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Tim Cook says the new Apple TV is coming next week

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Apple's CEO is being interviewed tonight at the WSJ Live event, and Tim Cook revealed that yes, the new Apple TV will arrive this month as promised. The taller, more powerful fourth generation box is due to ship next week,… Go To Full Article

Tiny pneumatic actuator makes soft robots practical

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Soft robots that bend and stretch are cool concepts, but there's usually a lot of clunky hardware involved to make them work, like air compressors and gas generators. They're seldom practical in real life. However, Okayama University researchers... Go To Full Article

New 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' trailer debuts during MNF

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As promised, we have the latest trailer for the new Star Wars movie, which just aired during halftime of Monday Night Football. Giving us a two and a half minute look at the seventh entry in the series, it's embedded… Go To Full Article

Get a daily fresh look at the Earth with NASA's new website

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NASA launched a new website Monday to remind forgetful Terrans what their planet looks like. The website will feature at least a dozen new images of the Earth's full, sunlit face from within the past 36 hours. The EPIC (Earth… Go To Full Article

A preview of NYC's underground park is now open to the public

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Since underground parks aren't exactly commonplace, non-profit group Lowline has opened an exhibit to give New Yorkers a glimpse of the future subsurface Manhattan park it's planning to build. This open laboratory is called the Lowline Lab, situate... Go To Full Article

Skylake Xeon Motherboards: GIGABYTE’s C230 Series Announced

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With the new E3-1200 v5 processors announced today we also get a new series of workstation/server motherboards under the C230 series. Aside from standard workstation and Xeon markets that these platforms typically target, due to a set of increased limitations… Go To Full Article

Professional 'StarCraft 2' players, coach accused of match-fixing

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South Korean authorities have arrested nine people, including two professional players and their coach, on charges of fixing professional StarCraft 2 matches, according to translated reports on the Team Liquid forums. The site says PRIME head coach... Go To Full Article

Uber starts rolling out its own mapmaking cars

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This past June, Uber struck a deal with Microsoft to acquire some of Bing's mapping tech and staff. But back then neither company was willing to disclose specific details about the agreement, with both only going as far as acknowledging… Go To Full Article

Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons

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One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under the E3 v4 nomenclature, with half of them only for embedded… Go To Full Article

Volkswagen had 'several' emissions cheating devices

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Those suspicions that Volkswagen cooked up more than one defeat device to cheat on emissions tests? They may be well-founded. Reuters tipsters claim that the car maker produced "several versions" of the gadget to suit different diesel engines. V...… Go To Full Article

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