BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015

You can download $140 worth of premium Android apps for free right now Amazon has a brand new app yard sale, offering no fewer than 37 premium apps for free right now, and they can be downloaded in every market where the Amazon Appstore is available. If purchased separately at their regular prices, these Android apps would normally cost you $140 in total.  MORE → I can’t decide whether Elon Musk is a genius or delusional To be fair, there’s no doubt that Elon Musk is a genius. Tesla and SpaceX are two of the most exciting companies on the planet and they’re doing incredibly important and groundbreaking work in the fields of electric cars and space exploration, respectively. There’s no way either of those companies would have come as far as they have without Musk pushing his engineers to their limits — one anonymous SpaceX engineer, for instance, says Musk has a “reality distortion field” on par with Steve Jobs.  MORE → Stunning new HTC One M9 renders show a design masterpiece German designer Jonas Daehnert, who goes by the Twitter handle @PhoneDesigner, on Wednesday shared a couple of renders of the HTC One M9 that were based on some of the many recent leaks. Those leaks are believed to be accurate, and they suggest that this year’s HTC One might be the best looking phone ever made. To further prove that point, Daehnert has now released many more concept HTC One M9 images, showing the device from every angle.  MORE → Comcast’s customer service is so bad that it might end up undoing the TWC merger Comcast’s bad customer service is almost legendary at this point. New stories pop up nearly every day that involve people being horribly mistreated by Comcast’s customer care team, and each one is more cringeworthy than the last. Examples from the past few weeks alone involve Comcast calling a subscriber an “a**hole” on her bill, Comcast calling a 63-year-old woman “super b*tch” on her bill, and one particularly ridiculous story of a couple who couldn’t get help with their Comcast service until someone complained to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts’s mother on their behalf. Survey after survey finds that Comcast’s customer service ranks among the worst in the country, and now it looks like the company’s terrible customer care might end up helping to prevent its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.  MORE → The world’s most beautiful Android phone might have serious competition this year HTC’s existing One flagship Android smartphones, including the M7 and M8, have been praised for their designs and overall experience, outclassing top models from the competition in previous years. Chances are that this year’s One M9 will also be a beautifully designed device, one that might appeal to many smartphone buyers, and could end up being described as the best looking phone ever made. But unlike before, the phone will have to face even tougher competition this year.  MORE → U.K. wants to protect your sexting and naughty video recording habits The U.K. might be interested in having better spy tools at its disposal for complex surveillance shows, especially following the unfortunate Charlie Hebdo events in Paris, but that doesn’t mean it’s not also interested in protecting your privacy, including sexting and naughty home-made sex tapes recorded for personal entertainment.  MORE → Sprint goes where no other carrier dares, says net neutrality is good for consumers Rival ISPs’ legal teams will probably pull their hair out when they see what Sprint just did to their arguments against net neutrality. Speaking with Reuters, Sprint CTO Stephen Bye says that not only will the FCC’s net neutrality plan not affect his company’s network investment plans but he also goes so far as to say net neutrality is a positive for Sprint’s customers.  MORE → Catch up on the best Marvel comics before they become movies with Scribd The floodgates have official been opened in regards to comic book movies. Over the next few years, Marvel, DC, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox are going to release over 30 movies starring some of our favorites superheroes (and other we’ve never heard of), which means it’s probably time that we caught up on the full stories.  MORE → One of the world’s iconic file-hosting services will shut down next month Sad news for people who love uploading and sharing large data files on the web: One of the first hugely successful file-hosting services is going away next month. N4GM brings us word that Rapidshare is shutting down on March 31st, which means any users who have lots of important data uploaded onto the site should start moving it to new sites as soon as possible.  MORE → Awesome dash cam video catches a meteor exploding in mid-air Are dash cam videos 2015’s answer to GoPro videos in 2014? New Zealand-based YouTube user Josh Sherborne was on his way home from the gym when he thought he saw a big flash of lightning in the sky. When he watched the video recorded by his car’s dashboard camera, however, he realized that it was actually a meteor exploding in mid-air.  MORE →