Back in the ’90s, when Webcams were hot and we used the World-Wide Web Worm as our preferred search engine, I worked for a tiny online village of Apple Mac users called eWorld. Apple dabbled in this easy-to use community between June 1994 and March 1996, and eWorld became my first full-time job in college. …
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Congrats to Robert K. of Pulaski, Mississippi, for winning 32GB of computer memory from Crucial in last week’s giveaway. With the 2016 Masters tournament starting next week, you may have golf on the brain. Luckily, so do we. This week, we’re giving away an Arccos Driver, a brand new performance-tracking system from Arccos Golf. The system includes a tiny, super …
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The DJI Phantom 4 may come packed with a tonne of intelligent flight modes to help you send it soaring through the sky, but what we really care about is how it stacks up against Mother Nature’s finest — a barn owl. In this special video we put beak against lens, wings against propellors and feathers against, well, plastic, in …
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The Amazon Echo Dot has arrived, joining Amazon’s original Echo and the new Echo Tap in what is now a stable of smart, voice-powered products. If there was one complaint with the original Echo, it was that its speaker lacked oomph. The Dot’s has even less (because it’s tiny), but that’s OK because you can pair it with the external …
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We’re finally getting a clearer picture of whether people are giving BlackBerry another chance. And things don’t look good. BlackBerry said Friday that it sold 600,000 phones in its fiscal fourth quarter, well below Wall Street’s expectations of 850,000 and also below the 700,000 units it sold in the preceding quarter. Until now, things had been a little murky. BlackBerry’s …
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“This is awesome!” “Oooh, I like the ocean!” “Can I have a second turn?” Would you want to do this forever? “Yeah!” That’s how my three kids, ages 8, 7 and 5, reacted to their first experience with the Oculus Rift. When one of CNET’s virtual-reality experts needed a couch for the night, he brought the new headset for my …
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The bets are off for fantasy college sports. A deal between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and two online fantasy-sports giants, DraftKings and FanDuel, suspends betting on fantasy college sports indefinitely. All college contests will cease after the college basketball games played this week, ESPN reported Thursday. The agreement resolves months of discussion that involved not only the NCAA and …
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Microsoft has made some handy changes to the Edge browser in its latest Windows 10 build (Build 14291), including the convenient ability to pin tabs to the tab bar inside the browser. This means you can now keep your favorite websites stored in Edge’s tab bar without taking up valuable tab real estate. Pinning tabs inside a browser is a …
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Whether you’re just getting started with Android, or a seasoned user, these are the five shortcuts you should be using right now. Bypass unlocking your phone (when it’s safe) This feature in the Lock screen and Security menu will let your device know when it’s safe to stay conveniently unlocked. Once you add trusted places, devices, or voices you can …
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Now playing: Watch this: 5 best uses of 3D Touch on the iPhone 1:21 Six months after the release of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, I’ve yet to find a consistent use for 3D Touch. Sometimes I remember to press light enough to preview an email, or view a photo in Instagram. But the bulk of the time I …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Big news, cheeps: I’m packing it in. With all the money I’ve saved over the years as The Cheapskate, I can finally afford …
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Sprint is offering subscribers a deal that on the surface doesn’t make a lot of sense. The carrier said on Thursday its customers can purchase a subscription to Amazon Prime as an add-on to their monthly mobile phone plan. The deal includes all the regular benefits of Prime, including free two-day shipping, streaming video, access to Prime Music, unlimited photo …
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Android Pay lets you make purchases by tapping your phone on a credit card terminal. Not all phones can run the app, however, and not all banks are supporting it. This FAQ will help you find out which devices and banks can use Android Pay, explain how it works, and offer you some guidance on the extra settings within the …
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When Honest Trailers skewers a movie, it doesn’t pull any punches. After all, how many sky scenes did Academy Award-winning film “The Revenant” really need before we all got a bit bored staring at trees? Honest Trailers pulls scenes from films and makes fun of things we probably think but never put into words. In the video “Honest Trailers – …
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On any given day, the area near the zebra crossing outside London’s Abbey Road Studios is chockablock full of tourists waiting in turn to re-create the iconic cover shot of the famous Beatles album. Now those tourists can wander into the recording facility, take a seat behind a drum kit and make like Ringo. Well, sort of. In a blog …
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