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Tech NewsSamsungSamsung’s Latest Transformative Gadget Is… a Smart Belt?
Samsung just revealed the first class of gadgets to emerge from its Creative Lab projects. They’re creative alright! Topping the list of shiny new things from the Korean electronics giant is a smart belt called WELT. Yes, you heard that right. Samsung describes WELT as “a smart wearable healthcare belt that looks like a normal … Continued
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HTC Wants to Send Its Vive VR Headset to 100,000 Chinese Internet Cafes
To make virtual reality truly popular, you have to make cheap and accessible. And HTC is zeroing in on a huge market: Chinese internet cafes. It’s the latest example of tech companies worldwide trying to get VR in the hands of massive groups of users, quickly and cheaply. At a VR conference in Beijing last … Continued
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WSJ: Samsung Galaxy S7 Will Have Pressure-Sensitive Screen, Fast Charging
When Samsung’s Galaxy S7 arrives in March, it may borrow one of the iPhone 6S’s biggest new features. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company plans to add a pressure-sensitive display to the new handset. The newspaper explains that, according to “people familiar with the matter,” the phone may also feature a fast-charging USB … Continued
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Baidu’s Testing a Self-Driving Car and Samsung Is Building Autonomous Car Parts
Asian tech giants are scrabbling to join the autonomous car race. A pair of new announcements reveal that Baidu has successfully tested a self-driving BMW in China, while Samsung has decided to begin producing components for use in autonomous vehicles. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Wang Jing, a Baidu senior vice president, explained that … Continued
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Samsung Has a New Smartphone Boss
J.K. Shin, Samsung’s longtime head of mobile (and the boss who oversaw the company’s rise and fall as the Android kingpin), is moving on. Samsung’s smartphone division hasn’t had a particularly healthy last few years: while it owned the market with the Galaxy S3 and S4, the follow-up phones have failed to captivate the market, … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsungA Skeptic’s Guide to Buying (or Not Buying) a 4K TV
I bought my beloved television half a decade ago, a (then) impressively thin 32-inch Samsung for around $500. Today, you can buy a 50-inch 4K TV for $500. The real question is: Should you buy a 4K TV at all? This is the year that 4K TVs aren’t so much an exotic offering from a … Continued
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This Is Samsung’s Crazy New 128GB RAM Chip
This may look like a regular RAM chip, but oh my it packs a punch. This is the latest chunk of RAM to roll off Samsung’s production line—and it squeezes a giddying 128GB into its svelte little frame. The chip, designed for big enterprise servers, uses Samsung’s “through silicon via” manufacturing technique. That allows the … Continued
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Samsung Might Bring Back One of the S6’s Biggest Missing Features
This year’s Galaxy S6 smartphone was a first for Samsung in many ways. It was the first phone to truly take on the iPhone in terms of design, and also the first to ditch two of its most prominent features—a removable battery and microSD card. Now, one of them might be making a comeback on … Continued
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Samsung’s New High-End Smartphone Chip Is Its First To Be Fully Integrated
Samsung has just announced its new top-end chipset, the Exynos 8 Octa 8890. Like its Qualcomm competitors, it squeezes everything it needs into a single slab of silicon. In fact, this is the first Samsung flagship system to be fully integrated into a single chip and only the second to be based on the 14-nanometer … Continued
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You Can Pre-Order Samsung’s $100 VR Headset Right Now
You can now pre-order Samsung’s Gear VR headset—the device that looks like it may finally push VR into the mainstream—from Best Buy for $100. If you’re clamouring for some VR, you can head over to Best Buy now and pre-order one of the devices right away. The retailer gives an official release date for the … Continued
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Samsung’s ATIV Book 9 Pro Is a 4K Super Laptop
At CES 2015, Samsung introduced the ATIV Book 9 laptop, carrying a Core M chip within a super thin, light chassis. Now, Samsung is upgrading with the ATIV Book 9 Pro, and as the “pro” name suggests, it’s got all the hardware goodies, including new sixth-generation Intel processors at a crazy, pixel-filled 4K display. At … Continued
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Samsung’s Huge Galaxy View Is the Take-Anywhere TV You Never Knew You Wanted
It’s a remarkable feeling when you find a gadget that makes no sense yet feels so right. The Galaxy View, an 18.4-inch portable touchscreen TV, is one of those gadgets. And it promises remarkable things. Seemingly the size of a pizza box, the Galaxy View is difficult to place in a single category. Samsung calls … Continued
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Let’s Have More Smartphones With Clear Backs Please
This modded Samsung Galaxy Note 5 isn’t a thing you can actually buy, sadly. But with a razor blade, a heat gun and a little perseverance, it’s a thing you can and absolutely should make. The modded version was posted to Reddit by an intrepid DIYer. The process doesn’t sound too bad: use a heat … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsungSamsung Wants 3D Touch, Too
Like follows like, and since Samsung’s been determined to be the pricey, all-metal iPhone of the Android world, the software also has to follow suit. That means adding the new iPhone’s most popular feature—3D Touch. According to a source on Weibo, that’s exactly what Samsung plans to do. Technology is filled with all kinds of … Continued
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Donald Trump’s Bad Twitter Is Explained By His Bad Phone
Among a fascinating examination of Donald Trump’s Twitter strategy in the New York Times, we learn one important thing: the GOP candidate-in-waiting sends his mostly offensive 140-character missives from an undefined Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The Times story has a bunch of different conclusions, from how Trump is using social media in place of traditional ads, … Continued
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Samsung TVs Reportedly Use Less Power in Efficiency Tests Than in Real Life
A series of tests by EU-funded research group ComplianTV suggest that Samsung TVs use more power in real-life conditions than they do when undergoing efficiency tests. Some Samsung TVs feature a ‘motion lighting’ feature that’s supposed to reduce brightness, and thus power consumption, when fast video motion is detected. But, as The Guardian reports, the … Continued
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Samsung just announced prices for its Gear S2 smartwatch, the twisty-turny circular bezel one running the company’s own Tizen wearable software. If interested, you’ll be parting with $300-$350 for the S2 and the S2 Classic. They’ll be available in stores and online on October 2.
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Tech NewsSamsungI Shopped With Samsung Pay All Over NYC But It Couldn’t Kill My Credit Card
Paying with your phone has always been a confusing experience thanks to competing standards and scattered compatibility. Samsung Pay is a new payment system that it says works everywhere you can swipe a credit card—but only on Samsung’s newest phones. In this video, we took a Galaxy S6 Edge+ out on the town equipped with … Continued
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Take a Look Inside Samsung’s New U.S. R&D HQ
Yesterday, Samsung opened a brand-new 1.1 million-square-foot building in San Jose. Home to its American R&D teams, it will house 2,000 employees. Why not take a look around? The new 10-story building was designed by architecture firm NBBJ and began construction in 2013. It will house the South Korean company’s west-coast R&D teams, and Samsung … Continued