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Samsung Galaxy S3 might have been replaced by its successor, the Galaxy S4, but it sure holds a market share that would sound like music to companies like HTC and BlackBerry. If Samsung’s sales figures are anything to go by, you would expect the Galaxy S4 to be the most popular Samsung smartphone in

After after five years of nonstop growth, China’s most popular social network is shedding users. Often referred to as “China’s Twitter,” Sina Weibo dropped from 309 million users at the beginning of 2012 to 281 million at the end of 2013, according to a study from the governm

Two and a half years is a long time to sleep, even for a machine. That’s how long Rosetta has slumbered in its decade-long journey towards the comet where it will land. But in the dead of the night, at 2am PST tomorrow morning, Rosetta will awaken. Rosetta is many millions of miles away from E

Up to 50 percent of parking tickets are dismissed when fought in court, but it takes knowledge and time to do it. New app Fixed will do it for you. Take a photo of your ticket, Fixed contests it, and if it’s dismissed, you pay Fixed 25 percent of the ticket price. If Fixed loses, you pay […]

We’ve yet to hear more details about the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s launch this quarter, but a recent FCC filing at least reveals that it might head to Verizon. According to the documents, a particular variant that goes by model number SM-P905V supports Big Red’s LTE bands. Since the 2

Students at Nordahl Grieg high school in Norway are playing Telltale’s The Walking Dead in class in order to better learn about ethics. Norwegian news outlet NRK.no aired a short piece about the class, which has since been posted to YouTube and subtitled. In the video, instructor Tobias Staaby

In 2012, YouTube comedy group The Bilderbergers released a popular animated sketch called “Amazon Yesterday Shipping,” an extended joke about Amazon.com delivering the things you want before you even order them. And while Amazon still hasn’t perfected time travel, the company now owns a patent for “

Surely by disconnecting your PC from the Internet and bashing your cable modem with a hammer you’ll be safe from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency, right? Wrong. Like a bad sci-fi movie that keeps unveiling unlikely technologies, it’s now being reported that the NSA has been using radi

Intel said Friday it will cut about 5,000 jobs from its work force of 107,000. The world’s biggest chip maker made the announcement a day after it reported earnings that missed analyst targets. Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel, said that the company expects flat sales of its chips due to the

Imagine if your sweater was actually one big computer that responded to being stretched, pressed, or adjusted. That cyborg-inspired future could now be a reality thanks to a team of scientists that has used nanowires to create a new wearable, multifunctional sensor. The sensor uses some of the same

So you dropped some cash and upgraded to a 4-D ultrasound, and now you’re thinking to yourself, “Well I’ve already had my unborn baby’s glamour shots captured in every dimension known to man. Now how else can I prepare for my child’s arrival?”. We’re glad you asked. Have you ever conside

At CES, Nanoveu showed off a version of its nanotech filter for the iPad that lets you see images and video in 3D without special glasses. The Singapore-based company already offers an Eyefly 3D filter for the iPhone, now it’s adding the iPad Air to the mix. Eyefly3D doesn’t automatically make every

We know you share streaming accounts with friends, family and other miscellaneous acquaintances on Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu and so on. Who doesn’t? We also know that every time you login, especially to services that don’t allow multiple accounts as Netflix now does, that you experience a sl

eBay is launching a dedicated Virtual Currency category on eBay Classifieds in the UK on 10th February. The Classified Ads category will allow for the sale of all types of digital currency, including bitcoin and litecoin, eBay representatives have confirmed. eBay Classifieds, which lists posts throu

LG always promised it wouldn’t keep the G Flex to itself, and following its release in Hong Kong and a few other countries just before Christmas, we’ve now got confirmation the flexible phone is about to go on sale in America. The first network to sell the G Flex will be Sprint, and it arrives at th

The all-new 2015 ATS Coupe will be one of the first Cadillac models equipped with new OnStar 4G LTE – a faster and more reliable connection for in-vehicle applications, plus a new built-in Wi-Fi hot spot that can connect up to seven devices at once. With OnStar’s 4G LTE connection, the ATS Coupe bec

Linko, a mobile enterprise startup operating out of Berlin, San Francisco and Helsinki, has just picked up two rather useful things: $2.6 million in seed funding, and another Berlin-based startup called Localstream. Both should help Linko flesh out its customer relationship management (CRM) product,

Starting on Tuesday, the million or so third-party applications that use Twitter data must start encrypting all of their communications with the Twitter API, in order to improve security and maintain data integrity. In a short message posted on its service, Twitter announced that, as of Jan. 14, all

Alienware said its Steam Machine would arrive in the second half of 2014, and it wasn’t lying. The hardware maker revealed during the Steam Dev Days developer conference that it plans to have the Alienware Steam Machine ready for a September launch. Though media aren’t allowed at the eve

China has flight-tested a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle in a move that was scientific in nature and not targeted at any country, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. A Chinese military build-up has raised regional jitters. Many countries in Asia have welcomed a stated U.S. intention to shift m

Intel has put on hold a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona, leaving the new space available for unspecified future technology. The company said in February 2011 it was investing over US$5 billion in the new Fab 42, which was expected to be completed last year. The fab w

The US is starting to see its position in different departments being challenged by newcomers, especially China, when it comes to economic standing in the world’s eyes. Having said that, the US is also the number 2 smartphone market in the world, but their position is rather precarious since The Gua

The power of voice is something that the consumer electronics has taken a closer look at in recent years, and this time around, it would be Motorola Assist that would fall under such a spotlight. This particular Motorola Assist app has been made available for more recent Motorola handsets, where it

Smart curtains do not need you to actually get up from your favorite lounging chair to close or open it, as it has the capabilities of preventing too much light from coming in whenever it is exposed to light. This was made possible thanks to the efforts by the folks over at the University of [&helli

Sprint was the last of the four major U.S. carriers to launch an early upgrade program. And now, less than four months after One Up was first introduced, the program has quietly come to an end. All traffic to Sprint’s One Up page is now directed to a support page that says One Up was retired on [&he

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 might not have been a smash hit to the degree that many industry watchers were predicting, but it is still wildly popular. It’s also the fastest-selling Android smartphone of all time. Executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business Lee Young Hee confirmed last week that th

Snapchat delayed apologizing for a big user data breach last month but was quick to say sorry today to users who received “Snap Spam” over the weekend. “We’ve heard some complaints over the weekend about an increase in Snap Spam on our service. We want to apologize for any unwanted Snaps and let you

The Monsieur Bartender robot comes in a boxy tabletop form factor that functions as a vending machine, albeit serving up cocktails instead of Coke or Pepsi. All you need to do is to key in your order on a colorful touchscreen display or place an order from your phone, and the Monsieur Bartender will

A couple of researchers at the University of Texas Arlington have come up with an even cool concept that you might use in the future to help charge your devices, and that is through the use of minuscule windmills that are apparently so tiny that you could fit about 10 of them on a grain […]

Dogs, just like humans, need their exercise as well, and one of the ways to tell if there’s something wrong with your dog is by looking at their activity levels. If a dog is sick and unwell, chances are it is less willing to run around and play like it normally would. Monitoring your dog’s […

If you’re an off-roading enthusiast you’ve probably already seen those kits that let you replace your truck’s wheels with a set of four tank treads for tackling any terrain. The Track N Go is the same idea, except that you don’t need a garage, a lift, or any kind of mechanica

There’s a lot of talk these days about “digital” initiatives, which tend to be treated separately from plain-old information technology work. But are the two really so different? Yes, says CIO’s Maryfran Johnson, who just presented the results of CIO magazine’s “13th an

Google finally updated its Android distribution numbers today, showing that Jelly Bean has jumped up to almost 60% (59.1%) and Kit Kat to 1.4%. We are also seeing decreases in Ice Cream Sandwich (16.9%) and Gingerbread (21.2%) numbers, something the “fragmentation” champions will certainly be fans o

Later this year, Toshiba will bring a line of televisions to North America that support cloud-based game-streaming, courtesy of the GameNow service from Taiwan-based Ubitus. At CES 2014, Toshiba had its line of smart TVs on display, showcasing GameNow with the Windows PC version of Street Fighter X

Panono wants to make 360-degree pictures as easy to take as throwing a ball into the air. Panono has created a hardened ball with 36 cameras pointing in all directions. You toss the panoramic ball camera into the air and the individual cameras take a picture at the point of highest elevation. Then y

Have you ever watched somebody with long fingernails tap-tap-tapping at their iPhone or iPad screen? It’s painful. Either their overgrown keratin caps skitter over the screen in a chitinous clatter, or they have to approach the screen with the flat pads of their fingers, as if they were carefully gi

Path, the maker of a private social network for your closest friends and family, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding. The new investor leading the round is Indonesia’s Bakrie Global Group, according to Kara Swisher atRe/code. Dave Morin, CEO of Path, confirmed the funding to Re/code,

On January 21st, Beats Music will arrive on iOS, Android, Windows, and the web for a $9.99 monthly subscription. The service, originally known as Daisy, uses a combination of algorithms and human curation to suggest songs, and claims to have a staff of music experts “hand-selecting your playli

Satoshi Sugi, the founder and CEO of Whill, was inspired to create a high-tech wheelchair by a neighbor. “He used a wheelchair, and he told me he had given up even going to the grocery store two blocks away. He didn’t like being seen in public as weak or crippled. I wanted to make a whee

Navigating a city with a child in a stroller is hard enough, but imagine doing the same with a set of twins. Those double strollers are like driving a miniature bus, and you’ll always be on the hunt for ramps, elevators, or a long way around a set of stairs. It’s a problem that designer