Louie Baur

  Louie Baur is Editor at Long Beach Louie, a Long Beach Restaurant Review site as well as Skateboard Park. Find him on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

   

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1301 Stories by Louie Baur

BlackBerry will only release Android smartphones this year

For the handful people that are actually anticipating another BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone, don’t hold your breath, because BlackBerry won’t be releasing one this year. That isn’t to say that...
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Facebook Messenger is about to become filled with bots

Remember those rumors a few weeks back that claimed Google is working on a new messaging app that’ll filled with a bunch of bots...
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Steam made more than $3.5 billion from video game sales last year

With more active users than both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Steam is the most-popular digital distribution platform for video games in the world,...
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Only a fraction of the world’s computers can handle the Oculus Rift

We’ve known the Oculus Rift is going to be far from accessible to most people for a while now, but we didn’t know exactly...
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These drones know when they’re entering restricted flying zones

With the FAA having finally started implementing comfortable drone regulations, the most-popular drone manufacturer in the world has decided to appease the agency a...
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The LG G5 might be LG’s most-enticing smartphone to date

The LG G4 was a solid device, but when you’re competing in the extremely crowded market for high-end smartphones, just being solid isn’t enough....
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Spotify is being sued for $150 million in allegedly unpaid royalties

Spotify’s less-than-friendly relationship with the music industry stems from one thing: royalties. To be more precise, it stems from Spotify’s self-confessed inability to distribute...
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Nintendo intends to monetize its first mobile game with cosmetics

All we know about Nintendo’s first mobile game is that it’s going to be free-to-play, and it’s not really a game, but rather a...
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Sony’s virtual reality headset will have a built-in processor

While many people are anticipating the release of virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, most of them don’t realize how much processing power these...
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Facebook was the most-popular app of the year… again

Wow, what a surprise! It looks like Facebook was the most-popular app of the year! Sarcasm aside, not only was Facebook the most-popular app of...
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Tim Cook thinks America’s tax code is horribly outdated

Taxes aren’t very fun, which is why so many multinational corporations like to use their ability to operate in multiple countries to avoid them. According...
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Apple will be dominating the smartwatch market for years to come

It doesn’t matter that Apple wasn’t even close to being the first company to release a smartwatch, because when it finally got around to...
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Huawei sold more than 100 million smartphones this year

While Xiaomi is struggling just to meet the lowest sales goal it set for itself this year, Huawei has become China’s largest smartphone maker with...
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Microsoft is making a custom version of Windows 10 just for China

One of the biggest obstacles Microsoft has faced in China is the government’s reluctance to accept and operating system that’s developed by an American...
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Apple and IBM’s partnership is proving to be a massive success

For the last year and a half, Apple and IBM have been working together to provide their enterprise customers with iOS apps that are...
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This new Tor alternative hides your messages in a stream of spam

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it doesn’t have much...
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Japan is using an interceptor drone to hunt down other drones

While regulators in the United States are still working on a legal solution to the ever-growing consumer drone problem, Japan has decided to fight...
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Google’s new tablet may have originally been a Chrome OS device

Google released the Pixel C earlier this week, and while most people agree that it’s a solid tablet with an excellent design, it doesn’t...
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