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Earlier this week, we reported on Best Buy’s highly unusual move to slap a $100 premium on the already-expensive iPhone X. The company defended this profit-taking attempt by framing it as a positive, arguing its customers somehow benefited from paying an extra $100 for a high-end iPhone. At the time, …

Microsoft offered Windows users a free upgrade to Windows 10 back when the operating system was released. In fact, Microsoft was so insistent people take the free upgrade it came under fire for essentially tricking people into installing it. The official free upgrade offer has been over for more than …

One of the largest challenges companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google face is persuading people that using the cloud and sharing data with corporations in this fashion isn’t an attempt to gain access to and control more and more user data. Google Docs users got an uncomfortable look at the …

Amazon today is introducing a new feature called AR View that lets customers visualize online products in their own living space, using their smartphone camera. Launched today in the Amazon app for iOS devices, AR View offers the ability to view thousands of products for the home or office – …

Twitter’s Periscope is going after live broadcasters in a big way, as it’s now promising to give back more of their earnings from the sales of Super Hearts in their live video streams. Introduced in June, Super Hearts are in-app virtual goods that offer a form of virtual tipping. The …

Giving a live tech demo is a hair-raising opportunity for the universe to punish you for whatever karmic misdeeds you may have committed in this or any other life. No matter how well a demo works on your home PC or private laptop, running it in front of more than …

NASA built 4 six-foot, 290-pound, Iron man-like pieces of equipment named Valkyrie, at the cost of about $2 million each, and after that outsourced three of them to universities to test the robotic’s capabilities in various hostile environments.In 2015 Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Scotland’s University of Edinburgh …

Yamaha has just put a humanoid robot on among its bikes and pitted it versus Valentino Rossi, a professional rider. The robot didn’t win, however it’s remarkable that it might ride at all.Feast your eyes: What’s striking is that the bike is unmodified: the robot is a hunched-over type on …

The First Impression of the iPhone X The First Impression of the iPhone X Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The First Impression of the iPhone X Justin Sullivan/Getty Images How do you show off the most awaited item in years? That was my predicament with the iPhone X. Since my system was …

Apple’s iPhone X review embargo lifted today, and opinions from various sites have started to come in. The consensus, generally speaking, is that the iPhone X is a major revamp that hits far more often than it misses, though there’s an important caveat here: Apple appears to have seeded the …