now it...

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Microsoft wants to help you read people’s emotions with HoloLens

While everyone else is focus on virtual reality, Microsoft wants to become a pioneer of augmented reality with its HoloLens headset. One of the ways the company plans on doing this...

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Facebook is taking on Skype by adding video calls to Messenger

In a direct move against services like Facetime and Skype, Facebook has added a new video calling feature to its Messenger app. Available in eighteen regions across the globe, this...

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