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These doomsday planes protect our leaders from the apocalypse

The E-4B is one of the so-called Doomsday planes. In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four...

Court rules that Apple did not violate Motorola patents

Apple did not violate a push notifications patent held by the Google-owned Motorola Mobility according to a ruling posted today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal...

Facebook announces new A/B testing framework called Airlock

Facebook has developed a new mobile A/B testing framework, it announced today. In a post on the company’s engineering blog, engineers Ari Grant and Kang Zhang explained that when Facebook switched to native...

FOBO aims to replace Craigslist as the place to sell your old electronics

FOBO, a new app that offers its users a new way to sell goods via mobile devices, has launched in San Francisco today. When you list an item on FOBO, the app...

Audi shows off Qi wireless charging capability

At every edition of CES, you can be sure that there will also be an area that showcases vehicles as well as the different kinds of technology that has been...

Mushkin unveils new FrostByte heatsink for memory modules

Mushkin has just announced the release of their refreshed FrostByte heatsink for the Blackline as well as Redline memory modules, and you know for sure that these are chock-full of...

Competitors forced to drop prices due to China Mobile iPhone launch

Rival carrier companies are hoping to compete with China Mobile by slashing iPhone prices, which along with Apple's own price cuts for iPads and MacBooks ahead of the heavy shopping...

Apple products will soon account for 11% of global business spending

Are iPhones considered to be gateway devices to other Apple products? There’s an argument to be made for that but as it stands, it seems that thanks to a recent...

Poll shows that 58% of Americans still have a VCR

CES this week allows technology developers to showcase the latest gadgets that may become must-haves for many Americans. As attendees get a glimpse of the industry's future, Gallup finds that...

T-Mobile adds 1.6 million customers in the last quarter of 2013

T-Mobile has been pretty aggressive over the past few months in their bid to attract more customers over onto its network, but has their efforts proven to be a success...

Google announces Google Play Services 4.1

Today, via the Android Developers Blog, Google announced the rollout of Google Play Services 4.1, which offers developers more and better tools to make compelling apps. First off, 4.1 will give...

New Origin computer cases take customization to the next level

Honestly, gaming PC cases are already pretty customizable and flexible, but Origin seems to think there's room for improvement. In order to accommodate as many possible configurations of components, Origin has made...

Facebook will finally be retiring Sponsored Stories

Facebook announced in a blog post to developers on Thursday that it plans to put an end to Sponsored Stories, a type of ad unit that had been troublesome for the social...

PC industry faces worst sales slump in its 30-year history

The personal-computer industry is happy to turn the page on a historically awful 2013. World-wide PC shipments fell 10% last year, research firms Gartner Inc. and IDC said Thursday, the worst-ever...

Gigabyte shows off thin, ultra-powerful gaming laptop

When it comes to gaming laptops, few companies worry about device bulk and heft, since powerful innards capable of rendering amazing graphics at blazing speeds are what really matters for...

Audi shows off book-sized computer capable of driving a car

Carmaker Audi showed off a book-sized circuit board capable of driving a car on Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Audi claims the computer, called zFAS, represents a significant...

India’s poll panel decides not to tie-up with Google

The Election Commission of India Thursday said it has decided not to pursue the proposal for a tie-up with Google for better electoral information services in view of concerns raised about possible security implications. According...

Tizen-powered smartphones are expected by March

Smartphones running on the Tizen operating system, developed by mobile phone operators in Japan, South Korea and China, are expected to be unveiled as early as February to rival those...

Apple might continue using an 8MP camera for the iPhone 6

Word has it that Apple will continue to use an 8-megapixel sensor for its camera, albeit that there will be improvements in other departments. While the number of megapixels that...

BlackBerry’s largest shareholder pumps $1 billion into the company

BlackBerry announced today that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has agreed to purchase, through its subsidiaries, an additional $250,000,000 principal amount of 6% unsecured subordinated convertible debentures of BlackBerry. The additional...