Amazon sale offers deep discounts on 2 different USB flash drives
If you’re in the market for a new ultra-portable USB flash drive, today is your lucky day. Don’t buy one down at your local big box electronics retailer unless you enjoy spending more money than you need to. Instead, check out this sale Amazon is currently having, which offers solid discounts on three different USB flash drives made by Samsung. One model has 32GB of storage and the other has 64GB of space, and they both feature a great compact design. This sale ends on Saturday, October 17, so be sure to grab one while you can. All models include free Prime shipping.
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Watch Tesla’s new automatic lane-changing tech in action
Earlier this week, Tesla released its new Model S software version 7.0 that gives its Model S cars the power to perform some neat new tricks including automatic lane changing and automatic parallel parking. Over the past day, the first videos showing these new tricks in action have started popping up on YouTube and they demonstrate that the Model S really does now change lanes for you when it detects that it’s safe to do so.
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Watch Tesla’s new automatic lane-changing tech in action
Earlier this week, Tesla released its new Model S software version 7.0 that gives its Model S cars the power to perform some neat new tricks including automatic lane changing and automatic parallel parking. Over the past day, the first videos showing these new tricks in action have started popping up on YouTube and they demonstrate that the Model S really does now change lanes for you when it detects that it’s safe to do so.
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The app every iPhone 6s user was waiting for is finally here
Early iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus adopters have a lot to love in Apple’s latest and greatest iPhones. We called the iPhone 6s Apple’s biggest iPhone update ever in our in-depth iPhone 6s review, and it also happens to be the most powerful smartphone on the market today. There have been a few problems with the phone so far though, and we recently told you how to fix five common issues with the iPhone 6s. While “sharing Live Photos” cannot exactly be listed as a problem, per se, it is one issue that 6s owners have been complaining about since day one: There’s no easy way to share a Live Photo with someone who doesn’t have an iPhone 6s or an iPhone 6s Plus.
Well, that all changed on Thursday thanks to a new app that was just released in the App Store.
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T-Mobile says its version of NumberSync will make AT&T’s offering ‘look small’
Hours after AT&T unveiled its new service called NumberSync, which will allow customers to use one phone number on multiple connected devices, T-Mobile got in touch with Re/code to make sure that everyone knew it’s planning something similar.
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Leak: This is HTC’s iPhone
Samsung created a top secret 132-page document to show its engineers how to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel, and the company still never managed to pull off anything that was anywhere near as shameless as the iPhone ripoff HTC is about to unveil. Seriously… just look at this thing.
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Don’t buy a new printer until you see these 3 Amazon deals
When it comes to home electronics, everyone knows that Amazon is one of the best places to shop. What most people don’t know, however, is exactly when the site hosts special limited-time sales on certain items they might be looking for. That’s where the BGR Deals Team comes into play, and we’ve found some terrific deals on printers this week.
There are more than a dozen printer deals on the site right now, but we’ve sifted through them and pulled out the three deals that offer the biggest discounts on list pricing for printers with a 4-star rating or better. Note that all of these deals end on Friday, October 17, so don’t delay if you see something you like.
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WARNING — Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability, and the only way to protect yourself is to uninstall Flash
The fun never ends with Adobe Flash.
Just one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches for various software including Flash Player, the company confirmed a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. You read that correctly… all versions. Adobe said it has been made aware that this vulnerability is being used by hackers to attack users, though it says the attacks are limited and targeted. Using the exploit, an attacker can crash a target PC or even take complete control of the computer.
And now for the fun part: The only way to effectively protect yourself against this serious security hole is to completely uninstall Flash Player from your machine.
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Apple explains why you should use that awesome iOS 9 feature others tell you to avoid
Apple introduced a new Wi-Fi feature in iOS 9 called Wi-Fi Assist. With its help, an iOS device can quickly revert to cellular data if available to improve the performance of a shaky Wi-Fi network. As soon as iOS 9 became widely available, many users have started noticed their data usage started increasing considerably after upgrading to Apple’s latest mobile operating system, and Wi-Fi Assist was believed to be the culprit. iPhone users that have limited data traffic have been consequently advised to disable Wi-Fi Assist on their phones, which is turned on by default.
Apparently, Apple disagrees with that line of thinking. The company released a detailed help document that further explains how Wi-Fi Assist works.
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Android malware apps might net hackers millions, fool Google Play Store security
Most of the recent malware-related security reports detailed various threats targeting Apple’s iOS ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean hackers have stopped attacking Android. A new report claims that a sneaky type of malware has been found in various app stores, including Google’s official Play Store. Once installed on the device, the malware is very hard to remove. Its purpose is to flood a handset with advertising and hackers behind the attack might make as much as $4 milliom from the fraudulent app installs.
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