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The next big thing is here, as Samsung likes to say in its ads. But fewer people appear to be buying it. Samsung, which is based in South Korea, on Tuesday published a financial earnings preview that forecast a profit of about 7.2 trillion won, or $7.1 billion, for the three months that ended in [&h

AT&T on Monday announced availability details for the LG G3, one of the most impressive Android flagship handsets to hit stores this year. The carrier will start taking pre-orders online for the smartphone on July 8, while in-store sales will begin on July 11. The G3 will cost $199 with a new tw

ATM skimmers, the miniature devices that stealthily help fraudsters capture your credit and debit card data, are getting smaller and harder to detect. Skimmers have always been designed to blend in with any ATM they’re attached to, but for years a discerning eye or tug of the card reader were

Amazon.co.uk has revealed a new store dedicated to wearable technology. The store features more than 100 wearable tech devices. Amazon revealed a wearable technology section for its U.S. site back in April 2014. The devices in the new U.K. store include fitness trackers, smart watches, and wearable

Get ready to start building the smart home of your dreams. Home Depot and Wink announced today a series of Wink-enabled connected appliances, such as light bulbs, window shades and water heaters. The products are available for sale at the retailer’s 2,000 U.S. stores. The Wink-enabled products

While 4K video is available on both YouTube and Netflix, most of us are still waiting for it to reach mass adoption,and Europe might reach that goal soon The 4K video format has roughly four times higher resolution than regular HD. Recently, the DVB Steering Board approved a new DVB-UHDTV standard f

Last year, the European commission launched a 10-year, $1.6 billion project to create a supercomputer simulation of the human brain, dubbed the Human Brain Project. Now, nearly 200 prominent scientists are threatening to boycott the project, saying it has gone badly off track and may be doing real d

Argentina’s equivalent of the Recording Industry Association has found itself the target of hackers, who changed its website into a Pirate Bay proxy. The hacked site displayed torrents instead of its usual offering of industry lobbying matters. There were initially no claims of responsibility,

It does seem as though we are unable to live without Wi-Fi hotspots in this day and age, never mind the fact that many of us already have some sort of data plan to go alongside our tablets and smartphones. Having said that, there is always no harm in experiencing faster Wi-Fi, right? Apparently, the

Now this is definitely an interesting statistic no matter how you look at it – Ubuntu Touch, a mobile operating system platform that is ready, technically speaking, for a commercial release, has already hit the 100,000 app downloads mark. While this is far too small compared to the 1 billion downloa

The LG G Pad 10.1 was announced a couple of months ago, and here we are with word that this particular tablet has just seen a global launch. Being the largest tablet in the G Pad series, the LG G Pad 10.1 happens to be the ideal tool for on-the-go media consumption, since it comes […]

Robots are naturally more efficient than human beings. This is because they do not require sleep or food, and won’t be distracted by things such as conversation with its co-workers or standing around the water cooler while gossiping about what goes on in the office. That being said, Foxconn’s Terry

For the most part, our smartwatches are required to be tethered to our smartphones via Bluetooth in order to gain functionality, such as notifications of messages, emails, incoming calls, music playback control, and so on. Now it’s hard to forget something strapped to your wrist, but your phone? Wel

Smartphone charges come in all shapes and sizes, and while the ones that are usually bundled with our phones are more than capable of getting the job done, aesthetically they might not necessarily be the most pleasing thing to the eye. That being said, if you’re interested in a more nicely designed

Chinese manufacturer Huawei recently launched a new smartphone in China and to sell it the company looked towards an unconventional sales channel: a messaging application. WeChat is one of the most widely used messaging application in China and Huawei teamed up with it to sell the new Honor 6 smartp

The Android community just got a big scare. In the space of a few days, Qualcomm has both made and retracted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request that took down 116 code repositories. As it turns out, quite a few of the targets were legitimate users running the company’s open source soft

For the past few years, NASA’s been working on a powerful rocket called the Space Launch System meant for missions to the moon, Mars and other places far from our planet. While the rocket’s not quite ready to take Bruce Willis to an asteroid, it’s at least getting nearer to a launc

Zack Danger Brown of Columbus, Ohio wanted $10 to make some potato salad, so he went to Kickstarter. Now he has more than $2,000 to make potato salad, proving a long-standing theory here at Snacktaku, potato salad is pretty great. Thanks to his eloquent pitch and exposure on the likes of CNET, Zack

Late Saturday night, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell of a report related to a trove of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The documents included 160,000 e-mail and instant-message conversations intercepted by the NSA, as well as 7,900 documents tak

There are four looming threats casting a shadow of doubt on the prospect of maintaining an open Internet by 2025, according to a canvassing of more than 1,400 experts by the Pew Research Center Internet Project. The experts were posed this question about the future of the Internet: “By 2025 will the

Feel an ache in your wallet? Sweating palms that yearn to hold molded plastic? A constant craving to play games like Tearaway, Gravity Rush and Uncharted: Golden Abyss? Fear not friend, for according to Sony representatives, these are but symptoms of a “healthy consumer demand” for a Pla

So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets sick. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it’s currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is

Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was filled with images and words from Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer who hosted Cosmos: A Personal Voyage when it origi

After uproar in the UK over taxi app service Uber, Transport for London has ruled that it is not breaking any laws. There has been growing upset over recent months about apps like Uber not being held to the same standards as London’s traditional Hackney Carriages, or black taxis. The Licensed

Dota 2’s world championship tournament, AKA: The International, will feature a “Newcomer’s Broadcast” this year to help those unfamiliar with the game’s extensive jargon acronyms keep up with the action. “New to Dota? Or maybe you play Dota but have never gotten i

This is the last day for the second Mayday.US fundraiser, where you can help Larry Lessig raise $5 million to elect Congressmen who will fight for campaign finance reform and against the corrupting influence of money in politics. Lessig’s idea is to create a “super PAC to end super PACs,

A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message conversations on the Internet.” Called Invisible.im, the independent software platform is being developed specifically fo

RoboEarth. No, it’s not a lame SNES game from 1994, it’s a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new, related project has sprung from that initiative at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University

In the 30 years since Alexey Pajitnov first launched Tetris, the world’s most popular game has regularly been immortalized in fashion. Luxembourgian Mark Kreger wanted to do the same, but instead of cooking up a colorful print, he’s staving off boredom with something much more interactiv

A new law passed by Russian parliament today requires that internet companies store the personal data of Russian users inside the country’s borders, a move that could make it easier for government officials to keep tabs on citizens. Members of parliament have defended the bill as a measure to

The FDA has proposed a new set of social media guidelines that will require drug companies to tweet their products’ side-effects to the world, reports The Wall Street Journal. Though still tentative, the proposal would make it so that all the benefits and the side-effects of a company’s produc

Linux Journal is reporting that apparently the NSA considers it an “extremist forum” and the NSA may also be targeting Linux users for increased surveillance. Linux Journal’s information is based on reports issues by German media that disclosed details on who the NSA has been targe

“Wake up sleepy head… it’s time to go to the gym.” “Put down those chips!” “Stop wasting time on Facebook.” If any of the above statements resonate with you, then you’re not alone. Maneesh Sethi, author and Stanford alumnus has said all of the ab

The British hydrogen fuel cell company Intelligent Energy has floated on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of $1.1 billion. The firm raised $69 million in the Thursday IPO for 8.8% of its shares, along with $27 million from Singaporean wealth fund GIC, which now owns around 10 percent of the

You’d think the world of hobbyist mini computers would be full, considering that you’ve got a choice of Arudino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, and even Intel’s NUC. That hasn’t deterred SolidRun, which is releasing the HummingBoard as a more powerful alternative to the Raspberry

A few months ago, HTC announced the HTC Desire 516. Unlike the HTC One series of smartphones, the HTC Desire lineup tends to be more of a low-mid range offering, which is great for customers who are shopping on a budget. That being said, the Desire 516 appeared to be limited to the Chinese market [&

We’re sure many of you guys have heard the news earlier this week, where the FCC alleged that T-Mobile had made “millions” by charging customers bogus items to their bill. Naturally T-Mobile wasn’t too pleased by the accusation, but regardless of the FCC’s claims, T-Mobile has recently announced tha

Sprint and LG, maker of the acclaimed G smartphone series, including the newly announced LG G3 and innovative, curved LG G Flex, are teaming up to bring customers the highly anticipated LG G3 in exclusive runway-worthy shine gold or metallic black. This next generation of the award-winning LG G fami

An investigation by the German broadcasters ARD and WDR has apparently demonstrated the targeting by the NSA of a German student called Sebastian Hahn, who runs a node on the anonymization network Tor. It has also shown that anyone searching for “privacy-enhancing software tools” online may be marke

Remember UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s China Lite web blockade, the one that was set up to keep British children from stumbling across Internet Pornography and other assorted subjectively objectionable material? While being ostensibly “for the children,” the default settings ar