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If there is one topic that has always fascinated me outside of what I normally study, it will have to be time travel. And while the whole concept of time travel is purely theoretical (At least we can say, "What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? It does not matter!"), it does stem from a lot of well proven concepts such as quantum mechanics, and other conjectures that are purely hypothetical, such as the multi world interpretation. Now...

Kingston DataTraveler microDuo 32GB Review (Page 1 of 8)

Have you ever found yourself running through more and more electronics each year? For example, let us look at mobile phones. There was a time when people could actually buy cellphones, use them for a full three years on their contract, and when they were ready to change phones, they would pick a newer model with very similar features or specifications. Sure, one phone may have a full color screen, another with a back-facing camera, or equipped a...

PC market rebound doesn't help AMD's earnings

From PC World: A rebound in the PC market aided Intel's earnings earlier this week, but did not help rival Advanced Micro Devices, which recorded a net loss for the second quarter, even as a shift in its business focus to graphics cards and custom chips boosted revenue.

AMD reported a net loss of...

Amazon rolls out $9.99 Kindle Unlimited monthly subscription

From CNET: Amazon has unveiled a new subscription service dubbed Kindle Unlimited that offers all-you-can-eat e-books and audiobooks for $9.99 per month.

Launched Friday, Kindle Unlimited lets you borrow as many books as you want at a single time from a collection of 600,000 Kindle titles and...

Amazon Launches First Fire Phone TV Spot, Spends 30 Seconds Promoting Prime

From DailyTech: Amazon is just days away from launching its Fire Phone, and in preparation, the internet retailer has just revealed its first TV commercial featuring the smartphone.

What many will find interesting is that while the commercial does actually show the Fire Phone, it doesn’t talk...

SAP sees cloud revenue soar, software sales drop in Q2

From InfoWorld: SAP reported strong growth in cloud revenue in the second quarter, while its software revenue continued to fall, reflecting a shift in the market from on-premises software and services to applications delivered through the cloud on a subscription model.

The business software company...

Microsoft lays off 18,000, including a third of Nokia, in largest-ever job cuts

From PC World: As expected, the axe fell at Microsoft on Thursday, but the depth of the cut is surprisingly brutal: 18,000 Microsoft employees will find themselves without jobs over the next year, and the company is "moving now" to eliminate the first 13,000 positions. The job cuts are by far...

Samsung to return to Apple's chipmaking fold in 2015, report says

From CNET: Samsung will challenge Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, as a supplier of processors to Apple next year, a Reuters report claims.

"TSMC will be supplanted by Samsung" for the production of next-generation 14-nanometer...

HTC One M8 Finally Gets Wi-Fi Calling on Sprint

From DailyTech: Sprint Corp. (S) -- the third largest cellular carrier in the U.S. -- has added support for Wi-Fi calling and HD Voice (wideband audio) for the HTC One M8, the flagship smartphone of Taiwan's HTC Corp. (TPE:2498). The One M8 is one of the top high-end Android phones at Sprint, who...

Mozilla's JPEG compression slims down file sizes

From InfoWorld: Mozilla has released an updated version of its JPEG compression tool that shaves down file sizes by 5 percent, a small figure but one that is significant for image-intensive Web services such as Facebook.

The tool, called mozjpeg 2.0, will ultimately "reduce page load times and...