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White House pledges $400M for next

The Obama Administration on Friday announced a new funding initiative to ensure the U.S. maintains its leadership in the mobile technology space. The $400 million Advanced Wireless Research Initiative will be led by the National Science Foundation and aims to develop and advance wireless technology to 5G and beyond. “Collectively, these spectrum policy and research efforts will accelerate the deployment …

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Hasbro’s new Bop

“Whip it!” I flicked Bop-It in the air. “Selfie it!” Is that…raise it up like a camera? The buzzer blares. I failed. Bop-It used to be simple: three simple moves, three things to do. Bop, Twist, Pull. No more. The new Bop-It, coming this fall, looks exactly the same but adds an accelerometer. Now it understands gestures. And those get …

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Amazon Prime Video blesses Android with downloads that won’t hog phone storage

Netflix won’t let anyone store movies or shows to watch offline, but Amazon just amped up its download options for Android users in a big way. If you own a device running Google’s Android system, Amazon will let you download titles from its Netflix-like Prime Video service onto SD cards, removable storage units that keep your phone’s internal storage from …

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Why you should right

This tip is for Windows users — any version of Windows. Many of you might be familiar with it already but I personally have met many who aren’t, so here goes. The most common way to move data around your computer is via drag-and-drop. That is when you click on one or a more selected files, then, while keeping the …

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This waterproof phone costs only $80

Phone maker Kyocera announced its latest addition to its family of affordable, waterproof phones. Known as the Hydro Shore, the $79.99 handset is available at Walmart, on AT&T’s prepaid GoPhone network. The device satisfies the IP57 standard for waterproofing, meaning you can submerge it in up to three feet of water for about 30 minutes and it’ll still keep ticking …

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Sean Parker

Airtime, a live-chat social network app backed by Facebook investor Sean Parker, added Twitch to the list of media that users can share and watch together in virtual rooms. The Airtime app combines aspects of a social network, texting and videoconferencing. Users create rooms and share them with specific friends, then post text messages, images, videos and music playlists. If …

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