Hasta La Gadget!

Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.

During this Independence Day-tinged week, the Engadget team has been peering into the past, present and future of manufacturing in the US. We touched on the implausible costs of a real-life Death Star, how to educate kids in code and the finer points on bringing more tech manufacturing to America. Europe also gets a brief nod, as the EU announced the first wave of substantial roaming cost-cutting across the continent, making several of our often in-transit UK editors very happy indeed. We’ve got a list of notable numbers right after the break.

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.

We doubt you missed it, but Microsoft unveiled its new games console this week, and it even showed off some Xbox One hardware to prove it. While the new name is offering casual gamers a bit of confusion — Google “Xbox One” for a taste — the specifications sound like they could make for one very potent console. Billions of transistors? We’re just hoping they ensure there’s plenty of Covenant to shoot in the requisite Halo sequel. There was a very heavy focus on TV, Call of Duty and sports games, so plenty of big-hitter titles to get excited about. But numbers and decimals make us just as happy, so join us for plenty of ’em after the break.

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Microsoft

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.

This week’s After Math appears to have taken on a comic book theme. Want to make your own Thor hammer? How about your very own Atomic Watch — rather than those radio-wave-based excuses of a timepiece? We’ve also got the very real prospect of civilian flights to outer space and, er, Kobe Bryant advertising Lenovo smartphones. Stranger things have happened, right? Join us after the break.

Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation, Alt

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages

As we scratch our head and puzzle over the almost-daily financial results for the last quarter, this week’s missive takes a slightly sentimental look at how two tech companies were faring a decade earlier. Is it unfair to compare the yesteryear Nokia to Google? Possibly. But it was the same year that a certain Engadget regular claimed a best-selling album — so it wasn’t all bad. Toshiba also unveiled a new pin-sharp Ultrabook to stand up to Apple’s Retina displays, and NASA continued the search for habitable planets.

Filed under: Laptops, Alt, Nokia, Google, Intel

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages

It’s finally Friday, and while the week kicked off with one too many April 1st efforts, the big news for TAM this week is a release date for the Netflix-exclusive fourth season of Arrested Development. Nothing else should matter, but if you think it does, Facebook finally showed off their new game plan for mobile and HTC appeared from the sidelines with a new phone to house it. According to some, Windows Phone has also started to claim a less embarrassing share of the smartphone market too. We crunch and spit out the numbers after the break.

Filed under: Cellphones, Robots, Internet, Alt, Microsoft, HTC, Facebook

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