Apple has just launched a major update to its Retina MacBook line that will include faster processors, longer battery life and a new color option. Apple says that the new upgrades “make the thinnest and lightest MacBook even better.” The highlight of the update is an upgrade to Intel’s sixth-generation Core M 1.3 GHz processors that have Turbo Boost speeds of up to 3.1 GHz.

The new laptops also feature faster 1866 MHz memory, deliver an extra hour of battery life, and come in a new rose gold color option like the rose gold option we first saw last fall with the launch of the iPhone 6s. Apple also says that the new “Intel HD Graphics 515 deliver up to 25 percent faster graphics performance, and faster PCIe-based flash storage makes everyday tasks feel snappier — from launching apps to opening files.”

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Home theater projectors have come a very long way in recent years. What used to be a luxury reserved only for the rich is now just as affordable as a standard HDTV. In fact, if you take advantage of a great sale going on right now on Amazon, you’ll spend even less than you would on a flat-screen HDTV.

From now through the end of the day on Saturday, April 23, Amazon is selling the Acer K137i Portable DLP Home Theater Projector for just $499.99 with free shipping. That’s a great price for a projector that fits in the palm of your hand and beams a 700-lumen image up to 100 inches in full HD.

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever fantasized about Netflix making offline viewing a reality. The feature would let users preload a bunch of Netflix movies and TV shows to their devices to watch later without the need for a network connection, you’ll be happy to hear that the company is considering the possibility.

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After Apple’s Siri already confirmed that this year’s WWDC event will take place in mid-June, Apple officially announced the dates for its highly anticipated developers event, where it’ll show us the future of its operating systems, including iOS 10, OS X 10.12, watchOS, and tvOS.

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These days, people love having phones with large displays, even though Apple’s new iPhone SE shows that there’s still a market for smaller phones. Even this new smaller iPhone looks positively huge compared to a new Android phone called the Posh Mobile Micro X S240. Unbox Therapy over the weekend got a first look at this tiny new Android phone, which features a 2.4-inch display, 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM, a dual-core processor, a two-megapixel rear-facing camera and Android 4.4 KitKat.

What, you didn’t think a smartphone this tiny would actually have high-end specs, did you?

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Are your iPhone or Android text messages secure? Can anyone intercept them and read their contents? These are questions not many smartphone users ask, but not all text apps offer bulletproof security. In fact, some means of communication offer practically no security at all. Some are better than others at guarding your personal data, whether it’s trivial talk about your favorite sports team, or sharing sensitive documents, pictures and personal data. In fact, some forms of chat are practically impossible to crack.

Meanwhile, if you want to make it as easy as possible for just about anyone to hack your messages and read your private conversations, SMS is definitely the way to go.

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Though not a secret, it’s not widely known that the CIA has its own venture capital firm called In-Q-Tel. The purpose of In-Q-Tel is simple: invest in high-tech companies as a means to ensure that the CIA remains on top of the latest and greatest technology breakthroughs and advancements. As In-Q-Tel’s first CEO Gilman Louie once stated, the firm’s work allows the CIA to remain “at the cutting edge of information technology advances and capabilities.”

Earlier this year, In-Q-Tel (IQT) held a CEO Summit that brought together the CEOs of a number of companies that IQT has investments in. Some of the featured speakers at the event included FBI director James Comey, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director Robert Cardillo and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work.

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Even though some litigious folks have tried over the years, you can’t sue a weatherman for giving you the wrong information. Did you end up getting soaked because the weather report said it was going to be 75 and sunny this weekend when in reality a mini-monsoon landed on your front door? Well, you’re out of luck on multiple fronts.

The fact of the matter is that weather reports provide no real guarantee as to anything weather related. They are, in very pure sense, mere predictions. And sure, modern-day computing has perhaps improved the accuracy of weather reports, but it’s important to remember that weather reports still remain nothing more than educated guesses. As it stands today, we’re currently at a point where the weather can be reasonably, kinda sorta, predicted about 10 days out into the future.

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We’re surrounded by voice-enabled personal assistants these days, but what if we could make them all talk to one another? That’s the ambition of Leon Nicholls, who recently activated Siri on an iPhone by going through three different voice-enabled assistants first. As you’ll see in the following video, the chain reaction among all the computerized assistants is a pretty amusing sight.

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Computers have become so advanced that they can recognize the contents of the photos you take with your iPhone or Android smartphone, meaning you’ll be able to easily find a certain picture by simply describing it to a computer in the future. It’s all possible thanks to advanced deep learning techniques that train computers to recognize all sorts of shapes and objects in regular images.

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