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When life gives you apples, make applesauce — at least, that seems to be the philosophy of the giant, terrifying Android robot on today’s t-shirt from TeeFury.

While Google had plans of unveiling the next set of Nexus devices in NYC this Monday, Mother Nature appears to have other plans. Hurricane Sandy threatens to bombard the East Coast with high winds and unrelenting rainfall. Instead of risking lives, Google has made the right decision to cancel the event. We’re uncertain what this means for the launch of the Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and 32GB Nexus, but Google promises to let us know as soon as they make a decision.

Grand Theft Auto III is a landmark game, one of the first hot topic video games of the past decade, getting banned from Walmart when released. It was also one of the first open world 3D games, as well, making waves in and influencing the game design industry for years to come. The mobile 10th Anniversary Edition for Android and iOS was released in December of 2011 at a $4.99 price point.

Today, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of sequel Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Rockstar Games has dropped the price to $0.99 across Google Play and the iTunes App Store, making this well-regarded game all the more easy to purchase. It’s only available for a limited time, though, so get it while the gettin’s good.

[Update: I’m sad to report our Pumpkin Carving Contest has been cancelled due to lack of participation. We’ll just have to think of something a bit less challenging next time.]

As Halloween approaches, some of us will be ghouling up our houses with spider webs, corpse limbs, and the quintessential carved pumpkin. Since we love Android, and we’re pretty sure you do too, we thought it’d be cool to combine the fun of Halloween pumpkin carving with our affinity for Android. Before I get into details, let me just say this will be all about fun, so don’t worry if you’re not the most skilled pumpkin carver.

Want to know why Apple doesn’t use NFC? Because no one at Apple has as cool a wife as the one in Samsung’s latest Galaxy S III commercial. Samsung shows off the spicy side of their S-Beam feature (you know, “that thing”), which uses NFC and Wi-Fi Direct to “beam” content between compatible devices.

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