CNET A new rumor swirling around the Apple trolliverse suggests that three new iPhone models may be released in the second half of this year, including an iPhone 6S, an iPhone 6S Plus and a 4-inch device that Digitimes refers to as the “iPhone 6C.” Now, while none of this is crazy talk, it should …
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Are the heavens showing us where to find Nessie? John Alasdair Macdonald/thehebrideanexplorer.com The most famous photos ever taken on Scotland’s Loch Ness tend to feature fuzzy profiles of mythic creatures, or perhaps fuzzy, creature-shaped shadows, depending on your level of skepticism. But the above photo taken Sunday around 9 p.m. GMT shows another otherworldly feature over the Scottish lake with …
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Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET All eyes are on San Francisco, where Apple is expected to fill in all the remaining blanks on its long-anticipated wearable, the Apple Watch, at an event starting at 10 a.m. PT. But wait, aren’t there already other smartwatches out there? Google’s got one, right? Like the lone Yankees fan sitting in a crowd of …
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Copyright law can’t stand in the way of a binge viewer. Netflix WARNING: SOME SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t watched the first two seasons of “House of Cards,” you might not want to read on. Or just catch up quickly here. The world really wants to see how a President Frank Underwood might helm the United States, and like Underwood …
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The crowdfunding champion returns. Pebble For two years, the record set by the original Pebble smartwatch on Kickstarter was the gold standard for crowdfunding, until a bizarre high-tech cooler stole the crown last summer. Now it seems that Pebble is on the way to reclaiming its throne. In just a few days, the latest smartwatch from the company, called the …
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Teach us how to use this new power, master… Screenshot by James Martin/CNET A new class of elites has just been created on the Internet. You see, in this world, there are those who hold the power and the information in their hands (or in the memory cache of their laptops in this case) and those who do not. I’m …
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This old-school spirit writes the old-fashioned way. eBay/wfatzinger With technology advancing so quickly, a MacBook from 2007 might be nearly obsolete for most of us, but if you’re a ghost from the early 20th century, it makes for a downright swanky place to chill. That’s the basic pitch behind the auction of a “haunted” Apple computer on eBay that’s already …
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iPhone clones made from cheap components and a skinned-up version of Android made to look like iOS are nothing new, but one of the latest iPhone 6 knock-offs out of China could be one of the first that’s actually a better phone than the one it imitates — at least where some key specs are concerned. The Dakele 3, also …
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Drew Curtis wants your Farking vote. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET I bring good news today for all my fellow geeks, nerds and lovers of Web-based procrastination. Drew Curtis, founder of one of the original online awesomeness aggregators, Fark.com, officially announced his entrance into the world of politics this week. This is not a Farking joke, people — Curtis is …
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This iPhone is higher than a kite. Much, much higher. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET I’m sure I’ll eat these words one day, but it seems that we’ve finally witnessed an iPhone drop test that can’t conceivably be topped. We’ve seen iDevices dropped from planes and stuck in molten lava, but the below video of an iPhone 6 descending from …
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