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How I was almost a Steve Jobs movie extra

CUPERTINO, Calif. — It’s not just Apple’s iPhone that attracts long lines. It’s also the possibility of being in the new Steve Jobs movie that gets Apple fans up at the crack of dawn. I found that out the hard way when I showed up on a beautiful Saturday morning to be an extra in the unnamed Jobs biopic penned …

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Microsoft’s Picturesque Lock Screen puts Bing front and center on Android

Picturesque Lock Screen is now available in the Google Play marketplace. Microsoft Microsoft Garage, the public lab where the company’s employees share experimental ideas, has cooked up a new lock screen for Android. Picturesque Lock Screen is designed for Android only and presents Bing’s home page imagery from the last six days on the Android lock screen. The free app …

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Where the iPad should go next: Look toward Windows 10

Sarah Tew/CNET The iPad is nearly 5 years old. That product, ever since, has continued to ride a thin dividing line between iPhones and Macs: mobile, and computers. Apple’s world has since become all about the iPhone. Look at the latest sales numbers, and they’re shockingly lopsided: iPhones now represent almost three-quarters of Apple’s revenue. Macs and iPads, while still …

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PC market a mixed bag when tablets factored in

Apple’s combination of Macs and iPads helped the company lead the PC market in the fourth quarter. Sarah Tew/CNET The PC market had a rough fourth quarter but a relatively decent 2014, new data from research firm Canalys shows. Total worldwide PC shipments, including notebooks, desktops and tablets, reached 148 million units in the fourth quarter, a 6 percent decline …

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Get Google Earth Pro for free

Now playing: Watch this: How to save $400 by getting Google Earth Pro for free 0:58 Google Earth has been around for years, yet it still makes my jaw drop. I mean, seriously, for centuries the only way to get a “bird’s-eye” view of our planet was to spin an actual globe. Now we can “fly” to any location and …

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Razer’s latest Blade gaming laptop cuts with sharper Nvidia graphics

The new Razer Blade, with a Quad HD screen. Razer Perhaps you remember the Razer Blade , one of the very best thin gaming laptops on the market? We absolutely loved the last version, with its 3,200×1,800-pixel resolution screen, powerful Nvidia graphics, super-thin aluminum chassis and ultra-responsive programmable Razer keyboard. Now Razer has announced a new version of the Blade, …

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Here’s how souped

A conceptual image of the ARM’s newest processor design, which will come to smartphones next year. ARM If the personal computer is ever killed off, ARM is hoping it will have had something to do with it. The British chip-design firm, whose technology is used in nearly every smartphone, unveiled Tuesday more-powerful technologies — the Cortex-A72 processor and Mali-T880 graphics …

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