We’ve told you about Sphero’s app-controlled BB-8 droid toy a few times now. Why? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. This little droid rolls around like magic and you control his every move from your iPhone or Android smartphone. We’ve seriously never had more fun playing with any remote-controlled device, and today we have two pieces of terrific news to share.

First of all, this nifty little droid is well worth its $150 price tag, but it’s on sale at Amazon right now for $129 with free express shipping courtesy of Amazon Prime.

Secondly, the timing of the sale couldn’t be more perfect,because the BB-8’s accompanying smartphone app just got a big update that lets the BB-8 watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens along with you and react to the movie while it watches!

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BGR has become the go-to spot for tech news over the past 10 years, and now we’re also the authority on paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free. Dozens upon dozens of apps go on sale in the iOS App Store each day, and it’s quite time consuming to go through them all and separate the deals from the duds. That’s why we do it for you — and we just put together our biggest list of the week for hump day.

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Do you remember the mysterious dress where some people saw it as white and gold, while others saw it as blue and black? Well there’s a similarly puzzling image that’s making the rounds on the internet these days — a red dot that contains a hidden image that only some people can see. This image comes to us via PlayBuzz and it really does contain the outline of a horse… but there’s a good chance you won’t be able to see it.

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Apple shocked fans with the iPhone SE’s low $399 price tag. For just $400 you get a compact phone that’s as powerful as the iPhone 6s and is superior to mid-range Android alternatives. The downside of buying this device is the limited storage that comes with the cheapest new iPhone. You still get just 16GB of memory to play with, which is a woefully small amount of storage in this day and age. However, there are ways of making the most of that limited storage without ever running out of space, which make the $399 iPhone SE a steal.

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Yesterday’s list of top daily deals on Amazon ran late, but we still got a lot of great feedback thanks to a solid list of bargains. Today though, we’re making sure that our collection of the day’s best deals runs bright and early because we’ve got some sweet deals for you. Included in today’s roundup are a Silicon Power 32GB MicroSDHC card for just $8.40, a 200GB wireless flash drive for your phones and tablets, discounts on two different Fire TV models and much more.

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The biggest remaining mystery in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the identity of Rey’s parents. However, there are still lots of smaller mysteries about the movie that have yet to be solved, such as how Luke’s lightsaber wound up with Maz Kanata. J.J. Abrams this week spilled the beans on another mystery that we’ve been wondering about for a while — namely, what’s the deal with the table of ashes where Kylo Ren keeps his helmet?

The answer, it turns out, is creepier than we expected. Also, beware that there are spoilers below if you still haven’t seen the movie.

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They say you get what you pay for, but anyone who follows the BGR Deals team knows that sometimes high-quality products can be had for rock bottom prices. Here’s a perfect example: we just found three different wireless N home routers that are all highly rated and much faster than the old model you’re using now, and any one of them can currently be had for less than $25 — including express two-day shipping!

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Apple has confirmed, via The Washington Post, that it has in fact issued a server-side fix for an iPhone 6s bug that enabled access to a device’s photos and contacts without the need to verify one’s identity either via a passcode or Touch ID.

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That didn’t take long! Just a few days after AMC brilliantly trolled The Walking Dead fans with the season 6 finale, the mystery surrounding that terrible cliffhanger may have been solved already thanks to – you’ve probably guessed it – a die-hard fan of the series.

Beware, spoilers follow below, so this is your chance to avoid them. But if you prefer to know who Negan may have killed, according to this forensic inspection of the episode’s last moments, then read on.

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Now that it managed to hack the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple’s help, the FBI isn’t ready to tell the press whether any of the data it extracted from the phone is actually useful for the ongoing investigation.

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