Sal McCloskey

  Sal McCloskey is a tech blogger in Los Angeles who (sadly) falls into the stereotype associated with nerds. Yes, he's a Star Trek fan and writes about it on Uberly. His glasses are thick and his allergies are thicker. Despite all that, he's (somehow) married to a beautiful woman and has 4 kids. Find him on Twitter or Facebook,

   

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1135 Stories by Sal McCloskey

Xiaomi is planning to release the Mi5 sometime next month

I lost count of how many Xiaomi Mi5 rumors we reported on last year, but as 2015 started to come to a close, it...
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AOL search is now entirely powered by Bing

Although it had a rough start, Bing has actually become an excellent search engine, and the only one in Western markets that’s been able...
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India now has more than a billion smartphone users

As China’s mobile market continues to mature and saturate, all eyes are turning to India as the country’s mobile market continues to boom. Earlier...
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Twitter is trying to purge malicious users from its services

If there’s one thing that Twitter has in abundance, other than spam bots, it’s trolls. The sheer amount of malicious users on Twitter has caused...
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Microsoft has delayed its 84-inch tablet again

It was hard to believe the rumors that Microsoft is working on an 84-inch tablet at first, but when the company officially unveiled the...
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SEGA isn’t working on a Dreamcast successor after all

Fans of the beloved, yet unsuccessful Dreamcast were filled with excitement earlier today when talk of a Dreamcast 2 started popping up on social...
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Ford and Google want to build self-driving cars together

No company has conducted as much real-world testing on self-driving cars as Google, but without the ability to actually manufacture its own vehicles, this...
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Ubuntu hasn’t even come close to achieving its ambitious goals

Ubuntu may be the most well-known of the Linux distributions, but that doesn’t mean much, and it certainly wasn’t enough for the operating system to...
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ASUS might launch the ZenFone 3 sometime in May or June

I’ll admit, when ASUS unveiled the first ZenFone, I assumed it was going to be another failed attempt by a PC maker to expand...
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NASA has almost completed its first 3D-printed rocket engine

3D printing may have the potential to revolutionize the way we manufacture things, but for now, 3D printing is mostly used to create colorful nicknacks and...
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A group of secret investors just gave Jolla some lifesaving funding

Trailing behind BlackBerry 10, Cyanogen OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, and Windows Phone in the quest to challenge the Android-iOS duopoly that currently dominates the...
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Xiaomi claims it’s not worried about its lackluster smartphone sales

Remember when Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun claimed his company would sell at least 80 million smartphones this year? Well, despite its explosive growth, the company wasn’t...
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Vroom has raised $95 million to expand its online car-buying empire

Technology isn’t just changing the way we drive vehicles, it’s also changing the way we buy them. A New York City-based startup by the name...
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Europe is considering banning children from using social media

Few things are as potentially dangerous to children in developed nations as social media, and though many governments and organizations have made efforts to...
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Around 77,000 Steam accounts are hijacked and pillaged every month

Steam users have been suffering from account theft since the service first launched, but ever since Valve introduced Steam Trading to the mix, the...
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France considers restricting public Wi-Fi and Tor to combat terrorism

Often more frightening than terrorist attacks themselves are the asinine laws that politicians will propose in their wake. When the horrors of a terrorist attack...
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Bigger tablets could breathe new life into the market

The tablet market has been shrinking for a while now, but a recent shift in the industry may breathe new life into the tablet market....
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The iPhone 6C is expected to launch within the next few months

Rumors of Apple’s return to 4-inch smartphones have been popping up for some time, but it looks like mid-2016 will be when we actually...
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