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GoPro is diving into the world of drones and virtual reality

People have been equipping GoPro cameras on their drones fro years, so why hasn’t GoPro just released its own drone with a camera or two built in? Apparently GoPro has been asking itself the same question, as the company is finally getting around to releasing its own camera-equipped quadcopter

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Netflix is taking a completely new approach to documentaries

There’s no shortage of cooking and food shows on traditional television, but Netflix is taking a different approach from the tried and true formula that most of these shows follow. With Netflix’s first non-fiction series, Chef’s Table, the company isn’t making an exciting travel sh

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Jet intends to dethrone Amazon with stupidly low prices

Jet is an e-commerce startup that has been getting a lot of attention recently for its promises to dethrone Amazon and, despite having not even launched yet, things are looking promising for the company. Although dethroning Amazon will undoubtedly take years, Jet is off to a good start by beating Am

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Cyanogen sees its future in Chinese smartphone manufacturers

The problem with the smartphone market is that the established leaders make it difficult for newer companies to gain ground, and all of them aside from Apple and Microsoft are close to Google. So for a company like Cyanogen that has promised to take Android away from Google, getting companies to ado

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Four games account for 60% of the streaming on Twitch

Numerous games are being streamed at any given time on Twitch, the undisputed king of video game live streaming, but a new study has shown that a mere four games account for nearly 60% of the hours spent watching streams on Twitch. This is according to by data service gameloco.com, which shows that

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OnePlus is seeking funding from Silicon Valley to help expand

While OnePlus has proved that it can make a successful smartphone, the Chinese startup has also proved that it lacks the resources to actually meet the demand for that smartphone. To be fair, the company was less than a year old when the OnePlus One launched and the success of the device was a surpr

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Is it worth it to buy an aftermarket CPU cooler?

You’re computer’s processor almost always comes with a small cooler that, while working well enough that you shouldn’t need to worry about overheating, are about the weakest coolers you can buy, but is it worth buying an aftermarket cooler? The answer to that is a definite yes. Not

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GTA5 for the PC will require seven discs to install and play

Blu-ray may be the disc of choice for the current generation of consoles, but most PC users don’t have the hardware necessary to use them. That’s why PC gamers who prefer physical disks to digital downloads have to stick with regular CDs, and when you have games that are dozens of gigaby

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CyanogenMod 12S has finally arrived on the OnePlus One

It may have taken a few months but OnePlus One owners can finally experience Android 5.0 on their device without having to download and install any unstable test builds. Not only has OnePlus just released its official OxygenOS variant of Android 5.0, Cyanogen has finally released the newest version

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OnePlus is shaking things up with its brand new product

Remember that #OneGameChanger product that OnePlus has been teasing these past few days? Well it turns out that the rumors were true, the Chinese startup has announced a new consumer drone known as the DR-1. OnePlus showed off the drone with some teaser images not too long ago but many people were w

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Images of the upcoming LG G4 Note have been leaked

Obviously LG is working on some big Android smartphones for 2015, but we still don’t know much about them. Everything we have to go on now comes from leaks and the latest such leak has given us some images of what is claimed to be the company’s LG G4 Note phablet. The device is supposedl

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The new Zelda has been delayed until 2016 and won’t be at E3

Well, this is what happens when you gets you’re hopes up, you just set yourself up for disappointment. It looks like what many people were hyping to be the biggest release of the year isn’t even going to be released this year. According to Nintendo, not only will the highly-anticipated n

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HBO is working on a new series with Snoop Dogg

HBO is working on a new drama series set in 1980’s Los Angeles and you’ll never guess who it’s partnering with: Snoop Dogg. next to nothing has been revealed about the series aside from the fact that it will follow a family in LA, may be inspired by Snoop Dogg’s own life grow

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China now has 1.29 billion mobile users

More than 90% of the people in China have a mobile phone which means that, with a population of just under 1.4 billion, the number of mobile users in China is somewhere around 1.29 billion. That shows just how quickly mobile use is growing in the nation, but the most impressive growth is with mobile

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