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CBS Thinks People Will Pay $6 a Month to Stream Just CBS Shows

Hot on the heels of HBO announcing a standalone streaming option , CBS just debuted its own subscription streaming service… and it is possibly the worst streaming TV deal out there. Read more…

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Samsung Achieves Outdoor 5G Mobile Broadband Speed of 7.5Gbps

Mark.JUK writes: Samsung has become the first to successfully demonstrate a future 5G mobile network running at speeds of 7.5Gbps in a stationary outdoor environment. They also managed 1.2Gbps while using the same technology and driving around a 4.3km-long race track at speeds of up to 110kph. Crucially, the test was run using the 28GHz radio spectrum band, which ordinarily wouldn’t be much good for mobile networks where wide coverage and wall penetration is an important requirement. But Samsung claims it can mitigate at least some of that by harnessing the latest Hybrid Adaptive Array Technology (HAAT), which uses millimeter wave frequency bands to enable the use of higher frequencies over greater distances. Several companies are competing to develop the first 5G technologies, although consumers aren’t expected to see related services until 2020 at the earliest. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq

mr_mischief writes “Multiple sources report that the US found remnants of WMD programs, namely chemical weapons, in Iraq after all. Many US soldiers were injured by them, in fact. The Times reports: “From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule. In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5, 000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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How Apple’s "Complete My Bundle" Works

Apple recently introduced App Bundles that allow you to snag a group of apps at a discounted price. That makes perfect sense, but they also have a “Complete My Bundle” option that’s a bit confusing at a glance. The developers over at Panic figured out how it works. Read more…

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Dropbox Wasn’t Hacked, Says Leaked Credentials Are From Unrelated Services

An anonymous reader writes Dropbox has denied that they have been hacked, and that the login credentials leaked by a unknown individual on Pastebin are those of Dropbox users. “Your stuff is safe. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox, ” Anton Mityagin from the Dropbox security department noted in a post. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The Air Force’s Mysterious Spy Plane Is Landing After 2 Years in Space

For nearly two years, the Air Force’s X-37B autonomous space plane has been circling around the Earth doing who knows what. Now it’s finally coming back to Earth , carrying all its secrets with it. Read more…

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PopcornTime Defiantly Pops Back Up After Domain Gets Suspended

The most popular way of accessing the popular “Netflix for torrents” service PopcornTime abruptly went down last week when European regulators suspended the domain registration for Time4Popcorn.eu. In a message today, the anonymous devs behind the service say the service is back —and won’t be shut down ever. Read more…

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PopcornTime Defiantly Pops Back Up After Domain Gets Suspended