A United Airlines flight attendant recently made national news after she decided to exit a landed plane by opening up the aircraft’s emergency slide and subsequently riding it down to the runway. Following that, the flight attendant calmly and smoothly walked away, as if everything was completely normal.
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Google’s latest publicly available version of the Android mobile platform, Android 6.0, was first released on October 5th, 2015. Apple’s iOS 9 was released to the general public 19 days earlier on September 16th. Both operating systems are now more than six months old, and they both offer smartphone and tablet users a wide range of cutting-edge features as well as crucial security enhancements.
Can you guess how end-user adoption of these two leading mobile operating systems compares after six months?
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If you want an Android set-top box that can stream anything and everything as far as on demand TV show and movie services go, but that can pull double duty as a top-notch video game console, you’ve just found the holy grail. And as it happens, you’ve found the holy grail while it’s on sale at a nice discount on Amazon.
For a limited time, the NVIDIA SHIELD and NVIDIA SHIELD Pro are both on sale, so you can pick one up right now for as little as $180 shipped.
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The biggest movie of 2015 is finally available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD, and you can also buy the year’s best movie as a digital HD download. In addition to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the disc and download contains plenty of extra material, including a documentary, the cast’s table read of the script, and some of the deleted scenes that never made it into the final cut of last year’s Star Wars revival.
Some of these deleted scenes contain details that might be useful to the story while others are made of unnecessary fluff — and we’ll tell you everything you need to know right here.
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Here at BGR, we love flamethrowers. We’re also big fans of Britons Gav and Dan (a.k.a., The Slow Mo Guys), who have made a name for themselves posting incredible 4K slow-motion videos of all kinds of crazy phenomena. So when I saw that the Slow Mo Guys put out a new video on Wednesday that dealt with flamethrowers, I could not click on it fast enough.
It really doesn’t get much better than this.
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Over the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to play around in virtual reality dozens of times. Whether it was a 360-degree movie on the Oculus Rift or an intense car chase on PlayStation VR, I was always entertained. But until I got my hands on an HTC Vive, I never realized that VR might actually be the next big thing.
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At the beginning of March, Sony announced that it would bring the PS4’s Remote Play feature to PC with the launch of the next system software update. Just over a month later, the release date of the update has arrived, which means that PS4 owners will now be able to play PS4 games on their computers.
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We’ve told you about Sphero’s app-controlled BB-8 droid toy a few times now. Why? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. This little droid rolls around like magic and you control his every move from your iPhone or Android smartphone. We’ve seriously never had more fun playing with any remote-controlled device, and today we have two pieces of terrific news to share.
First of all, this nifty little droid is well worth its $150 price tag, but it’s on sale at Amazon right now for $129 with free express shipping courtesy of Amazon Prime.
Secondly, the timing of the sale couldn’t be more perfect,because the BB-8’s accompanying smartphone app just got a big update that lets the BB-8 watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens along with you and react to the movie while it watches!
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BGR has become the go-to spot for tech news over the past 10 years, and now we’re also the authority on paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free. Dozens upon dozens of apps go on sale in the iOS App Store each day, and it’s quite time consuming to go through them all and separate the deals from the duds. That’s why we do it for you — and we just put together our biggest list of the week for hump day.
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Do you remember the mysterious dress where some people saw it as white and gold, while others saw it as blue and black? Well there’s a similarly puzzling image that’s making the rounds on the internet these days — a red dot that contains a hidden image that only some people can see. This image comes to us via PlayBuzz and it really does contain the outline of a horse… but there’s a good chance you won’t be able to see it.
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