Google Glass might not even cost $100 in bill of materials, according to a new teardown analysis. A Google Glass teardown from last year revealed that the bill of materials for the device was at $208. Even accounting for the cost involved in customizing the hardware to fit into the unique design of the Glass, [...]
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The press invite sent out by Motorola suggests that the company will be unveiling the successor to the value-for-money Moto G. Motorola has sent out a press invite for a smartphone launch event on May 13 in London, and the teaser text hints at the arrival of the Moto E. As previous leaks have revealed, [...]
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AMD launched yesterday its mobile followup to Kabini and Temash with a bevy of synthetic benchmarks, but absent were hardware wins. AMD “launched” Beema and Mullins Tuesday, its latest mobile offerings and a followup to Kabini and Temash. In a nutshell these two chips are repackaged versions of Kabini and Temash with slight bumps in [...]
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Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 heightens BioShock’s immersive atmosphere. BioShock originally used a modified version of Unreal Engine 2.5 to handle everything. Like other classicgames, it looks great to this day despite running on old technology. A gripping universe of believable characters, and detailed, thoughtfully put-together environments go a long way in helping the game [...]
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Nod, a venture-backed startup that is already at advanced-prototype stage, is now offering its gesture-control ring for pre-order at $149. Gesture control is all the rage, especially with wearable devices gaining ground among both early adopters and the mainstream population. Smartwatches still work on the same principle of touchscreens, like with their smartphone counterparts. But [...]
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Google is said to be undertaking a new mobile strategy which sees the search giant axing the Nexus line in favor of a new Android Silver initiative. Earlier this month, slides unearthed by Android Police mentioned that Google was working on a new Android Silver program that is aimed at showcasing high-end Android handsets at [...]
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The card that’s already too powerful to have a defined use case gets overclocked by Sapphire. Earlier this month AMD released the card without a cause, the dual-core Radeon R9 295X2. The extreme niche of 4K gaming can be handled reasonably well by either a Radeon R9 290x or GeForce GTX 780 Ti, and these [...]
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Job listings show that the retail giant is hiring former Calxeda engineers. Amazon may be the latest organization looking to make custom hardware. The retail giant has hired several engineers who used to work at Calxeda and has job postings on its site that call for microprocessor design expertise. A look through LinkedIn listings suggest [...]
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An excavation team finally confirms the reality behind one of gaming’s most notorious urban legends. Whenever someone mentions the infamous gaming crash of 1983 in the United States, the game that is always popularly mentioned is E.T. the Extraterrestrial for the Atari 2600. Never again was a game ever blamed wildly (even excessively) for such [...]
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Galaxy S5 Prime is slated for an official release in the month of June, which is when LG is said to launch its QHD device, the G3. Looks like we may not have to wait all that long for the Galaxy S5 Prime to make its official debut, as unnamed officials talking to Asia Today [...]
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Google’s automated cars might be already more attentive than human drivers — and they’re still in beta. The idea that cars one day might drive themselves make many people — especially regulators — uneasy. While a computer has a much faster reaction time than a human, and is able to simultaneously process information from a [...]
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Gigabyte’s liquid cooler is ready to take on other liquid coolers from the likes of Asus. At Gigabyte’s Tech Tour product showcase held last week in Taipei, the company showed off its new WaterForce liquid cooler designed for its GeForce 780 Ti line. Water cooling seems to be all the rage these days, out of [...]
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Dimple connects via NFC and allows you to add four customizable buttons to your device. Pressy’s successful Kickstarter showed us that there was a market for customizable hardware buttons. Then Xiaomi announced that it would be offering a similar hardware button that slots into the 3.5 mm audio jack, called the MiKey. While Pressy and [...]
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MSI proves you can pack a ton of gear into a tiny iTX-sized box with its Nightblade barebones PC. During the last few years PC components, particularly video cards, have been getting bigger and bigger because of cooling requirements. The most recent high-end cards from Nvidia and AMD are massive, with the cooler making up [...]
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IFTTT brings its unique automation service to Android devices. IFTTT announced that its mobile client is now available for Android devices starting today. iPhone users have been able to use IFTTT’s automation services since last July. IFTTT allows you to create a mishmash of services and notifications based on channels. Thanks to Android’s ability to [...]
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Nvidia’s rival to the Radeon 295×2 comes with a $2999 price tag. According to a report from Japan’s Hermitage Akihabara, Nvidia’s GTX Titan-Z has already hit channel and will be on store shelves April 29. The Titan-Z was first announced at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference last month. Coming in at $2,999 before tax (in Japan [...]
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One of the key figure’s in Google’s Google+ division is leaving the company. Vic Gundotra announced that he intends to leave Google. Gundotra was credited with building Google+ into the social network it is today, and has been a regular fixture in Google’s I/O events. Gundotra announced his decision to leave Google+ via a post [...]
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PCIe allows for 1.8GB/s in sequential performance, making it much faster than SATA-based drives. t’s no secret that PCIe offers more bandwidth than SATA. There are a number of solid state drives that use PCIe for this purpose, but since PCIe slot real estate might be at a premium in some machines due to video [...]
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Using the Street View feature on Google Maps, users can now travel through tim using the older images of explored places. Have you ever tried thinking about the amount of data poured on Google Map’s Street View feature? Imagine the entire (explorable) world, pictured at every angle, at every direction. Too bad we usually lose [...]
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Qualcomm’s fortunes seem to be dwindling as other vendors like MediaTek start to gain momentum. Qualcomm posted its quarterly earnings Thursday, with the chipset vendor recording its smallest quarterly revenue increase in over three years. Stiffer competition in China and the stagnation of the smartphone segment have contributed to the low revenue increase. Qualcomm’s $6.37 [...]
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Will the Xbox One be big in Japan? After a tepid launch in the United States, Microsoft must be hoping so. After giving Sony a huge headstart with the release of the PS4 in Japan last February, Microsoft now reveals that the Xbox One will be released in Japan on September 4. Yes, that would [...]
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A leaked Tenaa listing reveals a 7-inch smartphone, which will likely be called the Galaxy Mega 7.0. Samsung already sells large-screened devices in the Galaxy Mega series, but if a Tenaa certification listing is any indication, the South Korean manufacturer is looking to take the definition of a smartphone to a whole new level. The [...]
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Xiaomi is bringing its Mi series of offerings to ten international markets by the end of this year. Xiaomi announced that it will expand to cover ten international markets by the end of the year. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer is one of the most popular brands in China and accounts for 7 percent of all [...]
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A project on Kickstarter introduces an easier and cheaper way to make iPhones waterproof. Sony’s Xperia Z series may not well have invented the technology, but it sure has sparked the trend of making mobile devices waterproof. There are of course hydrophobic sprays for electronic gadgets already, but most of these often have certain damage [...]
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OnePlus does not want consumers to settle, and with the One, is offering a device through which they don’t have to. After months of aggressive marketing, OnePlus has finally revealed its first smartphone, the OnePlus One. One of the main features that OnePlus announced from the beginning was that the One would be loaded with [...]
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Motorola is seeing a resurgence in sales that is set to continue as new devices are scheduled to launch later this quarter. Motorola announced that it has sold 6.5 million devices in Q1 2014. The number may not mean much next to Samsung’s sales figures, but it does signify a turn in the fortunes of [...]
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The Nest Thermostat is available in the Play Store for $249. Google has started selling Nest Thermostats in the Play Store. The Nest Thermostat is an intelligent thermostat that works with existing HVAC systems in effectively managing temperature throughout the house. The thermostat features a minimalistic interface that allows you to adjust the temperature by [...]
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An Intel-like contra revenue strategy isn’t in the cards for AMD, but company brass are upbeat about the possibility of success in the high-end market. An aggressive push into the low-end tablet market to win some business away from ARM, much as Intel is doing with its big China bet, is not something AMD is [...]
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All of the “censored” topics have their own places for discussion. Reddit has been in the news again after Daily Dot reported last week that its technology subreddit (the name for a topical subforum) had been auto-deleting posts that included keywords such as “NSA,” “net neutrality,” “Bitcoin,” “Obama,” “Comcast,” or “Bitcoin,” amongst others. This incident [...]
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A QHD version of the Galaxy S5 is still on the cards, and may launch later this year. Samsung was heavily rumoured to launch a QHD version of the Galaxy S5 along with the standard full-HD variant. But during the official unveil of the Galaxy S5 at the Mobile World Congress, Samsung just unveiled the [...]
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Creep your friends out with this giant cockroach-themed iPhone 5/5S case from Hamee. Sure, high-tech walkie-talkie iPhone cases may look badass and all, but in Japan, there’s always room for something a bit weirder. Hamee yet again continues the trend of showcasing their creepy but strangely cute iPhone accessories, with the introduction of a design [...]
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Roam & Wander’s plush toys aim to convert the typical iPhone and iPad into tactile and interactive educational toys. Kids today are growing up as digital natives. Most infants, toddlers and school-aged children would be introduced at devices like smartphones and tablets at an early age. One might even be surprised at how adept young [...]
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‘Starship Bridge demo’ is the first Oculus Rift demo running on the recently released Unreal Engine 4. Ever since Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton closed in 2008, Star Trek fans that have longed to explore the bridge of one of the Federation’s vessels have been out of luck. Now Trek fans [...]
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich wants to open up Intel’s foundries to third party clients, and TSMC’s troubles with 20nm Maxwell might be making a market for him. Out of the roughly 25 major companies in the semiconductor fabrication business, Intel is one of biggest single owners of foundries. Except Intel isn’t in the business of [...]
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Key players in the HSA foundation have yet to be informed of a May APU conference. A recent report from Digitimes and later followed by China’s My Drivers both claim that AMD will be hosting APU14 in Beijing in May, but a key player at AMD’s #APU13 conference says such an event is “unlikely”. AMD’s [...]
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Nvidia might be forced to re-engineer Maxwell for 28nm, if a new report holds true. Relations between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Nvidia are likely at an all time low, as a new report says that TSMC isn’t able to deliver the next two Maxwell-based followups for its GPU line, the GM204 and GM206, at [...]
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G.Skill clears the last hurdle of DDR3 by launching the industry’s first DDR3L stick. G.Skill has established itself as the brand of choice amongst gamers and serious overclockers. It once again cemented this leadership today with the release of its new 32GB DDR3L SO-SIMM memory kit that is clocked at 2133MHz. The kit is made [...]
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Amid reports that the company is trying to plug declining music sales, it appears that Apple might lean on Shazam to do just that. Shazam quickly became a popular service soon after it was launched. It lets users identify a song and its artist by listening through a mobile device’s microphone and matching it to [...]
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One of the first brands to make wearables is getting out of the market, does this mean the future is dimming for the form factor? Nike has laid off the majority of its 70-person hardware team, and is killing the FuelBand line as it “refocuses” its business efforts according to a report from CNET. “As [...]
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Asus’ new card will expand the Republic of Gamers brand and offer 4GB of GDDR5 memory as well as a base clockspeed of 1085 MHz on the platinum version. Asus announced Friday another card in its Republic of Gamers brand, the ROG GTX 760 Striker. The GTX 760 Striker will be available in standard and [...]
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MIT researchers propose building nuclear reactors in offshore locations, due to several strategic and practical safety advantages. Standard nuclear reactors are water-cooled, and water can be cycled within its system solely as a coolant, or can be used to generate steam for a turbine. This is often the reason why nuclear power plants are built [...]
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A new report suggests that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is actively pursuing Apple to end its mobile devices’ reliance on Google search. Google is the default search engine on Apple’s mobile devices. Users can change it to Bing or Yahoo through the Settings app but most never bother. After all, when you want to search [...]
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Agreement between the two companies would see Samsung develop a 14nm process node and license it to GlobalFoundries, but there’s also a reason for caution. Intel will soon not be the only one fabricating 14nm chips. Samsung and GlobalFoundries have announced that the two companies have reached an agreement that would see silicon developed on [...]
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Revenue from PS4 and Xbox One sales boost AMD’s revenues by 28 percent, but the company ended up with a $20 million loss in the first quarter of 2014. Despite optimism from AMD executives that revenues from putting its SoCs in game consoles, amongst other diversification, would help return it to sustained profitability, the company’s [...]
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Yet another purported iPhone 6 case has surfaced online, hinting once again at the possibility of the power button being repositioned. Recently a purported iPhone 6 front panel appeared online giving us a glimpse of just how big the new iPhone would look like when compared with the existing model. Some things have stayed the [...]
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Windows 8.1 Update 1 must be installed by May 13 to continue to receive security patches from Microsoft. For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft is making a Patch Tuesday Windows update mandatory to continue to receive additional updates. The update in question is Windows 8.1 Update 1, which had some visual and performance [...]
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The Opteron X2100 is the first server chip to use AMD’s APU architecture. AMD demonstrated the world’s first server implementation of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Wednesday using its new second-generation Opteron X-Series APU, called “Berlin,” at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. Like Kaveri, AMD’s HSA-compatible desktop APU, the Opteron X2100 has GPU and [...]
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The PlayStation 4 continues to break sales records. It looks like consumer interest in the PlayStation 4 isn’t going to subside anytime soon. After announcing last month that it has met its five million sales targets three weeks before schedule, Sony has announced today that it has sold seven million PS4 units. The seven million [...]
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The next Fallout game or DLC might feature “Nuka Cola” in its name. Bethesda Softworks’ parent organization Zenimax Media has filed for three trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the “Nuka Cola” phrase. Nuka-Cola is a fictional beverage that is referenced in the Fallout games. Of the three trademarks Zenimax Media [...]
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OnePlus One features high-end hardware in a slim form factor that will be available for under $400. OnePlus One might turn out to be a market disruptor, much like the Nexus 4 was when it launched a few years ago. The device seems to have it all: A great design, high-end internal hardware and a [...]
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