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| Samsung Launches Galaxy S4 Wireless Charging Kit for $90 | | Samsung Galaxy S4 owners with no affinity for wires, you're in luck: Samsung has made available its wireless charging kit for the device, priced at $90. The kit, first unearthed by Droid Life, consists of a charging cover, which will set you back $39.99, and the charging pad, which costs $49.99.
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| Snapchat Update Adds Quicker, Flashier Features | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Everybody's favorite photo-sharing (and photo-disappearing) app just got a slick makeover in the App Store. Snapchat rolled out version 5.0, dubbed "Banquo," on Wednesday for iPhones. It boasts a slew of speed and design enhancements, including swipe navigation, double-tap to reply, an improved friend finder and in-app profiles.
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| Study: U.S. Smartphone Penetration Now at 61% | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Smartphone owners are now a solid majority of U.S. mobile subscribers at 61% according to Nielsen. Smartphones became the dominant mobile device in the U.S. in March 2012. The figures, for the three-month period ending in March, also show Android was the predominant smartphone OS with 53% versus 40% for Apple's iOS. Apple's share was up 7%, mostly likely because of the late 2012 iPhone 5 release.
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| Brilliant iPhone Case From Kickstarter Finds a Home at Logitech | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:36 AM | Pete Pachal |
| The TidyTilt has to be one of the most clever iPhone cases we've ever seen. Similar to the iPad Smart Cover, the magnetic TidyTilt folds over to act as a stand for your iPhone. And since it's magnetic, you can even use it to slap your iPhone on the fridge. Lots of other people liked the TidyTilt, too, apparently, since the Kickstarter project received more than $200,000 in donations when it only asked for $10,000.
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| Google Patent Takes Facial Recognition a Frown Further | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:30 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Unlocking your Android phone might soon become a matter of frowning, yawning or smiling. A patent from Google, originally filed in June 2012, enhances facial recognition by capturing several images of the user's facial gestures, which should prevent some ways of cheating the "standard" facial recognition system. The problem with facial recognition is it's possible to fool it by simply presenting a photo of a person to the device's camera.
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| NSA Collecting Millions of Phone Records and Other News You Need to Know | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:43 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. We learned that Verizon has been providing the National Security Agency with millions of subscribers' telephone records following a secret court order, according to a report published in The Guardian.
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| Samsung Galaxy S4 Update Provides More Space for Apps | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:35 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| One of the burning issues with Samsung's flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S4, was limited space for apps in the 16GB version of the device — 9.15GB. A software update for the Galaxy S4 rectifies this, increasing the available storage to 9.23GB, and giving users the ability to move the apps to the SD memory card.
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| What Your iPhone Case Says About You | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:26 AM | Stephanie Buck |
| You're 100% unique. A true original. A polished ruby among billions of dull, grey, worthless pebbles. Well, not according to your iPhone case.
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