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Twitter becomes urban planning tool

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Computer scientists believe that Twitter is a good way to aid urban planning and land use. Brother and sister scientists Enrique and Vanessa Frias-Martinez have ussyed a report suggesting that geolocalised tweets can be used for urban… Go To Full Article

Hacker clones fingerprints

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A German hacker said he cloned the thumb print of defence minister Ursula von der Leyen using little more than an ordinary digital camera. The BBC said Jan Krissler grabbed several photographs of von der Leyen’s thumb… Go To Full Article

Rumor: LG planning to go after Galaxy Note 4 with G Pen-toting 5.3-inch G4

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The purported spec sheet on the whole sounds too good to be true, with other highlights including Snapdragon 810 power, 4 GB RAM and a 20.7 MP camera. The days stylus support was deemed a gimmicky smartphone feature are long… Go To Full Article

China blocks Gmail

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Reports said that the Chinese government blocked access to Gmail accounts on Friday in a bid to further throttle Google. A freedom of speech group, GreatFire.org, claimed the government was making an attempt to wipe out any… Go To Full Article

QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review

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QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted TS-x51 series, we were a bit surprised to see the TS-x53… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 to release on January 22nd

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Earlier this month, some information regarding NVIDIA’s next Maxwell chip leaked online. Now, Hermitage Akihabara has leaked the release date – January 22nd. The GeForce GTX 960, based on GM206, is likely to be showed off behind closed doors at… Go To Full Article

LG in sabotage probe

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Prosecutors raided the headquarters of LG as part of a probe into whether the South Korean company had damaged the washing machines of rival Samsung Electronics at retail stores in Germany. Apparently there is an increasingly bitter… Go To Full Article

Hollywood makes up settlement figures

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For years Hollywood has been claiming that it has made giant settlement figures with those it considered pirates, to use fear to drag the IT industry into doing its bidding. But now, thanks to the Sony hack,… Go To Full Article

Razer Deathstalker Expert Keyboard Review

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The Razer Deathstalker Expert has many of the basics needed for a gaming keyboard, such as macro recording, anti-ghosting, 1000mhz polling rate, and a key to disable the windows key while gaming. In this article for Benchmark Reviews , I… Go To Full Article

Asus Echelon Forest Gaming Headset Review

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Asus tends to be very well known for its PC hardware but the company also makes a wide range of very good gaming peripherals as well. Today we are going to take a look at the latest headset from the… Go To Full Article

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