“Class is in session,” a new deals page says on T-Mobile’s website, signaling that a particular Back To School sale on mobile devices has just kicked off. The “Un-carrier” has discounted the price on many top smartphones, including top Samsung devices like the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S5 the Galaxy Note 4. However, T-Mobile’s two-day deal only includes Android devices, so don’t expect to see any iPhones in this Back To School sale.
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We live in a world where we crave instant results, instant iMessage responses and immediate rewards. And technology makes it all happen. Just pull whatever smartphone you favor out of your pocket and you’ll get lots of digital content to keep you entertained, and – most importantly – access to instant communications.
But that wasn’t the case in the more distant past, when other messaging techniques were the norm, including messages in bottles. The oldest such message was found on a beach in Germany this April, after being released into the sea sometime between 1904 and 1906.
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Unless you’re really into professional wrestling, you might have missed Jon Stewart hosting WWE SummerSlam over the weekend. Stewart is a self-proclaimed wrestling fan, so it wasn’t a complete shock, but it’s crazy to think that this is the comedian’s first gig since retiring from The Daily Show earlier this month.
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While there’s no disputing that the picture quality of 4K content is absolutely breathtaking, the transition to a 4K world isn’t going to happen overnight. For starters, 4K HDTVs are relatively expensive and remain something of a curiosity for most mainstream consumers. Even though the price of 4K sets have gone down dramatically in the last 12 months alone, the percentage of 4K sets in living rooms remains small.
Even more limiting is the fact that most content today simply isn’t being produced in 4K. While Netflix is committed to shooting all of its original programming in 4K — and even 6K in the case of House of Cards — they are in the minority. Furthermore, because 4K is so data heavy, bandwidth issues may impede widespread adoption.
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Everyone loves eating a juicy hamburger that’s nice and red on the inside. However, a new study from Consumer Reports warns that eating non-organic ground beef medium rare could leave you very susceptible to several food-related illnesses due to a high concentration of bacteria in the meat.
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Modafinil is a drug that was designed to help you deal with your sleep disorder – specifically, with narcolepsy – but the drug is also taken by many healthy people who want to enhance their cognitive capabilities. Seen as the first smart drug that’s reasonably safe to use at least for short periods of time, the drug is widely available online to anyone looking for a focus and creativity boost.
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Android fans already have plenty of reason to be excited about Motorola’s 2015 flagship smartphone models and a preview of Motorola’s new smartphone cameras from The Verge gives us our most encouraging news yet. While Motorola’s Moto X line has traditionally won praise from Android fans, its cameras have always left something to be desired, particularly when compared to the flagship phones of Apple and Samsung. Motorola promised that would change with the new Moto X Style and Moto X Play and it sounds like the company delivered in a big way.
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Back in May, Microsoft announced that its digital assistant Cortana would be expanding to platforms other than Windows in the future. It began with a closed beta on Android in July, and today, Microsoft has revealed that the beta is now open to the public, free to download on Google Play.
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It’s that time of the week again, and BGR is bringing you a roundup of the best new Netflix movies and shows for your streaming pleasure. A lot of your time is wasted by looking around Netflix for something you haven’t seen yet, so this update will save you some precious ticks on the clock.
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To say it’s been a rough week for cheating website Ashley Madison would be an understatement. Hackers last week posted personal information for tens of millions of Ashley Madison users, including their names and email addresses. Days later, the hackers made things even worse by publishing internal emails from Noel Biderman, the CEO of Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life, as well as the source code for Ashley Madison’s website and mobile apps.
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