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When next Tuesday’s 2.0 update hits for the PlayStation 4, Sony will finally turn one of the most ambitious promises it made when the console was first announced a reality. We’re talking about Share Play, of course. We know: the ability to virtually hand a controller off to a pal via the
T-Mobile has done a lot to improve its network over the past couple of years, but even the scrappy “Un-carrier” has admitted that it would not be able to match the network quality of AT&T and Verizon unless it gets access to more low-frequency spectrum, which propagates better than high-frequenc
HP is synonymous with mass-market PCs and notebooks, but according to a report from Re/code, HP is trying it proverbial hand at something new. According to the usual slew of unnamed sources, the company will show off a novel new Windows PC called the Sprout at an event in New York next week. We̵
You might have heard chatter over the past couple of weeks that Verizon will soon be unveiling new device that will be a part of its Droid lineup. According to countless reports this smartphone will be called Droid Turbo primarily because rapid charging is going to be one of its main features. We ha
Eyeing an upgrade to the Droid Turbo? An iPhone 6? Maybe the One M8 for Windows? If you’re on Verizon’s Edge payment program, you’re going to have to be more patient than usual, or at least, open your wallet a little wider. The carrier has confirmed a Droid-Life leak revealing that
Recently China relaxed its decade old ban on gaming consoles and both Microsoft and Sony were quick to confirm that their new consoles will indeed be released in the People’s Republic. While Sony’s plans are still not known Microsoft went ahead last month and released Xbox One in China. Sony has set
It’s Saturday night and you’re desperately scrounging through your fridge to find a few mixer options to suit the pregaming desires of you and your friends, but all you’ve got is an old looking bottle of cranberry juice. It ain’t easy to be the one mixing the drinks. Well, an
In July, eBay announced a partnership with noted auction house Sotheby’s to help bring its inventory of art, antiques and collectibles online via a new live auction format with real-time bidding. At the time, eBay said Sotheby’s was the “anchor tenant” to trial this new format on eBay.com. Today, th
With SpaceX now set to receive its $2.6 billion slice of the manned space travel pie, Elon Musk has sensed the time is right to set the Mars agenda. There is nowhere else on the planet where such private financial power, engineering resource, visionary clout, and now responsibility is concentrated i
The dream of Silicon Alley, New York’s first attempt at crafting a tech hub competitor to Silicon Valley before the “Web 1.0” dot com crash of 2000 to 2001, has been resurrected in the form of a new website called Digital.NYC. Officially launched on Wednesday by New York City Mayor
The BlackBerry Passport definitely isn’t a run-of-the-mill smartphone. The Canadian company took some big chances with its new handset, and it looks like that may have already paid off. Now BlackBerry says it plans to release at least one new “unconventional device” per year. Speaking to Reuters, Bl
Curved TVs were all the rage at CES last January. Now Samsung is hoping to entice PC gamers to pay a hefty premium for a 27-inch curved computer monitor. Where conventional consumer-oriented 27-inch displays with native resolution of 1920×1080 sell for as little as $220, Samsung thinks it can f
Most invisibility cloaks require fairly exotic technology to work, such as fiber optics or light-altering metamaterials. That’s not very practical, especially since the illusion still tends to break when you move. The University of Rochester may have a far more realistic solution, however R
We have seen our fair share of unboxing videos in the past. Heck, we’ve even made a couple of them ourselves, but here’s a rather interesting take – an unboxing video of a smartphone that takes place underwater! Now the smartphone that is being unboxed is the Sony Xperia Z3 which has an IP65/68 rati
I suppose this is just a bit of housekeeping for our readers out there who want to make sure they’re referring to products accurately, but just an FYI: Amazon has decided to drop the Kindle moniker from the full names of its Android-powered tablets. The new tablets are officially dubbed the Fire HD
A new type of radar gun being developed in the United States may one day help Canadian police crack down on people who text and drive. Virginia based Comsonics is developing a radar-like device that would scan radio frequencies of cell phones. The company claims it would be able to tell if someone i
Payment network Ripple Labs just snagged its second and third bank partnership in its quest to create frictionless global payments. CBW Bank, out of Kansas, and Cross River Bank in New Jersey, both say they will use Ripple to make global money transfers and payments. In May Ripple announced its firs
BlazeMeter, the leading load and performance testing as a self-service platform for mobile, web and APIs, today announced the acquisition of Loadosophia, which provides state-of-the-art analytics technology for JMeter users. Andrey Pokhilko, Loadosophia and JMeter-Plugins.org founder, joins BlazeMet