Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Why the Mini NES is Nintendo's best idea in years (hands-on) and other top stories.

  • Why the Mini NES is Nintendo's best idea in years (hands-on)

    Why the Mini NES is Nintendo's best idea in years (hands-on)
    I got to play with what will probably be one of the biggest toys of the holiday season, and it's made by Nintendo. It also costs just $60, £50 or AU$100.The NES Classic Edition isn't a unique idea. This teeny little replica NES with 30 preloaded 8-bit Nintendo games is a riff on the "retro game in a box" product that's been showing up for years at Target and Urban Outfitters. Sega, Atari...but not Nintendo. Not till now.Nintendo's finally realizing that its best retro games should be bundled and..
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  • Tapping into photo history, the £449 Kodak Ektra smartphone puts camera mechanics front and center

    Tapping into photo history, the £449 Kodak Ektra smartphone puts camera mechanics front and center
    In a week where there has been much talk about a new phone vying to have world’s best smartphone camera, another device focused on photos called the Kodak Ektra is also making its public debut (after being teased earlier this month). Launching today in the UK and initially available only in Europe for £449 ($550), the Ektra is hoping to attract photo enthusiasts — in its case by tapping into one of the more iconic brands of the medium, Kodak’s 1940s Ektra camera, alongside some more modern bel..
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  • Google's Android Pay mobile wallet arrives in Hong Kong

    Google's Android Pay mobile wallet arrives in Hong Kong
    Google's Android Pay is now available in Hong Kong. Google Android Pay, Google's mobile payments service for phones running the OS, arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday.The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 5,000 retail locations in Hong Kong, including 7-Eleven, Circle K, McDonald's and Fortress, Google said in a statement. The search giant's latest a..
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  • [ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News

    [ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News
    Artist’s concept of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter firing its main engine to enter orbit around Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A European-built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown. Both spacecraft — part of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program — reached Mars around the same time Wednes..
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  • Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?

    Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?
    Enlarge this image Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Haslam/Nature hide caption toggle caption M.Haslam/Nature Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Hasla..
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  • Watch this autonomous Tesla drive from home to work on its own

    Watch this autonomous Tesla drive from home to work on its own
    Tesla announced Wednesday evening that all Tesla cars made from now on will have all the hardware they need on board to achieve full self-driving (though autonomous software will rollout later, with a cross-country demo planned for the end of 2017). Tesla’s already doing its own early testing, of course, and the video above shows a vehicle with fully autonomous capabilities navigating city and freeway streets with apparent ease. The Tesla takes itself out of the garage, leaves the city, takes ..
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  • LeEco who? Meet China's Apple-Samsung-Netflix-Tesla mashup

    LeEco who? Meet China's Apple-Samsung-Netflix-Tesla mashup
    LeEco will offer a whole universe of products and services. James Martin/CNET LeEco thinks of itself as the single source for all things tech.In its home country of China, LeEco is just that, delivering movies it produces on phones and televisions it makes, and hosting e-commerce and streaming sports sites on its own cloud service."If you were to take Apple, Amazon, Paramount Pictures, Tesla, Uber and Netflix and..
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  • Will new MacBooks finally make it easier to pick the perfect Apple laptop?

    Will new MacBooks finally make it easier to pick the perfect Apple laptop?
    Now that invites for the October 27 Apple event have seen sent out, there's much speculation about what we will, and won't, see from a purported new generation of MacBook Pro laptops. Thus far, the generally agreed-upon predictions -- as rounded up by Macrumors -- are:New MacBook Pros with a thinner, lighter design and a secondary touchscreen at the top of the keyboard. That tiny screen is said to be replacing the function key row and providing context-based commands -- different "soft" buttons ..
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  • Apple lawsuit says 90 percent of 'official' chargers sold on Amazon are fake

    Apple lawsuit says 90 percent of 'official' chargers sold on Amazon are fake
    Ever had to buy a new Apple charger from Amazon? Well beware even those labelled as the genuine article — according to a recent lawsuit filed by Apple, 90 percent of them are fake. The iPhone-maker is currently suing a company named Mobile Star LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the firm has been passing off counterfeit Apple chargers as the real thing. PatentlyApple has posted the text of the lawsuit, in which Apple reports buying a number of Mobile Star's chargers from Amazon. As t..
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