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Sure, Android Pay started its slow rollout last week, but with Google's staged distribution you probably didn't have it yet. Now, the Android team has announced it's officially available on Google Play, so if you live in the US, you should have it...

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Amazon has announced three new tablets as part of the new Fire series (notice the dropped 'Kindle' from the name). There is the new Fire HD, the Fire, and the Fire Kids Edition. The Fire HD is the most expensive model and comes in two sizes, 8-inch and 10.1-inch. Both tablets have a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. The tablet runs on an unspecified quad-core 1.5GHz chipset, has a new thin and light body that is also said to be 2X more durable than the iPad Air 2, stereo speakers with Dolby Audio, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, new Fire OS 5 "Bellini" based on Android Lollipop, that looks quite similar to stock Android with Material Design, 5 megapixel rear camera and HD front camera, microSD support, and 8 hours of battery life. The Fire HD 8 will be available in 8 and 16GB and the Fire HD 10 in 16 and 32GB. The Fire HD 8 starts at $149.99 and the Fire HD 10 at $229.99. Both are available in black, magenta, blue, and tangerine. Next is the Fire, which is Amazon's cheapest tablet. Starting at just $49.99, the Fire has a 7-inch 1024x600 resolution IPS display, quad-core 1.3GHz processor, 8GB internal memory with microSD support, 2 megapixel rear camera with VGA front camera, Wi-Fi 802.11n, 7 hours of battery life, and Fire OS "Bellini". The Fire Kids Edition is essentially the Fire in a kid-proof case and free two-year 'no questions asked' replacement guarantee if your kid still manages to break it. There's also a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited access thrown in for good measure. All this comes at just $99.99. Source 1 • Source 2 • Source...

Last night, the Dallas Morning News reported an odd story. A teenager in Irving, TX brought a homemade electronics project to school, and while his engineering teacher called it "really nice," after another teacher saw it the police got involved. H...

Two years ago, iRobot got rid of bristles with the Roomba 880. Now, the company is making its iconic vacuum cleaning robot even smarter with the Roomba 980, which it claims is the first Roomba to "combine adaptive navigation with visual localizatio...

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Works with hundreds of pre-existing IoT devices like Hue and Nest

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Photo credit: Newspress/Land Rover Land Rover has released a pedal car version of its classic Defender, but it retails at a staggering £10,000. Whilst unlikely to grace many children's stockings this Christmas, the mini off-roader is aimed at collectors. continue reading

There have been plenty of security holes involving mobile device lock screens, but a recently discovered Android flaw may give you more reasons than usual to be cautious. The technique bypasses the lock screen on most versions of Android Lollipop...

Britain wants to be at the forefront of driverless car technology, so it's funding a handful of research projects that will look at different vehicle designs and how people react to them. One of those initiatives, led by Transport Systems Catapult...

For all of those times when "liking" a pal's Facebook post just doesn't seem appropriate, it seems you'll soon have another option. During a Q&A session today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social network is indeed working on a "dislike" bu...

Boeing has announced that the first satellite using fully-electric propulsion has begun operating. Dubbed the ABS-3A, this 4,300-pound telecommunications satellite will provide C- and Ku-band service to South America, the Middle East and Africa. Un...

The barrage has started. Volkswagen opened up the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show with a number of exciting plug-in vehicle concepts. The Audi entrant, one of the few we had hints of before the show started, is a "sporty" electric SUV called the E-Tron...

Porsche might not be saying it directly, but anyone taking even a quick glance can see the Germans are taking aim at Tesla with the freshly unveiled Mission E concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show. With over 590 horsepower, this electric sedan doesn'...

Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with Mozilla and Cisco launched an initiative called "Let's Encrypt" that promised to hand out free certificates anyone can use. Today, the team has released its first one -- it's only available t...

Two more singers have been confirmed as guests on the new <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=46&bandname=Avantasia>Avantasia</a> record in the works. On January 29th, the band's 7th studio album <i>Ghostlights</i> will hit the stores. After Jørn Lande, other guest stars have been announced: <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=7758&bandname=Operation%3A+Mindcrime>Operation: Mindcrime</a> vocalist Geoff Tate as well as former <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=123&bandname=Helloween>Helloween</a> and current <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=6379&bandname=Unisonic>Unisonic</a> vocalist Michael Kiske. Michael Kiske will not only appear on the album, he will also join <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=46&bandname=Avantasia>Avantasia</a> on the <i>Ghostlights</i> world tour 2016. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=27485>Read more...</a>

Production began this week on the new CW series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and the first photo has now been revealed of two of the show's heroes - Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

You can check out the image below, showing Falk Hentschel and Ciara Renee in their full costumes as the DC Comics characters - albeit without their trademark wings.

Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée) in DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

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Virtual reality has officially become mainstream, as an Emmy has been awarded to a work created for a VR headset (the Oculus Rift DK2) for the first time. The Sleepy Hollow Virtual Reality Experience (below), co-produced by Fox and Toronto-based Se...

If you never trusted your luggage lock much to begin with, then you're going to warily look at it in suspicion from now on. Some security enthusiasts took that photo of TSA's master baggage keys that The Washington Post published and turned them in...

Playing video games and enjoying the outdoors don't have to be mutually exclusive. Various creative minds have come up with ways to take gaming into real-world environments. Why chill at the crib when you could be out driving a real-life Mario Kart...

Why does a company famous for making guitar amps decide to make a phone? The Marshall brand realized clinging to its rock heritage won't serve it forever. That's why it already moved into headphones and Bluetooth speakers -- modern day lifestyle pr...

If you're the outdoorsy type, you might have already seen petrified sand dunes in person (in Utah, for instance) -- the photo above, however, isn't of a desert here on Earth. It's an image stitched together using several shots captured on August 27...

The opening of Illumination Entertainment’s Minions in China has nudged the film’s global box office total to USD$1.08 billion, reports The Wrap. This sees Minions edge past Toy Story 3’s global box office total of USD$1.06 billion and become the second highest-grossing animated movie of all time, behind 2013’s Frozen (USD$1.27 billion).

Minions collected USD$20.1 million in box office receipts during its debut in China over the weekend. The Wrap notes this is almost 50 per cent higher than the Chinese opening for Despicable Me 2.

Either way, it appears to have gone a lot better than its opening in Ireland.

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Sony has revealed the mirrorless full-frame Alpha A7s II, the successor to one of its most unusual cameras. The original Alpha A7s carried a maximum 409,600 max ISO setting, allowing images to be captured in near darkness. The new model fixes the b...

The only thing that's changed is everything. Apple's iPhone 6s/6s Plus marketing slogan is about as true as they come. Certainly more believable than that other catch phrase "most advanced smartphones in the world". Only, the changes being advertised are about as new to a smartphone as the wheel is to human kind. Apple's list kicks off with 3D Touch, and we're inclined to vote that one in its favor. Originally conceived as Force Touch (even senior VP of software Craig Federighi let his tongue slip once at yesterday's keynote), it was already introduced on the latest MacBook Pro and Apple Watch. Sure, there were developments in the field years ago by Synaptics, but they never made it to mass production. And though Apple was rumored for months to be working on the feature for this generation iPhone, the company was still beaten to market by Chinese heavyweights Huawei with the Mate S and ZTE with the Axon Mini. Obviously, those two won't come anywhere near the iPhone 6s sales, but timing robbed Apple from being first on this one. 7000 series aluminum we haven't seen used on a smartphone, and bicycle frames are the first thing that comes to mind, though Apple does quote the aerospace industry as the primary customer. Either way, the aluminum-zinc alloy must be pretty strong. Whether other phone manufacturers don't go into specifics on the matter, or Apple is actually the only one to use it, we can't know. The truth is, not a word would have been heard on the precise type of alloy, had Apple designed a proper frame for the previous generation that negates the effect of stress concentration around the button cutouts. Sapphire crystal was the next big thing to stand between your display and the adverse outer world, Apple would have had you believe until a while ago. Then the world intervened and Sapphire turned out not to be so easy to manufacture on the scale Apple needed it, so double ion exchange glass is the next next big thing. Which, for all we know, is to be found on the non-S iPhone 6, too. How exactly the 2nd generation Touch ID is different from the first is unclear. It worked pretty great from the get go, and there was so little room for improvement, that the only PR statement this year is that it's twice as fast. We don't buy it. The "incredible, all-new" 12MP iSight camera is perhaps the easiest target for mockery, and not because it's bad. We haven't tested it yet for obvious reasons, but we expect it to be every bit as good as it's advertised. It's just that it took Apple years to acknowledge that the world has moved on from the state it was in 2011, when the iPhone 4s debuted the 8MP camera that stayed on for 4 generations iPhones. Not to mention that the Nokia N8 already had a 12MP camera a year before said iPhone, yet a year later than the Samsung Pixon12, all the way back in 2009. And that doesn't even graze the fact that you can buy a brand-name Chinese phone with a more than capable 12MP camera for a tenth of the price of an iPhone 6s. That is, an iPhone 6s that makes any sense, meaning a 64GB version, but that's an entirely different issue. And how about 4K video recording. Qualcomm brought the feature to prominence with the Snapdragon 800, which made it to market two years ago with the likes of the Nokia Lumia 1520 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3. You could argue that Apple didn't anticipate the competition was working on 2160p recording (hard to imagine them being so oblivious) and had no time to react on the iPhone 5s. Why not then do something for the iPhone 6? Oh, it didn't have the necessary pixels on the 8MP sensor, which it had to use for a fourth generation in a row. The front FaceTime camera is now a 5MP unit, Apple is keeping up with the times in this respect. Yes, there are 13MP front shooters, but they tend to be installed in midrange devices and flagships are more conservative. The Retina Flash feature, which fires up the display to assist in the darkest shootng conditions, sounds familiar, though. Could it be that we've seen it before, perhaps on the LG G Pro 2, to name one? And that one had it in its native camera app, but there are countless apps both in the Google Play store and the Apple App Store that do more or less the same thing. Though if front flash photography was all that important to Apple, an actual front flash would have...

Coffee, pens, non-existent free WiFi, and USB sticks are the four spirit animals of any tech show. But what if a company wants you to be happy before you've got your cup of morning sunshine? That's DigitalSTROM's gambit, using its sensors and Int...

The latest installment in Marvel's on-going Netflix original series slate is set to arrive this fall. The first season of Jessica Jones will stream in its entirety on November 20th. The new series stars Krysten Ritter (Big Eyes, Veronica Mars) in t...

The Russian auto market is struggling recently, and falling energy prices aren't helping the country's oil industry, either. With the economy looking somewhat uncertain, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is taking a baby step toward a greener future b...