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• 27 April 2013

• News: Remains of the Day: I could be the next

  Messages leaves users hanging, Apple wants to school you on in-app purchases, and Eric Schmidt is back with some more awkward truths. The remainders for Friday, April 26, 2013, are on the edge of their seats.

• 26 April 2013

• News: AT&T flips the switch on home automation with Digital Life platform

  Almost a year since it first teased its home automation and security solution, AT&T began taking orders for the Digital Life platform in 15 metro areas across the U.S., including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and New York.

• News: Folding USB Solar Cell will power your devices on the go

  Harnessing the sun is an idea that broadly resonates with people, but is often most useful for smaller devices with lesser energy needs. Brown Dog Gadgets is looking to capitalize on this fact a neat little bundle of device-charging panels simply labeled the Folding USB Solar Cell (funding through May 2).

• Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: Fixing Apple TV lost network connections

  Occasionally, my 1080p Apple TV (ATV) loses interest in connecting to my local network. More specifically, if I go to the Network setting I find no IP address listed. That's right. The IP address listing is empty. There isn't even an invalid self-assigned (169.x.x.x) address. Not surprisingly, when this vanishing act occurs, the ATV can no longer access my iTunes Library or any of the ATV's Internet-based services.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best display?

  PC Advisor reviews the best 5 LCD monitors on sale in the UK today.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best NAS device?

  PC Advisor picks out the best five home-entertainment, media-streaming devices available in the UK right now.

• News: Listen to the voice of Alexander Graham Bell (and other stuff you missed)

  Between the announcement from Nintendo that the company will not be holding a press conference at this year's E3, and the unfortunate news from EA that restructuring has resulted in hundreds of layoffs, it's been a pretty tumultuous day for the video game world. In case any of this news has gotten to you, why not read a few stories about the inventor of the telephone, booger benefits, and a robotic chicken to take your mind off it all?

• News: Remains of the Day: Spaceward ho!

  Part of Apple's campus is delayed until after a spaceship launch, iTunes sales aren't on the grow, and German iPhone users may once again be notified of their email schnell! The remainders for Thursday, April 25, 2013 speak a dozen languages, know every local custom--they'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see them again.

• Video: Pure Jongo S3 video review

  A Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless speaker with 360-degree sound that's battery powered and weighs less than a laptop. Here's our Pure Jongo S3 video review.

• News: Samsung profits soar on phones, tablets; high hopes for Galaxy S4

  Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42 percent from a year ago.

• 25 April 2013

• Opinion: How to grab a freeze-frame from a video

  How to grab a freeze-frame from a video

• News: Smart glass market could hit 9.4M shipments by 2016

  With Google's futuristic wearable computers on the way, one research firm calculates that the worldwide market for smart glasses could reach nearly 10 million units by 2016.

• News: 'Mad Men' writers pitch a new show about NASA (and other stuff you missed)

  Apple's WWDC is coming, and so is a new Xbox. if that wasn't enough geeky excitement for you for one day, then you'll want to take a look at your mid-week GeekBytes update. Today's roundup features Mad Men in space (sort of), the cost of being Iron Man, and how the furniture of the future could do away with assembly instructions.

• News: Print your own Yoda at home for $499: 3D printers become affordable

  Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) may finally have its moment. The technology has been around for decades, but only recently has it managed to crawl out from behind the curtains of advanced industrial production and bearded basement hobbyists into the awareness of the general public.

• News: Amazon to rival Apple TV with its own set-top box

  Amazon is reportedly building its own set-top box to rival Apple's TV.

• News: Xbox 720 to be launched by Microsoft on 21 May

  Microsoft has confirmed that it will reveal the next Xbox console, thought to be the Xbox 720, on 21 May.

• News: Amazon plans own set-top box for fall, report claims

  After conquering the low end of the tablet market with the Kindle Fire, Amazon may be getting ready to invade the living room with a television set-top box..

• News: Hands on with the HAPIfork

  As tech writers, we get our fair share of devices and gadgets to play with: Smart pedometers, smart watches, even smart cars--but HAPIlabs is the first company to bring us a smart fork. Yes, you read that right: The current upswing of technology has extended to cutlery with the HAPIfork, a connected fork designed to monitor how fast you're eating and encourage you to eat mindfully.

• News: Sony DEV-50V binoculars let you capture 3D video of distant 'subjects'

  Let's face it, you can get all the great photos of your family outings and kid's soccer games with a good compact zoom camera or entry-level DSLR. And these days, every decent camera shoots hi-def video.

• 24 April 2013

• News: Microsoft to announce next Xbox on May 21

  Eight years after the first Xbox 360 units shipped, Microsoft will finally pull the curtains off its long-awaited successor on May 21.

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