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Sweden has dropped a rape investigation against Julian Assange, potentially paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder to finally leave self-imposed exile. Prosecutors began investigating Assange in 2010. Two years later, he sought sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and has lived in the tiny building ever since. In that time, WikiLeaks has continued to release classified information, prompting …

Now playing: Watch this: Xiaomi Mi Max is a big phone for video watching 1:19 Xiaomi is readying itself to announce a new supersize phone next week. The company took to its website today to advertise its Mi Max 2, which will be fully unveiled on May 25. Chinese phone maker Xiaomi has been gaining traction for making premium phones …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image The woman suffered burns in the incident. Australian Transportation Safety Bureau Phones can explode. So can headphones. An Australian woman discovered this on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne in February. As she slept, her battery-powered headphones blew up and her face was …

At the VR keynote at Google’s IO developer conference, a slide appeared on screen to start the morning’s presentation. Clay Bavor, head of AR and VR for Google, explained the spectrum of virtual and augmented experiences that Google is exploring. On that spectrum, there are two points: Real Reality, and Virtual Reality. And in the middle, there’s augmented reality. That’s …

The iPad offers excellent battery life but after so many charges, battery life invariably begins to fade. How can you keep your iPad’s battery running for a good, long time on a single charge? Let us count the ways: 1. Lower screen brightness Apple states, “There are two simple ways you can preserve battery life — no matter how you …

Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest videos to hit the major online streaming services, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Turns out both Amazon Prime and Hulu have some of the same offerings, including a bunch of James Bond flicks for the month of May. Hit play below — we’ve folded …

Twitter is banned in China, so instead the country uses a platform called Weibo. Now, Weibo has more users than Twitter. Weibo, owned by Sina, said this week that it had 340 million monthly active users as of March. That number is higher than Twitter’s most recently reported count of 328 million monthly active users. Twitter is one of several …

Let’s all give Google a pat on the back. With a project to bring AR to classrooms, the tech giant has found a way to make selfie sticks cool. But even more than that, Google Expeditions — an educational initiative that’s so far touched over 2 million students in two years — wants to make learning cool. Google is just …

With the amount of high dynamic range video you can watch growing by the day, and more and more people recognizing the “HDR” abbreviation as something new (and potentially cool), TV manufacturers are jumping at the chance to show they’re on top of this latest trend. For several years HDR has only been available in expensive high-end TVs, but now …