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| Ocean Array Could Clean 7,250,000 Tons of Plastic | | Millions of tons of tiny bits of plastic float in giant patches — or gyres — in oceans around the world. There are five large patches of plastic. One of them, the North Pacific Gyre, is roughly twice the size of the United States. All of them are a problem. These bits of plastic look like food to fish and birds and once consumed, end up killing these animals.
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| Here's Everything You Need to Know About Google Keep | | Google Keep, the search giant's note-taking service, launched last week to much debate. How does it compare to Evernote? Does it live up to the hype? Well, we tested out Google's newest app — looking at everything from its interface to its functionality — and put it all on video. Watch our hands-on with Google Keep, above. What do you think of the app? Do you plan to download it? Tell us in the comments.
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| What's the Fastest Cloud Storage Service? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:58 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| From Dropbox and Google Drive to SkyDrive, all of the major online storage services have their own unique strengths, but we wanted to answer one question: Who has the fastest cloud?
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| Which Carrier Offers the Best iPhone 5 Plan? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:55 PM | Christina Warren |
| T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone 5, meaning that Apple's latest and greatest is available on every major U.S. wireless carrier. In addition to the iPhone 5, T-Mobile has done away with cellphone contracts and moved to flat-rate pricing. The company hopes its new plans — as well as its monthly installment payments for the device itself — will lure customers away from the likes of AT&T and Verizon.
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| 7 Amazing Startups to Watch | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:41 PM | Emily Price |
| Startup incubator Y Combinator has funded more than 500 startups, including big names such as Reddit, Socialcam, and Airbnb. The incubator brings in a new class of startups twice a year. Those startups relocate to Silicon Valley for three months, get curtain-ready, and then demonstrate their startups at a Demo Day in front of investors.
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| How the T-Mobile iPhone 5 Changes the Game | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:48 PM | Pete Pachal |
| In case you haven't heard, there's a new iPhone in town. T-Mobile announced today it would begin selling the iPhone 5, becoming the last major wireless carrier in the U.S. to do so. But it changes things for other iPhone customers, too. First, a little background: To accommodate different radio technology and spectrum, there are actually two versions of the iPhone 5 (three if you count China, but that's not relevant here).
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| Google Glass Is Coming Soon — For Some | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:13 PM | Sam Laird |
| Google Glass has selected its first group of "normal" users, people who pitched the company on how they'd use the futuristic product if given an early look.
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| Hackers Target Tibetan Activists With Android Trojan Virus | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:47 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you are a Tibetan or Uyghur activist, you may want to be careful opening the next email you get about a human rights conference. Sure, they normally look innocuous, but there's a chance it will contain a trojan virus that will infect and end up stealing a trove of information from your Android phone.
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| Did Marissa Mayer Spend $30 Million on 3 Employees and a License? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:23 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was a deal made for raising eyebrows and sparking headlines. Yahoo announced Monday it had bought Summly, a news app startup founded by a 17-year-old developer in London, Nick D'Aloisio. The price tag wasn't officially announced, but estimates put it in the region of $30 million — 90% of it in cash. But the tech world is starting to question exactly what Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer got for that payday.
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| Apple Patents 'No Look' Technology | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:43 PM | AppAdvice |
| The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,407,623 for "Playback control using a touch interface." First filed in 2009, the patent covers a technology used on mobile devices that registers touch gestures when no content is displayed on the screen. According to the invention, users are sometimes in situations when looking at a multitouch display isn’t feasible.
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| T-Mobile Launches 4G LTE Network | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:14 PM | Pete Pachal |
| T-Mobile announced it was launching its 4G LTE network at an event this morning in New York City. The network will come online in seven cities to start and is planned to reach 200 million by the end of 2013. LTE on T-Mobile is now active in Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington D.C. The carrier says it will cover 100 million Americans by midyear, and the full 200 million before 2014 rolls around.
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| Apple Changes MacBook Pro 'Highest Resolution' Tagline | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:08 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| The problem with using superlatives to describe your products is that there's always the possibility of someone better and bigger coming along. Case in point: As 9to5Mac noticed, Apple recently stopped using the tagline "The highest-resolution notebook ever. And the second highest” to describe its 15-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pro notebooks.
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| Samsung Makes Its Top Ultrabook Even Better | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:22 AM | Pete Pachal |
| The Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook is a great example of an Ultrabook laptop — extremely thin, good performance and very sleek — but it's been surpassed by other machines (such as the Microsoft Surface Pro) that boast full HD screens. Now the Series 9 is catching up. Samsung is upgrading the Series 9's 13.3-inch screen to 1080p resolution (1,920 x 1,080), up from 1,600 x 900.
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| Don't Call Africa's Tech Hub 'Silicon Savannah' | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:09 AM | Monty Munford |
| People have dubbed it "Nairobbery" for a reason. Crime is still a crushing reality in Kenya's capital of Nairobi. Yet life in the city is changing for its 3 million inhabitants. While the city is still dangerous for those who behave naively or who display conspicuous wealth by wearing expensive watches, crime rates are going down in Nairobi, and in the country as a whole.
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