Ubuntu Edge: Next week Canonical announces... something

Canonical is preparing to make some sort of Ubuntu-related announcement next week. On July 18th the company updated the Ubuntu homepage with a 4-day countdown, a picture of a diagonal line down the center of a black rectangle, and the text "The line where / two surfaces meet." While the company isn't providing a lot of clues to indicate what'll...

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Notion Ink Adam II tablet accessories leaked, along with EVE concept phone

The Notion Ink Adam II is an Android tablet with a 10 inch screen and a second black and white LCD screen on the spine of the book-shaped tablet, letting you view notifications at a glance even when the device is lying on a table and the screen is off. It's the second tablet from Indian company Notion Ink, and...

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Deals of the Day (7-17-2013)

The Asus X200 and Q200 line of laptops are some of the cheapest 11.6 inch notebooks on the market now, regularly selling for between $300 and $450, depending on the model number and configuration. But there's an even cheaper option -- one that comes with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows 8. It's called the Asus X201E, and you can pick...

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Android 4.3 for the Google Nexus 4 leaked, you can install it now

Google is expected to introduce Android 4.3 soon, but if you have a Google Nexus 4 smartphone you can install an early build of the operating system now. A leaked build of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean for the Samsung Galaxy S4 hit the streets a few weeks ago. Now there's a build available for Google's latest Nexus phone as well....

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Deals of the Day (7-18-2013)

There's a good chance that Google will introduce its second-generation Nexus 7 tablet next week. It's been about a year since the original launched, and there are an awful lot of signs pointing to a new model. But those signs also suggest that the new tablet will sell for $229 and up, so if you're primarily interest in Google's tablet...

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Lilbits (7-18-2013): Samsung Exynos 5 Octa update coming soon

Samsung's Exynos 5410 processor sounded a bit crazy when the company announced it in January. It's a smartphone chip with eight processor cores. But now that the chip's actually available in some Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones, it turns out might not be all its cracked up to be. First, it turns out you're only actually using 4 cores at a time....

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Microsoft takes a $900 million hit for unsold Surface RT tablets

Microsoft put a lot of time and effort into developing a version of Windows that could run on devices with ARM-based processors. Then the company went all-in and launched its own tablet running the operating system. And it turns out it's not selling very well. If the recent $150 price drop wasn't a good enough sign that Microsoft is having...

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Samsung SSDs get faster, bigger

Samsung has introduced two new solid state drives which push the boundaries of what you can expect from an SSD. Like most solid state storage, these new drives are designed to be faster than a typical hard drive while consuming less power. But up until recently hard drives have kind of been king of the hill in the amount of storage...

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VLC for iOS hits the App Store (again)

VLC is an open source media player app for for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and other platforms. While there's also a version for iOS, it was pulled from the App Store after a brief time in Apple's marketplace, and for the past few years VLC for iOS has only been available for jailbroken devices. That changes this week when a...

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Lenovo discontinues the IdeaPa Yoga 11 Windows RT convertible

Lenovo seems to have pulled the plug on its first Windows RT device. The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 is a notebook that transforms into a tablet when you flip the screen back nearly 360 degrees until it rests below the keyboard. It has an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and runs Microsoft's stripped-down version of...

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