BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Here’s a crazy Black Friday sale very few people know about Black Friday sales have completely spilled over into Thanksgiving Day, and the chaos is already underway across America. But while your friends and family are out battling crowds of crazy shoppers, you’re warm and comfy at home or at a relative’s house. And you’re not worried about missing all of those brick and mortar doorbuster sales today at Best Buy, Walmart, Target and more, because you know that the Internet is home to Black Friday 2014 deals that are as good or even better than what you’ll find out in stores. We have already told you everything you need to know about awesome online Black Friday sales from Amazon, eBay, Samsung and others, and now we’re back with another big Black Friday sale — and compared to sales from giant retailers like Best Buy, very few people know about it.  MORE → What one recent iPhone convert still misses about Android Although many online forums are dominated by hardcore iOS or Android fanboys, there are some levelheaded people out there who can see the plusses and minuses of each platform. Business Insider’s Jillian D’Onfro recent picked up a new iPhone and, while she thinks it’s a fantastic device overall,  she still misses some things about her old Android device.  MORE → 5 iPhone apps to help you pass the time over the Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving is a double-edged sword. It’s one of the few opportunities we have during the year to gather around a table with our family members and eat an enormous meal, but the enraging political discussions, pointless disagreements and awkward interactions are all but inevitable. When you need a few minutes to compose yourself, there’s nothing better than a distracting app on your iPhone, so be sure to load up these five apps before you head out to eat turkey on Thursday.  MORE → Steam’s Black Friday game sale includes ‘thousands’ of deals available right now Steam on Wednesday kicked off its Black Friday 2014 game sales, offering gamers significant discounts on various titles. Steam’s  “Exploration Sale” is available to users from November 26th through December 2nd (the sale ends at 10 a.m. PST on that day).  MORE → Video: Apple is not done releasing funny iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus ads After showing off the gaming and Continuity features of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in a couple of new ads featuring voice overs from Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, Apple on Wednesday released one more similar commercial, the seventh in the series, which highlights a different feature, voice texting, which is available on iOS 8-compatible devices.  MORE → Android Pay mobile payments solution coming soon, but not from Google Apple’s Apple Pay mobile payment app available on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus saw huge popularity after launch, injecting new life into the NFC-based payments business. Google, and others, have included such features in Android devices for years, but they never really took off. In fact, only recently, Apple’s competitors confirmed they witnessed an increase in Android smartphone-generated transactions after Apple Pay became available on this year’s iPhones.  MORE → Why next year’s GoPro videos could be the craziest you’ve ever seen 2014 has been an amazing year for wild-and-crazy GoPro videos and it looks like 2015 could be even crazier. The Wall Street Journal reports that GoPro is working on a line of consumer drones that have GoPro cameras equipped and that would let GoPro fans take amazing aerial videos.  MORE → Video: Watch the Wu-Tang Clan’s epic Letterman reunion It’s been 21 years since the Wu-Tang Clan took the hip-hop world by storm with their brilliant debut record Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and since then many of them have gone on to have successful solo careers, most notably members Ghostface Killah, Method Man and the dearly departed Ol’ Dirty Bastard.  MORE → Use this Google Now trick to add countdown timers to important events One of the best things about Google Now is that it literally gives us no excuse to miss or be late for important events. Not only does it give you reminders about when your events are but it also gives you traffic reports that will help you find the fastest route to your event’s destination. Now Android Police has uncovered yet another Google Now trick that will give you yet another way to keep track of some events: Countdown timers.  MORE → Samsung might have to pay even more for infringing Apple patents Even though Samsung and Apple have settled their international patent disputes, the lawsuits in the U.S. are far from being a distant memory. Apple has largely won the two major trials in American courts, with Samsung having to pay more than $1 billion in combined damages; though both sides have appealed various verdicts in these trials. Following the second, less-successful, win against Samsung, Apple has also asked the court to rule in its favor regarding ongoing royalties for Samsung products found to infringe three specific patents that a jury already found to have been infringed by older Samsung devices.  MORE →

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