For graphics professionals who want a workstation that can endure long days, Lenovo's ThinkPad W550s is a dream come true. With a 3-cell battery in front and giant 6-cell battery in back, the W550s lasts a practically obscene 16 hours on a charge. The 15.5-inch W550s ($2,640 as tested, starting at $1,133) also features Lenovo's traditional no-nonsense design combined with MIL-SPEC 810G durability...

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If you're looking to truly clean up your curvy new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, or the flatter Samsung Galaxy S6, you might want to consider rooting it. Rooting, aka the process of gaining administrative rights on your device, can allow you to truly remove some bloatware from the device --instead of just disabling it. It'll free up memory - both of the RAM...

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The Galaxy Note 4 has one of the sharpest, most colorful screens on any smartphone. The 5.7-inch AMOLED display provides a detailed, 2560 x 1440 resolution and shows an impressive 163 percent of the sRGB color gamut. However, if you want to capture the images you see on-screen, whether it’s the appearance of a zombine in a mobile game or an image of...

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You can send text-based messages and emails all day long, but when you want to show someone what you’re seeing on your phone, you need a picture. Fortunately, capturing a screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge is as simple as hitting a pair of buttons in tandem, or just swiping across your screen. Swipe for Screenshots  on the Galaxy S6...

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A new Microsoft  app does something even IBM’s brilliant Watson supercomputer doesn’t claim to do -- and the concept is spreading like wildfire. How-Old.net wants to guess your age. (I tried it and it was four years off, but I like to think I look good for my age.) How-Old.net started as an experiment with Microsoft’s newly released face detection APIs. Corom Thompson and Santosh...

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