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Samsung Is Trying Really Hard Not to Call These Phones ‘Rose Gold’

Samsung has released a new, pinker version of the flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. But don’t call them Rose Gold—that’s Apple’s color! Instead, they are something totally different called “Pink Gold.” In case you’re wondering what makes Pink Gold different from Rose Gold, or indeed, just regular pink, Samsung has taken two paragraphs to … Continued

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One Day Your Smartphone’s Case Will Do Far More Than Just Protect It

Even if you’re adamantly against putting a case on your phone, you might make an exception for the FlexCase being developed by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and Microsoft. When opened, it doubles as an extended touchscreen for your device that can also be flexed for unique ways to interact with your phone. … Continued

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I Need a Nexus Phone Just For These Infinitely Customizable Cases

Nexus handsets are a good buy on their own, but Google just made the whole package way more appealing with these infinitely customizable cases. The Nexus Live Cases, available for the Nexus 6, 6P, and 5X, are simple and sweet: a polycarbonate shell, with any design you can think of printed on. You can upload … Continued

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HTC 10 Review: A Last Grasp at Greatness

When giants fall, they fall spectacularly, and HTC’s descent over the last few years has been remarkable to watch. After creating a trendsetting phone in 2013, it imploded just two years later with sluggish and poorly-reviewed follow-ups. Their newest phone, the HTC 10, is about crawling back from obscurity. While remnants of its old design … Continued

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How to Get Notifications From Any Phone on Any Laptop

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to see mobile alerts pop up on your computer. Thankfully, there are a several free tools to help you do just that. The tools available to you will ultimately depend on the operating system you use on your phone and laptop. But for the sake of … Continued

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LG G5 Review: A Timid Attempt to Put the Gadget Back in Smartphones

They say you can’t have your cake and eat it too, but when it comes to smartphones, consumers want more functionality, while expecting the hardware to keep getting thinner. With the G5, LG believes it’s found a way to meet those expectations by adding functionality through swappable modules. A similar device appeared 18 years ago, … Continued

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New App Lets You Clean Your Inbox By Swiping Left and Right

Everyone is on the lookout for better email management tools—anything to make dealing with the daily inbox deluge less of a chore. Unroll.me tries to help by making it easier than ever to unsubscribe from mailing lists and keep in touch with the ones you love. The web app is powerful, but its mobile app … Continued

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The New HTC 10 Actually Shows Some Fresh Ideas

HTC is thirsty for your dollars. To that end they’ve announced a new phone, the HTC 10, and despite looking like a rip off of all the other phones out there, it actually has a new idea packed into its glass and shiny metal chassis. The Taiwanese technology company is a business, so it’s a … Continued

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Everything We Think We Know About the HTC 10

HTC has seen better days. Ever since launching the much-loved One M7 in 2013, the Taiwanese company’s been unable to create a phone with equal charm. The One M8 and M9 leaned too heavily on past successes, and HTC’s own version of Android, HTC Sense, still lags behind. Defeated but not destroyed, it looks like … Continued

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4 Tricks to Make Your Android Phone Faster

No one wants a slow phone, but many of us have to settle for one as the hardware grows older, storage space runs out, and the number of bugs add up. The good news is that you don’t have to accept a slow Android smartphone. Here are four quick tips for increasing your old phone’s … Continued

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The 7 Best Wallpaper Apps for Your Phone

You spend a long time staring at your smartphone screen, so don’t settle for a backdrop image that’s staid and dull. These Android and iOS apps bring a wealth of superb ready-to-go images right to your handset in an instant, so the only problem you’ll have is choosing your favorites. 1) 500 Firepaper Any wallpaper … Continued

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Turn Your Smartphone’s Camera Flash Into the Bat-Signal

If you find yourself in trouble you can always use your phone to dial 911. Or you can reach for this compact 3D-printed lens that turns your smartphone’s camera flash into the Bat-Signal, summoning someone who can help but who also has a way cooler car than the police do. Designed by Dalpek, the 3D … Continued

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How to Customize Android’s Quick Settings Dropdown Menu

With the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google added a convenient Quick Settings panel to the top of the screen, letting you toggle settings such as WiFi, Bluetooth, auto-rotation and more. With the help of a third-party utility, you can add any shortcut you’d like to this slide-down drawer. The app in question is Custom … Continued

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5 Reasons You Should Still Jailbreak Your iPhone

Jailbreaking isn’t the hot topic it once was. All the new features in iOS, plus the iPhone’s availability on all the major US carriers means it’s no longer such a compelling proposition (especially given the drawbacks). But is the golden era of jailbreaking truly over? Here are 5 reasons why it’s still worth cracking open … Continued

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10 Tricks to Turn You into a Snapchat Wizard

Snapchat made its name with disappearing photos and videos, but there’s plenty more to the app than that. Behind its deceptively simple appearance are a few useful tricks you might not yet be aware of. We’re here to fix that and make sure your Snapchat game is the absolute best it can be. Here are … Continued

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A Smartphone Gun Is the Last Thing Anyone Needs

Given the number of people shot by police every year because they were reaching for a “suspicious object”, you might think that disguising firearms as everyday objects is a bad idea. But US company Ideal Conceal disagrees—a double-barrelled .380 iPhone is exactly what we need to ensure our safety and freedom. The concept is simple: … Continued

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5 Things to Know About Apple’s Event Today

Apple had an event today, and if you were anywhere near the internet, you most likely saw some of the digital commotion wrought by the company’s live-reading of a press release. Here are the five important takeaways from today’s Apple event: Tim Cook talked about the whole FBI fiasco, but only briefly To kick off … Continued

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An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane

Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage, and now an innocent iPhone has caused a fire on an Alaska Air flight. According to a KOMO news report, a girl on a spring break … Continued

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How To Set Android Volume Buttons To Snooze and Dismiss Alarms

In the midst of your early morning stupor, it can be difficult to drag your mind out of sleeping and accurately operate your phone (see our previous tips). If you’re reaching out for your Android phone in the dark and with bleary eyes, then you can use the physical hardware buttons instead. It’s thanks to … Continued

ScienceHealth

Siri Is Woefully Ill-Equipped to Help With Your Mental Health Problems

Digital voice assistants, like Apple’s Siri, are really bad at dispensing resources to users facing domestic abuse, depression, rape, or mental health emergencies, a new study finds. The joint study from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco shows that programs like Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana responded wildly inconsistently and ineffectively to voice … Continued