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You can now score a free Android app every week from Google Play

Jun15
by on June 15, 2015 at 6:40 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Free apps, Google, Google Play

Google Play free app
Google quietly launched a Free App of the Week program in the Google Play store, giving Android users a little something to look forward to every seven days. The first offering of the lot is Daniel Tiger Grr-ific Feelings, a $3 educational app from PBS with a set of games and activities for kids aged two to five. It’s buried in the Google Play’s Family section, and you’ll need to navigate there to get the offer or click here to get the app for free. Google previously hasn’t had a mechanism to offer paid apps for free — once a…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

You can now score a free Android app every week from Google Play

Jun15
by on June 15, 2015 at 6:40 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Free apps, Google, Google Play

Google Play free app
Google quietly launched a Free App of the Week program in the Google Play store, giving Android users a little something to look forward to every seven days. The first offering of the lot is Daniel Tiger Grr-ific Feelings, a $3 educational app from PBS with a set of games and activities for kids aged two to five. It’s buried in the Google Play’s Family section, and you’ll need to navigate there to get the offer or click here to get the app for free. Google previously hasn’t had a mechanism to offer paid apps for free — once a…

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Amazon wants you to unlock your next phone with your ear

Jun15
by on June 15, 2015 at 5:47 am
Posted In: amazon, Around the Web, Ear recognition, Insider, Mobile, Patent, PatentYogi

Amazon patent
Amazon has patented a system to unlock your smartphone by recognizing the shape of your ear, when you raise the device up near your face to answer a call. The patent, explained by our friends at PatentYogi in the video above, describes the use of a photo of the user’s ear, snapped by a phone’s front camera. Just like matching up fingerprints with those from a database, this technology could help you log in to your phone without having to enter a passcode or pattern. The human ear is said to be as unique an identifier as a fingerprint, so…

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Fallout Shelter, Bethesda’s nuclear shelter management game, is launching on iOS today

Jun15
by on June 15, 2015 at 4:39 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Bethesda Studios, Fallout, Fallout Shelter, free, games, ios

Fallout Shelter
Bethesda Softworks has announced it’s launching Fallout Shelter, a strategy game for iOS based on the game studio’s wildly popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout, that puts you in control of your own nuclear shelter, known in the game’s world as a vault. Inspired by classics like the XCOM series, FTL and SimCity, the object of this 2D base-building title is to keep your vault’s residents happy and productive, and continually grow the community. The game will be available for free and won’t require an internet connection to play. It was announced during Bethesda’s pre-E3 showcase today. We’ll update this post when its App Store…

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