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(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Gamers in the market for an Xbox 360 will find a deal waiting for them at the online Microsoft Store. The Xbox 360 250GB console is now on sale for $249.99, a full $50 off the usual price. This console offers 250GB of space on a removable hard drive, the usual wireless controller, a black headset, and a one-month subscription to Xbox Live Gold
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Microsoft Store trims Xbox 360 price by $50
Is the next iPhone due for a 4-inch screen? (Credit: Apple) Will the next iPhone actually sport a larger screen?
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Apple orders 4-inch iPhone screens, says report
David Henry of Netgear showing off how the Netgear Genie works with media streaming. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) Netgear today teamed up with Broadcom to announce and demonstrate a new line of wireless networking products that use Broadcom’s 802.11ac chips.
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Netgear demos Broadcom-based 802.11ac Wi-Fi devices
A taste of Demon Hunter gameplay. Just don’t equip any Templars with shields until Blizzard gives the green light. (Credit: Blizzard/Activision) The epic Diablo III role-playing game experienced several hiccups on launch day today as players reported numerous errors preventing gameplay.
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Diablo III woes plague launch day players
The CitySlicker starts at $129 and its flap comes in four different color options. (Credit: WaterField Designs) WaterField Designs makes some swanky cases for laptops, tablets, e-readers, and even the PS Vita .
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WaterField’s CitySlicker MacBook Air case is slick, but the handle costs extra
The new Canvio 3.0 portable drive from Toshiba. (Credit: Toshiba) Toshiba announced today that its Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives now offer up to 1.5TB of storage space, the second largest capacity on the market for portable external hard drives
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Toshiba Canvio portable drive now offers 1.5TB, adds NTFS support to Macs
(Credit: Video screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET) Portal found a way of taking automated gun turrets and turning them into something adorable . That’s why we were super excited when we saw that someone had built a working one in real life.
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Portal turret comes alive in robot project
(Credit: http://www.quickmeme.com/ ) This Friday, 25 bars and restaurants around the San Francisco Bay Area will adopt Scenetap , a social analytics app that uses facial recognition technology to gather real-time data on customer relations and crowd sizes. Don’t worry, the cameras only analyze facial features to determine approximate age and gender of clients entering the bars, and the restaurants swear that they won’t upload videos of patrons stumbling out and doing whatever people do outside of bars at 4 a.m
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The 404 1,054: Where we’re gonna need to see some ID (podcast)
(Credit: Parker Maimbourg) A resourceful videographer, Parker Maimbourg, has managed to build a continuous ring light for just $20. The setup consists of a cheap, circular LED lamp ($10), an AA battery holder ($1.99), and an unused hotshoe salvaged from an old flash unit
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Forget about those paltry tazers and stun guns. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: Rob Flickenger) If electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla designed a weapon, it very well might look like Rob Flickenger’s Tesla Gun . The self-described “mad science” enthusiast dreamed up a Tesla rifle after reading the graphic novel ” The Five Fists of Science ,” which features a cover image of a young Tesla wielding several weapons with a built-in Tesla coil
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This Tesla coil gun will shock you
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
(Credit: CNET) Everyone who uses Instagram , EyeEm , or other photo-sharing apps knows how easy it can be to add effects to photos and make them look even better than the original.
It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview , which will become available in the first week of June.
