Clifford Colby

Capital One data breach: What you can do now following bank hack

A data breach to Capital One servers in March exposed the personal information of nearly 106 million of the bank’s customers and applicants. The hack, which included US and Canadian customers of the banking and credit card company, followed the settlement reached between Equifax and the Federal Trade Commission concerning a hack in 2017 that …

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Switch Lite preorder pages pop up: Get a jump on buying the $200 gaming console

The Nintendo Switch Lite is coming Sept. 20. And while you can’t yet preorder the Lite version of Nintendo’s handheld gaming device, Amazon and Best Buy already have “pre-preorder” pages up for the trimmer Switch. When the Switch Lite console is available for preorder, we’ll let you know, so bookmark this page. The Switch Lite will cost $200 (AU$330, £200) …

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As if you didn’t have enough shopping to do this week with Prime Day, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and even eBay are all holding their own sales alongside Amazon’s two-day shopping barn-burner that started yesterday, runs through today, and at least for Walmart, goes into tomorrow, July 17. We’re collecting all of the best deals that each of the other …

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Prime Day 2019: This is your secret weapon for Amazon deals

You have one day left. Are you really, really ready for the last-minute flood of deals coming during Amazon Prime Day? You will be, once you install the Amazon Assistant browser extension, which can track Prime Day deals over the two-day event, which runs 48 hours from Monday, July 15, through Tuesday, July 16. You can even get the deals …

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Prime Day 2019: Don’t miss a single deal when sales start

Amazon Prime Day 2019 is here — running July 15 and 16 — so you want to make sure you don’t miss a deal during the final hours of the expansive 48-hour shopping event. This is your chance to walk away with the newest AirPods or an Amazon Kindle for a fraction of the everyday price. Over the final hours, Amazon …

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The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game sadly hexes itself

I love almost everything about playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. In terms of animation, storyline and gameplay, it beats the sensation that was Pokemon Go every way but one. The game, codeveloped Niantic and WB Games, feels much richer, with more items to interact with and collect — wizards, magical potions and ye olde Inn. But after days of playing Wizards Unite, one …

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite: How to play the new wizarding game

Harry Potter and his fellow witches and wizards are in trouble in the new game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that’s similar to the wildly popular Pokemon Go. Wizards Unite pits you against dark wizards and magical beasts to save beloved characters from the Harry Potter books from the Calamity — an unexplained event scattering magical items across the Muggle, or …

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite beats Pokemon Go every way but one

I’m standing on a corner near my office in San Francisco. A few blocks away, I can see pointy fortresses and rounded greenhouses. Nearer, a smoking chimney of a tall, blue-roofed inn signals something’s cooking inside. Owls and colorful paper airplanes glide by, and frequently an object appears near to me, including a bit of frog brain and ginger root. …

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is Pokemon Go with magic wands

Out now in the US, the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite augmented reality game will be familiar to anyone who’s played the wildly successful Pokemon Go and even Niantic’s first game, Ingress. (Here’s how you get started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.) Relying on your phone’s GPS, you move around the physical world and interact with beasts, objects, points of interest …

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How to know if your Mac will work with Apple’s MacOS update this fall

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple on Monday revealed the next major update to MacOS. The announcement came on the first day of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Apple said the free update, coming this fall, will be …

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