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Chrome casting tweak streams all videos directly to your TV

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As a general rule, you send an entire Chrome browser tab to your Chromecast (or other Cast-ready devices) as a last resort. The quality is lousy enough that you only really want to use it when a service doesn't have… Go To Full Article

Samsung's facial recognition not ready for mobile payments

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Feature can be easily manipulated versus a traditional PIN entry Samsung’s facial recognition technology for its Galaxy smartphone series is at least four years away from practical use with mobile payment apps, according to at least one… Go To Full Article

Google Maps can remember where you parked on Android and iOS

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Google Maps already lets you know when parking at your destination might be difficult, but the app's latest navigation feature aims to make things even easier after you've arrived. The helpful parking location features we saw last month just became… Go To Full Article

Windows 10 Creators Update on 10 percent of updated PCs

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Out of ten vendors, Microsoft and MSI lead the pack According to the latest report from AdDuplex, which collects statistics from Windows 10 machines, only 10 percent of eligible PCs have the Creators Update (version 1703) installed,… Go To Full Article

Verizon's $70 Gigabit internet plan misses both targets

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Yesterday Verizon announced the launch of Fios Gigabit Connection, as "the nation's largest deployment of gigabit Internet connection service." It even promised a $70 per month price standalone, however, as people tried to sign up a few shortcomings... Go To Full Article

MediaTek to post slower than expected growth this quarter

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Growth outlook of 10 to 15 percent MediaTek, the Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company known for its system-on-chip solutions in smartphone and home theater equipment, is expected to post slower than expected growth for Q2 2017 based… Go To Full Article

Scientists successfully grew fetal lambs inside 'uterus-like' bags

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Doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have developed a new artificial womb that could soon be helping the tens of thousands of critically preterm (younger than 26 weeks) births in the US each year. According to a new paper published… Go To Full Article

Fans resurrect 'Tomb Raider' in your web browser

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If you need a reminder of how far video games have come since the mid-90s, look no further than OpenTomb. Over the past four years, a handful of devoted developers have been rebuilding the original five Tomb Raider games from… Go To Full Article

Biostar shows up fashionably late to the Radeon 500-series party

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AMD didn't bother with crafting reference cooler designs for its respun Radeon RX 500-series graphics cards, but that's not stopping Biostar from slapping the RX 480 cooler onto 500-series silicon. The motherboard and graphics card manufacturer has five different models… Go To Full Article

This prosthetic arm is powered by Bluetooth and your mind

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Robotic limbs aren't a new technology, though the range of motion and strength of such limbs continue to improve. Controlling prosthetics with your mind is another area of refinement, but they're typically connected directly to a patient's brain. A n... Go To Full Article

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