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So, you'd love to get the movies, music, and photos from your laptop to your living room, but you don't want to buy another box, right? Well, If you have a game console, you're in luck. ZOMG IT'S SOOOO EASY.


How to Stream Media without Buying Any More Gear [Howto]

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Robots have been singing for a minute. But the HRP-4C doesn't just sing, she performs. Watch her chirp the lyrics to her song, work the crowd, and shake her stuff in sync with her back up dancers. It's pretty amazing

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Meet the World's First Robot Pop Star [Video]

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The last time Steve Jobs got on an earnings call, it was to reassure investors that he was in good health. So what made him spend an hour taking questions today? Here's what Jobs said, and what it means.            

            

Steve On RIM (But Really WP7)

We've now passed RIM and I don't see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future. They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company. I think it's going to be a challenge for them to create a competitive platform and to convince developers to create apps for yet a third software platform, after iOS and Android. With 300k apps on Apple's app store, RIM has a high mountain ahead of them to climb.

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Shit My Jobs Says: Earnings Call Edition [Video]

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It's always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2. So this is why HP spent all that money. Let's take a quick spin.            



Much of what we saw in those leaked webOS 2.0 screen shots has been confirmed: Stacks and JustType, baked in Skype and Facebook support. HP's also promising "true multitasking," which means you never have to close an app to check your email, and Flash 10.1 beta support in the browser. It still looks every bit as good as we thought it did back in August.

WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 "In the Coming Months" In US [Hp]

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Nokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what's wrong, we've got to understand what's been right, or to put in another way, what's distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world.

            

It has been said that more of the world's population has access to a cellphone than to a sanitary toilet. But of the planet's estimated 5 billion cellphone users, a privileged minority have smartphones; a paltry few, iPhones.

If you spend hours thumbing through pages of apps, scoffing at less-than-perfect software upgrades and grousing about screen resolution and pixel density, it's easy to forget that the very concept of a mobile phone is a miracle. It's a device that shrinks your day to day world into a single point, making you simultaneously accessible to and able to access nearly everyone you know, instantly and everywhere.

The Most Popular Phone in the World [Nokia]

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There's an Apple event going on today at 10PT, 1ET! We'll be liveblogging, of course, and we're starting now.



UPDATE! Apple is streaming this event as well, and you can find everything you need to know about watching it live right here.

The most likely announcements are OS X Lion, which theoretically should bring more new features, rather than just speed and architecture improvements in Snow Leopard. Rumors for 10.7 include more iOS-integration and even iOS-like functionality in the OS.

Apple Mac and OS X Liveblog Tomorrow, Oct. 20 [Apple]

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When people argue that smartphones are on the level with Playstation or DS portable as gaming platforms, they'll usually whip out a racing game. With good reason! iOS and Android's racing games are actually some of their best, period.   


The Best Racing Game Apps [Appbattle]

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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is here. As we predicted, Apple's desktop operating system is going in the same direction as the iPad—and for good reason. Here is what is coming and why it's good for you.



Mac OS X Lion is another step in the road to a new—or better said, renewed—computer interface paradigm: Modal computing. And along the way, Apple is taking some of the most successful parts of iOS, like the App Store—with automatic installation of applications—and the springboard (rechristened Launchpad in Lion). They are also introducing new user interface elements, like Mission Control, to help solve the problems that modal interfaces may bring.

How Mac OS X Lion Brings the Best of iPad to Your Mac [Video]

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It's been two years since the last MacBook Air refresh, but Apple's made up for lost time: the redesigned MacBook Air comes in 13.3 and 11.6-inch flavors with complete unibody construction. And a storage secret.         


New MacBook Airs: Faster, Lighter, Instant On, 30 Day Standby Power

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Apple's Mac and OS X event was full of so much news that your head might still be spinning. So in case you struggled to keep up with everything or need a review, here are the highlights from the event:         


All The Cool New Stuff From Apple [Apple]