Samsung is desperate to make Samsung Pay your go-to mobile payment system, so it has been offering all kinds of incentives for using it. Its latest is a $30 gift card for Best Buy, eBay, Gamestop, or Regal Entertainment. Here’s how you can get one. Samsung Pay made its debut in the U.S. back in

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Google’s upcoming Android N upgrade will give users the ability to choose different wallpapers for their home and lock screens. The feature is already available in the second Developer Preview, which Google rolled out on Wednesday. Lots of smartphone and tablet makers who use Google’s software add this feature, which many users take advantage of.

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Connect through a VPN tunnel of your choice and forget about hackers, digital eavesdroppers, and government spies when you’re connected to public Wi-Fi at the airport or thumbing through your favorite social media site while in line for your morning coffee. High-level encryption ensures you’ll put an end to incessant digital advertising, while IP cloaking

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Forget boring smartphone cases that look just like everyone else’s; Google’s new “Live Cases” for Nexus smartphones come with your favorite photo or place printed on the back, and a shortcut button to your most-used app. Google’s Live Cases, which are available for Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 6, are designed by you. You can

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Samsung’s new Gear Manager app for iOS, which will let you pair an iPhone with the Gear S2 smartwatch, has leaked out ahead of its official debut. Testers say the app will bring a surprising amount of functionality, allowing users control music from their watch, and even sync new faces to it. Samsung has already confirmed

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Google has rolled out its second Android N preview for Nexus devices, adding new emoji and making a number of improvements to the stock launcher. It also brings the Vulcan 3D rendering API for even greater Android games. Android N made a surprise debut in preview form back in early March, introducing features like multi-window, picture-in-picture, and

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BlackBerry has started rolling out its first phase of Marshmallow beta releases for the Priv. Those who were first to signup for the beta earlier this month can expect to receive a software update over-the-air — but only if they’ve followed BlackBerry’s instructions first. Gaining access to BlackBerry’s early Marshmallow release is actually pretty exhausting. Once

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Samsung has gotten a lot better at optimizing its TouchWiz software for its large, high-resolution displays in recent years, and now it’s giving users the ability to change it themselves with display scaling on the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. Having a large smartphone display is mostly pointless if everything on that display appears larger,

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Pebble Time packs everything you want in a smartwatch into a sleek, modern package. With its unique timeline interface, Pebble displays everything you care about (notifications, calendar events, weather, sports scores, news & more) in any easy-to-view timeline. Track your activity and sleep, wear it in the shower—and be left wondering… what can’t the Pebble do?

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Finding time in your busy schedule to hit the gym, get through a new book, or start a new hobby can be a task in itself. But now Google Calendar has the power to do it for you. The new Goals feature lets you tell Google Calendar exactly what you want to do, and it will go

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