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JVC’s new 4K projectors will give your TV an inferiority complex

JVC just announced three new projectors, all with native 4K resolution. That may not seem like a big deal, but enthusiasts have been waiting for more reasonably priced 4K projectors from the company for years. Its D-ILA technology has been lauded, by CNET several times, for having some of the best image quality available in …

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How a car breakdown helped me appreciate my smartphone again

I’ll admit it. With monthly bills, network data caps, cracked screens, privacy invasion risks and guilt pangs about being glued to a gadget, my smartphone has lost much of its appeal. The novelty is gone, and the chime of a notification elicits more anxiety than excitement. But a broken water pump helped restore my faith. I was driving the family …

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CES 2018 Day One: Robots, Google Daydream and a lot of rain

CES 2018 began with a bang today, or should I say a flood. The first rain to fall on Las Vegas in 116 days swept into the city yesterday, drenching crews who were rushing to open the show. By this morning, the convention center was leaking, Google had to shut its splashy pavilion and rivers were flowing through a hotel …

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​Uber puts self

On a nondescript street in downtown San Francisco, an unremarkable parking garage with dusty walls and painted-over windows seems like an abandoned warehouse. Inside, however, it’s a very different scene. Row upon row of shiny self-driving cars await their moment. At first glance, they look like regular dark-gray Volvo SUVs and white Ford sedans. But they’re decked out with rectangular …

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