On Wednesday night, South Park aimed its proven brand of satire toward Grammy Award-Winning artist Lorde and the general state of music production.
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Xbox chief explains how future updates will make the console more personal than ever before
If there’s one thing that Microsoft has excelled at over the past year, it’s providing the Xbox One with a constant stream of significant updates. After a rocky pre-launch campaign that arguably doomed the Xbox One to fall behind the PlayStation 4 on the sales charts, Microsoft’s console slowly caught up with and eventually surpassed the PS4 in terms of added functionality.
The media player is just the latest example of this, but in an interview with The Inner Circle Podcast, Xbox head Phil Spencer made it clear that there’s still plenty on the way.
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Workers at a Foxconn factory in China just walked off the job
On Wednesday, about 1,000 workers at a Foxconn factory in southwest China reportedly walked off the job to go on strike. Foxconn said workers walked off the job for about four hours at the factory in Chongqing, where they’re demanding higher pay after a recent increase in production and reduction in overtime.
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The one silver lining in Samsung’s lousy week
Samsung is certainly going through a rough patch right now as its quarterly profits have continued on an alarming downward trajectory. That said, things aren’t all bad for the Korean smartphone titan right now: As The Wall Street Journal points out, Samsung’s brand is still one of the most powerful in the world and it’s only gotten more prestigious in the last year.
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GIFs are about to get even cooler than you ever imagined
GIFs have brought the Internet a lot of joy and laughs over the years and now they’re about to get even better. Popular photo sharing site Imgur on Thursday announced a new initiative called Project GIFV that it says is “reimagining the looping GIF video with all the richness it deserves as a key piece of Internet culture.”
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Burger King is offering a free Android phone that will be impossible to deliver
With the huge number of Android phones out there, it can admittedly be difficult to keep track of them all. That said, we don’t think we’ve ever seen anything quite like the “free” Android phone that’s being offered by Burger King right now that was flagged by an eagle-eyed Redditor this week.
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Google launches a better, faster Hangouts app for your desktop
Your experience with Google Hangouts on your desktop is about to improve. On Thursday, Google introduced a new Hangouts Chrome App for Chrome OS and Windows that will keep your conversations with friends on Hangouts quickly accessible on your desktop.
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One of Apple’s partners may have just leaked Apple Pay’s launch date
When will you be able to start paying for things using your iPhone? We’re still not exactly sure, although 9to5Mac flags a DailyDot report that seems to indicate Apple Pay might launch as soon as November 7th, which would be just before the start of the holiday shopping season.
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The last big mystery about Motorola’s Droid Turbo may have just been solved
Motorola’s 2014 Moto X really impressed us but it really looks like the company also saved something special for its upcoming Droid Turbo that will launch exclusively on Verizon.
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iOS 8 trick: Here’s how to use ‘Hey Siri’ even when your iPhone isn’t charging
One of the new Siri-related features Apple introduced in iOS 8 is the “Hey Siri” hotword that gives a device always-on listening abilities when it’s plugged in and charging. The feature doesn’t work when an iPhone or iPad is disconnected from the power supply, likely a measure meant to conserve battery life, but iDownloadBlog reports there’s a way to enjoy “Hey Siri” all the time, without having to charge the device at the same time.
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