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Starz, Encore and Movieplex Play apps arrive on Android

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Starz Play has had a home on iOS since October, but now it’s made the jump to Android, and it’s brought Encore Play and Movieplex Play along with it. By wielding the apps, users can stream video from the TV network over WiFi and 3G — provided the…


Packaged Chrome apps now searchable in dev channels for Chrome OS and Windows

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While Google opened the door to packaged Chrome apps back in February, it’s been a largely one-way affair ever since — developers could upload the native-style apps, but they couldn’t find anything without a direct link. As of a dev channel updat…


iMakr 3D printing store opens in London, carries Solidoodle and more

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The notion of a physical store dedicated to 3D printing is still new to us, and Solidoodle’s Asia-focused plans didn’t give much reassurance that we’d see more shops in English-speaking countries all that soon. iMakr may have just come to our resc…


YouTube now offers more MLB highlights and full archived games

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YouTube just keeps adding quality content. Last week it was comedy, and this week it’s bulking up on its sporting chops with a Major League Baseball partnership. Always among the most tech-savvy of major sports leagues, MLB has beefed up the offer…


Sony Xperia Tablet Z now up for pre-order, scheduled to ship May 24th (video)

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If you’ve been waiting for the least burdensome tablet you could find, Sony’s 17.5 ounce, 6.9mm thick Xperia Tablet Z is now up for pre-order in the US. On top of being the lightest, slimmest 10-inch slate on the market, it’s not exactly slumming …


Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House

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“You look ridiculous.” This was not exactly the reaction I was hoping to receive from my wife the first time she saw me wearing Glass. She was long-since asleep when I arrived late the night before, and so had missed my triumphant, technologically…


Vertus adds stereo Bluetooth to any pair of powered speakers… if they have a 3.5mm jack

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Nowadays we’re spoiled with options in the Bluetooth speaker market, and many of the high-end ones — especially those from Soundfreaq and Nokia — even feature dual-system streaming (DSS) that lets one speaker pair with another to enable true ste…


Sony prices its 2013 home and shelf audio lineups, clarifies availability dates

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Given Sony’s heritage, it’s no surprise that the company loves its audio — but we can imagine that some might be overwhelmed when the company has priced and dated the cores of its 2013 home and shelf audio lineups in one sitting. Don’t worry, we’…


DirecTV adding voice search to its iOS and Android phone apps, beta coming this summer

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Now that it’s finally got an Android tablet app to speak of, DirecTV is returning its attention to phones: the company announced today that both its iOS and Android applications will be receiving voice search starting this summer. As the company d…


Harman Kardon ships AVR 2700 and 3700 receivers with 4K scaling and AirPlay

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Now that Ultra HD TVs are poised to hit the market in force, it’s more important than ever to have receivers that can handle them — even if our bank accounts often can’t. Harman Kardon knows this well enough to ship its AVR 2700 and AVR 3700 rece…