iPhone 6 resale value higher than previous models, analyst says

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are beating their predecessors in the resale market. CNET The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are outshining the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C in terms of resale value. Released last September in the US and other countries and last October in China, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have raked in huge sales …

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Two ways to share your Google Photos

Nicole Cozma/CNET Google decided to create a standalone Photos service that didn’t need to run inside of Google+. Unfortunately, some of the sharing issues present in Google+ Photos also made their way to the Web version of the new service. Read on to learn about both sharing methods, and which one is right for you. Official sharing feature Using the …

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Alienware Alpha updates its custom gaming PC with improved ‘HiveMind’ interface

Now playing: Watch this: Alienware Alpha updates its custom PC interface with… 0:50 Dell is hitting reset on the software bundled with its Alienware Alpha gaming desktop . The console-like desktop is ditching its Alpha UI user interface for a new version, called HiveMind, which adds extra multimedia functionality and many more customization options. Packing gaming components into a small …

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Taylor Swift’s rebukes are the best ads streaming music can’t buy

Taylor Swift’s reprimands of streaming services may have the opposite effect of her intentions: increasing their mainstream popularity. ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images Taylor Swift, subscription services will be singing your praises. Swift, arguably the planet’s biggest mainstream music artist today, warned Sunday she would keep her hit album “1989” off the Apple Music subscription service because of a royalty loophole: …

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Shia LeBeouf, imagined as all 13 Doctors from ‘Doctor Who’

The Fourth Shia LeBeouf is easily the most beloved Shia LeBeouf, at least form the old “Doctor Who” series. Brandon Bird Perhaps there’s a logical explanation for the string of antics that have landed actor Shia LeBeouf in the headlines for things like drunk and disorderly behavior. What if all of LeBeouf’s behavior of late is because his brain is …

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Google Play Music goes free, partly

Google Play Music, a $10-a-month music-streaming service, hasn’t offered a free tier previously besides free trials. James Martin/CNET Google is taking on Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify, adding a free radio element that opens a door for people to try a bit of Google Play Music without having to pay. Google Play Music launched a free, ad-supported radio product in …

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What is Amazon’s Treasure Truck?

One of a handful of tweets about the Treasure Truck. Via Twitter A few folks in Seattle on Monday started tweeting sightings of something called the Treasure Truck, a large boxy Amazon truck driving around the streets of their city. One picture on Twitter shows a rolling digital sign on the truck, saying “What’s on the truck today?” Enlarge Image“What’s …

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BlackBerry disappoints after ‘recognizing revenue’ on 1.1M phones

The BlackBerry Leap is its latest all-touchscreen smartphones. Josh Miller/CNET The road to recovery is a long one for BlackBerry. The provider of smartphones and business and security software posted a fiscal first-quarter loss, excluding one-time items, of $28 million, or 5 cents a share, on revenue of $658 million. Analysts, on average, had forecast a loss of 3 cents …

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How to ‘unsend’ a sent email from your Gmail account

Now playing: Watch this: Undo sending those embarrassing emails 1:36 You can stop that Gmail email from being sent. But you have to be quick. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Oops, you’ve just sent off an angry email to your boss from your Gmail account. Should you start looking for a new job? Not if you’ve enabled Gmail’s Undo Send feature. …

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For T

T-Mobile released a video depicting CEO John Legere as a superhero saving the wireless industry from “The Duopoly.” T-Mobile T-Mobile is ready to step up as a major wireless operator that can go toe-to-toe with Verizon Wireless and AT&T as a legitimate national player. But it says it needs the government’s help to do it. The fourth-largest carrier in the …

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Swipe your way to better mobile photo management with Slidebox

Matt Elliott/CNET Slidebox brings a Tinder-like swiping mindset to photo management. The app is free for iOS and coming soon to Android. When you launch Slidebox and grant it access to your photos, you can begin to browse your photos as you would with the stock iOS Photos app, swiping left to see the next photo and right to see …

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Get a Samsung 40

Samsung I live in a modest-size house, and certain rooms — bedrooms in particular — just can’t accommodate super-big TVs. I also earn a modest-size income, which similarly doesn’t accommodate super-big TVs. That’s why I enjoy deals like this one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Dell has the Samsung UN40H5003AF 40-inch LED HDTV for $327.99 shipped (plus …

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Sprint loses tech chief after years of wrestling with network issues

Sprint One of the men responsible for Sprint’s ambitious — but oft-delayed — project to upgrade its wireless network is set to leave the wireless carrier. Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye will leave Sprint in July. Sprint Sprint confirmed that Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye would leave to “pursue other opportunities.” He has agreed to stay until July 24 to …

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Amazon, eBay ban sales of Confederate flag merchandise

eBay on Tuesday called the Confederate flag “a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism.” eBay/Screenshot by CNET Amazon and eBay — two of the most prominent online retailers in the US — said they decided Tuesday to ban sales of the Confederate flag and related merchandise on their sites. The companies made the change as a quick response to a …

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