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Nike wants to build a deeper relationship with you through its app

Nike is creating a personalized retail experience to appeal to athletes and fitness enthusiasts. The nation’s largest sportswear maker on Wednesday unveiled a revamped Nike+ app at its annual Nike Innovation Summit event in New York. Nike has watched as competitors snap up popular fitness apps. Rival sportswear brand Under Armour has acquired MapMyFitness and …

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Born in the USA: The Rogue Audio Sphinx v2 integrated amplifier

Rogue Audio makes great high-end components and sells them for very reasonable prices through its dealer network here in the USA, and its worldwide distributors. Rogue’s owner, designer and all-around nice guy Mark O’Brien came to audio after he was with Bell Labs working on electronics development, laser and transformer design. Don’t let his Sphinx v2 stereo-integrated amplifier’s plain looks …

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Hands

This is the story of an Indiegogo campaign that barely raised $8,000 of its $25,000 goal, but went on to become a real product anyway. That product is the super cool-sounding Siam 7x, a mash-up of Android phone and e-reader. To look at it is to see a fairly normal 5-inch phone, but to flip it over is to find …

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Maddening! More ways to catch the NCAA tourney could put a crimp on productivity

The Madness will be inescapable for some college hoops fans. About a third of American adults polled in a survey will have their eyes glued to NCAA action playing out on their phones and tablets this Thursday and Friday. Those distracted workers could cost employers $3.9 billion in lost productivity. That’s more than double last year’s $1.9 billion in estimated …

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TouchTunes is now the biggest ‘in

It’s been a long time since jukeboxes have taken dimes as the machines went digital a long time ago. But now, thanks to an app by jukebox manufacturer TouchTunes, they not only accept PayPal but can also sync with your Spotify library. The TouchTunes app is now in its third major iteration, after being launched in 2010, and boasts a …

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Anonymous goes negative on Trump… again

Hacktivist group Anonymous declared “total war” on Donald Trump, urging hackers to knock the billionaire’s websites offline as it put the Republican front-runner in its sights for the second time. In a video posted Tuesday, a representative of the group called on hackers to attack Trump’s websites and reveal any personal information about the candidate they unearth. It also addressed …

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