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People Who Crave Approval More Likely To Be Active Facebook Users

Looking for a little affirmation that people like you? You may be more likely to head to Facebook in search of "likes," according to a new study. People who have...

Huffingtonpost

LG’s New G Pad 8.3 Tablet Will Fit in Your Pocket

Ahead of the IFA 2013 trade show in Berlin this week, LG announced that the pocket-sized G Pad 8.3 tablet will be joining its lineup of mobile devices. The device will be...

Mashable

Low-quality photos claim to show ‘iPhone 5C’

As Apple’s September 10th iPhone event approaches, a few new photos claiming to show packaged “iPhone 5Cs” and accompanying materials have surfaced online. The first photo comes from website iApps.im, and it purports to...

9to5mac

This is Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch

Samsung is set to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch next Wednesday, Sept. 4, in Berlin. But this weekend, we got a first look at the watch. Here it is. The press has...

Venturebeat

Windows 9 rumored for next year, Windows 10 to be ‘cloud OS’

According to an anonymous source who goes by WZOR (and who has been behind numerous Microsoft leaks in the past), Windows 9 will see the light of day in 2014. No other...

Digitaltrends

How Isaac Asimov correctly predicted 2014 tech in 1964

Isaac Asimov was a pretty cool guy. He’s famous for his science fiction (I, Robot, the Foundation series), but he wrote or edited more than 500 books, fiction and non-fiction...

Techhive

Samsung Gears Up To Kick Off Smartwatch Race

Samsung’s Galaxy Gear appears to be a decent enough lead-off batter for the smartwatch line-up; rumors suggest it’ll have a decent internal processor (1.5GHz dual-core), 1GB of RAM, a 4...

Techcrunch

Apple ups its odds of gaining on Samsung in China

Apple has bigger designs on the biggest smartphone market in the world. New iPhones could help Apple catch up with Samsung in China -- Samsung is now the single largest...

Cnet

HTC’s top designers reportedly in custody after stealing trade secrets

Engadget's Richard Lai cites several Chinese sources as reporting that HTC "caught Chien secretly downloading files related to the upcoming Sense 6.0 UI design" and sharing the data with external...

Theverge

Dropbox dismisses hack demonstrated by developers

Two developers have cracked Dropbox's security, even intercepting SSL data from its servers and bypassing the cloud storage provider's two-factor authentication, according to a paper they published at USENIX 2013....

Computerworld

When Stalking Steve Wozniak Pays Off

"I found out he was in town on a Sunday," Akhtar tells Mashable. "I met him on Monday. Then he was gone by Tuesday. Everything happened so quickly." The story...

Mashable

Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013

The winners have just been announced in the 3rd edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition. The overall winner, top 10 category winners and top 50 finalists...

Theatlantic