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Speakers are something that is meant to be heard rather than be looked at, although there are some out there who want their speakers to not only sound good, but look good as well, which might explain why companies such as Bose and Bang & Olufsen pride themselves in their technology as well as th
When we think of “sports”, our minds usually go to more traditional activities which have been defined as sports in the past, such as football, basketball, cricket, swimming, badminton, and etc. However in the recent years, the concept of eSports is starting to catch on where playing video games cou
Yahoo has acquired the startup Luminate, a service that focuses on advertising on top of online images, as the Internet giant tries to give its once-mighty ad business a jolt. The service shut down earlier this week, and terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch earlier on Friday reported the
For a long time now, the gradually growing collection of 4K content needed to fill out all those glorious pixels of 4K/UHD (Ultra High Definition) TVs has been promised to land in your living room from the Web. Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and a few other services have helped pioneer the compression of th
4K is so last week. Most of us haven’t added one of those displays as part of our daily workflow yet, and Dell’s 5K option is on the way. The UltraSharp 27 Ultra HD 5K monitor claims a world’s first with said resolution. In terms of dimensions, that’s 5,120 x 2,880 which cloc
Intel’s next-generation chip family, the Core M, will arrive in the real world starting next month as Acer, Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Toshiba start shipping portable devices built around the power-efficient processor. Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s personal comput
Samsung today announced the release of a new Tizen Software Development Kit for the recently introduced Gear S smartwatch. The SDK will let app developers tap into network, call and location based APIs, as well as notifications and the device’s various sensors. While other companies are investing he
Sprint is expanding its 4G LTE footprint through roaming partnerships it has signed with several rural and regional wireless operators. On Friday, it announced that it has struck deals with 15 new rural wireless carrier partners, which will help it cover an additional 4 million potential customers w
Wuaki.tv is preparing to launch 4K Ultra HD content for its smart TV customers. The Rakuten-owned streaming service demonstrated its new 4K streams at IFA 2014 in Berlin, which will be available to British and Spanish subscribers later this year. The new app, due to launch later this year, has been
Four big tech companies embroiled in a Silicon Valley hiring controversy are appealing a judge’s decision to reject a settlement that would have seen them pay $325 million to settle a class action case brought engineers and other employees. According to Reuters, the companies — Apple, Google, Adobe
Don’t call the Motorola Hint a Bluetooth headset. It makes everyone at Motorola wince. They’d rather you call it a wireless earbud, or, in a brilliant slip of the tongue from Motorola design chief Jim Wicks, an “earable.” The Hint is a tiny, Bluetooth-enabled earbud that is d
Several large U.S. tech firms have pledged to “go slow” for a day in order to protest a pending federal decision that could add fast and slow lanes to the Internet. But fear not, the slowdown campaign won’t actually curb your surfing speeds. Rather, companies such as Kickstarter, R
