Getting some culture at museums and art galleries is a great way to kick off the new year. Getting in free is even better. Starting this Saturday, Jan. 5 and Sunday, Jan. 6, admission to 200+ cultural institutions in 123 cities is free for Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust debit and credit …
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Olympus posted a teaser video to its YouTube page Wednesday that appears to show its next flagship OM-D camera, the rumored E-M1X. The video clip, just 18 seconds long, shows a photographer using the camera for shooting football, water polo and beach volleyball, which plays up not only the potential speed of the camera, but its dust-, splash- and freezeproof …
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will not be attending the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas for the second year in a row. Pai was scheduled to be interviewed by CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, Gary Shapiro at the annual show next week. But a spokeswoman for Pai confirmed Thursday that the chairman will not make it to Las Vegas …
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HTC will be one of the many tech companies attending CES 2019 next week (Jan. 8-11), and it’ll be bringing some new VR gear. On Thursday, HTC posted a teaser of some new Vive products on Twitter. The tweet includes a picture of several cases filled with “new gear” that HTC is planning to unveil during CES. The truck is …
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The Senate voted late Wednesday to confirm a new commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission. Geoffrey Starks, a Democrat nominated this past summer, was confirmed in a unanimous voice vote. The Senate also reconfirmed Republican Brendan Carr. Both will serve five-year terms as commissioners. The agency, which is supposed to consist of five members, has been operating since June with three …
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One frustration I used to have when using apps on the Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) was that there wasn’t a way to view notifications or access the Control Center from within an app. The only way to access either feature was to go back to the watch face. That changed with the release of WatchOS 5, but I only found out …
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Apple’s App Store started off 2019 with a bang. Apple says that the App Store broke records during the holiday season. In a blog post, Apple shared that customers spent over $1.22 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Day alone customers spent $322 million, setting a new record for the App Store’s biggest single day. …
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A lawsuit alleges that a spark from an Apple MagSafe power adapter set fire to Penny Manzi’s head in January 2018. Filed Wednesday in US District Court in Chicago, the lawsuit seeks $75,000 for medical expenses, pain and suffering and “loss of a normal life” for Manzi and her husband, Jerry Manzi, who live in Illinois. She was allegedly using a MagSafe …
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Apple is pausing sales of some older iPhones in Germany during a patent fight with chipmaker Qualcomm. On Dec. 20, the District Court of Munich found that Apple infringed Qualcomm’s technology for power savings in smartphones and ruled that the iPhone maker must halt sales of the device in Germany, according to Qualcomm’s release. Apple said in a statement at …
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With Apple’s AirPods dominating the wireless headphone market, we’re expecting to see a slew of new totally wireless headphones hit in 2019. Even Klipsch has a new pair of cord-free earphones, the T5 True Wireless, which will arrive in stores this spring with a price tag of around $200. The earphones are part of Klipsch’s new line of T5 in-ear …
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