Weekend Open Forum: How fast is your home internet connection?
Here in Australia, our internet infrastructure isn't fantastic, with
most premises relying on ADSL2+ connections that are physically capped
at 24 Mbit/s and limited by the distance you are from the local
exchange. Many people are stuck with relatively slow household internet
speeds, such as myself with a mediocre 6... 
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Leaked images reveal new display technology that could make next-gen iPad even thinner
Pictures of what appear to be the front panel of Apple’s next
generation iPad recently hit the web. The pair of photos reveal what
looks to be the inclusion of an integrated display – a feature that
could reduce the thickness of the next iPad or perhaps allow Apple to...
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LinkedIn tops 300 million members, highlights the importance of mobile
Social network / recruiting service LinkedIn on Friday announced
they’ve achieved a big milestone in surpassing 300 million members.
Unsurprisingly, a large portion of the site’s growth has come from
mobile – a demographic that is expected to account for 50 percent of all
global traffic later this year. 
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Tactus set to release an iPad mini case that can magically create physical buttons over screen
What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device? A
startup by the name of Tactus has been working on it for a few years,
and if all goes well the company is set to bring its dynamic touch
screen technology to the masses soon. 
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Facebook releases first major update for Paper news reader app
Facebook on Friday pushed out the first major update to Paper, its
standalone news reader app for iOS. Update 1.1 includes a number of new
features and notifications – some of which were intentionally left out
of the original app in order to reduce clutter and think differently. 
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Google reportedly working on a mid-range Nexus phone that'd sell for under $100
Google’s Nexus 5 already offers arguably the best bang for your buck
but even still, $350 for a new smartphone is a lot of money for some. To
that end, the search giant is reportedly preparing a mid-range device
that would sell for under $100 – about as cheap a... 
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Weekend game deals: Thief $17, Typing of the Dead $7, Borderlands 2 GotY $10, Saints Row IV $14
In addition to Dead Space still being free at Origin, Steam offers free
weekend access to Frozen Synapse and the fifth Humble Moble Bundle has
arrived with six titles including The Cave for $5 or whatever you're
willing to pay. Steam has also steeply discounted Saints Row releases,
Arma II... 
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Aereo launches new site to lay out its arguments ahead of US Supreme Court appearance
Controversial broadcast TV streaming company Aereo has been getting
into a lot of trouble with TV networks and is set to appear in front of
the US Supreme Court next week. Ahead of its opening arguments, the
company has launched a site to explain its reasoning behind why its
service... 
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Samsung preparing to charge for Milk Music after launching as a free service
Samsung launched a streaming music service called Milk last month. The
service grabbed headlines as it was free to download, free to use
without ads and didn’t even require users to log in. That’s certainly
appealing on a number of fronts although a new infographic from Samsung
suggests the company... 
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Dropbox gobbles up Y Combinator startups Loom and Hackpad
Just a week after rolling out Carousel, an iOS and Android app that
serves as a gallery for all your photos and videos, Dropbox has acquired
Loom, a startup that offers photo and video storage to Apple device
users. The startup's eight-person team will join Dropbox on the Carousel
project. ... 
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HTC hires ex-Samsung marketing executive responsible for Galaxy brand
HTC is doing everything right in terms of putting out a quality
smartphone. Now they just need some help in spreading the word and for
that, they’ve hired Paul Golden – the former head of marketing for
Samsung’s mobile phone business – to serve as an advisor to HTC
Chairwoman... 
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Xbox One console shipments top 5 million since launch
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has sold more than 5 million Xbox
One units since its launch in November. What's important to note here
is that the sales figure represents the number of consoles sold to
retailers and not the number of units actually purchased by end users. 
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Watch how technology allows an amputee to dance again
Technology has been instrumental in creating realistic and lifelike
prosthetic limbs over the past several years. One of the most impressive
examples yet comes from Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts
and sciences at MIT. 
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Toshiba launches "world's fastest" microSD cards
Toshiba is upping the ante in the microSD card department, launching
new high-end cards that they're calling the "world's fastest". Using the
new UHS-II SD card specification, these microSD cards are designed for
4K video recording, giving cameras too small for a full-sized SD cards
the storage speed they need. ... 
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Voice commands in first-person shooters: new gaming experiences with Intel RealSense
Jason Wishnov, CEO, Founder and Lead Designer at Iridium Studios,
recently sat down for a brief video interview in which he talked about
Iridium’s new tactical war game titled “There Came An Echo” and how it
uses the new Intel RealSense Technology (formerly Perceptual Computing)
speech recognition capabilities to direct... 
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Google Glass now has a home try-on program
Google Glass is no doubt a hot gadget right now but even still,
shelling out $1,500 on the headset sight unseen is a lot to ask. That’s
why Google is now allowing some potential buyers to test out the array
of frame styles and colors before committing to a purchase... 
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Amazon to expand Fire TV's voice search later this summer
Amazon on Thursday revealed that its Fire TV media streaming box would
soon be getting an upgrade in the voice search department. Crackle, Hulu
Plus and Showtime will soon integrate their full catalogs into Fire
TV’s voice search function. 
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'Hitman Go' reimagines popular franchise into an iPad board game
The Hitman series of stealth games has found a new home on the iPad.
Console titles aren’t exactly known to transition very well to mobile
which is why Square Enix has reimagined Hitman Go as a board game. 
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Facebook introduces location-broadcasting feature 'Nearby Friends'
Facebook has cooked up yet another way to keep you in touch with your
friends. Drawing inspiration from the current crop of
location-broadcasting apps already on the market, “Nearby Friends” is a
new feature that shows when you are in close proximity to friends in the
real world. 
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Marissa Mayer looking to persuade Apple to drop Google in favor of Yahoo mobile search
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been quite vocal lately, first saying she
wants original programming to go along with a supposed upcoming Yahoo
streaming service, and now the CEO has got her eyes set on search once
again. A report citing sources close to the matter said that Mayer
and... 
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Grams is the first search engine for the dark net's underground market
Today’s dark web is a lot like the “public” Internet used to be a
couple of decades ago. Not very many people are familiar with it, only
those in the know can gain access to it and it is generally pretty
difficult to find your way around. ... 
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Nokia suspends European sales of Lumia 2520 tablet due to faulty charger
Nokia announced today that it's suspending sales of its Lumia 2520
Windows tablet in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia,
Switzerland, and the UK. The decision was taken after the Finnish
company discovered that the AC-300 charger packed with the tablet is
faulty. 
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This assisted reading device could one day eliminate the need for braille
A handful of researchers at MIT’s Media Labs are working on a device
capable of helping visually impaired and blind individuals read without
the need for Braille. The FingerReader is equipped with a small camera
that scans printed text and reads it out loud using a synthesized voice.
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Spotify slowly phasing out peer-to-peer network music delivery
In order to keep its bandwidth and server costs down, popular music
streaming service Spotify has made use of peer-to-peer networks to
deliver your content. Also once used to help the service offer up tracks
quickly, peer-to-peer connections on Spotify are now slowly being
phased out according to the company. 
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Upcoming Sonos update eliminates the need to connect directly to your router
Sonos has created an incredibly convenient speaker system that allows
you to pump music wirelessly throughout your home but there’s one small
hitch: you need to have at least one speaker connected directly to your
home router to make the magic happen. This can be avoided using the
company’s Bridge... 
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