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chris@bgr.comProject Maven doesn’t mean anything for many people unless you’re in the military or Google. It’s an artificial intelligence research partnership between the search giant and the US Department of Defense that Google …
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Microsoft takes on Google News with new app for iPhone, Android, and Windows 10
All the tech giants out there now have their own News portal. We’ve got Apple News on iOS devices and coming to Macs soon, we’ve got Google News on the web and via …
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Facebook ordered to explain why it deleted the profile of a dead user without permission
Facebook has found itself in a new interesting user data-related predicament. This time around, Facebook removed the profile and Facebook page of a well-known musician after he passed away, and denied to explain …
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Dollar-backed cryptocurrency hires law firm to verify its $2.5 billion cash reserves
Recent research showed that Bitcoin’s all-time high price might have been increased artificially with the help of Tether, a cryptocoin that should never increase in value relative to the dollar. That’s because a …
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Man dies after his smartphone explodes and catches fire in his bedroom
Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan died a few days ago after one of his two smartphones exploded while charging in his bedroom and the caught fire. From the available reports, it appears that …
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The one Android feature I want Apple to steal for the iPhone
First there was the Huawei P20 Pro, an iPhone X clone like no other. Then came the Porsche Edition of the phone, with a sky-high price and a few exclusive features, including 512GB …
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This is what the Galaxy S10 and iPhone X of our dreams would look like
If yesterday’s phone launch proves anything, it’s that we’ve reached peak smartphone design. In a world of iPhone X clones, Oppo came up with a crazy new phone that forces itself not to …
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Robots that read our minds will actually exist sooner than you think
Robots are here to stay, and they’re only getting smarter. But it’ll be a while until they respond to our every verbal command, so until then we’ll have to use our mind to …
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What a shocker, the tech world fiercely opposes Trump’s border policy on children
Depending on where you stand on the whole Trump border policy that separates children from their families at the border, you might refer to these detention centers as internment camps or summer camps/boarding …
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Google is fixing a Chromecast bug that allowed hackers with too much free time to get your location
Google’s popular Chromecast and Home products suffer from a serious privacy flaw that would let hackers discover your location with incredible accuracy, well beyond the information they could learn from an internet service …
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Trump might be endangering Apple’s sky-high profits
Apple is set to launch three new iPhones X successors this year, which will likely become instant hits with consumers, much like every other iPhone launch to date. The phones are expected to …
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Square designed a gorgeous $999 Android tablet that can only do one thing
After all these years of iPad, Apple’s tablet is still the best one in town, and some of the better alternatives also look a lot like iPads. We haven’t seen an iPad “killer&rdquo …
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iPhone clone maker mocks iPhone in TV ad starring famous iPhone user
You’d expect Samsung to mock Apple in new TV commercials, but for once it’s not that particular South Korean giant that’s taking hit after hit at the iPhone in its ads. That’s because …
