The FBI took on Apple and lost, but it’s still looking for ways to persuade tech companies to give it back doors to encrypted devices. However, the extra attention the encryption debate received in the past few weeks won’t work in the FBI’s favor. The most recent service to announce end-to-end encryption is WhatsApp, Facebook’s most popular messaging app.
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Not everyone minds spending a little extra money for a good-looking, high-quality product. In fact, paying a premium for a better quality of product is something that many Apple customers are likely used to, especially if they shop at the Apple Store. When it comes to accessories though, Apple doesn’t always offer high-quality stuff even when they charge more than everyone else. A good example is Lightning cables — Apple’s pricy cables break all the time.
Next time you need a Lightning cable for your iPhone or iPad, grab a Native Union BELT Braided Lightning Cable instead of one from Apple. It looks better, it feels better and it will last much longer.
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If you’ve flown across the country at any point in the past couple of years, you’ve probably come into contact with the Transportation Security Administration’s Randomizer app on the iPad. It’s an incredibly simplistic app that decides which lane you’re going to stand in while you wait to pass through security.
What you might not know is that the TSA paid $1.4 million for the app.
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Even though Taco Bell these days is known for experimenting with crazy new food concepts, the fast food chain used to have some really solid staples including its soft tacos, its burritos and its chalupas. The two guys who run the Brothers Green Eats YouTube channel recently decided to remind us of Taco Bell’s glory days by showing us how to make every item on Taco Bell’s classic menu right in our own home kitchens. If you’re having guests over and are looking for something quick and easy to serve them, you’ll want to bookmark these videos.
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There’s something brewing over at Nest and it ain’t pretty. Though once one of Google’s more promising acquisitions, the company that helped put a friendly face on devices like thermostats and smoke alarms has reportedly lost its way. Not only has the company been unable to come up with any new type of innovative hardware, recent reports indicate that the Alphabet subsidiary is practically bleeding money while continuing to lose key talent.
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The 12-inch Retina MacBook represents the pinnacle of Apple’s laptop design and engineering, a device that’s already been cloned by many competitors. Apple is rumored to launch 13-inch and 15-inch MacBooks later this year, but until that happens, HP wants to impress you with a new notebook that’s a worthy rival for Apple’s best looking PC yet.
The newly launched Spectre is a 13.3-inch laptop that HP says is the thinnest in the world. It brings over a bold new HP logo, what looks like amazing design, and promises solid performance. The price? About what a MacBook costs.
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Paid iPhone apps on sale for free… you know you want them, and we’ve got them. Today we’ve picked out eight iPhone apps that would normally cost you $19 but can all be yours for free if you act right now. Let’s not waste any more time and get to them!
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A star was born last week when an animated version of Donald Trump debuted on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Although the concept doesn’t need much explanation, but here’s an abridged one: Trump’s comments have become so outlandish that he’s turned into a “cartoonish version of himself,” according to Colbert. So they turned him into a cartoon character.
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Earlier this week, Amazon held a killer one-day sale on a top-rated 55″ 4K Ultra HD TV from Samsung. This gorgeous LED TV set has a 4.2-star rating with more than 550 customer reviews, and it includes all of the smart features you want in a flat-panel from Samsung.
Well, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that it’ll be quite some time before we see a price that low on this sweet TV from Samsung. But the good news is that although the discount isn’t quite so deep this time, the Samsung UN55JU6500 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) is back on sale until the end of the day on Thursday.
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Tesla’s Model 3 introduction last week couldn’t have gone any better. Thus far, consumer interest in the Model 3 has been beyond exceptional, with the most recent tally indicating that more than 276,000 people have already put down $1,000 to secure a reservation for the car.
While Elon Musk has promised us that there will be more announcements about the Model 3 in the months to come, there’s one unique aspect of the Model 3 that, for whatever reason, hasn’t really attracted that much attention. Put simply, the Model 3 lacks an instrument panel (or instrument cluster as it’s called in the industry), a fixture of nearly every car that has ever existed.
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