It’s nearly 2015, and I’m still not sure any of us know exactly what we’re supposed to be doing with Google+. The increasingly invasive social network has been one of Google’s most puzzling platforms for years, surviving despite what seems to be a generally negative public reaction. But it turns out the users aren’t the only ones trying to figure out Google’s game plan.
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The holidays will be here before you know it — have you already bought all of the gifts you’ll be handing out this year? Trust us, you’re not alone if you still have plenty of shopping left to do. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year, but if you missed them, there are still plenty of great deals to be found all week long thanks to Cyber Week.
Sam’s Club offers great savings all year long for members, but the company has turned up the heat for Cyber Week 2014 and we have everything you need to know right here.
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While we’ve been reading about elaborate hacks of Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint identification system for more than a year now, one clever 7-year-old boy has figured out the simplest way to bypass the system without knowing one line of code. CNN Monday reports that Harrison Green, the 7-year-old son of Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green, smartly snuck into his father’s room while he was asleep and pressed his dad’s fingerprint against the Touch ID scanner on his iPhone 6 Plus. Voila — instant “hack.”
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When thousands of paid apps are added to Apple’s App Store every week, presentation becomes a vital tool for success. If a customer is going to spend money on an app, it needs to stand out from the dozens of other apps that perform a similar function, which is why we’ve decided to round up some of the new and recently updated apps that we can’t take our eyes off of.
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Your iPhone 6 is not just a super fashionable technological accessory. It represents a serious investment in communications freedom. Like all of your investment, you are going to want to protect it as much as you can. That is why you need The iPhone 6 CS Slim Armor Bundle which is 58% off at BGR Deals right now.
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So far we’ve seen what Android 5.0 Lollipop will look like on the Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy Note 3 but not on Samsung’s most recent flagship device, the Galaxy Note 4… until now. PhoneArena has posted some leaked pictures of the Note 4 with Android 5.0 Lollipop installed and from the looks of things, Samsung has revamped TouchWiz with a lot of the design choices Google made with Material Design.
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Plenty of complaints have been leveled against Assassin’s Creed Unity, the first current-gen exclusive for the series, but everyone can agree that Ubisoft’s virtual recreation of Paris is a remarkable achievement. Yes, the world of Unity is massive and beautiful, but does it bear any resemblance to the real world locations it represents?
That’s exactly what Damien Hypolite, a fan of the series and an employee of French science magazine Sciences et Avenir, wanted to find out.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be over, but the deals keep coming here at BGR. On Monday we showed you a handful of paid iPhone and iPad apps that were all on sale for free for a short time — several are still free if you hurry — and now we’re back with another eight iOS apps on sale. Each app on this list is normally a paid download, but all eight can be had for free if you get them right now.
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Although Sprint has been the wireless world’s whipping boy for years, the carrier has been showing some signs of competitiveness in recent months and this week it’s announcing its boldest move yet. Per Re/code, Sprint this week will start offering a new pricing scheme “that it claims will halve the bills of customers who defect from AT&T and Verizon in the latest salvo of an increasingly bitter price war.”
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Big companies like Apple spend millions of dollars on smartphone designs. Research and development costs add up fast, and countless man-hours are devoted to perfecting every internal component, every material and every curve of a handset’s housing. People buy these modern marvels for hundreds of dollars and fawn over their sleek lines and smooth curves, openly adoring them online and in person with friends.
Then, they cover these amazing smartphones with $2 worth of atrocious, glossy hard plastic.
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