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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 15, 2012
Welcome to Thursday evening folks. Today Microsoft’s former Windows head Steven Sinofsky discussed his recent and surprising departure from the company, but didn’t go into too many specifics when it...
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WordPress now accepting Bitcoin digital currency
WordPress has just announced a new way for users to pay for upgrades regardless of where they’re located or what payment restrictions may be in place: Bitcoin. Now those located in places where PayPal...
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Wii U software pre-orders top 1.2 million at GameStop
This weekend will be a big one for Nintendo, as it just so happens to be the weekend that the Wii U launches in the US. It’s a good time to be a Nintendo fan, and it looks like gamers are plenty...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play option available now
Electronic Arts and LucasArts have announced the launch of Free-to-Play for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The option gives gamers access to the complete storylines for all eight classes up to level 50,...
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Lytro announces new Perspective Shift and Living Filters features
Lytro, maker of the “world’s first” consumer-level light field camera, has announced that it will release Living Filters and Perspective Shift for the device on December 4. The new features will be...
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NASA updates on data breach, says 10,000 users compromised
Earlier today, we reported that NASA had suffered a serious security breach when one of its employee’s laptops was stolen from his vehicle. Later today, NASA stated that it was implementing new...
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Verizon to throttle repeat BitTorrent offenders
In a couple weeks, the Center for Copyright Information’s anti-piracy system will go into effect in the US. The CCI is composed of five major Internet providers, including Verizon, in conjunction with...
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OtterBox announces Defender Series cases for RAZR HD and Galaxy Tab 2
Gadgets are an unfortunate mix of expensive and fragile, with the wrong jostle, bump, or drop potentially sending your smartphone or tablet into an early grave. OtterBox creates a variety of cases...
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iKey unveils ultra-compact SWB-86-TP keyboard
iKey has announced the latest model in its line of ultra-compact keyboards: the SWB-86-TP. This rugged unit is part of the company’s WaterBoard line of keyboards, and is aimed at the public safety...
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Facebook Gifts gains more partners, hundreds of gift options
Facebook has announced the addition of hundreds of new gifts users can buy and send to friends on Facebook. The new items are from a variety of retailers who have partnered with the social network,...
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Apple and Samsung can add products to lawsuit, judge rules
On November 6, we reported that Apple and Samsung, in their seemingly never-ending patent war, sought to have additional items added to the existing lawsuit between the two companies. Judge Grewal was...
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Brookstone shows off Big Blue Media Tower
Brookstone is showing off a new audio product that is designed to stream audio from multiple sources. The audio product is called the Big Blue Media Tower all-in-one music and TV sound system. The...
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Light by Moore’s Cloud is a color changing light cube
Lately there’ve been a number of LED lights turn up seeking funding to come to market on various crowd-sourced funding sites that allow users to customize the color of the light. Two of the most recent...
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Twitter adds new email sharing option for tweets
For a long time Twitter assumed if you wanted to share a tweet, you would just tweet it to your followers or friends. The problem with that was there still a large number of people out there who aren’t...
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Netflix offers its first trailer for House of Cards
Netflix has been working hard to add additional streaming content from partners, but to bring its own original programming to its streaming service. In early October of 2012, Netflix announced that it...
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Vodafone announces Smart Tab II at an impressive price
Vodafone has announced that it has a new tablet powered by Lenovo available for consumers to buy. The tablet is the 7-inch Vodafone Smart Tab II. The tablet is powered by the Android operating system...
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Google helps you kill time with 100,000 Stars experiment
If you’re bored and looking for something to do to kill a bit of time, Google has a new Chrome Experiment called 100,000 Stars. The idea is that it is a map of the galaxy of roughly 100,000 stars that...
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Prehistoric human ancestors hunted with spears half a million years ago
Scientists have made an interesting discovery recently that sheds new light on prehistoric human ancestors and how they hunted food. The scientists have discovered that ancestors to modern man began...
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iPad mini LTE and 4th-gen iPad now on sale at AT&T, Verizon
If you didn’t pre-order an LTE version of the iPad mini last month, not all hope is lost. Both AT&T and Verizon are now offering the smaller iPad as well as the 4th-gen iPad. AT&T says that you...
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Kobo Arc now on sale in Canada, UK, and France
Kobo has announced that their newest device, the Arc tablet, is available for purchase in Canada and the United Kingdom, while France will have it stock starting on Monday. Kobo is an often forgotten...
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