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The Future of Typing Appears to be Fading
Typing words is becoming less of a challenge, and a Dallas typing instructor believes mobile technology is taking the skill out of keyboarding.
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Facebook Reveals All-New News Feed
In its biggest design change since unveiling the Timeline in 2011, Facebook announced and unveiled a radically redesigned News Feed today during a special press event. But how will users respond?
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Fork Created to Help You Watch What You Eat [VIDEO]
January 11, 2013 Studies show that an average of 35% of Americans are either obese or overweight. This includes people of every age ranging from children to the elderly. And no matter how old you are, losing weight and watching what you eat is not easy. Well a company called HapiLabs has just released a fork that's whole purpose is to track what you're eating.
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Revolutionary ‘Paper Tablet’ — The Windows Tablet and iPad Have Some Amazing Competition [VIDEO, POLL]
The days of the old PC computer that take up an entire desk with the huge monitor, gigantic modem, keyboard, and mouse are quickly fading away. With the introduction of the iPad and Windows Tablet, the world of technology took a giant leap towards the future of computing. But, this 'Paper Tablet' is teleporting us to a Jetsons kind of world.
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Mother Buys Son an iPhone — With an 18-Point Catch
What this Massachusetts mother did was awesome. We need more moms like her. Janell Hoffman's 13-year-old son wanted an iPhone for Christmas, and she thought he deserved it. But she didn't hand it over until he signed an 18-point agreement plan.
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911 Butt Dials Are a Growing Problem
October 15, 2012 9-1-1 false alarms are nothing new. We've heard of kids dialing 9-1-1 when there's no emergency, and Kidd Kraddick has shared some gems with us in the past about people calling emegency dispatchers for all the wrong reasons.
But have you ever been driving on the The Loop in Tyler and accidently butt-dialed 9-1-1? In the age where everyone has a smart phone that's always at the ready, accidental pocket-dials to emergency officials are a growing problem.
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Outrage? Verizon Wireless Killing Unlimited Data Plans [POLL]
Verizon Wireless announced today its plans to get rid of its unlimited data plan that was grandfathered to previous users in favor of “tiered” data plans — and Verizon subscribers are NOT happy about it.
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Research Finds Young People Can’t Live Without a Smartphone
A new Nielsen poll finds smartphones are becoming less of a luxury and more of a so-called necessity — at least for younger people.
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There Will Soon Be More Cell Phones Than People in the World
Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.
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Police Pay a Visit to Dad Who Shot His Daughter’s Laptop
Ever since he filmed himself shooting his daughter’s laptop with a .45 handgun, opinions have been sharply divided over Tommy Jordan’s brand of extreme parenting. In fact, someone who disagrees with his methods called police to his North Carolina home. But instead of arresting him, cops offered their thanks.
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6 of the Worst Tech Predictions of All Time
Predictions about technology are notoriously tough to make. Still, the experts and visionaries often get it right — but when they don’t, they get it colossally wrong. Here are some of history’s most famously bungled insights made by tech giants and industry bigwigs, as rounded-up by Scientific American.
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Megaupload Founder Arrested, Found Hiding With Shotgun
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested earlier this week, just after the site was shut down by the Department of Justice — but he didn’t go down without a fight. Police officers found Dotcom, real name Kim Schmitz, hiding in a safe room in his home with a loaded shotgun in hand.