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Hands-on with the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE for Verizon Wireless

May. 10, 2012 (9:01 am) By: Russell Holly In: Geek Pick, Mobile, Mobile Picks, News

Verizon has been incredibly successful with their Droid brand of Android phones. Verizon might carry many Android devices, but the Droid-branded ones receive the full force of Big Red’s marketing machine. Each Droid phone is equipped with special branding on the phone, most notably the Droid boot animations and wallpapers, plus they get special sounds, [...]
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Google+ iOS app gets beautiful redesign, Android update missing

May. 10, 2012 (8:00 am) By: Ryan Whitwam In: Mobile, News

Google’s social network, the oft maligned Google+, is coming up on its one-year anniversary in just a few weeks and Mountain View is looking to give its mobile apps a fresh coat of paint in celebration. In a blog post, the search giant has unveiled its new iOS app, which is a complete redesign. Subjectively, [...]
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Richard Feynman explains the scientific method in 1964 lecture

May. 9, 2012 (5:54 pm) By: Ryan Whitwam In:

You might not know exactly who Richard Feynman is, but he’s probably affected your life. Feynman was a fabulously famous (in certain circles) theoretical physicist in the mid-late 20th century. He worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, pioneered particle physics, won a Nobel Prize, and popularized science through books and his [...]
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Geek mom makes mind-blowing Skyrim cake topped with Alduin

May. 9, 2012 (5:22 pm) By: Ray Walters In:

Forget that My Little Pony cake that you showed off during your last birthday bash. We’ve officially found the most epic birthday cake known to mankind in the form of Alduin the World Eater from Skyrim. Made by a British Columbian mom (at her son’s request), you can almost feel the burning gaze of the legendary [...]
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Japanese robotics expert creates incredible transforming RC car

May. 9, 2012 (4:05 pm) By: Ray Walters In:

Falling squarely in the “shut up and take my money” category, Kenji Ishida’s transforming car will evoke a geeky tear as you watch it change from a car to a fully working robot just like you remember Optimus Prime doing back in the day. You can almost hear the classic transforming sound from the cartoon [...]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Focus 2 for AT&T

May. 9, 2012 (2:56 pm) By: Russell Holly In: Geek Pick, Mobile, Mobile Picks, News

These days it feels like everyone is holding their breath in anticipation, waiting for what is coming next from Microsoft. During that time AT&T is continuing their march forward with inexpensive Windows Phone devices for their LTE network. Windows Phone and Nokia were able to make quite a splash recently with the Lumia 900, but [...]
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Microsoft patents pressure-sensitive Xbox controller that can remember your hands

May. 9, 2012 (1:54 pm) By: Ryan Whitwam In: Games, News

So you have a phone that recognizes your face and computer that knows your fingerprints. How about a game controller that knows the smooth caress of your hands better than any other? Once you get over the creepy factor, a new patent from Microsoft for a pressure-sensitive game controller could be incredibly cool for identifying [...]
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Canada becomes the number two destination for online scams

May. 9, 2012 (12:59 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: News

Canada is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, the most skilled hockey players in the world, and innumerable delicious beers. As it turns out, Canada has also become a prime destination for fraudsters searching for hapless folks to victimize online. Recently the number of phishing sites based in the country ballooned by 170%, while [...]
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Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX hit Japan with LTE on board

May. 9, 2012 (11:52 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Mobile, News

Over in Japan, Sony has just revealed a pair of new Android-powered smartphones for their countrymen: the Xperia GX and Xperia SX. They’re the company’s first to launch in Japan free of the Ericsson brand, and both come packing support for blazing-fast LTE networks. The Xperia GX packs a wallop, with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, [...]
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Micron develops 30nm DDR4 module

May. 9, 2012 (11:01 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips, News

If the launch of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors has spurred you on to build a new system, then you can certainly build a beast of a machine pairing a 3770K chip with Nvidia’s new GTX 690 and a fast SSD. But what about RAM? The fastest you can get today is quad channel DDR3 modules [...]
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20 years later, you can play Wolfenstein 3D online for free

May. 9, 2012 (10:03 am) By: Sal Cangeloso In: Games, Geek Pick, News

Wolfenstein 3D, one of the most important and memorable PC games of all time, was released in 1992. That’s 20 years since it changed the way many of us thought about video games, video game violence, and totally insane boss fights. It might not have been the earliest first-person perspective game, nor was it the [...]
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BlackBerry Curve 9320 and 9220 arrive with OS 7.1 and a BBM button

May. 9, 2012 (9:30 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Mobile, News

New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins couldn’t just go and start mass-producing those BlackBerry 10 developer phones and expect them to instantly right the ship. No, it’s slow and steady that wins the race, and that means business as usual for RIM in the meantime — and incremental updates to their current line of BlackBerry 7 [...]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S3

May. 9, 2012 (9:01 am) By: Russell Holly In: Geek Pick, Mobile, Mobile Picks, News

Easily the most anticipated Android phone of 2012, the Samsung Galaxy S3 made some waves after it was finally announced last week. While the US version of the phone has not yet been announced — it will be unveiled in the US later this year — the global version of that phone was here at [...]
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Kinect-powered augmented reality sandbox is better than what you grew up with

May. 9, 2012 (7:59 am) By: Ray Walters In:

One of the well known traits of geeks the world over is the fact that most all of us have an inner-child that comes out when we see something incredibly cool. A perfect example of something falls into that category is a Kinect-powered augmented reality sandbox. Created by a research team at UC Davis, the [...]
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A brief hands on with Mozilla’s “Boot to Gecko”

May. 8, 2012 (5:41 pm) By: Russell Holly In: Geek Pick, Mobile, News

Since its inception, Mozilla has been a champion for the open web. Many of the advances that have been made on the web over the last year have been largely in part to encouragement, development, and lobbying from Mozilla. As such, the modern web has enjoyed things like HTML5, and the promotion of open source [...]
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Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative begins, map editor DLC is available

May. 8, 2012 (4:33 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: Games, News

Valve’s hit game Portal 2 has been out for some time now, but the software company has just released a treat for its fans. Said treat comes in the form of the “Perpetual Testing Initiative,” a bit of free downloadable content for the game. It’s wrapped in an extremely cool name and the DLC won’t [...]
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MasterCard new PayPass plan targets… well, everyone

May. 8, 2012 (3:25 pm) By: Russell Holly In: Geek Pick, Mobile, News

MasterCard has been hard at work trying to re-imagine the way we pay for things for a long time now. By providing the latest gadget that allows you to quickly pay for something, MasterCard has always been a step above the rest here in the US. Unfortunately, NFC-style payments are only just starting to catch [...]
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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal logo revealed

May. 8, 2012 (2:26 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

Ubuntu has been in the news quite a lot recently what with the release of 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” last month, Dell deciding to ship the first Ultrabook with Canonical’s OS, and Mark Shuttleworth’s bid today to get Ubuntu on 5% of PCs by the end of next year. But for existing Ubuntu users, the most [...]
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