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Google’s Nest Mini smart speaker usually costs $50, but Daily Steals is offering an exclusive deal to Verge readers that bundles two speakers for about the same price. Just put in the offer code VERGENST at checkout. You have a choice of colors, including sky blue, chalk, charcoal, or coral.

This model looks identical to the Home Mini, but it’s different in a few key ways, per The Verge’s review: it sounds better than the predecessor, it can be easily mounted to your wall, and its controls are much easier to use, thanks to LEDs illuminating the way around the speaker’s various functions.

It’s been a while since there’s been a price drop worth talking about on SanDisk’s 400GB microSD card. But there’s good reason to talk...

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In the first part of the article series you could read how a kickstart file made the installation of Oracle Linux 7 a lot more bearable. In this part of the series it’s all about configuring the operating system. The installation of Grid Infrastructure and the Oracle database is for another set of posts. There […]

George Orwell's 1984 feels as — if not more — relevant than ever, and it looks like it may soon be adapted into a new movie. Deadline reports that there are early discussions at Sony Pictures to have Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass take on the adaption of Orwell's dystopian novel. Greengrass is supposed to be working on another Bourne film with Matt Damon soon, however, so it's not clear exactly when 1984 would start moving closer to the screen.

With revelations continuing to come out about government surveillance, George Orwell's 1984 really does feel as apt as ever, which may speak to the new interest in it. Deadline reports that this would be the first remake of 1984 since the year 1984, and it...

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Huawei announced today that it has signed an agreement with Russian mobile operator MegaFon to develop and deploy 5G trial networks in time for the 2018 World Cup. The deal between the Chinese telecom company and the Russian mobile service focuses on standardizing 5G technology, determining the requirements to build a 5G network and creating a team to conduct trials and provide coverage at the 2018 tournament in Russia. Pilot projects should be completed by the end of June 2017. Ryan Ding, president of Huawei products and solutions, said, “With the help of MegaFon, we are confident of turning science-fiction-like service into...

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Memes are so damn clever at capturing emotion and feeling that they're pretty much the clearest way to communicate on the Internet. Need to explain your disappointment in something? Throw up that facepalm. And though most pop culture junkies can figure out where most memes and image macros come from, this video shows the exact source and scene of the movie where some of the Internet's most famous memes came from. It's like seeing the Internet come to life.

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