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Apple Music for Android now allows saving songs to SD card

Apple today updated the official Apple Music app for Android to add support for saving their offline music to an SD card. Unlike iOS devices, majority of Android devices still come with a microSD card slot that makes it possible to expand the storage of the handset for cheap. While external storage can be slower […]

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Watch Super Bowl 50 on Apple TV (no matter where you live)

If you’re a cord cutter like a lot of us, you might be wondering how to get Super Bowl 50 up on your big screen at home without a cable subscription. Luckily, if you live in the U.S., you’ve got it pretty easy. Even U.K. folks can stream it live (as long as they have […]

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Slick security cam watches your house like an owl

Lust List: CFH-V15 Video Monitor by Kodak This new 350-degree pan and tilt home security camera from Kodak is the most amazing video monitor I’ve used, ever. I’ve helped friends set up a few security cameras over the years, usually to keep an eye on their kids or pets, and the CFH-V15 blows all of them […]

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Emoji becomes art in ‘Tiny Gallery’ on Twitter

A new Twitter account called Tiny Gallery will fill your feed with cute scenes from the world’s smallest art space. But it doesn’t use photographs to take you there. Instead, the creator uses a combination of punctuation marks and emojis to build and paint walls, hang pieces, and populate the little place with visitors. And […]

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Poros backpack lets you commute with style and a little extra power

You could say John Borofka has put a handle on power. He founded Poros, a company that designs travel and accessories bags with built-in battery system to charge your devices. The company’s fourth bag is a stylish backpack called the Tetra. The Tetra carries a 10,000 mAh lithium ion battery, enough juice to fully charge […]

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Best Mac accessories for frequent travelers

When I travel with my Mac, there are a few accessories I refuse to leave home without. Depending on how and where I’m traveling to, what I decide to pack may change, except for a few items. From making sure I’m never without the right kind of outlet adapters, to drowning out plane noise, these […]

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Sony says ‘major smartphone players’ will use dual-lens cameras in 2016

Apple’s favorite camera sensor maker may have just dropped a big hint that a dual-lens camera is coming to the iPhone 7 later this year. Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida revealed yesterday during the company’s Q3 FY15 earnings call that its dual-lens camera platform will be featured in a range of products from “major smartphone players” […]

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Alto’s Adventure goes free on Android, stays premium on iOS

Alto’s Adventure, the hit snowboarding game on iOS and Apple TV, is headed to the Android platform February 11. Android gamers will, by and large, have the same gaming experience as their iOS brethren with one significant difference: this new release will be free on Android while it remains $2.99 on iOS. Developer Snowman partnered […]

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Apple is world’s most valuable company again after Google tanks

Google is no longer the most valuable company in the world. Earlier this week the search-giant’s parent company Alphabet overthrew Apple as the world’s top company in terms of marketcap, but it appears that the company’s reign is already after its stock price began trading way down this morning. Alphabet shares are currently down 4.29% […]

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Classic Mac gets saved from dumpster only to become a trash bin

We’ve seen old busted Macs get transformed into everything from aquariums to planters, but have you ever seen a Mac go from the dumpster to a trash can you can toss all your rubbish in? One Redditor has created a trash can fit for Steve Jobs by taking a Macintosh that had been sitting in […]

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