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Here’s when that ‘Minecraft’ movie is finally coming out

June 27, 2016 admin Technical

Been waiting on pins and needles for news regarding the upcoming Minecraft movie? The good news is there's actually one big piece of news: a release date. The bad news? You're going to be waiting a few years still until you can feast your eyes on it….

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Best Buy hopes to offer in-home tech advice

June 27, 2016 admin Technical

Best Buy can already send Geek Squad and Magnolia to your home when you need a fix or some help setting up a new TV. But what if everything is running fine, and you'd just like to improve your tech? The retailer thinks it can help there, too. It's…

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Ben Heck’s Essentials series: Logic gates

June 26, 2016 admin Technical

Join Ben, Karen and Felix as they teach you the basic functions of digital circuitry and electronics with logic gates. Using the basis of the Hackmanji game, you'll soon learn the difference between NAND, AND, XOR and OR logic gates. These compon…

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After Math: What are we watching?

June 26, 2016 admin Technical

These days, it seems the only news being reported is bad news. Britain's surprise exit from the EU stands to tear the nation in twain, Zika is spreading across the planet like viral wildfire, economic and racial divisions are widening; Trump is still…

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Reuters: Big tech companies are auto-purging extremist content

June 25, 2016 admin Technical

YouTube, Facebook and other big internet companies are using automated systems to find and remove terrorist content, according to Reuters. Prior to this, they mostly relied on users to report extremist videos, which human employees review and delete….

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Recommended Reading: How the ‘Final Fantasy’ film helped Hollywood

June 25, 2016 admin Technical

The 'Final Fantasy' film bombed, but its motion capture revolutionized Hollywood Jordan Zakarin, Inverse The animated Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within film may not have been a success in terms of earnings, but the movie did provide some useful in…

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RZA teams up with Atari on a new video game-inspired album

June 24, 2016 admin Technical

RZA already made one big announcement this summer, and the member of the Wu-Tang Clan doesn't appear to be done yet. The rapper/producer announced this week that he's teaming up with Atari on a new album that takes inspiration from the audio in the c…

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Sweden debuts the world’s first ‘electric highway’

June 24, 2016 admin Technical

Fossil fuels are bad for the planet, and freight haulage is one of the more carbon-intensive activities that operate today. That's why Siemens and Scania have teamed up to trial what's being called the world's first "electric highway." Much like an e…

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ICYMI: Squashing brain cancer and autonomous drones arrive

June 23, 2016 admin Technical

Today on In Case You Missed It: The Airobotics drone system can autonomously launch UAVs and perform basic maintenance, like swapping out batteries. Researchers designed a device that agitates bubbles in the blood to get more chemotherapy into the…

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UK tech and gaming magazines are banding together

June 23, 2016 admin Technical

It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to retain, never mind increase their readership. The medium isn't dead, far from it, but the ever-growing competition online is forcing publishers to rethink what they print. The latest strategy is, u…

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ICYMI: Squashing brain cancer and autonomous drones arrive

June 23, 2016 admin Technical

Today on In Case You Missed It: The Airobotics drone system can autonomously launch UAVs and perform basic maintenance, like swapping out batteries. Researchers designed a device that agitates bubbles in the blood to get more chemotherapy into the…

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UK tech and gaming magazines are banding together

June 23, 2016 admin Technical

It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to retain, never mind increase their readership. The medium isn't dead, far from it, but the ever-growing competition online is forcing publishers to rethink what they print. The latest strategy is, u…

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Android Pay will tell you where it works nearby

June 22, 2016 admin Technical

One of the ways that Google is making Android more useful is by harnessing your location data for context-aware services. For instance, Nearby uses GPS and Bluetooth to monitor where you are, launching a relevant app should one be particularly useful…

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NASA debuts new internet technology aboard the ISS

June 22, 2016 admin Technical

The ISS has a new technology on board that can transmit data from space much faster than what NASA uses today. See, the internet as we know it here on Earth doesn't work as well for spacecraft millions of miles away. It requires all nodes or connecti…

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Tencent buys the game company behind ‘Clash of Clans’

June 21, 2016 admin Technical

As Candy Crush and Kim Kardashian have taught us, there's a lot of money in cheesy mobile games. Tencent has purchased Clash of Clans maker Supercell in a deal that values it at $10.2 billion. The Chinese company will acquire Softbank's 73 percent sh…

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