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Steam Machines beta testers start receiving hardware, teasing the less fortunate
Unless you’re part of a select group of beta testers (or happen to be handy with Linux), you’re probably reading this in a home without access to a Steam Machine. Wondering what you’re missing out on?...
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How to Navigate and Shop on Etsy
Etsy.com is a great place to find inexpensive and unique crafts, art, handmade products, and vintage items. The site can be overwhelming, but Etsy has many built in aids for shoppers to find what...
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IRL: Trading in the Sonos Play:3 for Korus’ V600 and V400 wireless speakers
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Sonos might...
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Amazon puts Kindle Fire HDX on interest-free payment plan, starting at $57
Short on cash? Amazon wants to sell you a Kindle Fire HDX anyway. As of today, you can pick up the shopping giant’s flagship slate on a quarterly payment plan. Naturally, the amount of each...
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Steam Machine beta testers start receiving hardware, teasing the less fortunate
Unless you’re part of a select group of beta testers (or happen to be handy with Linux), you’re probably reading this in a home without access to a Steam Machine. Wondering what you’re missing out on?...
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Weekly Roundup: Instagram Direct, Jawbone Up24 review, Samsung’s EMC lab and...
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at...
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China’s Jade Rabbit rover lands on the Moon (Update: pictures)
China has just entered a very exclusive club — it’s now the third country to have soft-landed vehicles on the Moon. Its Chang’e 3 lander and accompanying Jade Rabbit rover successfully reached our...
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How would you change Toshiba’s Satellite U845?
When you’re building a laptop to a price point, there’s a fine line between success and failure. Take the Toshiba Satellite U845, an Ultrabook priced at the reasonably slender $750. When we placed it...
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LG launches GX smartphone in Korea with 5.5-inch display, Snapdragon 600
Expecting a lazy Sunday night? You aren’t thinking globally: it’s midday in Korea, and LG’s announcing a new large-screened smartphone. The LG GX features a wide 5.5-inch full HD IPS display, a...
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DataWind’s 7-inch UbiSlate tablet heads to UK, starts at £30
Remember the Aakash 2, India’s $40 educational slate? It’s finally making its way to the western world. The school-bound slab’s manufacturer updated its UK website with three commercial variants of...
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A Village Storage System for Developing-World Facebook Friends
The rural village of Macha, Zambia, has satellite Internet connectivity, but uploads of photos and other content to sites like Facebook fail 75 percent of the time. A new file sharing prototype...
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Thinking in Silicon
Picture a person reading these words on a laptop in a coffee shop. The machine made of metal, plastic, and silicon consumes about 50 watts of poweras it translates bits of information—a long string of...
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How to Measurably Improve Your Quality of Life
Underlying most goals is an assumption that working towards a goal will improve quality of life, for ourselves and/or others we care about. With each of our long term goals comes many choices and...
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Huawei’s Honor brand challenges Xiaomi with 3X and 3C low-cost phones
Huawei’s known for its Ascend smartphones around the world, but back in late 2011, the company also started toying with a small Honor series for select budget markets. Fast forward to today, the...
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Use Google Now to Get Reminders for Events, Times, and Places
Google Now’s Reminders feature is powerful. You can set reminders for specific times, events like TV shows, and even have reminders go off when you visit specific locations. Time-based reminders can...
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LG finally joins the Spotify Smart TV party
Spotify has been available on a number of LG’s home theater products since March, but only now are Smart TV owners getting the chance to enjoy it on their flatscreens. The company announced today that...
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Physical buttons make a comeback in Samsung’s low-end Galaxy Core Advance
The rugged Galaxy S 4 Active had them, and so did the lesser-known Xcover2. But all-physical navigation buttons are becoming rarer on Samsung phones nowadays, and that’s why our eyes were drawn to the...
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Why You Can’t Use CPU Clock Speed to Compare Computer Performance
Shopping for a new computer? Don’t pay too much attention to CPU clock speed. “CPU speed” was once an easy, if not completely accurate, way to compare two computers’ performance — just compare the...
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Using E-Cigs as a Smoking Alternative to Tobacco Cigarettes
Using E-Cigarettes as a Smoking Alternative to Tobacco Cigarettes So you’re a smoker, and you now find yourself looking for a smoking alternative, which will undoubtedly lead you to the electronic...
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Small winged bot flies autonomously for nine minutes, still can’t find a mate
Many robots can fly, but only a few forsake rotors for more natural, if inefficient means of propulsion. These flapping bots have interested folks at the Delft University of Technology for many years,...
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