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• Xbox One background music arrives August 2

  01-07-2016 23:59
  
  In January, a tweet suggested that we’d see background music support arrive for the Xbox One this summer, and now we finally have a date: it’ll arrive on August 2 with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, according to Microsoft. The Anniversary Update will bring changes to both the Xbox One and the Xbox app on Windows 10; in addition to … Continue reading
  
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• Low-cost 3D-printed thermos could help diagnose Zika virus by testing saliva

  01-07-2016 23:50 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The size of a regular soda can, a new tool for testing for the Zika virus simply requires potential patients to provide a saliva sample and then changes color to reveal whether or not the virus has been detected. It could turn out to be a major breakthrough.
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• ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ video straps a GoPro on a virtual chihuahua

  01-07-2016 23:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Strapping a GoPro to an animal is a surefire way to produce some pretty unique footage. And now, it’s been done in the virtual world thanks to Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind "The Secret Life of Pets."
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• Between the Streams: Tarzan whimpers, BFG stands tall, Tetris goes Hollywood

  01-07-2016 23:25 via digitaltrends.com
  
  This week on Between the Streams we'll discuss two very big movie openings in Tarzan and Steven Spielberg/Road Dahl's The BFG, as well as yet more gaming movies (Tetris?!), and much more.
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• NHTSA investigates Tesla after fatal crash while vehicle was in autonomous mode

  01-07-2016 23:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Tesla Autopilot is under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the wake of a fatal crash. The system is active on roughly 25,000 cars.
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• Walmart Pay rolls out to hundreds of stores across the U.S.

  01-07-2016 23:13
  
  Walmart Pay, following a limited launch earlier this year, has gone live in about 600 stores across 14 states, including Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Oregon, and more. With Walmart Pay, customers at supported stores can use their phone and the Walmart app to pay for their goods at the register in the same way one would use Samsung … Continue reading
  
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• Rumor: Could Fujifilm follow Hasselblad with a mirrorless medium-format camera?

  01-07-2016 22:51 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A longstanding rumor received new fuel this week when it was reported that Fujifilm plans to launch a mirrorless medium-format system in September at Photokina. If true, it would offer an alternative to Hasselblad's new X1D.
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• Facebook's Messenger platform now has quick replies, video support and more

  01-07-2016 22:48 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Hot on the heels of news that Messenger now has 11,000 bots, Facebook has added a slew of features to the platform, including ratings and quick replies. The features should help improve user engagement with bots.
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• Facebook adds GIF and video support, much more to Messenger platform

  01-07-2016 22:48 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Hot on the heels of news that Messenger now has 11,000 bots, Facebook has added a slew of features to the platform, including ratings and quick replies. The features should help improve user engagement with bots.
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• Meet the hacker keeping ‘Mr. Robot’ so real it’s scary

  01-07-2016 22:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  'Mr. Robot' writer and tech consultant Kor Adna headed a panel in New York City discussing the politics of hacking. Following the panel, Adna spoke with Digital Trends about season two details, how his hacking past helped the show and encryption.
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• Gigabyte puts GeForce GTX 1070 in compact model for Mini-ITX gaming systems

  01-07-2016 22:43 via digitaltrends.com
  
  In addition to launching its full-sized GeForce GTX 1070 Xtreme Gaming card, Gigabyte has also served up an overclocked GTX 1070 built for Mini-ITX setups. This card measures nearly seven inches, but packs the Pascal GPU, 8GB of memory, and a unique cooling system.
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• Gigabyte is offering overclocked, compact GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card

  01-07-2016 22:43 via digitaltrends.com
  
  In addition to launching its full-sized GeForce GTX 1070 Xtreme Gaming card, Gigabyte has also served up an overclocked GTX 1070 built for Mini-ITX setups. This card measures nearly seven inches, but packs the Pascal GPU, 8GB of memory, and a unique cooling system.
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• The Ozone layer healing itself is good news for the fight against Climate Change

  01-07-2016 22:36
  
  Earlier today, we heard that the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is in the beginning stages of healing. The reason we're seeing this reversal seems largely due to the Montreal Protocol, which banned the use of CFCs in 1987. For those who don't know, CFCs release chlorine atoms when they're hit by ultraviolent light, which eats away at … Continue reading
  
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• Fujifilm X-T2 leak details full roster of specs

  01-07-2016 22:35
  
  A new leak has surfaced purporting to know the specs of Fujifilm’s upcoming X-T2 camera. Among other things, the model is said to feature 4K video recording at 30fps and 24.3-megapixels, as well as support for RAW shooting and time lapses. The camera has been the subject of a few leaks in recent weeks; back in late April, for example, … Continue reading
  
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• DVD player in Tesla wreck raises distraction questions

  01-07-2016 22:33
  
  The crashed Tesla that collided with a truck while in Autopilot mode, killing the driver, had a portable DVD player reportedly still playing "Harry Potter" inside when witnesses rushed to the scene. Investigators of the May accident, in which the electric car's systems apparently failed to see a tractor-trailer crossing the highway ahead due to lighting conditions and the truck's … Continue reading
  
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• BlackBerry ‘Neon,’ ‘Argon,’ and ‘Mercury’ rumors, news, price, release date, and more

  01-07-2016 22:33 via digitaltrends.com
  
  BlackBerry isn't dead yet! The company may be readying three new Android smartphones for release later this year. Here's everything we know about the devices, what they look like, and what they can do.
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• Was the man who died in an autonomously driving Tesla really watching Harry Potter?

  01-07-2016 22:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A man riding in a Tesla Model S while in autonomous driving mode died in a car crash yesterday, marking the first death sustained while a car was in self-driving mode. A witness says the man may have been watching Harry Potter when the car rammed a tractor trailer at full speed.The post Was the man who died in an autonomously driving Tesla really watching Harry Potter? appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Google is buying energy from two wind farms that haven't even been built yet

  01-07-2016 22:23 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google's future is looking...gusty. In the tech giant's latest demonstration of its dedication to renewable energy, Google has purchased the future output from two wind power farms in Norway and Sweden
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• Google buys output of Norwegian wind farm — and it’s not even built yet

  01-07-2016 22:23 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google's future is looking...gusty. In the tech giant's latest demonstration of its dedication to renewable energy, Google has purchased the future output from two wind power farms in Norway and Sweden
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• Blizzard job listing suggests there’s more ‘Diablo’ on the way

  01-07-2016 22:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Blizzard revealed it is at least considering what to do next with the Diablo franchise, based on a job opening on the publisher's website. Blizzard posted a public listing for a "Game Director" to shepherd an unannounced Diablo-related project and "lead the Diablo series into the future."
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• Sprint customers now can get 60 days of Amazon Prime for free

  01-07-2016 22:04 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Branding themselves as "the exclusive wireless retailer of Amazon Prime," Sprint is now giving their customers the option of adding a Prime membership to their monthly cell phone bill for $11 a month.
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• This new Calyos PC is as powerful as a sonic boom — and as quiet as a whisper

  01-07-2016 21:56 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Calyos has a new workstation designed for PC gamers that relies on the company's Loop Heat Pipe tech, meaning there's no moving fan inside or out. This desktop is based on Lian Li's PCO7S case and can include an Intel Broadwell-E processor.
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• Calyos fanless workstation has ‘Haskwell-E’ CPU and GTX Titan X graphics card

  01-07-2016 21:46 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Calyos has a new workstation designed for PC gamers that relies on the company's Loop Heat Pipe technology, meaning there's no moving fan inside or out. This desktop is based on Lian Li's PCO7S case and can include an Intel Broadwell-E processor.
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• Facebook tests multilingual composer for individuals

  01-07-2016 21:40
  
  Earlier this year, Facebook rolled out a feature for Pages that allows users to share a message in multiple languages, making them more friendly to a larger, more diverse customer base. Starting today, Facebook is testing that same multi-language story feature for individual Facebook users, giving them the same status tool that’ll eliminate the need to publish multiple versions of … Continue reading
  
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• Welcome to 2016: US Senate staff will no longer receive BlackBerrys

  01-07-2016 21:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Lawmakers are getting dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. A policy change means Senate staffers will no longer receive BlackBerry phones, but Android devices or iPhones, instead.The post Welcome to 2016: US Senate staff will no longer receive BlackBerrys appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Welcome to 2016: Senate staff will no longer receive BlackBerrys

  01-07-2016 21:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Lawmakers are getting dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. A policy change means Senate staffers will no longer receive BlackBerry phones, but Android devices or iPhones, instead.The post Welcome to 2016: Senate staff will no longer receive BlackBerrys appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• It takes a lot of skill to sweep a game of beer pong played atop a Roomba

  01-07-2016 21:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Roomba pong or Beeroomba? A viral YouTube video shows that iRobot's autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners can be used to add a degree of difficulty to the drinking game beer pong.The post It takes a lot of skill to sweep a game of beer pong played atop a Roomba appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Updated – Is BMW teaming up with Intel, Mobileye to develop autonomous vehicles?

  01-07-2016 21:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  BMW, which recently said it would have a completely autonomous car by 2021, is holding a joint news conference July 1 with chip-maker Intel and machine vision technology firm Mobileye. An autonomous car venture is expected.
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• She can write a pop hit for anybody, but on ‘Death Valley,’ LP wrote for LP

  01-07-2016 21:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  “Good songs have a leeway to them. They respond to being done in different versions.” Identity is everything to recording artists. If that gets diluted in any way, musicians feel a clear disconnect has occurred between their intended message and how it’s being conveyed to the listener. In essence, that’s exactly what happened to indie […]
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• These Google Phones and Android Nougat make me doubt my iPhone’s future

  01-07-2016 21:10
  
  Today I'm doubting this iPhone in the face of Google's potential with the next generation of Android Nougat devices. Specifically the HTC-made Nexus phones we're looking at today, leaked and everything. Both of the devices have been leaked, as it were, both with very similar details - both looking like really, really good competitors for the iPhone 7. Especially if … Continue reading
  
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• No English? No problem: Facebook can translate posts into different languages

  01-07-2016 21:09 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow you to automatically translate posts. Once translated, posts will display in their translated versions to those who don't speak the language of the original post.
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• China cracks down on mobile games with new approval requirement

  01-07-2016 20:52
  
  China's ever-present grip on the Internet and everything related to it just got a little tighter. In an effort to crackdown on popular media, mobile game developers must get their games pre-approved by the Chinese government before launching them in the nation. The rule went into effect today, though it was first announced in early June. To avoid running afoul … Continue reading
  
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• Brazilian court freezes $6M in Facebook assets after WhatsApp fails to share data

  01-07-2016 20:22 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A Brazillian court has ordered $6 million of Facebook's assets frozen in response to WhatsApp's refusal to hand over data. It's the clash in an ongoing saga between Brazilian authorities and the messaging service.
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• Spotify woke the Apple dragon: Here’s the result

  01-07-2016 20:17
  
  If Spotify thought it could put Apple on blast publicly for being "anti-competitive" and get away with it, the streaming music service was sorely mistaken. Having felt the brunt of Spotify's scathing critique about the cut the App Store takes for subscriptions like that of Spotify Premium, Apple has now responded with its own accusations that the rival service is … Continue reading
  
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• Xbox Play Anywhere offers up multi-platform gaming in September

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  Of all the things announced during E3 2016, one of the most interesting was Xbox Play Anywhere. A new initiative by Microsoft, Xbox Play Anywhere allows users to play multi-platform titles on both Xbox One and Windows 10 while only requiring the game be purchased once. Microsoft revealed today that the service will be going live on September 13, but … Continue reading
  
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• Augmented-reality headsets could help helicopter rescue pilots fly in dense fog

  01-07-2016 20:08 via digitaltrends.com
  
  “Databases containing obstacles and terrain data are used together with real-time data from sensors in order to substitute the lost visual cues in a degraded visual environment” project lead Franz Viertler told Digital Trends.
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• Terrence Malick’s (very) long-awaited ‘Voyage of Time’ finally gets a trailer

  01-07-2016 20:06 via digitaltrends.com
  
  If you like captivating imagery and existential quandaries, then you might want to check out the epic first trailer for Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time, a documentary that aims to examine the birth and death of the universe.
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• Epic trailer for Terrence Malick's 'Voyage of Time' took over 30 years to create

  01-07-2016 20:06 via digitaltrends.com
  
  If you like captivating imagery and existential quandaries, then you might want to check out the epic first trailer for Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time, a documentary that aims to examine the birth and death of the universe.
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• Severed finger in ‘Resident Evil 7’ demo may have been a red herring after all

  01-07-2016 20:01 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Were you one of the many thousands of gamers who were perplexed by the inclusion of a severed finger in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard's playable demo? It looks like you might have been wasting your time, as Capcom is now calling it a "dummy finger."
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• Microsoft details rollout plan for Xbox Play Anywhere launch

  01-07-2016 20:00 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Microsoft laid out a detailed plan for introducing Xbox Play Anywhere, its new cross-play initiative for the Xbox One and Windows 10. This included a list of upcoming games that will support it, and what users will need to take advantage of it.
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• The wait is nearly over: Panasonic’s 4K Blu-ray player gets a US release date

  01-07-2016 19:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Already out in Japan and Europe, Panasonic's DMP-UB900 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player will finally arrive in the U.S. this September. The player boasts a ton of features and looks like it provides excellent image processing, but it isn't cheap.
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• HP Spectre review

  01-07-2016 19:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  HP’s Spectre may be the thinnest laptop ever, but it has to prove that its impressive design elements can make up for the compromises that must be made under the hood of every slim system.
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• Does Tesla have blood on its hands? The complex morality of autonomy

  01-07-2016 19:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  On Thursday NHTSA announced plans to investigate the May 7 fatality of a Florida man behind the wheel of – but not driving – a Tesla Model S. The car has Autopilot and during this accident, it was in control. So is Tesla at fault? Needless to say, the answers are far from black and white.
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• SanDisk’s high-performance MicroSD cards are built for your 4K video library

  01-07-2016 19:41 via digitaltrends.com
  
  SanDisk just announced the 256GB Extreme MicroSDXC card that sets a new transfer speed record of 100MB/sec and has enough capacity for 14 hours of 4K footage. A new Ultra card with the same capacity but lower speed was also announced.
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• Drivers, not ones and zeroes, the biggest roadblock to autonomous cars

  01-07-2016 19:37
  
  Tesla's Autopilot is in safety regulators' crosshairs after one driver died using the system, but the NHTSA's own research suggests unrealistic expectations and human nature may be the biggest risk to semi-automated cars. The crash, in May 2016, saw Joshua D. Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio die after his 2015 Model S struck a tractor-trailer crossing the divided highway he … Continue reading
  
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• Security researcher dumps 427 million hacked Myspace passwords online

  01-07-2016 19:31 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A security researcher has published 427 million passwords from the recent Myspace hack online for anyone to download and scrutinize. Users should change their passwords if they think they’ve been affected.
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• Fit Friday: Get your kids away from the gadgets and onto the mats - News3LV

  01-07-2016 19:24
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  With video games, cell phones and various gadgets grabbing kids' attention relentlessly, it's important to teach children to step away from technology at least once a day and enjoy good ol' exercise. For Fit Friday, Joseph Immel, director at My Gym ...
  
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• Juno just entered Jupiter’s magnetosphere, and the sounds it captured are amazing

  01-07-2016 19:22 via digitaltrends.com
  
  At the point where the solar wind collides with Jupiter’s magnetosphere, there’s something called a bow shock, which astrophysicists compare to a sonic boom. NASA's Juno spacecraft recorded a short video and eerie audio of the event.The post Juno just entered Jupiter’s magnetosphere, and the sounds it captured are amazing appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Juno enters Jupiter’s magnetosphere, and the sounds it captured are amazing

  01-07-2016 19:22 via digitaltrends.com
  
  At the point where the solar wind collides with Jupiter’s magnetosphere, there’s something called a bow shock, which astrophysicists compare to a sonic boom. NASA's Juno spacecraft recorded a short video and eerie audio of the event.The post Juno enters Jupiter’s magnetosphere, and the sounds it captured are amazing appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• These cars are now banned from Paris city limits to help curb air pollution

  01-07-2016 19:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Paris officials have passed a law that makes it illegal for cars built before 1997 to enter the city limits.Fear not, enthusiasts, cars registered as classic vehicles are exempt from the ban.The post These cars are now banned from Paris city limits to help curb air pollution appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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