This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. We may be in the middle of a desert, but there’s been a blizzard this week — a blizzard of technology news, that is. The technology industry gathered …
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The era of $200 smartphones with two-year contracts has ended. You can take a moment to mourn this milestone. But could this actually be a good thing for you? The surprising answer is yes. First, let me explain what just happened. This past week AT&T and Sprint joined T-Mobile and Verizon in eliminating two-year service plans and phone subsidies. If …
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Bad drones look out: a new flying robot could be coming to capture you. For all the fun and utility they can provide, pesky drones in 2015 did things like crash into the White House lawn, deliver drugs to a prison in Ohio and distract firefighters from doing their work in upstate New York. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. CES 2016 has opened the door to smart home of tomorrow and, quite frankly, we like what we see! But what if you want to live in a connected home and you just …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: OLED TV trends upward at CES 2016 18:59 Enlarge Image The TVs of the future are getting cooler, but they might also get confusing. Sarah Tew/CNET With one hand, …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Satellite TV provider Dish is working on a DTS Play-Fi multiroom music app to use on its networked Hopper DVR . At Dish’s booth at CES 2016, the company was demonstrating streaming music …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. How’s a transformable, dancing TV sound to you? That may just be the future, according to Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant is showing off several far-out TVs this week at the CES …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Typically, the annual CES conference in Las Vegas is a little lean on thrilling phone news; companies tend to save their splashiest new products and partnerships for Mobile World Congress (MWC) a month …
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Top federal law enforcement and security officials are in Silicon Valley on Friday, meeting with representatives from the biggest names in tech. At issue: how tech and government can work together to fight terrorism. The summit highlights the government’s heightened sense of urgency in the wake of the San Bernardino, California, shootings last month, when followers of the Islamic State …
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When Lemmy Kilmister, leader singer and bassist of the iconic English heavy-metal band Motorhead, died of cancer on December 28, fans and fellow rock stars the world over mourned online via social media. Now they will able to able to attend his funeral online as well. A private service for family and friends at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Hollywood, …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: These tiny, wireless earbuds come at a big price 1:27 At CES 2016 I got the pleasure of checking out two pairs of truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds that make …
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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. Productivity is an elusive bugger, isn’t it? Forget the daily work stuff — which is challenging enough — I’m talking about the mindless …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. A new take on the smartphone is hatching next month. Nextbit, a San Francisco-based startup run by Google and HTC veterans, plans to start shipping its first smartphone, called the Robin, on Feb. …
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You might not think an itty-bitty hole in a phone would cause much angst. When that hole is the universal 3.5mm headphone jack, though, rumors of its demise are a major big deal. After all, nearly every wired headphone on the market plugs into this little sucker. The iPhone faithful went through this sort of thing once before, in 2012, …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Neema Moraveji wants to measure your life. Moraveji has spent the last two years creating and building the Spire Stone. About the size of an egg and shaped a bit like a stone, …
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