Friday, March 28, 2014

Engadget Podcast 390 - 3.28.14




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Engadget Podcast 390 - 3.28.14



It helps if you're born Luckey, but if you also work hard at building Oculus Rift, the rewards are apparently somewhere in the ballpark of $2 billion dollars. Not Dr. Evil levels, to be sure, but you could certainly equip a school of dolphins with...






Engadget Eurocast 058 - 3.28.14




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Engadget Eurocast 058 - 3.28.14



We've got our game faces on, but you can't see them because you're strapped into your Oculus Rift. That's all well and good because we're doing a deep dive into Facebook's recent purchase deal for Oculus VR. The social network laid down $2 billion to...






Turkish court rules tweets are free speech




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Turkish court rules tweets are free speech



Turkey's country-wide Twitter ban has already been temporarily lifted on a national level, but the stay-of-execution wasn't completely universal. One of the three court orders that prompted the original ban forced Twitter to use its Country Withheld...






Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review (2014): new, but not necessarily improved




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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review (2014): new, but not necessarily improved



Don't call it a business laptop. I mean, you could, but you'd be missing the point: Though the original Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon was technically aimed at corporate users, it was good enough for us to recommend even to regular consumers. That was a...






Tesla toughens up the Model S' underbody to prevent battery fires




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Tesla toughens up the Model S' underbody to prevent battery fires



Tesla's Model S may have a good safety record, but even two accident-related battery fires are too many for the perfection-obsessed (and image-conscious) automaker. Elon Musk has revealed that every Model S built from March 6th onward has both...






Nokia Lumia 630 spotted in the wild running Windows Phone 8.1




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Nokia Lumia 630 spotted in the wild running Windows Phone 8.1



If you've wanted to know what Nokia's entry-level Lumia 630 looks like in real life, today is your lucky day. Both a Coolxap video (below) and a handful of photos from @Umit have shown off the smartphone in all its Windows Phone 8.1-based glory,...






'Cyberathlon' will see disabled athletes compete in powered exoskeleton races




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'Cyberathlon' will see disabled athletes compete in powered exoskeleton races



Massive sporting events like the Olympics are becoming increasingly tech-charged, but the games themselves remain unchanged for the most part. A new event called Cybathlon, however, wishes to fully integrate technology into its events, for what's...