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YouTube hawks ultra-HD 4K videoYouTube will push high-definition 4K video streaming in 2014, but whether Google can actually speed up those massive videos has yet to be seen.
Buying a laptop? Look for Haswell.Intel's new 'Haswell' chip will markedly extend battery life.
LG WebOS TV at CES: Bringing smart-phone tech to TVs?With CES 2014 just around the corner, a new leak from LG shows off a smart TV that weaves in WebOS.
How Walgreens went off the gridWalgreens, Florida bank聽erect buildings that will make their own power.
Motorola Project Ara: Snap together a custom cellphoneMotorola's 'Ara' will give consumers many options.- Do you speak start-up? An entrepreneurial vocab quiz.
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Did that sentence sound like gibberish to you? If you鈥檙e not in the start-up world, it likely would. Start-ups are filled with their own jargon, buzzwords, and colloquialisms popularized by an explosive tech scene and the esoteric communities it functions within. But with many start-ups making an appearance in our daily lives (Facebook, Snapchat, Air BnB) you may know more of the language than you think.
So here is the challenge: can you translate the start-up world to our own? Take this quiz to see if you speak the start-up slang.
Snapchat, Skype each ring in the new year with a hackTwo tech companies found themselves beginning 2014 with cybersecurity threats 鈥� Snapchat and Skype were both hacked earlier this week.
How to grab a screenshot on a Mac, PC, iPhone, and AndroidThere are as many ways to take a screenshot as there are devices.
Has the age of biometrics arrived?Thumbprint, heartbeat, even posterior 'readers' emerge alongside the popular iPhone 5S.聽
Google Now: Answers before you askThe Google Now app peers at your data and offers suggestions.
Rise of the smart watch: Dick Tracy would've loved the PebbleWill the Pebble smart watch spark new app flurry?
Elite team of NSA hackers said to 'get the ungettable' with Bond-style tacticsThe German magazine Der Spiegel reports that an elite team of NSA hackers employes techniques like modifying computer monitor cables to record what is typed on the screen and fitting USB sticks with radio transmitters.- Rap Genius's SEO scheme not so smart? Google squashes the lyrics site.Google has banished Rap Genius to search-result no-man's-land after discovering the lyrics site was fiddling with shady linking practices.
Santa leaves, smart phone steps in: Mobile sales soar on Christmas DayThe presents may have been under the tree, but that doesn't mean the shopping is over: a report from IBM shows that Christmas Day brought one of the biggest mobile shopping days of the year.
Disney Infinity and Skylanders: Toy/game mash-up is retail bonanzaDisney Infinity follows Skylanders lead with toy 鈥� and digital 鈥� heroes.
'Roboref' runs onto the soccer fieldBlown call in World Cup ushers in computer system.
How crossword inventor Arthur Wynne designed his first puzzleCrossword inventor,聽Arthur Wynne, published his first crossword 100 years ago today.聽
Reddit user: Bill Gates was my Secret SantaFor one Reddit user, it was the Secret Santa surprise of a lifetime.聽
Facebook, Zuckerberg to sell shares worth billionsThe move comes as Facebook joins the聽S&P 500 Index.聽
Blackberry's down (way down) but not quite outBlackberry posted massive losses in Q3, but interim CEO John Chen is betting it all to keep the Canadian tech company from hitting bottom.