Cheeps! I’m on vacation this week (and next), but before I left I lined up a few sweet deals to tide you over. (And as you’ve no doubt discovered by now, some of CNET’s finest will be filling in the rest of the time.) For example, the Cheapskate is no stranger to VPN deals. A …

The Slack messaging tool used by many teams around the world has experienced intermittent outages for a little over 3 hours this morning. Surprisingly laid-back users took to Twitter to express their feels. At 12:49 p.m. ET, the company tweeted: Connections have resumed and folks should be able to connect to Slack again. Thanks for hanging in there. https://t.co/jdzxIeLoWA — …

AT&T may be preparing to launch another video streaming service after acquiring all of Otter Media, a report suggests. The company’s plan to take full control of the streaming video venture, first reported last week, will give it a streaming distribution platform — Otter Media owns VRV, which hosts anime service Crunchyroll and digital star network Fullscreen. VRV has also …

Google is moving ahead with Duplex, the stunningly human-sounding artificial intelligence software behind its new automated system that places phone calls on your behalf with a natural-sounding voice instead of a robotic one. The search giant said Wednesday it’s beginning public testing of the software, which debuted in May and which is designed to make calls to businesses and book appointments. Duplex instantly raised …

It looks like the Galaxy Note 9 will become a reality on Aug. 9. Samsung is hosting a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. ET. Invitations for the event went out Wednesday morning. Samsung uses these Unpacked events to unveil its new Galaxy phones. The event will be …

Apple is apparently looking to steal a page from Amazon’s playbook. The iPhone maker is tinkering with the idea of a single subscription offering that would combine its music service, original TV shows and magazine offerings, The Information reported Wednesday. The idea bears a striking resemblance to Amazon’s Prime service, which offers subscribers access to music, movies and TV shows, …

Okay, maybe it’s not the best feature. Perhaps you’d rather have something else.  But I think it’s pretty nifty that, starting today, I can keep watching a YouTube video in the corner of my screen while doing other things on my phone. I hit play on a video, press the Home button, and keep watching while I surf and browse. That’s …

Australia is fierce about its football. A strong history of European immigration, an almost religious devotion to sport and the kind of grim determination you would only find in a country roughly 5,000 miles from anywhere, all combine to make us madly devoted to the world game and insanely proud when the national team takes the world stage. And this …

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