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FreedomPop Announces Free Mobile Service | | If today's move to offer free mobile service by an upstart mobile company gets the heavy adoption its creators expect, it may shake up the mobile ecosystem and force the big telecom companies to lower their rates and offer better deals to customers.
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Apple Starts To Set The Stage For WWDC | | Almost a full week before its annual developer’s conference is set to begin, Apple has already started to move into San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Half of a giant Apple adorned the side of the Moscone Center Tuesday evening, abandoned mid-construction. With no crew in sight, we suspect the other half will join it Wednesday morning. Inside crews have already covered the back wall of the lobby with a giant multi-colored WWDC banner.
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Domino's Uses a Drone to Deliver a Pizza | | How would you like to have your pizza delivered by a drone? The idea is far from impossible, as proven by Domino's UK franchise, which posted a YouTube video showing a pizza being delivered by an unmanned flying vehicle — the DomiCopter. In the video, the DomiCopter — created and operated by a drone company called AeroSight — appears to safely deliver a pizza over a large distance.
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Microsoft Outlook Coming to Windows RT Devices | | The new version of Microsoft Office comes installed for free on all Windows RT devices such as the Surface. It's not the complete Office, though — Outlook isn't included. In the coming months, however, Microsoft is going to change that. Outlook 2013 will come to Windows RT devices at the same time Microsoft releases Windows 8.1 to the public later this year.
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Fujitsu's New High-Res Ultrabook Is Crazy Thin | | That 3,200 x 1,800 screen from Samsung has barely been properly introduced, and it's already a hit among laptop makers. First, it was HP with its Envy Touchsmart 14, and now it's Fujitsu with its super-thin ultrabook: the UH90/L. Besides that amazing IGZO, 14-inch, 3,200 x 1,800 touch screen, the UH90/L also sports Intel's latest and greatest Haswell i5-4200U processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hybrid hard-drive.
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Sony Vaio Pro 11: So Skinny, Can This Be a Laptop? | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:43 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Tablets are great, but how productive can people really be with them? When it comes to getting things done, nothing beats a mouse and keyboard. The struggle to have it all in one device has led to hybrids like the Lenovo Yoga and productivity-focused tablets like the Surface Pro.
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Watch Boeing's High-Speed Painting Robots in Action | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:02 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Boeing is using robots to help speed the production of its 777 commercial aircraft at an assembly plant in Washington state. The Seattle Times reports that two robots now help paint Boeing 777 wings at the aerospace company's assembly plant in Everett, Wash. What normally takes a human team 4.5 hours to paint the first coat, the robots can complete in only 24 minutes.
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Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Molecules In Chemical Reaction | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Dust off your chemistry knowledge, because a team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley has stumbled upon a breakthrough that might influence what you remember from high school. Using an atomic force microscope and a bit of luck, Berkeley Lab scientists captured the first-ever high-resolution images of a molecule breaking and reforming its bonds.
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Apple Has Sights on 'Gaze Detection' Technology | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:35 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Could future iPhone or iPads have gaze detection? A newly surfaced Apple patent application reveals the company has its sights set on reading eye movement.
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ITC Bans Importation of Older iPhones, iPads | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:51 PM | Emily Price |
| The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has placed a U.S import ban on a number of older iPhone and iPad devices, claiming that those units infringe on patents owned by Samsung. Specifically having to do with the "apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system," the ban covers the iPhone 4 and below and iPad 3 and below; but only on AT&T.
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Bose Shakes Up Wireless Speakers With SoundLink Mini | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Who is buying portable wireless speakers? Everyone, apparently, since market research shows sales in the category tripled last year — and the more portable, the better. After taking a stab in the category with its SoundLink speaker, Bose is elevating things to a new, more compact level with the SoundLink Mini.
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Honey, Bose Shrunk the Noise-Canceling Headphones | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:39 PM | Pete Pachal |
| When you hear "noise-canceling headphones," you probably think big, bulky, over-the-ear cans. Bose is seriously challenging that image with its new QuietComfort 20 headphones — or should I say earbuds — which incorporate active noise-canceling tech into an extremely compact design. They sound pretty good, too. Bose showed off its new headphones at a demo at Grand Central Station in New York City.
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Nvidia Demos New 'DirectStylus' for Tegra 4 Tablets | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:17 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Nvidia has unveiled a new fine-tip stylus for Tegra 4-based tablets that is low-cost and functions similarly to natural writing. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated the company's DirectStylus technology at computer trade show Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday. The stylus works with the Tegra 4's image-processing power to figure out the difference between the stylus, its eraser, your finger and palm, according to Nvidia.
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Intel Scores Major Coup With Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:47 PM | Christina Warren |
| While Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 looks similar existing models in the Galaxy family, on the inside it's a bit different: The new tablet packs an Intel Atom processor. This is a big win for Intel, a company that has continued to struggle to gain footing in the smartphone and tablet space.
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