This is Hollywood’s latest plan to fight piracy
Hollywood is not done fighting online piracy, and it has come up with a new weapon against illegal movie and TV show downloads, Re/code reports. …
Chris Smith has been covering consumer electronics ever since the iPhone revolutionized the industry in 2007. When he’s not writing about the most recent tech news for BGR, he closely follows the events in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and other blockbuster franchises.
Outside of work, you’ll catch him streaming new movies and TV shows, or training to run his next marathon.
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The first smartphone to get Lollipop isn’t even a Nexus
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iOS 8 adoption slowly inches towards 60% of iOS devices
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Microsoft announces big Black Friday deals
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Target teases ‘biggest, most digital’ Black Friday sale ever – here are the details
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Finally: AT&T is ready to take your money for a Nexus 6
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Here is everything on sale at Best Buy for Black Friday
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks large iPhones launched too late
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Europeans won’t be able to get one of the year’s best Android phones
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Lollipop might be the best thing that’s ever happened to Samsung’s TouchWiz UI
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‘Bendgate’ claims yet another Apple fan’s iPhone 6
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Home Depot blames Windows for record hack, rushes out to buy Macs and iPhones afterward
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You’ll have a hard time finding a Nexus 6 in T-Mobile stores at launch
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EFF: ‘Jailbreaking is not a crime’ and we will fight to ‘keep it that way’
Many smartphone and tablet users, whether on the iPhone or Android, prefer to jailbreak or root their devices in order to better customize them. But not all device …
Is Apple still launching the ultra-thin Retina MacBook Air this year?
After many reports claimed that Apple will launch a redesigned 12-inch Retina MacBook Air model at some point in the first half of 2015, a …
