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Why did Trump just text me

At 2:18 PM ET today, everyone with a mobile phone in the US will get a message blast from the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA). The alert won’t have any substantial content – it’s just a system test – but this sets a whole new precedent for how Americans are informed.

This message and will be labeled a “Presidential Alert” and, yes, wil

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AMD to announce 7nm processors and graphics cards at CES 2019AMD to announce 7nm processors and graphics cards at CES 2019

CES 2019, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show, is still months away. But it looks like AMD wants to set the tone by teasing that the company will announce the world’s first 7nm high-performance CPUs and GPUs at the event.

AMD announced its President and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, will host a keynote to announce these game-changing processors and

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Bitcoin bug exploited to print millions of Pigeoncoins

A recently discovered severe bug in Bitcoin's code has been exploited to create coins of a lesser-known cryptocurrency raising fears that others could be next.

The developers behind the Pigeoncoin cryptocurrency confirmed that an unknown attacker successfully took advantage of the bug in Bitcoin's code to print 235 million coins worth around

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Google Assistant is getting a major makeover

Google Assistant is already arguably the smartest digital assistant available, but it’s now getting even better, as Google has rolled out a makeover for it on phones.

The changes come as a result of realizing that nearly half of all Google Assistant interactions involve both voice and touch, so it’s now a lot more visual.

That means larger images,

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Google Assistant to sell in-app purchases and digital content through voice aloneGoogle Assistant to sell in-app purchases and digital content through voice alone

Google Assistant can already control your TV, smart home and understand multiple languages at once, but it's going to have to do more than that to keep its position as the smartest voice helper on the planet. And courting money-making app developers isn't going to hurt it.

Google has announced that it'll soon be letting you make purchases of

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Microsoft Surface Studio 2

Microsoft may have not delivered on a Surface Phone last night, but Microsoft’s Surface Chief Panos Panay promises the company's working a pocketable Surface device and more.

How can we be so sure In an interview published today, Panay, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Microsoft Devices Group, refers to a pocketable Surface device as being “

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