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Usually movies are announced well in advance of their release, but Lucasfilm decided to surprise everyone today by revealing that it has a new animated movie coming out just over two months from...

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2 hours ago

Looks like Taylor Swift and Spotify aren't getting back together

Taylor Swift's label hits back at Spotify by disclosing streaming royalties

The war of words continues between music streaming service Spotify and powerful pop icon Taylor Swift. After Swift removed her entire catalog from the streaming service last week, Spotify boss...

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3 hours ago

The Nexus 6 is big news that leaves lovers of small things behind

Android's pursuit of 'more everything' is getting out of hand

The stage was set for a glorious battle of the 6es this fall as Apple’s iPhone 6 was preparing to take on Google’s Nexus 6 to determine the fate of the mobile world. But Google dodged the direct...

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4 hours ago

Our favorite drone company, DJI Global, just raised the bar again

The DJI Inspire One is the best drone I've ever seen

The drone game has changed. That may sound like hyperbole, but that was my first impression when experiencing the DJI Inspire One.

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10 years of quiet: Rosetta's path to a comet, in photos

Large, gorgeous images here

Rosetta left earth in 2004, whipped around it three times to gain speed, and caught up to a comet called 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Here are the photos of that incredible journey.

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Watch Al Roker present a 34-hour weather forecast starting tonight

NBC's Al Roker will try to make history with a 34-hour weather forecast starting at 10PM ET tonight

At the end of the day, a world record is a world record — even if most people don't realize it exists. Some of us etch our name in history through daring feats of science and exploration. America's...

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New on our YouTube channel today: MKBHD's dream phone and reviews of the #Nexus6 and Android 5.0 #Lollipop http://bit.ly/1xyTmBK

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Microsoft reaches 10 million Xbox One sales three months after the PS4

Microsoft's Xbox One hits 10 million sales

Microsoft is revealing today that it will "shortly" have sold 10 million Xbox One consoles to retailers. The significant milestone comes exactly three months after Sony first revealed it had hit 10...

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Facebook releases Say Thanks video creation tool in time for Thanksgiving

Remember Facebook's Look Back videos? Now it lets you make videos to say thanks to a friend

Facebook found a surprising amount of success earlier this year when it let its users generate "Look Back" videos of their time on Facebook, and it's now rolling out a new video generator in time...

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Rdio lowers family subscription prices to compete with Spotify

If you want to put multiple people on the same music streaming account, Rdio now costs the same as Spotify

A few weeks ago, Spotify unveiled its Spotify Family plans, letting people pay to put multiple subscribers on the same music streaming account. Rdio had offered similar options for more than a year,...

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Top Shelf - It's electric!

This episode of our show called Top Shelf is about the current state of electric skateboards and other "rideables" — there are some really great choices out there!

For the past few weeks I’ve been using four rideables — the Boosted Dual+, the E-Go, ZBoard Pro, & the SBU. I also rode something called the Leif here in NYC, and flew to Washington to see what Inventist — a company that Invents thing, was up to.

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Google app updated with Material Design for Android Lollipop

A new version of Google's app for Android Lollipop

Google is bringing its new Material Design style to all of its biggest apps, and today that includes its namesake. Anyone who's running Android Lollipop should soon begin to see a more colorful...

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Samsung has built its own version of Apple's Continuity called Flow

Samsung wants to make it easier to move between your many devices

The keynote of Samsung's 2014 developer conference was a wide-ranging, 90-minute affair that touched on topics as varied as smart homes, virtual reality, and health. More traditional computing and...

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8 hours ago

Nexus owners, Android Lollipop is here!

Android 5.0 Lollipop is rolling out to Nexus devices today

Google’s latest Android release is rolling out to Nexus devices today. The Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (both models), and Nexus 10 will all start to receive Lollipop over-the-air (OTA) shortly. If...

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9 hours ago

Space will be even quieter in a new version of Gravity

Gravity will make space even quieter with a Blu-ray version that rips out the score

One of Gravity's most impressive feats was its attempt to replicate the silence of space and only present sounds that astronauts might actually hear. But if Gravity still wasn't silent enough for...

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9 hours ago

Windows 10 is getting Mac-like gestures, MKV support, and some fresh modern icons

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 preview includes Mac-like trackpad gestures

Microsoft is continuing its pace of releasing a new Windows 10 Technical Preview every three weeks. The last build (9860) included more than 7,000 changes and a new notification center, and today’s...

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Microsoft opens up and makes it easier for developers to build Android apps

Microsoft is embracing open source and Android

Microsoft is making it even easier for developers to build Android apps using the company’s own development tools. In a set of broad developer-focused announcements today, Microsoft has launched a...

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Samsung launching Gear VR 'Innovator Edition' in early December

Get ready to turn your Samsung Mobile Galaxy Note 4 into a virtual reality headset

You'll be able to get your hands on Samsung's Gear VR in early December. Today the company announced that it will launch the Gear VR Innovator Edition — essentially what amounts to developer...

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Samsung recuts the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer to include more Samsung

Marvel's Avengers, now with more Samsung Mobile products

You'd expect the Avengers to be using some crazy high-tech computers that Tony Stark made for them, but it turns out they're just like all of us, using tablets that you'd pick up in a store....

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Samsung's Project Beyond is a 3D camera that creates 360-degree virtual reality worlds

Just announced

Samsung just announced Project Beyond at its 2014 Developer Conference — it's a 360-degree camera module that captures everything around it in 3D. It captures a gigapixel of 3D footage every...

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Chinese hackers breached the federal weather network

Well that's not good

Just two days after news of a breach at the US Postal Service, The Washington Post has revealed a successful attack on the federal weather network, resulting in a system lockdown and a two-day...

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Motorola kicks off Lollipop updates with Moto X Pure Edition and Moto G

Motorola's still really fast at Android updates

Even under new ownership, Motorola is staying true to its reputation for speedy Android updates. Today the company announced that it's in the process of rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop for three...

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Android 5.0 Lollipop's Easter egg is a Flappy Bird clone

Google's hidden a Flappy Bird clone in Android 5.0. Hey, free game!

Every version of Android has featured a variety of hidden treats and features, commonly called "Easter eggs." Android 5.0 Lollipop, which is due to arrive on devices in the coming weeks, might have...

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YouTube reveals plans for Music Key, its new subscription service

This is Music Key, YouTube's new subscription service

Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month

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Android 5.0 Lollipop review

Android 5.0 Lollipop: the biggest change to the operating system in years

Google has been on a mission to redefine itself as a design-focused company for some years now. With the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop on the new Nexus 6 phone and Nexus 9 tablet, that mission...

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Our Nexus 6 review is up!

Nexus 6 review

Phablet. It's the worst word, a word only spoken with an apology — or maybe with a proviso. "I hate saying this word, but it's the only way to describe this thing." But it's just a word. And like...

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Twitter says it has an extra 500 million users each month who don't log in

"We're bigger than you think!" Twitter says once again

The company is eager to convince Wall Street of its true size

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The photo of Rosetta's lander on the comet isn't 'real,' but this selfie is

The ESA - European Space Agency's "touchdown" photo is just a render — not the work of some incredibly long selfie stick

The European Space Agency today made history by landing a spacecraft on a comet. But the celebratory image has given rise to a new question: who took this picture?

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The beautiful Monument Valley just got even bigger

If you haven't played Monument Valley yet, you should — it's beautiful

Monument Valley is one of the most interesting, most beautiful mobile games ever released. But if there was one common complaint when the game launched earlier this year, it's that it was too...

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Samsung made a rap video about corporate diversity

You won't believe how bad it is.

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A UK lawmaker complained of Twitter abuse. Suddenly, the abuse stopped.

Does Twitter have a secret weapon for silencing trolls?

Luciana Berger, a member of British Parliament, has been receiving a stream of anti-Semitic abuse on Twitter. It only escalated after a man was jailed for tweeting her a picture with a Star of...

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This is the fastest electric motorcycle you can buy

$38,000, has hit 218 MPH in testing

With a polite round of applause, the first owner of the fastest production electric motorcycle took the keys to his new ride. Sitting down just a few moments later, he slyly looked down and slid...

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The beautiful 'Monument Valley' just got even bigger

Monument Valley just got its first expansion, and it's fantastic

Monument Valley is one of the most interesting, most beautiful mobile games ever released. But if there was one common complaint when the game launched earlier this year, it's that it was too...

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Verizon exec says he believes FCC will make "right decision" on net neutrality

Verizon's definition of "right decision" does not align with Barack Obama's

In a bad sign for everyone interested in protecting net neutrality, the chief financial officer of Verizon has said that he believes the FCC will make the "right decision" on how to regulate...

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Samsung made a rap video about corporate diversity and you won't believe how bad it is

Just... watch this. Or don't. Actually watch it but consider yourselves warned.

Every so often, Samsung goes off its very focused, formal path and does something truly bizarre. The Galaxy S4 unveiling at Radio City Music Hall still ranks as the company's strangest, most...

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7 minutes in hell: one brutal workout with the Microsoft Band and Basis Peak

Four wearables, one Scientific 7-minute workout, 170 beats per minute

I once believed exercise is necessarily just prolonged self-torture. I dreaded spending over an hour at the gym, which turned me into a yo-yo exerciser. For brief periods, I'd manage to find both...

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Beats is making a wireless version of its most popular headphones

The Solo2 Wireless are almost identical to the wired Solo2 that Beats by Dre released earlier this year, except they include Bluetooth

Beats is today unveiling a wireless version of the Solo2

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Square's Reader for chip cards is now available for pre-order

Square's new readers work with iPad, iPhone, and Android

Square has opened pre-orders for the next version of its credit card reader. The new device, an update on Square's existing model that could take payment on mobile devices if a customer swiped...

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AT&T will stop investing in high-speed fiber internet until net neutrality rules decided

No more speedy internet investments from AT&T

After President Obama called on the FCC to pass strong net neutrality rules, Chairman Tom Wheeler reportedly backed away from the statements, saying he favored a more "nuanced" solution. But...

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MKBHD and The Verge, together at last

We made a video with Marques Brownlee! This is his idea of the perfect smartphone:

Do you know MKBHD? You should. Over the past couple years, Marques Brownlee has become a huge force on the tech scene, using his passion and enthusiasm to entertain and inform his millions of...

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15 hours ago

If you didn't know, China and the US are the world's top two carbon emitters

China and the US agree to "historic" climate change pact

The US and China this week announced a landmark agreement to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as part of a deal that President Barack Obama described as a "major milestone." As the New...

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Apple is going to court... again

Apple faces US lawsuit for iMessage's role in text message disruption

Apple must face a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company failed to disclose that the use of iMessage and Messages would result in undelivered messages if an iPhone user switched to a...

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15 hours ago

GoPro continues putting together amazing footage from its cameras

Watch Tokyo transform into an exotic playground for the fast and furious

GoPro cameras have been used for everything from documenting a lion's eye perspective of the hunt to recording the view from a quadrocopter. Now, the company has put together a gorgeous nine-minute...

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15 hours ago

After 10 years in hot pursuit, the ESA - European Space Agency's Philae is now attempting to land on a comet's surface

Humanity is about to land on a comet

Philae, the ESA probe, has launched itself at the comet scientists hope it will land on. If Philae succeeds, this will be the first controlled landing on a comet ever.

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FCC head may reject Obama's plan for net neutrality

Tom Wheeler was "visibly frustrated" with the Barack Obama's plan

Yesterday, President Obama took a strong position on net neutrality by supporting calls to regulate the internet more like a utility. Less than 24 hours later, FCC head Tom Wheeler indicated that...

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Walmart's Black Friday sales include $329 Xbox One bundle, $648 Vizio 65-inch TV, and discounted...

Walmart has some enticing #BlackFriday deals this year

Like the other big retail outfits, Walmart will be participating in the consumeristic orgy of Black Friday. Instead of restricting their bargain bonanza to a single day, Walmart will be hosting a...

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Microsoft patches critical bug that affects every Windows version since 95

Microsoft fixed a 19-year-old flaw

Microsoft has patched a critical flaw in Windows that has existed in every version since the introduction of Windows 95 more than 19 years ago. IBM security researchers discovered the flaw earlier...

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Usher's new song is available exclusively in...boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios from Walmart

Usher wants you to eat Cheerios

Your next sexy dance party may not be complete without a box of Honey Nut Cheerios from Walmart. Why? Because they're sweet and crunchy and you need to eat them so your heart will be healthy enough...

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18 hours ago

Not bad for just a big iPod touch

iPad is Apple's unanswered revolution

iPad sales have been flagging lately, but this past week they were given a boost from Apple’s two biggest rivals. Google released the unsatisfying Nexus 9, which had posed the biggest threat of...

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'Halo: The Master Chief Collection' review

This Halo collection is now out on Xbox One — are you picking it up?

Halo is one of the most influential series in the history of gaming, but after spending time with The Master Chief Collection — a compilation of the four main titles remastered for Xbox One — it’s...

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Watch Google's robot perform that scene from 'The Karate Kid'

Google's Atlas robot is learning karate

When everyone was wondering what Google had in mind for all its new robotics companies, "teaching robots martial arts" was probably one of the more paranoid guesses. But here we are with a new...

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LG's new phones have strange digital characters living inside of them

It's a little like having a Tamagotchi

Most smartphones look decidedly bland, so to set its new mid-range phones apart, LG is quite literally giving them some character. In Korea, LG is introducing the Aka line, a set of smartphones...

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Former WWE star CM Punk is writing a Thor comic for Marvel

CM Punk - WWE Universe is teaming up with Marvel to write his own Thor comic in February

A professional wrestler turned comic book writer? To most people, that probably sounds utterly ridiculous. Watching wrestlers try their hand at acting is bad enough. Dwayne Johnson and Dave...

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Bandcamp is going to let musicians offer their own digital subscriptions

Bandcamp's subscriptions are going to be very different than what you'd find on Spotify

Bandcamp is about to start offering subscriptions, but they won't look anything like what you see on Spotify. Instead, the Guardian reports that Bandcamp plans to begin letting artists offer...

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Manslaughter charges overturned for Italian geologists, but other scientists are still fearful

After Italian court case, a question remains: can scientists be persecuted for their disaster predictions?

Six Italian geologists were cleared yesterday of manslaughter charges in the deaths of 29 people, who perished in a major earthquake in 2009. Any joy these scientists felt at having their...

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Join us today at 3PM ET for a live Small Empires Google+ Hangout with Alexis Ohanian!

Join us live!

As you may already know, Small Empires is back! In week one, Alexis and co. traveled to Atlanta to talk with PartPic, a company trying to solve the difficult problem of identifying and buying spare...

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Sony is screwing up Spider-Man

Rumor has it Sony wants to make an Aunt May movie. This only hints at how bad Spider-Man is getting at the movies

Sony wants Spider-Man to be as big as The Avengers, and no property is too good to milk for all it's worth. On top of The Sinister Six and the third Amazing Spider-Man film, Latino Review now...

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Target's Black Friday 2014 deals include $0.01 Samsung Galaxy S5 and discounted PS4, Xbox One

Target's #BlackFriday deals

America's annual holiday shopping frenzy Black Friday is still more than two weeks away, but big retailers are already trotting out their lists of discounts and deals. Target, for one, claims that...

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