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Samsung announces price and date for Galaxy S5 preorders

AT&T announced today that it will sell the Samsung Galaxy S5 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, or $649 without a contract. Although a launch date has not been set by...

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Mozilla is one step closer to fulfilling its Web-based games plans

Mozilla says that thanks to the upcoming Unreal Engine 4 from Epic, the Web is significantly closer to the goal of Web-based games that rock at the speed of native code. Just in...

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Google acquires smartphone game controller company Green Throttle

While Google has been long rumored to be developing some kind of new set-top box, a recent acquisition might be pointing at the company's interest in gaming outside of just software. Some...

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Ubuntu smartphones will cost between $200 and $400

Canonical tried stepping into the smartphone market with the Ubuntu Edge. The crowdfunded smartphone couldn’t raise enough money, so it never saw the light of day. The company has been focusing...

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Proximity chatting app Yik Yak gets disabled in Chicago

In the years since learning that her daughter had been bullied on the Internet, Sandy Reeves has made a point of following social media trends and tracking new apps where...

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Man files class-action lawsuit against the recently bankrupt Mt. Gox

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange and its owner Mark Karpeles, seeking damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the return of...

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Texas court rules that police cannot search your phone after you're jailed

Expanding the notion of privacy rights in the digital age, Texas' highest criminal court ruled Wednesday that police improperly searched a Huntsville student’s cell phone without a warrant, even though...

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NASA reveals insane mission that could have saved space shuttle Columbia

In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was lost when an accident at launch conspired to destroy it upon re-entry. It was a great tragedy, and one that spurred NASA to develop a...

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Twitter returns a $50,000 username to its original owner

A coveted and allegedly valuable Twitter handle that was reported stolen last month has been reacquired by its original owner. Naoki Hiroshima, the owner of the Twitter handle @N, reported in...

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Hands-on with Samsung's three Tizen-powered Galaxy Gear successors

Samsung was so excited about its new Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches that the company couldn’t even wait for its Mobile World Congress press conference on Monday to unveil them. Instead, Samsung announced the new...

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