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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?

The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.


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Google Play Music All Access Hands-On: All You Want, Minus Friends

Today at its I/O developer’s conference, Google launched Google Play All Access, its long-anticipated subscription music service. I just spent some time exploring the on-demand catalogue as well as its radio and music discovery features. The service’s UI is impressively fast and fluid. Indeed, it’s minimal in all the right ways. If only it wasn’t so lonely in there.


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Google Play Music All Access Is A Subscription Like Spotify

You can now buy a music subscription from Google. Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s crack at rocketing to the top of the charts. Get ready for Google Play Access.


How Dinky Feathers Helped Running Dinosaurs Evolve Into Flying Birds

If you’re a believer in science, you’re probably at least vaguely aware that prevailing theories posit that the birds of today are distant relatives to the dinosaurs that died off millions of years ago.


Samsung NX300 Hands-On: Realistic 3D Photos And Videos From One Lens

The Samsung NX300′s a big revamp of last year’s NX210, including a lot of common sense improvements to Samsung’s mid-range mirrorless camera. And then there’s the 3D photo and movie mode. Nobody asked for a brilliant new technology that uses a single lens to capture 3D images, but Samsung made it anyway. And it actually works!


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BlackBerry Is Bringing BBM To iOS And Android This Summer

Today, at the BlackBerry Live Keynote, the company announced that it will be launching BBM on iOS and Android this Summer. This is a big move for the company that has found itself increasingly trapped in a prison of its own making. Now, BlackBerry will make one of its best and more innovative services available across many platforms.


Google I/O Rumours: What’s Next For Android, Chrome, Nexus, And More

Google I/O, the company’s mammoth annual developer hoopla, goes down this week. Here’s what you can expect to hear from Google during Wednesday’s three-hour keynote extravaganza.


You Can Play Atari Breakout On Google Image Search And It’s Awesome

Google is famous for the Easter eggs buried in its products. This might be one of the most entertaining we’ve seen in while. Head over to Google Image Search and punch in a query for “atari breakout” and say goodbye to the rest of your afternoon.


Olympus Pen E-P5: A Retro-Styled Mirrorless Camera Made Amazing

Olympus has been teetering on the edge of nailing mirrorless camera design for years. In fact, many would argue that last year’s retro-fantastic OM-D E-M5 bordered on perfection. Aesthetes fell in love with its looks at the same time that real, serious photographers were amazed at its spectacular image quality.


ISS Astronauts Preparing Emergency Spacewalk To Fix Critical System

Yesterday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed odd flakes floating about outside, which turned out to be ammonia leaking out of the radiator lines of the space station’s power system. Now, after a day of deliberation, it turns out two astronauts will leave the ISS and brave the great abyss to try to fix the problem. Uh oh.


Report: Google’s Unified Chat Hub Will Be Called Google Hangouts

Word on the street is that Google’s incoming unified messaging service has ditched its Babel moniker. According to a source talking to TechRadar it will hit our handsets simply called Google Hangouts, which already exists, so isn’t really new, then?


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