You toss a packet of popcorn into your microwave and drop a bag of chamomile slowly into a mug of hot water. The couch is calling your name as the microwave begins beeping to let you know that the piping hot buttery popcorn inside is ready to be devoured. With your popcorn bowl overflowing in one hand and your favorite mug in the other, you make your way to the living room and plop down on the couch with your family.

You turn on the TV as they attack the popcorn, and you navigate to the Netflix icon on your screen. But wait. Something is wrong. Netflix is stuck on the loading screen and it just won’t seem to open. Then, it hits you: Your home internet service is down.

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Apple on Tuesday quietly released a new versions of its 15-inch MacBook Pro and its 27-inch 5K Retina iMac. The new MacBook Pro has been updated with the Force Touch technology that Apple started using with the Apple Watch and the 12-inch Retina MacBook earlier this year. In addition to the new Force Touch trackpad, the new MacBook Pro will also feature stronger battery life that Apple says will deliver an extra hour of use, as well as a new graphics processor that the company says will make graphics run 80% faster. The computer will come in two versions — one with a 2.2GHz processor and one with a 2.5GHz processor — that will sell for $1,999 and $2,499, respectively.

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After nearly a decade worth of research and prototyping, Apple last year finally put to bed any designs it may have had on releasing a branded HDTV set, this according to a recently published report in The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Journal, Apple seriously investigated the development of an HDTV but was ultimately unable to come up with a set of differentiating features that would position its own offering apart from the competition.

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Samsung is yet to announce the Galaxy S6 Active, the rugged version of the Galaxy S6 that kept popping up in leaks in the past few weeks, but it already looks like the handset will be every bit as powerful as its peers.

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First introduced at CES 2015 in January, the Asus ZenFone 2 is a very affordable Android handset that’s ready to launch in the U.S. With prices starting at $199, the smartphone also happens to come in a version that has 4GB of RAM under the hood. That’s something not even top flagship devices from Samsung, HTC or LG currently have to offer this year, yet Asus packed it into a budget-friendly high-end phablet.

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Admit it or not, you’re addicted to your smartphone — in fact, chances are you’re reading this on a mobile device right now. If smartphone addiction weren’t bad enough, you’ll also have to know there’s one other potential side-effect of using the smartphone: A new report from Time says smartphones also make us more easily distracted. In fact, it seems that the more we interact with our mobile devices while we’re supposed to do something else, the more difficult it is for our brains to focus back on the matter at hand.

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So you think your gaming PC rig is pretty sweet with its 32GB of RAM? Well get ready to feel envious all over again. FossBytes on Monday wrote up a nice little report on the rise of 128GB DDR4 RAM kits that will make your gaming PC rig as future proof as anything we’ve seen in a long time.

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In just over a year’s time, one of the biggest PC gaming franchises in history is going to make the transition to the silver screen. If you hadn’t heard, Warcraft, a movie which spent several years in and out of development hell, is currently in the middle of post-production. We won’t see the finished product until next summer, but on Monday, Legendary Pictures revealed the first official images from the movie, featuring CG-animated orc Orgrim Doomhammer, the Warchief of the Horde.

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Given how quickly technology is advancing, it’s easy to lose sight of just how remarkable our modern-day gadgets are. Both the Galaxy S6 and the Apple Watch are exceptional devices that pack a ton of computing power into small pieces of hardware — and a new infographic shows us exactly how far computing tech has advanced over the years to make such devices possible.

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One reason that BlackBerry is lucky to have John Chen at the helm is that, unlike his predecessors, he’s very much grounded in reality about the state of the company. So while former CEO Thorsten Heins was known for making delusional statements about there being nothing wrong with the company even though it was in a downward spiral at the time, Chen has helped stabilize things and has forced BlackBerry to focus more on its core strengths.

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