The 12 best Android apps of 2016

Android had an interesting year. From its best flagship literally exploding to Google dropping a set of new phones and a new digital assistant, there was a lot to keep developers on their toes.

Luckily, the Android community was as reliable as ever at turning out creative, fun and seriously useful apps.

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From photo retouching to hopelessly addictive games and new ways to call and message friends, here are all the Android apps we couldn’t live without in 2016.

1Adobe Photoshop Fix

Adobe’s retouching app, Photoshop Fix, brings some of Photoshop’s most useful tools to your phone. It offers a suite of retouching tools to fix imperfections in your photos along with standard editing controls to help you make quick lighting adjustments and other tweaks on the fly. …

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The 12 best Android apps of 2016

Just In Time For the Holidays: The First Discount We've Seen On Your Favorite Travel Pillow

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Just In Time For the Holidays: The First Discount We've Seen On Your Favorite Travel Pillow

Kodak Ektra Android smartphone is now available for purchase in Europe

The Android-powered Ektra smartphone from Kodak, which was unveiled back in October this year, is now available for purchase in Europe. Both Amazon as well as the company’s official web store have the phone listed for €499 (around $525).

Kodak Ektra

Specs-wise, the device is powered by a Helio X20 chipset and sports a 5-inch full HD display. It comes with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage, and packs in a 3,000mAh battery. In terms of camera, the phone features a 21MP camera with an f/2.0 lens and Optical Image Stabilization. A 13MP camera is on the front for selfies.

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Kodak Ektra Android smartphone is now available for purchase in Europe

WSJ: AirPods delay is negatively impacting Apple's name and is hurting holiday revenue

Back in October, Apple announced that its wireless Bluetooth ear buds, called AirPods, was being delayed. No reason was given for the change in the product’s launch date except for a statement from Apple that said that more time was needed to bring the device to market. Many hoped that the device would still be ready in time for the holiday shopping season, but it is now a week and a half into December without any word from Apple about a launch date for the AirPods.

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WSJ: AirPods delay is negatively impacting Apple's name and is hurting holiday revenue

Danish court blocks Apple from exchanging an iPhone under warranty with a refurbished model

U.S. iPhone owners are hoping that a court ruling in Denmark will carry over to a similar case in the U.S. At issue is the common practice by manufacturers to replace newly purchased phones with a refurbished model of the same handset. In the case in Denmark, a gentleman by the name of David Lysgaard purchased an Apple iPhone 4 back in 2011. The next year, he broke the phone and was told that he was receiving a new handset as a replacement. Eventually, he discovered that the replacement model he received was not a new unit at all, but was refurbished.

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Danish court blocks Apple from exchanging an iPhone under warranty with a refurbished model

Everything that could go wrong with Amazon Go

The world got a little more magical this week. Amazon showed off its vision of the future of grocery shopping with Amazon Go, and the consensus is that the checkout-less store is truly amazing — assuming the online retail giant can pull it off.

On this week’s …

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Everything that could go wrong with Amazon Go

Facebook is super thirsty for your Facebook Lives

It’s not enough that Facebook has a tentacle-hold on knowledge of your interests, demographics, life milestones and everyday activities.

The social network desperately wants to turn each of its users’ lives into something of a personal TV station, in which they regularly broadcast their experiences, news commentary, talents or just idle snapshots of their lives.

SEE ALSO: Escape from the tech hype machine: Meerkat’s founders look beyond livestreaming

At least that’s the message Facebook has been spending millions of dollars to hammer home in its single biggest national marketing campaign to date, according to ad tracking firm Ispot.tv. …

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Facebook is super thirsty for your Facebook Lives

Trump team puts climate scientists on notice

The Trump transition team sent an unusually detailed questionnaire to the Energy Department, seeking, among other information, lists of people involved in climate change programs at one of the premier science agencies in the world.

The questionnaire, which was first reported by Bloomberg News and obtained independently by Mashable, asks for “a list of Department employees or contractors” who attended the U.N. climate talks in the past five years.

This raises fears that such employees could be retaliated against in some way, perhaps by being reassigned, despite worker protections they have as civil servants. …

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Trump team puts climate scientists on notice

How DC's Young Animal imprint is changing comics

If you know anything about musician/writer Gerard Way, you’re probably aware that he’s not exactly a normal human being. We mean that as a compliment: Way marches to a very different drum.

From his days in emo band My Chemical Romance, Way always had a penchant for theatrics, for the odd or abnormal, even the morbid.

SEE ALSO: This week’s ‘Walking Dead’ was ripped straight from the comics, and it was glorious

All of this comes together perfectly in the DC Comics imprint Young Animal, which Way curates. He’s brought together four books, two of which he writes, to create a weird little family. …

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How DC's Young Animal imprint is changing comics

No, PewDiePie didn't delete his main channel

How does one become a master at trolling? Perhaps by taking notes from top YouTuber PewDiePie, who claimed he would delete his channel after 50 million subscribers and instead Friday deleted a secondary channel he barely uses.

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PewDiePie, otherwise known as Felix Kjellberg deleted a channel named Jack septiceye2, which had about 2 million subscribers.

Ahh super glad @pewdiepie isn’t deleting his channel. Glad he’s #1 on YT as he seems like a top bloke

— Smallishbeans (@Smallishbeans) December 9, 2016

Pewdiepie has the media by the balls, always lol. You don’t delete a multi-million dollar revenue stream

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No, PewDiePie didn't delete his main channel