Apple’s next-generation iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are still months away from being announced, and Apple could really use a hit in light of all the negativity following the company’s March-quarter earnings. iPhone sales have fallen off a cliff so far this year, since there was simply no way the iPhone 6s was going to keep up with the sales pace set by the prior year’s model. With the iPhone 7, Apple will look to boost sales with new features and a new design.

And now, it appears as though that new design is no longer a mystery.

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We have big shoes to fill after yesterday’s batch of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free, but we think we’ve done a pretty good job. We’ve got 12 apps in total for you today, and they span a wide range of categories to ensure that there’s something for everyone. As always, you’ll also find a few free downloads remaining in yesterday’s post if you head back and check it out.

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On March 6th, 2012, Google officially launched Google Play in order to consolidate its mobile stores and compete more effectively with Apple’s App Store. Four years later, Android has seen explosive growth in the apps department, with revenue climbing by a massive 35x in that timespan.

This week, analytics firm App Annie took a look back at the past four years to see which apps have contributed most to that astounding growth.

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Today’s batch of the best Amazon daily deals we could find is a particularly exciting one. Why? Because it includes lasers, and everything that includes lasers is exciting. Fact. On Thursday’s list you’ll also find a great affordable Wi-Fi range extender, a killer price on a Full HD dash cam, a 128GB microSD card for under $34, and plenty more.

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Designing a flagship smartphone is beyond easy when you don’t actually have to design a flagship smartphone. Things like technological limitations melt away and the barriers of physics cease to exist. Do you want the entire face to be one giant display? Sure, why not. Feel like stuffing a 10,000 mAh battery into a phone that’s 6mm thick? Makes perfect sense. Antennas… who needs them?

The confines of reality don’t have to stop us from dreaming, though, and a new iPhone 7 concept making the rounds may very well be the iPhone of our dreams.

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Making movies based on blockbuster video games isn’t always such a great idea, but the upcoming Assassin’s Creed film doesn’t look bad. The first trailer for the movie was just released, giving us glimpses of Callum Lynch’s story. If you’ve played the games, you’ll have fun seeing this reenactment for the big screen. If you haven’t, then you’re in for a sci-fi assassin story that takes place mostly in the 15th century.

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Last Friday, Nvidia took the stage in Austin, Texas in order to unveil the exceptionally fast — yet surprisingly affordable — GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 graphics cards. With its new Pascal architecture, Nvidia was able to produce cards that were even faster than its flagship Titan X GPU at a fraction of the cost.

Nvidia also took the opportunity to show off a demo of the upcoming Doom game using the GTX 1080, and the results truly spoke for themselves.

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Google just announced and launched a new keyboard for the iPhone that it’s calling Gboard. The keyboard has built-in Google search functionality, as well as GIF and emoji search. Best of all, you can use it in any app.

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My name is Zach and I am a recovering musician. I began playing the guitar at a very young age and took to it immediately. It would remain my instrument of choice over the course of more than decades, in and out of bands, and ultimately as a hobby I still revisit from time to time in order to unwind.

For years I studied everything from classical to rock under well-known musicians, and Fender was always my go-to guitar brand. Sure I went through others here and there, but my first guitar was a Fender Telecaster (OK, it was actually a Telecaster copy by Fernandes since I couldn’t afford a real Telecaster) and my last guitar was a vintage Strat. I even had a Heartfield Elan III at one point, which some electric guitar fans might remember.

So naturally when Fender’s PR firm reached out to let me know that the company was about to announce its first line of in-ear monitors, I had to check them out immediately. And thankfully, Fender’s first foray into headphones does not disappoint.

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When Elon Musk boasts that Tesla doesn’t know how to make slow cars, he absolutely means it. Speed wise, Tesla’s crowning achievement has to be the Tesla Model S P90D. With Ludicrious Mode enabled, a top-of-the-line Model S can go from 0-60 in just 2.8 seconds. At the same time, the Model S is also notable for being one of the safest cars on the road. In fact, a Tesla Model S with 5 passengers recently got into an accident and flew 82 feet in the air. The Tesla was utterly destroyed but the car’s safety features managed to save the lives of everyone inside.

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