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Canon has introduced two new lenses into its range, two super wide angle lenses join the EF line-up, with one – a 16-35mm, designed for full-frame (35mm) cameras, and the other, a 10-18mm, designed for crop (APS-C) cameras. First up, the EF 16-35mm f/4 is an “L” lens, which places

It’s a busy week for Anaplan: They open their user conference later today, announced $100M in new funding and introduced Anaplan Hub, a marketplace where customers can share and find pre-designed planning models ready to adapt and use. Company president and CEO, Frederic Laluyaux said you could thin

AT&T is in advanced talks to acquire DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, for about $100 per share, according to people familiar with the matter. Under the plan being discussed, DirecTV management will continue to run the company as a unit of AT&T and DirecTV Chief Executive Offi

AT&T will now let you order items online and pick them up at a local AT&T Store on the same day. So if you’re out of town and forgot a phone charger, or your tablet broke, or you’ve decided to buy a new device, you can purchase it at home without the need to wait […

It looks like the first Tizen-based Samsung smartphones are finally getting closer to release. The Korean electronics giant is preparing to launch a Tizen-based smartphone in Russia and India, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Russian release will reportedly coincide with the Tizen Developer

The Chinese government has given the country’s state-run telcos more room to determine their own pricing for mobile phones and services, as it looks to introduce more free-market principles in the industry. Prices now can be set by market forces as long as these are deemed legal and fair to cu

LG has announced three new G Pad tablet models: The G Pad 7.0, G Pad 8.0 and G Pad 10.1. Exact specifications of these three devices, which now form LG’s G Pad series alongside G Pad 8.3, have not been revealed. However, the main difference between them seems to be the screen size: 7, 8, and 1

In many ways, our bodies have a tremendous capability to heal themselves, but occasionally they do need help. Of course the catch with giving our bodies help is making sure it does not fail or ultimately hurt the body. Researchers at Rice University have recently developed a hydrogel that solves the

It seems that the “mini” craze when it comes to a particular smartphone model has not exactly gone out of fashion – far from it. In fact, the “mini” version of a particular smartphone model is getting more and more commonplace, and with the latest Samsung Galaxy S5, that too, will be on the receivin

Storage is now marching down the same path as computing, approaching a future when all of an organization’s storage systems can be mixed and managed as virtual pools. On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for so-called software-defined storage, an area where establishe

Alibaba Group’s cloud computing unit has officially opened its Hong Kong data center, making it the fourth of such facility and a week after it launched its third in Beijing. Aliyun on Monday formally launched the new Hong Kong site, which is jointly built and operated with Hong

Sure, the invisibility cloak that has been seen in numerous science fiction as well as fantasy movies have remained elusive, although there has been strides made in that department to date. How about a more innovative method of camouflage? Mother nature leads the way again in terms of inspiration wi

Electronic Arts’ Online Services Updates page has added a long list of games that will lose online functionality come June 30. Some of the notable games on the list include Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2142, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Crysis 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2,

Back in 2013, Pantech announced the Vega Secret Note handset, which by all accounts appeared to be a competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The handset is powerful in its own right, but it looks like with the Vega Note’s successor, Pantech could be stepping things up. According to reports out of S

A new tablet referred to as the “MiPad” is soon to be released from Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi. The launch of a tablet follows on Xiaomi’s release of the Redmi Note, a 5.5-inch phablet that sold 1000,000 units in 34 minutes upon its release in March. Sources tell Reuter

Iran says it has “succeeded” in copying an American drone it captured in 2011 and will soon take the replicated aircraft on a test flight. State television in Iran broadcasted images Sunday apparently showing a replicated US RQ-170 Sentinel drone alongside the original one, according to the AFP. &#8

Today marks the official introduction of Intel’s 9 Series chipset. Motherboards based on the chip have been selling for weeks, and we’ve even reviewed one of ’em, but the press embargo for the chipset didn’t lift until just now. Go figure. This chipset launch is unusual in an

Back in February, Mozilla announced that it was working on a replacement page for the ‘new tab’ view in its Firefox browser that would suggest content to users as well as offering sponsored sites. The move was met with considerable backlash from users, with many threatening to drop the browser if th

While electric vehicles are gaining popularity in the automotive world, the aviation industry is also looking into ways to clean up its act. French firm Airbus is best known for its large passenger jets–including the double-deck Airbus A380–but its latest project is rather smaller. The E

Russia has given The Sims 4 an 18+ rating because it allows for same-sex relationships. The Sims’ Russian Twitter account first announced the rating earlier this week. When a fan asked why The Sims 4 was given an 18+ rating while 2009’s The Sims 3 did not, The Sims’ Russian Twitter account explained

It might look like just another Audi R8, but Ingolstadt tells us this one is different: it is the limited edition Audi R8 LMX with laser-enhanced LED high-beam headlights. Audi introduced the laserlight technology on its R18 E-tron Quattro LMP1 race car and then promised a production version of it a

Most fitness wearables wrap around your wrist or clip to your belt, but the folks at OMsignal have distilled the category down to its most basic form: the shirt. “We’ve been wearing clothing all our lives,” company CEO and founder Stéphane Marceau says. “It’s the most n

The Federal Communications Commission isn’t expected to officially release an updated net neutrality proposal until May 15th, but that isn’t stopping activists from protesting an expected provision that would allow for some “paid traffic prioritization.” And activists might have just gotten some pow

Underwater travel is the next frontier of international transportation — if you are the kind of futurist who would believe a report made by a state-run Chinese news outlet. The Washington Post, citing this Bejing Times story, reports that the train of our nautical dreams is happening: “The pro

Finally, a solution to the age-old parenting question: Is this scrap of paper my child just scribbled on worth keeping? Am I bad parent if I secretly toss it in the trash? Will I regret not having this interpretation of a purple cross-eyed dog-asaurus in years to come? Fret no more. Keepy has you co

The White House promised that it would open up government data last year, and it’s now expanding those plans in some intriguing directions. For one, it’s opening up the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s digitized collection; you’ll soon get to build apps and other tools using

Konami has released its financial report for fiscal year 2014, which ended March 31. The company’s overall net income for 2014 was 6.2 billion yen ($60.9 million), down from 13.2 billion yen in 2013. Net revenue also dipped, though not as much: 217.6 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in 2014, down fr

The International 2014, the biggest upcoming premiere DOTA 2 tournament event, is now set to be the esports tournament with the largest single prize pool in video game history having exceeded $2.8 million in prize money. Community contributions through Compendium sales pushed last year’s total to $2

Twitter has made a couple of changes to the service’s login process to help prevent account takeovers and enable users to reset their passwords in a simpler way. A Twitter account is among the more valuable assets for an attacker who is targeting a specific person. Accounts typically are tied to a u

Twitter offers a surprising freedom of expression within 140 characters, but what if you want to hide a message in plain sight — say, to get around censorship? Well, it’s now as easy as pie. Matthew Holloway has built a web tool that uses steganography yo put secret phrases inside your t

Earlier this week, many of the biggest technology companies on the planet sent a letter to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler arguing strongly in favor of an open internet. Now, Wheeler has issued a direct response, saying “my commitment to protect and preserve the open internet remains steadfast.&#8221

If you don’t believe the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger will make Comcast an even bigger threat to net neutrality, you probably haven’t heard the whole story. As Comcast attempted to lay out the benefits of the $45.2 billion merger yesterday before Congress – a deal which would corral up to 40

While regulatory approval has been known to halt a merger in its tracks, a $35 billion pending acquisition that could have resulted in the largest advertising agency on the planet has been scrapped for decidedly more personal reasons. U.S.-based advertising giant Omnicom and its French counterpart P

Web hosting company NeoCities is throttling all connections from the FCC to its site to 28.8kbps, until the FCC signs up for an exclusive, $1000 a year subscription plan to remove the cap. Lots of companies on the web are complainingabout the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to tra

Intel has acquired its own Siri-like personal assistant software from Israeli company Ginger for as much as $30 million according to some estimates. Intel hasn’t flat-out purchased the company entirely but instead hand picked its natural language processing tools and applications assets includ

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have created the most accurate model yet of how our universe formed, and you can watch it right here in the beautiful, trippy video below. “Watching the video is like flying through the universe way faster than the speed of light and watching galaxies as they are

Times Internet’s Gaana.com has launched its upgraded Gaana 4.0 mobile app, integrating music videos and lyrics into its popular music streaming service. With a host of new features, music videos and lyrics are integrated seamlessly within the application. The all new Gaana.com app will enable

A toddler who was born deaf might eventually be able to hear for the first time, assuming all goes well with the surgical procedure that implanted a device on the boy’s brain stem. After all, this is considered to be the next step up just in case a cochlear implant fails to work. The entire operatio

We do know that the LG G Flex smartphone does come with a kind of self-healing cover, but that material has not really made an appearance anywhere else. Well, fret not, as in a laboratory located in the University of Illinois, a smooth sheet of plastic will not only heal itself, but it goes one up [

So apparently, this Skylanders thing is quite a big phenomenon. Selling individual toys to interact with games? How genius! So genius that Disney has taken a stab at using some of its characters in a similar way, and now Nintendo is looking to get in on the action too. Rumors were flying around earl