The best Amazon Digital Day deals we’ve found

The holidays are over, and it’s time to load up your new device with digital content. Enter Amazon. To celebrate its second annual “Digital Day,” the retailer will offer discounts on thousands of products including movies, apps, e-books and TV shows. Like with Amazon’s Prime Day, there is much dreck — but also gems hidden among …

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The FCC made life easier for your internet provider in 2017

President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission has wasted little time making big and small changes to your life — even if you haven’t noticed. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who enjoys a 3-2 Republican majority on the commission, has taken Trump’s pro-business, anti-regulation ethos to heart and has raced to roll back rules governing how the internet and service providers work. …

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The 7 best perks of your new Amazon Prime subscription

Did Santa leave something Prime in your stocking? If you’re new to Amazon’s subscription service, you may think the only benefits are two-day shipping and streaming video — both of which are awesome, no question. But Amazon Prime affords you a lot of other perks as well. Let’s take a look at seven of the best (and, in some cases, …

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Learning to race in the epic Ferrari 488 Challenge

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RIP: The tech that left us this year

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Free for all: How to find free (and legal) books and movies

Since the days of dial-up modems, the internet has been a never-ending source of movies, music, electronic books and television programs. The problem is that most of that content is actually owned by someone, and downloading it without paying for it makes you a pirate.  Besides being illegal — consequences can range from being cut off by your internet service …

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YouTube on Fire TV? Things just got trickier

It’s another shot fired in a showdown between Amazon and Google. On Thursday, four days ahead of a deadline imposed by Google, its YouTube app has apparently been deactivated on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. People who want to use Fire TV to look at YouTube are being directed instead to a pair of browsers, including Amazon’s own Silk. It’s not …

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T-Mobile wants to remind you that it’s serious about our 5G future. On Thursday, CEO John Legere offered up a series of reflections on 2017 and predictions for 2018, with T-Mobile front and center. In the case of 5G, he expects the year ahead to be a stepping-stone as T-Mobile builds on the wireless spectrum it just acquired. “We will …

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How to upgrade your home theater system for 4K and HDR

With high dynamic range (HDR) becoming available on more and more TVs, chances are your next TV will have it as a feature. But you might need to upgrade more than just the TV to get the full HDR experience.  Depending on how complex your system is, you may also need to upgrade all or some of your gear, since …

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Apple apologizes for slowing iPhones, offers $29 battery fix

It’s still amazing to think that a seeming conspiracy theory was true: On Dec. 20, Apple admitted it’d been secretly slowing down iPhones as their batteries aged. The company’s explanation: The throttled speeds kept those phones from unexpectedly shutting down.  That explanation wasn’t enough for some, who accused Apple of quietly driving people to upgrade their phones to fill the …

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7 signs Apple may be slowing your old iPhone

On Thursday, Apple apologized for failing to tell us the truth right away: The company had been secretly throttling the speed of older iPhones to keep them from unexpectedly shutting down. The fix? A newly inexpensive battery replacement — just $29 for any iPhone 6 or later, starting in January 2018. (It normally cost $79, but Apple’s making it cheaper …

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Smartwatches were finally worth our time this year

This time last year the forecast for wearables was gloomy. Research firm eMarketer had slashed its 2016 wearables growth outlook from 60 percent to just under 25 percent. The smartwatch market had declined more than 51 percent in the third quarter of 2016, according to market researcher IDC. Wearable maker Pebble sold itself to rival Fitbit, and Jawbone all but disappeared. The …

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Google has retired the Pixel C tablet

Remember the Google Pixel C? We called it “the best Android tablet money can buy” when the $500 slate arrived in 2015.  Two years later, Google has officially confirmed that it’s stopped selling the Pixel C — officially retiring it in favor of the new $1,000 Pixelbook hybrid laptop the company released earlier this year.   Here’s Google’s statement: “As …

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A new twist in wireless charging for most consumer gear

Step away from the charging pad. Powercast said Tuesday that it’s won FCC approval for its PowerSpot transmitter, which can deliver over-the-air charging to electronic devices two or more feet away and, in some cases, as far as 80 feet (24 meters). The idea is that charging certain devices could work a little like Wi-Fi does: The devices just have …

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Top 5 Roadshow videos of the year.

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