Ever felt the need to scream because your internet keeps dropping out on you? BT has heard your cry. The telecoms provider wants to boost your connectivity at home by offering what it claims is the country’s most powerful Wi-Fi, courtesy of the BT Smart Hub, which it unveiled on Monday. Not only will the …
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Next year is finally now for Cleveland Cavaliers fans. Long-suffering Ohio basketball fans rejoiced Sunday as their team defeated the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors 93-89. And they did so in a way they couldn’t when the franchise was founded 52 years ago: social media. In a blizzard of tweets, diehards, like Patrick Ward, celebrated the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat Game …
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Doctor Strange gets the Pop Vinyl treatment from Funko toys, complete with his iconic superhero costume. In the upcoming Marvel film, actor Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dr. Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, discovers the hidden world of alternate dimensions and magic while becoming an unusual superhero who protects us from paranormal and otherworldly villains. The Cumberbatch as Doctor …
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When you’re Queen Elizabeth II, making a fashion statement every time you venture outside Buckingham Palace is a regular way of life. So when, for her 90th birthday celebration last week, the queen decided to wear an all-green ensemble in the exact same color as a green screen, video and digital artists had some fun with the photos and YouTube …
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Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one searching for a last minute Father’s Day gift. If your dad is into tech, you might consider swinging by Best Buy on Sunday. The electronics chain is cutting $250 off all Apple Watch models with the purchase and activation of any iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus. That means you’ll be able to …
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Just when you thought the high-end headphone market peaked, along comes another mind-bending ‘phone! This new one’s from Focal, France’s best-selling speaker brand, and while they’ve been making perfectly fine headphones for years, the Focal Utopia is in a very different league. The Utopia digs deeper into the sound of music than other headphones, so as I listened to Miles …
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High-resolution audio has a long history, dating back to at least 1999, with the introduction of the Super Audio CD, aka the SACD. DVD-Audio followed a year later, and a hi-res format war was waged for a few years without a clear victor. Hi-res PCM and DSD download files are now widely available, but under the radar to most music …
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When Croatia-based film producer Olinka Vistica and artist Drazen Grubisic broke up after four years together, they wondered what to do with all their sentimental gifts to each other over the years — including a small, wind-up bunny they both adored. Instead of throwing out their beloved treasures and the memories attached to them, the duo decided to open the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Spice up your photos with these DIY lenses and filters 2:23 These DIY lenses and filters are all inexpensive and add a bit of fun to your phone photography. But if you’re looking to spend some serious cash on phone lenses, take a look at the Zeiss ExoLens for iPhone or the Olloclip for iPhone or …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The thing I carry around with me almost every day in my bag is a 9.7-inch iPad Pro. I’ve had an iPad with me in some form, usually, for years. It’s redundant, probably. But it’s my security blanket. It’s small. Versatile. I can …
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Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile on Friday launched the K3, the latest in LG’s line of affordable phones. The $80 LG K3 will hit retail stores next week. Sprint The two prepaid carriers, which are owned and run by Sprint, started selling the $80 K3 online today, with the phone hitting retail stores next week. The phone runs on Android …
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DirecTV delivered the first live 4K-resolution broadcast in the country in April with all four rounds of The Masters golf tournament. The AT&T Byron Nelson tournament and several Major League Baseball games followed that, and now the satellite TV provider is bringing the US Open to viewers in 4K. The championship started June 13 and runs through June 19. For …
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There may already be a pistol emoji, but you won’t see a rifle emoji any time soon. There is already a pistol emoji. Unicode The Unicode Consortium, the technical group responsible for overseeing emoji, unanimously voted to remove the rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, BuzzFeed reported on Friday. Unicode President Mark Davis confirmed the move …
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When science vloggers gather around an electromagnet experiment, you know something exciting is about to go down. Related stories Make slow-motion videos on a phone Watch a crazy-fast spider in slow motion Watch a match-head bomb burst into flames in slow motion In a YouTube video posted this week, we see Dianna Cowern of “Physics Girl,” Joe Hanson of “It’s …
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Cricket Wireless has a deal for you. Switch to the prepaid mobile carrier and Cricket will give a $50 credit. Switching from T-Mobile? That’s another $50 credit, and tack on another $35 if you bring your own (unlocked) phone to the plan. But there are some requirements. First, the offer ends July 14. Second you have to port over your …
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