The Perseid meteor shower is at peak visibility this week, which means it’s your best time to check it out without the need for a telescope. NASA informs us that the best time to watch the Perseids is at 4 a.m. ET, or 1 a.m. PT, which means you’ll have to either stay up late or wake up early to catch it. But for dedicated stargazers, we’re sure it will be worth the late night/early morning.
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Late last month, the FCC approved AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV, and the merger was completed shortly after. Not only did AT&T become the “largest pay TV provider” in the country, it also gained hundreds of thousands of new customers that might be willing to switch over to its wireless phone service as well.
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Everyone online knows and uses URLs — they’re how you tell a web browser to load an individual page you want to access on your computer on a mobile device. It’s all based on web standards that everyone uses, but you may not know that not all URLs are user-friendly – meaning they can contain plenty of characters that might not make sense to users. But there’s a good reason for that.
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Put your newborn infant in the same room with a puppy and you’re likely to get hours of entertainment out of this particular combination. The same goes for the duo above, Dilan (the boy) and Farley (the French bulldog), who apparently do everything together and likely think they’re brothers.
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We all love the Internet, but it’s also filled with nefarious hackers willing to take advantage of every single oversight. Some security issues are built into online services, while others are caused by actual users. The only way to ensure you’re really safe online is to protect access to your accounts with strong, unique passwords that are hard to crack. But that also means you’ll have to make sure you remember all the complex passwords you set up.
Thankfully, there are apps that can handle that for you, and one of them is now available as a free download on smartphones, tablets or desktop.
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A few weeks ago, it was reported that Windows 10 would automatically install updates to users’ computers, which rubbed some upgraders the wrong way. All things considered, it wasn’t the most pressing issue with the new OS, but now that updates have started to drop, we’re beginning to see the potential fallout of automatic updates.
When the first major update rolled out last week, some users found themselves locked in a reboot loop, effectively shutting them out of their accounts until they could find a workaround.
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If that’s one thing Apple will likely never make, it’s a dual-SIM iPhone. However, many people use two different smartphones for home and work, which is why dual-SIM smartphones are popular with some consumers
A Kickstarter project aims to fix this by bringing dual SIM smartphone buyers a tiny device that turns the iPhone 6 and older iPhone models into handsets that can handle two different SIMs.
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A monstrous typhoon hit Taiwan and coastal China over the weekend, with winds blowing at speeds of up to 180 miles per hour over the ocean. Once it hit land, the storm turned into a tropical storm, but the wind was still strong enough to be able to lift a giant Boeing 747 off the ground.
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The BGR deals team already gave you a lightning deal for a large five-port power hub this morning, but we have hunted down another great lightning deal. This one ends at 5PM EST and is a limited deal, so get it while it is hot. You can grab a compact and ultra-portable 3,000mAh battery for 83% off. This is the perfect power bank to throw in your bag or carry around with you when you are on the go. In fact, it is about as tall as a lip balm stick.
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Samsung on Thursday will unveil its new flagship Galaxy handsets, including the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge Plus in New York City, with sales expected to start in the coming weeks. Now it seems the company listed the Galaxy S6 edge Plus (or Galaxy S6 Edge+) on its French website, Galaxyclub.nl reveals, including preorder and release date details.
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