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Category Archives: Mobile
How to tell your Facebook friends exactly where you are
Depending at how you look about it, Facebook Messenger has either gotten insanely better on iPhone and Android, or much worse. Why? Because the app now includes a new way of sending your location to friends and family.
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The FBI ups the ante in its boneheaded war on encryption
The FBI is worried that stronger encryption from tech companies like Apple is making it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to effectively keep tabs on terrorists. As a result, some in the FBI believe that we are sacrificing safety at the altar of privacy.
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Video: Amazing console-grade Star Wars RPG coming to iPhone and Android
iOS and Android users who double as Star Wars fans should be thrilled to hear that an amazing console-grade Star Wars RPG is going to be launched this year — and as Wired reports, it will be huge in scope.
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The team behind iconic iOS app Camera+ has just released a game-changing video editing app
Third-party iOS camera app Camera+, which launched five years ago this month and brought a companion app to the Apple Watch this week, is known for its extensive suite of editing tools, filters, and settings that let shutterbugs customize and tinker with their images the way the pros do. Amid all that functionality, though, there’s one big feature that it doesn’t have.
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1TB Xbox One with new controller leaked early by Amazon store listing
It’s only been a few days since we discovered a 1TB PS4 model is in the works, and now it looks like Microsoft is joining in on the fun as well. On Friday afternoon, a listing appeared on Amazon for an Xbox One with a 1TB hard drive and a new controller, presumably spoiling one of Microsoft’s E3 2015 announcements.
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Google starts rolling out fixes to Chrome’s horrendous battery-draining problems
Chrome is somehow both the best and the most utterly broken browser available to Web users today. It’s fast, it’s effective and it makes your computer run like complete garbage, but Google is implementing fixes as quickly as it possibly can to stymie the frustration.
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Fresh iOS 9 leak claims iPads are getting a feature Android tablets have had for years
Apple on Monday will introduce to the world iOS 9, which previous leaks have claimed will be focused more on bringing more stability to iPhone and iPad instead of on new features. However, the operating system is reportedly adding one iPad feature that Android tablet users have had for years.
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Things are going poorly for HTC. Very, very poorly
Want more proof that the HTC One M9 has been a complete disaster so far? Look no further than HTC’s own monthly revenues for May 2015. In total, HTC hauled in NT$10.8 billion in revenue in May 2015, or about USD$348 million. This was not only a 20.3% decline from the NT$13.5 billion in revenue the company posted in April, but a stunning 48.5% decline from the NT$21 billion the company reported in May 2014. The fact that these steep declines occurred just a month after HTC released its One M9 flagship phone just makes things look much, much worse for the company, since we don’t expect the sequel to the HTC RE to make up for the massive decline in smartphone sales.
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Fallout 4, XCOM 2, Dirty Bomb and Battleborn: Game trailers of the week
Every week, a landslide of video game trailers hit the Internet, hyping up the games that have just been released, the games that are about to be released and even the games that don’t have release dates. It can be a bit overwhelming to keep up with all of them, which is why we’ve decided to collect our favorites into a single post.
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