Samsung released the Galaxy Note 8 on Wednesday, and the gadget didn’t blow our minds. The company played it safe with a decent upgrade to the Note 7, whose tendency to overheat and catch fire forced two recalls and a big apology tour. We break down the features of the new Note 8 and look …
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Next week, Samsung is set to unveil the latest addition to the popular, oversized Galaxy Note series of phones. Given that the Galaxy Note 7 suffered a total recall last year, after several of the handsets caught fire due to two separate design flaws, the Galaxy Note 8 is a long-awaited update from Samsung. A few weeks ago, Samsung sent out …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Note 8 will try to win back burned Note 7 fans 3:32 Samsung on Wednesday announced the Galaxy Note 8. It’s a shiny, feature-packed phone that’s sure to make its fans happy. And it just might tempt others to abandon their current phones in favor of Samsung’s latest wares. But before you take the expensive …
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It looks like Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is all but in the bag as federal regulators said they would allow the $13.7 billion deal to continue. The decision, announced Wednesday by the US Federal Trade Commission, allows the online retail giant to take its greatest stab yet at the $800 billion US grocery market. By far Amazon’s biggest …
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Now playing: Watch this: Verizon redefines unlimited by adding limits 1:56 Verizon is taking the unlimited data battle straight to T-Mobile. The nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscribers on Tuesday introduced new unlimited data plans to replace its original plan, which was priced at $80 for a single line or $180 for four lines. Now there’s the “gounlimited” plan, which …
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I remember my roommate, way back in 1986, laboriously stringing together phonemes with Apple‘s Macintalk software to get his Mac to utter a few sentences. It was pioneering at the time — anybody else remember the Talking Moose’s jokes? But boy, have things improved since then. Publishing a new round of papers on its new machine learning journal, Apple showed …
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A total solar eclipse is a photographer’s dream and a photographer’s nightmare. I learned that firsthand at 11:25 a.m. Monday in a roughly plowed dirt parking lot in Weiser, Idaho, about 75 miles north of the state capital of Boise. Tens of thousands of us headed to this town of 5,500 souls, giddy and excited to witness the total eclipse. …
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Virgin Mobile is continuing its courtship of Apple users in a big way. Now any iPhone owner willing to switch to Virgin can get in on its deal of 12 months of unlimited data for $1. When the deal launched in June, it was limited to those buying a new phone, which at the time was the real catch. Now, …
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