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“5G Playground” Opens the Door for Warp Speeds
Internet connection speeds have been somewhat of a hot topic over the last decade or so, consumers who demand ever-increasing speeds while internet service providers have been particularly lagging in certain regions of the world. Well, researchers who are developing new super-super-fast standard 5G mobile technologies have what has been described…
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Samsung Rumoured to be Releasing Folding Screen Smartphone in January
Samsung is reportedly releasing a new smartphone with a foldable display, possibly as early as January 2016. The report comes courtesy of SamMobile, a Samsung news blog with a good track record of providing accurate information. According to SamMobile’s Chinese source, Samsung will offer the foldable display smartphone in two…
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Meet the Robot That Won $2 Million in the Darpa Robotics Challenge
In Pomona, California on Friday and Saturday, some of the greatest robotic engineers gathered together to compete for a £2 million prize in a competition run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to find the most advanced robot in the world. The two-day event pitted 24 teams…
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Samsung Rumoured to Start Making Chips for Nvidia
A week ago, Samsung reportedly won a contract to make chips for Apple’s upcoming iPhones using their latest 14nm FinFET technology. However, it seems that the South Korean manufacturer has been busy scooping up more contracts in the meantime. The latest points to a “few million dollars” contract between Samsung…
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Samsung Unveils 6.3mm-Thick Galaxy A7 Smartphone
Put the speculation to bed: Samsung have confirmed that the Galaxy A7 smartphone is real, and it’s the South Korean company’s thinnest model yet, measuring just 6.3mm in thickness. The news was announced during the unveiling of the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 phones in Malaysia on Friday. The Galaxy…
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South Korea Planning 10Gbps Internet!
Tired of slow internet connections? Or perhaps current ultra-fast connections in your own country just don’t seem as amazing as they used to? Move to South Korea! The country is about to blow the competition away with the promise of 10Gbps fiber internet. To put that into perspective, you could…
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Information Regarding Samsung’s VR Headset Revealed
While Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus are virtual reality projects everybody knows and anxiously await, Samsung has its own plans. The difference is, Samsung is apparently keeping it on the low with information about what the company is working on. This does not stop leaks and clues from surfacing it…
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Asia Reported To Be The Leading Place For Top-Speed Internet Connectivity
Study shows that the fastest internet connection, in the world, is in Asia. Latest study from Akamai Technologies, Asia is considered the epicentre for top-speed Internet access, having Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore as the top 4 on the list. Akami states that most of Asia improved their…
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‘Movie in a split second’ Downloads Expected In Upcoming 5G Network Connection
South Korea is reportedly working on delivering 5G network connection by 2020. This comes as a $1.5 billion dollar project from the South Korean science ministry, which is said that users will be able to download a movie in a split second through the 5G connection. “We helped fuel national…
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Samsung Will Reveal Tizen OS 3.0 On November 11th
The Tizen OS is essentially a WebKit runtime running on top of the open source Linux Kernel, developed with key industry players like Intel, Samsung and the Linux Foundation. So far in 2013 it has popped up a few times, first we saw a full HD Tizen tablet released by Systena and…
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LG Reveal Vu 3 Handset With 5.2 Inch 1280 x 960 Display
LG’s native South Korean division has just launched the third handset in their Vu series of smartphones. The LG Vu 3 (which drops the Optimus from the naming scheme) is LG’s attempt at competing in the large smartphone market segment. The Vu 3 has a 5.2 inch 1280 x 960…
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Second-Gen Nexus 7 4G LTE Version Now Available On Google Play For $350
Google has just recently made available the second generation Nexus 7 with 4G LTE over at the Google Play Store. If you reside outside the U.S then you actually won’t be able to pick up the Nexus 7 32GB 4G LTE tablet, in South Korea you can grab the 4G…
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Tablet Sales Will Hit 381 Million By 2017 Says Analysts
Forrester Analysts predict that by 2017 we could see 381 million tablets per year sold. They suggest that by 2017 one in eight people on earth will be a table user as existing sales of tablets will mean there will be about 905 million tablets in use. By 2017 they…
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