Good morning, free iPhone app fans! Today we’ve compiled a list of eight terrific paid iOS apps that would normally cost you a total of $18 but that are completely free to download right now for a limited time. Check them out below!
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Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are often used for marketing, and many accounts hold contests to generate buzz around a product or event. Anyone can enter them and win the prizes, but one man took it upon himself to create a Twitter bot that would automatically enter every contest it could find, without raising any flags.
The robot entered 165,000 contests over the course of nine months, and it won prizes 1,000 of them.
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One of the main concerns with Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform concerns privacy. The operating system has various features that need to access your private data to work properly. At the same time, Microsoft wants to deliver you better Bing search results and ads. In its defense, the company makes it clear in its terms of service that it’s tracking you, and there are ways to stop all the tracking without compromising your Windows 10 experience. But what if the privacy-infringing settings you thought you just turned off aren’t off?
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As more unofficial information about Google’s rumored 2015 Nexus devices hits the web, designers are imagining what the next Nexus handset might look like. That’s exactly what one Reddit user did with the new LG Nexus 5, creating a series of images based on previous 3D renders and recently leaked information.
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Come on, Apple. Are you really doing this to us again? A purported iPhone 6s benchmark posted by blog Ringer Blue Men shows that the new device only has 1GB of RAM, or just as much as last year’s iPhone 6 had. If accurate, this would be a major disappointment.
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Big-time surfer Jamie O’Brien is on fire – literally – in a YouTube video released by GoPro. O’Brien, host of Red Bull web series “Who Is JOB 5.0,” is a daredevil extraordinaire who is shown surfing a big wave while on fire.
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Samsung will unveil the brand new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge Plus on Thursday, but if you’re looking to purchase a new Samsung flagship smartphone, you should be looking at an entirely different device. The Galaxy S6 is the reasonably-sized flagship handset in question, and the top of the line Galaxy S6 flavor is now cheaper than ever.
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What’s better than a Chipotle burrito? An even bigger Chipotle burrito. And what’s better than an even bigger Chipotle burrito? A bigger Chipotle burrito that doesn’t cost a dime more than a regular Chipotle burrito. But how is such a miraculous thing possible, you ask? For that we have to turn to Dylan Grosz of The Apartment List, who has written the definitive guide for getting Chipotle to inadvertently doubling the size of your burrito without charging you any extra money for it.
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We seem to be living in a golden age of robotics and artificial intelligence. These days, we can’t even go a few weeks without hearing about some wild new advancement that brings the notion of futuristic and intelligent robots that much closer to reality. Of course, at the same time, each new advancement also brings with it a certain level of fear, a point driven home by Tesla CEO Elon Musk who said that exceedingly advanced AI can be fundamentally dangerous.
Case in point: researchers at the University of Cambridge recently developed an intelligent robot capable of having children. Which is to say, the robot was programmed to assemble smaller robots and can even monitor the progress of its creations as to improve the building process in subsequent builds. All the more impressive, this is all done without any human intervention or external computer simulations.
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