Deals of the Day (11-10-2015)

Deals of the Day (11-10-2015)

Thinking about picking up an HTC smartphone, but put off by the price tag? Today only the company is offering 30 percent off purchases of $650 or more, 20 percent off a purchase of $400 or more, or 15% off any purchase of $200 or more. That means you can save more than $100 on an […]

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Deals of the Day (11-10-2015)

Thinking about picking up an HTC smartphone, but put off by the price tag? Today only the company is offering 30 percent off purchases of $650 or more, 20 percent off a purchase of $400 or more, or 15% off any purchase of $200 or more. That means you can save more than $100 on an […]

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Apple Music beta is now available for Android

Apple Music beta is now available for Android

Apple’s streaming music service is now available for Google Android, making it one of the first major Android apps released by Apple (one of the others is a “move to iOS” app the company released in September). Apple Music is a subscription service that lets you stream songs on demand, listen to curated playlists, or tune […]

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Apple Music beta is now available for Android

Apple’s streaming music service is now available for Google Android, making it one of the first major Android apps released by Apple (one of the others is a “move to iOS” app the company released in September). Apple Music is a subscription service that lets you stream songs on demand, listen to curated playlists, or tune […]

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ARM introduces energy-efficient Cortex-A35 64-bit design

ARM introduces energy-efficient Cortex-A35 64-bit design

ARM has unveiled a new CPU architecture designed for chips for chips that offer “ultra high efficiency.” The new ARM Cortex-A35 design is available for licensing by chip makers and the first devices featuring chips based on these designs are expected to launch by the end of 2016. The ARM Cortex-A35 CPU is basically a follow-up […]

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ARM introduces energy-efficient Cortex-A35 64-bit design

ARM has unveiled a new CPU architecture designed for chips for chips that offer “ultra high efficiency.” The new ARM Cortex-A35 design is available for licensing by chip makers and the first devices featuring chips based on these designs are expected to launch by the end of 2016. The ARM Cortex-A35 CPU is basically a follow-up […]

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Steam Machines and other hardware are now available

Steam Machines and other hardware are now available

It’s been about two years since game company Valve announced it was developing a platform that would bring gaming PCs into the living room. It took a little longer than expected, but now you can buy a Steam Machine gaming PC running Valve’s Steam OS software. PC makers including Dell (Alienware), Zotac, and Syber are […]

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Steam Machines and other hardware are now available

It’s been about two years since game company Valve announced it was developing a platform that would bring gaming PCs into the living room. It took a little longer than expected, but now you can buy a Steam Machine gaming PC running Valve’s Steam OS software. PC makers including Dell (Alienware), Zotac, and Syber are […]

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Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 820 chip

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 820 chip

Chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled its next-gen flagship processor. The company says the Snapdragon 820 chip offers twice the performance and the twice power efficiency of the Snapdragon 810 chip used in many of this year’s top-tier smartphones. The new processor is also said to feature 40 percent better graphics performance, faster 4G LTE, and support for cameras up […]

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Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 820 chip

Chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled its next-gen flagship processor. The company says the Snapdragon 820 chip offers twice the performance and the twice power efficiency of the Snapdragon 810 chip used in many of this year’s top-tier smartphones. The new processor is also said to feature 40 percent better graphics performance, faster 4G LTE, and support for cameras up […]

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Google Maps navigation now works without an internet connection

Google Maps navigation now works without an internet connection

Remember when you used to have to pay for a GPS navigation device if you wanted turn-by-turn directions when you drive? Most smartphones now come with maps software and navigation features that work for free… assuming you’ve got an internet connection. But what happens when you drive into a cellular dead zone? Now there’s a […]

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Google Maps navigation now works without an internet connection

Remember when you used to have to pay for a GPS navigation device if you wanted turn-by-turn directions when you drive? Most smartphones now come with maps software and navigation features that work for free… assuming you’ve got an internet connection. But what happens when you drive into a cellular dead zone? Now there’s a […]

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Imagination launches 3 new MIPS Warrior CPUs

Imagination launches 3 new MIPS Warrior CPUs

Imagination Technologies is updating its MIPS Warrior line of CPUs with a new high-performance 64-bit chip called the MIPS P6600 and two new lower-power 32-bit M-series chips for embedded systems and microcontrollers. The MIPS P6600 CPU core is based on MIPS64 r6 architecture and supports out-of-order execution, 128-bit integer and floating point SIMD processing, and hardware […]

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Imagination launches 3 new MIPS Warrior CPUs

Imagination Technologies is updating its MIPS Warrior line of CPUs with a new high-performance 64-bit chip called the MIPS P6600 and two new lower-power 32-bit M-series chips for embedded systems and microcontrollers. The MIPS P6600 CPU core is based on MIPS64 r6 architecture and supports out-of-order execution, 128-bit integer and floating point SIMD processing, and hardware […]

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Netflix engineers create Smart Channels, 3G-optimized streaming for Hack Day projects

Netflix engineers create Smart Channels, 3G-optimized streaming for Hack Day projects

Netflix holds occasional hack days, where the company’s engineers spend some time building odd (and sometimes pretty useful looking) projects around the streaming video service. Earlier this year we saw one team figure out how to get Netflix to run on a classic NES game console. The company held another Hack Day recently, and this […]

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Netflix engineers create Smart Channels, 3G-optimized streaming for Hack Day projects

Netflix holds occasional hack days, where the company’s engineers spend some time building odd (and sometimes pretty useful looking) projects around the streaming video service. Earlier this year we saw one team figure out how to get Netflix to run on a classic NES game console. The company held another Hack Day recently, and this […]

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2nd-gen Amazon Fire TV can be rooted… but it’s not easy

2nd-gen Amazon Fire TV can be rooted… but it’s not easy

The 2015 Amazon Fire TV has a 64-bit quad-core processor, support for 4K video playback, 802.11ac WiFi, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. It’s an upgrade over the 2014 model in just about every way. But what if you want to root the TV box? It looks like that’s possible… but difficult. Xda-developers forum […]

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2nd-gen Amazon Fire TV can be rooted… but it’s not easy

The 2015 Amazon Fire TV has a 64-bit quad-core processor, support for 4K video playback, 802.11ac WiFi, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. It’s an upgrade over the 2014 model in just about every way. But what if you want to root the TV box? It looks like that’s possible… but difficult. Xda-developers forum […]

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Deals of the Day (11-09-2015)

Deals of the Day (11-09-2015)

Look, normally I wouldn’t recommend buying a Windows tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display and 1GB of RAM… but the Double Power 7″ Windows tablet might be an exception. That’s because this tablet comes with a free 1-year subscription to Office 365 that’s worth $70. And how much does the tablet cost? You […]

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Deals of the Day (11-09-2015)

Look, normally I wouldn’t recommend buying a Windows tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display and 1GB of RAM… but the Double Power 7″ Windows tablet might be an exception. That’s because this tablet comes with a free 1-year subscription to Office 365 that’s worth $70. And how much does the tablet cost? You […]

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