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Former TV bigwigs are going after ‘super-fans’ with new online video service
Another day, another upstart streaming video service. The latest contender to enter the fray is Tapp, the subscription-based brainchild of former CNN president Jon Klein and former NBC Universal...
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Starbucks app update lets you tip your barista
Starting next week iPhone owners will not only be able to buy your triple-venti-extra-hot-no-foam latte using Starbucks’ mobile app, you’ll be able to tip your barista for making it as well. The king...
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Daily Roundup: Blackberry’s identity crisis, Oculus Rift meets Game of...
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the...
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New Jersey is the latest state to ban Tesla’s direct-to-customer car sales
Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model just hit another big roadblock. New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission has voted in favor of a rule banning direct car sales, effectively kicking Tesla out of the...
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Xbox Live problems keep many Xbox One owners from calling in their Titan...
Just as the Xbox One’s biggest game release arrives, network problems are keeping many owners from signing in. The Xbox Support Twitter account reported an issue around 5PM ET, and according to the...
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Google buys an Android gaming platform, possibly with a set-top box in mind
Green Throttle Games was late to the Android gaming platform party, and paid the price for it — the company effectively wound down at the end of 2013. However, its efforts may not have been in vain....
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The Powerful Promise Of A Puzzling New Microscopic Combustion Engine
Engines have played a crucial part in the industrialisation of the world. It’s hard to think of an innovation that has had more impact. The trend today is towards smaller more efficient engines. There...
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A Cheaper Route to Making Chemicals from CO2
CO2 converter: Liquid Light says its prototype cell, featuring two square metal plates spaced a few inches apart, can make ethylene glycol from carbon dioxide. A startup called Liquid Light has...
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Rumors of an Amazon music service, TV set-top box swirl yet again
We’re still not sure whether Amazon’s truly launching a music streaming service, but if it does, you might only be able to access songs and albums for a limited time. According to the Wall Street...
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Rdio plans to stop using Echo Nest, because Spotify bought it
Rdio’s CEO, Anthony Bay, doesn’t want Spotify knowing what it knows, and to that end, the music service is looking to break away from Echo Nest. However, the music intelligence company, recently...
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Toshiba sticks to what it knows with new LED HDTV range
Toshiba’s already spilled the beans on its 4K TV line-up for this year, and right on cue, it’s just revealed the new range of 2014 LED sets that might interest us folk still clinging on to the regular...
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Ting lets you bring your iPhone 5 to its pay-for-what-you-use cellular service
You haven’t had many choices for non-Android phones if you’ve wanted to switch to Ting, where you only pay for the cellular service you use — aside from the since-vanished HTC 8XT, you’ve had to bring...
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Bend it like robo-Beckham with the U14 Free Kick toy
Axpro is a Taiwanese company that makes flash drives, so it’s surprising to see it building app-connected toys like U14 Free Kick – a game that’s a weird hybrid between Frujit Ninja, Subbuteo and...
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Netflix UK adds ‘Homeland’ and ‘American Horror Story’ to its US TV show roster
UK Netflix subscribers looking to get their fix of US TV will soon have two new popular series available to add to their binge-watching schedule. Expanding its partnership with Twentieth Century Fox,...
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Why Third-Party Browsers Will Always Be Inferior to Safari on iPhone and iPad
iOS supports third-party browsers, but not like you might expect. Third-party browsers will always be inferior to Apple’s own Safari on iPhone and iPad — at least until Apple relaxes their...
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LaCie’s hyper fast 1TB Thunderbolt 2 disk now on sale for $1,300
Though 1,375MB/s worth of disk speed might seem extravagant, applications like 4K RAW video need to squeeze every byte. Luckily, you’ll get all of that with LaCie’s 1TB Little Big Disk with...
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US Cellular may give customers more data for the same money
US Cellular’s shared data plan subscribers might be able to enjoy more data sometime soon. That’ll be the case anyway, if the carrier’s truly increasing its shared data subscribers’ caps, as indicated...
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[GEEK SCHOOL] PC Maintenance 3: Securing your System
So you’ve come this far in the series meaning you’ve got your system cleaned up and understand a great deal more about maintaining it. Or, you’re just tuning in, and that’s alright because securing...
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NVIDIA says most laptops die after 50 minutes of gaming, claims new GPUs will...
Thanks to the appearance of an curiously thin MSI gaming laptop at CeBIT a few days ago, we had an inkling that NVIDIA’s new batch of laptop GPUs were inbound. Indeed, the 800M series has just become...
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Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 adds Firefox support, isn’t just for creating...
Yes, Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 can be used to create large, dramatic demon gods, but that doesn’t mean it’s only used to create large, dramatic demon gods. It’s also used to create sneaky thief...
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