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Sprint is shuttering stores and laying off repair techs to help cut its losses
Sprint isn’t content to keep writing its financial statements in red ink. To that end, the company is shuttering 150 service and repair centers, 55 of its lowest performing retail stores and laying...
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Microsoft: We have the right to search your Hotmail account (updated)
An ex-Microsoft employee was recently arrested for allegedly leaking company secrets, all because Redmond found evidence against him in his contact’s Hotmail account. Hold on, is it even legal for the...
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How to Create a Coconut Volcano
One way to design an effective science experiment is to build a volcano inside a coconut shell. The coconut shell will allow you to skip having to create a papier mâché volcano but still provides you...
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Mt. Gox found 200,000 Bitcoin ($116 million) in an old wallet, should check...
In a bit of news that’s familiar to anyone who ever put on an old jacket and found $20 in the pocket, embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has made a fortuitous discovery. The company announced (PDF) in...
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Medium’s new iPhone app helps you read (but not write) long articles
We can’t say we know all that many people who routinely digest articles posted through Medium’s social publishing platform. However, the readership is bound to go up now that the service has released...
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Turkey bans Twitter but users can still tweet via SMS
Turkey has joined the ranks of Iran and Egypt, among many other countries, whose government had blocked access to Twitter. Now, anyone in Turkey who tries to go to the website is redirected to a...
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Graphene Helps Copper Wires Keep Their Cool
Cooling off: A close-up shows copper before graphene has been added (top), and after (below). When people in the chip industry talk about the thermal problems in computer processors, they get...
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Leaked documents detail how and why NSA targets network admins
With the amount of NSA-related information that’s been leaked to the press, one may wonder if the feds will have anything new to share whenever the agency’s first transparency report releases. The...
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How to Make Hemp Bracelets
Making your own hemp bracelets is easy and can add style to any outfit, or be given as a thoughtful gift to a friend. Show off your crafting skills and save a few bucks by trying one of these methods...
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4 Ways to Free Up Disk Space on Linux
Linux systems aren’t as light on disk space as they could be. For example, the APT package manager keeps package files around even after you install them — a waste of space unless you plan on...
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Exploring virtual reality on PlayStation 4 with Shuhei Yoshida and Richard...
It was 2010 when Sony engineers first explored virtual reality concepts. The idea of a VR headset sprang from another project at the company: PlayStation Move, a wand-like motion controller for the...
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Seven Must-Read Stories (Week Ending March 21, 2014)
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review. Excerpt from: Seven Must-Read Stories...
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How Your Tweets Reveal Your Home Location
One of the optional extras that Twitter allows is for each tweet to be tagged with the user’s location data. That’s useful if you want people to know where you are or so that you can later remember...
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[GEEK SCHOOL] Word for Teams 5: Versioning, Comparing, and Combining Documents
For the last lesson in this Geek School series, we’re going to talk about keeping track of versions in Word and comparing and combining documents. The Versions feature in Word was removed in recent...
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HP ENVY with Leap Motion | Consumer Reports
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Sprint gets the Galaxy S5 and Gear smartwatches April 11th, pre-orders go...
Sprint’s getting the Galaxy S5, too. And like fellow underdog T-Mobile, the carrier plans to offer Samsung’s flagship handset for no dinero upfront on its Easy Pay plan. Which means, you still have to...
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Sony shows (and tells) us why 4K on a phone isn’t crazy
At Sony Mobile’s HQ in Tokyo, Kichiro Kurozumi is itching to go into detail about the new flagship Xperia Z2. The VP says it’s “all in the details.” We really hope so, because it’s getting...
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The Engadget Podcast is live at 11AM ET!
You guys, virtual reality is here. Like, it’s really, really a thing now thanks to Morpheus — Sony’s prototype VR headset for the PlayStation 4. That doodad, gizmobob, whatsamajunkit was just unveiled...
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Tell the White House who you trust (or don’t trust) with your data
President Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, John Podesta, is back in the White House, working with President Obama to assess the state of big data and privacy. A thorough review is currently underway,...
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The winners of the 2013 Engadget Awards — Editors’ Choice
The readers have spoken, and now it’s our turn. We at Engadget aren’t shy about singing the praises of the products we love, and you’ll find plenty of kind words past the break as we reveal our picks...
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