Area 51 is a top-secret U.S. research facility that gets mentioned all the time in alien movies. While we’re still very far from getting any real proof that alien life is actually being studied at the location, which was confirmed as a U.S. secret facility in 2013 by the CIA. But an answer to a much simpler question has been provided by Today I Found Out: Why is it called Area 51?
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Typing on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is now a much better experience than it has been in the past, thanks largely to two main points. First, the screens on Apple’s latest iPhones are larger, which means the tap targets on the keyboard are bigger and easier to hit while typing quickly. Also, the software keyboard itself is much better in iOS 8 than it has ever been before.
But the simple fact of the matter is that typing on glass with no tactile response will never be as good an experience as typing on a real physical keyboard, but size and portability will always be an issue. That’s exactly why the new TextBlade keyboard from WayTools is so intriguing.
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No new operating system is perfect and even though Android 5.0 Lollipop has been largely well received, some Android fans aren’t liking some of what they see in Google’s newest mobile platform. Over at Reddit’s Android community, Redditor christmas_ape made a list of things that he didn’t like about Lollipop and the one that seems to have gotten the biggest “Amen!” from the Android faithful is his condemnation of Android’s new heads-up notifications feature.
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According to just about every Apple analyst out there, Apple had a killer quarter to finish out the calendar year in 2014. The company is expected to have sold more combined iPhones and iPads than ever before, which means there are tens of millions of people out there who just got their hands on new iOS devices. Of course, what better way to celebrate all those new phones and tablets than by filling them with awesome paid apps that are on sale for free for a limited time.
Today, we’ve got eight apps that normally cost a combined $56 to buy, but each and every one of them is free if you hurry.
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Apple’s iPhone 6 was released more than three months ago now, but it’s still seemingly selling as quickly as Apple’s manufacturing partners can build it. Millions upon millions of people are still buying the new phone each month, and tens of millions more will purchase the phone over the course of the next few months.
If you fall into the latter category, or if you’re considering an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus purchase and still on the fence, there’s certainly no shortage of coverage to check out — here’s our iPhone 6 review from back in September, for example. But those of you looking for more recent impressions after a longer period of usage now have a great new option.
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We’re just months away from the unveiling of Samsung’s 2015 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, and it seems like we have been waiting forever. It’s not that the rumor cycle has been particularly long this time around, it’s that the Galaxy S5 was a pretty big disappointment all around, and smartphone fans are hoping that the Galaxy S6 makes up for lost time.
Whether or not the Galaxy S6 actually will be the innovative phone we’ve been waiting for remains to be seen, but so far early rumors have definitely been promising. Now, another new report suggests that Samsung is definitely moving in the right direction with this year’s Galaxy S6.
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We’re just months away from the unveiling of Samsung’s 2015 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, and it seems like we have been waiting forever. It’s not that the rumor cycle has been particularly long this time around, it’s that the Galaxy S5 was a pretty big disappointment all around, and smartphone fans are hoping that the Galaxy S6 makes up for lost time.
Whether or not the Galaxy S6 actually will be the innovative phone we’ve been waiting for remains to be seen, but so far early rumors have definitely been promising. Now, another new report suggests that Samsung is definitely moving in the right direction with this year’s Galaxy S6.
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The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both won wide acclaim for their cameras, even from some Android fans who admitted they were envious of the iPhone 6’s camera software. G for Games points us to a new report in Chinese language website United Daily News that claims Apple isn’t sitting on its laurels and plans to make some key changes to its smartphone camera for the iPhone 6s that will make it better than ever.
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On Monday night, during the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship, Marvel debuted the second full-length trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The trailer was originally teased at the beginning of the month, but we didn’t expect to see quite so much new footage this time around.
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Chinese company Desay has launched a new Android smartphone in the region, The Wall Street Journal reports, which offers high-end specs, a very affordable price, and an ultra-durable sapphire screen. Interestingly, Desay already has a supply business with Apple as a partner, although the company is believed to be focused on providing batteries for the iPhone maker.
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