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Lockheed Martin announces plans for SR-72 hypersonic spy drone

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Aircraft experts and military aficionados have cause to rejoice now that Lockheed Martin has debuted the SR-72 unmanned spy plane, the long-awaited successor to the SR-71 Blackbird and potentially the first hypersonic craft to enter service. Plans for the SR-72 drone were first unveiled Friday in an Aviation Week article which revealed that Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development program... 

US readies for $400 bln nuclear arms upgrade

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High-ranking Pentagon officials told members of Congress this week that the United States is in dire need of billions of dollars’ worth of upgrades to the country’s arsenal of antiquated atomic warheads. Before a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, United States Department of Defense officials said the US must spend at least a decade working to revitalize the high-power weapons,... 

Samsung Galaxy S5 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 coming in January 2014

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Samsung Galaxy S5 has been announced earlier than every other Galaxy S predecessor. Samsung is planning to release the Galaxy S5 in January 2014 with new features such as a 16MP camera (only a tiny 3MP upgrade from S4’s 13MP) 3GB or 4GB of RAM memory compared to S4’s 2GB RAM and the Samsung’s first true octa core CPU on a smartphone. There are rumors that the future Galaxy line will... 

Japan to shoot asteroid for samples in 2014 mission

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A unique space cannon developed for Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully test-fired on Earth in preparation for a 2014 mission. During its upcoming journey into space, the cannon will blast an asteroid and mine samples of its soil. The test took place in the Japanese prefecture of Gifu, paving the way for the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to extract soil samples from the asteroid, the Japan Aerospace... 

German Scientists Freeze Light for a Minute

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It turns out that the fastest known thing in the universe, light, can in fact be stopped. A German team of scientists have successfully stopped light from traveling for a whole minute. The record-breaking event could be a major breakthrough in the field of quantum memory storage. So how did scientists freeze light for a whole minute, knowing that the speed of this electromagnetic radiation is 300... 

Microsoft buys Nokia mobile business for $7.2 billion

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Microsoft is buying Nokia’s smartphone business and a portfolio of patents and services in an attempt to improve its position in the mobile market and compete with Apple and Google at a time when more people pursue their lives on mobile devices. The $7.2 billion deal announced late on Monday marks a major step in Microsoft’s push to transform itself from a software maker focused on operating... 

Samsung Galaxy Note III is ready to change the game

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The long awaited 3rd installment from the Galaxy Note series is set to change not only the phablet market but the smartphone market as-well. As some of us already know, Samsung Galaxy Note isn’t exactly a phone because it’s simply too big to fit in a pocket but its not that big because it would have been called a tablet. So what is it? It’s a hybrid between a phone and a tablet,... 

Microsoft CEO to step down within year

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The world’s largest software maker announced on Friday that Chief Executive, Steven Ballmer, will retire in the next 12 months. Ballmer will continue as acting CEO and will lead the company until a successor is chosen by the board. Microsoft shares surged 9 percent in premarket trading on the news. “We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction,” Ballmer said in an... 

Last major Russian carrier drops deal with Apple

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Many carriers all over the world have jumped through all sorts of hoops in order to secure that precious iPhone deal with Apple but this is the first time carriers that have already offered the Apple smartphone are giving up on it. According to Hi-Tech Russia VimpelCom known by its Beeline brand has broken all ties with Apple over serving the iPhone after its contract expired. This is the third (and... 

Microsoft urges US Attorney General to allow releasing info on NSA requests

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Microsoft’s general counsel has written to the US Attorney General Eric Holder saying that the secrecy regarding the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance is damaging the “constitutional principles” of America. Microsoft has asked the Obama administration to allow it to share details about how it responds to requests from the US government for user account data. Microsoft’s general counsel... 

Motorola X smartphone Flagship goes Patriotic with its first ad

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Just a week ago (4th of July), the Google-owned company Motorola released its first ad announcing the hotly rumored Motorola X smartphone flagship which is said to revolutionize the smartphone industry, in Apple iPhone-style. Not only that, but Google decided to build the highly expected Motorola X in the US, Texas, a former Nokia factory which was acquired by Google’s Motorola. This will be... 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, best smartphone camera? Nope!

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is a new type of smartphone which tries to blur the line between smartphones and digital cameras. The S4 Zoom is somewhat related to the Samsung Galaxy S4 though in many ways it resembles the the old Samsung Galaxy S2 actually, and not even the S3. Although this is not the first smartphone to pack a real camera with optical zoom, it’s indeed a rarity and a very welcomed... 

GoClever R974.2, the Best Price-Performace Gaming Tablet

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If you have already seen our review on the GoClever R83 Tab then you should know that the R974.2 is almost exactly the same with the R83.3, but you should still read our review on the R974.2 because this model does bring some nice new changes. If you haven’t read our previous R83 review, you should do it now because reading that review it’s almost as if you’re reading about the R974.2... 

Yahoo! admits giving over 13,000 user data to US spy agencies

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Major US internet corporation Yahoo has announced that American law enforcement agencies had made between 12,000 and 13,000 demands for user data over past six months, in the latest case of tech firms admitting to their involvement in the massive US electronic spying bid. In an effort to restore confidence in its users after revelations of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM electronic surveillance... 

EU to probe Google's below cost licensing of Android: Courtesy Microsoft Nokia

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Microsoft, the company which created abusive monopoly in the PC desktop space and did not leave any room for a single player to breath and survive for almost three decades is now crying wolf when competitors are doing better. Microsoft and it’s pizza delivery boy Nokia filed complaints with the EU, via is proxy body FairSearch, against Google’s free and open source Android OS. According... 
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