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The Smithsonian’s New App Brings Museum Skeletons and Fossils To Life

Like it or not, museums can be boring places for kids to explore. Outside of a T-rex, fossils and skeletons are only interesting once you’ve got a few years of school under your belt. But don’t worry, kids, the Smithsonian has got your back during field trips with a new iOS app called Skin &…

The TV Casting Wonder App AllCast Is Finally Here For iOS

Allcast has been making content-sharing to televisions a breeze for Android users for more than a year now. Finally, that glorious swipe-to-share app is available for iPhones and iPads. I can’t stress enough how stupid easy this app is. Tap the cast icon, select anything from your camera roll, Songs of Innocence iTunes music, or…

The Nunchuck iPhone Case You Never Knew You Needed Until Just Now

The smartphone is the ultimate tool for fiddling around when you should be doing anything but. And when you get tired of all your apps, games, and social networks, this wonderful sliding, hinged iPhone case turns your device into a makeshift set of nunchucks—or nunchaku. The Trick Cover case certainly adds a bit of extra…

Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop now works with iOS, so you can control your desktop computer remotely using your iPhone.

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Health tracking and data tracking. These seem to be the two big themes concerning our six favorite apps of the week. But all these apps take different approaches, whether focusing on any kind of athletes, calorie counting, digitizing your paper files or just simply keeping tabs on your day-to-day goings on. Let’s take a look.…

Report: Apple Pay May Launch Internationally By March

Since November, the rest of the world has been forced look on with mild annoyance and jealousy as Americans have paid for stuff with fingerprints (and a $600 phone). But according to a report from 9to5Mac, the days of having to key in a PIN – ugh- are numbered. The report, which quotes anonymous “sources…

Idiot Thieves Stole PINs With an iPod Nano Covered in Duct Tape

Despite the repeated cries of tech bloggers everywhere, it would seem that the iPod isn’t actually dead; it’s just gone rogue. The newest ATM skimming scheme relies almost entirely on a MacGyver-ed version of your former, clickwheeled friend. How could you, iPod? ATM skimming—or when a thief intercepts your card data during an otherwise legitimate…

That Rumored 12-Inch MacBook Air Could Be a Stunner

Ah, the wonders of photorealistic 3D modeling software. Though it’s only been two days since 9to5Mac leakedthat Apple is planning the biggest overhaul to its laptops in years—in the form of a new 12-inch MacBook Air—we’ve already got gauzy, hyper-real renderings of this sucker. If this is what Apple is planning, count us in. Our…

You Can Download North Korea’s OS X Knockoff for Desktops (But Don’t)

An anonymous Dogecoin lover recently uploaded a torrent that appears to contain the delightful Mac OS X knockoff built by North Korea. While it’s not news that the DPRK created its own a Linux-based operating system that looks just like OS X, it’s pretty funny that you can now play with what looks like a…

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect of Apple’s upcoming redesign turns out not to be the size after all. It’s the apparent abandonment of ports. As Cupertino Whisperer Mark Gurman showed today, the rumored redesign isn’t just a matter of size. Apple…

Report: A Radically Redesigned 12-Inch MacBook Air Is Coming

Everyone’s been waiting years and years for a meaningful update to the MacBook line. According to a report from 9to5 Mac, this will be the year that a new design will arrive. The blog just published a few renderings based on details from unnamed Apple employees. And if they’re correct, this new MacBook looks awesome.…

FLIR’s New Tiny Predator-Vision Thermal Camera Now Fits Any Device

We loved everything about the compact FLIR ONE thermal camera the company announced at CES last year, except for the fact that it was initially only available for iOS devices, and it required your phone to be trapped inside a fairly cumbersome case. So the company decided to fix that, revealing a tiny new version…

You Can Now Buy a SIM-free Unlocked iPhone 6 or 6 Plus From Apple

Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in its stores and online. The 16 GB base model iPhone 6 will costs you $650; the iPhone 6 Plus starts at $750. Unlocked iPhones can be activated for use any carrier—AT&T, Sprint, Verizon or T-Mobile. They ship in 3-5 business day (compared to…

4K Drone Footage Captures Apple’s New Spaceship HQ, and It’s Massive

After looking at rendered images for years, seeing real footage of Apple’s new spaceship of a headquarters is a little bit surreal. We got a peek at the building’s footprint last summer, but a new clip shot with a drone in 4K really shows the building taking shape. Boy, is it huge. The video comes…

This Curvy Flash Drive Hides Behind Your iPhone So It’s Less Intrusive

If you’re regretting your decision to save a few hundred bucks on your iPhone or iPad by opting for the smaller 16GB model, there are ways to boost your smartphone’s storage capacity. But because swapping in a larger microSD card just isn’t an option in the Apple world, you’ll have to settle for an external…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to 2015 and the first Apps of the Week for the new year! Last year was filled with amazing apps that only made our smartphones better, so let’s start this year off right. The holiday saw a bit of a downtick in the world of apps (developers have families too!), but there were still…

The Best Apps of 2014

The smartphone in your pocket today makes whatever handset you had just two years ago look laughably bad. That’s not just because of better sensors and better software; the apps that power them have improved in kind. In 2014, these new iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps were 100 percent worth downloading. Some improved dramatically…

You Have To Solve a Sliding Puzzle To Change Lenses On This iPhone Case

If you’ve come to rely on your smartphone as your primary camera, you’ve probably found yourself frustrated at its lack of zoom or even macro capabilities. Clip-on lenses can vastly improve its capabilities, and taking a cue from those sliding puzzle games that have you re-arranging tiles to form an image, the Puzlook iPhone case…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Whether you’re brandishing a brand new smartphone from a lucrative holiday haul or just looking to add some apps to your tired years-old handset, app developers have been busy through this gift-giving season to pump out some software you’re going to want to try. Let’s unwrap some apps. Multi-Platform Stichy Stichy brings another way to…

iTunes Is Also Streaming The Interview Starting Today

According to Re/code, Apple just released The Interview on iTunes in the U.S. and Canada today at 1pm EST. Like other services which started streaming the controversial film on Christmas Eve, iTunes will also let you rent ($5.99) or buy ($14.99) the film. During Sony’s early talks to get would-be streaming services on board, the…