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Nintendo 3DS sales up 80% year-over-year on Pokémon Go success

Nintendo 3DS sales up 80% year-over-year on Pokémon Go success

By Darrell Etherington Nintendo had a very good month in mobile gaming, according to NPD Group’s latest data. The 3DS won in both hardware and software sales for the analyst firm’s latest tracker report, with the 3DS and its family of systems (including New 3DS, 3DS XL and 2DS devices) up 80 percent for July…

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Whyd announces its voice-controlled connected speaker for $299

Whyd announces its voice-controlled connected speaker for $299

By Romain Dillet French startup Whyd started off as a social network for music lovers but recently announced that it would switch its focus for a hardware project. The company just unveiled this secret hardware project — it’s a high-fidelity connected speaker that combines voice recognition with all music streaming services out there. The company…

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Forget Farmville, Facebook’s new game platform offers real, triple-A games

Forget Farmville, Facebook’s new game platform offers real, triple-A games

By Nick Pino Facebook as a gaming platform just leveled up. The service that once hosted ephemeral favorites as Farmville, Candy Crush and Bejeweled will now host games like Firewatch, Gone Home and Ori and the Blind Forest thanks to a recent partnership with game engine maker Unity. The two struck a deal earlier today…

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Forget Farmville, Facebook’s new game platform offers real, triple-A games

Forget Farmville, Facebook’s new game platform offers real, triple-A games

By Nick Pino Facebook as a gaming platform just leveled up. The service that once hosted ephemeral favorites as Farmville, Candy Crush and Bejeweled will now host games like Firewatch, Gone Home and Ori and the Blind Forest thanks to a recent partnership with game engine maker Unity. The two struck a deal earlier today…

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Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge Update Brings Improvements To Wi-Fi And HD Voice Calls

Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge Update Brings Improvements To Wi-Fi And HD Voice Calls

Verizon Wireless rolled out a new update for its Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge phones, granting better quality for Wi-Fi and HD Voice calls. In the update, clients of the carrier will get better control on data allowance. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Barnes & Noble Unveils New NOOK E-Book Reader: The 7-Inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A

Barnes & Noble Unveils New NOOK E-Book Reader: The 7-Inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A

Barnes & Noble works together with Samsung once again, introducing the new e-book reader that is the Galaxy Tab A NOOK. Here are the details, from the specs and features to the pricing. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Snapdragon vs Exynos Versions: Benchmark Performance Comparison

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Snapdragon vs Exynos Versions: Benchmark Performance Comparison

Samsung released the Galaxy Note 7 in two processing options, but how do the Snapdragon and Exynos flavors stack up against each other? These benchmark tests may offer some clues. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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iPhone 7 Release Date Could Be On Sept. 23, According To AT&T Leak

iPhone 7 Release Date Could Be On Sept. 23, According To AT&T Leak

According to a new leak from AT&T, the iPhone 7 release date might be on Sept. 23. It looks like Apple fans will have to wait about one more week to get their hands on the upcoming smartphone. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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The chips are down: AMD’s Zen set to take on Intel’s Broadwell-E

The chips are down: AMD’s Zen set to take on Intel’s Broadwell-E

By Kevin Lee Intel already has all giddy about the prospect of new seventh generation processor-powered laptops coming later this fall and now AMD says it’s also on track to deliver desktop-grade Zen processors by next year too. Literally a block away from the IDF 2016 conference, AMD unveiled the first official details of its…

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LG G5 Issues Piling Up: Defective Cam Plus Modules, Power Buttons, Gaps In Construction And More

LG G5 Issues Piling Up: Defective Cam Plus Modules, Power Buttons, Gaps In Construction And More

LG G5 owners are filling social media forums with complaints about faulty devices, and some even replaced their handsets several times due to technical issues. Read on and be amazed by the experience some users had with the LG G5. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Review: ZooStorm StormForce Tornado

Review: ZooStorm StormForce Tornado

By Kane Fulton There’s rarely a better time to buy a new pre-built gaming PC than following the launch of a new generation of graphics cards. Pascal is Nvidia’s most interesting GPU architecture in some time, if not ever, representing a true generational leap over its predecessor, Maxwell. 14 Nvidia Pascal laptops to up your…

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Review: ZooStorm StormForce Tornado

Review: ZooStorm StormForce Tornado

By Kane Fulton There’s rarely a better time to buy a new pre-built gaming PC than following the launch of a new generation of graphics cards. Pascal is Nvidia’s most interesting GPU architecture in some time, if not ever, representing a true generational leap over its predecessor, Maxwell. 14 Nvidia Pascal laptops to up your…

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Review: StormForce Tornado

Review: StormForce Tornado

By Kane Fulton There’s rarely a better time to buy a new pre-built gaming PC than following the launch of a new generation of graphics cards. Pascal is Nvidia’s most interesting GPU architecture in some time, if not ever, representing a true generational leap over its predecessor, Maxwell. 14 Nvidia Pascal laptops to up your…

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Review: StormForce Tornado

Review: StormForce Tornado

By Kane Fulton There’s rarely a better time to buy a new pre-built gaming PC than following the launch of a new generation of graphics cards. Pascal is Nvidia’s most interesting GPU architecture in some time, if not ever, representing a true generational leap over its predecessor, Maxwell. 14 Nvidia Pascal laptops to up your…

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New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet

New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet

By Darren Allan Those of you who want to jump on the Pascal bandwagon and grab one of Nvidia’s latest video cards will be pleased to hear that the company has revealed a new cheaper variant of the GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of memory on-board. That’s half of the vanilla card’s 6GB of video…

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