| Verizon says pre-orders for Galaxy S6 and S6 edge will begin April 1
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 Samsung unveiled the Galxay S6 and S6 Edge earlier this week at Mobile World Congress, and immediately all major United States carriers announced plans to offer both devices, but without any pre-order or launch information. Today, however, Verizon has announced that it will open pre-orders for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge on April 1st. The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are both powered by a 64-bit octa-core Exynos processor built on a new 14nm process and feature a 5.1-inch 2560×1440 display. The Edge, of course, features the two displays along the sides of the device, as well. Both Galaxy S6 models also feature a new design with an all-glass back and metal sides. Pricing for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is unclear on Verizon, although the S5 was priced at $199.99 on contract when it went up for pre-orders last year. Samsung says both S6 models will start to ship on April 10th, although it's unclear at this point if that is the ship date for Verizon's variant, as well. Preorders for the Samsung #GalaxyS6 & S6 edge w/ ...
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| The rarest rock music recordings
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 The week's best arts and culture reads – including Christopher Plummer's contempt for The Sound of Music, the Minecraft inventor's downward spiral and more.
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| Data Pool to Gain Insight
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 Farming is a number-crunching career to manage production and risk. The Farmers Business Network (FBN) is dialed in to providing a software platform that provides unbiased, independent data so farmers can make more informed agronomic decisions.
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| When superbugs outstrip antibiotics
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 The old joke about making love to a gorilla is that you don't stop when you're tired; you stop when the gorilla is tired. In modern American agriculture, one of the gorillas is McDonald's, the biggest restaurant chain on earth. The other day it announced a change for its U.S. outlets that...
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| Cutting Illinois' prison population the right way
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 In times of fiscal crisis, elected leaders realize they can't keep doing things the same way they always have. Those relatively expensive options are no longer affordable. Facing the high cost of Illinois' corrections system, Gov. Bruce Rauner says it's time to rethink the state's approach to...
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| Monfils, Simon win to give France 2-0 Davis Cup lead
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 Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon both won their opening matches to give France a 2-0 lead over Germany in the first round of the Davis Cup on Friday. Monfils served 17 aces to defeat German No. 1 Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (4) in 2 hours, 19 minutes to put the 2014 runner-up in a commanding position ahead of Saturday's doubles match. Earlier, Simon bounced back ...
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