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• These DARPA-funded cardboard drones are designed to deliver supplies, then disappear

  18-01-2017 23:57 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Called ICARUS, this DARPA-funded cardboard drone project is designed for flying those missions there’s no coming back from. The resulting UAV could do everything from delivering vaccines to batteries.
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• Four eyes is a compliment for the TwoEyes VR prototype 3D 360 camera

  18-01-2017 23:57 via digitaltrends.com
  
  With two pairs of offset lenses, TwoEyes VR is designed to mimic how we see in real life. The camera's Kickstarter reached full funding after just two days and unlike the new LucidCam, records 4K and 3D 360 video at once.
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• ‘Fire Emblem Heroes’ is Nintendo’s next mobile game, launches in February

  18-01-2017 23:49
  
  As expected, Nintendo unveiled its next mobile game on Wednesday afternoon during the company's Fire Emblem live stream. The new game is called Fire Emblem Heroes , and unlike Super Mario Run , it will release first for Android on February 2nd and will be available on iPhone and iPad as well "soon." Similar to Super Mario Run , Fire Emblem Heroes is a simplified version of the games in the franchise on which it is based, with gameplay and visuals better suited to a smartphone than
  
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• 5 games that’ll make Nintendo Switch a must-have

  18-01-2017 23:44
  The release of the Nintendo Switch brings with it the dawn of a new generation of Nintendo-friendly games – awesome games. What we’re going to do today is pick out 5 of the best – or 5 of the most potential-filled games, as it were. Several of these games were released in one form or another on previous Nintendo devices … Continue reading
  
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• New AMD contest to award unannounced Radeon Vega graphics card to 2 winners

  18-01-2017 23:40 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Last week, AMD kicked off a contest that will dish out an unannounced Vega-based Radeon graphics card to two lucky winners. Participants have up to six chances to submit an entry through Twitter and Facebook.
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• Here's how you can score a free Radeon graphics card based on AMD's Vega design

  18-01-2017 23:40 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Last week, AMD kicked off a contest that will dish out an unannounced Vega-based Radeon graphics card to two lucky winners. Participants have up to six chances to submit an entry through Twitter and Facebook.
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• Tesla will also make gearboxes, electric motors for the Model 3 at its Gigafactory

  18-01-2017 23:34 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Just a couple weeks after the enormous Gigafactory in Nevada began producing lithium-ion battery cells for Tesla, the car company is having the massive plant produce something else -- components for the highly anticipated Model 3.The post Tesla will also make gearboxes, electric motors for the Model 3 at its Gigafactory appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Google’s $20 Project Fi referral program has been extended ‘indefinitely’

  18-01-2017 23:32 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google has launched a referral plan for Project Fi that will give customers a cool $20 for each person they persuade to sign up. Not only that, since Google's feeling generous, the person who signed up will get $20, too.
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• The Best Wireless Earbuds You Can Buy

  18-01-2017 23:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  As the headphone port fades into obsolescence, wireless earbuds are becoming the norm. Check out our list of the best cord-free 'buds on the market, and find out which pair are the best fit for you.
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• You’ll start staring at your system with iBuyPower’s transparent LCD side panel

  18-01-2017 23:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  iBuyPower, which makes a complete line of gaming PCs spanning price points from low to high, has begun offering high-end components with new cases that incorporate a transparent LCD display in a side panel.
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• iBuyPower Project Snowflake PC with transparent LCD available for pre-order

  18-01-2017 23:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  iBuyPower, which makes a complete line of gaming PCs spanning price points from low to high, has begun offering high-end components with new cases that incorporate a transparent LCD display in a side panel.
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• “House of Cards” Season 5 delayed amid Netflix bumper growth

  18-01-2017 23:19
  “House of Cards” season five won’t air until Q2 2017, Netflix has confirmed today, disappointing fans of the award winning series. News that the show had been renewed for a fifth season was confirmed a year ago, in January 2016, before season four had even aired on the on-demand streaming service. However, we now know that there’ll be longer to … Continue reading
  
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• ‘Pokémon Go’ dataminers discover new moves, creatures in latest update

  18-01-2017 23:18 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Pokémon Go dataminers have extracted a wealth of new content hidden within the app's latest update, including support for Generation 2 creatures that have alternate physical forms.
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• 'Pokémon Go' update expands support for Generation 2 creatures

  18-01-2017 23:18 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Pokémon Go dataminers have extracted a wealth of new content hidden within the app's latest update, including support for Generation 2 creatures that have alternate physical forms.
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• Get a week’s worth of power with this Anker portable charger, now $60 off

  18-01-2017 23:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  This Anker PowerCore Speed 20000 QC, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 Portable Charger, powers your devices for up to a week and is currently on sale for only $40 - a $60 (or 60 percent) savings off the regular amazon price of $100.
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• Too brutal? ‘Walking Dead’ premiere outcry led producers to rein in violence

  18-01-2017 23:13 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere was especially brutal -- so much so that the outcry made the show's producers re-evaluate its level of violence. They decided to scale back to avoid crossing into "torture porn" territory.
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• Brutal 'Walking Dead' Season 7 premiere made producers rethink show's violence

  18-01-2017 23:13 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere was especially brutal -- so much so that the outcry made the show's producers re-evaluate its level of violence. They decided to scale back to avoid crossing into "torture porn" territory.
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• Hulu CEO says offline viewing is coming to streaming service ‘in a few months’

  18-01-2017 23:01 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Following Netflix’s introduction of offline playback last year, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins says the streaming service will be next to join the party, with offline playback coming "in a few months."
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• DJ stream: Tidal’s Track Edit feature lets you manipulate any song you want

  18-01-2017 22:58 via digitaltrends.com
  
  As part of a mobile app update, Tidal introduced a new feature, Track Edit, which allows users to alter any of the millions of songs in Tidal's catalog. You can slow down, speed up, or fade as much of a song as you want.
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• Slack debuts Threads to help organize side conversations in public channels

  18-01-2017 22:52 via digitaltrends.com
  
  On Wednesday, the messaging service finally debuted a much-anticipated feature -- threaded messaging, or as Slack calls it, Threads. It's branded as "a new way to connect related messages."
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• New images reveal Microsoft’s upcoming and long-overdue ebook store

  18-01-2017 22:52 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Microsoft is finally building an ebook store for its users, and we now have a look at what that store will look like. Unfortunately, it won't be available to the public until April.
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• Every device you own could soon run the same Windows 10 user interface

  18-01-2017 22:51 via digitaltrends.com
  
  While much of Windows 10 is shared across devices, including the OneCore foundation and Universal Windows Apps, the Windows Shell that users interact with is different. That's going to change with the upcoming release of the Composable Shell.
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• New phishing scam has high success rate against tech-savvy Gmail users

  18-01-2017 22:48 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A new phishing scheme, targeting Gmail users, aims to use your contact list against you by pilfering your inbox in an effort to compromise the accounts of your friends, family, and co-workers.
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• Gmail PSA: This phishing scam is all too easy to fall for

  18-01-2017 22:36
  A simple but astonishingly effective Gmail scam continues to compromise even adept internet users, with phishers taking advantage of how browsers present URLs to steal emails and other information. The exploit presents users with what looks like a regular login page but, rather than being hosted by Google, is in fact running on a different server waiting to steal account … Continue reading
  
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• Brighter sun spots: Researchers can now view solar storms in high definition

  18-01-2017 22:36 via digitaltrends.com
  
  An upgrade of the world’s highest-resolution telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory in California makes it possible to watch massive solar storms raging in space. Here is how it works.
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• Leica M10 puts 24MP digital camera in a body analog fans will love

  18-01-2017 22:33
  Leica has revealed its new M10 digital camera, but you’d be forgiven if you thought this was a film camera at first blush. Leica has focused on the form factor with this newest M-series release, attempting to make it as similar to analog M models as possible. The result, Leica says, is the slimmest digital M-series camera it has ever … Continue reading
  
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• Galaxy S8 display glass tips teeny tiny bezels

  18-01-2017 22:28
  The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus seem to have been revealed all at once in a single photo. This photo depicts both devices – if we are to believe that this photo is indeed the real deal – both Galaxy devices rolling with curved edges. This fits with previous rumors of at least one Samsung Galaxy S8 device … Continue reading
  
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• ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ joins roster of films getting the remake treatment

  18-01-2017 22:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The 1992 street-basketball movie White Men Can't Jump is set to get the remake treatment, with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris attached to both write and co-produce the upcoming film.
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• If you want Windows Hello, then cancel your new Dell XPS 15 pre-order

  18-01-2017 22:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  There's been some confusion, as to whether Dell was jumping on the Windows Hello password-less login bandwagon with its updated Dell XPS 15 notebook, and that's now been clarified. A fingerprint scanner option is coming in February.
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• U.S. Navy is developing target-tracking ‘smart bullets’ to defend against drone swarms

  18-01-2017 21:38 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Navy's newest tool to protect United States' shores is MAD-FIRES bullets, which are supposed to track targets with missile-like precision—and they could be available as early as 2018.
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• To protect ships from enemy drone swarms, the Navy is developing target-tracking bullets

  18-01-2017 21:38 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Navy's newest tool to protect United States' shores is MAD-FIRES bullets, which are supposed to track targets with missile-like precision—and they could be available as early as 2018.
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• Everything we know about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 recall

  18-01-2017 21:37 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung's incendiary Galaxy Note 7 is officially dead. Flight attendants no longer have to notify passengers about the device, even though the ban is still in place. Samsung says 96 percent of all Galaxy Note 7 phones have been returned.
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• You can tour the lost stone city of Petra without ever leaving your chair

  18-01-2017 21:28 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Thanks to Google's newest 360-degree experience for Google Cardboard, you can take a trip through Petra and more than 30 historical sites across Jordan. It's an expansion of a project that Google first launched in 2016.
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• Weego Jump Starter 44 review

  18-01-2017 21:26 via digitaltrends.com
  
  With the latest update the company has improved upon the original design in every way.
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• New Samsung patent points to a phone case with a built-in E Ink screen

  18-01-2017 21:26 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A new patent application filed by electronics giant Samsung appears to show a phone case with an integrated E Ink screen. It could launch alongside the company's forthcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone.
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• VIZIO brings Google Home integration to SmartCast devices

  18-01-2017 21:19
  VIZIO has announced that its range of SmartCast devices will now play nice with Google Home. Using this new functionality, you can control your TVs, soundbars, and speakers with your voice, with a variety of different commands centered around “OK Google” available. As some of you already know, SmartCast devices are built on Google’s own Chromecast technology, which basically makes … Continue reading
  
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• Meet Meitu, the Chinese photo editing app now taking the world by storm

  18-01-2017 21:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Meet Meitu, the Chinese app taking the world by storm with its instant beautifying effects that turn you into whomever you want to be -- in your photographs, that is. It recently launched the hand-drawn selfies feature.
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• Apple’s latest lawsuit proves you just can’t please everyone

  18-01-2017 21:14
  Apple finds itself the subject of a road safety lawsuit, facing demands to lock down the iPhone to prevent drivers from texting or other distractions while on the road. The case, Julio Ceja v. Apple Inc., was filed this week in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, and accuses the Cupertino firm of putting “profit before consumer safety” by continuing … Continue reading
  
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• Nvidia confirms upcoming Android Nougat update for Shield Tablets

  18-01-2017 21:08 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Along with its new Shield TV set top boxes and original Shield TVs, Nvidia is upcoming its Shield Tablet and Tablet K1s to also support Android 7.0 Nougat. While we don't have a hard release date, it's expected to be sometime in the next few weeks.
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• Yamaha’s latest headphones include its most accurate pair to date

  18-01-2017 21:04 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Ahead of the 2017 NAMM Show, Yamaha announced two new studio monitor headphones in the HPH-MT5 and the HPH-MT8, which it says are its most accurate set of headphones released to date.
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• Music junkie? Here are 25 of our favorite apps for consuming and creating tunes

  18-01-2017 21:04 via digitaltrends.com
  
  We've rummaged through all the major app stores to find the finest mobile music apps in existence, so no matter if you're on Android or iOS, consult this list to find the best music apps.
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• Army tests “hoverbike” successfully, Star Wars fans rejoice

  18-01-2017 20:59
  The USA Department of Defense has witnessed the first successful public test of the Army’s latest in futuristic vehicles – the hoverbike. This device is officially known as the Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle (JTARV), and can be seen tested without a pilot in a video shared by the United States Army Research Laboratory this week. The video shows a … Continue reading
  
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• Oculus CEO Luckey set to testify in lawsuit over Rift’s VR tech

  18-01-2017 20:51 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Also today: Sophisticated phishing scam hits Gmail users, driver learns the hard way to always bring the keys when he drives his Tesla.
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• Pokemon GO takes on climate change in monster Davos takeover

  18-01-2017 20:41
  Niantic has revealed their next sponsorship deal with a brand – Project Everyone, making a push for awareness of The Global Goals campaign at the World Economic Forum. Before now, Pokemon GO had only opened Sponsored Pokestops and Pokemon Gyms in the game Pokemon GO with consumer brands. With this sponsorship deal, Pokemon GO becomes an awareness partner for the … Continue reading
  
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• Microsoft’s Game Mode may only optimize Windows 10 while recording gameplay

  18-01-2017 20:37 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Microsoft talked about the new Game Mode in Creators Update for Windows 10 last week, but it's already starting to appear in preview builds. Right now, the feature appears to suspend background services to free up resources.
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• YouTube in-app messaging goes live in Canada first

  18-01-2017 20:35 via digitaltrends.com
  
  YouTube's messaging service, previously invite-only, is now live for all Canadian users of the YouTube app on iOS and Android. For the first time, users can share content in private conversations entirely within the app.
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• QCY Q29 Wireless Earbuds Review: AirPods on a budget

  18-01-2017 20:35
  Apple’s AirPods have made untethered Bluetooth earbuds mainstream, but the design itself — that is, two untethered wireless ear pieces — has been around for years. Go back far enough, and you’ll find early models like the Sennheiser MX W1, a pair of big, clunky but functional earbuds that provided stereo audio without a wire tethering them together. As technology … Continue reading
  
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• Think $5 for a cup of coffee is a lot? How about $10,000 for a coffee maker?

  18-01-2017 20:25 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Royal Coffee Maker is a 24-karat gold (or silver) coffee maker that features a balancing syphon brewer made of crystal and semi-precious stone that will set you back a cool $10,000.The post Think $5 for a cup of coffee is a lot? How about $10,000 for a coffee maker? appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Watch an algorithm try to make sense of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ trailer

  18-01-2017 20:06 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A new project, created by Copenhagen-based creative coding studio Støj, uses an object-recognition algorithm to try to make sense of Hollywood movie trailers. Here's what it understood about The Wolf of Wall Street.
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• Watch Nintendo’s Fire Emblem-themed Nintendo Direct right here!

  18-01-2017 19:55 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The first Nintendo Direct of the year will focus on the Fire Emblem franchise. The upcoming Fire Emblem mobile game and Fire Emblem Warriors are likely to be shown, but Nintendo may also have a surprise or two in its bag.
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