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Sunday night, Ellen DeGeneres officially broke Twitter, for a little while at least. And it was all thanks to the help of Samsung and While hosting the Oscars Sunday night, DeGeneres sauntered up to the front row of the crowd with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in tow. DeGeneres claimed she was going to take…
Kendrick Lamar has just been added to the lineup of Apple’s first music festival, the iTunes Festival which will be held in Austin, TX on March 11-15th. The festival will be held at ACL Live at the Moody Theater. The five-day festival has already gathered a star-studded lineup, which spans every genre from hip-hop to…
The rumored Samsung Huron Windows Phone will be branded as the ATIV SE upon release, according to @evleaks. The Huron, or ATIV SE as it will be known is expected to come touting a 4.3 inch display, 4G LTE, dual-cameras and the usual Samsung sensor array. The device could rock a quad-core Snapdragon processor, as…
Could selfies be leading to an increase in teen lice outbreaks? It’s an interesting proposition, but probably not. A report surfaced a few days back via SFist which claimed that an increase in teen head lice infestations was due in part to the popularity of selfies, particularly of the group variety. That may not be…
Motorola’s MotoMaker is coming to Western Europe and Mexico soon, according to a report from The Verge. This means that for the first time, Moto X owners outside of the U.S. will be able to customize their Moto X smartphones with the number of options that MotoMaker offers. MotoMaker allows Moto X customers to customize…
Project Ara has found itself in the hands of Google after the company sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo this last January. The modular smartphone will be getting its very own developers’ conference in April. The Project Ara developers’ conference will mostly take place online, with a handful developers attending on-site conferences at the Computer…
From the fanciful world of concept designs comes a 10 inch HTC tablet, the HTC Babel. The concept was created by Facebook user Phone Designer, who took HTC’s design aesthetics and rendered a very thin and sleek-looking tablet that can run either Windows or Android. Quite a novel idea, and one that we would love…
Owners of Google Play Edition and Nexus devices running Android KitKat 4.4+ can now download the Google Now Launcher app through the Google Play Store. The app pretty much rolls up Google Now into a nice little launcher, expanding the kind-of creepy service to every square inch of your Android device, no longer tethered to…
Nokia’s line of affordable Android smartphones won’t be landing in the U.S., Canada, Korea and Japan, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday. The Nokia X, X+ and XL are all destined for emerging markets such as India, China, Thailand and Indonesia. The Nokia X will continue to rollout to South American countries and…
Ever wonder how people around the world access the internet? Sure, in most first-world countries, we have cheap and easy access to fast broadband, but there are still some countries that don’t have the luxury of using that 10Mbps connection. A new infographic showing how the world consumes the internet has arrived with some very…