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• ‘Game of Thrones’ season 6 finale photos hint at comeuppance

  22-06-2016 23:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Game of Thrones season 6 will soon be over after 10 action-packed weeks. We still have the finale coming, though, and HBO has released six new photos from the season's final episode, The Winds of Winter.
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• Astell & Kern shows off new high-res player and updated in-ears at CE Week

  22-06-2016 23:42 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Astell & Kern debuted two new products at CE Week: its new entry-level AK70 high-resolution audio player, and its updated AK T8iE in-ear monitors, made in conjunction with Beyerdynamic.The post Astell & Kern shows off new high-res player and updated in-ears at CE Week appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Astell & Kern debuts new entry-level, high-res audio player and updated in-ears

  22-06-2016 23:42 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Astell & Kern debuted two new products at CE Week: its new entry-level AK70 high-resolution audio player, and its updated AK T8iE in-ear monitors, made in conjunction with Beyerdynamic.The post Astell & Kern debuts new entry-level, high-res audio player and updated in-ears appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Tired of being tired? Sleepman wearable will help you rest easy

  22-06-2016 23:35 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Meet the Sleepman,which combines "sleep-optimization and enhancement functions with daytime drowsiness prevention and concentration-loss alerts." The device provides insights into activity patterns whether you're asleep or awake.The post Tired of being tired? Sleepman wearable will help you rest easy appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• First drive: 2017 Volvo S90

  22-06-2016 23:20 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Volvo has created an all-new midsize luxury sedan to compete with the best of Germany, Japan, and America. From any angle, the 2017 Volvo S90 is a winner.
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• Get down to Digital Trends’ best albums of the year (so far)

  22-06-2016 23:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Here's our list of the best albums to hit store shelves in the first half of 2016, a varied list of records which embodies the massive creative energy flowing through the modern music world.
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• Two London-based designers gave the moka pot a welcome 21st-century makeover

  22-06-2016 22:44 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Two London-based designers teamed up with houseware company Stelton to give the decades-old moka pot a welcome injection of 21st-century style. Dubbed the Collar collection, the trio gave an Italian staple a classy, Scandinavian look.
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• SoundCloud takes on Spotify’s Discover Weekly with new Suggested Tracks feature

  22-06-2016 22:43 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist is one of the streaming service's most popular features, and now SoundCloud is introducing a similar feature with its new Suggested Tracks feature.
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• Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot are suburban spies in ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’

  22-06-2016 22:34 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Government spies move in next door in the first trailer for Keeping Up With the Joneses, from Superbad director Greg Mottola. The new spot gives the term "nosy neighbors" a whole new meaning.
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• Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot are sexy suburban spies in ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’

  22-06-2016 22:34 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Government spies move in next door in the first trailer for Keeping Up With the Joneses, from Superbad director Greg Mottola. The new spot gives the term "nosy neighbors" a whole new meaning.
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• Go long: Nikon 1,200mm f/11 lens from 1974 shows up on eBay

  22-06-2016 22:31 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Nikon makes some pretty great lenses today, but nothing that quite compares to this 1,200mm f/11 telephoto behemoth from 1974 that popped up on eBay. Its usefulness on modern digital cameras is limited, but it will still impress your friends.
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• Even Scorsese, Jagger weren’t enough to save HBO’s ‘Vinyl’

  22-06-2016 22:30 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's 1970s-era music-industry drama 'Vinyl' was canceled by HBO this week, just four months after the television series was renewed for a second season by the cable network.
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• The FCC is trying to figure out how much trouble unwanted radio waves really cause

  22-06-2016 22:25 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Radio waves are everywhere, and many serve no real purpose. The FCC is trying to determine exactly how much the level of radio noise has changed over the past two decades since the proliferation of mobile devices.
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• Netflix is becoming (slightly) less of a bandwidth hog, but why?

  22-06-2016 22:25 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Netflix has earned its reputation for hogging bandwidth, but the streamer's share of peak-period internet traffic finally seems to be on the decline, according to a new report. Meanwhile, Amazon's is on the rise. But what do these numbers really mean?
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• ‘About a third’ of Valve’s employees are working on VR

  22-06-2016 22:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The company behind the world's largest digital game distribution service and creator of Half-Life has dedicated 'about a third' of its workforce to VR. It's a hefty investment that shows just how far it's willing to go.
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• Intel continues to fight European Commission’s $1.2B fine from 2009

  22-06-2016 22:18 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Almost seven years on, Intel is still fighting against the massive $1.2 billion fine from the European Commission for allegedly abusing its position and market share to shut out rivals.
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• OnePlus 3 review

  22-06-2016 21:57 via digitaltrends.com
  
  OnePlus has thrown out the tired promo gimmicks and dismissed the invitation system, letting the OnePlus 3 speak for itself. Brave or totally justified? We find out in our complete review.
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• The one thing Katy Perry and Taylor Swift agree on: The fight against YouTube

  22-06-2016 21:56 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and scores of other music industry professionals are calling for big reforms to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which allows YouTube to run wild with illegal tunes.
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• Dropbox rolls out document scanning, new sharing features, and more to its apps

  22-06-2016 21:55 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Dropbox is rolling out a bevy of new features to its apps on iOS and desktop, including document scanning, new sharing tools, shortcuts to documents, annotation options, and more.The post Dropbox rolls out document scanning, new sharing features, and more to its apps appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• The creators of this high-tech toothbrush claim it can clean your teeth in 10 seconds flat

  22-06-2016 21:52 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Don’t have time in this busy, busy world to spend four minutes per day on dental hygiene? Not a problem, says dentist and inventor Aldo Dominici. He's created a smart toothbrush which promises to fully brush your teeth in just ten seconds.
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• The latest Windows 10 Insider build will guide you through activation woes

  22-06-2016 21:34 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The latest build of Windows 10 Insider Preview reveals Activation Troubleshooter, a tool to help consumers activate a genuine copy of Windows 10. This build also allows testers to link their Microsoft Account to the Insider Preview releases.
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• 'Shovel Knight' villain Specter Knight will be playable in next expansion

  22-06-2016 21:28 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Indie developer Yacht Club Games has outlined the multiple expansions planned for its throwback platformer Shovel Knight, revealing that players will soon be able to experience the game's campaign from the perspective of villain Specter Knight.
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• ‘Shovel Knight’ creator talks upcoming expansions, Vita physical release

  22-06-2016 21:28 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Indie developer Yacht Club Games has outlined the multiple expansions planned for its throwback platformer Shovel Knight, revealing that players will soon be able to experience the game's campaign from the perspective of villain Specter Knight.
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• ‘Overwatch’ loses ‘Avoid this player’ option due to misuse

  22-06-2016 21:17 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Blizzard's competitive first-person shooter Overwatch has lost a key matchmaking feature following complaints from one of the game's top players regarding their inability to find opponents.
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• Cars, more cars, and Marshawn Lynch: What could go wrong?

  22-06-2016 20:49 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Retired Seattle Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch wasn't busy recently, so he helped us pick out some of the year's best cars. Hijinks immediately ensued.
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• Getty Images is hopping on the VR bandwagon, building up a huge repository of stock VR content

  22-06-2016 20:39 via digitaltrends.com
  
  “We are not surprised that Getty Images are embracing 360-degree photography,” Anthony Geffen, CEO of the award-winning Atlantic Productions, whose sister company Atlantic VR regularly works with virtual reality, tells Digital Trends.
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• Shred on the go: Your next pair of Converse can have a built in wah-wah pedal

  22-06-2016 20:37 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Converse has created a sneaker-based homage to all its musical fans, a new All Star called the Chet Atkins All Wah, which has a built-in bluetooth-enabled guitar pedal.
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• Wonder Woman just joined the ‘Supergirl’ TV series

  22-06-2016 20:28 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Former Wonder Woman TV series star Lynda Carter will play the President of the United States in the upcoming second season of the Supergirl series on The CW, set to premiere in October.
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• Duke University engineers just built a robot that’s 10,000x faster at planning motion

  22-06-2016 20:17 via digitaltrends.com
  
  “Motion planning seems easy for humans because we do it so fast,” co-creator George Konidaris tells Digital Trends. “But that’s deceptive; like a lot of problems in AI and robotics, just because it's easy for us doesn't mean it's easy for computers."
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• Keep one foot in the physical world with a mixed-reality Vive setup

  22-06-2016 20:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  It's tough to show people who haven't tried VR what room-scale looks like, but with a green screen and a little elbow grease, you can set up mixed-reality Vive videos from the comfort of your own living room.
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• KFC putting a charge into customers’ meals in India with Watt a Box

  22-06-2016 20:07 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Would you like a power bank with your meal? That's what KFC's offering with Watt a Box, a meal box with a 6,100mAh power bank for charging your phone. You also get a micro-USB and a Lightning cable.
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• KFC adds some juice to its meals: Watt a Box charges phone while you feast

  22-06-2016 20:07 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Would you like a power bank with your meal? That's what KFC's offering with Watt a Box, a meal box with a 6,100mAh power bank for charging your phone. You also get a micro-USB and a Lightning cable.
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• Sevenhugs is bringing its sleep tracker for kids to U.S. stores

  22-06-2016 20:04 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Sevenhugs, manufacturer of the hugOne sleep monitoring system and smart home Smart Remote recently raised $14.6 million for its U.S. product launch.HugOne will be available in August 2016 for purchase in major U.S. retailers.
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• U.S. Department of Energy preps rival to top Chinese supercomputer

  22-06-2016 20:03 via digitaltrends.com
  
  In the wake of China's TaihuLight claiming first place in last week's ranking of the world's top supercomputers, the U.S. Department of Energy has detailed its top contender to regain the title.
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• U.S. Department of Energy plans to counter China’s fastest supercomputer

  22-06-2016 20:03 via digitaltrends.com
  
  In the wake of China's TaihuLight claiming first place in last week's ranking of the world's top supercomputers, the U.S. Department of Energy has detailed its top contender to regain the title.
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• Pioneer’s latest Elite series A/V receiver aims to be your home’s entertainment hub

  22-06-2016 20:00 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Pioneer is showing off plenty of products that it has already released at CE Week, but it saved on of the best for last with its newmultiroom-ready Elite SC-LX501 network A/V receiver.
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• Pioneer shows off its slick multiroom-ready Elite SC-LX502 A/V receiver at CE Week

  22-06-2016 20:00 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Pioneer is showing off plenty of products that it has already released at CE Week, but it saved on of the best for last with its newmultiroom-ready Elite SC-LX501 network A/V receiver.
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• Barclays launches its own contactless payments app for UK banking customers

  22-06-2016 19:49 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Barclays Bank has launched a contactless payment app for customers in the U.K. It's available through the Play Store, and supports payments at more than 400,000 locations and London's public transit system.The post Barclays launches its own contactless payments app for UK banking customers appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Barclays launches a new NFC payments app for UK customers

  22-06-2016 19:49 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Barclays Bank has launched a contactless payment app for customers in the U.K. It's available through the Play Store, and supports payments at more than 400,000 locations and London's public transit system.The post Barclays launches a new NFC payments app for UK customers appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• 25 annoying Samsung Galaxy S6 problems, and how to fix them

  22-06-2016 19:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Have you been having problems with your Galaxy S6? It may look close to perfect, but no smartphone is completely free of flaws. Fear not, we've got some workarounds and possible solutions to help you fix your new-fangled smartphone.
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• This website automatically texts ‘Game of Thrones’ spoilers to your worst enemy

  22-06-2016 19:40
  
  I don't know that I hate anyone enough to continually text them  Game of Thrones  spoilers from an anonymous number. But luckily, if I did, there's an app for that. As  The Next Web  spotted, for a simple one-off payment of $0.99, Spoiled.io will spam a phone number of your choice with  Game of Thrones  spoilers. The texts (which also appear to contain photos) are sent in real time, so even if your target is watching on a slightly laggy free stream, they'll have the
  
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• Gomez and Corden share a wild ride in new Carpool Karaoke

  22-06-2016 19:38 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Harmonizing on a roller coaster with Selena Gomez, pounding ginger shots, and befriending McDonald's employees may not sound like your typical morning commute, but for James Corden, it's just another trip to the office.
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• Testing shows Nvidia’s new video cards still go nuts with multiple high-refresh monitors

  22-06-2016 19:33 via digitaltrends.com
  
  There is an ongoing issue with Nvidia's drivers causing the idle clock speed to jump when a second monitor with a high refresh rate is attached. Until the issue is fixed, both monitors need to remain at 60Hz to reduce heat and power draw.
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• This brilliant 10-year-old kid built a fully-functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’NEX

  22-06-2016 19:28 via digitaltrends.com
  
  One of the latest innovations in the 3D-printing world comes from a preteen who cleverly combined a 3D-printing pen, a bunch of loose Lego bricks, and a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit to create a homemade 3D printer.The post This brilliant 10-year-old kid built a fully-functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’NEX appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Preview: ‘South Park: The Fractured But Whole’

  22-06-2016 19:27 via digitaltrends.com
  
  'South Park: The Fractured But Whole' seems capable of turning the novelty of the “South Park RPG” idea into distinctive game series, and a viable narrative form.
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• To boost wind energy production, China needs to build turbines where the wind isn’t strong

  22-06-2016 19:24 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Despite being a world leader in wind power, China consumes so much energy that wind supplied just three percent of the country’s overall electricity demand last year. But China has the potential to harness wind and exceed its 2030 goal by up to six percent
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• Integrity, trust and future tech developments on VW annual meeting agenda

  22-06-2016 19:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  VW Group CEO Müller presented the company's plan for the next decade at the annual meeting. Vehicle electrification, autonomous cars, mobility services, cleaner gas engines, and the diesel recall program were all on the agenda.The post Integrity, trust and future tech developments on VW annual meeting agenda appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• CE Week 2016

  22-06-2016 19:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  CE week is essentially the consumer electronics industry’s version of a family reunion. Each summer, electronics manufacturers, media, and analysts converge in New York City as a way of bridging the gap between each years’ International CES. It is at CE Week that we often see new, exciting products that just can’t wait for CES […]
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• Is there liquid water on Pluto? Scientists now say yes

  22-06-2016 19:10 via digitaltrends.com
  
  According to a new modeling paper published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, partial freezing in a subsurface, liquid water ocean could be the explanation for the tectonic activity across Pluto's terrain.
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• Could there be oceans of liquid water lurking beneath Pluto’s surface? Astronomers say yes

  22-06-2016 19:10 via digitaltrends.com
  
  According to a new modeling paper published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, partial freezing in a subsurface, liquid water ocean could be the explanation for the tectonic activity across Pluto's terrain.
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