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Who’s looking sleek in angled corners? Why, it’s the Motorola Xoom 2 — at least it might be, according to Droid-Life and the folks that leaked it the above image. The outfit’s informant tells them that the pictured device is flaunting micro-USB and HDMI ports, a SIM card slot and a few large, flush buttons on its back. Is it the real deal? Well, we can’t say it looks much like Verizon’s door-destroying tablet, or even the shy slate that we spied on Motorola Mobility’s leaked website redesign — but we wouldn’t put too much stock into ambiguous renders and inconclusive advertisements anyway. There’s one more image after the break for those of you that are into rear-facing cameras and “confidential” engravings.

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What’s great about Android is the talented devs who use the platform. Case in point: CVPCS, an Android dev, wanted to use VLC on his Android phone since he used VLC all the time on his desktop. So he built a pre-Alpha version for everyone to use. More »

The Saskatchewan Roughriders football club has received $585,000 from the sale of vanity licence plates that celebrate the team.

Windows: The latest alpha version of uTorrent for Windows (sorry Mac users) has a great new feature: you can drag and drop media downloads onto your Android, iPhone, Xbox 360, or PS3. Currently it won’t convert the files to a playable format, but that’s expected alongside the upcoming premium release of uTorrent Pro. More »

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Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman share their plans with THR for the upcoming season.

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Congratulations: you just got a brand new Android phone! If you're lucky, you got a great deal and a huge upgrade from your old Android device. Even so, your old handset has been with you for years and it's set up exactly how you like it—with all of your apps, contacts, and settings just so. Here's how to move all of that precious data to your new phone. More »

Canadians can now go forth and purchase the Sony S1 – a Wi-Fi only 9.4-inch Android 3.1 Honeycomb powered tablet that has a 1GHz dual-core processor. Sony took a different route with design, apparently the S1 stemmed from folding a piece of paper in half, which in turn made its “teardrop” shape. Unique and thankfully light. The S1 weighs in at 598 grams while competing tablets such as the iPad 2 is 601 grams. You can check out our full review of the S1 here  but other specs are that it has a 5 megapixel camera that captures 720p HD videos (no flash), a VGA front-facing camera and is the second Certified PlayStation mobile device (comes pre-loaded with Crash Bandicoot and Pinball Heroes). The S1 comes in a 16GB version for $499.99 or a 32GB for $599.99.

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An Arizona college student was arrested and charged Thursday in a breach of computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment early this summer where more than 37,000 customers had their information stolen.

Microsoft tipped at the BUILD developer’s conference last week that Windows Live and SkyDrive will have a big role in Windows 8. Windows Live users will be able to tie their personal computers and phones to Windows Live, log in to all of them with their Live ID, and let Windows Live manage their profile and application settings in the cloud. More »

It ain’t over till the LHC says so, which is why researchers at CERN are opening up their most recent OPERA experiment to the scientific community before officially releasing its findings. Why, you ask? Because the experiment could shatter one of the fundamentals of physics — Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which says nothing with mass can accelerate faster than the speed of light. While studying neutrino oscillations — where particles shift from one type of subatomic particle (muon-neutrinos) to another (tau-neutrinos) — scientists clocked a beam of muon-neutrinos outpacing the aforesaid ray of light by 60 nanoseconds. Calling the result “crazy,” lead scientist Antonio Ereditato published the findings online, hoping to attract the attention of others who might shed some light on what it all means. We’re not expecting a conclusive answer any time soon, but budding whiz-kids can get educated in the links below.

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An old satellite set to fall to Earth in pieces will do so on Friday afternoon ET, but won’t be over North America when it comes down, NASA says.

This is a good sign for those eager to get a PlayBook at a discounted price. A week ago both Rogers and TELUS reduced the price of RIM’s first tablet, but it was only available to their employees. Checking out this receipt from Walmart Canada it looks like a massive sale is quietly happening. The price of the 16GB version has been slashed by a whopping 50% to $249 outright. Nothing is listed on the website but this is solid rollback pricing!

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This is a good sign for those eager to get a PlayBook at a discounted price. A week ago both Rogers and TELUS reduced the price of RIM’s first tablet, but it was only available to their employees. Checking out this receipt from Walmart Canada it looks like a massive sale is quietly happening. The price of the 16GB version has been slashed by a whopping 50% to $249 outright. Nothing is listed on the website but this is solid rollback pricing!

Update: We’re hearing mixed pricing on the Walmart 16GB PlayBook, some are getting the discounted price and others are stuck at the $499 price. Not sure what’s happening there but some are getting a good deal. In addition, Future Shop and Best Buy have both lowered the 16GB price to $299.99. They have reduced the price by $100 and also extended a $100 gift card when you purchase online. As for the 32GB version, this now has been dropped to $399.99 and the 64GB falls to $499.99.

Check it out here at Future Shop and at Best Buy (follow through to the check out process)

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Another day, another patent lawsuit. Today’s below-bridge dwelling plantiff is Taiwanese company VIA. More »

It is the most famous scientific equation of them all but last night it
emerged Einstein’s theory of relativity may be wrong.

After yesterday’s Facebook revamp, Mark Zuckerberg still had a few new features to reveal at today’s f8 conference. The most important? Timeline, a complete reconceptualization of your profile page. More »