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Subscribe to Amazon Prime in the UK? Moving forward, you might notice that some of your orders are being delivered in record-time. A sponsored post on The Telegraph reveals that Amazon is offering two-day delivery for products stored in its European fulfillment centers. Over 3 million products will

US Representative, Marsha Blackburn, wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with a “state’s right” to protect private Internet service providers from having to compete against municipal broadband networks. Twenty states have passed laws making it

Water is pretty wild when you think about it: all of its three states of matter are consumable by humans, and one in particular can even give off electrical power. A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered that when water condenses on and spontaneously jumps back and forth b

PredictionIO, a startup that has crafted an open-source program developers can use to add machine-learning smarts into their applications, might just be the setting the tone for the next wave in data technology. More than 4,000 people have shown interest in the project by giving it a star on GitHub,

Snapchat may take a leaf out of Asia’s messaging app playbook when it comes to making money, after two potentially telling trademark filings were unearthed. TechCrunch dug up filings related to processing electronic payments and money transfers. There’s an obvious joke here about ephemeral money tra

Pandora Australia and New Zealand has cracked 2 million registered listeners with the streaming service now attracting two new users every second. However, Pandora’s Australia and New Zealand MD, Jane Huxley, said she isn’t surprised about the growth because of the way the product organi

UST Global, an information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises, has announced a two million dollar strategic investment into Silicon Valley based xTV, a pioneer in new Media as a Service sector. In additional to the investment, UST Global and xTV will partner to bri

Children’s technology company LeapFrog has announced its latest product, a games console to promote learning while gaming. LeapFrog is aiming the LeapTV games console at 3-8 year-olds who may have their eyes on the likes of the Xbox and PS4, providing parents with a more suitable option. It’s simple

If you’ve been put off Verizon’s prepaid mobile plans in the past, due to a lack of fast 4G LTE data, it could be time to take another look. The network has announced that anyone selecting one of its Allset plans can now use a 4G phone, and take advantage of faster data speeds without […]

With the consumer-facing cloud storage space getting ever more crowded, Apple announced its own iCloud Drive offering just last month, Dropbox has not been sitting on its laurels, waiting for its 300 million customers to be lured away by rivals. For one thing it’s been tooling up with lots of acquis

Considering that we spend hundreds of dollars of our hard earned money on our smartphones, safe to say that we’d like them to last as long as possible, right? After all unless you have a lot of disposable income, changing smartphones every few months doesn’t seem like a very feasible thing to do. We

The South Korean government said Wednesday it plans to draw up a 10-year blueprint for the country’s 3D printing industry to turn it into a new growth engine. Under the blueprint, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy will come up with

We may have less than 30 years before robots become as intelligent as humans, and Honda’s taking another big step in the right direction today by unleashing its latest ASIMO on Europe. Do robots like Zungenwurst? The new ASIMO, first shown off earlier this year, is smarter, has better dexterit

This year has been the battle of smart homes among big internet firms. Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion, while Apple announced Homekit at its WWDC conference in June, an SDK that aggregates third party Internet of Things apps into one place. Now Samsung is also planning to enter the battle, as Te

WeChat users in Singapore can now book a taxi inside the messaging app thanks to a tie-up with EasyTaxi. It’s the first such move by WeChat outside of its native China. This taxi-booking function will be extended to other countries where both WeChat and EasyTaxi are available, according to a joint a

Snapchat, the app that lets you send semi-permanent photos to friends, introduced geofilters on Tuesday. The new feature adds a kind of treasure map-style functionality that slathers filters onto your pictures depending on where you are. So, for example, when you’re at Disneyland, you can plaster a

Today AT&T and HTC announced that the HTC Desire 610 is coming to AT&T. The Desire 610 was announced back in February and so it has taken quite some time to make its way over to the US. It competes in the same price class as devices like the Motorola Moto G and the Huawei […]

Almost anyone that has tried to cancel cable service, wireless service, or a gym membership knows how difficult it can be to do over the phone, but a recent call to Comcast by one customer might take the cake for the worst of them all. Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and now at AOL, called [&hellip

The German investigative committee tasked with looking into the extent of the National Security Agency’s meddling in German affairs has decided to go retro in a bid for better security. The committee has acquired a mechanical typewriter, and plans to get more as a way to reduce leaks. The info

Captricity, a startup that helps enterprises digitize their paperwork, faxes, scans, mobile phone photos, and handwriting, is expanding. It hopes to serve more enterprise customers, especially those in the health system including government agencies, insurance companies and health care companies. Wi

Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle’s own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. The software is an option for Oracle’s Big Data Appliance, which incorporates Cloudera’s Hadoop

NetDocuments, the leader in cloud-based document and email management, announced a strategic partnership with Frontier Capital, securing a $25 million equity investment to accelerate NetDocuments’ increasing growth across the legal market. “It’s exciting to see the rate of adoption

Wiimote, PS Eye/Camera/Move, Kinect, Oculus VR. Gaming, at least the hardcore kind, is moving towards a trend that ditches controllers and screens for the instruments that we already have: our bodies. But while our eyes, ears, and hands are more less fooled and pulled into the illusion, the rest of

Unlocking your bootloader can be a complicated and long-winded process, especially if you’re not particularly tech savvy and you’re unsure as to what you might be doing. However some OEMs, such as Sony, have provided its users with tools to unlock their bootloader, but even then the instructions can

Samsung announced today that it has suspended business with Dongguan Shinyang Electronics Co. Ltd. after an investigation into child labor practices. Samsung launched an investigation after a July 10 accusation by watchdog group China Labor Watch that it found evidence of child labor at the factory

The Internet Association, a consortium of major US tech outfits that includes: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter, has presented its joint case in favor of Net neutrality to the Federal Communications Commission on Monday. The group’s position is as straightforward as it get

Has Google reached the point where it needs to be regulated like a utility? At least one German governmental agency is considering that possibility. The Federal Cartel Office in that country has drawn up a 30-page document laying out alternatives if the tech giant is assessed as being too dominant i

Secret, the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it enables the spread of racy but sometimes mean or simply controversial notes about people, places and things. But it is al

Robots tend to be either very rigid or very soft, but neither extreme is ideal; ideally, machines could both squish themselves into tight spaces and remain sturdy for strength-dependent tasks. They just might, thanks to a team-up between MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics. The two have developed

Comcast may have its hands full with its pending Time Warner Cable merger, but the broadcasting giant managed to squeeze in a relatively cheap acquisition with a deal to buy the Wi-Fi router maker PowerCloud Systems. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to reports, Comcast will like

A new version of the Raspberry Pi, the $35 credit card-sized computer, will have a few design changes that will make it more robust, and it will still come with the same low price tag. For those that aren’t familiar, the Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, low-powered full computer that has been used

Researchers from the University of Stanford have developed a microchip that could make it much less costly to diagnose type-1 diabetes. The debilitating disease often strikes children, and the quicker it’s detected, the easier it is to treat. The current test, however, is a time-consuming, cos

Touchscreens have typically been a one-sided affair. Most of the interaction is done from one side of the screen, usually with the one facing you. This means sense as the display and the other components are found on the underside, so it wouldn’t make sense for the user to interact from the other si

As you guys might have heard by now, Sprint and T-Mobile are reportedly interested in merging with one another. Both carriers have expressed interest in the past, and thanks to a recent report from Nikkei, it has been reported that both companies are close to finalizing the deal with one another, me

Trams help us get around the city and they provide an alternative method of transportation to buses or trains , depending on your stop. That being said, is there a huge need for trams to start being more hi-tech? Well apparently in Russia the answer would be yes. There is a new tram that is [&hellip

Dota 2’s The International has been immensely popular, with more than $10 million worth of crowdfunded prizes up for grabs. It’s no surprise, given Dota 2’s Steam domination. So it only makes sense that Valve should consider the same treatment for some of its other properties. Obvi

Yahoo announced last week that it’s acquiring the Israel-based video streaming startup RayV for an undisclosed sum. The company will help Yahoo build on its video offerings, giving the company the technology it needs as it looks forward to video content for the future. The deal first made its

Over the past couple of weeks we have been constantly hearing about the LG G Vista, believed to be the US variant of the LG G Pro 2 Lite. While we have seen leaked renders and specifications of this Verizon exclusive we have yet to find out when it is actually going to be available. […]

Snapchat’s first Our Story collaborative photo experiment was strictly an opt-in affair where you had to add a user to see it at all. However, the ephemeral image service is now trying something much more ambitious: it’s giving every user access to Brazil Final Live, a group photo album

The big news last week was Amazon Web Service’s entry into several new areas, log monitoring and admin with Logs for CloudWatch; collaboration and file sharing with Zocalo; and mobile application development with Cognito, Mobile Analytics and a new Mobile SDK. First, the new logging tool, which I gl