Roku 3 - CNET Reviews

Roku 3 - CNET Reviews: "The Roku 3 is the best streaming-video box you can buy. It supports more services than anything else, with a superfast interface and a remote that has a nifty built-in headphone jack. Best of all, it's only $100, making it perfectly giftable."

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Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet — arstechnica.com — Readability

Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet — arstechnica.com — Readability: "Gigabit-class broadband is capturing the imagination of Internet users throughout the country. With Google and other companies bringing fiber-based services that deliver a gigabit of data each second to the home, communities are accelerating their push to get the highest speeds."

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What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam — www.makeuseof.com — Readability

What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam — www.makeuseof.com — Readability: "Here’s one more reason for everyone to hate Mondays. They’re supposedly the busiest days for email spam, that frustrating stream of unsolicited emails about weight loss, Viagra, million-dollar lotteries, and what not."

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If Convertible: A smartphone, tablet and ultrabook in one — www.gizmag.com — Readability

If Convertible: A smartphone, tablet and ultrabook in one — www.gizmag.com — Readability: "After a series of legal wrangles derailed the 2003 release of the Xentex Flip-Pad, a dual-screen laptop with independently-pivoting screens, former Xentex founder and CEO Jeff Batio has climbed back on the horse and is preparing to launch an updated version. The If Convertible is a mobile device that flips and folds to transform from a dual-screen ultrabook to a tablet, with one screen also detaching to serve as a smartphone."

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The CNN 10: Inventions - CNN.com

The CNN 10: Inventions - CNN.com: "As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll probably get a blank look. Today's heroes are celebrities: Actors, athletes, singers.
But where would we be without the Post-It Note, the smartphone, the luggage with wheels that rolls through the airport? Somebody invented each of those things, and we owe them all a debt for making our lives easier."

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Drool-Worthy $99 Kit Lets Kids Build Their Own Computers — www.wired.com — Readability

Drool-Worthy $99 Kit Lets Kids Build Their Own Computers — www.wired.com — Readability: "The Kano is a computer kit that's powered by Raspberry Pi."

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There will probably be no 8K. In fact, there will probably be no pixels at all in the future — www.redsharknews.com — Readability

There will probably be no 8K. In fact, there will probably be no pixels at all in the future — www.redsharknews.com — Readability: "There's a seemingly unstoppable trend towards more and more pixels. Greater resolution is heralded as the future of video. David Shapton doesn't think it is. He thinks there is another way. It's a radical suggestion, but completely plausible"

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