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Reuters: Amazon to launch a $10/month music subscription service

Pay $99 per year for an Amazon Prime subscription (or $10.99 per month) and you get a lot of things: free 2-day shipping on millions of items, access to thousands of streaming movies and TV shows, the ability to borrow some Kindle eBooks (if you have a Kindle reader or Fire tablet), and the option […]

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These are some of Intel’s first Apollo Lake chips

Intel’s Apollo Lake processors will be the first chips to use the company’s new Goldmont CPU architecture. They’re expected to launch later this year, and they’ll replace the low-power Pentium and Celeron chips in the Braswell family which use Intel’s older Airmont CPU cores. While we know that Intel is promising that Goldmont will offer […]

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Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your PC with Android-x86 RC1

The Android-x86 project has been providing a way to install Google’s mobile operating system on desktop and notebook computers for years, and now the team is just about finished with the first build based on Android 6.0. A release candidate for Android-x86 6.0 is now available for download, and it’s designed to run on most […]

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Deals of the Day (6-10-2016)

Sure, Asus sells a line of affordable ultrabooks under the Zenbook UX305 brand… but sometimes you can get one of the company’s higher-end UX303 models for around the same price. Case in point, right now NeweggFlash is selling the 3.2 pound Zenbook UX303UA-DH51T with a Core i5 Skylake processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, […]

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Linux Mint 18 beta released with new apps, theme, and more

The latest version of Linux Mint is coming soon, but if you want to take it for a spin a bit early, there are now beta version of Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 18 MATE available for download. Linux Mint 18 will be a long term support release, which means it’ll be officially […]

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These are some MotoMods that aren’t ready for prime time (yet)

Motorola’s new Moto Z smartphones are have high-res displays, speedy processors, and other features to help them compete with other 2016-era flagship phones. But what really makes them stand out is their support for MotoMods, which are optional accessories you can slap on the back of the phone to add functionality. When the phones start […]

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Cyanogen OS 13.1 brings Microsoft, Twitter, and other Mods to Android

Plenty of smartphones ship with customized versions of Google Android with modified home screens, cameras, and other features. And a lot of phone makers and wireless carriers like to pre-load some apps on phones. But the developers of Cyanogen OS are taking things a bit further with the idea of Mods, which are tightly woven […]

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Google Fiber-free? Alphabet wants to deliver gigabit internet without wires

Google Fiber offers high-speed internet service to customers in select US markets… and when I say high-speed, I mean Google Fiber is one of the fastest internet service providers in the country, with speeds up to 1 gigabit (1,000 Mbps) for both downloads and uploads. But part of the reason Google Fiber is only available in […]

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Lenovo introduces Moto Z line of smartphones, with modular features

Motorola’s 2016 flagship smartphones have a new design, a new name, and one major new feature: support for a series of modules that expand the phone’s functionality, called MotoMods. The Moto Z features a 5.5 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and up to 30 hours […]