Samsung flash drives start at just $7.99 in this big Amazon sale — 8 different models on sale!
If you’re in need of a flash drive you’ve waited long enough… Amazon is currently offering deep discounts on eight different Samsung flash drives that come in all different shapes and sizes. And we mean it — some of these drives are barely bigger than your thumbnail! The sale is going on right now and the prices you see below are only good until the end of the day on Saturday, April 16, or while supplies last.
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Watch the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’
A new Marvel superhero is getting his own movie this year, Doctor Strange. Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, neurosurgeon Stephen Vincent Strange becomes a person with special powers after he embarks on a multi-dimensional quest to fix his injured hands from a previous accident. That’s how he becomes Doctor Strange and ends up serving a Sorcerer Supreme, Earth’s protector against magical and mystical things. A first teaser trailer for the upcoming blockbuster is already available.
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FBI bought zero-day from professional hackers to crack San Bernardino iPhone
A zero-day software flaw is the kind of security issue tech companies fear most. These are unknown bugs that hackers can use to enter devices, websites, computer networks, and other internet services and products, for malicious purposes. It appears that one such attack was used recently to hack the San Bernardino iPhone, a new report shows. In fact, it looks like everything we thought we knew about the way the FBI breached the iPhone, without requiring Apple’s assistance, may be inaccurate.
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Man takes over 200,000 photographs to capture one perfect image
How many different shots are you willing to take until you capture that perfect photo? One professional photographer spent some five months shooting over 200,000 photographs to get the image he wanted. Sure, he used an automated camera setup for his scene, but this doesn’t make it any less impressive.
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Texting with friends? Don’t use these confusing emoji
You might be using emoji on your iPhone or Android device a lot these days, but it turns out you probably don’t really understand what you’re sending to someone else. A new study shows that certain emoji images will be misunderstood by both senders receivers, as there’s no unified set of images across operating systems. Because images look different depending on what mobile device you’re using, they may trigger a positive or negative response, which can lead to unintended interpretations, conclusions, and results.
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Man creates heavy metal version of iconic iPhone ringtone
In a scenario that has undoubtedly played out countless times in offices, at parties, in dorms, houses, or basically anywhere there’s a mass of people, individuals will hear the iPhone’s default ringtone blaring and will instinctively reach for their pockets to see if their phone is the culprit. In fact, the iPhone’s default ringtone – named Marimba, if you’re curious – is so ingrained in our collective minds that people will routinely check their pockets even if they have a completely different ringtone enabled.
For a little refresher, you can check out the ringtone in question here.
Sound familiar?
Of course it does.
Now imagine what that ringtone might sound like if it got a bit of a heavy metal makeover.
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Marvel’s Netflix miniseries ‘The Defenders’ will begin filming this year
Just over a year ago, the first season of Daredevil was released on Netflix to widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike. It was the first show in a partnership between Marvel and Netflix that would see four lesser-known heroes star in their own series, culminating in an event miniseries called The Defenders.
We’re still awaiting the first seasons of two of those shows, but on Monday, Daredevil’s own Charlie Cox confirmed that The Defenders would shoot in 2016.
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It looks like HTC finally fixed its phones’ biggest weakness
HTC has made a lot of promises with the HTC 10 but the one that will make Android fans most skeptical is the promise that it’s finally improved the camera on its flagship device. However, there’s some good news here: DxOMark has released its review of the HTC 10’s camera on Tuesday and it ranked it right up there with the Galaxy S7 as the best smartphone camera in the world right now. That’s high praise and it’s indicative that HTC took complaints about past phones’ cameras to heart over the last year.
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Ahead of ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere, Siri answers your burning GOT questions
With the season 6 premiere of Game of Thrones now less than two weeks away, HBO has begun ramping up its promotional efforts. Just a few days ago, for instance, HBO released a riveting trailer for the upcoming season that provides us with many clues about what we can expect to see once the popular show returns to air on Sunday, April 24.
But HBO isn’t the only entity with Game of Thrones on its mind. Even Apple appears to be getting in on the action, albeit in a much smaller and far-removed way. According to a report from MacRumors, Apple has queued Siri up with a number of canned and quirky responses.
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Ant-Man is starstruck meeting Captain America in a new clip from ‘Civil War’
With less than a month to go before the release of Captain America: Civil War, the Disney marketing machine has been kicked into high gear. The cast of the movie has been making the rounds on the late night talk show circuit, a new trailer was shown off at the MTV Movie Awards and now we have another clip to pore over.
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