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It looks like LG’s latest range of smartphones is going to become a trio as details leak on the LG Optimus F3. The Optimus F7 and Optimus F5 handsets were…

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Skipping the carrier subsidy and paying full price for an unlocked smartphone may cost more up front, but frees up those who want to buy inexpensive local service plans when …

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On May 22, 2013 By
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The Global Water System Project at the University of Bonn, in Germany, just released a video on water in the Anthropocene. If you can get past the melodramatic narration, there …

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Microsoft president of the interactive entertainment business Don Mattrick took the stage at Microsoft’s Xbox reveal this morning to introduce the new console, dubbed “Xbox One.” He promised that…

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Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, was testifying about how the company was able to avoid billions of dollars in taxes.        

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Credit: Campbell, Catarina D., and Evan E. Eichler. “Properties and rates of germline mutations in humans.” Trends in Genetics (2013). What a great age we live in. Until…

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by Kiki Sanford Inside a nondescript office building in Mountain View, California, a gathering took place recently that might have been a glimpse into the future. At first, the people, …

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Sprint Nextel raised its offer on Tuesday for the nearly 50 percent stake in Clearwire that it does not already own, just hours before shareholders were scheduled to vote on its …

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You probably know Cat or Caterpillar as the guys in yellow and black, makers of construction equipment and those boots the cool kids were wearing for a little while. Now…

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A techie’s San Francisco home has its own Twitter feed. Will yours be next? At first glance, you’d never guess there’s anything unusual about Tom Coates’s San Francisco home. Nestled…

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Yahoo’s deal for Tumblr raises questions about its ability to make money by selling ads, among other thorny issues.        

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David Karp, founder of Tumblr, got his education not in high school or college but in the world of Internet start-ups.        

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Jolla Mobile, formed by Nokia refugees, launches a phone with interchangable back-panels and the Sailfish OS Almost one year after Nokia’s bloodletting, in which it cut 10,000 jobs and closed…

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Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world. The founder of once-popular virtual world…

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The “internet” asked Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to make Flickr awesome again. Or, at least, that’s the way she tells it. But however the message got across to Yahoo’s new…

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This is Yahoo’s New York minute. OK, that may not be the right use of that phrase, but after the company announced a $1.1 billion buy of New York-based…

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Among those of us who grew up with the Internet, some have found unexpected, outsize benefits. If you moved away from a place soon after starting kindergarten and never went…

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Using data collected by drones, a research team is building 3-D maps of Norway’s geology to help companies track down hidden mineral wealth. We’ve heard a lot from the unmanned…

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You may not know this, but there is a celebrity data geek who isn’t named Nate Silver. This other famous statistician is a rock star in the global health and …

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