There are times when a new product comes to market and you are flat-out amazed by how much better it is than the competition. That appears to be the case with Hound, a new voice assistant app produced by the makers of the music discovery app SoundHound. Re/code reports that Hound has been in development for a whopping nine years now and it really shows. Simply put, we’ve never seen a voice assistant app come even close to having the capabilities that Hound does.

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We love coming across an app that can help our computer run faster, better, or more efficiently. So of course we love coming across nine of them even more. This bundle is a collection of our favorite must-have apps for our Macs, from speed boosters to note-taking tools. And now’s your chance to get them all for just $19.99 at the BGR Store—at a savings of 90%, it’s not likely you’ll come across a deal this good again soon.

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In an effort to begin monetizing Instagram more seriously, the popular photo-sharing service has plans to infuse a lot more ads into user photostreams. Additionally, the Facebook-owned company announced that it may leverage information gleaned from user Facebook accounts to serve up more targeted ads on corresponding Instagram accounts.

While advertising on Instagram, in a broad sense, is nothing new, previous advertising efforts have been limited to adverts from big time companies like Levis. Under Instagram’s new rules, advertising will now be open to all comers.

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Apple next week will unveil the next major iOS and OS X updates, but the company might have a special surprise in store for next Monday on top of iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 announcements.

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Tim Cook earlier this week said that consumers will eventually grow weary of providing their personal information to companies like Google in exchange for free services.

“You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data-mined and sold off for god knows what advertising purpose,” Cook said. “And we think some day, customers will see this for what it is.”

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As amazing as it may seem, some people aren’t fiercely loyal to one platform or another and will use products from Apple, Google and Microsoft. One Android user who also happens to be a Mac user recently asked Reddit’s Apple community for some advice on how to get their Android phone to work with their Mac at least on a comparable level to the way an iPhone would. Below we’ve posted some of their best suggestions for apps that everyone who owns both a Mac and an Android phone should know about.

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Showtime announced on Wednesday that it will be launching its own standalone Internet TV subscription service in July for $10.99 a month. The service, simply called Showtime, will give subscribers access to its back catalog of movies and original shows as well as live streams of its networks.

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The original iPhone introduced by Steve Jobs was a game changer in every respect. In addition to a revolutionary new interface, Apple’s first-gen iPhone also ushered in a new era of smartphone hardware design. Before long, the design aesthetic of the original iPhone — a rectangular device with a large multitouch display — became the blueprint for all other smartphones.

But what if the iPhone had been released in a different era? What if the iPhone wasn’t developed in the mid-2000s, but was instead developed with the design aesthetic of Apple circa 1984?

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Apple Maps isn’t the Google Maps rival some users would love it to be, but the company has certainly improved the service over the years. In fact, Apple Maps might soon compete against even better against Google Maps by launching on other mobile and PC platforms instead than being exclusive to iOS and OS X.

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Look… there is no question that Apple’s iPhone and iPad lines have heavily influenced Samsung’s smartphones and tablets. Forget the hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties Samsung has been ordered to pay for copying Apple devices, and forget the existence of hard evidence like this 132-page internal Samsung document that served as a manual for copying the iPhone pixel by pixel. Just use your eyes.

Over the years though, there is one Samsung smartphone series that has led instead of followed. And as it turns out, the latest version of that groundbreaking smartphone has just topped Apple’s latest iPhones in one of the largest and most respected consumer satisfaction studies in the world.

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