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GADGET DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Gadget Ogling: Smart Wine, Wooly Sound and a Clever Light Bulb

Welcome to Gadget Dreams And Nightmares, a peek at the latest products to sneak out of consumer electronics labs ...

GADGET DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Gadget Ogling: Amazon on Fire, Virtual Reality, True Nature and Energy Relief

Welcome to a weekly look at the latest gadget offerings scrabbling for our hard-earned money in Gadget Dreams and Nightmares ...

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Gadget Ogling: It’s Raining Apples

It's usually around here that I introduce the column and tease the agenda, but since absolutely nothing happened in the gadget world this week, I'm going to take it easy ...

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Gadget Ogling: Curves and Edges, Toasty Toes, Smart Charger and Dumb Wearables

Welcome to the latest installment of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, a weekly look at just-announced personal tech items. There's plenty on the menu this time around: Samsung's latest smartphone and tablet salvo; two pieces of smart, on-the-go tech; some curved home entertainment options; and wearable devices from an unlikely source ...

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Gadget Ogling: Sapphire Phones, Waterproof Reads, Connected Hats and a Runner’s Salvation

Welcome to my Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, a look at just-announced gizmos that caught my eye. This week, we'll take a peek at the latest example of a smartphone trend, a noisy hat, a safer e-reader, and possibly the most useful piece of wearable fitness tech yet. ...

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Gadget Ogling: A New Nook, a Good (M8), a Lock With No Key – and Music, Music, Music

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, a column that takes a look at some new gadgets that are not yet released or have just hit the shelves ...

Facebook Staring at Fresh Privacy Class Action

Facebook is set for another legal battle over privacy, with a fresh class-action lawsuit fired up against the company ...

Internet.org Hands Out Free Samples in Zambia

The Internet.org collective's mission of bringing the entire planet online took a step forward Thursday with the release of an app affording limited free mobile Internet access to users in Zambia ...

Microsoft Sends Cortana to Far-Flung Corners of the Earth

Microsoft is preparing to debut an update to its Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, which includes expansion of its Cortana personal assistant availability to more regions ...

OkCupid’s Confessed Hijinks Get Thumbs-Down

OkCupid has admitted carrying out psychological experiments on its users ...

Stanford Researchers Build a Better Battery

A new way to extend battery life would allow smartphones to last three to four times longer on a single charge, Stanford University researchers have found ...

Google May Give YouTube a Sibling

Google apparently is adding another prominent streaming video service to nestle alongside YouTube in its stable. It reportedly has acquired Twitch for around US$1 billion ...

Twitter’s ‘D’ in Diversity Reflects Broader Industry Failure

Like many other tech companies, Twitter is largely made up of white, male employees, pointing to a lack of diversity in the industry ...

Amazon Fire Phone Wins Respect, if Not Raves

Early reviews for Amazon's first foray into the smartphone market are mixed, with a general sense that the device is a good phone overlaid with some flashy features ...

Nvidia’s Shield Tablet Earns Praise for Hardware, Shrugs for Games

Nvidia is expanding its Shield line of gaming products with the launch of a gaming tablet and accompanying wireless controller ...

China’s Internet: It’s Not Personal, It’s Business

The Internet adoption rate in China appears to be slowing, based on a report that shows the lowest six-month increase in the number of Internet users in eight years ...

‘Buy’ Button Could Turn Facebook Into Impulse-Shopping-Ville

Facebook is testing a function that would allow users to buy products without leaving the site or app ...

Social Robot Jibo Melts Crowdfunders’ Hearts

A crowdfunding campaign forJibo, a little robot designed to become one of the family, kicked off Wednesday on Indiegogo, and with 29 days remaining, it already has raised more than US$577,000 -- nearly six times its $100,000 target. ...

Down the EU’s Right-to-Be-Forgotten Rabbit Hole

Telecom regulators from each European Union member state, together with the Article 29 Working Party -- a group comprised of a data protection authority representative from each state, the European Data Protection Supervisor, and the European Commission -- have invited search engines to a meeting next week, according to a Thursday report in The Wall Street Journal.

Dish’s Hopper DVR Is No Aereo

Dish Network this week chalked up another victory in the courts for its Hopper digital video recording service ...

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