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Thursday May 24, 2012. 01:30 PM
One of the particularly annoying pain points for travelers who want to use Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE service is that none of the handsets offered by the carrier include global GSM and WCDMA (UMTS HSPA+) support. Even devices that manufacturers had tested with GSM and WCDMA...
Wednesday May 23, 2012. 09:01 PM
IBM is worried about Siri and will prevent iPhones from accessing the virtual assistant while connected to the company’s internal network. Chief Technical Officer Jeanette Horan says IBM blocks the servers that power the software, fearing a security risk or information disclo...
At CES 2012, Nvidia and Asus demo’d a $249 Kal-El quad-core tablet dubbed the Asus ME370T. Neither company has talked about that specific product since, but Nvidia is now showing off its quad-core “Kai” reference platform — and it’s identical to the Asus device it showcased e...
Last month, ExtremeTech revealed to you the true scale of internet porn. At any one time, streaming adult videos probably utilize around 30% of the internet’s total bandwidth, which equates to around 6 terabytes of porn being consumed every second. But what about the other...
It didn’t take long for Samsung to block the leaked version of S Voice from the Galaxy S3 over the weekend, but now we’ve got a new version of that Android APK file to play with. Seeing as the app is running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with stock Android, there are a few ...
Tuesday May 22, 2012. 08:00 PM
Audi, the company that brought you hybrid-diesel racecars, has an intriguing two-wheel concept vehicle: an ultra-light carbon fiber electric bicycle that has WiFi built in, can hit 50 mph, and even has a Segway-like mode that lets it run on just its back wheel (apparently...
Some 9 months after Google’s announcement that it would rather like to make a subsidiary of Motorola Mobility, the $12.5-billion acquisition has finally been approved by the US, EU, and China. All eyes are now on Google to see what it will do with a bunch of software...
Further establishing itself as the Borg of the web, Google is adding a Knowledge Graph capability to its search engine. Simply put, Google will now try and answer your question right on the search results page — no need to actually visit Wikipedia or your favorite travel...
Diablo 3 has now been available worldwide for a week. In true, zealous, Blizzard-super-fan style, the end boss on the hardest difficulty setting has already been defeated. We don’t know the exact number of Diablo 3 sales, but with some 2 million pre-orders, we’re talking abou...
Monday May 21, 2012. 10:33 PM
Municipal WiFi may be a dream yet realized thanks to a new deal between the nation’s five biggest cable operators. Comcast, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable have agreed to let customers roam on about 50,000 hotspots owned by the...
At the ACM International Conference last week, researchers from Rice University, Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, Switzerland’s Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, and UC Berkeley unveiled a microprocessor that’s designed to get the answer wrong — at...
As the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S3 grew nearer, the internet was swirling with unfounded rumors. Next-generation specs were being thrown out, and hopes were as high as could be. When the device was finally announced, it didn’t live up to the hype. Although,...
It seems Minority Report-style computer interfaces might arrive a whole lot sooner than we expected: A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of “interaction space,” which detects your hand gestures down to an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters — about 200 ...
In what must surely be the longest Windows 8 treatise yet, Microsoft has spent 11,048 words describing the birth, evolution, and future of the Windows user interface. Hidden within the morass of design notes and historical navel gazing there is one notable change: The final...
Friday May 18, 2012. 08:30 PM
Who says educational games have to be boring? I’ve learned a lot more than I expected this week from Blizzard Entertainment’s release of Diablo III. Here are the top five tidbits…1. PC gaming is alive and wellThere’s a lot to complain about regarding how Diablo III‘s...
Over the last year, a truly huge number of column inches has been dedicated to Apple’s relationship with Foxconn, the Taiwan- and China-based manufacturer who produces the iPhone and iPad. First those stories revolved around a spate of suicides and explosions, then we...
If you’re arrested around London anytime soon, watch out: the Metropolitan Police has distributed kiosks to 16 borough precincts that will allow them to extract data from your mobile device within minutes.Officials hope this will enable them to respond quicker to situations...
If reports from Taiwan are to be believed, hardware manufacturers are struggling to create Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) devices that are competitively priced against Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The reason? According to Digitimes, OEMs have to pay Microsoft...
Thursday May 17, 2012. 06:27 PM
In the wake of Meego’s demise a new open source mobile operating system has emerged. Known as Tizen and backed by Samsung and Intel, the Linux-based OS recently hit the version 1.0 milestone and has even been paired with an official reference hardware platform. Unlike the...
For the past year, if you wanted a Thunderbolt-capable system, you had exactly one choice — Apple. That’s finally beginning to change, with MSI’s Z77A-GD80 motherboard leading the charge to introduce PC users to the experience of paying $50 for a six foot cable. That price...
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