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YouTube Giving makes contributing to charities easier

YouTube is making charitable donations through the site easier with new Giving features. These additions include beta versions of fundraising and donation-matching tools, as well as Super Chat for Good, a variant on the “tip jar” it added in 2017, the company said Thursday in a blog post. A Fundraiser feature allows creators and nonprofits to embed a Donate button in …

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Siri will show you your passwords if you ask

I typically shun Siri because I find it’s easier to tap and swipe my way to what it is I need on my iPhone ($285 at Amazon). With iOS 12, though, Siri is getting smarter and has given me one very good reason to use Apple’s digital assistant. Siri will show me any of the passwords I have saved to …

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Watch Red’s ‘holographic’ Hydrogen One phone get first video unboxing

Here’s our full review of the Red Hydrogen One phone.  Nobody’s made a phone quite like the Red Hydrogen One before — a $1,200 handset with modular parts (bolt-on batteries and swappable cameras), a rugged build with scalloped edges and squared-off corners instead of curves, and an intriguing ‘holographic’ screen.  And while the jury’s still out on many of those features …

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The best Labor Day 2018 deals at Best Buy

Labor Day isn’t really a big “tech-deal” holiday, right? Tell that to Best Buy. The big-box store just took the wraps off some pretty sweet discounts, and I’ve rounded up the items I think are worth a look: Ninja The Ninja Coffee Bar Brewer with Thermal Carafe for $100 (save $100): Why monkey around with pricey, environmentally unfriendly K cups …

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Rumored Panasonic full

It’s a Photokina year, so it’s not surprising that Panasonic would be announcing something besides its Lumix LX100 II advanced compact, but the company has been firmly Four Thirds since its first interchangeable-lens model came out over 10 years ago. So the rumor that the company plans to show a prototype of a full-frame camera on Sept. 25 at the …

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