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- Grand Theft Auto V will reportedly hit PCs in early 2014GTA V, the most expensive video game ever made, has already mopped up on the console front. Next stop: a computer screen near you.Â
- Aereo wins latest legal battle, launches Android appThe Android app is free, but Aereo subscriptions start at $8 a month.Â
- With new online store, game bundles, can Nintendo turn things around?Lagging sales and a bump from UK supermarket Asdo has Nintendo scrambling to find ways to market the Wii U to audiences domestic and abroad.
- T-Mobile will erase all international roaming ratesIf you're a T-Mobile customer, you'll soon be able to surf the Web – and text – endlessly, even when you're abroad.Â
- Fitbit Force brings high-tech fitness tracking to the treadmillThe Fitbit Force tracks your fitness, then syncs the data to your mobile device so you know when and how to step up your workout game. But will it get lost in the sea of new wearable tech releases?
- Ford rolls out self-driving vehicleFord Motor Company is the latest to hop aboard self-driving vehicles. But will auto-controlled machines cut down on accidents?
- Government shutdown: Unfurlough.us connects federal workers with start-upsWashington start-up community 1776 offers Unfurlough.us, a website that connects furloughed workers with freelance gigs at start-ups during the government shutdown.
- Samsung Galaxy Round: Are curved-glass smart phones the future?With the Galaxy Round, Samsung says it is releasing the 'world's first'Â curved display smart phone.Â
- In win for Apple, US ban on a handful of Samsung products is upheldThe ban only involves older Samsung products, such as the Galaxy S II.Â
- iPad rumors swirl around new design, Oct. 22 eventiPad rumors: Apple sources have been whispering about a fall iPad event for months, and now it looks like the rumors are confirmed. What can we expect? Lighter, thinner, and Touch ID equipped.
- LG designs flexible screens for curved smart phonesThe Korean phonemaker will mass produce a flexible smart phone panel, with curved-screen phones to come in 2014. But with Samsung set to release its own curved OLED screen phone, a bendable, rollable future may closer than we think.Â
- Siri speaks: the human behind Siri's voice tells her storyAtlanta-based voice actress Susan Bennett revealed to CNN on Thursday she is the voice who answered when you asked, 'Where is the nearest dry cleaner?'
- Hackers access Adobe’s source code, plus 2.9 million customer accountsSoftware giant Adobe announced a major security breach Thursday, in which hackers accessed its software source code plus millions of customers' credit card and login information. Who’s behind the attack and how does it affect Adobe customers?
- Facebook offers free WiFi through Cisco, plus updated searchSmall-business customers may find themselves checking into Facebook more often, as the social network just announced a partnership with Cisco, trading Facebook check-ins for WiFi access. But that isn't the only new trick Facebook has up its sleeve.
- Dell tablets nix Microsoft RT, compete with Surface ProDespite speculation that Dell's upcoming privatization may mean a shift away from the PC, Dell released four new tablets this week, noticeably without Microsoft's tablet software RT.
- Grand Theft Auto and the biggest moments in video game history Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA V) made headlines as the biggest video game release of all time, selling more than $1 billion worth of copies in three days. But GTA V didn't get to this landmark moment by itself. Find out more moments that changed the course of video game history in this list, from most recent to the beginning of (video game) time.
- Bill Gates out as Microsoft chairman? Some investors say yesThree key investors want Bill Gates to step down as company chairman as Microsoft stands at a post-Steve Ballmer crossroads.
- Google Chromecast adds Hulu Plus to compete with Apple TV, othersThe stakes in the streaming TV competition have been raised as Chromecast adds Hulu Plus, and studies indicate more interest in streaming video than ever before.
- Surface Pro tablet: Microsoft's newest to help Delta Airlines save on fuelSurface Pro tablet: Last week, Microsoft rolled out the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets and already has its first big customer. Delta Airlines will outfit 700 planes with Surface 2 tablets, hoping to go paperless by 2014.
- iWatch has rumored bendable OLED screen to rival Galaxy GearThough Galaxy Gear, the Samsung smart watch, was released today, rumors of Apple's iWatch continue to surface. This time, a flexible "snap bracelet" OLED screen.