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Dashlane on Tuesday announced an awesome security tool that not only helps you better manage the passwords you might use for various online services, but, most importantly, also performs one annoying chore for you — changing the passwords you use for these services.
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We can never get enough Google search tricks, which is why we’re glad to see that Time asked some Googlers to offer some tips for Google search that they think too few people have heard of. Some of them are very well known, of course, such as searching for whole phrases by using quotation marks and searching for content on individual websites, but others definitely caught our eyes as features we never knew about before.
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Apple this year has worked to improve the privacy and security features that protect iOS, OS X and iCloud users, particularly following the embarrassing nude celebrity hacks from September, which were possible thanks to phishing attacks that managed to steal the Apple IDs and passwords of the victims. Apple insisted at the time that users enable its two-factor authentication iTunes security feature to better protect their accounts, but The Next Web reveals that the feature is so secure that it can turn into your worst nightmare in an instant.
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Although mobile apps get all the attention, widgets that give you constantly updated useful information on your Android phone’s home screen have become pretty important as well. One member of Reddit’s Android community asked his fellow Android fans for a list of widgets that they “can’t live without” and they listed some fantastic Android widgets that you may or may not have heard of. For your enlightenment, we decided to take their five most popular widgets and summarize what each one brings to the table.
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Best Buy has a special deal on one of Motorola’s best phones of the year and is offering buyers either a $100 or a $150 Best Buy gift card with each purchase, depending on certain conditions.
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Amazon is already a terrific place to find great deals and now it’s about to get even better. Amazon this week unveiled a new feature called “Make an Offer” that will actually let you haggle with sellers over the prices they’re offering for their goods.
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Even though the Nexus 6 is more expensive than any of its predecessors, Google is betting on a different strategy to sell more Nexus smartphones this year, and that’s partnering up with various mobile operators around the world, including many U.S. carriers that can sell the handset for a subsidized price. Joining AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile is U.S. Cellular, which is currently taking orders for both the 32GB and 64GB versions of the handset, with both of them being priced cheaper than elsewhere.
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You know how when you watch ads for drugs like Flomax or Cialis and it seems like the vast majority of the ad is dedicated to listing possible negative side effects? Well it looks like Samsung’s Gear VR headset is a lot like that because Ars Technica reports that it comes with a gigantic 1,000-word list of potential hazards and disclaimers that should send any sane gamer running for the hills.
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Hacker group Guardians of Peace (GOP), which attacked Sony Pictures stealing more than 100 terabytes of information, and revealing some of it online, have asked the company to pull a controversial comedy from theaters, Variety reports.
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