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Leaked Oppo N3 smartphone photos show a rotating camera

A smartphone with a rotating camera? Now where have we heard of this particular idea from before? I suppose you would have to roll back a fair number of years...

Netflix has finally launched in France

Netflix has finally said ‘bonjour’ to France after the video-on-demand site marked its long-awaited arrival in the country, another part of its ambitious European expansion program. Announced via a tweet,...

Media storage company Front Porch Digital has been acquired by Oracle

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Front Porch Digital, a provider of technology for migrating, managing and monetizing large-scale media content. The financial terms of the transaction were not...

Colorado teenager develops a fingerprint-activated handgun

There have been a lot of debate about gun safety over the years, and there have been many suggestions that have come up. For example earlier this year gun manufacturer...

Motorola’s Moto X smartphone is going up for pre-order on Tuesday

Earlier this month, Motorola officially announced the new Moto X, its latest flagship smartphone, offering enhanced specs and a slew of customizable options. But when is it actually availble for...

HP is looking to sell off its online photo sharing service Snapfish

Hewlett Packard purchased online photo sharing service Snapfish back in 2005 for over $300 million. The service is currently part and parcel of HP’s printing and personal systems group but...

The BlackBerry Passport is reportedly coming to T-Mobile

If you are a fan of the BlackBerry product lines, you’ll probably know that in ten days time, the Waterloo company will be officially announcing their new flagship handset which...

Luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer is looking to enter the smartwatch race

It looks like luxury watchmakers were waiting to see what Apple had planned before entering the smartwatch race. Less than a week after the company's Apple Watch announcement, Tag Heuer...

This Chinese city has a sidewalk just for smartphone addicts

Tools like hands-free kits and Siri might mean that you don’t have to have your face constantly buried in your iPhone, but for most people the reality is that using...

Researchers have developed a radio that’s the size of an ant

This is the promise of the near future: all of your gadgets — from your smartphone to your fridge — will be able to talk to each other, wirelessly communicating...

NASA is building the largest rocket in the history of mankind

The head of America’s space program came to New Orleans Friday, and joined legendary performer Irma Thomas to stare in awe at one of the biggest machines either had ever...

Those excavated ET video game cartridges are being auctioned off

Remember when Xbox Entertainment Studios and Lightbox Entertainment spent a weekend digging up a bunch of Atari cartridges from a landfill? Both studios may have gotten the documentary footage they...

New malware is spreading through Twitch and targeting Steam accounts

If you use gaming video streaming site Twitch, you’ll want to be careful what you click on. A new piece of malware spread through Twitch’s chat feature will attempt to...

US Senator demands the restoration of 10 years of online public records

The head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is urging the federal bureaucracy to restore a decade's worth of electronic court documents that were deleted last month from online viewing...

WordPress has reset 100,000 accounts as a precautionary measure

It was rather big news when earlier this week, it became known that up to 5 million Gmail usernames and their corresponding passwords were published over at a Russian Bitcoin...

More details about the BlackBerry Classic have been leaked

It looks as though much has been leaked concerning the upcoming BlackBerry Classic smartphone, and if all of that are not enough for you, then it would be ideal for...

California wants to ban fines for negative online reviews

California wants to stop companies from retaliating against customers who leave bad reviews. Last Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that bans them from adding "non-disparagement" clauses to their...

Tiiny is Digg’s co-founder’s approach to sharing your photos online

The Internet is a cool place to hang out in, but there are times when you might want to think twice about the security of your accounts. After all, we...

Computers still aren’t smart enough to read lips, and won’t be for a while

Reading lips is a skill usually reserved for fictional spies or the hearing impaired, but researchers have spent years trying to gift the talent to computers, too. A device capable...

This program teaches computers how to understand music lingo

The vocabulary we use to describe music can be tough enough for a human to grok (really, what does it mean when a guitar riff is "crunchy"?) but a team...