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When Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” launches this fall, it will appear first on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the “Nexus” line.

Brace yourselves Facebook fans for more paid status updates, sponsored stories, App Center, and mobile ads, as the social network tries to prove its worth after getting a black eye from General Motors, one of the largest advertisers in the U.S.

Today's DLSRs can capture high-definition video with sharp lenses that make your movies just as crisp as a high megapixel image. The only problem is that those same lenses weren’t exactly made track focus on your subject in live motion.

Netgear's first 802.11ac router, the R6300, will go on sale next week for $200, the company announced at a news conference yesterday. Touting the benefits of the next-gen Wi-Fi standard, the company also announced two more 802.11ac products: a lower-end router and a USB adapter for notebooks, both due this summer.

Microsoft's Bing search engine just got a lot more social.

Virtual machines is one way enterprise IT departments addresses the issue of security when users want to use their own platforms. Virtualized solutions like Citrix and VMWare allow users to run approved applications. These applications run in a server in the local or internet cloud.

General Motors has announced that it will no longer advertise its cars and trucks on Facebook according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The poor performance of GM ads on the social network isn’t necessarily an indictment of Facebook advertising, though. It may just be the wrong thing to market on Facebook.

Late last month, SpaceX test-fired its Falcon 9 engines and planned a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 7. SpaceX pushed this launch back but it's now slated to take place on May 19 at 4:55am EDT (1:55am PDT). This upcoming launch will be a part of the Commercial Orbital transportation Services (COTS) program, an effort to help NASA find a private launch provider to ferry crew members and cargo to the ISS.

Apple is looking to increase the iPhone’s screen size from 3.5 inches to at least 4 inches, according to a Wall Street Journal report, a move that’s presumably being made because of stiff Android competition.

U.S. Customs is holding up imports of HTC's One X and Evo 4G LTE Android phones because of HTC's ongoing legal battle with Apple. “U.S. availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC (International Trade Commission) exclusion order,” an HTC official told PCWorld. “We believe we are in compliance with the ruling and HTC is working closely with Customs to secure approval.”

Just days before Facebook's much anticipated initial public offering, one of the largest advertisers in the U.S. has decided to stop advertising on the platform. General Motors will stop advertising on Facebook because it has determined that paid ads on the site are, well, not effective, the Wall Street Journal reports.

HTC's recently launched One X Android phone inspired deep feelings in our reviewer, who declared his love in a four-star review. Normally the smartphone costs $200 with a new AT&T contract, but at the moment AmazonWireless is selling the One X for only $129--and the offer stands for current AT&T subscribers as well as new accounts.

Nvidia launched its latest line of Tesla GPU compute engines at the company’s Graphics Technology Conference in San Jose today. One model shipping immediately is based on the existing GK104 chip used in the recently released GTX 680. Dubbed the Tesla K10, the board delivers as much as 4.6 teraflops of single precision floating point performance, roughly three times the single precision FP of the older, Fermi-based Tesla. The card can also handle an aggregate memory bandwidth of 320GB per second. This board is targeted towards oil exploration, signal processing and seismic processing applications.

Lenovo Tuesday officially announced its new portfolio of business-friendly ThinkPad laptops, IdeaPad Ultrabooks, and IdeaPad multimedia laptops. Come June, it'll be raining Lenovo ThinkPads and IdeaPads.

How many browser tabs do you keep open on your work computer during the day? Five? Maybe ten? If you're a Google Chrome user, there's now an easier way to access those tabs on your other devices, including a laptop or phone, without enduring a cumbersome copy-and-paste ritual.

Mozilla released a new beta version of its popular Firefox browser for Android on Tuesday.