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PlayStation gets $50 pre-Xmas price cut
Sony is slashing the price of its PlayStation 3 game console across North America, Europe and in Japan, the company said today, as it…
Sci-fi electronic tattoo for games, spies and afflicted
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Gaming comes to Google+
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Video Review: Olympus XZ-1
Video Review: The US$500 XZ-1 looks serious. Little adornment, and a clever selection of materials and textures means it looks like a sturdy metal…
HTC wants a piece of Beats by Dr Dre
Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC plans to pay about $309 million for a 51 percent stake in Beats Electronics, the celebrity-centric marketing operation for higher-end…
HP slashes TouchPad prices
Hewlett-Packard, in an attempt to steal the thunder from the iPad 2 has slashed the prices of its TouchPad tablet; the new price for…
Sony, Panasonic, Samsung to make universal 3D glasses
Japan’s Sony and Panasonic and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics have announced that they will jointly develop new standards for glasses used to watch 3D…
Write, heat, write again with rewritable ‘paper’
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Bouncing, rolling drone takes flight
A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and…
US military secure – opened with a paper clip
Hackers at a DefCon gathering were recently shown how a high-security lock certified for use in sensitive US government facilities can be easily opened…
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