Motorola’s next Moto X phone already has a rumored launch date for Verizon
Motorola is not ready to say anything about the Moto X+1, its next-gen Moto X version that has only appeared in various leaks so far. However, Droid-Life has now learned from some of its sources that Verizon is “currently expecting the new Moto X by September 25th.”
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Alienware’s latest lightweight laptop could be the MacBook Air for PC gamers
There are plenty of capable gaming laptops on the market, but most of them are large and unwieldy. Portability is often the price you pay for power, but that’s not the case with the Alienware 13. Engadget went hands-on with Dell’s latest Alienware gaming laptop, and although it isn’t the lightest device the company has ever released, it’s still far more portable than the current Alienware line.
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Scoring a Moto 360 will be much easier in the U.S. than anywhere else
Motorola is going to launch the Moto 360 this summer, at least in the U.S., but the device may arrive a lot later in some international markets. Good Gear Guide has learned from the company that the smartwatch will only be launched in Australia at some point in the fourth quarter of the year, and not sooner.
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Here’s a brand-new luxury smartwatch that you can preorder right away
There’s a brand new luxury smartwatch in town, and it’s not coming from any of the usual players you’d expect to release such a device this year. The Meta M1 comes from Meta Watch and, just as previously revealed, it has been designed by former Vertu design guru Frank Nuovo. The device is available today for preorder, with prices starting at $249 and going all the way up to $449. The wearable gadget is slated ship at some point in September.
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Apple is no longer Apple – but Tesla is
This is the state of the smartphone/tablet market: Investors were overjoyed when Apple delivered 4.6% revenue growth in the spring quarter. And the hottest product of the year in the mobile device industry is going to be iPhone 6 because it finally is an iPhone with a screen size larger than 4 inches.
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FCC chief slams Verizon’s lame excuse for throttling your supposedly ‘unlimited’ data
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is not impressed with Verizon’s reason for throttling users’ LTE data speeds even though they supposedly have grandfathered “unlimited” data plans. Per The Hill, Wheeler ripped into Verizon’s response from earlier this week in which the carrier said that it was justified in throttling customers’ “unlimited” data because, hey, everyone other carrier is doing the same thing.
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Forget the iWatch: This red-hot ‘smart shoe’ is the only wearable computer you need
It’s fair to say that wearable tech hasn’t quite caught on yet. Google Glass ignited the conversation, Android Wear has shown a great deal of potential and everyone wants to know if Apple is going to unveil its iWatch this year, but there’s still one untapped resource that still hasn’t been considered: shoes. The Wall Street Journal reports that Indian startup Ducere Technologies Pvt. is going to bring Bluetooth-enabled smart shoes to market this September for less than $100 a pair.
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These amazing self-folding robots are the closest thing to Transformers we’ve ever seen
Who says Transformers will never be real? Researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed some incredible robots that are capable of folding themselves up until they’re nearly flat and then unfolding themselves into their full three-dimensional forms.
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Yahoo wants to encrypt all of your email, with Google’s help
Yahoo will offer its users full end-to-end email encryption and compatibility with Google’s own end-to-end email encryption at some point in 2015, CNET reports, as Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos on Thursday confirmed the company’s email encryption plans at the Black Hat conference.
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Teen takes selfies every day for 7 years, creates incredible compilation video that shows him growing up in 90 seconds
Kids grow up much too quickly, as the old saying grows. However, we don’t think we’ve ever seen a kid grow up quite so quickly as YouTube user Hugo Cornellier, a 19-year-old who has been taking one selfie every day of his life since the age of 12 and who has just fashioned them into an incredible new video that shows him maturing at an astonishing pace.
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