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Aquabotix HydroView is like AR Drone for deep-sea diving

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If you’re one of those people for whom your iPad is merely an amalgamation of things that you can show to your friends and go “hey, check this out!” then this is the perfect gadget for you. It’s the HydroView fom Aquabotix, and it allows you to submerge a vessel underwater, then beam live video Read The Full Story

Microsoft details Windows 8 Release Preview and $15 upgrades

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Assuming that they don’t want it in Chinese, Windows fans are chomping at the bit to download the Windows 8 Release Preview starting tomorrow. Microsoft has provided an outline of the changes and additions in what’s likely to be the last update before Windows 8 goes gold, but what’s going to be more interesting for Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 31, 2012

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Happy Thursday, everyone. It’s the last day of the month, which means the year is already almost half over. Crazy, huh? But the news press keeps on churning, so let’s see what made news today. For starters – Windows 8 release review download available for all. And speaking of things for enthusiasts – Sony unveils Read The Full Story

Google picks up domain names galore

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This week Google is working with ICANN to expand the diversity of the web, applying for more than 50 domain names in all including but not limited to “.google”, “.youtube”, and “.lol”. Google has let it be known that because half the world’s websites are in the .com TLD, they’re seeking to expand. Google was Read The Full Story

New Android OS version hinted by Pandora developers

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Pandora Internet Radio’s Android application has just been update this week with several fixes for bugs, user interface upgrades, and a hint that they know something we don’t about the future of Android. In what’s essentially a hint that we’re sure thousands of users passed over without a thought, Pandora’s developers may have accidentally spilled Read The Full Story

Google’s Pichai hints at Chome OS / Android convergence

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This year at All Things Digital‘s D10 conference, Google’s Senior Vice President of Chome and Applications Sundar Pichai was interviewed by Walk Mossberg, speaking about both Chrome and Android in one. The main object of their discussion, which also included Google’s Senior Vice President of Advertising Susan Wojcicki, was indeed Chrome OS but also Chrome Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 display glass spotted in the wild

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Right on top of a leak which showed us essential bits of the innards of the iPhone 5 today, we’ve been treated to a glimpse of the front glass panel of the device as well. This leak comes all the way from Japanese blog Macotakara who’ve taken the time to film a video of what Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 hardware tipped to include Samsung processor

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It appears today that Samsung is indeed inside the next iPhone if a leaked Beta version of iOS 6 is to be believed. This version of Apple’s mobile operating system is being run by the folks at 9to5mac who also note that they’ve got the software running on an iPhone today, it showing off Darwin Read The Full Story

SpaceX’s Elon Musk: “it’s like seeing your kid come home”

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In it’s historic first-ever mission lead by a private company accessing the Internationl Space Station, the SpaceX group have now not only delivered their cargo, but have safely returned their newest Dragon model spacecraft back to the planet as well. This event makes the Dragon spacecraft a holder of two fantastic space-related records, the other Read The Full Story

Pre-Paid Leap iPhone not exactly cheap

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Today we’re finding that the idea of a pre-paid, no-contract iPhone is something that is driving the news media, but not necessarily customers, right up the wall. Reactions this week appear to be stemming from the unspoken rule that Apple’s selection of approved carriers for the iPhone is a near-impossible cookie to crack. What we’re Read The Full Story

Windows 8 Release Preview download available for all

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This week Microsoft has come forth with the first real public pre-release version of their next-generation operating system Windows 8, and you can download it today. This software will have you working with Microsoft’s new touch-friendly Metro User Interface and will allow you to dive deep into the vision Microsoft has for the future of Read The Full Story

Sony unveils world’s first 4K home cinema projector

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Sony has unveiled the VPL-VW1000ES, a new super high definition projector that’s the world’s first to offer home theaters 4K resolution, which is four times that of Full HD 1080p. The Sony VPL-VW1000ES projects a 4096 x 2160-pixel resolution or over 8.8 million pixels for image clarity that brings a truly immersive visual experience. If Read The Full Story

ASUS teases dual-boot Android Windows 8 machine for Computex

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This year at Computex we’re likely going to be seeing a dual-booting Android / Windows 8 device coming from ASUS, the company that brought you the dual-device PadFone last year at this same event. The device we’ll be looking at will likely have much of the same impact of that device – that device having Read The Full Story

Microsoft Office for iPad coming November 10

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Today information leading to the release of Microsoft’s ubiquitious Office suite of apps has been leaked with November 10th being the big drop-off point. This release date has been leaked by a source familiar with the matter to The Daily where they’ve also learned that Office Mobile has nearly wrapped work on the actual final Read The Full Story

Nokia’s profit margin struggle against Apple

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A new infographic has been put together by iSuppli that delves into the numbers behind Nokia and Apple’s profit margins in mobile. It really shows why it’s so difficult for Nokia or almost any competitor to put a dent in Apple’s dominance. The chart compares the cost to produce the Lumia 900 versus the iPhone Read The Full Story