Earlier today, Apple launched an updated Retina MacBook with several relatively minor improvements over its predecessor. Of course, Apple’s notebook updates aren’t always revolutionary, but for anyone who has skipped the last few models, the 2016 MacBook might be the right choice.
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Remember that viral photo of the dress that caused such a stir online? Since then, we keep seeing similar visual illusions designed to mess with our brains, and the latest one is the image above, which shows two hearts with different colored lines drawn in front of them and behind them. Are the hearts orange? Are they purple? They can’t possibly be of the same color, can they?
Before you freak out about the actual color of these hearts, watch the video we’ve included below, which explains how the brain processes color and how it alters our perception of the world.
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The most wonderful and terrible thing about Amazon and eBay is that they sell just about everything, including things you didn’t know existed and things that probably shouldn’t exist at all. But how can you find the strangest things on these two online retailing giants without having a specific idea of what you’re looking for?
As is usually the case with such things, your best resource is Reddit. More specifically, you should check out the two subreddits /r/WTFAmazon and /r/eBayWTF to find the absolute craziest and scariest things that are being sold online right now.
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The name Damien Walters may not sound familiar to most people, but some James Bond fans will know he happens to be Daniel Craig’s stunt double in Skyfall, one of the latest 007 movies. How good of a stunt person is Walters, you may ask? Just watch the following video, in which he does a standing backflipp over a Formula E race car that’s barreling towards him at 60 miles per hour.
Oh, and Walters doesn’t even look to see it approaching.
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For all the hoopla surrounding NSA surveillance activities, it’s shockingly easy to forget that Google often knows an awful a lot about more than 1 billion users across the globe. Google knows what you search for, what videos you watch, what music you listen to, and even the places you travel to. Of course, Google having access to this information doesn’t quite shock the system given that Google users are typically all too happy and willing to sacrifice a bit of their privacy in exchange for a wide array of free and useful services.
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We shared a whole bunch of hot paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free with you in yesterday’s post, and you can still download half of them for free if you head back to that article. Wifiman was a super popular one in particular, and it’s still free as well. Today we’ve got even more paid iOS apps on sale to share with you, and you’ll definitely find something you like in today’s batch.
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In a world where Steve Ballmer is an NBA owner and former Apple executive Tony Fadell is a Google employee, I suppose the notion of Apple getting into the TV production business in an effort to take on Netflix isn’t that crazy. Echoing a report which first surfaced this past August, a recently published FastCompany article sheds some new light on Apple’s somewhat ambitious attempt to develop original programming and, in turn, make an impactful and bold entry into the TV business.
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Yesterday’s picks for the best daily deals on Amazon had some great products, but today we’ve got a killer roundup for you. It’s headlined by rare discounts on the Amazon Echo and the new Amazon Tap, which are Amazon’s revolutionary speakers that let you interact with the company’s “Alexa” personal assistant using voice commands. There’s also plenty more to be found on today’s list, of course, like a discounted 128GB SD memory card and a great deal on a top-rated cable modem that will save you hundreds on your internet bill by eliminating the $10 monthly modem rental fee. Find out how to get rid of that monthly fee and save hundreds over time right here in this post.
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So many people have iPhones these days, but precious few people actually know about all of the useful features hiding inside iOS. That’s why we regularly publish articles covering iPhone and iPad features that aren’t well-known — like this post on 25 hidden iPhone features that are really, truly hidden. By bringing these features to light, we help iOS device users get the most out of their smartphones and tablets, and we get emails all the time from people thanking us for helping them learn something new.
Unfortunately, today we’re going to focus on a bunch of great features that aren’t hiding in your iPhone or iPad.
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We’ve seen a few Magic Leap demos, some of them showing exciting augmented reality games created for the unreleased VR/AR device. But this exciting startup may be working on something a lot bigger than that, and it could redefine the future of computing. In addition to gaming, Magic Leap’s mixed reality (MR) experience could reshape the way we’ll use computers for productivity and regular day-to-day tasks. It’s the kind of technology that might replace the iPhone in a more distant future.
A new video recorded through the eyes of a Magic Leap user shows this technology in action for the first time, and it completely blew us away.
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