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Daily Headlines TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014

Best Buy has a killer deal on one of Motorola’s hottest phones of the year Best Buy has a special deal on one of Motorola’s best phones of the year and is offering buyers either a $100 or a $150 Best Buy gift card with each purchase, depending on certain conditions.  MORE → Use this awesome new trick to get even better deals on Amazon Amazon is already a terrific place to find great deals and now it’s about to get even better. Amazon this week unveiled a new feature called “Make an Offer” that will actually let you haggle with sellers over the prices they’re offering for their goods.  MORE → The Nexus 6 is now even cheaper… but there’s a huge catch Even though the Nexus 6 is more expensive than any of its predecessors, Google is betting on a different strategy to sell more Nexus smartphones this year, and that’s partnering up with various mobile operators around the world, including many U.S. carriers that can sell the handset for a subsidized price. Joining AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile is U.S. Cellular, which is currently taking orders for both the 32GB and 64GB versions of the handset, with both of them being priced cheaper than elsewhere.  MORE → Samsung’s massive list of possible Gear VR side effects should terrify any sane gamer You know how when you watch ads for drugs like Flomax or Cialis and it seems like the vast majority of the ad is dedicated to listing possible negative side effects? Well it looks like Samsung’s Gear VR headset is a lot like that because Ars Technica reports that it comes with a gigantic 1,000-word list of potential hazards and disclaimers that should send any sane gamer running for the hills.  MORE → Hackers ask Sony to pull ‘The Interview’ from theaters Hacker group Guardians of Peace (GOP), which attacked Sony Pictures stealing more than 100 terabytes of information, and revealing some of it online, have asked the company to pull a controversial comedy from theaters, Variety reports.  MORE → Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to code The 44th President of the United States happens to be the first president to write a computer program, Wired reports. Barack Obama on Monday hosted a special “Hour of Code” event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, part of the annual Computer Science Education Week, during which he wrote a simple computer program that draws a square on a screen.  MORE → It’s officially possible to make a smartphone that’s too thin It seems that every generation of new smartphones tries to create the lightest, thinnest devices we’ve ever seen. That said, there comes a point where it makes no sense to try to make smartphones any thinner and it looks like we might have finally reached that tipping point with the new Oppo R5 Android phone that was unveiled earlier this year by little-known Chinese OEM Oppo.  MORE → BlackBerry’s chief tormentor releases yet another knockoff keyboard for the iPhone 6 That sound you hear is BlackBerry’s legal team cracking its knuckles and getting ready to go back to work. Typo, the iPhone keyboard attachment accessory company cofounded by Ryan Seacrest, has again thumbed its nose at BlackBerry and has released yet another knockoff BlackBerry keyboard for the iPhone 6. BlackBerry has successfully won injunctions against Typo in the past for allegedly infringing upon its smartphone keyboard designs, although this hasn’t stopped the company from cranking out new ones.  MORE → Sony’s PlayStation Network temporarily falls prey to hackers, but service has resumed Following the massive cyber attack that hit Sony Pictures, Sony confirmed that some hackers also targeted its PlayStation Network store,  which was on Monday down for more than to hours, from 8:52 a.m. to 11:18 a.m. Tokyo time, Reuters reports.  MORE → Microsoft ready to sue you for activating too many pirated Windows and Office products Even though Microsoft doesn’t really take action against all the pirated Windows and Office versions in use out there, the company is ready to go to court when it detects certain usage patterns related to illegal Windows and Office activations. Torrent Freak reports that Microsoft has already filed...  MORE →

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