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iPhone tests faster on AT&T than Verizon, Israel the fastest

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Ookla founder and Speedtest.net creator Doug Suttles has run tests that show the AT&T iPhone holding the 3G performance lead in the US but still trailing well behind much of the world.

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Hardware Roundup

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Video: AXLE GeForce GT 430 1GB Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: Jetway Mini-ITX NC98-525E-LF Motherboard MultiMedia Review @ Madshrimps ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme Review @ OCWorkbench Memory and Storage: TechwareLabs Review: Kingston SSDNow V100 Solid State Drive Power:...

Video: Movilway Mobile Point Of Sale Terminal

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It looks like a mobile phone inside of a calculator (and that may be just about what it actually is). Regardless, Movilway, a payments platform serving the underbanked mostly in South and Central America, are further developing their self contained cellular POS system.

A/V Accessories Are Ridiculously Overpriced, and I’ve Had Enough of It

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As you’ve probably gathered from reading my columns here on SlashGear, I’m pretty much obsessed with every single product that can help improve my entertainment in the living room. Whether it’s an HDTV, set-top box, game console, or surround-sound system, I love it.

Lego Tow Truck Is A Masterpiece Of Art In Motion

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What stands between a pile of Lego bricks and a human being? Imagination, is what. Lego has never failed to unleash the engineering gifts of all sorts of people, from Apple engineers to programmers fixated with guns.

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DIY Sous Vide Cooker Is Hot Hot Hot!

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Literally. Don’t you see the boiling water that meat is soaking in? What makes this particular build special, you ask? Well, your average Sous Vide Cooker is a gadget used by top-of-the-line culinary artists.

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Motorola XOOM pre-order at Best Buy: February 24 release

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Motorola’s XOOM is on track to be the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet commercially available, with Best Buy stores now accepting pre-orders of the 10.1-inch slate ahead of its retail release on this coming Thursday, February 24.

Is Microsoft Distancing Themselves From The Zune?

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Given the lackluster success of the Zune line over the years, would anyone really be shocked if Microsoft pulled the plug? We sort of doubt it, and according to reports, the company may be on the verge of doing so.

Kanex Mini DisplayPort to HDMI solutions make your HDTV a big monitor

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If you have a Mac that was introduced from mid-2010 on and it has a Mini DisplayPort, Kanex has a couple of solutions that can turn your HDTV or other HDMI-equipped video device into a monitor with full audio pass-through. I recently had a chance to test out two such solutions from Kanex.

Ixonos Creates Multi-Window Solution For Android

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Ixonos may not be a name you're familiar with, but if you love to hack Android, it's a name that you may be seeing more frequently in the coming months.

Scientists Find Cure For Baldness By Accident

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It all starts with testing lab mice for gastrointestinal diseases. Lo and behold, over a five month period stress hormones injected into the mice were found to stimulate hair growth.The stress hormones were supposed to speed ageing among the test mice and were administered to them via injections...

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Archos trots out Arnova Internet radio and TV hub

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Archos has revealed its Arnova Internet radio and TV hub. The web-connected device can stream over 12,000 web radio stations through its 2x2 Watt speakers and over 1,500 web TV channels, which can viewed on its 3.5-inch color TFT 320x240 display.

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Three Wheeled Electric Car Concept Looks Do-Able

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Why haven’t designers embraced three-wheeled car concepts since forever? Three wheeled cars are actually well-balanced, highly modular, and compact enough to fit in tight parking spaces—all factors that are ideal in a busy crowded metropolis.

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Motorola Xoom available Thursday, pre-order at Best Buy now

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The Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet can now be pre-ordered in-store at Best Buy for Thursday, February 24 release.

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Meka Robotics Unveils M1 Mobile Manipulator

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San Francisco-based Meka Robotics has just unveiled its latest creation, the M1 Mobile Manipulator, whose core specialty is lifting stuff.

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Innovations: Scientists build world’s first antilaser

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The idea: The scientists at Yale University gave scientific community across the globe a reason to smile, when they successfully built the world’s first anti-laser very recently. It’s not often the case that we find scientific community involved in worthwhile projects.

Apple may unveil Light Peak under new name

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Apple is due to unveil its use of Light Peak soon, a rumor late Saturday suggested. Intel's 10Gbps peripheral interface is due to be made public by Apple soon but would get a different name inside the Mac.

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Apple about to add Light Peak to Macs?

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According to CNET sources, Apple is set to introduce a new "high-speed connection technology" very soon. The most obvious new connection technology this could be is Light Peak, a jack-of-all-trades connection technology.

Apple Safe Deposit Box could be built-in Carbonite for Macs

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Apple has quietly filed for a patent that could hint at Mac OS X Lion getting a built-in cloud backup feature.

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Apple patent shows new “smart bezel” for tablets

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An Apple patent was published this week that details a touch sensitive, smart bezel for its tablet devices. The bezel would include touch sensors, pressure sensors, light emitters, haptic actuators and accelerometers.

Samsung Galaxy S 4G locked in for February 23, $199

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T-Mobile finished the week by setting down both a price and a ship date for the Galaxy S 4G. Its first, full 21Mbps HSPA+ phone should reach stores on the previously leaked date of February 23.

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Another Steve Jobs Action Figure Shut Down by Apple

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Those goofy guys over at M.I.C. Gadget must have had too many unsold Steve Jobs Action Figures lying around to just sit on, so they tried disguising him by adding a Ninja Face Mask and renaming him "Pineapple CEO." Sadly, it was just a tad too obvious, and Apple told them to stop selling the figure.

MWC 2011 Wrap-Up

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Another year, another Mobile World Congress, and the unstoppable juggernaut that is the smartphone industry continues apace. SlashGear took its biggest team to MWC 2011 to-date, and still found more than enough to keep us busy in Barcelona.

Atrix 4G already rooted before launch

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Motorola's Atrix 4G has already been rooted and given full control even just two days ahead of its early launch. Custom ROM developers designgears and Getaphixx together granted full access to the Android 2.2 firmware on Friday.

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HP phases out Envy 13 after brief shot at MacBook Air

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HP said late Friday that it had phased out the Envy 13. The ultraportable notebook has now been officially discontinued following its recent price slash. It phased out as the Envy 14 "basically replaced" the design, CNET was told....

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T-Mobile confirms Samsung Galaxy S 4G pricing, $199.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate

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Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile T-Mobile came forward with the Samsung Galaxy S 4G pricing earlier this month and stated that the handset would be $149.99 (for a limited time).

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