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Google Now is branching out to pull in data from the apps on your phone. Cards from more than 30 featured apps will start showing up in the coming days.



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A new report from ProPublica highlights how advertising companies are piggybacking on Verizon's user tracking to create zombie cookies you can't delete -- no matter what.



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A new, leaked driver offers a preview of what mobile G-Sync will look like in the future. The software is still in early stages, but the technology is as impressive in laptops as it is in desktops.



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Sony's latest smartwatch is still pretty new and hasn't really been discounted yet. So we were excited when we found we could lop 10% off the price of this fitness-friendly watch with a coupon code, bringing it down to just $225.



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The FCC voted to greatly increase its definition of broadband service, from the previous definition of 4Mbit down and 1Mbit up to the new standard of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. According to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, this move reflects the tremendous growth in consumer data consumption, the growing popularity of services like Netflix, and the need to create a future-proof standard that won't be obviated in a handful of years.



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Project Maelstrom could decentralize the web and make it impervious to DDoS attacks when it arrives later this year.



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Reports suggest that Microsoft will participate in a round of funding for Cyanogen, Inc. -- the commercial enterprise that formed out of the CyanogenMod community. This will only give Microsoft a minority stake in the company, but could hint at large changes for one of the largest tech companies in the world.



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Scientists have just given graphene the one thing it was missing: magnetism. Magnetic graphene utilizing spintronics could be there to take over when traditional silicon transistors simply can't get any smaller. A graphene transistor could work on the atomic scale, but we've still got a few years to get things figured out before magnetic graphene becomes a necessity.



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Qualcomm has confirmed in its latest conference call that it lost a major OEM for the Snapdragon 810. Given that this was almost certainly Samsung, what does it mean for customers looking forward to the Galaxy S6?



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The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices, but those devices are still powered by being tethered to a wall or a reserve power pack. What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body, and the power source was almost unnoticeable?



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Yesterday's listing may have been a big draw for professional users, but we've just come across this huge savings on a similar 15-inch laptop aimed at consumers - at a much lower price of $600. That's 42% off.



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Google Fiber is planning a major new expansion across multiple cities in the South and Southeast while simultaneously exploring wireless possibilities. Could the search giant be preparing to open a huge new front against the ISP status quo?



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For those of you that see the countless incredible illustrations all over the internet and wonder how a human can produce them, a new robot might be the answer.



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After last week's Windows 10 briefing, a brand new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview was released publicly. Anyone can sign-up for the Windows Insider program, and get a taste of Windows 10. Of course, pre-release builds should never be used as a primary OS, so today I'll walk you through how to run the Windows 10 Technical Preview in a virtual machine.



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The first benchmarks of USB 3.1 are in, and they're impressively fast. External storage is taking yet another step towards matching internal performance.



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Fuji is claiming a breakthrough in new aluminum-air batteries, with a commercialized design coming in 2015. If successful, the new battery technology could dethrone lithium-ion altogether and revolutionize the EV industry.



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Dell's Latitude 15 are business ready laptops, and they've recently been refreshed with the latest Intel Broadwell Core i7 chips. Now on sale with a hefty $511 off after our coupon code, you can snag this well spec'd computer for just $859.



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Can Vivaldi succeed against Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and even Opera? It's a major challenge, especially when you don't have an operating system of your own.



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Light is the fastest thing in the universe, so Heriot-Watt University researchers built a mega-fast camera to film it moving through the air.



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If you're looking for a top notch monitor when it comes to quality and support, Dell's UltraSharp line usually does the trick. Thanks to a rare 25% discount on the 27-inch 1440p U2715H monitor, you can now pick up this beauty for just $525, the best price around.



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A new report from the IFPI indicates that music piracy has all but been eliminated in Norway, thanks to digital streaming -- but the associated financial trends are terrible for everyone in the music industry who isn't Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber.



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New rumors are starting to surface regarding AMD's upcoming Zen architecture. Will 14nm technology, DDR4 support, and a new multi-threading model give AMD the ammunition it needs to reinvent its own processors?



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A new germanium-tin laser could be used to speed data transfers within CPUs and integrate more easily with existing manufacturing processes -- if certain problems with temperature can be resolved.



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All-wheel drive is a important. Heated rear seats are nice. You must get snow tires.



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Microsoft announced that it sold 6.6 million Xbox consoles over the holidays -- much more than the leading PS4 -- but the numbers aren't necessarily what they seem.



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With its latest preview release, Microsoft has finally taken the covers off many of the new features in Windows 10. They point the way to a very different desktop experience than either Windows 7 or Windows 8.



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Buy or lease a Mirai and you get three years of free hydrogen. But you'd better live near a fueling station, which means Souithern California.



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A new semiconductor company, Ambiq Micro, is claiming that its methods of building chips can dramatically increase overall efficiency thanks to leveraging a technique called subthreshold computing. Could this dramatically improve battery life in next-generation wearables?



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No matter how realistic the graphics or large the display, an immersive gaming experience isn't complete without quality audio. We've just spotted an all-time price low of $50 on the powerful Turtle Beach DXL1 cans, making it easier than ever to enjoy a solid headset without breaking the bank.



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China's space program has been steadily marching towards its goals. Its recent Chang'e 3 mission was only to take spectrographic and ground penetrating radar measurements, but this year's Chang'e 5 missions will bring back the first samples containing the actual prize -- fusion-ready helium-3.



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Last Friday, we published a report that the GTX 970 could suffer crippling performance slowdowns thanks to an asymmetric memory configuration. Here, we examine that issue in more detail -- and whether it impacts overall performance.



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Microsoft has confirmed most of DirectX 12's improvements will be available on existing gaming hardware, but there's more to come at GDC.



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Premium gaming services like Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus have done very well on consoles, but they've largely been absent from the world of PC gaming. Multiplayer is almost always free (except MMOs), and Steam sales have kept the cheap games flowing at a constant rate. But now Microsoft is considering bringing Xbox Live Gold to the PC, and finally giving Valve a run for its money.



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New reports are surfacing of a problem with Nvidia's GTX 970. The card's performance falls off a cliff much above 3GB of memory use -- Nvidia is looking into the problem.



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It looks as though MIcrosoft's experiment with Windows RT is finally coming to an end; the device manufacturer has announced that it will not update the OS to include Windows 10. With Windows Phone and Windows now sharing a similar storefront, there's no room left for Windows RT.



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Blackberry wants to get the government to mandate that certain applications and content services be forced to provide their services on the Blackberry platform in the name of net neutrality.



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As Broadwell trickles into the mainstream, prices on 4th-gen Core i7 laptops are better than ever - even on normally costly models like touchscreen convertibles. Today you can pick up the versatile Flex2 with a Core i7 processor for just $599, the lowest we've seen yet.



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As it stands, the PS4 doesn't ship with DLNA streaming capability. It's certainly possible that we'll see support for the standard patched in eventually, but how are we supposed to play our media library on the PS4 right now? Thankfully, there is a way -- and it's legal.



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New data from backup company Backblaze illustrates which drives are more and less reliable than others, but ongoing issues with the data collection limit how much people should conclude from this. Hard drive failure rates and reliability are more complicated than what's being communicated.



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The Apple Watch is reportedly coming soon, but the device may have battery problems. If reports are accurate, not even Apple has been able to solve the annoying problems of physics.



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Amazon just paid several hundred million for Annapurna Labs, but no one knows for sure what it does.



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Dell's new UltraSharp U3415W is a thing of beauty, using some of the best display technology on the market to create an immersive, arcing, high-def picture. Such a task is not done cheaply, but thanks to a coupon code you can take a handy $120 off the price if you want one today.



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Nvidia has just launched its new Maxwell-based GTX 960, bridging the gap between the budget GTX 750 Ti and the upper echelon GTX 970 and 980. Is this $200 GPU the power house midrange gamers have been looking for?



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The often rumored notion that Google would throw its hat into the data carrier ring has just picked up some steam. Reports suggest the service will be called Nova, and will piggyback on Sprint and T-Mobile infrastructure.



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With Windows 10, Microsoft is doubling-down on its bet that it can become a player in mobile devices and get customers to use Windows everywhere, on everything.



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Google and Boston Dynamics bring us ATLAS 2.0, an incredible new upgrade to the world's most famous humanoid robot.



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Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have now modified the standard 1-dimensional streak camera so that it can record 2-dimensional single-shot images without any illumination -- all at the astounding rate of 100 billion frames per second.



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Windows 10 is headed to devices this year, and the first major unveil and feature preview have significant enthusiast-oriented improvements. With a free upgrade offer, will Windows 10 finally shake off the doldrums that have haunted Windows 8?



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Large TVs don't have to come with the big prices they once did. Upgrade your big screen in time for the Big Game with our top HDTV deals for today, including this 60-inch Vizio Smart TV, with an effective price of just $625 if you factor in the full gift card savings.



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Researchers at the University of Rochester have used lasers to create a surface so hydrophobic that a single droplet of water can bounce up and down on it -- multiple times -- like a ball.



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