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Beats Music will launch its music subscription service in January, likely at CES, and the company is partnering with AT&T to get on people’s mobile phones. Beats Music, the Spotify competitor spearheaded by music industry veteran Jimmy Iovine, will launch in January, according to Beats Music CEO
United Nations forces launched surveillance drones for the first time this week in an effort to track potential violence on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn easternmost borders. United Nations forces in Democratic Republic of Congo launched unmanned aircraft on Tuesday to monitor th
The next generation of USB connectors is on the way. The USB 3.1 will be thinner than current 3.0 versions, will be able to plug in upside down or right side up (thank God), and can move data at 10 gigabits per second. As mobile devices get increasingly slimmer, so too will their corresponding USB c
Developed by famous hacker Samy Kamkar, the new SkyJack drone is capable of hacking other, nearby drones and take control of them. Using a Raspberry Pi circuit board attached alongside two wireless transmitters and a small battery, the drone is able to detect wireless signals of nearby drones, hack
Yota Devices is gearing up to release its unique new dual-screened smartphone called the YotaPhone. The device is a crossbreed between a smartphone and an e-reader and will feature one screen on each side of the phone. You might think it sounds a bit odd, but when you get to play with all the latest
Best known for its Linux distribution, Red Hat’s introduction of OpenShift Enterprise 2 shows that the open-source giant has its eyes on the cloud. Two years ago, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told me that by 2016, Red Hat’s biggest rival would be VMware. Why VMware instead of Microsoft or
LG’s long-anticipated curved smartphone has already hit the South Korea market and will be coming to the American market very soon. The new phone features a curved 720p screen, a very durable build, and a self healing phone body. At a small press event this evening, LG demoed its latest phone,
While China has always supported it own tech industry the country is going a step further by increasing legal pressure in an attempt to encourage companies to purchase their tech from domestic vendors. This new push to favor local tech vendors is due to concerns over potential NSA spying. While Chin
Many Smart TVs don’t really talk to other devices as well as we’d like; integration tends to be basic, proprietary or both. LG may soon have a more elegant solution, as it’s promising AllJoyn support in its TV line. LG Electronics (LG) will be the first company to incorporate the A
Yahoo has hired Ptch, a new mobile video app startup, with the intention of improving the company’s photo and video sharing platforms. The newly acquired startup will be closing down its service in January in order to focus its full attention on Yahoo. Yahoo has acquired Ptch, the startup behi
SES, a Singapore-based satellite communications provider, recently hired SpaceX to launch a $100 million SES-8 satellite which will provide television, cable, and broadband to rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Asia Pacific regions. After two failed attempts last week, SpaceX managed to launc
With certain exceptions, Honda isn’t frequently on the vanguard of car cabin technology. However, we’ll have to toss out our expectations now that the automaker has detailed the 2014 Civic’s center stack. he vehicle will be Honda’s first to use Display Audio, an infotainment
