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12 July
Prime Day deals: The best under $50
Blink and you’ll miss it: Amazon’s Prime Day of discounted merchandise for Prime members is already half over. We’ve been sorting through the deals, and here are the best we’ve found for under $50: Joby GorillaPod SLR Zoom Tripod with Ball Head Bundle for DSLR: This is one of the most versatile tripods out there, allowing you make it work …
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12 July
Sick of Pokemon? There’s a Chrome extension for that
Pikachu, I choose not to see you. The PokeGone Chrome extension promises to filter out all Pokemon-related content. PokeGone Pokemon fever is everywhere with the past week’s meteoric rise of the Pokemon Go augmented reality app for Android and iOS devices. People are scrambling from PokeStop to PokeStop and loitering at gyms where their carefully collected pocket monsters can do …
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12 July
Pokemon Go could crash and burn this way
I first encounter the problem after spotting and catching a Bulbasaur a block away from my office. Instead of a screen confirming the digital monster is mine, I get a white Poke ball-like icon in the top left-hand corner that spins and spins and spins. Later that day, I encounter two men taking turns posing for photos next to a …
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12 July
Could Pokemon Go’s server problems derail the phenom? (The 3:59, Ep. 76)
The Pokemon Go bubble can’t last forever. If Nintendo isn’t careful, it could hasten the game’s demise. After all, server issues and app crashes abound, and we debate whether that will have an impact on the longevity of the game. Also: We compare our pathetic Pokemon count to our producer Bryan’s, who has a much more impressive collection. In addition, …
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12 July
21 shortcuts for Safari you need to know
If you use Apple’s own browser on your Mac, then I’ve got some shortcuts to share with you. With just a handful of these keyboard shortcuts, you can become a superior Safari surfer. Tab and window management 1. Open link in new tab Some links are coded to open in the current tab while others open in a new tab. …
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12 July
Holocaust Museum asks visitors to cool it with the Pokemon Go
The Holocaust Museum in Washington is a deeply affecting memorial to the victims of Nazism during World War II, and home to a number of historical exhibits from the period. This week, however, it also became the home to a trio of PokeStops, where players of the immensely popular augmented-reality game Pokemon Go can collect items. Pokemon Go inserts virtual, …
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12 July
Polaroid’s new app uses motion to bring your photos to life
In an age of GIFs, Vines and Apple’s Live Photos, it isn’t all that surprising to see still photography take another step away from stillness. That’s exactly what Polaroid is doing, with Tuesday’s debut of an app called Polaroid Swing that aims to help you create and share “moving photos” on your phone. Each photo taken in the app is …
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12 July
Google Play’s family share plan finally catching up to Apple
How many times have you downloaded an addictive new game on your favorite Android device only to have someone else hog your phone or tablet to play it? To fix that, Google introduced a new plan it’ll soon launch, called Google Play Family Library, which lets up to six people share a single Google Play account. Sounds a lot like …
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12 July
Asus’ ZenFone 3 Deluxe gets a supersonic upgrade to the Snapdragon 821 chip
Asus may have introduced its ZenFone 3 Deluxe smartphone back during the Computex conference earlier this year, but it’s still revealing surprises about the flagship device, including a last-minute chipset upgrade to the powerful Snapdragon 821 processor that Qualcomm announced just yesterday. Back when the phone originally made its debut, it was said to feature a Snapdragon 820 series processor, …
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