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When Google announced out of the blue that it would be shutting down its Reader service, a lot of cries arose, and amidst them was Digg’s with a claim that it would step in with its own service. The company has been cranking away at its software, having made the iOS app available earlier this

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This week was a little light on Android app quantity, but the quality of the ones we do have for you is pretty fantastic. Perhaps not entirely, well, 100% ethical in a certain WiFiKiller’s case—but fantastic nonetheless.

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Chrome OS hardware continues to proliferate, and on the software front, Google continues to add features to the platform in the hopes of persuading more folks to exit the traditional PC paradigm. Today marks a significant step in achieving that latter goal, as the dev channel of Chrome OS has received the ability to edit Excel and Word files thanks to Quickoffice integration. While it’s not ready for public consumption just yet, it shows that Google’s getting close to fulfilling its promise to deliver native doc editing to the Pixel and other Chromebooks.

Should you be among those on the dev channel of Chrome OS, you can enable the functionality now by going to chrome://flags, enabling document editing and restarting your machine. According to developer François Beaufort — the man who discovered the functionality — editing’s still a glitchy process, but the more folks that use the feature now, the faster the problems can be found and fixed. The power of productivity is in your hands, people, so get cracking squashing those bugs!

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D-Wave has had little trouble lining up customers for its quantum computer, but questions have persisted as to whether or not the machine is performing quantum math in the first place. University of Southern California researchers have tested Lockheed Martin’s unit to help settle that debate, and they believe that D-Wave’s computer could be the real deal — or rather, that it isn’t obviously cheating. They’ve shown that the system isn’t based on simulated annealing, which relies on traditional physics for number crunching. The device is at least “consistent” with true quantum annealing, although there’s no proof that this is what’s going on; it may be using other shortcuts. Whether or not D-Wave built a full-fledged quantum computer, the resulting output is credible enough that customers won’t feel much in the way of buyer’s remorse.

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In the wake of the release of several new hero devices from the mobile sector at Sony comes the re-appearance of the device code-named “Honami”. This device is said to be the refresh of the Sony Xperia Z, this the company’s current flagship handset. This new smartphone appears to be popping up in a sort

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