Apple’s MacBooks are due for a substantial refresh this year, at least when it comes to design. The company is rumored to be ditching the MacBook Air line and while making the MacBook Pro thinner than ever and similar in design to the 12-inch Retina MacBook. Refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch ultra-thin MacBooks were expected in the second quarter, but a new report says the machines are going to be launched only at some point in the second half of the year.
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It’s Friday, which means you’ve got one more list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free to enjoy before the weekend arrives. Yesterday’s post have a bunch of great options, some of which are still free if you hurry. Today, we’ve got 11 fresh apps for you to enjoy.
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If you have an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 6s — or the Plus versions, of course — a clear case is one of the best options you have. You have to protect your phone from drops and dings, obviously, but you also don’t want to hide that gorgeous design. As it turns out though, not all clear cases are created equal. In fact, some clear cases have capabilities that seem sort of… magic.
Take Just Mobile’s TENC Self-Healing Ultra-Slim Transparent Cases for the iPhone 6/6s and iPhone 6/6s Plus. On the surface they look just like any other clear case, but they’re hiding a pretty incredible secret: They’re coated with a special layer of plastic that is somehow able to heal itself from scratches!
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Despite the impossibly high expectations from fans who had been waiting years for it, Star Wars: The Force Awakens managed to capture the imagination of the filmgoing public, quickly becoming one of the highest grossing movies ever.
That said, it wasn’t quite as straightforward or cohesive as A New Hope, it’s primary inspiration. So until we see more from the new slate of Star Wars filmmakers, we’re stuck poring over several unsolved mysteries.
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If Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have their way, we might only have 23 more episodes to look forward to before the show goes off the air for good. In an interview with Variety, Benioff and Weiss said that they are currently trying to decide if they should shorten the seventh season of Game of Thrones to seven episodes and the eighth season to just six.
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The HTC 10 is now official, which means the last piece of the Android flagship puzzle has fallen into place. If you haven’t already read our in-depth HTC 10 review, you should definitely make it a point to catch up. HTC has done phenomenal work with its latest high-end handset, addressing nearly every pain point users had and putting together a smartphone that checks almost every important box.
Now that the Android landscape for the first half of the year has been laid out, we’ll be spending plenty of time comparing all the new Android flagships in an effort to help readers find the right phone. To start things off, we’re going to look at the brand new HTC 10 as it compares to the most popular flagship Android phone in the world right now, Samsung’s Galaxy S7.
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If you’re on a two-year upgrade cycle, you might want to consider skipping the iPhone 7 and waiting for next year’s model. Apple will reportedly rely on its old friend Samsung to supply it with OLED panels for upcoming iPhone models, according to a report from The Korea Herald. In a deal said to be worth north of $2.5 billion, Samsung in 2017 will begin supplying Apple with 100 million 5.5-inch OLED panels every year for a period of three years.
The 2017 start date is significant because it suggests that the iPhone will incorporate an OLED display on the iPhone 7s. Previously, it was believed that OLED panels wouldn’t make their way into Apple’s smartphone lineup until 2018 with the release of the iPhone 8.
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We’ve reached the end of another long week but today is special for another reason: it’s tax day. For some, that means writing some pretty painful checks. But for others, it means that you’ve got a nice refund coming your way. Well, it’s time to stretch that refund as far as it will go with some great Amazon deals including a top-rated iPhone 6/6s screen protector for just $0.99, an unlocked Galaxy S5 for $160, a great wireless keyboard for $12, and much more.
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If you’re a Verizon Wireless subscriber, there is a new promotion available until the middle of next month that you’ll definitely want to take advantage of. There’s a whole bunch of great new content hitting Netflix over the next 30 days, and it began this morning when season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was made available in its entirety. Binge watching eats up a whole lot of data though, so you’ll want to do everything you can to stretch your data plan as far as it will go.
As it turns out, there’s a simple way to earn an extra 2GB of data that will only take you a few seconds all together.
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Apple is really, really good at some things and really, really bad at others. Every company obviously has strengths and weaknesses, but Apple’s seem to be further apart on the spectrum than most companies. And somewhere on the opposite side of that spectrum from “building gorgeous smartphones” lies “App Store search,” a crucial app discovery feature that, quite frankly, couldn’t be any worse than it is right now. You can literally search for some apps by name and not find them anywhere in your results.
Well, Apple is finally starting to take its App Store search problem more seriously according to a new report, and it may have found a way to boost its services revenue in the process.
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