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ASUS wants to become on the world’s top ten smartphone makers

ASUS has already established itself as one of the leaders of the PC market, but since that market has been decaying over the past few years, the company has turned its attention to the mobile market. The company’s entrance into the market a while back was a bit of a surprise, but ASUS has sinc

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Someone managed to hack the OnePlus 2’s invite system

With the number of people signing up for a OnePlus 2 invite quickly approaching the two million mark, many OnePlus fans are worried that it’ll be a while before they actually get their hands on the device. To make matters worse, a developer by the name of Jack Cooper found a way to essentially

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We could each have hundreds of Internet-connected devices by 2040

How many Internet-connected devices do you have? Most of us only have a handful while some may have a dozen or more, but according to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, the Internet of Things revolution will make it so that every person will have more than 1,000 Internet-connected devices within the next 2

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DirecTV could help turn AT&T into a media streaming superpower

Now that Netflix has proven how incredibly lucrative the market for streaming movies and television shows is, everyone and their mother wants a piece of the action. Dish already has Sling TV while both Comcast and Verizon will introduce their own streaming services by the end of the year, but now th

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Misinterpreting emails will be a thing of the past thanks to IBM

Easily one of the biggest weaknesses of written messages is that, without hearing the tone that someone would use were they speaking the message to you, it can be pretty easy to misinterpret what someone is saying. That’s where IBM thinks it artificial intelligence, Watson, can be of assistanc

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Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge sales are starting to nosedive

Despite record-breaking sales at launch, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are starting to lose some serious steam. In the four months since Samsung first released the premium smartphones, both of them have experienced initially excellent sales followed by a massive decline. Although the company is still th

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The first review for the OnePlus 2 has been released… kinda

All this talk about the OnePlus 2’s features and hardware is great and all, but at the end of the day it’s the reviews that really matter, not what’s on the specs sheet. OnePlus couldn’t agree more, which is why the company sent a OnePlus 2 to well-known YouTube tech reviewer

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Tech companies are calling on Adobe to let Flash finally die

You can’t deny that Adobe Flash was incredibly important in the early days of the modern Internet when multimedia was starting to become much more common in web browsers. Unfortunately, you also can’t deny that the dated technology is not only no longer necessary, but more often than not

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Leak: The OnePlus 2 might have a slight larger 5.7-inch screen

According to a report out of China. the OnePlus 2 may have a screen that’s slightly larger than the OnePlus One. A sketch of the smartphone has popped up Chinese micro-blogging network Weibo, and although OnePlus is claiming that it’s fake, the sketch suggests that the OnePlus 2’s

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Netflix will soon be larger than any major television network

Seeing as how it’s not a television broadcast network, it’s not rated by Nielsen. If it was, however, Wall Street analysts at FBR Capital Markets claim that Netflix will soon surpass every major network out there in terms of 24-hour viewership. That includes the likes of ABC, CBS, Fox, a

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Shazam now identifies books and movies as well

For years, Shazam has been THE app for identifying songs that you like but don’t know the name to. After more than fifteen years, however, the company has decided to branch out into something new: visual discover. Whereas Shazam has always been limited to music, the app now has a new feature t

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