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IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 02/06/2014

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Microsoft releases file manager app for Windows Phone
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The native file manager is another example of Microsoft making its mobile OS more flexible and accessible for end-users. Microsoft has released a file manager app called Files on the Windows Phone store, after confirming earlier that the ability to browse through user files would be arriving on the OS. When Windows Phone 8.1 was [...]
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This $20 glove can save you from heart attacks
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IneedMD’s EKG glove is an inexpensive, easy-to-use electro-cardiogram that interfaces directly with a tablet to monitor heart activity. Will this save lives at home, hospitals and the battlefield? Medical startups often focus on disruptive ways to deliver life-saving solutions that may not necessarily cost an arm and a leg. In 2010, a team started developing a [...]
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Samsung Galaxy Gear update replaces Android with Tizen
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The update brings the original Gear smartwatch to Samsung’s infant Tizen ecosystem, while adding functionality found in the company’s second-generation smartwatches. Samsung is taking yet another step to move away from its dependence on Android, by pushing out an update that replaces Android on the original Galaxy Gear with Tizen. When Samsung announced the Tizen-powered Gear [...]
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Mario can ‘ball so hard’ in a Mercedez-Benz with new ‘Mario Kart 8′ DLC
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A collaboration with Mercedez-Benz takes our beloved plumber on a ride with a real-life car in Mario Kart 8. Mario Kart 8 has just been released by Nintendo, and what better way to celebrate its release with the addition of an optional kart DLC. This one though, isn’t what you’d normally expect in the colorful and cartoonish [...]
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Gameworks, Mantle and a pot calling a kettle black
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AMD’s hysteria over Gameworks in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs is first rank hypocrisy. Both Gameworks and Mantle are bad for consumers because they impede cross-compatibility. This past week Nvidia and AMD have been at each other’s throats in the posts on Forbes over allegations that Nvidia’s Gameworks library is hindering the performance of Ubisoft’s new game Watch Dogs on [...]
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HTC ‘One Wear’ smartwatch in the works, One M8 Prime reportedly aborted
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The latest round of rumors concerning future HTC releases suggests the highly anticipated One M8 Prime smartphone is no more, while smartwatch development is in fairly advanced stages, with a One Wear piece possibly due by September. Although HTC hinted numerous times in the recent past it’s got its sights set on the booming wearable [...]
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Seagate sets its eyes on SSDs with $450 million deal for SandForce
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A play for LSI’s flash business means that Seagate will be making some serious inroads into the SSD business. Seagate announced on Thursday that it had entered a “definitive asset purchase agreement” to purchase LSI’s flash biz, the Accelerated Solutions Division (ASD), and its Flash Components Division (FCD) for $450 million from Avago. LSI is [...]
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Rumor: Microsoft cooking up sensor-rich smartwatch with iPhone and Android support
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Looking up at the bottom line and leaving ego aside, Microsoft is said to be working on a potentially disruptive smartwatch capable of synching to Windows Phones as well as iPhones and Android-running handhelds. Watch out, Samsung (no pun intended), and hurry up, Apple, because the race for the world’s first truly successful, truly crowd-pleasing [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Active goes official with standard S5 internals, hardened exterior
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Teased for weeks, manhandled on video and thoroughly previewed, Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Active has gone official at last and can be bought already via AT&T. For a smartphone that was never believed to be very different from the “basic” Samsung Galaxy S5, the S5 Active sure got a lot of media attention. Until earlier today, [...]
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US-based satellite TV provider Dish Network to accept Bitcoins later this year
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Dish Network would be the largest company to accept the cryptocurrency. These days you can use bitcoins to purchase anything your heart desires. From cars, to food shelter and drugs. Now, you can add satellite TV service to that list — if you’re in the United States. Dish Network recently announced that it will begin [...]
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Watch some guys blow up a Mac Pro for the sake of YouTube clicks
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The new Mac Pro survives a fall, being submersed in water, but can’t withstand the force of ten pounds of C4. One of the strengths of the design of the new Mac Pro is literally its strength. The black cylindrical shaped computer can withstand a beating (it should be noted that there are no moving [...]
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KitKat update rolling out to Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, US versions of Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3
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Samsung is rolling out the latest version of Android to quite a few of its devices today, including two of its flagships in the US and the largest phone in its lineup. Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update to the international variant of the Galaxy Mega 6.3, and the Sprint and [...]
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Jimmy Iovine: Apple’s EarPods are ‘terrible’
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Beats co-founder begins trashing Apple hours after he agrees to sell his company to Cupertino. It’s hard to name a company more secretive and militantly controlling of its public relations narrative than Apple. Nvidia might be an example — as team green rarely talks to the press not in its orbit — but it is [...]
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Sony to hold free theater screenings of its E3 press conference
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Sony is holding a special free livestream event that brings their E3 press conference to theaters across the U.S. and Canada.
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Nvidia aims for the sub-$100 market with the GeForce GT 740
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Entry level GeForce 700-series card aims to take on integrated alternatives like AMD’s A-series and Intel’s Iris Pro 5000. Shortly after Nvidia finally released its high-end GTX Titan Z, the video card maker also unveiled a new card on the exact opposite end of the spectrum: the GeForce GT 740. Unfortunately the GT 740 doesn’t [...]
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Google unveils self-driving car prototype
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Google finally gives us a look at how autonomous self-driving cars would really work with a new concept vehicle. Self-driving cars is an idea that might be just as old as the automobile itself, but we’ve come quite a long way, far from mere concepts and ideas. Of course, Google’s very own self-driving car concept is [...]
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Sketchy report brings forth HTC One M8 Plus and Advance versions with Quad HD screens
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Just when we thought we had HTC’s product roadmap for the second half of 2014 all figured out, new gossip enters the equation, suggesting a metal-clad One M8 “Plus” and plastic-made M8 “Advance” are in the works. One M8, One mini 2, then M8 Ace and One M8 Prime. Sounded like a solid plan for [...]
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Valve’s Steam Machines delayed until 2015
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Valve has recently announced that 2015 is the most "realistic" window for the release of their console-like Steam Machines, citing that more time is needed to ready the hardware for public use.
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Nvidia’s GTX Titan Z makes a surprise appearance
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Nvidia’s once missing-in-action card gets released and comes in at a cool $3,000 — but does anyone want it? After rumors of its demise through indefinite delays, Nvidia has finally launched its massive GTX Titan Z card which it first introduced earlier this year at the GPU Technology Conference. The Titan Z has 5,760 CUDA [...]
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