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How to free up iPhone space with iMyfone Umate

This post is brought to you by iMyfone Technology Co., maker of iMyfone Umate. Sure our iPhones look sharp, but the sleek exterior hides an inner life that resembles the floor of a bachelor pad. Broken bits of uncompressed photos, unused files, app caches, cookies, backup logs and whatnot clog up the works (there’s probably […]

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Tiny audiophile earbuds deliver big, clear sound

Lust List: Reference X20i In-Ear Headphones by Klipsch Have you ever wondered whether a pair of $550 earbuds is worth the price? I have, but never really had the scratch to put it to the test. Klipsch, however, sent me a pair of their high-end earbuds, the Reference X20i In-Ear Headphones, to test. When I […]

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ResearchKit is taking aim at hepatitis C

ResearchKit is already helping medical researchers make groundbreaking discoveries in areas like Parkinsons disease, autism, and cardiovascular disease. Now the open source software is being put to use to study hepatitis C, a virus we know little about, even though over 3 million Americas suffer from it. Despite the widespread impact of Hep C, research […]

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Your GoPro shots could help map the world

Those beautiful GoPro photos of your goofy travels on bike or skis may contain an unmapped part of the world. In its quest to surpass Google in visual mapping, the app Mapillary earlier this month added GPS support to GoPro users who have the iOS version of the app. GoPro’s are not equipped to capture […]

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Google and Ford may be teaming up to build self-driving cars

Google is reportedly teaming up with Ford for a self-driving car project that will combine Ford’s vehicles with Google’s technology. According to sources supposedly familiar with the plans, the deal will be announced at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. For Google, the advantage of pairing with Ford is that the company would […]

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A pair of apps to clean up your iPhone’s act [Deals]

Our mobile devices have to be cleaned out regularly, a time-consuming and often frustrating task. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t really provide the best tools for doing the job, often leaving bits and pieces of apps and files behind, or ignoring the storage methods of various third-party apps. That’s why this bundle is a must for anybody […]

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2015: The year photography moved (and moved us)

We were too busy taking our own pictures in 2015 to notice that something about photography had changed. This was the year the photo moved. It shed its flat, two-dimensional constraints and showed a life once left to the imagination. The movement could be slight, as in Apple’s Live Photos, a new feature on the […]

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Spice up your video project with now affordable Discovery footage

We love the science and nature documentaries on the Discovery Channel. Producers hire some of the world’s best filmmakers, sends them to remote and beautiful places on Earth where, in some cases, they risk their lives to get us the kind of footage that sates our curiosity. The work – from shots of erupting volcanos […]

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iPhone 7 concept shows thintastic future without headphone jack

Designer Eric Huismann has an an awesome idea of what the iPhone 7 might be like. It’s one that supports recent rumors. Get ready, because if he concept design ever becomes reality, your next iPhone might be missing one crucial hardware feature: the headphone jack. Instead, he introduces the idea of wireless AirPods that connect to the […]

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God help us, Kim Kardashian now has her own emoji

Ever been in texting conversation and found yourself completely unable to express yourself because there’s just not an emoji of Kim Kardashian’s breasts? It’s unfortunate that society has come to this point, but if you answered ‘yes’ to the question above, there’s finally an app for that. Kim Kardashian now has an official emoji app […]

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