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Employee exclusive white Xbox One goes up for sale on eBay

A handful of Microsoft employees are looking to make a few extra bucks by selling their exclusive white and silver Xbox One gaming console—a Microsoft freebie gifted to workers in August. Ten...

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HP announces plans to enter the 3D printing market

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman dropped a small bomb on the 3D printer market and said that the company in June will outline enterprise systems that will create models and parts...

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Facebook begins putting premium autoplay video ads in News Feeds

Those Facebook autoplay video ads— well, call them Premium Video Ads. That’s what the social network just announced it would label the long-anticipated marketing tool that delivers video right into users’...

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Amazon Prime’s price bump is only half as much as expected

The price of an Amazon Prime membership was raised Thursday, but only half as much as the online retailer had said it was considering a month ago. Amazon announced the annual membership...

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Netflix detects when you’re asleep and pauses your video for you with new hack

Technology can solve big problems -- the least of which is falling asleep during a movie and losing your place. Thankfully, Netflix staffers have created a solution for this by...

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Australia’s 4G is the fastest in the world, U.S. is the second slowest

Australia's 4G networks deliver the fastest download speeds in the world, but patchy coverage means users only experience those speeds 58 per cent of the time. Australia's top spot in the global ranking...

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Hackers manage to exploit an eight-month-old flaw in Asus routers

Two weeks ago, a group posted almost 13,000 IP addresses its members said hosted vulnerable Asus routers. They also published a torrent link containing more than 10,000 complete or partial lists...

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Pinterest increases focus on international users with revamped mobile site

Within the last year, Pinterest has been keeping an eye on global expansion, primarily by translating its platform into a handful of new languages, including Korean, Finnish, and Russian. Now,...

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Creator of Flappy Bird receives $50,000 per day from ad revenue

The enigmatic and oppressively difficult mobile game Flappy Bird has turned into quite the cash cow for Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen. In an interview, Nguyen revealed that the game, which has been sitting atop the...

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AMD finally launches its much-anticipated Mantle API

After a false start or two, AMD is finally getting the first beta of Mantle out the door. With EA DICE having shipped their Mantle patch for Battlefield 4 and developer Oxide having released...

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