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Bike Showdown: Which Easy-to-Build, Low-Maintenance Bike Should You Buy?

It’s finally summer, so it’s time to hop on a bike and riding around your neighborhood. One of the quickest (and cheapest) ways you can do this is to buy one of the many low-maintenance bikes you can find online for super cheap. There are a bunch to choose from, but we’ve decided to focus … Continued

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The Best Unannounced Feature on iOS 11 Is Screen Recording

Apple packed a bunch of cool new features into the new iOS 11 update coming later this year, but it’s possible none of those are cooler than a simple screen capturing tool that makes it easier than ever to record videos of your iPhone in use. Anyone who previously tried to record screen footage knows how … Continued

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The Coolest Stuff Apple Announced Today at WWDC 2017

Apple just kicked off its annual developer conference with a customary jumbo keynote, where it announced the next major updates for iOS and macOS. The company also launched a ton of new hardware, including upgraded MacBooks and a brand new smart speaker powered by Siri. There’s plenty of news to get into, so let’s go … Continued

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Here Are All of the New Upgrades to Siri

If you’re someone who’s constantly talking to Siri on your phone, you might be shocked by some of the big changes coming to the digital assistant. Today at Apple’s annual developer conference, the company announced a bunch of upgrades and tweaks that will be coming to Siri later this year with the launch of iOS … Continued

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MacOS High Sierra: The New Features Coming to Your Computer

Apple announced the brand new update to macOS (version 10.13), its desktop operating system today. Here are some of the exciting new features hitting Macs later this year. Safari is getting smarter and faster One of the most noticeable updates will undoubtedly be the performance upgrades made to Apple’s web browser Safari. Apple proudly showed … Continued

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Amazon Prime Video Is Coming to Apple TV After Years of Delay

After years of delay, Amazon and Apple have finally reached an agreement to bring the Amazon Prime video app to Apple TV set-top-boxes everywhere. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement today at the company’s annual developer conference WWDC 2017. https://gizmodo.com/well-be-liveblogging-apples-wwdc-2017-keynote-right-her-1795764216 The app will give Amazon Prime subscribers the ability to watch Prime video content … Continued

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How to Livestream Apple’s WWDC 2017 Keynote, Which You Still Cannot Do in Google Chrome For Some Weird Reason

We’ve already taken a close look at what you can expect from WWDC, and now it’s time too see what Tim Cook and his band of marauders actually announce. https://gizmodo.com/well-be-liveblogging-apples-wwdc-2017-keynote-right-her-1795764216 If you’re one of the many unfortunate souls who isn’t in San Jose for the conference, you can watch the live stream right here. Don’t … Continued

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What to Expect From Apple WWDC 2017: iOS, Siri Speaker, MacBooks, and More

On Monday, Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off, and that means we will soon learn more about the company’s newest and most exciting products. This year, the event runs from June 5-June 9 and is expected to serve as the launching point for major updates to iOS and macOS, as well as some new … Continued

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Here’s Our First Look at Android Creator Andy Rubin’s Super Hyped Secret Mystery Smartphone

After months of speculation, the creator of Android, Andy Rubin, is finally showing off his company’s new products. Since leaving Google in October 2014, he has been working tirelessly on launching a smartphone that he claims could shakeup the tech industry. Today, we got our first look at it thanks to an exclusive advertisement story … Continued

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Good Deal Alert: RadioShack Is Selling Its Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents

Who doesn’t love a good deal? If you do, it’s time to head on over to your local RadioShack. The iconic retailer is now selling the last of its remaining office supplies as part of a liquidation process brought by a bankruptcy filed in March, and everything must go. RadioShack is peddling pretty much everything … Continued

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Google’s AlphaGo Handily Beats Teen World Champion in First Match

Humanity could really use a win right now, and the latest test comes out of China, where a teenager named Ke Jie—the world’s best player of the ancient game Go—is taking on Google’s ultra powerful AlphaGo computer program. Unfortunately for us humans, it’s not looking great so far.  On Tuesday, 19-year-old Ke Jie was defeated … Continued

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Disgraced Cheating Site Ashley Madison Claims It Has Millions of Users That Totally Aren’t Bots This Time

Ashley Madison is back…supposedly. The cheating site claims it added more than 400,000 global users last month, according to a New York Post report. The supposed growth is especially surprising given that the site experienced a massive data breach in July 2015 that exposed thousands of names and addresses of adulterers including thousands of government … Continued

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Google’s Coolest Tech Is Getting Harder and Harder to See

Google always uses its annual I/O developer conference as a place to trot out some of its biggest and most exciting product updates. You’d be forgiven for feeling like this year was kind of a dud. There were no new gadgets, no new moonshot projects, and not even cool new swag like Google Cardboard headsets. … Continued

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Everything New About Android From Google I/O

Today at the annual Google I/O developer conference, we learned about all the updates coming to the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, dubbed Android O for now—at least until its official release later this year. This is the eighth version of the OS (Android 8.0), and even though we’ve seen some of the … Continued

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Tiny, Incredibly Sad Voice: ‘Hey, Instagram Has Selfie Filters, Too!’

Facebook just can’t seem to help itself. Today, the company’s photo-sharing app Instagram announced that it’s adding “face filters.” Trouble is, the concept is just a bad rip-off of the one offered by rival app Snapchat. Instagram announced the “idea” in a blog post: Today, we’re introducing face filters in the camera, an easy way … Continued

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The Most Interesting Part of Apple’s New $5 Billion Campus Is a Pizza Box

This morning, Wired magazine published an early look into Apple’s brand new spaceship campus. The giant circle features the kinds of ridiculous details you might expect from Apple, like sliding glass doors that weigh 440,000 pounds each and 9,000 trees supposedly durable enough to survive the forthcoming climate crisis. Such details are impressive, but they’re … Continued

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What Happened to the Amazing HoloLens Future We Were Promised?

Microsoft overhauled its fading corporate image nearly three years ago with that announcement of a powerful new operating system, Windows 10. The most surprising facet of this rebranding effort was a promising augmented reality headset, HoloLens, shown off at a press conference in January 2015. When it debuted, HoloLens felt like it could genuinely change … Continued

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Google I/O 2017 Is Coming: What to Expect From the Future of Android, Chrome, and More

Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicks off Wednesday, May 17th and continues through the end of the week. We’ll be on the ground at the show covering all the breaking news, but before then we’re taking a closer look at what we can expect from this year’s conference. Big products like Android and Chrome will … Continued

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Samsung Dex Comes Heartbreakingly Close to Turning a Phone Into a Full-Blown Computer

The Samsung Dex is a tiny new smartphone dock that wades carefully toward a world in which smartphones serve as our primary computers. It’s about the size of a hockey puck, and when the Galaxy S8, a monitor, and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are connected, the Dex turns the phone into a surprisingly functional … Continued

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Microsoft’s New Mixed Reality Controllers Look Very Familiar

Today at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced its own set of motion controllers made for its burgeoning Windows Mixed Reality platform. As we’ve mentioned in previous reports, the company is calling its new computing platform “mixed reality” because it combines different elements of augmented and virtual reality. The platform itself is baked directly … Continued