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For a limited time, Sprint will buy your old iPhone for $100

Sprint is apparently looking to lure in more current iPhone owners that are fed up with the increasingly troublesome data caps on other carriers. Starting May 18th, iPhone users on ATT and Verizon are encouraged to bring their device into … Continue reading

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Make someone’s birthday epic with these 8-bit popup cards

Instead of giving Hallmark your hard-earned money for some sappy card that has no character, consider giving the geek in your life a handmade 8-bit birthday card instead! These amazing creations are the brainchild of Kate Lilley, a blogger and … Continue reading

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Woman controls robot arm with only her thoughts

Robots are pretty cool, and for all our subconscious fears that they will one day rise up against us, the robots are pretty firmly under our control. In fact, the technology is emerging to allow robots to be controlled directly … Continue reading

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Researchers trick plants into growing without sunlight

You’re probably aware that plants rely on the sun to power photosynthesis and supply the plant with energy. The other side of that is that plants have evolved to control their development steps based on exposure to sunlight. Knowing this, … Continue reading

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Feeling insecure? There’s now an easy button for total data annihilation

Oh, the joys of personal data destruction! Hackers may love to try and poke around and grab at your data (and often do), but you may be able to have the last laugh, after all. Like an “Easy Button” from … Continue reading

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Vizibility ends private beta, readies NFC business cards for all

There are two types of people when it comes to business cards: you see them either as a useful way to quickly exchange your contact information or they are a just more clutter in your desk. For the people that … Continue reading

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Diablo III – Journey through Act I

With all of the launch day hiccups behind us, the Blizzard fans of the world can sink their teeth into the realm of Diablo once again. Like the previous games, Diablo III is split up into Acts. When you have … Continue reading

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$74 MK802 Android micro-PC beats Cotton Candy to the punch

A pair of inexpensive micro-PCs have generated quite a bit of buzz this year. The dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi started shipping in mid-April, but the FXI Cotton Candy has yet to make it out the door. The $200 Android PC-on-a-stick will … Continue reading

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Why it’s unlikely we’ll see multiple Nexus devices this year

Since the early days of Android, the loyalists in the Google ecosystem have hoped that one day Andy Rubin would descend from the Googleplex with a series of devices that were stock Android with unlocked bootloaders. In other words, the … Continue reading

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Android browser beta battle: Chrome vs Firefox

It wasn’t all that long ago that Mozilla and Google started making web browsers that, in their own ways, completely changed the way we interact with websites. The goal for both companies was pretty simple — get people away from … Continue reading

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