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How to turn off and clear your Google web history
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsGoogle announced last month that it was going to implement a major update to its privacy policies and terms of service — some 70 privacy policies will be replaced with just one for the majority of Google’s services. This new policy is also meant to be much more readable for any users wanting to understand [...]
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Origin’s EON17-X3D laptop includes two GeForce 580M GPUs
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsThere are a few laptop manufacturers that focus on providing high performance and gaming machines in a portable form, the most popular of which has to be Alienware. But it’s Origin making the headlines today by creating what’s thought to be the first laptop to contain two GPUs in SLI configuration. The laptop in question [...]
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iPad mini being tested by Apple, according to Taiwanese analysts
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsIf Apple’s decisions were based on a democratic vote of analysts and rumormongers, then we would know with 100% certainty that an iPad mini is on the way. Though if that were the case, you would also, at this very moment, be using your iPhone 5 to flip through channels on your iTV, while sending [...]
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Geek deals: $500 off the Dell XPS 17 laptop
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsTo some extent we’re all gear snobs. We want the latest chip, the fastest computer, the most horsepower — we just don’t want to pay a premium to get those thing. Thankfully, our friends at Logic Buy have stumbled across a deal on a top-tier configuration that won’t saddle your wallet. It’s Dell‘s 17-inch XPS [...]
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The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a new “waterworld” planet
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsNASA’s continuing efforts to remain relevant are paying off. A three-year old discovery of a new type of “extrasolar” planet has led scientists to believe that it could be made up largely of water, A first in the telescopic exploration of the regions beyond our solar-system. Named GJ1214b, the planet is said to have a [...]
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Best Buy display TVs show porn to shoppers
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsBest Buy is having to apologize after its Greenville store managed to show pornography running for several minutes across a range of 55-inch smart TVs. The footage was seen by at least two families who had brought their young children to the store. The reason porn made it on to the TVs was due to [...]
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Fujitsu teases Tegra 3 quad-core phone with ICS and 4.6-inch display
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsFujitsu’s gearing up for MWC 2012, and they’re offering up a brief glimpse of what they’ll have on display in Barcelona. The as-yet-unnamed phone is a Tegra 3 beast, packing four 1.5GHz cores and a few other Fujitsu hallmarks. When Fujitsu announced their Western smartphone and tablet market ambitions, they said that only premium devices [...]
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Google developing augmented reality Android HUD glasses
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsGoogle is clearly trying to push its Android operating system in new directions. Only yesterday we reported about a lapdock mode found in Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. It allows you to replace everything but the large display in your laptop case with a smartphone. Now we’ve heard about another new direction for Android: augemented reality [...]
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Adobe makes Flash for Linux a Chrome exclusive
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsFirst, Adobe decided to kill off development of the mobile Flash plug-in. This, of course, happened less than a year after Google and Adobe took jabs at Apple because their iOS devices couldn’t render the “whole Web.” Now, Google and Adobe are at it again: they’re making Flash for Linux a Google Chrome exclusive. Yes, [...]
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Why the UMD Passport program isn’t coming to North America
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 No commentsWhen the PS Vita launched in Japan it gave gamers the option to transfer their UMD PSP games to the PS Vita for a small fee. Gamers could preserve the games they enjoyed in digital form on the new platform. The service was called the UMD Passport program. Until a couple of weeks ago it [...]
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