Take your Zoom close

Even if you didn’t care much about webcams a year ago, you probably do now. We spend so much time in virtual meetings these days that looking good in those Hollywood Squares-style web conference windows is more important than ever. Thankfully, it’s easy to upgrade from the junky webcam built into your laptop; just plug a better one into a …

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Set the mood with 49 feet of LED light strips for just $31

Before I actually got my hands on an LED light strip, I thought they were vaguely ridiculous. I couldn’t imagine what practical use it would serve, and it seemed like one of those examples of a product that exists because a factory somewhere had a surplus of LEDs and had to invent a product that would use them. Well, I …

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Apple’s Find My app can do more than locate a lost iPhone. Here’s what you need to know

Have you opened the Find My app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac recently? If you ordered Apple’s AirTags, you did during the setup process for the small tracker. If you haven’t, then pay attention the next time you do: There’s a new Items tab in the app. Apple recently announced a feature that allows other companies to use Apple’s Find My network to keep track of various items …

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Lowest price ever for this HP Chromebook X360: $280 (save $90)

The 2020/2021 school year is coming to an end… sort of? Although many schools are back to in-person learning and regular schedules, many more are still quite fluid. So the whole notion of a “school year” remains very much in flux. The need for a good school computer, then, is pretty perennial. Which brings us to this: For a limited …

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New Apple products are available for preorder

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Are you ready for a Pepsi in a carton?

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Maybe you should wait on Apple’s new M1 iPad Pro

Apple’s newest iPads now have the same processors and expansion ports as Macs. They also cost about as much. The 2021 iPad Pros are pushing Apple’s hardware into territory that looks indistinguishable on paper from the high-performance Macs of the last six months, especially now that they all use M1 chips. So why would I say, for most people, you …

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Roku: YouTube TV app removed from channel store as deal with Google ends

Roku said Friday that Google‘s live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, has been removed from its channel store because the companies’ distribution agreement has expired. Roku users who have already installed YouTube TV on their devices can continue to stream it, but no new customers can sign up for YouTube TV on Roku — nor download the channel if it isn’t already …

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Intel, Samsung and the move to purposeful computing

The pandemic created a huge shift in how — and where — a lot of people work and learn. It also accelerated demand for new technology to get things done. The PC market boomed last year in response, with worldwide PC shipments totaling 91.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, according to research firm IDC. “The PC …

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TikTok names new CEO and COO after 8 months of interim leadership

TikTok announced a new CEO and COO Friday, eight months after its last chief executive, former Disney head of streaming Kevin Mayer, stepped down. In a move that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, categorized as a strategic reorganization, current ByteDance Chief Financial Officer Shouzi Chew will continue in that position while also assuming the role of TikTok chief, and interim TikTok …

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