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Gold Apple Watches to be stored in safes in Apple Stores

By Adam Westlake Much has been said already about how the release of the Apple Watch will be the biggest change in Apple products since the company began selling touchscreen devices. However, Apple’s new smartwatch will also bring about a small, albeit interesting change to their retail locations: the installation of safes. Not just small, personal safes like you may have in your …

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Super Bowl 2015: this year’s best tech-related commercials

By Adam Westlake The time has arrived. The 2015 Super Bowl. It’s that one day of the year where we throw parties with tons of food, focus on sitting on the couch in front of a large TV, and spend the afternoon watching a collection of the world’s the most expensive commercials, all with the occasional break to show a sports game. But …

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Airbnb to begin collecting taxes in Chicago, Washington, more cities

By Adam Westlake Airbnb has been receiving legal grief for some time now about collecting taxes from hosts on the service. The main arguments against Airbnb are that people use the service as a loophole to set up illegal hotels and not have to pay taxes, and that hosts have an unfair advantage over competition from real hotel businesses. While Airbnb already began …

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Inateck BTSP-10 Plus bluetooth speaker review

By Nate Swanner You have choices when it comes to Bluetooth speakers. Lots of choices. Be it bombastic offerings from big-name manufacturers or impressive boxes from smaller companies, the market is saturated. With that, we got our hands on Inateck’s latest, a Bluetooth speaker with a small footprint that wants to do big things. Dual 1.5-inch speakers promise big sound, with Inateck boasting …

TYLT Vu Solo wireless charger review

By Nate Swanner Wireless charging is more trick than treat for most smartphone users, but those able to take advantage understand its benefits. Set your phone down on a pad, and it charges. There are no fussy cables to pick up, and you don’t risk screwing up your charging port (which does much more than just charge your phone). With TYLT’s new Vu …

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$19.5M in counterfeit NFL merch seized by Homeland Security

By Adam WestlakeAs you sit down to watch the Super Bowl tomorrow, rest easy knowing that your favorite NFL jersey and other sportswear is authentic, legitimate, and safe, thanks to officials at Homeland Security. Much like they do every year around this time, government authorities have just announced that millions of dollars in counterfeit, “unsafe” NFL merchandise have been seized, this time …

The Pirate Bay back online after police take-down

By Adam Westlake The Pirate Bay, the internet’s favorite torrent search engine, is back online right now, roughly seven weeks after being raided by law enforcement in home country Sweden. While the website and its founders have long been targeted by authorities for violations of piracy laws, this was the longest period the site was offline, and it was definitely in question if …

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Super Bowl weekend gets ‘beaconized’ courtesy of Gimbal

By Nate Swanner As the sporting world steadies its gaze on Phoenix this weekend, there’s more than just a Super Bowl going on. The event, once just a game to decide the champions of the NFL, has morphed into a festival. Much like the NFL has grown, so has their coup de grace. If you’re weaving your way through the festivities orbiting the …

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Amazon Prime to drop Doctor Who, other BBC shows on Feb 15

By Adam Westlake If you’re a subscriber to Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service and a big Doctor Who fan, we’ve got some bad news for you. With an announcement to customers expected sometime this weekend, Amazon Prime will no longer have Doctor Who, nor most of its BBC shows, available for streaming beginning Sunday, February 15th. Sources say the reason is due to …

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Amazon Prime to drop Doctor Who, other BBC shows on Feb 15

By Adam Westlake If you’re a subscriber to Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service and a big Doctor Who fan, we’ve got some bad news for you. With an announcement to customers expected sometime this weekend, Amazon Prime will no longer have Doctor Who, nor most of its BBC shows, available for streaming beginning Sunday, February 15th. Sources say the reason is due to …

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Home Improvisation: the game that has you build IKEA-style furniture

By Adam Westlake Everyone loves putting together IKEA furniture, right? You just grab your toolbox and follow the steps in those cute, cartoonish instructions, and eventually you end up with something that at least resembles what you saw in the store. But what if you didn’t have those instructions? Then you’re entering a depth of hell that few escape from without having smashed …

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Pay for McDonald’s with hugs and dance, says Super Bowl ad

By Adam Westlake As the Super Bowl advertising blitz is about to descend upon us this Sunday, companies are eager to get as much value as possible from their 30 to 60-second ads, such as posting them early online for audiences to see before the big game. Well, McDonald’s is really thinking outside the box with their attempt, as their Super Bowl commercial …

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Connect Plus keychain adapter has micro USB, Lightning connectors

By Brittany Hillen Echo’s Connect Plus is a “Y”-shaped USB connector with a standard USB connector on one side, and both a micro USB and Apple Lightning connector on each arm. This allows both Apple devices and gadgets that use micro USB to be charged without carrying around separate compatible cables, and the addition of flexibility means it can be re-adjusted and bent …

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Google Earth Pro drops $399 subscription, now available for free

By Adam Westlake Google has recently revealed that it is dropping the paid subscription from Google Earth Pro, a more robust version of its Google Earth software. The Pro service will now be available for free, previously costing $399 per year. While the standard version of Google Earth has often been more than enough for casual map and globe users, the Pro version …

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ASUS PadFone S with 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB Space of Storage Gets Listed on Asus Website

By Claudiu Sima

Last year, in March to be precisely, ASUS announced the launch of a new hybrid device called PadFone S, device that brought a tablet dock and a smartphone in the package. As you may know, the phone arrived with a 5 inch Full HD panel, while the dock had a 9-inch panel with the same 1.920 x 1.080 pixels resolution and a 4.990 mAh battery.

Today, we found out that on ASUS’s…

Three Ways to Repurpose Your Old Smartphone

By Brittany Hillen Most of us have old smartphones lying around, and while they might not be the latest and greatest anymore, the odds are also high that they’re functional and decently powerful. If you’ve been planning to ship them off to a used phone service but have never gotten around to it, there’s a better option: turning those old handsets into functional …

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Dell Venue 10 Pro is a New 10 inch Windows Tablet With 2 in 1 Format

By Radu Iorga

Dell has a new 10 inch slate with Windows coming and this time it’s a 2 in 1 hybrid device. The Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055 Series is the model we’re talking about here and it packs a detachable keyboard, Windows and an Intel Atom CPU.

The chipset is an Intel Atom Bay Trail one and I should mention that the tablet hasn’t been announced yet, but the documents present on Dell’s website…