Tell Siri to show you photos from a specific location

File this one under “Another thing I didn’t know Siri could do.” Siri offers a better way than blindly scrolling through your photo library on your iPhone to find photos from a past vacation or taken in places that aren’t your usual stomping grounds. If your iPhone photo library is as organized as mine, which …

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New on Amazon Prime Video for January 2016

Amazon’s January lineup has me psyched for one reason: “Thundercats.” Volumes one and two of the original series are hitting Amazon. That should be a lot of episodes. A word of warning if you haven’t watched “Thundercats” since it first ran in 1985, the characters talk very slowly. I didn’t realize it as a child, but as an adult it …

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Best Buy offers free HDTV with certain Samsung smartphones

Want a Samsung TV along with your Samsung smartphone? Best Buy has a new deal for you. Buy or lease a Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ or Note 5, and Best Buy will give you a free 32-inch Samsung LED HDTV, a TV that normally retails for $230. Available both online and at Best Buy retail stores, the …

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Bring out your creative side with Colorfy for Android, iOS

Whether you’re hosting or attending parties, spending time with in-laws, or finding the perfect gift, the holidays can be a stressful time. Maybe it’s time to give yourself a chance to relax. Coloring books for adults are not a new thing, but they have become more popular this year. By ditching the need to carry around a book and a …

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Free movies and TV shows available in January 2016

Sony’s Crackle.com has a bunch of new stuff streaming in January. “The Net” comes back to the service after being gone for a little while. You can also catch Monty Python’s “And Now for Something Completely Different,” a collection of the comedy troupe’s best sketches from their TV series. A couple of underrated television shows arrive on Crackle in January. …

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The fastest Android gaming tablets

Editors’ note: This list was originally published on April 26, 2013, and is updated periodically. If you’re looking for an Android tablet that can deliver impressive graphics, we’ve got you covered. We gathered every high-performance Android tablet we could find in the CNET Labs and put them to the test. Below are our top five. We’ve listed each tablet with …

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Facebook, Google apps reign over 2015

Facebook’s app, by far, outranked any other in the US this year, according to ratings service Nielsen. The social network’s app reached the pinnacle with 126.7 million unique users on average each month from January through October, Nielsen said late last week. The figure was an 8 percent bump from 2014. A far second was YouTube’s app with an average …

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How to free up space in iCloud

Now playing: Watch this: Free up space in iCloud 2:10 Apple’s iCloud storage service can be used to stash away photos, videos, device backups, and more in the cloud. The company offers users 5GB of space for free, however because it’s 5GB of space per Apple ID and not per device, you may find yourself running out of space faster …

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Why Amazon built a warehouse inside a Midtown Manhattan office tower

Go past the modern, brightly lit lobby of a Midtown Manhattan office building and take the elevator to the fifth floor. There you’ll find Amazon’s secret weapon for drawing in last-minute holiday shoppers. It’s not a fancy delivery drone or slick new electronic device. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with tens of thousands of consumer products. The busy workspace seems …

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How I upgraded Office 365 Personal to Office 365 Home for $10

Microsoft Office is a need for some, a preference for others. In both cases it’s an expensive proposition, with the one-user Office 365 Personal edition costing $69.99 and five-license Office 365 Home costing $99.99 — per year. However, there’s a way to game the system, to turn a Personal subscription into a Home subscription for a one-time charge of $9.99. …

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How to use Google Drive on Android, iOS

Since its launch in early 2012, the Google Drive app has seen many changes. When it originally launched it replaced the Google Docs app, didn’t allow you to actually edit documents on iOS, but allowed for creating and editing Google Docs files within the Android app. Now it better serves as a hub for accessing the various types of files …

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You can now use Kim Kardashian’s butt to express your soul’s yearnings

Kim Kardashian West seems like one of those celebrities who can get whatever they want. If Kim K. wants a tiny dog dipped in chocolate and covered with sprinkles, all she has to do is tell her assistant and a confused little chihuahua appears on her doorstep almost like magic. How else does anyone who lives outside the “Inception” universe …

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Get two Chromecast Audios shipped overnight for $55

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. Enlarge Image Get two of these for $55, plus a $20 Google Play credit! Google I don’t know about your house, but in …

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​Facebook’s latest update can share iPhone 6S Live Photos at last

Live Photos are only as good as the apps that work with them. One of the iPhone 6S’ most touted features, Live Photos automatically record GIF-like snippets of audio and video with every photo taken. But there were precious few ways to share Live Photos with others when the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus launched in September — unless you …

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Why Jet.com says it’s got a ‘smarter way’ for you to shop online

As college students, Marc Lore and his childhood friend Lakshman “Lax” Chandra toted a good-luck charm when they bet on horses at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Their amulet: a laptop computer. The pair would check which betting pools other spectators were putting their money into and fed that data into software Lore had designed to help …

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