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Last Fall, Keurig announced that it was getting into the soda-making machine business – but that product was short-lived after criticisms that it was too expensive, forcing the company to cancel the whole line this month. And now, SodaStream, the company Keurig had attempted to compete with, wants to sweep up the remaining customers. In a press release, the company says it will replace a Keurig Kold for a SodaStream for affected customers with just a selfie of them and

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Your Facebook inbox might seem like a private place compared to your news feed and wall, but as with most things on the internet, nothing is ever truly secluded. Security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire this week penned a Medium blog detailing how he was able to see private links shared between users using the Facebook’s crawler tool. The crawler is used to obtain details about a URL to display them the way you normally see links on Facebook: with a title, description, and th

At next week’s WWDC event, Apple is expected to talk more about adding a subscription model to the App Store, which can automatically charge customers for another year of service on their favorite games or apps. Subscriptions are to 2016 as app unbundling was in 2014 – everyone is doing it and you’re just gonna have to get used to it. Of course, that’s not to say some apps and services do a better job than others in terms of allowing customers to canc

Apple was in the news for several weeks earlier this year when it was called upon by the US Department of Justice to help unlock an iPhone that belonged to the shooter involved in the San Bernardino attacks. Most of the coverage explored the ramifications of both the government’s request and Apple’s decision to refuse to assist in the case. But not much was said about what it might be like to actually go through the contents of the device, knowing where it came from and who owned it

There are plenty of apps for creating music on your mobile device, but it’s a bit of a task finding one that suits your method of composing and your workflow. If, like me, you sometimes have a musical idea in your head and want to hear it out loud then and there, you’ll want to try Auxy. The latest version of this free iOS app features a simple interface that’s easy enough to learn in minutes, so you can compose, arrange and export tracks wherever you are. You can choose from

We get it, Facebook. You want to us to use your services all the time, for everything from messaging friends to sending them money and hailing an Uber. But can you let us decide whether or not we want to use your photo-sharing app Moments? TechCrunch reports that the social network is emailing users to urge them to install Moments, which launched last July and lets you privately share photos with friends. The message explains that some photos from their mobile devices were synced with the cloud

Convicted rapist Brock Turner has draw the scorn of a nation after many feel his six month sentence for raping an unconscious woman saw the Stanford swimmer getting off light for a crime that should have carried a much harsher sentence. In light of recent events, pornography website xHamster announced a new rule — the ‘Brock Turner rule’ — that would effectively ban images and video depicting rape from the site and instead leave visitors with a message question