Nokia Lumia 800 White hands-on

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Today's been all about the white phones , and Nokia's new Lumia matches that glossy finish we saw on its near-identical twin, the white N9 . Here, opposing the matte goodness of the rest of Lumia 800 family, the unibody shell has an almost-enamel feel on what we've heard is still polycarbonate material. From our brief play with the device, it's looking to be a pretty pervasive color choice to go alongside that pitch-black AMOLED screen.

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Nokia confirms white Lumia 800, shipping without pigment this month

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Nokia does love teasing us with its albino-hued special editions, and so it did with the white Lumia 800 back in December. Now that phone is following the color-free road to retail later this month

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Crytek’s Gface hits beta, wants you to stream your games, life

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Facebook games just not doing it for you anymore? Than put on your gameface -- or log into it, rather. Gface is an upcoming social network, powered by Crytek, that seems to be gunning for OnLive (or maybe Gaikai )'s cloud gaming foothold.

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83-year old woman gets replacement 3D printed titanium jaw, makes her the coolest member of the bridge club

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3D printers are continuing to force their way into medical applications and the latest beneficiary is an 83-year old woman. She's the first patient to receive a titanium jaw crafted by those not-so dimensionally-challenged printers . The method was developed by the BIOMED Research Institute at Hasselt University in Belgium and creates the replacement from layer-upon-layer of titanium dust.

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HTC’s 2011 Q4: good summer, bad winter

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HTC's big 2011 was limited to those warm summer months, when everyone wanted a smartphone for the beach.

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iBooks Author gets new EULA, aims to clear writer’s block

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We've waxed lyrical about iBooks Author at the technological level, but a good self-publishing platform counts for nothing if authors are put off by its terms and conditions. A particular source of antagonism so far has been the notion that, if an author decides to charge a fee for their iBook, then Apple will claim exclusive distribution rights and prevent them from publishing their work anywhere else.

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Server outage turns Harmony Link into a paperweight

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The Cloud is great place right? It's all puppy dogs and ice cream, until it isn't. We'd suspect that's what Harmony Link users who ditched their old school remotes for an iOS device are thinking right about now.

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How would you change the Motorola Droid RAZR?

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Phones, phones, phones: the burden of autumnal launches for a raft of handsets is that it makes our post-mortem strand a little repetitive.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: electric taxis, paper robots and a cathedral of 55,000 LEDs

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat saw the light as we reported on several spellbinding new projects around the world -- including an incredible cathedral made from 55,000 LEDs and a glowing prefab pod building modeled after the genetic structure of plankton

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DASH promises stutter free streaming video over LTE, hopes you don’t care about quality

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We've all been there: fire up a clip from YouTube or a movie on Netflix and things start out great. But, then, after just a few moments, that LTE connection starts to give up the ghost and suddenly you're faced with unbearable stutturing or a video that just dies mid stream.

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