You have 835 more reasons to not bend the iPhone 6 Plus
If you own the iPhone 6 Plus, you really shouldn’t go out of your way to bend it like what you’ve seen in some YouTube videos. Even though the device seems more likely to bend than other flagship phablets, it probably won’t bend during the course of regular usage and you have no reason to test it out for yourself other than complete masochism. But if you really need more reasons to not bend your iPhone 6 Plus, consider new data from used gadget marketplace uSell.com that suggests the device will lose a huge chunk of its resale value if it gets bent.
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Legere rips into ‘horse s—‘ iPhone 6 Bendgate controversy
Surprise: T-Mobile CEO John Legere doesn’t want to give you reasons to not buy an iPhone 6 Plus on his network. Per CNET, Legere told the GeekWire Summit over the weekend that claims about the iPhone 6 Plus bending easily were complete “horse s—” and added that customers could happily buy the iPhone 6 Plus without worrying about it getting deformed.
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New leak might be our first look at the HTC Nexus 9
Google is expected to launch a high-end 8.9-inch Nexus 9 tablet in the coming weeks, with HTC returning to the Android tablet business after a very long hiatus. Following the many leaks that have already detailed the upcoming tablet, the Nexus 9 has already been spotted at the FCC, suggesting a launch is imminent. Furthermore, a first image showing the rear of the device have been posted online, giving us a first look at the upcoming Nexus tablet.
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Verizon’s attempt to compete with Netflix ends in hilarious failure
Remember Redbox Instant, Verizon’s video streaming service that was created to compete with Netflix? Personally, we’d completely forgotten about it until this morning when we stumbled across a piece from Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin that reported Verizon is shutting down Redbox Instant after a year and a half of hilarious failure.
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Samsung’s Galaxy business might be a yearly $1 billion bonanza for Microsoft
Just as previous reports suggested, Android might be a golden goose for Microsoft, a company that has licensing deals in place with many top Android device makers. Previous estimates revealed that Android devices sales might bring Microsoft $2 billion a year, although the number was never confirmed. However, documents from a recent Microsoft vs Samsung case found by Re/code have revealed that the Galaxy device maker might be on the hook for $1 billion in licensing fees owed to Microsoft per year.
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This might be the most important thing hackers stole during massive JPMorgan Chase attack
JPMorgan Chase last week confirmed that hackers managed to access personal data for more than 83 million customers, including 76 million households and seven million small-business online accounts, but The New York Times reveals that the largest bank in the U.S. isn’t the only one to have been hit. It appears that other nine, unnamed, financial institutions have also been targeted by the same mysterious hackers group, which also managed to steal some critical security data from JPMorgan on top of personal data.
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A 14-step guide on going ‘invisible’ on Facebook and living to share the tale
Those Facebook users looking to make their social networking experience more private without ditching Zuckerberg’s empire in favor of something else should know there’s a way to do this, at least according to Business Insider.
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The worst video ever explains why you should fear municipal fiber and love Comcast
Once a day or so, I get propaganda messages from a pro-cable company advocacy group called NetCompetition that tries to convince me that I should absolutely love my incumbent ISP and fear anything that could possibly give it real competition, including both government-funded municipal broadband networks and privately funded broadband networks such as Google Fiber.
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Could Google revolutionize the TV before Apple even gets the chance?
Huge televisions are more affordable now than they ever have been in the past, but the manufacturers haven’t made many attempts to innovate since the rise of the flat-screen TV. All we’ve really had to look forward to recently is 4K resolution, but The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google might be working on the next revolution in display technology.
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Ikea just ‘fixed’ one of the most annoying things about its furniture
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to assemble the strangely named but good-looking pieces of furniture Ikea makes, but you still have to put some elbow grease into such Ikea home projects, especially bigger ones. However, Ikea apparently decided that there’s often too much work for its customers, when having to build Ikea furniture pieces, and came up with an even simpler way of assembling them.
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