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Google is planning to merge Android and Chrome OS

Apple likes to put its products through rigorous reviews and tests in order to ensure that they'll be popular and well received from the beginning. Google, on the other hand,...

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Nintendo will reveal more info on its first mobile game tomorrow

Aside from confirming that it's working on a handful of games for smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has remained annoyingly silent regarding its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, but it's finally going...

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Xiaomi has reaffirmed its plans to expand to the United States

Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the...

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IBM is disturbingly eager to hand data over to the Chinese government

In a move that's pretty much guaranteed to create controversy back in IBM's home country, the company has reportedly started allowing officials from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to review...

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Samsung has another Tizen-powered smartphone on the way

Tizen hasn't exactly risen to challenge Android's dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn't really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful...

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Google is trying to make its self-driving cars more human-like

Safety is one the primary focuses and selling points of self-driving cars, which is why companies like Google have been working so hard to make them safer than human drivers could...

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Apple is reportedly aiming for a 2019 launch date for its car

Analysts have been predicting that we won't see Apple's much-rumored electric car until at least 2020, but apparently the company has started speeding things up to the point where it...

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Facebook is working on a stand-alone virtual reality video app

Considering how the company spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR last year, it's clear that Facebook is really interested in the virtual reality market. The company isn't leaving the...

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WeChat will soon offer users as much as $30,000 in personal loans

Asian messaging apps are like Swiss Army knives for mobile devices; they come packed with tons of functionality that you wouldn't really expect to see in a messaging app, from...

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Amazon plans to release a $50 budget tablet later this year

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It's worked out pretty damn...

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