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Microsoft is taking on Chromebooks with ultra-affordable Windows devices
It used to be that if you only wanted to pay $199 for a brand-new laptop, you'd have to try your luck on Black Friday or pick up a Chromebook....
Snapchat is revolutionizing the way we share live events
Snapchat's first Our Story collaborative photo experiment was strictly an opt-in affair where you had to add a user to see it at all. However, the ephemeral image service is...
Google’s co-founders have ensured that they won’t be killed by Terminators
The Connor family may be doing a great job preventing Skynet from becoming self-aware and declaring war on humanity, but Google apparently isn't taking any chances. The internet giant has...
Microsoft is developing a version of the Office suite for Android tablets
Microsoft has seeking people to beta test versions of Office for Android, a clear sign that the company is moving towards a full consumer release of its popular software suite...
Cortana has been able to flawlessly predict World Cup outcomes
You’d be rolling in money right now if you took World Cup gambling advice from Microsoft’s virtual personal assistant. Cortana still has a perfect record at prediction World Cup elimination...
Samsung has exposed the horrendous conditions at its suppliers in China
An independent study commissioned by Samsung found that working conditions at suppliers in China are pretty horrendous—they’ve been that way for awhile now. The sustainability report shows that many issues...
Microsoft is reportedly bringing folders to Windows Phone 8.1
One of the ways Microsoft made its mobile platform different from its rivals was to go in a completely opposite direction with the user interface. It employs live Tiles instead...
Hyundai’s new car will automatically slow down for speed cameras
We’re sure there are more than a few of us who have been pulled over for speeding or who have been caught on camera speeding. However if you drive along...
These students are working on sending a time capsule to Mars by 2017
Most people will bury a time capsule, but a group of brilliant young minds will surely find something more exciting to do with it, like sending it off to Mars....
Over 300,000 servers are still vulnerable to Heartbleed
Over 300,000 servers out of the 600,000 that were vulnerable to Heartbleed are still unpatched two months after the nasty vulnerability in OpenSSL was discovered by a Google engineer. The...
NASA wants to capture an asteroid within the next five years
NASA says it has tentative plans in place to launch an Asteroid Redirect Mission robotic spacecraft as early as 2019—that’s, uh, only five years from now. A specific asteroid will...
Elon Musk is worried about a Terminator-like future as AI tech progresses
Artificial intelligence has come a long way from when it first started. For example Google is now able to predict the type of searches we want to make even before...
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