'Snow Moon' Lunar Eclipse Shines with Comet Tonight: What to Expect and other top stories.

• 'Snow Moon' Lunar Eclipse Shines with Comet Tonight: What to Expect

  

  Early this evening (Feb. 10), careful observers across parts of North America can watch a Full Snow Moon penumbral lunar eclipse. With a pair of binoculars or a small telescope, skywatchers can also catch a glimpse of a bright-green comet passing by Earth. Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, which entered the media spotlight in December as the "New Year's Eve comet" when it first became visible, makes its closest approach to Earth on Saturday (Feb. 11). While the comet has been visible for..

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• Everything We Know About the Samsung Galaxy S8

  

  There has been talk that Samsung needed to move more quickly than usual to introduce a new flagship smartphone this year to make customers forget about the exploding battery debacle of last summer's Galaxy Note 7.But the South Korean electronics giant has actually gone the other way, slowing down to ensure its upcoming Galaxy S8 is both desirable and safe. Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung i..

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• Windows 10's Cortana adds Suggested Reminders to help you keep your promises

  

  Windows 10’s Cortana is already a dutiful digital assistant, providing answers, reminders, or other information when asked. But Microsoft has given her more power to take the initiative, automatically setting reminders for commitments you’ve already agreed to. Take an email, for example. You may have promised your boss that you’ll deliver a sales presentation by Friday. Just in case you’ve forgotten, Cortana will automatically issue what Microsoft is calling a “suggested reminder” the day..

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• Sony's $300 Ultra HD Blu-ray player will arrive in March

  

  The XBR-X930E and XBR-X940E are at the top of the line, with a slim backlighting system that Sony claims can provide 10x the contrast of most LED-lit TVs and a more powerful processor that's supposed to adjust the contrast on each individual object in a picture. In the middle are the XBR-900E with full array local dimming and a step-down processor, followed by the XBR-800E/XBR-X850E that drops the local dimming.In terms of price, they go from a 43-inch XBR-43X800E that's $1,000, to the top of t..

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• This Year's 'Call Of Duty' Will Take The Series 'Back To Its Roots'

  

  In a recently held earnings call for the company's performance in the fourth quarter of 2016, Activision revealed that the Call of the Duty franchise will be going "back to its roots" with this year's release in the series. Such a move might pay off for Call of Duty and Activision, as Capcom has found success in Resident Evil 7 by once again making horror as the game's focus. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Fails To Meet Expectations In the conference call, Activision COO Thomas Tippl said that ..

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• Tesla Owners Can Now Check For Empty Supercharger Stations In Real Time

  

  If you own a vehicle from carmaker Tesla you will be pleased to learn that locating an empty Supercharger station is about to get simpler. Tesla has activated a much awaited feature that will enable users to check the occupancy of the Supercharger stall in real time. The in-car Supercharger stall status will be live and let vehicle owners see how many stalls are available or occupied at a particular station. Making available the in-car Supercharger station status accessibility notification was ..

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• Apple's W1 Bluetooth chip, explained

  

  Apple's AirPods aren't just special because they are one of the few "truly wireless" earbud headphones available -- models with separate left and right earpieces that aren't tethered together with a cable. Along with three Beats headphones (the PowerBeats3 Wireless, the Solo3 Wireless and the BeatsX) they're one of only a handful of products that incorporate Apple's new W1 chip, a teeny-tiny piece of hardware that will make your forget how awful pairing over Bluetooth can be.What's special abou..

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• Zuckerberg shows off Oculus gloves for typing in VR

  

  Oculus wants to one day let you fingerpaint, act like a super hero, and even type in virtual reality. Oculus already has its Touch controllers that are great for wielding virtual guns or picking up digital objects, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new prototype for VR gloves in photos from his tour of the Redmond, Washington Oculus Research. Zuckerberg writes, “We’re working on new ways to bring your hands in virtual and augmented reality. Wearing these gloves, you can draw, t..

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