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| Is This Homemade 'Lightsaber' the Real Deal? | | The Force may be strong with one handheld laser that its creator describes as a "homemade lightsaber." The laser, which emits a blue light and includes a metal handle, can torch through paper, tape, ping-pong balls, cardboard and wooden splints, among other items. Watch for yourself in the video, above. "Here my BEAST 3000 mW [milliwatt] laser goes up against a bunch of flammable stuff.
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| T-Mobile to Launch BlackBerry Q10 and HTC One Nationwide on June 5 | | T-Mobile is set to launch the HTC One and BlackBerry Q10 across the U.S. on June 5, TmoNews reported. HTC's long-awaited flagship device originally launched on T-Mobile on April 24, but its availability was limited to 300 stores. Now, it's expected to be available in all T-Mobile retail stores and branded locations. The BlackBerry Q10 is also scheduled to hit T-Mobile retail stores on June 5.
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| Apple: 'We Did Not Make a Bid For Waze' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple did not try to acquire Waze. CEO Tim Cook set the record straight during an interview Tuesday evening, remarking that Apple “did not make a bid for Waze” — contrary to reports by several tech publications earlier this year. According to the rumors, Apple was attempting to acquire Waze in order to fix some of the ongoing issues with Apple Maps.
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| Tim Cook: Apple Has Sold 'Over 13 Million' Apple TVs | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:22 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple has sold over 13 million Apple TVs, CEO Tim Cook announced during an interview on stage at All Things D’s annual conference currently being held in southern California. Cook said that for several years Apple was only selling a few hundred thousand of the set-top boxes annually, but has now surpassed 13 million total units — more than 6.5 million of those sold in the past year.
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| Apple's Tim Cook: 'We Have Several More Game Changers in Us' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:54 PM | Emily Price |
| Has Apple lost its cool? “Absolutely not,” says CEO Tim Cook. All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg interviewed the CEO as a kickoff to their annual D11 conference being held in Southern California.
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| Boeing's Phantom Badger Combat Jeep Fits in a Small Plane | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:35 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| It's neither an ATV, nor a mini Humvee. Boeing's new Phantom Badger vehicle is a little jeep that can fit inside of a V-22 Osprey aircraft. Boeing's new proposal for a tactical vehicle can be loaded into a V-22 plane with six inches of space left on the sides, according to Shephard, a media organization focused on aerospace and defense.
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| LG Won't Make Another Google Phone, VP Says | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:41 PM | Emily Price |
| LG will not make Google's next Nexus device, the Nexus 5, despite previous rumors. In an interview with Dutch website All About Phones, Won Kim, vice president of LG Mobile Europe, indicated that the company has no plans to produce another Nexus device, in part it seems because the company doesn't need to. "The Nexus 4 was a great success, despite the production problems for us and Google.
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| PC Outlook Drops as Tablet Demand Grows | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:47 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| The tablet may be the latest product darling of the tech world, but its success is hindering PC growth. According to the market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), shipments of PC computers are expected to drop by nearly 8% this year, and by 2015 tablets will overtake the entire PC market, including both portables and desktop devices.
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| Mozilla and Foxconn Are Reportedly Building a Firefox Tablet | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:04 PM | Christina Warren |
| Mozilla is teaming up with Taiwanese company Hon Hai Precision Industry — better known as Foxconn — to launch a new device running the Firefox OS. Mozilla confirmed the partnership to Reuters and although the company wouldn't share the exact nature of the device, it is believed to be a tablet. Mozilla is expected to unveil the plans at Focus Taiwan on June 3.
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| Qualcomm's BatteryGuru App Improves Android Battery Life | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:00 AM | Emily Price |
| Battery life is always a huge concern with any smartphone. If you’re not careful, especially with Android devices, you can wind up with quite a few applications running in the background, which drains battery. Several smartphones now come with built-in software to optimize battery life.
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| Pentagon's Cybersecurity Woes and Other News You Need to Know | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:10 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. CNN is partnering with BuzzFeed to launch an ad-free YouTube channel called CNN BuzzFeed.
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| LG Reveals Google Nexus 4 in White | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:06 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| LG officially launched the Nexus 4 White, a milky-colored version of its black Nexus 4 smartphone, created in collaboration with Google. Aside from color, the two phones are identical. The Nexus 4 White sports a 4.7-inch, 1280x768 pixel screen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 2GB of RAM memory.
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| This Is NASA's New Solar-Electric Propulsion Engine | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 7:09 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| NASA has posted an image of its new solar-electric propulsion thruster, which uses xenon ions for propulsion. The engine in the photo, blue with the glow of xenon gas, is being considered to become a part of NASA's Asteroid Retrieval Initiative, a proposed program to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it to a stable orbit around Earth.
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