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Twitter changes policy, allows media attachments to be posted without affecting 140-character limit

You’ll finally begin to get more out of your tweets. On Monday, Twitter changed its architecture so that posting photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quotes of other tweets without counting against the 140-character limit. Now that these media attachments won’t reduce the character count, users can compose longer tweets. Twitter announced this change back in […]

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Hardware iPhone News

DisplayMate publishes full review of iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus cameras, gives new hardware top marks

Every so often, Dr. Raymond Soneira tests a new display and/or camera system. The man goes thoroughly bananas with his tests. And this time he focused on the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus displays and cameras, especially compares to the iPhone 6 and 6s cameras and displays. His new review points out the […]

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Hardware iPhone News

Some iPhone 7 users report hissing sounds, no clear cause named as of yet

The iPhone 7 may, in fact, hiss at you. A number of early iPhone 7 adopters have reported that both the regular iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus producing hissing sounds when they’re subjected to a heavy processor workload, such as a game. They continue to function, but it’s a bit disconcerting when most […]

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battery Hardware News Samsung

Samsung cites new, operational Note 7 stock by Wednesday, September 21st for most carriers, retailers

If you’re worried about the battery on your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 catching fire, replacements are on the way. On Friday, Samsung announced that along with a formal, CPSC-backed recall of the Galaxy Note 7 in the United States, the company provided an update on when its new, replacement Note 7s ( will reach retailers: […]

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Accessory Fun

Conan pokes fun at Apple’s new wireless AirPods

Before you start taking anything too seriously on this, another iPhone launch day, the killer writers over at Conan came up with this to poke fun at the new AirPods, Apple’s new wireless headphones. The results speak for themselves. A brief warning, some of the language isn’t entirely safe for work, so you may want […]