Acer's Predator 21 X is the first laptop with a curved screen and other top stories.

• Acer's Predator 21 X is the first laptop with a curved screen

  

  Acer’s Predator 21 X literally throws a curve into the hotly competitive gaming laptop market with its gently bowed display, an industry first. Announced Wednesday at a press conference before IFA in Berlin, the flagship Predator 21 X boasts several other cutting-edge components within its husky profile.  The industry-first curved screen is a 21-inch, 2560x1080 IPS. With its wide color gamut and generous viewing angles, it promises a deeply absorbing gaming experience. Add to that its Nvidia..

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• The end of Nest as we know it is a sign of a new beginning for Android

  

  Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz Nest Alphabet is breaking up Nest, its standalone smart-home gadgets company, and moving Nest's software group back into Google.  Nest Labs will continue to exist as a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, continuing to develop Nest-branded hardware such as its internet-connected thermostat. But dozens of Nest programmers making the move will go after the real prize: Google's efforts to conquer the living room and beyond, including ..

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• (Self-driving) car wars heat up between Google, Uber

  

  Uber announced Thursday that it will launch a pilot program with self-driving cabs in the Pittsburgh area. NHTSA's former administrator is celebrating the announcement, but says regulatory challenges exist before self-driving cars are common. (Aug. 18) APDavid Drummond, one of Alphabet's most senior executives, announced that he was stepping down from Uber's board just as the ride-hailing company announced its intention to dive into self-driving cars - a longtime R&D project of Alphabet..

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• Amazon Dash's Push-Button Device Arrives in the UK

  

  Seeking to capitalize on Britons too busy or forgetful to shop for household essentials, retail giant Amazon amzn is bringing its thumb-sized, one-button ordering device to the UK. From Wednesday, British Amazon Prime customers will be able to order supplies of products such as toilet paper, dishwasher tablets, dog food and coffee at the touch of the wifi-connected Amazon Dash button. Each device is dedicated to a single product — toilet roll, for instance — with the brand’s logo emblazo..

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• Cracked! Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 mysteriously fractured in my bag - CNET

  

  Oops, I did it again. I broke another phone. But this time I didn't even have to drop it, unlike my colleagues who tested the Samsung Galaxy Note 7's screen durability against the also-curved S7 Edge. (Check out the video above.) In fact, all I had to do to break this bad boy was to put it in my purse.I'm honestly not sure how the Note 7's upper right-hand corner smashed like it did. I was out with work buddies, my purse hanging on a pair of hooks below a counter. I slipped the Note 7 out of my ..

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