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- For Samsung, the future of TV is all in the curve
Samsung debuted a line of curved-screen television sets at CES 2014.
- Samsung teases Galaxy S5, new Gear, smart glasses
In a recent interview, Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, says the Galaxy S5 will be released later this spring, along with a cohort of new wearables.
- Twitter co-founder Biz Stone unveils Jelly, a visual Q and A
Got a question? Take a picture, and wait for your Jelly pals to answer it.
- Sony PlayStation Now: A Netflix for games?
Sony will soon roll out a beta version of PlayStation Now, its streaming subscription service.
- T-Mobile vs AT&T: The battle heats up
A leaked image just hours before T-Mobile's presentation at International CES may confirm T-Mobile's plan to grab customers from rival AT&T.
- How Zora Neale Hurston almost slipped into obscurity
The iconic author of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' almost never had a book printed after the 1960s – thanks to Alice Walker, however, Zora Neale Hurston lives on in our literary canon, and a Google Doodle, today.
- Remembering Zora Neale Hurston, pioneering writer
The writer Zora Neale Hurston was born 123 years ago today.
- iPhone phablet? Apple reportedly preps new device for May.
The iPhone phablet would ship in September, according to one new report. But does Apple really need an iPhone phablet?
- Google teams up to create Android dashboards for cars
At International CES, four automakers, a chipmaker, and Google announced a partnership to bring Android technology to a car dashboard in hopes of converging the convenience of apps with driver safety.
- iPad Pro: Analysts anticipate a tablet hybrid
iPad Pro? Is Apple creating a hybrid tablet and laptop? A recent forecasting report from an analyst indicates that an iPad Pro could be on the Apple release menu for fall 2014.
- Google Glass ignites new mobile app games for wearable tech
With Google Glass and smartwatches, Juniper Research expects more than 130 million smart wearable devices will ship by 2018. Mobile game developers are working hard to respond to the opportunity.
- Smart phone showdown: AT&T offers $450 to switch from T-Mobile
In light of rumors that T-Mobile may announce a financial incentive to those switching to its carrier at International CES next week, AT&T has preemptively offered phone and plan credit to those switching away from T-Mobile.
- 40-80 rule: New tip for extending battery life
Extend the life of a lithium cell by not topping it off. The 40-80 rule can extend the life of your battery, but be careful to keep it out of the heat.
- Ford goes off the grid with new solar-powered car
Next week at International CES, Ford will debut the C-Max Solar Energi, a hybrid concept car that can run 21 miles through sunshine alone.
- YouTube hawks ultra-HD 4K video
YouTube will push high-definition 4K video streaming in 2014, but whether Google can actually speed up those massive videos has yet to be seen.
- Buying a laptop? Look for Haswell.
Intel's new 'Haswell' chip will markedly extend battery life.
- LG WebOS TV at CES: Bringing smart-phone tech to TVs?
With CES 2014 just around the corner, a new leak from LG shows off a smart TV that weaves in WebOS.
- How Walgreens went off the grid
Walgreens, Florida bank erect buildings that will make their own power.
- Motorola Project Ara: Snap together a custom cellphone
Motorola's 'Ara' will give consumers many options.
- Do you speak start-up? An entrepreneurial vocab quiz.
“Once we pivot, we’re likely to have a good seed round with angels so we can finally disrupt the tech business. Let’s just hope we’re not ramen-profitable, haha!”
Did that sentence sound like gibberish to you? If you’re not in the start-up world, it likely would. Start-ups are filled with their own jargon, buzzwords, and colloquialisms popularized by an explosive tech scene and the esoteric communities it functions within. But with many start-ups making an appearance in our daily lives (Facebook, Snapchat, Air BnB) you may know more of the language than you think.
So here is the challenge: can you translate the start-up world to our own? Take this quiz to see if you speak the start-up slang.