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Amazon Prime’s price bump is only half as much as expected
The price of an Amazon Prime membership was raised Thursday, but only half as much as the online retailer had said it was considering a month ago. Amazon announced the annual…
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HTC will keep previous flagships around once the new HTC One arrives
Just like Apple does with previous-generation iPhones when new models arrives, HTC will also keep the previous flagship around once the All New HTC One arrives, Phones Review…
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Candy Crush CEO explains why the company is worth $7.6 billion
The prevailing skepticism about tech IPOs is that frothy valuations sans profits are contributing to a bubble. Yet King Digital Entertainment, maker of the highly addictive game…
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SolarCity and best Buy team up to bring solar panels to the masses
Making what could be the first inroads into mainstream retail for solar energy, the Silicon Valley’s leading solar power provider is now offering its services at Best Buy stores.…
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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…
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Update to Starbucks app makes tipping baristas easier
Starbucks has unveiled a new iPhone app that will allow customers to tip from their smartphone, a move that flexes the coffee giant’s digital muscle and could help line baristas’…
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Video editing software creator Red Giant releases new online community
If you do a lot of video editing, you may be familiar with Red Giant, maker of many useful post-production tools and plugins. Now you can access its offerings through a…
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Opera releases new version of its Opera Mini browser
Opera Mini, which so happens to be the browser version that casts a glance at older devices which happen to still run on Java-based platforms, has been given an update to bump…
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Researchers create the first 3D omnidirectional acoustic invisibility cloak
It might look like a quirky plastic model of an ancient Egyptian pyramid, but this model is in fact a 3D ‘acoustic cloak’, created using just a few perforated sheets of plastic.…
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NASA offers $35,000 bounty for a better asteroid-identifying algorithm
Think you can find Earth-threatening asteroids faster than NASA? Then there is a contest designed just for you: the space agency is calling for citizen scientists to find new…
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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…
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Rooster app makes it easier for busy people to read books
It seems oddly poetic that a team of female entrepreneurs is hatching a plot to upend the e-reader industry with a brand new iPhone app called Rooster. And the world of literary…