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Older consoles are an endearing and memorable part of a lot of childhoods. From the SNES to the PlayStation, there were a ton of amazing, iconic games. Some of them are still good by today’s standards. Many of those games have mobile releases, like older Final Fantasy games. However, many only exist on those older consoles. There isn’t any other way to play them. With emulators, you can play the originals whenever you want on your devices. Let’s check out the best emulators for Android. Keep in mind that emulators are finicky by nature and will sometimes work flawlessly and other times will not. Here are more emulators to check out! 13 best Android emulators for PC and Mac of 2018 5 best SNES emulators for Android ClassicBoy Price: Free / $3.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY ClassicBoy is one of the more robust emulators for Android. It supports multiple consoles, including PlayStation, N64, Game Boy Advanced, Game Boy Classic and Color, and a few others. Most of

Best Buy accidentally sold a customer an unannounced third-generation Chromecast. The current Chromecast was released over three years ago. This Chromecast is likely the model that passed through the FCC last month. After an updated Chromecast with the inclusion of Bluetooth and likely better Wi-Fi reception passed through the FCC last month, it became clear that we’d probably see updated hardware at Google’s October 9 event . Well, the wait is over because Best Buy accidentally sold the third-gen streaming device to a customer before it was even announced. As you can see from the image below, someone on Reddit was able to walk into their local Best Buy and buy the new device. When they were being checked out, the cashier wasn’t able to ring up the Chromecast initially because the store’s system said it wasn’t to be sold until October 9. The employee bypassed the warning and sold it using the outgoing device’s SKU because both devices were listed for $35. Reddit The prod

If you’ve ever had a color preference for your smartphone, chances are you were forced to grab a phone case to express your style. While the ubiquitous black and white hue options (not colors!) will always dominate what we get from smartphone makers, we are starting to see more colors and styles. And we aren’t talking about “midnight” vs “titanium” black either. With glass backs increasingly popular, we’re seeing a whole new trend of fancy color shimmers and light bending effects. I had a great time recently playing with HTC’s shimmering gradients in their U12 Plus range, particularly the flame red style (although translucent blue was the clear favorite for me, if you can call that a color). Huawei and Honor are all about gradient colors in their latest releases, with the P20 Pro’s twilight gradient catching the eye of many fans. It’s happening in flagships for sure, but even the lower end of the market is seeing more variety, including even the polycarbonate  Oppo Realme 2 . With

Are you ready to start your C# coding odyssey and earn big bucks as a software developer? You’ve picked the right day for it. C# is a programming language often overlooked by first-time coders . There are some great reasons to give it a try, and not just because of the huge price drop on the Complete C# Coding Bootcamp right now. C# (pronounced ‘C sharp’) is similar to C, but it’s generally considered to be  easier to learn . That’s one reason why Microsoft developed it.  Take C, update it to make it more powerful, simplify the code, and you’ve got C# .  C# developers earn $55k to $121k per year. (Source: Gooroo.io) One of the main reasons to learn C# is the number of toolsets and frameworks that support the language, all of which are backed by Microsoft. For example, most developers agree that Visual Studio is one of the most feature rich and powerful development environments on the market. C# gives you prospects too. It has mainstream adoption on the Microsoft an

Welcome to the 263rd edition of Android Apps Weekly ! Here are the big headlines from the last week: Trivia Crack 2 is finally almost here . The game was in development for five years. It’s now in pre-registration on Google Play. The core game play should be about the same as the previous game. That includes multiplayer trivia games with a wheel spinner. Most of the differences come in the UI, a few new game play mechanics, and more. The game features hundreds of thousands of questions and it’s available in more than 20 languages. We will tell you more when we get our hands on the game upon its release. S lack purchased the Astro email app this week and promptly shut it down. We don’t know for how much money. In any case, the entire tech space knows what this probably means. Slack is a productivity chat app for business. Astro is an email client with AI elements. There isn’t a huge leap in logic here. Astro will officially close down on October 10th. After that, we imagine that Sl

Sprint From relatively poor network coverage to a failed 4G initiative, Sprint experienced several significant missteps throughout the last 10 years. It is that former misstep that got BTIG analyst Walt Piecyk’s attention since he published a presentation slide on Twitter that stands as a microcosm for Sprint’s poor fortunes. According to the alleged slide, Sprint’s LTE network coverage pales in comparison to Verizon’s , AT&T’s , and T-Mobile’s . It even pales in comparison to the carrier’s general coverage map, which covers most of the U.S. Then again, Sprint put itself in this position when it went all-in on WiMax in 2008 as its first foray into 4G instead of the more ubiquitous LTE. Limited adoption and less-than-adequate real-world speeds led to Sprint’s decision to shut down its WiMax network in 2016. Sprint’s LTE coverage compared to others. Sprint’s usual coverage. Realizing it backed the wrong horse, Sprint got to work on its LTE network in 2011 and had it

Looking to kickstart your career in software development? Today is your day to get acquainted with one of the most important enterprise operating systems with the highly-rated Linux Power User Bundle . You can get started today while saving money with this dynamic learning kit for only $19 . Linux operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments, which means systems administrators have also become very much in demand . Adopters of Linux includes tech giants such as  Google , Facebook , Twitter , Yahoo , and Amazon . What’s in the Linux Power User Bundle? Over 22 hours of expert-led instruction , that’s what. The bundle is made up of five learning kits designed to teach Linux to even a complete newbie . Here’s a summary: Learn Linux in Five Days and Level Up Your Career  — Introduces you to the basics of Linux, then dives into more advanced concepts and techniques — $199 value High Availability for the LAMP Stack  — Ensure your sites and