What do you think happens when both the iPhone 6s and Pope Francis are supposed to arrive in your town? One of them might be delayed, and it’s not going to be the head of one of the biggest churches in the world.
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iPhone 6s shipping: Hacks for tracking iPhone 6s orders right now
Ordered an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus with a September 25th ship date on it? Anxious to see exactly where your precious new toy is? Well, there’s a way for you to do that, even if Apple hasn’t yet told you that your chosen iPhone 6s is en route to your door.
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Pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer exams with 93% off this bundle
If you’re reading this, you probably already know that an Amazon Web Services Certification can help give your career a major boost. And now we’re making it even easier for you to make it happen. Get the Amazon Web Services certification bundle for 93% off—it’s just $19 at the BGR Store.
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See classic scenes from your favorite movies recreated in virtual reality
With 2015 coming to close, we’re only a few months out from the beginning of the VR revolution. The Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive and Sony’s newly branded PlayStation VR are all coming to store shelves before the end of 2016, but you won’t have to wait that long to see what some of your favorite movies might look like in the virtual world.
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Facebook is working on its creepiest way to track you yet
Facebook and Google seem like they’re in a contest to see which can come up with the creepiest ways to keep track of its user base. Geek.com has spotted a new patent that was awarded to Facebook earlier this year that describes technology that can identify individual users’ phones based on unique camera lens defects that show up on the pictures they upload onto the web.
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This link can crash your Google Chrome browser
Because Google Chrome doesn’t have enough issues already, a security researcher has discovered that a specific string of text is capable of crashing the browser and deleting any unsaved work sitting in open tabs.
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Watch the world’s largest passenger airliner make a scary crosswind landing
We’ve seen a bunch of airplane pilots making heart-stopping, death-defying crosswind landings, but that doesn’t make watching similar experiences any less scary, especially if you hate flying. A new video captured over the weekend in Dusseldorf, Germany, shows a huge Airbus A380, which happens to be the world’s largest passenger airliner, making such a landing.
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Amazon deal: Before there was an Apple Pencil, this was the only digital pencil that mattered
To some people, a stylus is a stylus. Of course, anyone who has used one of the nicer options out there knows that simply isn’t the case. The Apple Pencil that will launch alongside the iPad Pro later this year is a perfect example of a stylus that stands apart from most other options out there. Of course, before the Apple Pencil was even a glimmer in Jony Ive’s eye, there was the Pencil by FiftyThree.
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Does iOS 9 deliver on Apple’s big battery improvement promises?
Apple made some big promises on how well iOS 9 will improve your iPhone’s battery life — but did it deliver? Wired has been running some tests on iOS 9’s Low Power Mode and has found that Apple’s newest iPhone software seems to deliver the goods as long as you have Low Power Mode enabled.
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Netflix and YouTube continue to steal market share from BitTorrent
With an easy to use interface and an abundance of $0.99 songs, Apple’s iTunes Music Store famously helped phase out illegal file sharing networks. In a similar vein, it appears that affordable video streaming services are slowly but surely putting a dent in the popularity of BitTorrent.
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