The Kinect was good. It just wasn’t good for gaming.

Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential. Although the Kinect wasn't exactly a huge success and barely supported any…

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Essential Phone Sold Just 5,000 Units Through Sprint Since Launch: Report

HIGHLIGHTS The smartphone was released in August in the US The estimate count only includes units sold through Sprint The unlocked units of the phone are not included in estimate…

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Windows Phone Market Share Falls to Just 0.1 Percent During Q1 2017: IDC

HIGHLIGHTS Android's overall market share increased year-on-year IDC expects Apple to deliver strong "late 2017" performance Huawei shipments grew during the quarter Microsoft recently ended support for Windows Phone 8.1 and…

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Technology can save lives, not just improve them

Bristol Braille Technology, which won the accessibility award, created an affordable braille electronic reader, designed with, by and for blind people. Photograph: AbilityNet With so much coverage about the dark underbelly…

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The unreleased Nokia 9 just got an FCC certification

At this point, a Nokia 9 release seems pretty much imminent. HMD Global's upcoming flagship has already been spotted in the wild, encased in a prototype enclosure, as well as…

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Technology set to dish up takeaway revolution, says Just Eat

As if ordering takeaway wasn’t already easy enough, technological developments mean consumers need not lift a hand to order food these days. While food tech has tended to lag behind…

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This robot just conquered its ultimate nemesis: stairs

Robots come in all shapes and sizes: familiar-lookinghumanoids; riffs on animals; and mundane looking service bots. But they also come in more bizarre forms. This chain-like motorised creation certainly falls…

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Software defined data centres will be vital for business agility – but not just yet

Analyst house Gartner argues the software defined data centre (SDDC), otherwise known as the virtual data centre (VDC), is not the right choice for every IT organisation today – but…

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Hey Samsung, Just Beefing Up Your Phone Isn’t Enough Anymore

On Sunday at MWC 2016 we watched Samsung unveil the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge and both phones look nice, and have - as expected - a killer set…

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