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We were all impressed by Watson’s trouncing of Jeopardy grandmaster Ken Jennings, a couple of years ago. While the system was designed specifically to compete on the game show, its real world implications are great. Recently IBM announced plans to adapt Watson for healthcare purposes, harnessing its searching and indexing power to keep health care providers…
“We were talking about another company that dropped the e before the r, and we realized we wanted to make Flickr awesome again.” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said before the redesigned Flickr‘s big reveal. Of course she was referring to Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, which we reported on earlier today. But the redesign of Flickr, it’s lovely…
Samsung’s Galaxy Mega 6.3 is coming to the U.K. sometime this July, according to a blog post from U.K. retailer Clove. The 6.3-inch phablet device will be available for a price of £459.99 including VAT, or £383.33 excluding VAT. U.K. customers can now pre-order the device by heading to Clove’s website. The Samsung Galaxy Mega…
Thanks to a leaked photo from @evleaks, it now looks as if LG will be bringing its Optimus F3 to Sprint’s network in the coming weeks. Sprint is also in line to release the Optimus G Pro on its network soon, according to recent leaks reported by Phone Arena. LG’s F-series Optimus devices are mid-range…
The long-time rumored Samsung Galaxy S4 Active has been caught in the wild and you can see how it looks like from the image above. Instead of boasting a plastic body, this model comes in a metallic shell with bolts on the back. Moreover, it has three hardware buttons that replace the “old” capacitive touch…
Shortly before the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4, we had heard that Samsung would be bringing some of the Galaxy S4’s software features to the Galaxy S III. Thanks to a leaked Galaxy S III Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update discovered by SamMobile, it now looks as though Samsung’s promises are becoming a reality.…
We reported last week on the fate of the Nexus Q. The excellent Google Play Music update with all of its streaming content isn’t compatible with the Nexus Q device, effectively making it useless as a media (or at least music) streaming orb and leaving it essentially broken. The Q was introduced at last year’s Google…
Looks like the water- and dust-proof version of the Galaxy S4 won’t have the same guts as the original Galaxy S4. According to the GFX Benchmark site, the upcoming Galaxy S4 Active won’t use either the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 nor Samsung Exynos 5 Octa; rather the Korean giant will opt for Qualcomm’s slower Snapdragon S4…
We knew Samsung is the clear leader in the Android market but now we have numbers to put behind this claim. According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, the Korean company managed to capture an impressive 95% share of $5 billion Android smartphone profits in the first quarter of 2013. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst…
HTC One users may be looking at their Galaxy S4 “colleagues” with a dose of envy. You see, Sammy’s flagship comes with Android 4.2.2 out of box, whereas HTC’s baby is still “stuck” on Android 4.1.2. That, however, could change in the next two to three weeks with the Taiwanese company preparing an update that…