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Airbus just delivered the first A320neo, its next-gen 737 competitor

Airbus has delivered the first production A320neo to launch customer Lufthansa, marking the beginning of the next generation in mass-market airline travel. But if you can't really tell the...

A brand new Airbus is now flying passengers.

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Microsoft announces Surface Pro power cord recall

Microsoft revealed earlier this week that the company is recalling a number of power cords following overheating concerns. If you bought a Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, or Surface Pro 3 in the US or...

Most Surface Pro devices are affected

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Fender’s earphones are so pretty they inspired me to make art

If it's silly to care what headphones look like, then it's doubly so to give a damn about the aesthetics of in-ear monitors. But, guilty as charged, I care about the looks of Fender's newly...

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Microsoft’s insane Android alarm app wants you to make faces at 6AM

Microsoft has been experimenting with guessing people's ages and emotions recently, and now the software maker has created an Android app to show off its machine learning skills. Mimicker Alarm for...

Microsoft's new alarm app wants you to play games when you wake up in the morning.

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Making a Murderer creators answer critics in Twitter Q&A

For all of the accolades the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer has received since it aired last month, there's been a strong dissenting voice. The show documents the trials of Steven...

Making A Murderer creators: “Our goal was not to convict or exonerate anyone."

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Exploding Kittens is now available on iPhone

You no longer need to buy a physical deck to play The Oatmeal's Kickstarter record-breaking card game Exploding Kittens: starting today the game is now also available as a mobile app. The game,...

Now you can play The Oatmeal's card game on your phone.

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The Witcher 2 is free on Xbox One right now

If last year's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was your first taste of the fantasy RPG series, Microsoft has good news: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is not only available on the Xbox One starting...

An easy way to catch up on The Witcher on your Xbox.

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Ty Segall's new album Emotional Mugger is a tangled mass of Ty Segall

It’s hard to talk about Ty Segall without mentioning the sheer amount of music he’s put out, and what that means for the people who listen to it. In the time between the release of his last LP M...

The album is out tomorrow.

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France wants a new keyboard to protect its language

The latest campaign to protect the French language isn't being waged over anglicisms like "hashtag" or "selfie," but the design of a keyboard. This week, the French government announced a plan to...

French-language keyboards have an AZERTY layout and have never been standardized.

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Skeletons show signs of violence between hunter-gatherers

We thought hunter-gatherers were peaceful. We might be wrong.

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Tree-dwelling frog that eats its mother's eggs rediscovered after 140 years

A frog that breeds in the hollows of trees and feed its young its own unfertilized eggs has been rediscovered more than a century after it was thought to have gone extinct. Jerdon's tree frog was...

Welcome back weird frog!

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg believes likes and positivity can beat terrorists online

In recent weeks, tech executives from Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and other companies met with members of President Obama's administration to discuss methods to combat terrorism online. While the...

Facebook wants you to fight terrorism with likes.

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Nespresso is the iPhone of coffee makers, and that's ok

I wouldn’t describe myself as an advanced coffee drinker, not by any means. I at least used an Aeropress until a few months ago, but it evidently wasn’t that important to me else I’d have...

Nespresso is to iOS as artisanal brewing is to Google's Android.

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Android apps win the downloads, iOS apps win the money

The established narrative with mobile technology is that Google's Android dominates in terms of sheer number of users and devices, but Apple's iOS collects the lion's share of the profits. Nothing...

The Android versus iPhone battle in app numbers.

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Norwegian Megacopter sets new record for drone lifting power

Plenty of companies are gearing up to deliver small parcels with quadcopters, but could consumer drones handle heavier packages — like, say, a person? Engineers from the University of Oslo have...

If you weigh less than 61 kilograms, this drone could carry you:

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Fender now makes in-ear headphones as well as guitars

Fender, best known for making a big sound with its classic guitars and amps, is now also making music on a smaller scale. The company yesterday announced its first ever series of Fender-branded...

Fender headphones: like tiny guitar amps for your ears.

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Writing new episodes of Friends is easy if you use a neural network

When humanity is immortal because of gene-repairing nanobots in all our fast food, we'll need something to do to pass the time. Watching infinite episodes of Friends written by a computer and acted...

Friends, but written by a computer.

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Apple to create first European iOS Development Center

Apple is opening a dedicated iOS app Development Center in Italy, the company announced today, offering a curriculum designed to train the next generation of app developers. The center, to be...

Apple Inc. opens dev center in Italy amidst increased EU scrutiny.

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Facebook launches Sports Stadium hub for you to chat about the big game

As anyone trying to read their timeline during the recent NFL playoffs knows, Twitter has become the de facto place for people to liveblog their thoughts on sporting events. But now Facebook is...

Facebook is playing against ESPN and Twitter for your attention.

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GM launches Maven, a car-sharing service to compete with Zipcar

General Motors is predicting that around 30 million people will be using car sharing over the next decade, where users rent out shared vehicles at an hourly rate. As such, the automaker is launching its own car-sharing service today called Maven.

General Motors is starting its own car-sharing service.

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If you ride hoverboards and don't follow these government recommendations, you could die

For the most part, everyone progresses from crawling to walking. Then, some more adventurous humans go off and try riskier (but fun!) activities like skiing or bicycling or rock climbing. For the...

Read this article or your hoverboard could kill you.

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There might be an Ebola vaccine within two years

One of the world’s biggest vaccine funders has agreed to give pharmaceuticals company Merck & Co. $5 million to get its experimental Ebola vaccine approved for market. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance a...

A major victory for medicine could be near.

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This new ad-blocker has a plan to pay publishers

The release of iOS 9 last year kicked off a rush of new mobile ad blockers and new controversy, as websites (including this one) decried the new programs as a blow against independent publishers...

Could this browser reshape the way websites make money?

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The Juxt is another smart analog watch with a dumb name

Late last year HP released a smartwatch made in partnership with Movado. It was the continuation of a program that the company calls "Engineered by HP," where companies provide the watch design and...

This is HP's third analog smartwatch.

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Hey kids, tweeting won’t get you a snowday

Chattanooga, Tennesee's WTVC News Channel 9 has one message for the kids in its coverage area, and that message is "Leave us alone, you're going to school. Well, probably. We don't actually know or...

Get out of the weatherman's DMs.

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Uber is about to go to war with Seamless in 10 major US cities

Uber plans on launching a full food delivery service in 10 US cities in the coming weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company will launch a dedicated mobile app, UberEats, for...

Uber is coming to eat Seamless' lunch.

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Terminator Genisys probably isn't getting any sequels

If you're one of the precious few fans waiting with bated breath for the next chapter in the Terminator saga, I have some bad news: you might be waiting for a really long time. Deadline is...

Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Baywatch movie is stealing the Terminator sequel's release date: May 19th, 2017.

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2015 was officially the warmest year in recorded history

2015 has officially been declared the warmest year in recorded history, The New York Times reports. The findings confirmed by scientists this week support earlier predictions that last year would...

And 2016 could be even hotter.

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Crave is a terrible new app that brings your romance novel boyfriend to life

Please take yourself back to a time when you were young and looking for love in all the wrong places. Specifically, Facebook. Recall the sensation of looking at four-year-old photos of a person...

Plot-twist: your "book boyfriend" is awful.

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Watch another new trailer for Girls' fifth season

Girls' fifth season is premiering in just over a month, and another batch of new footage was released this afternoon. If you're even the slightest bit familiar with the show's hyper-neurotic banter...

Girls is coming back to HBO on February 21st.

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Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all — but not all evidence is in

Two scientists claim that they have found the best evidence yet that a ninth planet exists at the outer limits of the Solar System. It’s called Planet X, and it’s roughly the size of Neptune, the...

Goodbye Pluto, hello Planet X.

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Read the searing story of the Kickstarter drone that went down in flames

Kickstarter surprised everyone last month when it hired technology journalist Mark Harris to look into how one of the most funded projects in the platform's history, the palm-sized Zano drone, c...

Kickstarter paid a journalist to figure out why the Zano failed.

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Oreo's new Cinnamon Bun flavor

Unboxing Oreo's new flavors with Dan Seifert and Ross Miller.

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Watch your favorite Star Wars characters die adorable 8-bit deaths

The Star Wars movies aren't terribly violent, so when a major character dies, the series tends to make it count. To honor those memorable scenes, YouTube channel pipocaVFX has created this adorable...

Star Wars deaths are so cute.

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We thought hunter-gatherers were peaceful. We might be wrong

Researchers describe a 10,000-year-old Kenyan massacre that led to the deaths of 12 people in a study published in Nature today. Of the bodies that were recovered, 10 show signs of violent...

Have humans always killed each other?

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Uber will be the exclusive rideshare app of Super Bowl 50

Uber is reportedly plunking down as much as $500,000 to become the exclusive ride-hail service of Super Bowl 50, according to Quartz. As part of the deal, Uber will have its own pick-up and drop-off zones at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Other app-based car services, like Lyft, will not…

Surge pricing yes, tailgating no.

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Star Wars: Episode VIII delayed until December 2017

Disney's going to make you wait even longer for Episode VIII. It's pushing back the release date of Star Wars' next core installment to December 15th, 2017, around seven months later than inits...

Disney will make you wait about 7 months longer than initially planned.

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Chairlift's new album Moth is cool, confident, and curious

If you want to know what confidence sounds like, listen to "Polymorphing," the best song on Chairlift’s excellent new LP Moth. "There’s something better than what you’re asking for, kid," sings...

Chairlift is taking a huge step forward with their third album.

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Tesla suing supplier that failed to meet Falcon Wing door expectations

Tesla is suing a former supplier over a contractural disagreement over the Model X's crazy-complicated (and just crazy) Falcon Wing doors. Hoerbiger is a German supplier of hydraulic systems for...

This could be why your Model X order is taking so long.

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Netflix is fleshing out its film program with five new indie movies

Now that its first few Sundance Film Festival purchases are out of the way, Netflix is getting back to spending in other corners of the movie world. Deadline is reporting the streaming monolith has...

Netflix is making a big push into the movie business.

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Netflix is making a cyberpunk detective series

Netflix is working on a new TV series about a gruff detective, a troubling femme-fatale, and a mysterious murder — a pretty stock noir setup, if it weren't also set 500 years in the future. The...

A Netflix show about swapping bodies, set 500 years in the future.

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Apple's new Music Memos app

Trying out Music Memos, Apple's simple new recording app.

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Zach Galifianakis' Baskets finds comedy in dashed dreams

Perhaps all of Baskets, FX’s new half-hour comedy, can be encapsulated in this line, spoken by Zach Galifianakis’ character Chip Baskets: "Being a clown is the most important thing in the world to...

Zach Galifianakis is literally a sad clown in FX's new comedy.

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The Air Force's Reaper drone keeps crashing

According to a new investigation from The Washington Post, the Air Force had its worst year for drone crashes ever in 2015, as its Reaper drone was suddenly plagued by crashes. Crashes caused...

The Air Force doesn’t know why its massive drones suddenly stop flying.

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The Hermès Apple Watch collection will be available online this Friday

If you wanted to get your hands on the Hermès Apple Watch since it was released in October, you'd have to be near a select group of Apple Stores, Hermès boutiques, or high-end department stores...

You'll be able to buy the Hermès Apple Inc. Watch on Apple.com this Friday.

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Largest known prime number in the world discovered by GIMPS in Missouri

The largest prime number in the world has been discovered in Missouri by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project, better known as GIMPS. The record breaking number — which, like all...

It's 22 million digits.

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Leica’s newest camera can go underwater

If you've ever shelled out a few thousand dollars (or more) for a Leica, you've likely kept it far away from pools, lakes, or even puddles. That won't be a problem with the company's newest camera,...

This Leica Camera can take a hit.

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Exclusive: T-Pain talks about how technology and apps have changed music

T-Pain's been working with Apple to promote GarageBand, so we swung by his house to talk with him about the new version. In addition to showing us how to use the updated app, we sat down with...

T-Pain is totally on-board with the age of streaming.

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Music Memos is Apple's new, simple recording app

Alongside some fun GarageBand updates being rolled out today, Apple is also introducing a completely new app for iPhone and iPad: Music Memos. It's designed to slot in between Voice Memos, the...

Apple's new iPhone app makes recording easy.

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T-Pain demos the new GarageBand

Exclusive: T-Pain shows us how to use the new GarageBand.

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Adele, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd will perform at the Grammys this year

Adele, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd will all perform at this year's Grammy Awards, The Wrap reports. It's a pretty solid lineup so far that reflects the award show's more-impressive-than-usual l...

The GRAMMYs will air on February 15th.

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These videos of rubber humans are good?

Is it crude of me to say I know the sound of dozens of rubber bodies slapping against each other as they collapse in a boneless pile on the floor? That flesh, when stacked up against more flesh...

Pay attention to the sound.

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Google's new algorithm will make Chrome run much faster

Chrome is about to load web pages a lot faster than you've experienced up until now. Thanks to a new compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google introduced last September, Chrome will be able...

Google Chrome is about to get much faster.

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Fake hoverboards are stealing LG and Samsung’s logos and the feds are seizing them

As more reports of exploding, counterfeit hoverboards come out, the feds seem to be making an attempt to stop the boards before they make it to market. The most recent case: a crackdown on $94,000...

Customs seized $94,000 worth of fake boards in Miami.

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How secure are New York City's new Wi-Fi hubs?

The first of New York City's public Wi-Fi hubs went live yesterday, offering free gigabit-fed Wi-Fi to anyone within 150 feet of the stations on Third Avenue. These are the first of 7,500 such...

Consider these risks before connecting to the network.

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Smartwatches need to get smarter

Like most of you reading this, I conduct much of my professional and personal life via digital devices. But which of them could I do without? I know lots of tech fans who either haven't bought a smartwatch, or who just haven't formed an attachment to the one they have. One friend, a veteran and savv…

Walt Mossberg on wearables that don't live up to the hype.

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CloudMagic is the Mac email app I've been waiting for

Over the years, the Mac has played host to two weirdly contradictory trends: it has had the nicest, best designed text editors in the world but also some of the worst email apps. Until now, no one...

Nothing to distract, nothing to slow you down.

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HBO gives a series to New York porn drama The Deuce, starring James Franco

HBO has ordered a series of New York porn drama The Deuce, reports Variety. The show, co-written by David Simon, the creator of The Wire, will star Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco, following the...

From the creator of The Wire:

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Watch the beautiful nightmare of ads invading your dreams

Every advertiser wants to get under people's skin and communicate with their basest desires. But no advertiser has ever done it quite so unnervingly as this short video from the Dutch Studio Smack....

Alice in a Coca-Cola Wonderland.

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Sina Weibo drops its 140-character limit as Twitter ponders similar move

Chinese social network Sina Weibo is removing its 140-character limit. According to a report from China's Xinhua News, the company's CEO confirmed the plans today, with the new format — reportedly...

Will Twitter drop its character limit too?

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I, for one, welcome our Chinese drone overlords

"Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." Decades of Western outsourcing have created the idea that the Chinese supply chain is smart enough to manufacture and copy, but not smart...

Chinese product innovation has landed on US shores.

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Toyota made weird anime girls to personify components in the new Prius

Selling hybrid electric cars in Japan is easy. All you apparently need to do is anthropomorphize each individual component of the car and turn these characters into anime mascots that customers can...

This is how you sell cars in Japan:

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Spotify snaps up a pair of apps for voice messaging and music discovery

Spotify has announced it's buying a pair of companies today — one of which seems like an obvious fit, and another that's a little less straightforward. The first acquisition is Soundwave, a social...

Spotify's latest acquisitions could help you find new music.

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Microsoft to recall Surface Pro power cables due to overheating concerns

Microsoft is planning to recall a number of Surface Pro power cords following overheating concerns. Channelnomics Europe reports that the software giant will announce a voluntary recall for power...

Your Surface might be affected by Microsoft's power cord recall.

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Facebook's Android app now lets you flip a switch to browse over Tor

Facebook has supported Tor-enabled browsers for around two years, and it's now extending its Tor support to Android mobile connections. Tor software allows internet users to browse anonymously, and...

You can now use Tor on Android to connect anonymously to Facebook.

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HBO is launching a new streaming service in Spain and killing its cable TV option

HBO has a bold plan to make cutting the cord the only way to watch shows like Game of Thrones in some parts of the world. The company today announced it will launch its first streaming service in...

Spain residents will only be able to access HBO over the internet.

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Nancy Drew is back, grown up, and not white

Nancy Drew may be growing up. CBS has ordered a pilot for a new TV series based on the character, The Wrap reports, but rather than portray her as the teenage sleuth she's been in books, movies,...

Nancy Drew is joining the NYPD for a TV pilot.

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Sony’s Portable Ultra Short Throw Projector will turn any flat surface into a TV

The latest products in Sony's aspirational Life Space UX range of home electronics have prices and release dates, at least for the company's home country of Japan. The Portable Ultra Short Throw...

Sony has some really pretty ideas for your living room.

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Jar Jar Binks meets a violent end in excellent Star Wars Episode 7.5 fan comic

Is the two-year wait for the next numbered Star Wars movie too long for you? Do you need closure on the stories of Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron and BB-8 now now now? Do you absolutely have to know more...

The death Star Wars fans have been waiting for.

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Apple is ‘frustrated’ by TV streaming negotiations, says ESPN

Apple has long been rumored to be putting together its own internet TV service, but despite expectations that it would reveal its plans at last year's WWDC conference, it has yet to announce a...

ESPN says it's working with Apple on a streaming service.

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Panasonic's Lumix CM1 cameraphone gets a new version without the phone

With a 20-megapixel 1-inch sensor and a 10mm (28mm-equivalent) f/2.8 lens, Panasonic's Lumix CM1 has the most technically capable camera on any phone out there. But would you really want it as your...

The Panasonic Lumix CM10 is a phoneless version of the best cameraphone.

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Watch the new trailer for Suicide Squad

DC Comics' Suicide Squad is still eight months away but we've already got a good look at its all-villain ensemble cast in action. The latest trailer, aired tonight during the DC Films Presents:...

Who needs Batman or Superman?

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Microsoft is bringing its excellent Windows Phone keyboard to iOS

One of my favorite features in Windows Phone is its truly excellent keyboard. It's far more accurate and easy to use than the default iOS keyboard and many Android alternatives, but you've had to...

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Despite battling for net neutrality, Netflix sees no problem with T-Mobile’s Binge On

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says he doesn’t have a problem with T-Mobile’s controversial Binge On service — in fact, Netflix is actually a fan of it. Binge On lets T-Mobile customers stream video...

Netflix is flip-flopping on net neutrality again.

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Modular phones, e-waste, and the shift toward sustainable electronics

"Better and faster can happen sustainably ... cheaper is going to be hard." When Jonas Allen toured the floor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this...

From our friends at Curbed:

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How Star Wars: The Force Awakens made 2015 feel like 1977

The practical half of the Star Wars effects equation largely comes down to two individuals: Neal Scanlan, head of the movie’s creature shop, and special effects supervisor Chris Corbould. Scanlan is gregarious and playful, eyes twinkling as he...

2,100 of Star Wars’ 2,500 shots featured some sort of digital effect.

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Amazon is joining the Sundance gold rush with a pre-festival purchase

Amazon is following in Netflix's footsteps by making its first Sundance purchase before the festival has a chance to start. The budding film distributor (and international commerce giant) bought...

Amazon's first Sundance purchase is a Rachel Weisz-led drama.

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Five planets will align in the predawn sky tomorrow, awakening Titans and office workers alike

It must be time to unleash the Titans: five of the planets in our Solar System will align diagonally in the predawn night sky starting tomorrow morning. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn...

You won't even need a telescope to see them.

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Netflix is unsure of God's plan for television

What is the purpose of our lives? What are we meant to do with our brief time here? Is there meaning to our suffering, or does it speak to nothing more than the cruel, indifferent chaos of the...

What are we meant to do on this Earth? Netflix doesn't know either.

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Taser's newest 'less-lethal' weapon is meant for concealed carry

If you want to defend yourself, but don't want to carry a firearm (for whatever reason), Taser thinks it has the answer: it's called the Pulse and it's a new, subcompact self-defense weapon meant...

TASER International wants to make it easier for you to carry a Taser.

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Netflix whizzes past 75 million subscribers thanks to record international growth

Netflix share price is up 121 percent in the last year. With its announcement at CES earlier this month that it has expanded to an additional 130 countries around the globe, it solidified its...

Netflix is on a tear, but success is uniting its enemies.

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Watch Grimes' new video for 'Kill V. Maim'

Grimes just unleashed the video for "Kill V. Maim," a single off her recent album Art Angels, and there are enough references in it to keep your brain churning for at least a few hours. Directed by...

Is Grimes a Law & Order fan?

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It’s easy to be grouchy about HBO’s new Sesame Street

In the battle to attract new subscribers and industry accolades, streaming services like Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and Amazon have all been investing heavily in big budget adult dramas full of sex and...

Two dads give their take about the new Sesame Street on HBO.

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What the end of the Fantastic Four means for Marvel

Space, inclusivity, and franchise filmmaking pushed Marvel's flagship superteam into irrelevancy.

Marvel's flagship superteam has become irrelevant.

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NASA wants your help designing an arm for its flying space station robot

In yet another crowdsourcing effort, NASA is asking members of the public to help with the design of the Astrobee — a free-flying robot the space agency is making to live aboard the International...

The Astrobee will roam autonomously throughout the ISS cabin.

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Microsoft's Build conference sold out in one minute

Ticket's to Microsoft's annual developers conference have sold out in record time this year. Microsoft sold out of its allocation of tickets in around 20 minutes last year, but tickets disappeared...

Developers were quick to get tickets to Microsoft's top event.

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Tell the New York legislature how you really feel about this smartphone encryption bill

New York assemblyman Matthew Titone thinks all smartphones sold in his state should have a backdoor into them, allowing for mandatory access into users’ devices for law enforcement. Every...

Go ahead and give the legislature a piece of your mind.

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An Instagram performance art stunt is making its way to London’s Tate Modern

Over the course of several months in 2014, a woman named Amalia Ulman amassed more than 50,000 Instagram followers. In and of itself, this was not exceptional. She was young and conventionally...

How Instagram became a performance art medium.

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Scientists say Spider-Man can't exist because humans are just too big

For all its blind tinkering, evolution still has to operate within certain physical limits. Size is one of these, and it's the reason why certain traits work for some animals but not others. One...

Sorry, Peter Parker.

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The Grinder is turning into a worthy descendant of Arrested Development

The Grinder is keenly aware of how viewers talk about TV. The half-hour comedy returned from its holiday hiatus with Stew, having missed the first half of a season of "The Grinder," the...

If you love Arrested Development and 30 Rock, give The Grinder a chance.

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Acura’s $156,000 hybrid supercar is the anti-Lamborghini

The car I’m driving was built a decade ago, though it seems older than that. Like it was born in the early 1990s. The steering wheel is coated in crinkled black leather; there’s a throwback...

Meet Acura's first supercar since 2005.

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Pee-wee's Big Holiday is coming to Netflix on March 18th

We knew Netflix's Judd Apatow-produced Pee-wee movie was going to premiere at SXSW, and now we know the public won't have to wait long to see it themselves: Pee-wee's Big Holiday is going to arrive...

Pee-wee Herman is back:

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HP’s making a pro version of its weird projector computer

HP's Sprout, introduced in October 2014, was a pretty far-out desktop PC that, interesting as it may be, hasn't exactly wowed consumers. But the formula, which ditches a keyboard and mouse in favor...

This time it might actually make sense!

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New York's first public Wi-Fi hubs are now live

New York's public Wi-Fi network went live this morning, spread across four hubs on 3rd Avenue between 15th and 19th Streets. The first LinkNYC hub was installed in December, but today is the first...