ZTE continues to press its advantage on big, affordable phones. The Chinese handset manufacturer on Monday unveiled the ZMax Pro, an exclusive jumbo-sized phone for prepaid carrier MetroPCS. The phone costs $99 after a MetroPCS instant rebate. It will be available on August 1, and preorders begin today. It’s the latest attempt by a low-cost …
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The new Star Trek series will beam onto Netflix for viewers around the world. The forthcoming series will see a new ship’s crew boldly going on TV, following the success of a recent big-screen reboot for the beloved sci-fi saga. In the US, the new 13-episode series will be available on CBS All Access, the CBS online subscription-based video-on-demand and …
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It seems normal enough on the surface. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, sits at a table in a Chili’s restaurant with his family having dinner. He shares the photo on Twitter on Saturday. It gets over 5,000 heart-shaped “likes.” And then Twitter has a minor freak-out because something is weird here. The mirror behind the …
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Just as Tom Burke hoped, hundreds came from across the country to march in Cleveland. “Racist. Sexist. Anti-gay,” the protesters chanted as the Republican National Convention was getting underway on Monday to nominate a billionaire real estate mogul-turned-reality-TV-star-turned-serious presidential candidate. “Donald Trump go away.” Burke, the co-founder of the Coalition to Stop Trump and March on the RNC, watched as …
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Are you a political junkie hungry for Republican National Convention news? Are you suffering FOMO because you’re not in Cleveland? Are you just craving for gavel-to-gavel action at the Quicken Loans Arena? Well, here’s how you can peep the action from anywhere in the world. If you’ve got a phone, download the official RNC app to see if presumptive GOP …
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Twitter reacted to the truck attack in France last week by quickly deleting pro-attack tweets. The attack, in which a truck rammed a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, killed 84 people and injured another 200. In the first hour following the attack, at least 50 accounts appeared on Twitter using #Nice in Arabic to praise the violence, according to watchdog …
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The Nokia name may get to live on with at least a couple of high-end phones reportedly set to debut in late 2016 or early 2017. HMD Global, which purchased the Nokia brand from Microsoft this past May, is said to be developing two Android smartphones with a metal design and the “famous Nokia feel,” Nokia fan blog NokiaPowerUser said …
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Apple will roll out its iTunes Match service to all Apple Music subscribers, starting Monday, according to Apple news site The Loop. That means it’ll use an algorithm to judge which song is in your iTunes library and then add it to your account, making it available for you to listen to from the cloud. Apple and music Apple Music …
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The Amazon Video app allows Android users to download movies and TV shows for offline viewing, but only if the phone or tablet has space to accommodate the videos. Given the sizes of those downloads, you might quickly find yourself short on storage. If only the app would allow you to save downloads to a memory card! That was always …
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Years ago, I was convinced emojis were a fad. That like many tech trends, it would come and go and we would soon forget about the miniature emotion depictions. Fast forward to today and those tiny images have permeated just about every form of digital text. Emojis are included in the vast majority of my text messages and IMs. They …
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