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Nvidia's new GTX 980 Ti drops today, with virtually all of the Titan X's performance and a vastly lower price. If you've wanted an Nvidia card with better-than GTX 980 performance but couldn't stomach a $1000 price tag, this is the card to buy.

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The still-unnamed Android M is only out in developer preview, but it seems aimed at cleaning up some of Lollipop's rough edges and addressing user complaints about how Android operates.

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The new solar sail demonstration vehicle, LightSail-A, has lost communication with Earth due to a software glitch. Engineers have not been able to reset the device, but are hoping a cosmic ray will hit the craft, rebooting the electronics.

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AMD has released a new set of drivers for Radeon cards and may be considering a new high-end brand for its GPUs. Will the Radeon Fury soon debut against the Titan X?

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If you're in search of an affordable laptop that's built for both work and play, check out the Z50 from Lenovo. With a full HD display, a nice big hard drive, and RAM to spare, this laptop can handle all of your everyday needs with ease. Better yet, it's on sale for 51% off the sticker price.

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InSight will be as large as a car, and instead of looking for signs of life or studying surface rock composition, it's directed at learning more about the interior of Mars.

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Little tablets are still big. Let's figure out which one is best for you.

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While there have been advances in freezing and thawing animals that lack built-in cold survival responses, it wasn't clear whether important higher level functions, like memory, would emerge unscathed -- until now.

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Popular VPN browser extension Hola has a feature users might not know about. Not only does it sell your bandwidth to third parties, that bandwidth can be hijacked and used to attack others.

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AMD has released a point refresh of its Kaveri APU, with slightly higher CPU clocks, a significantly faster GPU, and full software support for features like FreeSync and screen re-sizing.

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LG recently unveiled a concept television design that, if produced, would be the thinnest ever. The 55-inch OLED display is barely 1mm wide -- about the width of a DVD.

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The PS4's controller is recognized by Windows right out of the box, but existing games don't automatically work with the gamepad. Here's how to fix that.

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Here's a close look at Microsoft, and some of the reasons why it may have missed creating the computing world it envisioned.

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Today, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Fransisco. The keynote presentation begins at 12:30pm ET, and we'll be live blogging the entire event.

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The handful of apps that run, run well. Icons and fonts are huge. But every app on your phone not approved for CarPlay or Android Auto can't be accessed while the phone is plugged in.

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Today, Dell is discounting the Inspiron 15 3000 laptop by a whopping 42% off the sticker price. For just 400 bones, you get a new Broadwell CPU, up to seven hours of battery life, and a built-in touchscreen. If you're in need of an affordable laptop that can handle everyday tasks with aplomb, this is what you're looking for.

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Leaked slides from Intel suggest the company will ship a 28-core Xeon by 2018, substantially outstripping its current 18-core versions -- and six memory channels per CPU socket.

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SourceForge has been accused of hijacking dormant projects, mirroring them, and then packaging the installers up with adware of dubious value -- the company claims the projects it "mirrors" have simply been abandoned.

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Most of Chevy's 2016 model lineup is compatible with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto connections to your dash. Unlike Hyundai, existing cars aren't compatible.

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New research shows that consumer SSDs struggle to maintain high IOPS in scenarios where multiple simultaneous VMs are installed -- and enterprise SSDs may perform little better.

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Do you love to learn? Then you should take a look at this massive sale happening over at Udemy. Thousands of online courses are being discounted to just $10 a pop, so you can take multiple courses even if you're on a budget. Whether you need to learn how to design logos or how to speak Arabic, there's something for nigh-on every area of interest.

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A new concept for planetary entry radically reimagines our robotic explorers as a swarm probes the size of a loaf of bread.

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Google's annual dev conference has become much more than a place for developers to schmooze. Here's what to expect.

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Nvidia and AMD have tangled once again over GameWorks. We investigate, including the murky world of game optimization.

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This fabrication method could facilitate the mass production of graphene in large, continuous sheets.

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Whether you're on a tight budget or simply in need of a secondary smartphone, you definitely need to check out today's deal from FreedomPop. For just $24.99, you'll get a ZTE Force smartphone running Android 4.0, and a month of unlimited talk, text, and data for free. The best part? No long-term contracts!

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Microsoft has announced it will release new software called Phone Companion for Windows 10, as well as new and mobile apps that will give Android and iPhone owners a better experience with Windows 10 and the company's cloud services.

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A new artificial intelligence method called "thought vectors" has Google on the brink of creating computer systems with the capacity for logic, natural conversation, and perhaps even flirtation.

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Researchers at JPL have joined with DARPA to develop Deep Web search tools for mining vast data stores from NASA spacecraft and other science-related objectives.

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In theory, the release of a new OS version from Apple is supposed to be a reason to cheer, but if you own anything but the latest hardware, that's rarely been the case -- until now. Supposedly the upcoming iOS 9 will be explicitly tested on older hardware -- which should enable much higher levels of overall performance. Hopefully this will put an end to the days of iOS rendering older devices disagreeably slow come upgrade time.

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Android Auto ships first on Hyundai Sonata. Google Maps navigation may put the hurt on $500-$1,500 embedded navigation, since it's free and possibly better.

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While this 3D smart TV usually retails for nearly $1500, Dell is selling it now at a whopping $600 discount. And not only does it offer video streaming, it also features game streaming with PlayStation Now.

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The United States had better get to work and work collectively to address competitive challenges, or we will all fail together and fall further behind for sure.

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Are you buying software, or merely renting it? Let's take a look at some popular audio and video applications, and examine their licenses to see exactly what you’re getting.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has demonstrated solid-state optical phased array technology in a microchip, bringing the ability to bend light to the battlefront.

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These four-dimensional objects are built layer by layer in a 3D printer. But given time – the fourth dimension – these devices can automatically morph into a different shape, and thereby even change their function.

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Where once upon a time medicine chiefly implied treating solely the patient, future methods of diagnosis will also take into consideration the ratios of bacteria living on and within us.

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The Witcher 3 has been both critically and commercially successful since its release last week, but it's not without its issues. Most notably, the frame rate on the PS4 and Xbox One has been sub-par. Nobody sincerely expected it to be hitting 60fps on either console, but it seems that it can't even maintain a solid 30fps. We're a year and a half into this console generation, and AAA developers still can't keep the frame rate up.

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Even though it was invented over 70 years ago, holography remains the best candidate for achieving true 3D displays. Here we present six things you may not know about the strange and wonderful world of holography.

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Microsoft has released a new paper that illustrates how the cloud offload rendering platform it talked about for Xbox One could actually be deployed in reality. Could we see a shipping solution use this tech during the Xbox One's lifetime?

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With the help of an implant and a fancy robotic arm, quadraplegic Erik Sorto just drink himself his first beer in twelve years. In a first for neuroscience, he also demonstrated the ability to control the precise activity of single neurons in his brain with specific thoughts, and by implication, control entire specific actions with single neurons.

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to the dwarf planet Ceres, but we still can't be sure what those bright spots are.

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The quantum dots bound to this special paper give it remarkable light-emitting properties.

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At best, Build 10122 is a late beta that needs to be finalized in the next two to three months if Windows 10 will be released by the end of this summer. It's not looking good.

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If you're in need of a powerful desktop that won't break the bank, take a look at the XPS 8700 from Dell. With plenty of RAM, a nice big hard drive, and a discrete graphics card, this tower is surprisingly affordable. And with today's coupon code, you can save over hundreds of dollars off the sticker price.

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Ideally, a prosthetic lower limb could be automatically positioned at any time in response to residual muscle commands still naturally generated by the wearer. On Wednesday, the Össur team announced that they have already achieved just that.

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The search for MH 370 continues, but poor weather conditions and the lack of results have forced authorities to widen the search grid and shift the search further south.

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A new report highlights how the NSA tried to break into Android's App store as well as Samsung's custom version. The goal? Distribute malware to targeted smartphones in the guise of app updates.

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The squeezing of light down to incredibly small scales is attractive in many areas, in particular computation: Researchers believe the barriers presented with developing electronics to keep up with Moore's Law, in the form of bandwidth and energy dissipation, may be overcome using light-based technologies.

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Cisco may be in hot water. The company is already under investigation for alleged improprieties in its dealings with Russia. Now it may have dodged international sanctions to sell hardware, despite ongoing tensions over Ukraine.

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