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The price of 4K monitors could fall to under $400 by the end of the this year, according to Intel. Monitors with 4K support display images at a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, four times the number of pixels found on 1080p high-definition monitors or TVs. The chip maker is working with ViewSonic a

With little fanfare, Nintendo has released the first DS game onto the Wii U in Japan. Brain Age, a brain-training game that sold over 19 million copies worldwide, is available for free download on the Wii U’s Virtual Console until June 30th. It’s a surprising move — president Satoru Iwat

Nearly ten years after first going on sale in Japan, the PlayStation Portable has reached the end of the line in its home market. Sony confirmed that it will stop shipping units to Japanese retailers this month, noting that it made the same move in North America this January. While shipping will als

Japan’s DeNA built its empire from games for feature phones and desktop PCs, but its legacy in leisure isn’t stopping it from tackling more serious matters. The company announced today it has formed the aptly named DeNA Life Science Inc, a wholly-owned company subsidiary specializing in health care.

Pathbrite, a San Francisco-based startup behind a “Portfolio Learning Platform,” has raised $3.7 million from some very peculiar investors. Leading the round is Cengage Learning, which just came out from bankruptcy after reaching an agreement to eliminate billions of dollars in debt. “It’s a good si

It’s obvious Intel wants to be inside your next tablet. But odds are, it isn’t: Revenue for the company’s mobile division was down an alarming 61 percent in the first quarter. And while the future still doesn’t look too promising for Intel-based smartphones, the outfit thinks

Houzz may be on the cusp of a big remodeling project of its own. The Palo Alto, California-based startup, which provides home owners with tips on remodeling kitchens, baths, decks and more, has reportedly snagged $150 million in fresh funding. VCExperts uncovered the series D round, which reportedly

Japan is aiming to launch 5G by 2020 ahead of other countries with support from the Japanese government. Japan is hoping to become the industry leader in 5G, paving the way for other countries to adopt its 5G technology as a global standard. Theoretically, 5G mobile networks will be able to provide

Want to get one of Samsung’s latest and greatest Android tablets with fast LTE data on AT&T? You can snag one very soon… but it might cost you a pretty penny. The carrier will offer both the Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 and Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 on June 6th at respective pric

Police in Egypt want to build a computer system that helps them track what the country’s citizens are discussing on social media. To do this, police are considering proposals from seven unnamed international companies to help them monitor messages of government dissent, calls to protest or str

Japanese gaming company Nintendo has just rolled out a brand new system update for their current generation console, the Nintendo Wii U, which would bump up the console’s software version to 5.0.0, where it will see the inclusion of the long awaited quick start menu option that has been specially de

The BlackBerry Windermere is a handset that we have been hearing about lately. It’s an interesting device since it features a display with an aspect ratio of 1:1, making the phone appear to be very oddly shaped. Now thanks to photos obtained by the folks at N4BB, we now have another look at the Wind

Broadcom has announced it is looking for an exit from the baseband chip market. The company released a statement saying that they are “exploring strategic alternatives for its cellular baseband business, including a potential sale of wind-down.” Leaving the baseband business could mean a

While regulations governing drone flight in the US have become messy, the FAA is plugging along as if it has full control over the rules. It announced today that it is considering a request from seven film studios that wish to be exempt from the ban on commercial drone use, stating there “could be t

When it comes to choosing a smartphone, there are many factors taken into consideration. For those who are planning to use their phones for years to come, as opposed to switching on an annual basis for the latest and greatest, having a phone that can be repaired easily and affordably is key. In the

A few days ago, a leaked blurry image allegedly showed off the Motorola Moto X+1 taking a ride in Chicago’s subway station. It’s hard to tell from the image if the device really was the Moto X+1, so we remained a bit skeptical. That being said, rumors of the Moto X+1 have been floating about for a w

MOG is officially gone. The service was once one of the largest streaming music options available, behind competitors like Spotify and Rdio, but yesterday the site was shut down for good. MOG was purchased by HTC-owned Beats Electronics in 2012 for $14 million, and the streaming music service’

LeVar Burton had no trouble crowdfunding Reading Rainbow for the web; now, he’d like your help bringing it to living rooms and pockets everywhere. His team has announced a $5 million stretch goal that, if reached, will port his literary initiative to mobile devices, game consoles and set-top b

You probably know Dyson for its strange-looking vacuums and fans, but in the 21 years Sir James Dyson has been inventing, he’s cooked up more than high-tech home goods. His coolest contraption yet? An augmented reality headset that looks a lot like Google Glass. Oh, and he invented it more than 10 y

A mind-controlled iPhone? Sure, we’ll take it. A mind-controlled Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1? Why not? A mind-controlled airplane powered by the pilot’s brainwaves? Hold on for a moment while we look for the nearest emergency exit. Using your mind to control an airplane sounds bonkers, but

Live video broadcasting site Justin.tv is freeing up space. Lots of it. The site announced today that it will be deleting all archived broadcasts that are stored on its servers starting next week. That’s seven years worth of video that’s going into the recycling bin. Those videos charter

Don’t look now, but the speedy WiFi router you just bought may already be old hat. Huawei has tested Wi-Fi based on a future standard that can hit 10.5Gbps – about 10 times faster than what you typically get out of an 802.11ac connection today. The trick, the company says, is making more

Upcoming.org was a collaborative events calendar website that launched in 2003. It was acquired by Yahoo! and was eventually shutdown. But the website’s founder Andy Baio wanted to revive the website and so he launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to make it happen. The Kickstarter campaig

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said Thursday he is seeking to file a lawsuit against the contractor who built the state’s failed ObamaCare exchange, but the company says it isn’t to blame. The Democratic governor asked the state’s attorney general to sue Oracle Corp., the main technology contractor for

As the weather in New York City starts to heat up and melt away everyone’s memories of winter, many are starting to feel the burn — of not owning an air conditioning unit. But before the heat gets so bad that your clothes start sticking to your body, transportation company Uber has just the “cool” [

High-stakes reporting like the Pulitzer Prize-winning NSA exclusives by Glenn Greenwald and others requires a great deal of security. Sources have to be protected at all costs, and valuable, classified documents like those leaked by Edward Snowden need to be kept out of the wrong hands. For First Lo

Sure, we can now 3D print stem cells and even whole organs like kidneys, heart, liver and lungs. But 3D printing blood vessels? Now that was a challenge. A team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has managed to successfully fabricate blood vessels using a three-dimensional bioprinting

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The NSA isn’t just interested in pure communications intelligence like call records; it wants to look for faces, too. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA has been using facial recognition software to scan the internet for portraits and match them with investigative data. The

Global tech giant Samsung Electronics. Co. said Sunday it will unveil its SDK for the Tizen OS-based TVs, which can allow software developers to easily make new applications critical for improving user experience. The kit, to be showcased at the three-day-long Tizen developer conference that kicks o

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde — also known as Brokep — has reportedly been arrested in Sweden by police forces after a raid on a farm in the country’s southern region. Nationwide Swedish tabloid Expressen first reported police had captured the 35-year-old. He’s been wanted by Int

While many have been expecting Samsung to launch a mini version of the Galaxy S5 given the company’s past habits, there have been questions about just what the smartphone would include. Would it be as hobbled as last year’s S4 Mini? Maybe not. SamMobile has received photos of a purported

When Intel formally abandoned its IPTV project in a sale to Verizon, the team behind it transitioned as part of the deal. Now, only four months later, the man who’s been in charge of the venture all along has washed his hands of it, too. Erik Huggers, who originally outed Intel’s plan to

With all the patent litigation flying around, it’s reasonable to assume it will affect the price of a smartphone. If a case is lost or settled out of court, one or both sides typically have to pay a patent fee to the other company. That added cost is not blindly absorbed by the company, and [&hellip

Leaving your dog at home as you head out in the morning can be a stressful affair, especially if the canine makes those heartbreaking whines or has a history of bad behavior when left alone. The CleverPet is a device that aims to mollify these concerns by keeping your precious pooch company and enga

AT&T and Verizon have long dominated the American cellular landscape, but there’s always been a top dog (more recently, Verizon). In the first quarter of the year, however, something strange happened — the carriers virtually tied each other for market share, according to estimat

There are two ways to look at the sleazy emails Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel wrote when he was the social coordinator of his fraternity at Stanford. The emails describe him urinating on a girl and talk about shooting fat women with laser tag guns. The first is that they don’t matter: They’r

College football and basketball players have finalized a $40 million settlement with a video game manufacturer and the NCAA’s licensing arm for improperly using the likenesses of athletes, leaving the NCAA alone to defend itself in the upcoming Ed O’Bannon antitrust trial. Lawyers for th

If you thought that the 3D printed robot named Jimmy, which Intel has been showing off this past week was cool, then you will really be impressed by a project that is being worked on by MIT researchers. When picturing our future, and the role in which technology will play within it, we all likely [&

Set your phasers to stunned — researchers in the Netherlands have made a landmark breakthrough in the field of quantum teleportation that could one day see human beings getting beamed from one point in space to another. While that level of technology is still a long way off, the science community is