UK supermarket chain ASDA will start a 3D printing trial at its York store from October 15 wherein shoppers will be able to get their miniature 8-inch figurines 3D printed for as…
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Samsung Galaxy Round hits South Korean market
Samsung Electronics has publicly launched world’s first curved display smartphone, Galaxy Round, on Thursday in South Korea. Samsung’s 5.7-inch concave Galaxy Round handset has hit the South Korean Market today, but no…
HP Chromebook 11 rival alert: $249.99 Acer C720 announced
Acer announced today its C720 Chromebook which will be pitched directly against HP’s Chromebook 11 which was unveiled yesterday signaling towards a possible price war. The C720 first surfaced at the IDF…
IDC, Gartner: Global PC shipments to increase in 2015 as decline continues in 2013
The global PC market is facing tough times as worldwide shipments of personal computers have continuously fallen in this years’ third quarter, which is the sixth straight quarter of decline for the…
Google Chromecast will set you back by £59.99 in the UK
Google’s HDMI media streaming device – Chromecast – is now available in the UK for a whopping £59.99 – three times the price than what it is available for in the US….
Google, HP announce sub-$280 Chromebook 11
HP has announced Chromebook 11 – a featherweight and low-power laptop that runs Google’s internet centric operating system Chrome OS. Despite the low outlay HP has incorporated quite a few features in…
Brits lose 5.5 days every year because of slow PCs
Computer users in UK lose five and a half days every year trying to run slow PCs and waiting for the computers to respond. This wait has been considered as one of…
Over one million Raspberry Pi computers baked in Welsh factory
The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today morning that it has reached an important milestone by shipping over a million Raspberry Pi units manufactured at the Sony’s factory in Pencoed, Wales. The Foundation,…
LG confirms: Flexible smartphone display panels in production
LG Electronics confirmed its plans of mass producing flexible 6-inch OLED displays for its smartphones which it claims be as “the world’s first flexible OLED panel for smartphones.” The company announced that…
Arduino boards to run full Linux thanks to TI’s new ARM-based chip
Arduino, one of the most sought after open source electronics board, will be more powerful now thanks to Texas Instrument’s (TI) new ARM-based chip capable of clocking 1GHz speeds. Massimo Banzi, co-founder…
After Younited, WD’s My Cloud takes on Dropbox
Cloud backup and storage services have been gaining a lot of traction lately with multiple players now joining the bandwagon including the recently announced Younited and now Western Digital with its not-so-cloudy…
Bitcoin value slides following Silk Road shut down
Value of bitcoin took a beating after FBI seized the Silk Road domain and arrested its founder Ross William Ulbricht. According to data available through Mt.Gox the virtual currency fell to as…
US Court rejects Google, Microsoft, Yahoo motion to disclose national security requests
US court has rejected the motion for declaratory judgment filed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn. Google and other companies asked for permission from the US Government and FBI to publish…
Silk Road founder arrested, domain seized
It seems that FBI, in its latest crackdown of internet domains involved in trade of illegal and banned products, has seized Silk Road domain and has reportedly arrested its founder Ross Ulbricht….
Facebook allows post & status update edits, revamps graph search
Facebook has blessed its social networking platform with back to back updates including the ability to edit posts, status updates while including post, post updates, photo captions, check-ins and lot more in…