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If you're looking to trade in an older Apple device, there's a good chance you'll get more for it today than you would've yesterday. The first week of March has seen the trade-in values for Apple's Mac lineup, as well as its iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch lineups rise and fall. The MacBook Pro, Mac Studio, iPhone 14 Pro Max, and Apple Watch SE 1 trade-in values climbed, for example, while trade-in



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Apple’s latest flagship iPhones, the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 and is working on a more “user-friendly” way of transferring data “from an iPhone to a non-Apple phone” by fall 2025. That’s according to a new compliance document pub



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In her 1993 speech at the Oscars, just before she presented the Academy Award for Best Director, Barbara Streisand envisioned a future in which women are so often in the leading filmmaking roles, that no special focus on their gender is necessary. Three decades later, we look at the history of the Best Director category to see how close, if at all, we have gotten to living in the future Streisand



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Sony is so closely associated with full-frame mirrorless cameras that it’s easy to forget it also sells the A6000 APS-C lineup — particularly since the last one, the A6600, came out five long years ago in 2019. The flagship A6700 finally arrived last year, though, with a feature list that appeared to be worth the wait.

It’s the same price the A6600 was at launch four years ago, but addresses its



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The BMW i5 is one of the models that other EV owners may be able to switch to.
  • BMW is taking aim at its biggest EV competitors with a new deal, CarsDirect reports.
  • Some luxury EV owners can reportedly earn $1,000 by switching to an electric BMW.
  • Still, the offer is limited to western US states for a limited time, the report says.

The race between carmakers to get customers to choose



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Most smartphone games are designed to be played with touch controls first and foremost. But if you want to stream games from an Xbox or PlayStation, or if you gravitate toward games with more complex control schemes like Call of Duty: Mobile or Diablo Immortal, a mobile gamepad like the Backbone One can make things more comfortable. 

If this sounds appealing to you, Backbone is running a sale that



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As support grows for a bill in Congress that would effectively ban TikTok in the US, the video platform is trying to rally support among a key group: its own users.

TikTok sent users in the US a push notification on Wednesday, warning that “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok” that would “[strip] 170 million Americans of their



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Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
  • Indian and Nepalese men are being coerced into fighting for Russia against Ukraine, a report said.
  • The men were apparently deceived by fake job ads and forced to sign military contracts.
  • India and Nepal have responded differently to their citizens being trapped in the conflict.

Countless Indian and Nepalese men have been



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UPDATE: March 7, 2024, 11:05 a.m. EST The Xbox Series X Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Special Edition Bundle ($699.99), which included a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed console, sold out in under two minutes after it went live on the Best Buy app. Chances of a restock are virtually nil, but we'll keep you posted if that changes. Our original story follows.

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