Microsoft is raising the white flag when it comes to developing its own mobile app ecosystem — instead, it’s going to let developers easily bring their iOS and Android apps over to Windows 10 without having to completely rebuild them from the ground up as they’ve had to do in the past. Essentially, Microsoft is letting developers reuse most of the same code that they used to write their apps for rival platforms and is giving them tools to help them optimize these apps for Windows.

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The evolution of WiFi security penetration demands we keep the pace. Learn how to test the strength of networks and identify weaknesses like a pro with the ‘Wi-Fi Hacking & Penetration Testing from Scratch’ course from BGR Deals.

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Game consoles are expensive. That’s why we’re always on the lookout for the best deals to help you save as much money as possible when and if you finally do decide to take the plunge. That’s why we had to share the best Xbox One bundle deal we’ve seen on Amazon to date.

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The Apple Watch ships with a variety of watch faces that users can swap on a whim – for example, I’m currently rocking the Mickey face you may have seen in some pictures and screenshots. But aside from the default options preloaded on the device, you can’t yet choose any other type of watch face. In fact, if you were hoping to see new watch faces begin popping up in the App Store, you’re completely out of luck for the time being, because Apple has banned apps that do nothing but tell time.

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We mostly think of hackers as people who use their knowledge of coding to virtually break into computer systems. It turns out, however, that hackers can be pretty good at breaking into physical locks as well. Via Ars Technica, hacker Samy Kamkar this week posted a video that shows how you can crack the code of a Master Lock combination in eight tries or fewer.

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It’s 2015. The iPhone was first introduced more than eight years ago, and development obviously began long before the phone was first unveiled in 2007. In all this time, however, Apple still hasn’t been able to master the gentle art of autocorrect, and autocorrect fails remain just as funny today as they were when the trend first began. In fact, they may have even gotten funnier with time, simply because there’s doesn’t seem to be any way the issue will ever be fixed.

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Google Maps is by far one of the most useful apps you can install on your mobile device or load on a computer, and it’s available across all operating systems. The app offers quick access to maps and directions, and there are plenty of neat tricks to make everything even faster and more enjoyable. In fact, the unofficial Google Operating System blog has discovered a neat new feature that will improve the overall Maps experience on older computers.

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LG finally unveiled its next-generation flagship Android phone on Tuesday morning, though the LG G4 really wasn’t much of a surprise going into yesterday’s press conference. As it has done in the past, LG released a series of “teasers” leading up to the event that weren’t really teasers at all, but instead bits and pieces of LG’s official announcement. Gadget fans were still impressed once they finally saw the complete picture though, and there’s certainly plenty to be impressed by.

And for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users in particular, there are some features on the G4 that might stir up a bit of jealousy.

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If you’re on the fence about the Apple Watch, there are certainly no shortage of reviews to help guide your decision. Still, the vast majority of reviews that came in the wake of Apple’s embargo being lifted a few weeks ago were either too short to be terribly informative or so exhaustively long that finding actual useful bits of information became something of a frustrating struggle.

But now that the Apple Watch has hit store shelves, a number of more enlightening takes on Apple’s new wearable have started to emerge. And standing out among a crowded room of somewhat identical reviews is what Ariel Adams of A Blog To Watch recently put together.

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We get more positive feedback surrounding our posts on paid iPhone and iPad apps that go on sale for free than for any other content series we run. We appreciate all of the tweets, Facebook messages and emails you guys send in, and we’ll keep doing our best to highlight the top paid iOS apps that go on sale each day.

Today’s list features eight terrific apps, and a few more paid apps can be had for free if you head back to yesterday’s post, where you’ll find a few good sales that haven’t yet ended.

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