If you thought turbulence can be a scary during flights, then you probably haven’t experienced a windstorm landing. The pilots of a commercial Boeing 777 airplane skillfully landed the aircraft a few days ago in the Netherlands in the middle of these terrifying conditions, facing winds of up to 75 miles per hour in what has been deemed the area’s worst storm in 100 years.
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Last year’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the most powerful iPhones the world has ever seen. They positively pulverized quad- and octa-core Android rivals in a number of key performance tests, and they pushed Apple’s iPhone sales to an all-time high in the holiday quarter. iOS 8 makes great use of all that power, having brought a wide range of new features to the iOS platform that make it Apple’s most capable mobile platform to date.
As great as iOS 8 is — and as great as iOS 9 is shaping up to be — there are still plenty of great features that only iPhone owners who jailbreak their phones have access to.
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Ugh. Flash. The technology that just about everyone hates and that still just won’t die. While Flash is in its last throes out now that YouTube, Twitch and Mozilla’s Firefox browser have moved away from it, plenty of other websites still use it to deliver both video and games, among other things. Now a new movement called Occupy Flash has started up to get web users to give Flash one final big push over the cliff by uninstalling it on their computer or disabling it in their browsers.
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If you’re old enough to remember what email was like before Google came along and launched Gmail, you know just how impressive and capable Google’s email product really is. If you’re not old enough to remember, consider yourself lucky. Email was an overcomplicated, overpriced mess until Gmail introduced a free service with a huge amount of storage, and the rest of the market scrambled to compete.
Today, Gmail packs even more features than it ever has before while still maintaining a very simple overall feel. As is the case with any software, however, a few simple tweaks and hacks can provide some great improvements that many users will wonder how they ever lived without.
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After previous Galaxy Note 5 leaks claimed the handset will have an auto-ejecting S Pen stylus, a new series of images seems to contradict that rumor. The pictures suggest the new phablet will rely on the same type of stylus ejection as its predecessors: You’ll have to take it out manually whenever you need to use it.
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Despite reports that Apple Watch sales have been lukewarm, Apple CEO Tim Cook emphatically dismissed such claims during the company’s earnings conference call last week. Not only have Apple Watch sales exceeded Apple’s internal projections, but early sales of the device have already surpassed early iPhone and iPod sales.
“And we were able to do that with having only 680 points of sale,” Cook further explained.
Well, Apple Watch availability is about to change in a major way.
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Samsung unveiled a brand new device on Monday, a new monitor that might be the best accessory for the smartphone of the future — but also for some existing models, including the hot Galaxy S6 family.
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After a number of delays, it finally appears that Intel’s long-anticipated Skylake processors will be ready for mainstream production later this fall. As a quick refresher, much of the hype surrounding Skylake is due to the fact that Intel’s next-gen processors promise to be not just more powerful than Broadwell, but significantly more power efficient as well.
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New Yorkers, behold your brand new burger bucket list.
It doesn’t take a foodie to appreciate a good hamburger, and just about every meat-eater out there can attest to the transformative experience that only the best burgers in the business can provide. But how can you find the best burgers out there? Taste is subjective, of course, but taking advice from experts is probably a good idea if you’re on the hunt for a mouth-watering burger that’s a cut above the rest.
And if you live in New York City or the surrounding area, or if you plan to visit sometime soon, you’ll definitely want to pay attention to what Andrew Steinthal and Chris Stang have to say.
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With Chromecast turning two this past Friday, Google was feeling festive and announced a rather attractive promotion for both current and prospective users. From now until December 31, Google is offering Chromecast owners a free movie rental (including HD titles) along with 90 days of free music access on Google Play.
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