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• Google Glass strikes back

  20-08-2016 13:00
  
  The single most innovative wearable of all time has to be Google Glass.
  Yeah, I said it. And it's true.
  If you read the tech blogs, you'd be forgiven for believing that Google Glass is a failed product, dead and gone. But in fact, the opposite is true.
  The Google Glass Explorer program succeeded wildly. Google is feverishly working on new kinds of Google Glass products, and the innovation around Google Glass never stopped.
  Wait, what was Google Glass again?
  On April 15, 2013, Google launched it
  
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• Google is killing Chrome apps on Mac, Windows and Linux

  20-08-2016 01:52
  
  Three years after introducing special apps that run inside the Chrome browser, Google announced Friday that it will be removing them from Windows, Mac and Linux by early 2018. Google introduced those apps in 2013 as a way to offer new functions that weren't otherwise available on the web. Chrome browser apps also gave developers a way to write one app that would run across Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.The apps come in two flavors: Hosted Apps, which are essentially installable web apps
  
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• Plextor M7V M.2 SATA SSD review: Not quite an 850 EVO, but also cheaper

  20-08-2016 00:04
  
  These days when it comes to affordable M.2 SATA drives, there’s more to look at than just the Samsung 850 EVO. Plextor’s SATA 6Gbps M7V SSD is considerably cheaper—and it actually bested its rival in one of our performance tests.
  But a lower price tag often comes with compromise, and the M7V unfortunately follows suit. In other performance tests, it showed inconsistencies. PlextorThe only difference between the MG7 on retail shelves and the one we tested is that ours used
  
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