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iPhone 15 Pro will blow away the Galaxy S24 Ultra and every other 2024 Android phone

The iPhone 15 Pro models will have an unexpectedly massive advantage over the Galaxy S24 and other Android flagships: The A17 Bionic chip.

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Worker v bot: Humans are winning for now

If you’d like to sharpen your skills to future-proof your career, then the VentureBeat Jobs Board is a great place to start a fresh job hunt.

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FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok

Brendan Carr references reports that say Beijing-based employees have access to US TikTok user data..

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Twitter acts to save Elon Musk acquisition deal, report says

With Elon Musk threatening to walk away from his offer to acquire Twitter, the company has reportedly made a move to try to save the deal.

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AT&T is launching drones into the sky as mobile 5G hotspots

Patchy internet in the countryside? No problem, AT&T's drones will beam down 5G.

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Musk says Twitter may charge slight fee for commercial, government users

Elon Musk said on Tuesday Twitter Inc might charge a "slight" fee for commercial and government users, part of the billionaire entrepreneur's push to grow revenue which has lagged behind larger rivals like Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook.

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Could we really build Star Trek's USS Enterprise?

How close are engineers to building a real USS Enterprise?

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iPhone 13 release date: When can we expect to see the new phones?

It may seem like the iPhone 12 just came out, but Apple is already looking towards the iPhone 13. Here's what we know about a potential release date.

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Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web

Google’s impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google

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Beware! Nasty Windows 10 bug can corrupt your hard drive — and it's super easy to trigger

Security researchers have warned about a Windows 10 bug that can cause major damage to your hard drive, and all it takes is to look at a folder it's hiding in.

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Amazon Might Be Working on an Alexa-Enabled Sleep Apnea Gadget

Amazon might be working on an Alexa-enabled device that could potentially track sleep and detect sleep apnea, according to a Business Insider report.

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26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC

If you’re switching to Windows for the first time or you just want to step up your Microsoft Store game, these are some of the best apps to consider.

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Apple Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Keep Their iPhones

Apple has revealed it is working to fix perhaps the biggest omission from iPhones and iPads...

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Apple iPhone Users, Get Ready For iOS 14.3 Update Next Week And Big New Features Are Arriving

Apple has released the iOS 14.

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AI and the transformation of the medical world | VentureBeat

Tremendous gains have been made in medical imaging and AI focusing mainly on cardiovascular, ophthalmology, neurology, and cancer detection.

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Apple to pay $113M settlement over its iPhone 'batterygate' slowdowns

The settlement involves the 2017 revelation that Apple was purposely slowing older phones when their batteries began to degrade.

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How to Change 5G Settings on iPhone 12 to Save Data and Battery - MacRumors

Apple's iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are the first iPhones to be released with 5G connectivity, and there are several new settings related to 5G that you...

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This Harvard Professor And His Students Have Raised $14 Million To Make AI Too Smart To Be Fooled By Hackers

Robust Intelligence is leaving stealth with a $14 million funding round led by Sequoia and a plan to become the firewall for the AI age.

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AI Weekly: Amazon went wide with Alexa; now it’s going deep | VentureBeat

After putting Alexa everywhere it could, Amazon is focusing its efforts on going deep, with new Alexa capabilities, a new edge chip, and surveillance gear.

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Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on MacOS | WIRED

The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time.

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Google is turning Android Phones into seismometers

Google is launching a handful of new Android features today that don’t really have a lot in common but that are all interesting in their own right. There are updates to Android Auto and Android’s emergency location service, new accessibility features than

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Virtual Disneyland? Someone is remaking rides in Dreams on PSVR | VentureBeat

Dreams’ PSVR support is resulting in re-creations of Disneyland rides like Space Mountain and Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

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Report finds many US election officials vulnerable to phishing attacks | Engadget

Security researchers have determined that some US election officials are vulnerable to phishing attacks, whether through accounts or software.

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Coronavirus contact tracing apps face consistency challenges | VentureBeat

Contact-tracing apps across the U.S. and internationally won't be following the same standards, creating a substantial roadblock to their effectiveness.

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Facebook Will Remove Content Organizing Protests Against Stay-at-Home Orders, Zuckerberg Says

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said the tech giant is removing posts that look to promote or organize protests against stay-at-home orders

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Google’s next streaming player will reportedly run Android TV and come with a remote - The Verge

After years of pushing Chromecast into living rooms, Google is reportedly going to switch gears and focus on Android TV in 2020 with a new device that comes with a remote control.

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Facebook has a new tool to spot spammers, and it's already taken down billions of accounts

Even equipped with a brand-new, high-performance algorithm, Facebook is unsure that it will ever win the war against fake accounts.

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How to mute a single word on Twitter - The Verge

While most of us are aware that we can mute conversations or other accounts on Twitter, you can also mute a specific word. You can do it straight from a tweet using your iPhone, or from settings using an Android phone or desktop.

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Instagram CEO explains why the company hasn't developed an iPad app yet - 9to5Mac

It’s 2020 and Instagram still doesn’t have an iPad app — despite its barrage of other feature additions and expansions. Now, in a response to a user question this weekend, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has explained why the company has yet to roll out an app

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Uber goes old-school with telephone bookings in the U.S.

Uber is best known as a smartphone-native platform for hailing private cars, but it's going old-school by embracing telephone bookings in the U.S.

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WhatsApp ends support for millions of smartphones around the world

WhatsApp no longer supports smartphones on Android versions 2.3.7 and older, and iOS 8 and older. Affected people will have to upgrade their OS or their device.

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Browser benchmark battle January 2020: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Edge vs. Brave | VentureBeat

What's the best browser for Windows 10? We ran eight browser benchmarks on Chrome 79, Firefox 72, Edge 79, and Brave 1.2 to find out.

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Apple to replace faulty Smart Battery Cases for iPhone XS, XS Max, XR

Apple launched a replacement program for defective Smart Battery Cases for the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. A problem involving batteries may sound alarming at it calls to mind exploding smartphones, but Apple clarified that the defects do not

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CES 2020: checking in with 2019’s best tech one year later - The Verge

Each and every CES, technology companies pull out all the stops to show off the boldest, most outlandish, and experimental products, from Sony’s MicroLED TVs to experimental gaming products from Alienware, Asus, and Razer. That’s why we at The Verge feel

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The iPhone 12 May Have A Very Familiar Design

New renders show the 2020 iPhone with a familiar look.

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The 10 best apps for your new Windows PC

Anyone who has used Windows through more than one version knows that, no matter how many utilities Microsoft adds to its operating system, there are always apps and utilities that will enhance your use.

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25 Tech Predictions for 2020 | Inc.

The year 2020 opens a new decade and much will be different, relative to ten years ago. Here are more than two dozen predictions about what to expect, according to industry experts and executives.

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Doctors Are Testing Human Suspended Animation for the First Time

The University of Maryland Medical Center has assembled a team to conduct the suspended animation experiment, but the rules governing ...

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Apple Black Friday 2019: Here Are The Best New Deals

The best Apple Black Friday 2019 deals with new savings on AirPods, iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Macs, the Apple Watch and Beats By Dre headphones...

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Scam Alert: New Phone Scam Uses a Real Text From Your Bank to Trick You | Mental Floss

If you get a call from someone claiming to be your bank, you should always be cautious. Here are some tactics one new phone scam uses to trick people.

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Apple iOS 13 Has 25 Great Secret Features

Apple iOS 13 has many great secret features for your iPhone hiding just beneath the surface...

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iPhone 11, Apple Watch 5 and more: The final rumors - CNET

Your cheat sheet for Apple's September event with the latest rumors about the next iPhone and Apple Watch.

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Facebook vs the feds: The tech giant will have to pay a record fine for violating users’ privacy. But the FTC wanted more.

The settlement the FTC brokered marks the most significant privacy punishment ever levied against a tech giant. But the story behind it -- described by 10 people familiar with the matter -- illustrates the challenges facing a 105-year-old agency tasked wi

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Earthquake warning app didn't alert users before 2 major quakes. Here's why.

The Shake Alert LA app was changed to detect lower intensity shaking after users were frustrated by a lack of warning following two earthquakes.

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SpaceX Hopes to Blast off Starship & Super Heavy Rocket Project in 2021 | Digital Trends

SpaceX's inaugural missions for its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy Rocket project could take place as early as 2021, a company executive has said. Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX’s vice president of commercial sales, discussed the company's plans for

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Spotify mimics the radio with a news and music playlist for drivers

All it’s missing is weather and traffic

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5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos | WIRED

The FCC is clashing with scientists who argue that 5G networks could interfere with weather sensors and compromise weather predictions.

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Apple addresses Spotify’s claims, but not its demands

Two days after Spotify announced that it had filed a suit against Apple with the European Commission over anticompetitive practices, Apple today issued its own response of sorts. In a lengthy statement on its site called “Addressing Spotify’

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What Amazon got wrong about New York City

A promise of 25,000 jobs isn’t exciting anymore — it’s ominous

“Moreover, if you have paid attention to the experience of other global tech capitals, most notably my home of San Francisco, you know that the arrival of high-paying jobs is typically accompanied by an extraordinary rise in rents. The rising cost of living can push homeownership even further out of reach for most workers, and may ultimately send even highly paid workers packing to the exurbs.”

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Facebook reportedly negotiating multibillion dollar fine with FTC

Facebook could face a multibillion-dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission.

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Apple iOS 12.1.4 Release: It's A Big One

Apple iOS 12.1.4 has appeared and iPhone owners must install this essential upgrade...

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AT&T to Begin Tricking Customers into Thinking They Have 5G Service

When really all they're getting is 4G with a sneaky new logo.

This isn’t a surprise. ATT is an atrocious company.

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How to download your personal data from Apple

Apple has a new process for requesting all the data the company has on you, and it's very simple. Here's how to do it.

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Twitter now shows if a tweet was deleted for policy violations

Twitter recently announced it’s rolling out a feature to provide context around deleted tweets – including who deleted them and why. It’s a small change, but it’s the latest in a series of moves Twitter is making in an effort to bolster transpare

It’s absurd that they choose which tweets are deleted and which remain given their extremely obvious bias. They essentially censor anything they disagree with, but then act like what they are really doing is providing “transparency.” Hiw fantastic of them. They won’t delete tweets of bigots like Louis Farrakhan, but when they finally delete one, they let you know. This is yet another reason why I like Moptu. It’s small and there is none of that type of Orwellian nonsense.

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Some iPhone XS and XS Max devices have an annoying charging problem

Some iPhone XS and XS Max owners have noticed a bug that's stopping their devices from charging properly.

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Lyft brings its electric scooters to Santa Monica

You no longer have to be a Denver resident to try Lyft's electric scooters. The two-wheeled transports are now available in Santa Monica, California under a ci...

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Where 3 Million Electric Vehicle Batteries Will Go When They Retire - Bloomberg

GM, Toyota and BYD are part of a potential $550 billion industry.

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Apple rebuilding Maps in massive overhaul, first results appearing in next iOS 12 beta | 9to5Mac

TechCrunch has published a new piece detailing Apple’s massive effort to rebuild Apple Maps from the ground up — specifically the mapping data — with a combination of iPhones and those Apple …

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Enjoy the lines at Disneyland? You'll love Elon Musk's idea for transit

Elon Musk says he'll bore tunnels under L.A. to make the perfect, personal transit system. Yeah right. He's building a boondoggle.

This is idiotic.

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New App Looks at Bike Share Programs and Public Transit When Planning Your Route

Coord has made the ultimate route-planning tool for public transit users.

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I Knew Buying a Newly Redesigned MacBook Pro Was Stupid And I Did It Anyway

Do not be me. I was desperate for a new Apple laptop to replace my dying 2012 one and as soon as the 2016 Macbook Pro with Touch Bar was available to buy I ordered it. This was a major redesign for Apple, and experience with other products told me that bu

It's official: Apple is mostly making crap.

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Amazon Echo has transformed the way I live in my apartment — here are my 19 favorite features

Amazon Echo is one of the best gadgets you can buy. It transforms the way you use your living space.

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Apple Is Reportedly Cutting Its iPhone X Production Target By 50%

The move comes amid disappointing sales.

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Why Apple's upcoming iPhone battery update is a bad idea

Tim Cook says Apple will release a software update for the iPhone for users to choose between performance or battery life. But that's not such a great idea.

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Apple's iPhone battery 'slowdown' to be optional - BBC News

Customers will be able to switch off a feature that deliberately slows down some older handsets.

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Google Chrome launches pop-up muting and other ad-blocking features

Chrome developers announced Thursday that the newest Chrome update, Chrome 64 Beta, will allow you to mute annoying autoplay videos.

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New iPhone 8 Leak Reveals Apple's Stunning Shock

With the presumptive launch of the new iPhone just over a week away almost everything is known about Tim Cook’s tenth anniversary handset. It’s unlikely there’s going to be a genuine ‘one more thing’ to surprise the crowd, but Apple’s latest s

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One Googler’s Insider Guide To Using Google Docs At Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Ritcha Ranjan works on the team that builds Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. These are her top five tips on how to use them.

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Latest iPhone 7 Leak Will Excite Users - Forbes

Apple finally gives iPhone users a feature they've always wanted...

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Trump’s wall misses the mark: We need a cyber wall, not a physical one | TechCrunch

It’s 2016. There isn’t a wall high enough to keep out the fastest-growing threat to our national security: Cyberterrorism. It follows that our vulnerable..

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Sprint and AT&T launch competing iPhone 6S/6S Plus offers - CNET

The rival carriers are trying to lure in customers with their latest 'buy one, get one free' campaigns.

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The company that will help knock misbehaving drones out of the sky

The drone enforcement industry is just getting started.

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Now even your streaming TV and music will come in bundles like cable TV

The bundle, maligned for its association with bloated cable packages, is slated for a big comeback.

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Data transmission rates are hitting ludicrous speeds in the lab

magine a world without buffering, a world where downloading HD movies takes less than one second, a world where your favorite web pages load before you even take your finger off the enter button. Don’t fret, we’re getting closer.

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Got a new smartphone? Here's how to get the best out of it | Technology | The Guardian

From privacy to backups and the best apps – here’s a guide to get you started with that new smartphone

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Google finally cutting off Chrome updates on Windows XP and Vista | PCWorld

Google announced Tuesday that it will finally stop providing updates to users of Microsoft's nearly geriatric, insecure operating system.

I stopped using Chrome a while ago - but you have to wonder why they do this. Is it REALLY that hard for Google to keep supporting Chrome for people who can't upgrade (for whatever reason)?

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Apple investors should cheer up; China iPhone market is just getting started | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Mark Sullivan

Apple’s stock is down 14 percent since July 20, the day before it announced its third quarter earnings.

I hope they are right. I really need Apple to go back up!

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1975 Article On Internet Spying Not Written By Time Traveler, Probably

People often think about internet spying as relatively new. But the internet was used for spying before we even called it the internet—and when we look back at news articles from the era, we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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Apple has been testing a giant iPad for at least 3 years

Apple has been testing prototypes of an iPad with a larger screen for years.

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Two self-driving cars involved in close call in California

Delphi Automotive Audi had to take ‘appropriate action’ after being cut up by Google Lexus, says executive who was riding in the car

This seems very very absurd.

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Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery

Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-ge...

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Apple Watch has tattoo trouble, Apple confirms - CNET

Got a tattoo on your wrist? You could find it difficult to get an Apple Watch to track your heart rate. It's all about the way the ink blocks light from built-in sensors.

See kids, don't get a tattoo - you will regert it later and it will mess with your Apple watch.

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The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2015 - WSJ

This was a year of big technology promises—2015 is the year we find out how many live up to the hype. We look into our crystal ball for the gadgets and ideas we think have the greatest chance to improve your life in the year ahead.

If I could personally add Moptwo to this list I would. I know the guys and they deserve it.

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33 Products Every iPhone Addict In Your Life Will Want!

A brush that helps you take the best selfie?

I definitely want at least a couple of these!

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These Are the 25 Best Inventions of 2014!!!

A better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun world awaits!

Yeah they are!