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Daily Roundup: Google aquires Nest, SimCity goes offline, Mark IV hands-on...
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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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Cosmos’ reboot hits FOX on March 9th
It’s been years in the making, but the reboot of Carl Sagan’s landmark series Cosmos is finally on its way. The spiritual sequel, entitled Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, is produced by Family Guy...
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The Tricky Problem Of Making Smart Fridges Smart
The 1990s dream of an internet-connected fridge has been much derided in the last decade or so. Even the most advanced smart fridges are little more than a conventional fridge with a few added...
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Pinterest is a great site to compile ideas on anything from art to beauty. And it’s a great place to accumulate nail art ideas, manicure trends, and nail polish color swatches. So what better way to...
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YouTube gets a daily highlight reel courtesy of DreamWorks
YouTube can already recommend related videos, but it doesn’t necessarily show the best videos; you have to rely on outside help to separate the wheat from the chaff. However, that search for quality...
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Enblink dongle now lets you control your home appliances using voice commands
In case you’ve never heard of Enblink, here’s a one-sentence primer: it’s an $85 dongle that plugs into your Google TV box, allowing you to control any Z-Wave-enabled appliance (door locks, lights,...
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3 E-cig Brands That Will Help You Kick Tobacco In 2014
3 E-cig Brands That Will Help You Kick Tobacco In 2014 We are roaring right into a new year and if “stop smoking tobacco” headlines your to-do list for 2014 you may very well be doing some e cig...
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Michael Bay’s ‘Black Sails’ hits iTunes, Amazon and YouTube a week before TV...
It’s no longer strange to see a TV series premiere online before it reaches traditional broadcasters, but Starz is planning a truly special internet debut for its latest project, Black Sails. The...
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Experimental Surgery Aims to Revive a Paralyzed Limb
Virtual arm: In an important recent step toward reanimating a real arm, a patient with an implanted brain chip controlled a computer model of an arm by thinking about its movement. Doctors will...
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Video messaging app Wordeo turns plain text into audiovisual poetry
Six-second Vine clips are all well and good, but the best ones involve significant amounts of creative energy and pre-planning. A new video messaging app called Wordeo, on the other hand, tries to...
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Motorola’s Moto X is coming to the UK on February 1st for £380
When Motorola returned from Google’s wilderness, it came back with a new approach to phone design and customization. The Moto X was the subject of plenty of envious glances from the other side of the...
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DirecTV drops The Weather Channel, accuses it of loading up on reality TV
Usually, when there’s a dispute over a pay-TV system carrying a channel, it hinges on sports or in-demand shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Mad Men. This time, it’s DirecTV sparring with...
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Sony grows its Xperia line by two with the 6-inch T2 Ultra and...
You’d think a company that very recently announced two new flagship smartphones at CES would slow its roll and hold off on the product announcements for a bit. But no, Sony’s introducing two more...
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CyanogenMod’s new gallery software now available as a beta download
Think CyanogenMod’s image gallery is lacking? As it turns out, the CyanogenMod team itself thinks so too. In a recent Google+ post, the custom ROM maker not only admitted the current gallery’s...
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Google Image Search makes it easier to sort results by licensing rights
Google Image Search has allowed users to filter results based on how they’re licensed since 2009, but the option remained hidden under an advanced options menu where few users ever look. Now, a...
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AMD says its next PC chip trumps Intel with 12 ‘compute cores’ and smoother...
A decade ago, AMD brought us the first dual-core x86 processor. Then, starting in 2008, the company came out with tri-core and quad-core designs in quick succession, leading up to octa-core chips in...
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Valve’s VR-friendly Steam UI launches in beta prior to its headset reveal
If Oculus Rift’s new “Crystal Cove” prototype is anything to go by (it’s seriously guano, if you hadn’t heard already), then gamers are really going to appreciate the virtual reality revival. It’s no...
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Virgin Galactic tests new thrusters, further disregards gravity (video)
Last year, Sir Richard Branson promised Virgin Galactic’s first commercial mission would rip through the atmosphere in 2014. That goal has edged ever closer with SpaceShipTwo’s latest trip beyond the...
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How The Friendship Paradox Makes Your Friends Better Than You Are
Back in 1991, the sociologist Scott Feld made a surprising discovery while studying the properties of social networks. Feld calculated the average number of friends that a person in the network has...
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USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0: Should You Upgrade Your Flash Drives?
New computers have now been coming with USB 3.0 ports for years. But just how much faster is USB 3.0? Will you see a big speed improvement if you upgrade your old USB 2.0 flash drives? USB 3.0 devices...
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