Sad news for people who love uploading and sharing large data files on the web: One of the first hugely successful file-hosting services is going away next month. N4GM brings us word that Rapidshare is shutting down on March 31st, which means any users who have lots of important data uploaded onto the site should start moving it to new sites as soon as possible.
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Are dash cam videos 2015’s answer to GoPro videos in 2014? New Zealand-based YouTube user Josh Sherborne was on his way home from the gym when he thought he saw a big flash of lightning in the sky. When he watched the video recorded by his car’s dashboard camera, however, he realized that it was actually a meteor exploding in mid-air.
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With all of the countless free mobile games available on your smartphone and the dozens of new releases on PC every week and the huge triple-A releases on home consoles month after month, it can be debilitating to simply sit down and pick a game to play.
Thankfully, there’s now a chart to help you decide.
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The Apple Watch isn’t the first smartwatch to hit the market, but Apple CEO Tim Cook is confident that it will be the first smartwatch that actually matters. iMore has a full transcript of Tim Cook’s talk at Goldman Sachs on Tuesday and it shows that Cook thinks Apple has history on its side when it comes to establishing new markets in the tech world.
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The iPhone 6 models are both rather slim devices, with the phablet version being the thicker one at 7.1mm. Similarly, the Galaxy S6 is expected to have a 6.9mm profile, in line with the 4.7-inch iPhone. But neither Apple nor Samsung is making the slimmest smartphones in the world, at least not for the time being.
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There are many reasons to love Ikea — or hate it, depending on your experiences with the Swedish company — but smartphone app design probably isn’t one of them. It may be soon, however, because for some strange reason, the company has come up with a smartphone app that focuses on… wait for it… emoticons.
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The Galaxy S6 is just a few weeks from its big debut, but many of its secrets have been revealed recently, including its purported dimensions. Potential buyers curious how big Samsung’s next flagship handset will be can now check out Phone Arena‘s handy smartphone measurement tool that compares the Galaxy S6 to the most important flagship handsets currently available, including last year’s Galaxy S5, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and other hot competitors from Sony, LG, HTC, Motorola and Nokia.
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Ca-ching, ca-ching, ca-ching! Apple’s stock price has been on a tear lately and the company’s shares closed trading on Wednesday at a new high of $124.88. This gives Apple an absolutely massive market cap of $716.7 billion, which once again makes Apple the single most valuable American company ever just one day after it broke through the $700 billion barrier for the first time.
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We’re not 100% sure why, but the third season of House of Cards just showed up on Netflix more than two weeks prior to its scheduled release date. Happy early Valentine’s Day?
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Starting on Wednesday, smartphone unlocking will finally be easier in the U.S. because both large and small carriers have agreed to the new proposals made by CTIA about unlocking devices. That means no matter what kind of smartphone you currently own, whether it’s the big iPhone 6 Plus or an entry-level Android handset, you have the right to unlock it as long as you’ve fully paid for it.
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