2008’s 700MHz auction was very good for AT&T and Verizon but not so good for its competitors. Granted, Sprint and T-Mobile have themselves to blame for the outcome of that hugely important spectrum auction since they didn’t make bids in it, but it’s also the case that the smaller carriers are financially outgunned by the wireless industry’s two biggest players. Now the two carriers are teaming up with Dish, several rural wireless carriers and public interest groups such as Public Knowledge to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself with the upcoming auction for spectrum on the 600MHz band.

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After abandoning the big screen for an entire year, Pixar is back with not one, but two original feature length films in 2015. Inside Out will hit theaters in just a few weeks, and then in November, the studio will return with The Good Dinosaur, a project which lost its first director two years ago.

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Apple’ Retina MacBook and Google’s newest Chromebook come with a new USB Type-C port that can be used both for charging purposes and for file transfers. Of the companies adopting USB-C ports so far, Apple made the boldest move yet by packing just the one port on its new 12-inch laptop. However, the USB-C port is here to stay, and it’s only getting better.

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If you’ve owned a PlayStation 4 since launch day, there’s a decent chance you’ve hit a wall when it comes to internal storage. 500GB might sound like a lot, but when the average triple-A game can take up 30-40GB, space vanishes quickly. Sony has made it possible for users to manually replace their hard drives, but if that sounds like too much of a hassle, it might be worth waiting on an official 1TB model.

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YouTube has been toying with a sleek new design for its video player interface for quite some time, but only a select few had been able to try it. Then, people discovered a reasonably simple hack of sorts that let them force the new player UI to appear by using an editor to manually make some changes to the cookie YouTube plants in your browser cache. Of course, most people had no interest in editing their cookies in order to see the new UI.

Well guess what: YouTube has finally made it easy for anyone and everyone to check out the new video player interface before it’s released to the general public.

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Microsoft spent a massive amount of time and resources trying to create a platform that would suit desktop computers and mobile devices perfectly. With Windows 8, it ended up failing pretty colossally on both counts. Windows 10 will see Microsoft try to dial back the crazy new features in an effort to calm the storm brought about by Windows 8, but there are probably still people out there who are looking for a solid mobile experience in the Windows environment.

The answer, as it turns out, may simply be Android.

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One of the “problems” with the Nexus 6, other than the gigantic screen, is that it was surprisingly expense compared to past Nexus models. However, Android fans reluctant to pay full sticker price for the high-end handset should know that Google and its partners are currently running a special deal on both Nexus 6 models.

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SanDisk recently announced brand-new solid-state drives (SSD) that are as cheap as regular hard disk drives (HDD), but the company has even more interesting memory products you should know about, including the “world’s highest-performing portable SSD” and the “world’s smallest 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive.”

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Amazon is making its ubiquitous online marketplace even more attractive by offering free shipping on small orders — even for costumers who aren’t subscribed to Amazon Prime. Bloomberg reports that thousands of items, including makeup, mobile phone accessories and earplugs, will all ship for free without a minimum order requirement.

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Everyone has a hobby. Some people like to play recreational sports, others prefer to go fishing, but did you know there are creative types out there building enormous contraptions in which thousands of marbles roll along tracks while making an ungodly amount of noise? It’s true, and we’ve got the footage to prove it.

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