Quantenna announces the first 4×4 (quad-stream) 802.11ac chipset. The new chipset, which offers a cap speed of 1.7Gbps, is slated be used in products later this year. [Read more]
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We’ve already seen what the Leap Motion can do in apps that support it, but it stands to make your everyday OS-level boredom into a futuristic gesture-controlled wonderland too. This new video shows exactly what kind of applications you can look forward to on your Windows 8 machine, at it seems at least as cool as touch. Read more…
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jones_supa writes “Google’s YouTube is celebrating its 8-year birthday, and at the same time they reveal some interesting numbers. ‘Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That’s almost one out of every two people on the Internet. Millions of partners are creating content for YouTube and more than 1,000 companies worldwide have mandated a one-hour mid-day break to watch nothing but funny YouTube videos. Well, we made that last stat up, but that would be cool (the other stats are true).’” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The show will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special and then as a regular series. It’s set chronologically between the third prequel film and the original “Star Wars” movie. [Read more]
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Windows 8 comes with a couple of new or tweaked commands that may actually be pretty handy if you use the Command Prompt to do things faster on your computer or a bunch of PCs. Read more…
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The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. [Read more]
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The Korean handset maker earned $5.1 billion of the $5.3 billion in global profits last quarter, says research firm Strategy Analytics. [Read more]
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With 32.3 percent of the market share, Netflix reigns the entertainment streaming world, but Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube still maintain their piece of the pie. [Read more]
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The tech giant is slapped with a class action suit, which alleges it knowingly sold users iPhone 4 smartphones with power buttons that broke shortly after the 1-year warranty expired. [Read more]
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Microsoft has made upgrading to Windows 8 really easy with their upgrade tool, but if you have special needs and need a more traditional installation disc, you might not know where to look. Here’s how to create one. Read more…
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