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Samsung made a Batman-inspired Galaxy S7 Edge

By Nick Statt 11

Vietnam blocked access to Facebook during Obama visit this week

By Nick Statt

This might be Lenovo's new Droid

By Jacob Kastrenakes 15

Samsung announces the Galaxy C5 and C7

Micah Singleton May 26, 2016 05:04 pm4 hours ago

Samsung has launched two new mid-range devices in China, the Galaxy C5 and C7. If that branding doesn't sound familiar, it shouldn't — the Galaxy C line is a brand-new series of smartphones from Samsung....

China only

HTC is developing its own virtual reality game for the Vive

Nick Statt May 26, 2016 04:24 pm5 hours ago 1

HTC is developing a virtual reality game for its Vive headset called Front Defense, and the company plans on demoing it at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan next week. Little is known about the...

A shooter called Front Defense

Is that colored E Ink?!

Ashley Carman May 26, 2016 04:49 pm4 hours ago 12

I was just getting used to a colorless E Ink world. My eyes accepted the tradeoff between seeing in color and being blinded, and seeing in black and white and feeling at ease while staring at a screen for...

Wowee

Google wins Oracle copyright fight over Android code

Russell Brandom May 26, 2016 04:22 pm5 hours ago 42

Today, a jury in California's Northern District federal court declared that Google's use of copyright-protected code in Android was fair use, freeing it of any liability. Oracle, which controls the...

The API was found to be fair use

Paperlike is an E Ink monitor for your PC

By Ashley Carman 6

MSI built a computer into a backpack so you can walk around in VR

By Jacob Kastrenakes 11

DJI drones can now stream to Facebook Live, so we flew one over a beach in Croatia

Jacob Kastrenakes May 26, 2016 02:38 pm7 hours ago 1

DJI updated its iOS app yesterday to allow its drones to stream to Facebook Live, after announced plans to do so earlier this week. With the feature now out for everyone, we figured we'd try it out. And...

To beautiful results

Theranos hit with second class action lawsuit, one day after the first

Arielle Duhaime-Ross May 26, 2016 02:29 pm7 hours ago 4

Theranos was hit with a second class action lawsuit today — one day after an angry customer filed the first.

"The company will vigorously defend itself." Brooke Buchanan, Theranos

Google's Nexus 9 tablet has been discontinued

Jacob Kastrenakes May 26, 2016 02:08 pm7 hours ago 72

Just days after the end of the Nexus Player, Google is saying goodbye to another piece of hardware: the Nexus 9. CNET reports that HTC, which collaborated on and manufactured the flagship tablet, said it...

There's still the Pixel C

AudioQuest's NightHawk headphones sound as beautiful as they look

 read the review

Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay a massive internet cable across the Atlantic

Nick Statt May 26, 2016 01:55 pm7 hours ago 3

Facebook and Microsoft announced a partnership today to lay the highest-capacity subsea internet cable to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean, starting with hubs connecting Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain....

A 4,100-mile cable capable of 160 terabits per second

Here's why that 'leaked' Gear VR controller makes no sense

Adi Robertson May 26, 2016 12:57 pm8 hours ago 16

Earlier today, the Czech site Samsung Mania published what they claimed were leaked renders of a new controller for the Samsung Gear VR headset. The accessory would be made by Samsung's partner Oculus and...

Please, just don't

Huawei is trying to endear itself to Europeans with a 60-day return policy

Ashley Carman May 26, 2016 12:43 pm9 hours ago 3

Huawei wants Europeans to use its Honor phones, so it's going to let them buy either an Honor 5X or 7 for 60 days with a money-back guarantee. If they decide to return the phone, Huawei will pick it up for...

Look at that return policy!

Hyundai models are getting Android Auto and CarPlay with a DIY update

Chris Ziegler May 26, 2016 12:02 pm9 hours ago 22

Hyundai just announced a bunch of updates to some of its 2015, 2016, and 2017 models that let owners add support for Android Auto and CarPlay at no additional cost — and even better, there's no trip to the...

No dealer trip needed

Apple considered buying Time Warner, but it never got serious

Chris Welch May 26, 2016 11:50 am9 hours ago 20

Apple's Eddy Cue floated the idea of a massive acquisition of Time Warner during a meeting with one of the latter company's executives. That's according to a new report from the Financial Times, which...

Tim Cook wasn't involved in talks
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