Amazon Fire TV gives voice to 4K HDR streaming

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Amazon Wine shutting down

Amazon is putting a cork in its wine sales marketplace after five years. The internet retail giant began notifying wine sellers Monday it would shut down its Amazon Wine business at the end of the year. The marketplace, which launched in 2012, offers hundreds of wines that can be ordered directly from the winery through Amazon. As “Amazon continues to …

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Outspoken T-Mobile CEO John Legere is playing it low-key this time.  On Monday, the “Un-carrier” posted third-quarter results — usually a chance for Legere to jump on a conference call to crow about the company’s performance or to bash its competitors. But aside from a seven-minute video Q&A segment and a quote in a press release, Legere is remaining mum.  That’s …

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Slow sync flash on the iPhone X, 8 Plus and 8 explained

There are two types of people in this world. Those who use the flash on their phone and those who don’t. I fall in the latter category and do everything in my power to avoid using my phone’s flash. A flash is distracting, and can make subjects look like a glowing white light zombie standing against a dark background. Flashes …

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How Boxed got robots and humans to work in harmony

One of the first things to greet you at the Boxed warehouse floor in Union, New Jersey, is a four-story-tall gray robot employees call the Opex.  It doesn’t have any arms and legs — it looks more like a massive metal-and-glass briefcase. Inside its glass-encased belly are 1,400 gray bins filled with 700 kinds of consumables, like vitamins and household …

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How and why you should set up Project Fi on the Pixel 2

Google‘s Pixel 2 ($98 at Amazon) and Pixel 2 XL ($249 at Amazon) are compatible with the company’s cellular service, Project Fi. In fact, neither device even needs a Project Fi SIM card to activate service. Instead, Google included an eSIM in both phones, which means you no longer have to wait for Google to mail you a small piece …

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How to get price

Editors’ note: This was originally published on May 25, 2016, and has since been updated to reflect changes to the Paribus service.  I do a considerable amount of shopping online, so when a service comes along promising to help me save money, I pay attention. Paribus is one such service; it monitors your purchases at nearly 30 stores, watches for …

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How Netflix hooks you into ‘Stranger Things’ (The 3:59, Ep. 303)

“Stranger Things” is almost back.  The second season of the cultural phenomenon arrives on Netflix on Friday. We discuss the tricks Netflix plays to get us hooked on that show and others, including choosing that perfect splash photo to tease the show.  Not that we need another photo to get us excited.  We also discuss T-Mobile’s third-quarter earnings results and how …

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Rumored Nokia 2 Android phone briefly pops online for $100

In another classic case of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t, the entry-level Nokia 2 Android phone briefly appeared on retailer B&H’s website before being removed, according to Android Headlines. A search result for the white version of the phone was still available on Google at the time of writing: Looks like you’ll be able to buy it in white and black. Screenshot by …

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Get 10 Windows utilities for free

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iPhone 8 trade

Something strange is afoot with Apple’s new iPhone 8. Tech recycling site Decluttr is seeing more trade-ins of both the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus than any other new iPhone right after its launch, the company reported. Declutter told CNET that the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus make up 7 percent of its total buy-backs.  “The highest figure to …

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Snapchat Spectacles could be even less popular than we thought

Remember how crazy everyone went in 2016 when buyers stood in long lines for the chance to buy Snapchat Spectacles from a robot?  The gambit may have garnered social media company Snap 150,000 sales of the glasses that shoot and broadcast snaps, but a new report from The Information (paywall; via Quarz) suggests that the hype overshadowed demand, leaving potentially …

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Steve Wozniak isn’t getting iPhone X on launch day

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz not upgrading? What has the world come to? James Martin/CNET Can it be that the world will be deprived of one of the great Apple traditions? It seems that on every launch day, the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak is at an Apple store to …

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Pay with Google speeds up tedious online payments on Android

Parting with your money online isn’t always as easy and breezy as it should be, but Google thinks it’s come up with a fix. The company launched Pay with Google on Monday, a service that should help you speed through online checkouts in record time. Gone are the forms, the session timeouts, the errors and the backup authentication, promised the …

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Pixel 2 review: Great camera and Lens, but no headphone jack

#article-body > div.article-main-body > div > figure:nth-child(1) {display:none;} #article-body > div.col-7.article-main-body.row > figure:nth-child(1) {display:none;} The Good: Google’s Pixel 2 has a superb camera with OIS and excellent low-light shooting. It’s water-resistant and Google Lens calls up a trove of information to help you explore your surroundings. The Bad: The phone’s battery doesn’t keep pace with the Pixel’s competitors and its …

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