GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	Windows 9 Could Be Microsoft's Attempt to Make You Like Windows Again
	Windows 8 was the big change in the Windows operating system. Then version 8.1 came along to smooth out kinks in 8. Microsoft's annual BUILD conference is coming in April, and rumor has it that Windows 9 might be showing up. Rumors of it - codenamed...
	How Much More Bitcoin Fragmentation Will There Be?
	There's a new Bitcoin competitor out there, and it is called Zerocoin. It probably won't be the last cryptocurrency for sure. Zerocoin might be useful, especially to drug dealers and money launderers. Bitcoin itself, isn't actually anonymous. Every ...
	Google Pays $3.2 Billion Cash to Buy Nest
	Is $3 billion the new $1 billion? Google is buying up the good stuff because they've got the cash. The latest? They will acquire Nest, the business behind the smart thermostat and smoke detector, for $3.2 billion in cash.Founded by Tony Fadell, he i...
	Check This Out: Nokia's First Android Phone
	Is this the prototype of Nokia's first Android based smartphone? Apparently, it is codenamed "Normandy". It has surfaced on China's Sina Weibo, and it made its way to Twitter via @seamisu The Verge cites sources saying it's going to be a low-to-m...
	Womb Transplant Surgeries: Success!
	Modern medicine is getting better at what it does. Now, nine women in Sweden have successfully undergone transplant surgery with them receiving donor wombs from their relatives. The women, who are in their 30s, will now attempt to have children wher...
	Want to Boost Your Long-Term Memory? Drink Two Espressos.
	Don't we just love our morning coffee. Now there's even better news. Drinking coffee can lead to enhancing your long-term memory! The study was led by Michael Yassa from the University of California, Irvine. 160 participants were asked to study imag...
	BlackBerry's Plan is to Go Back to Hardware Keyboards. Will That Make Them Relevant Again?
	BlackBerry has been in trouble for a while already, and its best solution to get it out of its slump is decidedly low-tech. In an interview with Re/Code this week, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said that the struggling smartphone company’s plan to turn t...
	Google Street View Uses Neural Network To ID House Numbers
	How does Google Street View know the numbers on houses? By using a crazy neural network of course. Because finding the number on a house is quite a task, Google engineers built a "deep convulutional neural network" that operates on pixels of the ima...
	This Copenhagen Startup Has a New Idea For An HDMI Alternative [VIDEO]
	Danish company Airtame has raised $650,000 for its $160,000 goal on its IndieGogo crowdfunding project. Their idea is a wireless HDMI dongle that mirrors your computer's display to a television projector or any larger display with an HDMI port. No...
	Drinking Coffee in Moderation is Just As Hydrating as Water
	Drinking too much coffee dehydrates you. Right? Apparently not exactly. A new study shows that in moderation, coffee is no less hydrating than water. The study was done by researchers from Loughborough University, UK, and they were interested in acc...

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