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Funky Kit Review: Xiaomi Mi Band 2 - Fitness Band

@ 2016/07/31 read/post comments(0)

"Just a year after the release of the original Mi Band, Xiaomi announced its upgraded version, Mi Band 1S, adding on a heartbeat sensor. One the biggest sell points of the Mi Band and the Mi Band 1S was the… Go To Full Article

Oracle pays $9.3 billion for Netsuite

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Oracle paid $9.3 billion to snap up cloud company Netsuite in a bid to extend its place in the cloud market. Netsuite was founded by an ex-Oracle employee, Evan Goldberg, who claimed that the company had worked… Go To Full Article

NASA details preparations for SLS' and Orion's first flight

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NASA began preparing for Orion's 2018 maiden flight atop the Space Launch System quite some time ago. Since both Orion and SLS are new technologies, the space agency has been subjecting both to a series of rigorous tests, which it… Go To Full Article

Lithium-ion pioneer Sony is selling its battery arm

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Sony is planning to sell its battery division to Murata, a Japanese firm that makes a diverse variety of products like wireless components and robots. Sony started the battery business in 1975 and was the first company to commercialize lithium-ion… Go To Full Article

Facebook will refund app and game purchases made by minors

@ 2016/07/31 read/post comments(0)

Parents, take note: if your child bought in-app or in-game purchases on Facebook without your knowledge or consent, you can get your money back. A California court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit originally… Go To Full Article

Hyperloop One opens its first manufacturing plant

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Hyperloop One has announced that it's opening its first manufacturing plant to build the future of high-speed transportation. Metalworks is a 105,000 square foot facility in the city of North Las Vegas where components for DevLoop, the first testbed...… Go To Full Article

Wireless charging tech harvests your phone's wasted radio waves

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When you think of wireless charging, you probably think of special charging pads for your phone. But what if your phone could partly charge itself? Radient Micro-Tech claims to have managed just that. It just received two patents for technology… Go To Full Article

Adobe's virtual oil paint adds texture to digital painting

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While there are plenty of apps that can realistically emulate the look of brushstrokes on a 2D digital canvas (and even some in 3D space), none have accurately simulated the way a paintbrush actually behaves in a realistic, 3D environment.… Go To Full Article

Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8Gb Graphics Card Review

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We've had our sample of the AMD Radeon RX 480 since launch day. With the issues around blowing PCIe ports and the promise of drivers to resolve this, we hung back a little and completed our full suite of benchmarks… Go To Full Article

AMD cuddling up to Samsung

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AMD’s relationship with GloFlo has always been described as “complicated” and appears to be getting more open. AMD recently mentioned that it has built hardware directly with Samsung and there is a further option to tap the… Go To Full Article

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