New Google search trick will make listening to new music easier than ever

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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Have you ever done a search for an artist and just wanted Google to fetch you links that would just let you listen to their top songs? Well, now you can. Google said this week that when you search for an artist, you’ll get links to their songs at several top streaming websites including Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Google Play, YouTube and Rdio. Just clicking on the search result will open the song on your phone depending on the apps you have installed on your device.

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WHAT A BEAST: New leak suggests the Galaxy Note 4 might be even better than we thought

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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Earlier on Friday, we learned about some killer leaked specs for the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 that confirmed it will be an absolute beast of a device. SamMobile has now followed up this Galaxy Note 4 leak with a new report suggesting that Samsung is not only working on two versions of the Galaxy Note 4, but that one of them might have an even better processor than the one that showed up in the most recent AnTuTu benchmark.

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The Fire Phone’s best feature may also be a crazy invasion of privacy

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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The newly unveiled Fire Phone has at least one interesting feature – the smart, cloud-based Firefly assistant that can recognize objects, text, languages, TV shows and music tracks – that also happens to be a potentially major invasion of privacy, VentureBeat says.

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Apple employees now ‘happy in a way they haven’t been’ in a while

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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Although no one would say that working at Apple is a miserable, soul-sucking experience, the company doesn’t have the same reputation for being as fun to work at as Google. That said, Business Insider points us to some recent remarks from Apple observer John Gruber, who brings us word that Apple employees seem to be having more of a good time at their jobs than they’ve had in a while.

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Two important missing PS4 features are still ‘not ready yet’

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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Console launches, much like elected officials, never quite live up to their promises. When Sony and Microsoft spoke of all the revolutionary features that would be present on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, we knew we should remain cautiously optimistic until they were actually sitting in our living rooms. As expected, a few of those features weren’t finished in time for launch, but at least for the PS4, Sony says they aren’t dead yet.

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Here’s one way Apple Maps is getting better than Google Maps

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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A hidden iOS 8 feature that Apple barely mentioned onstage during its WWDC 2014 keynote – flyover city tours – has been discovered in iOS 8 beta 2 by a developer who managed to access it using hidden debug menus, with Mac4Ever demoing this new Apple Maps feature in a short video.

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This brilliant GIF shows how your iPhone gets assembled piece by piece

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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We’ve gotten so used to smartphones in our lives that we don’t realize just what incredible feats of engineering they really are. PhoneArena has spotted an incredible new GIF made by an anonymous imgur user that quickly shows all of the components that you find in an iPhone 5s that need to be assembled to make a finished device. The GIF starts out with just the basic iPhone frame and then rapidly adds parts such as its camera, its A7 system on a chip and its battery one by one, showing how all of them overlap and fit together in the device’s tiny frame. Be sure to check it out below because it will give you a new appreciation of just how incredible smartphone engineering really is.

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Acclaimed critic rips apart Amazon’s Fire Phone, calls it ‘dead on arrival’

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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Bob Lefsetz is best known for his commentary on the music industry, but he branches out from time to time. The acclaimed critic’s analyses on consumer tech are most interesting to us, of course, and on Thursday night he set his sights on Amazon’s newly announced Fire Phone.

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Cheap third-party chargers could kill your iPhone

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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It’s true what they say about getting what you pay for, especially when it comes to electronics. The team of repair specialists at mendmyi in the UK have recently been receiving far more iPhone 5 repairs than they are used to. Every iPhone 5 owner had the same complaint: the device wouldn’t recharge after the battery died. The screen wouldn’t even light back up.

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Could the Fire Phone be an even bigger dud than HTC’s Facebook phone?

Posted on June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Authcom

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When T-Mobile CEO John Legere this week brutally compared Amazon’s Fire Phone to the HTC First, was he being optimistic? In a new video, popular YouTube gadget reviewer Marques Brownlee makes the case that the Fire Phone really might be as big of a dud as HTC’s Facebook-centric phone and might actually do worse because of Amazon’s pricing decisions.

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