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Flashback: the Motorola Backflip and its crazy inside-out design

We miss old Motorola sometimes – it created some of the best phones of their day, but also crafted devices that had us asking “It does WHAT?” and staring in confusion. We’ve already covered the RAZR, the Moto X, the Nexus 6 and, of course, the Droid (aka Milestone) with its nifty slide-out QWERTY keyboard. If it wasn’t clear, those were the excellent models. But today we wanted to talk…
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iOS 15: Here are all of the new Accessibility features coming to iPhone

During WWDC 2021, Apple previewed iOS 15. As the company unveiled many features for the general public, Apple is also always working to make its products accessible to more and more people. Here’s everything new with Accessibility on iOS 15. It’s important to notice that a few weeks before WWDC 2021, Apple announced a variety of new software features coming soon to iPhone, iPad, and Apple…
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Twitter appears to be on board with Google’s FLoC initiative

To say that FLoC, a technology built by Google to replace third-party cookies, has been controversial is almost an understatement. Many tech companies have spoken out against or deliberately avoided the tech, but it seems that Twitter may be on board with FLoC. Jane Wong reports that Twitter is currently working on data collection for FLoC through its website. Source code as pictured below…
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Google pulls a few Android apps from Play Store that could steal Facebook passwords

The Google Play Store is generally the safest place to obtain apps for your Android smartphone, but every once in a while, some bad actors find their way in. Recently, Google removed a handful of Android apps from the Play Store that tried to steal Facebook passwords. Dr. Web recently highlighted a “trojan” that was embedded within some Android apps that had the ability to trick users into…
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