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Lenovo launches Moto Mods contest with $1M prize

Lenovo definitely believes in the old adage that money talks, announcing at the Lenovo Tech World Event that it’s pledging a $1 million cash prize to the winner of the company’s Moto Mods developer design contest. Unlike Google’s Project Ara phones, the planned Moto Mod hardware modules will be hot-swappable. That means you’ll be able to snap modules in and …

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Get a Dell 17.3

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. It’s been a long while since I wrote about a desktop replacement. Mostly I’m all about the super-slim laptops, like the Acer Ultrabook …

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Singapore’s civil servants are set to lose internet privileges

By this time next year, Singapore’s civil servants will have lost access to the internet. The change, which was announced yesterday, is designed to prevent any leaks from work emails and shared government documents, as well as to safeguard the country’s serves from malware, The Straits Times reported. The ban, which will affect all 100,000 or so computers used by …

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How, where and when to get the Moto Z, Moto Z Force

Now playing: Watch this: The Moto Z and Z Force use magnets to snap on cool mods 1:27 Lenovo on Thursday announced two new Motorola smartphones, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. The two devices breakaway from the Moto X design we’ve seen for the last few years, and add hot-swappable modules, Moto Mods. When using Moto Mods, you …

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