While most topics in the tech world tend to engender impassioned debate, there’s one issue that everyone can unanimously agree on: tech scammers who prey on and take advantage of unsuspecting Internet users are the scourge of the earth. And while most people are familiar with scams that rely upon adware or ransomware, scammers have recently started using a new strategy that’s as clever as it is loathsome.

According to Malwarebytes Labs, a group of scammers who call themselves ‘Tech Kangroos’ have started putting up tech support webpages designed to look nearly identical to webpages from known software companies. In turn, when unsuspecting users undertake to seek out tech support help via search engines like Google or Bing, they’re naturally tricked into clicking on fraudulent websites. In short order, users are coerced and manipulated into paying hundreds of dollars for non-existent tech support.

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Do you remember Creative? In the early 2000s, the company had a brief period of being cool, as its Zen MP3 players were the anti-establishment alternative to the iPod. These days, the Singapore-based company mostly makes gaming headsets and computer speakers — nothing to do with smartphones, in other words. But thanks to a complaint filed against every big Android phone manufacturer, Creative has quietly declared war on Android.

The complaint is filed against a who’s-who of Android smartphones: Samsung, LG, HTC, BlackBerry, Sony, ZTE, Lenovo and Motorola. The issue at hand is music players: all the phones have ’em, and Creative has a patent it thinks is being infringed on. Specifically, all the phones are capable of “playing stored media files selected by a user from a hierarchical display.”

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This is easily one of the coolest things we’ve come across in a long time. The iPhone is a fantastic phone but regardless of how much you like it, everyone has to acknowledge that it really doesn’t shine when it comes to battery life. So you always have to make sure you’ve got a charger nearby, and now you can carry a charger with you everywhere you go without adding any extra bulk.

The LifeLink Apple Certified Ultra-Portable Cable is barely thicker than a credit card and it’s the same width, so it’ll fit right in your wallet and you won’t even know it’s there until you need it.

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Just a few episodes into the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones and viewers knew that they were watching something special. The show was an instant masterpiece, featuring a level of production and an attention to detail that made other top TV shows look like amateur hour. But by the end of the first season of HBO’s instant classic, fans came to another important realization: No one is safe.

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Smartphone owners looking for as much expandable storage as possible have probably considered or even purchased the incredibly affordable 200GB microSD card from SanDisk. But Samsung just came out with a microSD card that’s able to deliver even more storage for your Galaxy S7 or any other smartphone that supports expandable memory: a 256GB EVO Plus card that offers the highest capacity in its class.

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Riding a TRON lightcycle should be a life goal for any hot-blooded human, but without $77,000 to spend on a life-size replica, you’re probably going to be out of luck. Disney’s new Shanghai theme park promises to change all that next month, when it opens this TRON rollercoaster. Just in case you can’t hop on a plane to China, there’s also a first-person video of what you’re missing out on.

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Regardless of how long it will actually take to ship, the Tesla Model 3 is definitely the talk of the auto industry so far this year. After racking up over 400,000 reservations, the Model 3 has shown it has the potential to significantly disrupt the auto industry and pave the way for the future of electric cars.

Motor Trend recently took a trip to Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and got some exclusive photos and video footage of the Model 3, while also getting some new commentary from Tesla representatives explaining the car’s design.

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Yesterday, a Gizmodo report alleged that Facebook’s human curators had been manipulating the trending news section to kill conservative stories — allegations that Facebook carefully didn’t deny in a blandly worded response. Now, the US Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees communications and the internet, has asked for real answers.

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Captain America: Civil War is a hit, there’s no doubt about it, and possibly one of the best movies in the Marvel universe. But Marvel isn’t done churning out blockbusters starring our favorite Avengers, with Disney, 20th Century Fox and Sony working on plenty more flicks for the coming years. In what follows, we’ll quickly recap the complete Marvel movie schedule through 2019, in chronological order.

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