Mechanical keyboards turned me into a typing machine

I like to write. If you take a gander at my CNET profile page, you’ll know that’s a bit of an understatement.  I’ve spent the bulk of my career as a journalist banging out millions of words on standard keyboards or, when at home, using a PC laptop or Apple keyboard with my iMac. For more than a decade, I …

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Dell’s tiny 2

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Shure’s $3,000 KSE1500 headphones make for an ear

The Shure KSE1500 is like no other headphone in my experience, they sound like a clear portal back to the recording session, there’s no better way to put it. Play familiar recordings and they sound a few steps closer to what the microphones “heard” at the session. When you return to other high-end in-ear headphones, the sound is cloudier, more …

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2018 Mercedes

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Close to perfection: Deep

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Apple event set for March 27, Microsoft creates new division

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Nest Hello video doorbell: Smarter than your average buzzer

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CNET asks: Are you excited about the new Fitbit Versa?

With news of the Fitbit Versa this week, we might be looking at the strongest Apple Watch competitor to date. Priced at $200, the Versa will retail for $50 less than the entry-level Apple Watch. Fitbit has updated the Versa’s design compared to that of its predecessor, the Ionic, making it smaller and lighter, with a ‘squircle’ face design similar to …

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Galaxy S9 drop test: How tough is the screen?

If there’s one thing our drop tests have taught us it’s that phones with glass backs do not hold up well when dropped on concrete sidewalks. We didn’t expect that to change with Samsung’s new Galaxy S9. It uses the same Gorilla Glass 5 material as the previous Galaxy S8, and the Galaxy Note 8 both on the front and back …

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Fitbit exec says Apple Watch doesn’t excite people

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Not exciting?  Cesar Salza/CNET As I wander around the restaurants and supermarkets of the world, I’ve noticed that many people who work at these places have an Apple Watch. When I ask why, I get simple, practical answers. For example, a server in …

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Federal Court strikes down Obama

A federal court has put the kibosh on FCC rules that were put in place to curb unwanted robocalls. On Friday the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down rules passed in 2015 under a Democrat-led FCC that expanded the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which bans the use of auto-dialers known as robocallers. The court …

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Android P’s HEIC halves photo sizes but won’t work on lower

The good news is that the next version of Google’s Android smartphone software, Android P, has a feature to shrink your photos to half the size of an ordinary JPEG. The bad news is there’s no guarantee that every phone will actually be able to use it. That’s because of hardware and patent licensing limits on the technology used, called …

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Viral jumping game on China’s WeChat draws big money from Nike, McDonald’s

Foreign countries may be growing wary of products developed in China, but that hasn’t stopped international brands from leveraging WeChat’s popularity and reportedly spending millions to engage with potential customers. Nike and McDonald’s have become the first companies to advertise on the Chinese social-messaging platform’s wildly popular mini game called Tiao Yi Tiao, loosely translated as Jump, WeChat announced on …

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