Enlarge Image Pirate 3D Kickstarter users who poured over $1.5 million into the Pirate3D Buccaneer 3D printer may never see their extruded-plastic dreams become reality. Over 3,500 backers pledged money to the project, but according to its creators, in a note on their Kickstarter page, the majority of them will never see their Buccaneer. The …
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Enlarge Image Tyler Lizenby/CNET Samsung is going back to basics with the Galaxy Gear S2. With no notable hits in what is now a maturing smartwatch market, the South Korean electronics behemoth has built the new device, which goes on sale today, from the ground up. In the face of plummeting smartphone profits, the battle for supremacy in the wearable …
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Enlarge ImageMooncakes for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. © Ninprapha Lippert Kaktusfactory/the food passionates/Corbis In July, Uber tried to win customers in Singapore by using drones to deliver ice cream to its users. This week, a man in China tried to win the heart of his girlfriend by sending her a drone bearing gifts — but he was stifled by a …
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Netflix Netflix announced plans to enter four new markets in Asia on Wednesday as the Internet video streaming service continues its global expansion. Netflix will officially become available in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan early next year, the company said. “The combination of increasing Internet speeds and ubiquity of connected devices provides consumers with the anytime, anywhere ability …
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The HTC One M9, the company’s 2015 flagship phone, has not sold well. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Beleaguered HTC’s woes just keep piling up. Following dwindling market share and a plummeting stock price, on Sunday it was announced that the smartphone maker is to be removed from the Taiwan Stock Exchange’s FTSE TWSE Taiwan 50 Index. The index is a list of …
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SK Telecom As Samsung, Apple and a few other key players duke it out on the premium smartphone battlefield, the war for supremacy in the rapidly growing budget and midrange markets is becoming increasingly intense. And now there’s one more contender — South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom. The company will release the Luna, its first handset, on Friday. …
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Enlarge Image Xiaomi achieved quick success with its smartphones. Aloysius Low/CNET Xiaomi has managed to take a big bite out of Apple’s market share in China thanks to its Mi line of smartphones. Now, four years after its inception, the Chinese smartphone powerhouse looks to bring the fight to Apple in the laptop market. According to a Bloomberg report out …
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Obi Worldphone’s new SF1 flagship device. Obi Worldphone Obi Worldphone, founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley, announced on Wednesday two brand new handsets — the SF1 and the SJ1.5. The sub-$250 Android devices look to carry out Obi Worldphone’s mission statement of bringing premium-quality phones to the world’s developing markets (namely Asia, Africa and the Middle East). Sculley described …
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Juan Garzon/CNET Just how secure is Microsoft’s Windows 10 new Windows Hello facial recognition system? Even your identical twin won’t be able to break into your PC, according to a test carried out by The Australian. Six pairs of identical twins took part in the newspaper’s test, which was reported last week. One twin created a new Windows 10 account …
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Opera Attention, YouTube and Netflix addicts: An update to the Opera Max app boasts that you will slurp up less data while streaming videos, shows and movies. The update to the data-management and data-saving app, which is available in the Google Play store, is focused on video streaming via Wi-Fi and 3G/4G/LTE — specifically for YouTube and Netflix. “The new …
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