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New MacBook Air models may be right around the corner — if a reading of retailer tea leaves is correct. Signs may point to a refresh of Apple’s popular MacBook Air. Possibly next month. AppleInsider said Friday that at large online retailers like MacConnection, stock has vanished for the popular 13.3-inch Air with a 1.8GHz [...]

The Chromebook Pixel may be pretty, but it can’t talk to cameras — among the many problems that keep it from being a prime-time laptop. SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s expensive Chromebook giveaway here at its I/O 2013 conference can’t handle connecting to digital cameras, but that’s just one of many problems the laptop causes for its owners. Chromebooks, [...]

The Twitter co-founder’s new company, Jelly, closes its first round of funding with a celebrity-studded group of investors, including tech notables like Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman and Evan Williams. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has picked up some interesting celebrity investors for his mysterious mobile startup Jelly. The list, published on the company’s Tumblr Thursday, includes [...]

Google’s Search was already scary good at knowing what you wanted — sometimes before you even knew what you wanted. And now it’ll talk back to you. At Google I/O 2013, the company announced an update to its Google Now search app for Android and iOS as well as enhanced voice search for Chrome and [...]

Google has now signed on the three major labels as it gears up to unveil a Spotify rival.Google is close to unveiling its streaming music service, as it prepares to take on Pandora, Spotify, and possibly Apple. In March, Google signed a deal for two streaming services with Warner Music — one tied to YouTube, [...]

Massive update will make games on Android more social with multiplayer functionality and cloud syncing, according to code reviewed by the Android Police. Google is apparently beefing up games’ presence on the Android platform. The Web giant is pushing out a massive update to make games on the mobile platform more social, according to documents [...]

Attention early adopters: That first-edition Google Glass hardware is likely to be gathering dust a few years from now as the technology gets seriously revved (or falls victim to paranoid lawmakers and pub owners), but don’t toss it out! If an auction later this month of computing and other technological blasts from the past is any indication, it [...]

Amazon is working on a smartphone. Now, The Wall Street Journalis reporting that Amazon is actually working on two. The Journal reported Thursday that Amazon is “developing a wide-ranging line-up of gadgets,” including two smartphones, one of which will have a 3D screen. Citing multiple anonymous sources, the Journal says the 3D-capable smartphone will not require [...]

Accidental leaks seem to have become a common affair. The latest to suffer the fate is Acer with its W3-810 tablet, which is an 8.1-inch Windows 8 tablet. According to a news report by PCWorld, Acer W3-810 was accidentally listed by Amazon.com on Friday for $379.99 (Rs. 20,500) but removed soon after. Till date, most Windows [...]

The meteor shower created by the debris trail of Halley’s Comet will peak Sunday evening, and NASA is providing a live view of the celestial fireworks show. Prime viewing of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower should be around 9 p.m. ET, providing stargazers with 30 to 40 meteors an hour, according to NASA. A [...]