OnePlus disables credit card payment after fraud reports

The OnePlus 5T is one of the best phones you can buy today — but for now, you can’t buy it with a credit card.  Following customer complaints about fraudulent activity on their credit card after using it on the company’s site, OnePlus is disabling credit as a payment form. OnePlus’ online store is the …

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Get a Nonda Aiko rechargeable tracker for $16.99

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! If it’s not abundantly clear by now, I don’t know everything about everything. Yesterday, for example, I shared …

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Samsung gives 2018 Winter Olympics athletes a special Note 8

Athletes the world over are preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which kick off on Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They’ve already got some good news: They’re all getting a free, Olympic-edition Samsung Galaxy Note 8.  Samsung unveiled the phone on Tuesday, saying it’s making around 4,000 to give to athletes and Olympic officials. The iconic Olympic rings adorn …

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22 attorneys general sue to block net neutrality rollback

The first lawsuits to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules have been filed. Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block the repeal of the rules. Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser, also said it has filed a suit against the FCC, and several public interest groups have filed petitions in …

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Natural Cycles contraceptive app reportedly led to unwanted pregnancies

A contraceptive app has been reported to a medical regulator in Sweden after being blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies.  The Natural Cycles contraceptive app is being blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies. Natural Cycles The Natural Cycles app, which has nearly 700,000 users worldwide, is designed to work by scanning women’s body temperature during their menstrual cycle to inform them when …

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The original MacBook Air, 10 years later

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BlackBerry’s Jarvis fights car hackers, Nissan’s XMotion is a ‘fishy’ concept

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iPhone 7 second

Apple has had its ups and downs in the ever-important Chinese market, but on Monday some good news reached the electronics giant. The iPhone 7 Plus was the second-best selling phone in the populous nation last year, accounting for 2.8 percent of all smartphone sales, according to Counterpoint Research. It was bested only by the Oppo R9S, a phone from …

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TAG Heuer unveils $197,000 Android smartwatch

If you think diamond rings are a bit excessive but still savor shiny stones, how about a diamond-studded watch? TAG Heuer added 589 baguette-size diamonds — that’s 23.35 carats — to its latest smartwatch, which it showed off at this week’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie Geneve. Diamonds aren’t cheap, and neither is this watch: It costs 190,000 francs, according …

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A flaw like Meltdown or Spectre will probably happen again

After acknowledging a major security flaw in modern smartphone chips, the head of one of those chip design companies is delivering more grim news. “The reality is there are probably other things out there like it that have been deemed safe for years,” Arm Holdings CEO Simon Segars said in an interview last week at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. …

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Trump’s press secretary outraged at Amazon Echo on Twitter

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. She’s not happy with Alexa. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images We’re perched in an era where the very definition of intelligence is being questioned. The intelligence of our government and the intelligence of our gadgets. It seems as if almost every new gadget claims to …

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CES 2018: The final word

When people look back at CES 2018 in five or 10 years, it’ll be the heavy rain, flash flooding and power cuts that’ll stand out more than the tech on display. While 1.33 inches (3.38 cm) of rain may not sound like a lot, it was a record for the desert city of Las Vegas: The first precipitation in 116 …

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Martin Luther King Day celebrated in Google Doodle

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US, and Google has created a special Doodle to celebrate the life of the civil rights activist. This year’s Doodle features an illustration of a young girl sitting on her father’s shoulders in a crowd. Created by guest artist Cannaday Chapman in collaboration with the Black Googlers Network, the Doodle depicts …

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