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Huawei Ascend P6: The World’s Skinniest Phone Is A Metal-Clad Beauty
Huawei has just unveiled the Ascend P6 Android smartphone at a crowded event in London. At 6.1mm thick, it’s the slimmest smartphone in the world. It’s also a looker.
Samsung’s Giving Away A Million Copies Of Jay-Z’s New Album
Jay-Z’s modestly entitled Magna Carta Holy Grail drops on the similarly nondescript Fourth of July. But despite his clear lowering of expectations for the album, he’s somehow found it within his heart to muster up some publicity by letting Samsung give away a million copies for free three days early. Galaxy owners only need apply.
Xbox Live Gold Is Still One Of The Biggest Ripoffs In Tech
A lot of mud was slung Microsoft’s way last week, much of it deserved. Used game restrictions, mandatory internet check-ins; these new impositions don’t sit well. But they also distract from the single worst thing about the Xbox One, which was also the single worst thing about Xbox 360: The tyranny of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
What Is PRISM? The Secret US Government Program Explained
Yesterday, the Washington Post and The Guardian dropped concurrent bombshell reports. Their subject was PRISM, a covert collaboration between the NSA, FBI, and nearly every tech company you rely on daily. PRISM has allowed the government unprecedented access to personal information for at least the last six years. But what is it, exactly?
AirDrop File Sharing: The Most Persistent iOS Rumour Has Returned
In 2011, Apple introduced AirDrop for OS X Lion, a feature that makes sharing a file between two Macs as easy as dragging and dropping it. Two and a half years later, we’re still waiting to see it on iOS. Could we finally get peer-to-peer iPhone and iPad sharing in iOS 7?
How Google Is Finally Fixing Android’s Deepest Flaw
You might not have noticed, but in the last two weeks Google has fixed the thing you hate most about Android. The biggest news out of this year’s I/O Googlepalooza didn’t have anything to do with Jelly Bean or Google Glass. It wasn’t a killer app or a self-driving car. It was, in fact, the Galaxy S4, a two-month old phone with one minor modification: You could buy it with a pure, clean Android install.

























