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Watch Face BSOD Constantly Revives Your Timeless Dead Windows Nostalgia was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Using RFID tracking and very fast data crunching, the new NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 10 turns real-game action into game-like graphics.

The post All NFL Players Are Getting RFID Chips This Season appeared first on WIRED.

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The news of the Stagefright exploit appears to have precipitated a much needed update commitment from Google and various Android OEMs. After Samsung announced its new Android security update process and Google revealed the details of a new Nexus update policy, LG is following suit and promising similar monthly security patch updates.

Although it hasn't been officially announced by the company, the news comes from a couple of reliable sources. First, speaking at the security conference Black Hat 2015, Googler Adrian Ludwig revealed that LG has made the same commitment to send the monthly security patches that it receives from Google to end users.

LG Joins Google And Samsung In Promising To Provide Monthly Security Updates was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

The age old question: Why are laptop screens so hard to see in the sun when phones are fine?

The post The Days of Squinting at Laptops in the Sun Are Almost Over appeared first on WIRED.

The Moto G is the cheapest phone in Motorola's 2015 handset lineup, but it certainly doesn't feel like it.

The post Review: Moto G appeared first on WIRED.

You know that website, that one you've never visited or heard of? It's called Porn...place? Porn...hut? Wait, no, it's Pornhub. Yeah, that place your friend visits sometimes. Well, tell your friend that Pornhub is launching a new subscription service that they promise will make them the "Netflix of porn."

Pornhub Premium will cost you $9.99/month and give access to some member-exclusive videos, an ad-free interface, and Android and Roku apps when they come out in the near future.

[NSFW] Pornhub Announces Pornhub Premium, An Ad-Free Subscription Service With Android, Roku, And Virtual Reality Apps On The Way was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

News alert AP readers. MicroUSB cables are not all created equal. As Artem discovered a couple of weeks back, if you are using the crappy cable that came with your bluetooth headset to charge your phone, it is going to charge reeeaaaaallllyyyy slow. If you want to get the maximum performance out of your high speed chargers, you need high performance cables.

I just happen to have a sweet little deal to share with you all for some of the fastest cables on the market.

[Deal Alert] Grab Six Tronsmart Premium Quick Charge 2.0 Compatible MicroUSB Cables For Only $7 On Amazon was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Another long design test appears to be drawing to a close for Google. After apparently beginning a wider rollout for the new mobile search UI (in testing since April), it seems that Google is making the revised image results UI final too.

This layout has been popping up since at least May, with a brighter, more crisp interface that offers more iconography, refined typography, and - yes - a section for related images.

New Image Search Results Layout (With Related Images) Rolling Out After Long Test was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Redmond may be riding high on some well-deserved positive press after the launch of Windows 10, but the various developer teams are still going full steam with diverse support for other platforms. Microsoft has released more apps for Android than anyone might have expected from an erstwhile competitor, and it continues to improve them. Today the note syncing app OneNote get some notable improvements, specifically by requiring one less app.

Previously Microsoft released a stand-alone Android Wear app for OneNote, which allowed users to view notes on their watches and create new ones with a voice command.

Microsoft Ditches The Separate Wear App For OneNote, Slips Compatibility Into The Primary Android App Instead was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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It would appear that LMY48I (which has a fix for Stagefright) is wreaking havoc on Nexus 6 phones with T-Mobile USA SIM cards. The phone simply refuses to connect to the cellular network, and thus calls and text messages are out the window. This issue seems to mainly be affecting people who upgraded from LYZ28E (T-Mobile USA's unique build with Wi-Fi calling) to LMY48I by flashing factory images. This likely has to do with the fact that the Wi-Fi calling-enabled radio firmware used in the LYZ28E build is quite a bit different than the "standard" radio firmware used in the more mainstream LMY47Z build.

PSA: Impatient Power Users Are Finding That LMY48I Causes Their Nexus 6s With T-Mobile USA SIMs To Lose Cellular Connectivity, But It Doesn't Matter Because Those Devices Shouldn't Be On LMY48I Anyway was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Crews fighting the massive Rocky Fire in northern California have dusted off the helitorch.

The post The Flame-Throwing Helicopter That Fights Wildfires appeared first on WIRED.

Microsoft continues to branch out to other platforms beyond its own Windows ecosystem. The latest app from Redmond to land on Android is Microsoft Translator. Not only can you talk to the phone to get translations, it has support for Android Wear as well.

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Microsoft Translate can provide instant translations to and from 50 languages including the usual ones like Spanish, German, and French, but also less commonly supported tongues like Urdu, Hungarian, and Greek.

Microsoft Translator Comes To Android With Support For 50 Languages And Android Wear was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Remember that one bit in Metal Gear Solid where the boss starts to mess with you, the player, and for a few minutes you wonder if A) the game is broken or B) you've actually gone insane trying to follow a Hideo Kojima plotline? GLTCH is that experience, boiled down to its essentials and turned into a mobile game.

The mechanics of the title are laughably simple: you travel around a TRON-inspired 2D grid grabbing points like a postmodern Pac-Man.

GLTCH Is A Modern Take On Pac-Man That Constantly Tries To Screw With You While You Play It was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

At least we know the plane's not hiding in Kazakhstan.

The post Our New Best Guess for Where to Find MH370: The Indian Ocean appeared first on WIRED.

HBO Now finally came to Android recently after a few months of Apple exclusivity, but it lacked Chromecast support. That's not a problem anymore as of the new v1.1 update. HBO Now can beam video direct to the Chromecast, and there are a few other tweaks too.

Here's the chagelog for HBO Now v1.1.

You may notice Android TV still isn't supported, but at least you can use those boxes as cast targets.

HBO Now App Gains Chromecast And Push Notification Support, Still Blocks Rooted Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

If there's one thing we've learned from Google's various camera and photo products lately, it's that the company is focusing on using some pretty crazy technology to make your image-capture and sharing experience more automagical. Next on Google's list? Annoying reflections and foreground obstructions that make your pictures kind of terrible. Specifically, things like cyclone fences and reflections in windows or other glass. Basically, it's best to just visualize it.

Google and MIT teamed up on this technology, and they'll present a paper on it at the Siggraph 2015 conference this month.

Video: Google And MIT Have Created A Way To Remove Reflections, Fences, And Other Annoying Obstructions From Photos was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

As creepy as it is cool.

The post Tesla’s Whipped Up Your Latest Nightmare appeared first on WIRED.

ASUS is riding high on ZenFone Fever, and at an event in India called - wait for it - Zenfestival, the company announced a slew of new ZenFone models. ZenFone 2 Deluxe, ZenFone 2 Laser, ZenFone Selfie, and ZenFone Max. Well, actually, only one of them was new - the ZenFone Max. The Laser, Deluxe, and Selfie were all announced previously, but the Max is the only really interesting one anyway (it even has a laser, don't worry).

ASUS Announced A Bunch Of New ZenFones... But Only One Of Them Is Actually New, And It Has A 5,000 mAh Battery was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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The once proud Tomb Raider franchise has been somewhat exploited in recent years with releases like Lara Croft Relic Run. There's the classic Tomb Raider game on Android now, but in the near future you might have another option for not-terrible Tomb Raider gaming with Lara Croft GO.

You can probably guess from the name that this is a game in the same vein as Hitman GO, which turned out to be a really interesting take on the stealth action genre.

[Update: Coming August 27th] Square Enix Announces Adventure-Puzzler Lara Croft GO, Coming Later This Year was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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You are probably familiar with the issues surrounding the Snapdragon 810 by now, but a new chip is right around the corner that could get Qualcomm back on track. I speak of course of the fabled Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996). Details of this chip have allegedly been leaked in China, and while we can't know for sure that they're accurate, the slides sure look legit.

This will be the first chip using Qualcomm's new custom ARM core, apparently called Hydra now.

Snapdragon 820 Leak Details Quad-Core Hydra CPU And Adreno 530 GPU was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Amazon has the market cornered when it comes to some services, but general consumer cloud storage is not one of them. The retailer is trying, though. The Cloud Drive app arrived in June and it's getting a big update today with some essential file management options.

Here's the changelog for v1.1 of the Cloud Drive app.

Amazon Cloud Drive Updated To v1.1 With Better File Management, Uploading From Camera, And More was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Have you ever been stuck in the middle of the woods with no way back to civilization, no laptop, and your boss expects you to deliver a spectacular presentation to your investors in 15 minutes? Neither have I, but it could happen – life is full of surprises like that. If you ever do find yourself in this situation, all you need is your smartphone, a half-decent wireless connection, and the latest version of Google Slides.

Slides v1.2.312 Rolls Out With Support For Presentations Over Hangouts, Will Be Adding Spellcheck In The Future [APK Download+Teardown] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Let's talk! Just tell me where.

The post Screw Texting. It’s Time to Pick a Universal Messaging App appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook's new Live for Facebook Mentions livestreaming service is only for recognizable faces.

The post Only Celebs Get Facebook Livestreaming. We’re Liabilities appeared first on WIRED.

Earlier today, Google released updated factory images for all of its supported Nexus devices to patch up some reasonably serious vulnerabilities in a core Android library called Stagefright. While we await the stream of OTAs that are sure to follow, there's a fresh code drop to the Android Open Source Project containing security-related patches. Don't expect to see any new features or user-facing changes, this one is all about closing loopholes.

AOSP Developer Changelog Posted For v5.1.1_r6 (LMY48G) To v5.1.1_r9 (LMY48I) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Google announced the Stagefright vulnerability fix would start rolling out as an OTA today, but it has also added new factory images to the Nexus developer pages. That means bootloader unlocked Nexus phones and tablets can flash the new build immediately, even if your device is running some wacky ROM.

All the new images have the same build number (LMY48I), which is what Sprint listed as the Stagefright fix for the Nexus 5 and 6 this morning.

Google Posts Stagefright-Fixing LMY48I Factory Images For Seven Nexus Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Chrysler just dropped $2.5 million on a revamped dynamometer, one that can properly test all-wheel drive and 4x4 vehicles packing up to 650 horsepower.

The post Chrysler Has a New Way to Test Cars Packing Big Horsepower appeared first on WIRED.

Adidas, the company that made your pair of gym shoes and track pants, has purchased Runtastic. It reportedly paid around $239 million to close the deal.

Around these parts, Runtastic is known for having produced a series of great fitness-related apps. There's Runtastic's running app that got the ball rolling, and there are a couple of cycling ones that do the same thing for bikes. Then there are dedicated offerings for pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, and squats.

Athletic Apparel Producer Adidas Buys Fitness App Maker Runtastic For Over $200 Million was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Yesterday we reported that AT&T's U-verse cable streaming app was updated with new channels for users. Apparently that wasn't true for the tablet version of the app, a separate listing on the Play Store. Instead, tablet users were given the following message in the changelog, with a link to the previously mentioned "phone" app:

WHAT'S NEW

This application is expriring [sic]. Please upgrade @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.att.android.uverse .

It looks like the U-verse Android developers are getting with the times (if by "times" you mean circa fall 2011) and making the original app compatible with both phones and tablets.

AT&T Retires Its U-verse Tablet App, Recommends Users Switch To The 'Phone' App Instead was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

There’s now a DJI Phantom for the rest of us. Well, for more of us, anyway.

The post DJI’s New Phantom Is a Brilliant Drone for N00bs appeared first on WIRED.

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It's been about a year and a half since I wrote The Road to VR, and a … few … things have happened since then.

• Facebook bought Oculus for a skadillion dollars

• I have to continually read thinkpieces describing how the mere act of strapping a VR headset on your

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