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The iPhone 7 headphone jack dies, comes back to life

Time for a slightly-spoilery “Game of Thrones” joke. Talking about whether the iPhone 7 will have a headphone jack has become a spectator sport around the rumor mill. The latest comes from AppleInsider, which itself picked up a posting by a French site Nowhereelse.fr, which got its news from the Chinese blogging site Weibo. The …

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Samsung’s updated Galaxy A3 and A5 coming to UK

Samsung is beefing up the middle of its UK smartphone range with an update that brings faster charging and a fingerprint scanner for around 200 quid. The new 2016 versions of the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 are powered by Google’s Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system. Both boast a 13-megapixel rear camera, as well as a 5-megapixel camera on the …

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Apple dominates Time’s list of top 50 influential gadgets

Time has released its list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time, and topping the list is the Apple iPhone. The article, published online Tuesday, notes that smartphones existed for years before the iPhone’s initial release in 2007, but it says: “None came together as accessibly and beautifully as the iPhone.” There are the usual throwbacks like the …

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After erasing themselves from the Internet, Radiohead’s new song ‘Burn the Witch’ creeps out

Radiohead took a cue from one of their songs over the weekend and showed us how to disappear completely. But the band’s Web presence was not in limbo for long, and after a couple of cryptic Instagram video clips they’ve revealed their new song “Burn the Witch”. Fans may have felt let down by the British band deleting every post …

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Hulk Hogan going for another round in the ring with Gawker

It’s turning into the rematch cage-match of the year. Terry Bollea, aka wrestler Hulk Hogan, filed a new lawsuit against the blogging empire Gawker Media, some lawyers and a couple of radio personalities, claiming they conspired to leak to The National Enquirer a recording of him saying racist things about his daughter’s then-boyfriend. Following the comments, World Wrestling Entertainment, the …

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‘Onward Kasich’: Ted Cruz exit rallies tweets, memes

Following a loss in the Indiana primary Tuesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he’s dropping out of the presidential race, all but handing the Republican nomination to Donald Trump. Cruz’s political supporters aren’t the only people mourning the end of Cruz’s presidential bid. Those who make memes on social-networking sites must also be sad to see the senator end …

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For $50, HP will assassinate the bezel on this all

Now playing: Watch this: HP kills the bezel on this sleek iMac competitor 1:30 Slowly but surely, computers are melting into the world around us. And I’m not talking about fancy holographic glasses or roll-up, newspaper-like screens. Thanks to razor-thin bezels, even an ordinary flatscreen computer display can feel like it’s floating on air. Dell’s new XPS laptops use the …

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Can Netflix replace traditional TV? 76% of subscribers say yes

Netflix is the ready replacement for traditional TV, according to 75.5 percent of Netflix subscribers in a recent survey. Their opinions might seem a little biased, since they’re paying users of the service. But those surveyed also noted that the streaming service still can’t replace live sports coverage or the magic of the movie theater. The survey came from AllFlicks, …

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Uber wants to outsmart surge pricing

Uber is looking for ways to reduce surge pricing. The long-term goal of Uber is to use self-driving cars to mitigate the problem of limited drivers, according to NPR. But in the short term, the ride-hailing service is looking to machine learning to, hopefully, reduce the need for surge pricing. Uber is using technology to help reduce surge pricing. Uber …

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