Beautiful messaging app Wire could be the WhatsApp killer you’ve been waiting for
Over the past few years, countless chat applications have been made available on our computers and mobile devices, from Kik, WhatsApp, LINE and Viber to Skype Qik and Facebook Messenger. It’s an extraordinarily crowded, competitive field, but an app called Wire, hitting iOS, Android and OS X this week, might stand a chance of toppling them all.
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Huge coalition forms to kill the Comcast-TWC merger for good
The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable has never been popular and now a major coalition has formed to finally drive a stake through its heart and spread holy water on its ashes. Re/code points out that a new group called StopMegaComcast has just sprouted up and it includes both public interest groups and rival pay TV providers who are united in their opposition to a merger between America’s two most hated companies.
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Details on the next major Assassin’s Creed game leaked early
According to reliable information obtained by Kotaku, the next entry in the Assassin’s Creed series will be set in London’s Victorian era and is currently in development at Ubisoft’s Quebec studio. Assassin’s Creed Victory, as it is currently known, will release next fall exclusively for the PS4, Xbox One and PC.
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Consumer Reports declares most and least loved cars [w/video]
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Consumer Reports is crunching the numbers from its annual owner-satisfaction survey, and part of that process is finding out how attached drivers are to their cars. CR simply asks readers of models up to three years old if they would buy the same vehicle again in light of their entire ownership experience, and tallies the results. After looking at the responses for about 350,000 vehicles, it turns out that people really love a certain California-built, electrically powered luxury sedan.
That’s right, this year’s the overall winner was the Tesla Model S with a whopping 98 per cent of owners saying they would purchase another one (the Model S also won this award last year, with 99 per cent satisfaction). The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray came in a close second with 95 per cent of drivers hoping to park another one in their garage.
A few models weren’t quite so favoured, though. The Nissan Versa Sedan was the least loved model among its owners; a mere 42 per cent said that they would purchase another. The aging Jeep Compass didn’t do much better, with just 43 per cent of drivers willing to buy the softroader again.
On average, about 70 per cent of owners say they would buy their car again, and only four cars ranked below 50 per cent in CR’s findings. Check out the video above to see some of the winners and losers in a few of CR’s categories. If you’re a subscriber, you can check out the full list on its website.
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The awesome app that brings Continuity to Android is finally ready to download
AirDroid is an awesome app that has brought iOS 8-like Continuity features to Android devices since long before Continuity ever existed. We were the first site in the world to give you an early look at AirDroid 3, a massive update that has been in the works for quite some time, and now that update is finally ready for primetime.
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How viral video ‘Gangnam Style’ broke YouTube
Psy’s Gangnam Style music video is the most viewed YouTube video ever, breaking various records along the way. But the viral video also caused some problems for Google, as the company never expected it, or any other video, to become so massively popular with viewers.
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Chinese phone maker claims it patented the iPhone 6 before Apple
Apple has an enormous target on its back, as would any company receiving as much critical praise and financial success as the iPhone maker. This has brought plenty of unwanted attention from all corners of the world, including a recent claim by Chinese phone maker Digione that the iPhone 6 infringes upon a patent granted in July.
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You can finally get your iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus from Apple within a week
Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have both been a huge hit for the company, with Apple still unable to meet demand well over two months since the handsets launched. However, Apple has updated shipping times for new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus orders on its website, and the wait for deliveries is now much shorter than it has been in recent weeks.
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Google’s brilliant solution to one of the Internet’s most annoying problems
If there’s one thing more annoying than overly complex password requirements, it’s barely legible captcha puzzles that websites use to determine whether or not we’re really human beings or are just bots trying to set up spam accounts. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has come up with a brilliant solution to this problem that not only minimizes the use of captcha puzzles but also involves one of the Internet’s favorite things: Pictures of cute animals.
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Jimmy Iovine tells the real story of how he convinced Apple to buy Beats
Apple’s decision to shell out $3 billion for Beats was one of the year’s most surprising deals, largely because Apple normally concentrates on smaller acquisitions that don’t make a lot of headlines. In an interview with GQ, Beats cofounder Jimmy Iovine explains how he got Apple to finally take the plunge on buying Beats, although he admits it took a while to really convince the company it needed to act.
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