For the first time you can now search through every tweet ever

Hope we haven't said anything too embarrassing

Twitter has opened the floodgates and is now letting you search through anything that's ever been posted on the 140-character social network.

That's hundreds of billions of tweets since Twitter launched in 2006, the company says.

Up to this point Twitter's search index has parsed through mainly recent tweets, but now it includes them all - for better or for worse.

Twitter Search Infrastructure Engineer Yi Zhuang elucidated a number of different uses for the new expanded search, from tracking historic elections to revisiting entire conferences, in a blog post.

Let's be honest, though: you're going to use it to look up every embarrassing thing your friends ever tweeted, and godspeed you on that mission.

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Razer Nabu SmartBand rolls through the FCC

Razer Nabu: part fitness band, part smartwatch

The Razer Nabu SmartBand has undergone a lot of changes over its lengthy development period, but we may know soon whether the wait was worth it.

The Nabu SmartBand recently made its appearance at the Federal Communications Commission, indicating it's passed muster and could be released in the US soon.

The Razer wearable began life at CES 2014, where a Spring release date was promised.

But for some reason the Nabu didn't appear again until E3 2014 in the summer, and when it did it was much changed from the wearable we saw earlier.

The Nabu SmartBand has many features of both a fitness band and a smartwatch, including a discreet screen on the device's underside.

It's meant to send you notifications from an Android or iOS device, as well as fitness feedback and other useful tidbits.

The FCC's filing for the device doesn't reveal much of note, but it's nice to know that the Nabu still fits into Razer's plans somehow.

We've asked Razer to confirm the Nabu SmartBand's launch details - if there are any to confirm - and we'll update if we hear back.

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Sprint extends 4G coverage through additional roaming deals

Sprint is expanding its 4G LTE footprint through roaming partnerships it has signed with several rural and regional wireless operators.

On Friday, it announced that it has struck deals with 15 new rural wireless carrier partners, which will help it cover an additional 4 million potential customers with its 4G LTE network. Sprint announced initial deals with 12 rural carriers in June. That deal extended the 4G LTE network to 34 million potential customers in 23 states.

With this latest agreement, Sprint now has deals with 27 carriers in total and will offer 4G LTE access to 38 million people in 27 states.

In March, Sprint said it would take part in the Competitive Carrier Association's Data Access Hub, which provides an easy way for wireless operators to participate in reciprocal roaming agreements, and it announced a deal with the NetAmerica Alliance to work closely with rural carriers to develop an ecosystem of handsets and also offer unused wireless spectrum for further LTE deployment.

These two programs were designed to facilitate a way for Sprint to work more closely with rural operators to extend Sprint's footprint into markets where it doesn't have coverage and to help build a bigger ecosystem of devices all using the same wireless spectrum and technology.

One of Sprint's key problems in competing with AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which together control more than 70 percent of the wireless market in the US, is that its network primarily covers large urban centers and some suburbs. But the company has virtually no coverage in the most rural parts of the country. This puts Sprint at a major competitive disadvantage compared with AT&T and Verizon, which do cover rural markets.

Sprint executives acknowledge that Sprint customers expect to have 4G LTE wherever they travel. The roaming deals that Sprint is striking are helping the company build out its network via partnerships instead of investing in building its network in these underserved markets on its own. At the same time it also gives rural operators more incentive to build their own 4G LTE networks since the relationship will also enable those customers to roam onto Sprint's 4G LTE service in all the major markets it serves.

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SmartGlass app can now control TV through Xbox One

The new Xbox One SmartGlass app has been able to allow users to control their Xbox from their phone for a while now, but with a new update, users can control much more than just that.

TV and App channels are now shown on a new OneGuide page. Users can also now browse TV channels if they have service. Not only that, but the update also includes a number of smaller tweaks, such as new notifications options, a redesigned Home screen, and so on. The app, as usual, also includes an on-screen keyboard, which allows for much easier searching and typing. Hit the break for the Play Store download link and the QR code.

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