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This trick lets you navigate around your iPhone’s busted bits

Now playing: Watch this: No home button, no problem: Navigate around your iPhone’s… 1:06 Phones break, no matter how advanced they get. Especially if their owners are uncoordinated, like me. Thankfully, iPhones have a workaround that’ll help you navigate even if one or more of your buttons are broken. In the video above you’ll find how to activate assistive touch, …

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The difference between Google Now and Google Assistant

Personality-filled, voice-activated digital assistants are everywhere. Apple has Siri, Microsoft has Cortana and Google has Google Now and Google Assistant. At the moment, Google Now and Google Assistant are still two separate things — Google Now works from within the Google Android and iOS app, while Google Assistant is found in Google’s Allo chat app and integrated into Google Home …

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Fox Vision will give you 360

If you’re gearing up (heh) to watch the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 on Fox Sports this weekend, don’t forget your coasters. No really. Fox Sports has launched Fox Vision, a new augmented reality app to go alongside its broadcast of the iconic Australian race, the Bathurst 1000. And it uses special coasters to bring up a 3D version of the …

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Crystal ball covered in molten copper creates its own magic

Crystal balls have been long used by self-proclaimed fortune tellers to gaze into the future. The idea of these beautiful orbs, also referred to as orbuculums, laying out one’s destiny is pure whimsy, of course. However, this video posted Sunday by YouTube user Tito4re demonstrates the magic of pouring 1,984-degree Fahrenheit (1,085-degree Celsius) molten copper on top of a clear …

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How to preorder the Google Pixel and Pixel XL

Earlier today at the “Made By Google” event, Google unveiled two new phones, the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. These phones are designed by Google and meant to showcase the best hardware and software experience offered by the company. The new Pixel phones come in three colors: Really Blue, Very Silver and Quite Black (I’m really, very, quite serious …

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Signal chat app’s creator: US government demanded our user data

You never know if the government is secretly compelling your favorite internet company to hand over its data on users. Well, sometimes you do. On Tuesday, the ACLU announced it succeeded in getting a gag order (PDF) lifted for its client Open Whisper Systems, creator of the Signal messaging service. That’s the service favored by antisurveillance activists like Edward Snowden. …

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