Many things pair well with Thanksgiving turkey. Road rage isn’t one of them. Google analyzed traffic data from 2017 to figure out the best and worst times to travel next week, as well as when places like grocery stores and movie theaters will be the busiest, according to a company blog post Thursday. Spoiler alert: You’re not …
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AMD on Thursday announced a new version of its Radeon RX graphics card. The company says the Radeon RX 590 delivers a higher core clock speed than the RX 580 — and up to 20 percent more “performance-per-dollar” than other cards. Like the older RX 580, the new GPU is based on AMD’s fourth-generation Graphics Core Next architecture but uses …
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For reasons that are unclear to anyone outside of Facebook, the iOS and Android apps make a ton of noise. There’s a sound when you refresh your feed, when someone starts typing or when you get a new alert. And frankly, the sounds are annoying. Thankfully, you can disable the in-app sounds in a matter of seconds. Disable on iOS …
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The beauty of owning an unlocked phone is that you can take it to whatever carrier offers the best deal. And a few carriers make the deal even sweeter if you’re willing to prepay for an entire year. Mint Mobile is probably the best-known company to offer that option, but there’s another: Red Pocket. And the latter has a slight …
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Update, Nov. 17: Going forward, we’re tracking the best Amazon deals here. Amazon has revealed its expanded plans for Black Friday sales, including a long list of specific discounts and deals on Xbox bundles, TVs, electronics, Chromebooks, toys, board games, furniture, apparel, outdoor equipment — and everything else under the sun. These details are above and beyond the extensive discounts …
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With the holiday shopping season going into overdrive, Instagram has rolled out new ways to shop on its platform. The move comes after the company expanded Shopping on Instagram with the introduction of product stickers in Stories in September. Instagram is focusing on discovering new products, allowing you to shop by your favorite brands and saving wish-list items. Here’s a quick …
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You may be creeped out by how much tech companies want to know about you. So is Canopy. Canopy — a new startup built by people who’ve worked at Spotify, Instagram, Google and The New York Times — wants to upend a fundamental concept that propelled many of the internet’s biggest companies to power: To get personalized service, you have …
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It won’t arrive in time for Black Friday, but the first Pixel Slate tablets will soon land with customers. After beginning to accept preorders last week, Google now shows estimated shipping times of two to four weeks, depending on which model you buy. Announced at Google’s October event, the Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Google …
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Curious what it feels like for Oprah Winfrey look you in the eyes from the body of an all-powerful purple bug on a treadmill? Now you can. Winfrey joins other big-name stars, like John Legend, Constance Wu and Diego Luna, in Crow: The Legend, a free 20-minute virtual-reality experience released Thursday on Facebook‘s Oculus store. The Pixar-like journey follows Crow as he attempts …
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Are foldable phones a thing now? We don’t know, but Jeff goes head-to-head with this week’s guest Bridget Carey arguing about that and a lot more on this week’s Nope, Sorry. This week’s topics include: Are foldable phones the future or a gimmick? Should you be more excited for Toy Story 4 or Detective Pikachu? What’s the best video game-to-movie …
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Think the normal OnePlus 6T is too boring? Why not get it in Thunder Purple? Last week OnePlus announced its Thunder Purple color for the OnePlus 6T, which is now available for purchase. OnePlus also sells the phone in Mirror Black and Midnight Black, but neither have quite the same character as the purple OnePlus 6T. The Thunder Purple OnePlus …
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Who’s in charge of cleaning up all the space junk orbiting Earth? That’s the question the Federal Communications Commission is officially asking as it takes comment on a proposal to review its orbital debris rules. The FCC voted unanimously on Thursday to revamp its 2004 rules. Since the rules took effect more than a decade ago, there have been loads …
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It looks like Mark Zuckerberg can hold a grudge. The Facebook CEO reportedly ordered his management team to start using only Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook made public comments about the social media company’s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a report Wednesday in The New York Times. “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Cook …
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From Russian election meddling to a massive data privacy scandal, Facebook has faced a seemingly endless list of troubles. Now a new report suggests the social network’s leadership may be among its biggest challenges. Over the past three years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg ignored warnings, deflected blame and were distracted by other projects as the social network lurched from …
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Don’t want to buy Apple‘s new iPhone XR tied to a carrier? Now you don’t have to. Enlarge Image You can decide if you want to buy the iPhone XR with or without a carrier. Screenshot by CNET As of this week, Apple is selling the iPhone XR SIM-free on the Apple Store website. That means you can buy the …
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