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ET deals: FreedomPop offers Samsung Victory 4G LTE smartphone with free voice, data for $80 August 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm
FreedomPop, the purveyor of free high-speed internet, is back with something different – the lowest cost 4G LTE mobile phone plan we’ve ever seen. Today they’re offering huge savings on a certified pre-owned Samsung Victory LTE smartphone, bundled with a free trial of one of their premium plans, all for just $80. We should point out that…ET deals: $78 in savings off HTC One M8, free 4G tablet data with voice plan, more August 27, 2014 at 4:21 pm
As part of their back to school sale, T-Mobile is offering some of their best deals on hot smartphones like the HTC One M8, affordable tablets with free bonus 4G data for life, and 25% off many key accessories. This is a great way to save even more and, as always at T-Mo, pay $0 down for your…Microsoft offers $150 Kinect, but does anyone actually want one? August 27, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Starting on October 7th, the unbundled version of the Xbox One’s Kinect sensor will go on sale for a whopping $150. That’s right, one hundred and fifty American dollars for a peripheral that Microsoft has gone out of its way to distance itself from. With a price that high, who would consider buying this standalone Kinect?Verizon’s VoLTE rollout will kill off CDMA – and allow unlocked LTE phones, too August 27, 2014 at 1:55 pm
On Tuesday, Verizon announced that it will launch HD Voice over LTE in the coming weeks. With this launch, Verizon is taking the first step toward shedding CDMA2000 as its primary network platform. With this, using unlocked phones on Verizon and have voice service will soon be possible!64-bit Chrome finally available to download: Faster, more secure, twice as stable August 27, 2014 at 9:44 am
At long last, Google has released a stable 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows. It’s faster, more secure, and more stable. Some tasks, such as decoding HD video on YouTube, are 15% faster under the 64-bit version of Chrome. The only major caveat seems to be a lack of support for 32-bit NPAPI plug-ins — Silverlight and Java, and lots of lesser-known plug-ins, won’t work on 64-bit Chrome. That’s a small price to pay for increased speed, security, and twice the stability of 32-bit Chrome, though.Pixels of the universe: Experiment begins to see if the universe is a 2D hologram August 27, 2014 at 8:00 am
The Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago has a new toy: the Holometer. As its rather fancy name suggests, the Holometer is for testing whether our universe is actually a 2D hologram that’s painted on some kind of cosmological horizon, popping into 3D whenever we attempt to observe it (i.e. always). The Holometer will gather data for the next year or so — after which, there’s a very good chance that it’ll be able to tell us whether the universe is a hologram or not. And, of course, if the universe is a 2D hologram… what does that make us?Qualcomm eyed up by EU antitrust investigators over modem market domination August 26, 2014 at 4:13 pm
European regulators may be about to take a closer look at Qualcomm’s dominance of the 4G modem business, thanks to an old complaint from rival Icera. Did Qualcomm climb to the top with technological prowess or has it used its market position to take down challengers?ET deals: Toshiba P50 Core i5 1080p laptop with 12GB of RAM for $605 August 26, 2014 at 3:31 pm
The Satellite P50-BBT2N22 features a fast Intel Core i5-4200H processor with Intel HD 4600 graphics, giving you power to spare for even demanding office and multimedia tasks, along with light gaming. You’ll be able to run programs side-by-side with ease or view videos and pictures in full high-def glory on the sharp 15.6-inch 1920×1080 display.Toshiba is offering a free upgrade…Why are high-end graphics cards so big? August 26, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Sapphire revealed a compact version of a traditionally big graphics card, prompting us to ask the question — why are GPUs so big to start with?Windows 9 may remove the Metro interface for desktop PC users, feature one-click upgrade process August 26, 2014 at 1:04 pm
According to new Windows 9 leaks and rumors, it seems we could be in for some dramatic changes by the time the first public preview of Windows 9 rolls around on September 30. The most recent leaked builds of Windows 9 (codename Threshold) indicate that Microsoft will finally fix the awful upgrade process that has plagued Windows for almost two decades, replacing it with a one-click upgrade system. Perhaps more excitingly, another source says that Windows 9 will formally split the Metro and Desktop interfaces: Tablets will be restricted to Metro, while laptops and desktops will be locked to the standard Desktop interface.
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